【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 30

 They had had no piano. She used to go to the community centre on Saturday mornings and play there, but all week she practised wherever she was, learning the chalked notes that her mother had drawn¹ onto the kitchen table and then wiped off later. 

 

A lightning flash across the valley, the storm had been coming all night, and she saw one of the men was a Sikh. Now she paused and smiled, somewhat amazed, relieved anyway, the cyclorama of light behind them so brief that it was just a quick glimpse of his turban and the bright wet guns. The English patient could have identified the weapons.

 

Caravaggio did not see all this. When Caravaggio returned he found Hana and the two soldiers from a sapper unit in the kitchen making up sandwiches. 

The Sikh sets up a tent in the far reaches of the garden, where Hana thinks lavender was once grown.

1 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。