【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（11）

 She still carried with her that aura of having been something-in-the-Sixties –  Dexter had seen the photographs, the clippings from faded  colour supplements  –  but  with no apparent sadness or regret she had given this up for a resolutely¹ respectable, secure, comfortable family life. Typically, it was as if she had sensed exactly the right moment to leave the party. Dexter suspected that she had occasional  flings  with  the  doctors,  the lawyers,  the  people  who  spoke  on  the  radio,  but  he found it hard to be angry with her. And always people said the same thing – that he had got it  from  her.  No-one  was  specific  about  what "it‘  was,  but  everyone  seem  to  know;  looks  of course, energy and good health, but also a certain nonchalant self-confidence, the right to be at the centre of things, on the winning team.

Even  now,  as  she  sat  in  her  washed-out  blue  summer  dress,  fishing  in  her  immense  handbag  for  matches,  it  seemed  as  if  the  life  of  the  Piazza  revolved  around  her.  Shrewd brown eyes in a heart-shaped face under a mess of expensively dishevelled black hair,  her dress undone² one button too far, an immaculate mess. She saw him approach and her face cracked with a wide smile.

1 resolutely   

adj.坚决地，果断地

参考例句：

• He resolutely adhered to what he had said at the meeting. 他坚持他在会上所说的话。
• He grumbles at his lot instead of resolutely facing his difficulties. 他不是果敢地去面对困难，而是抱怨自己运气不佳。

2 undone   

a.未做完的，未完成的

参考例句：

• He left nothing undone that needed attention.所有需要注意的事他都注意到了。