【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（13）

What girl?‘

Pretty, earnest, Northern. Got drunk and shouted at your father about the Sandinistas.‘

That was Emma Morley.‘

Emma Morley. I liked her. Your father liked her too, even if she did call him a bourgeois 

fascist¹.‘ Dexter winced² at the  memory. "I don‘t mind, at least she had a bit of fire, a bit of 

passion. Not like those silly sex-pots we usually find at the breakfast table. Yes Mrs Mayhew, 

no Mrs Mayhew. I can hear you, you know, tip-toeing to the guest room in the night . . .‘

You really are drunk, aren‘t you?‘

So what about this Emma?‘

Emma‘s just a friend.‘

Is she now? Well I‘m not so sure. In fact I think she likes you.‘

Everyone likes me. It‘s my curse.‘

In his head it had sounded fine: raffish³ and self-mocking, but now they sat in silence and 

he felt foolish once again, like at those parties where his mother would allow him to sit with 

the grown-ups and he would show-off and let her down. She smiled at him indulgently, and 

squeezed his hand as it rested on the table.

Be nice, won‘t you?‘

I am nice, I‘m always nice.‘ 

But not too nice. I mean don‘t make a religion out of it, niceness.‘

I won‘t.‘ Uncomfortable now, he began to glance around the Piazza⁴.

 

1 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。

2 winced   

赶紧避开，畏缩( wince的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He winced as the dog nipped his ankle. 狗咬了他的脚腕子，疼得他龇牙咧嘴。
• He winced as a sharp pain shot through his left leg. 他左腿一阵剧痛疼得他直龇牙咧嘴。

3 raffish   

adj.名誉不好的，无赖的，卑鄙的，艳俗的

参考例句：

• The theatre's raffish auditorium recalls an earlier era.剧院俗丽的观众席让人想起早先的时代。
• He was handsome in a raffish kind of way.他的帅是一种放荡不羁的帅。

4 piazza   

n.广场；走廊

参考例句：

• Siena's main piazza was one of the sights of Italy.锡耶纳的主要广场是意大利的名胜之一。
• They walked out of the cafeteria,and across the piazzadj.他们走出自助餐厅,穿过广场。