【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 28

 There was a bearded head beside him in the shallow water of the Arno. He reached towards it but couldn’t even nudge it. Light was pouring into the river. He swam up to the surface, parts of which were on fire. When he told Hana the story later that evening she said, “They stopped torturing you because the Allies¹ were coming. The Germans were getting out of the city, blowing up bridges as they left.” 

 

“I don’t know. Maybe I told them everything. Whose head was it? There were constant phone calls into that room. There would be a hush², and the man would pull back from me, and all of them would watch him on the phone listening to the silence of the other voice, which we could not hear. Whose voice? Whose head?” 

 

“They were leaving, David.” 

 

She opens The Last of the Mohicans to the blank page at the back and begins to write in it. 

 

There is a man named Caravaggio, a friend of my father’s. I have always loved him. He is older than I am, about forty-five, I think. He is in a time of darkness,He has no confidence. For some reason I am cared for by this friend of my father. 

 

She closes the book and then walks down into the library and conceals³ it in one of the high shelves. 

1 allies   

联盟国，同盟者； 同盟国，同盟者( ally的名词复数 )； 支持者； 盟军

参考例句：

• The allies would fear that they were pawns in a superpower condominium. 这个联盟担心他们会成为超级大国共管的牺牲品。
• A number of the United States' allies had urged him not to take a hasty decision. 美国的一些盟友已力劝他不要急于作决定。

2 hush   

int.嘘，别出声；n.沉默，静寂；v.使安静

参考例句：

• A hush fell over the onlookers.旁观者们突然静了下来。
• Do hush up the scandal!不要把这丑事声张出去！

3 conceals   

v.隐藏，隐瞒，遮住( conceal的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He conceals his worries behind a mask of nonchalance. 他装作若无其事，借以掩饰内心的不安。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals. 酒醉吐真言。 来自《简明英汉词典》