【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（5）

Her younger sister, Marianne, a happily married nurse with a new 

baby, would come round at nights just to gloat at mum and dad‘s golden girl brought low.

But  every  now  and  then,  there  was  Dexter  Mayhew.  In  the  last  few  warm  days  of  the 

summer after graduation she had gone to stay at his family‘s beautiful house in Oxfordshire; 

not  a  house,  but  a  mansion  to  her  eyes.  Large,  1920s,  with  faded  rugs  and  large  abstract 

canvases  and  ice  in  the  drinks.  In  the  large,  herb-scented  garden  they  had  spent  a  long, 

languid day between the swimming pool and tennis court, the first she‘d ever seen that had 

not been built by the local council. Drinking gin and tonics¹ in wicker chairs, looking at the 

view, she had thought of The Great Gatsby. Of course she had spoiled it; getting nervous and 

drinking  too  much  at  dinner,  shouting  at  Dexter‘s  father  –  a  mild,  modest,  perfectly 

reasonable  man  –  about  Nicaragua,  while  all  the  time  Dexter  regarded  her  with  a  look  of 

affectionate disappointment, as if she were a puppy who had soiled a rug. Had she really sat 

at their table, eating their food and calling his father a fascist²? That night she lay in the guest 

bedroom,  dazed  and  remorseful,  waiting  for  a  knock  on  the  door  that  clearly  would  never 

come; romantic hopes sacrificed for the Sandinistas, who were unlikely to be grateful.

1 tonics   

n.滋补品( tonic的名词复数 )；主音；奎宁水；浊音

参考例句：

• I think you have a prejudice against tonics. 我认你对补药有偏见。 来自互联网
• Two gin and tonics, please. 请来两杯杜松子酒加奎宁水。 来自互联网

2 fascist   

adj.法西斯主义的；法西斯党的；n.法西斯主义者，法西斯分子

参考例句：

• The strikers were roughed up by the fascist cops.罢工工人遭到法西斯警察的殴打。
• They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship.他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。