【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（12）

 Where‘s Dad?‘

He‘s had to go for one of his little lie-downs at the hotel. The heat, and his sandals were 

chafing¹. You know what your father‘s like, he‘s so Welsh.‘

So what have you been doing?‘

Just wandering around  the Forum². I thought it was beautiful, but Stephen was bored out 

of his skull³. All that mess, columns just left lying around all over the place. I think he thinks 

they should bulldoze it all, put up a nice conservatory⁴ or something.‘

You should visit the Palatine. It‘s at the top of that hill . . .‘

I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born.‘

Yes, who was emperor back then?‘ 

Ha. Here, help me with this wine, don‘t let me drink the whole bottle.‘ She already had, 

pretty  much,  but  he  poured  the  last  inch  into  a  water  glass  and  reached  for  her  cigarettes. 

Alison tutted. “”You know sometimes I think we took the whole liberal-parent thing a bit too 

far.‘

I quite agree. You ruined me. Pass the matches.‘

It‘s  not  clever,  you  know.  I  know  you  think  it  makes  you  look  like  a  film  star,  but  it 

doesn‘t, it looks awful.‘

So why do you do it then?‘

1 chafing   

n.皮肤发炎v.擦热（尤指皮肤）( chafe的现在分词 )；擦痛；发怒；惹怒

参考例句：

• My shorts were chafing my thighs. 我的短裤把大腿磨得生疼。 来自辞典例句
• We made coffee in a chafing dish. 我们用暖锅烧咖啡。 来自辞典例句

2 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

3 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

4 conservatory   

n.温室，音乐学院；adj.保存性的，有保存力的

参考例句：

• At the conservatory,he learned how to score a musical composition.在音乐学校里，他学会了怎样谱曲。
• The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants.这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。