【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 53

Then kip turned his head suddenly knowing everything as he heard the sound, certain of it. He had looked back at them and for the first time in his life lied—”It’s all right, it wasn’t a mine. That seemed to come from a cleared area”—prepared to wait till the smell of the cordite reached him. Now, hours later, Kip sits once again in the window alcove¹. If he could walk the seven yards across the Englishman’s room and touch hanna he would be sane². He had returned from the source of the mine explosion to find Caravaggio asleep on the library sofa with the dog in his arms.

 

1 alcove   

n.凹室

参考例句：

• The bookcase fits neatly into the alcove.书架正好放得进壁凹。
• In the alcoves on either side of the fire were bookshelves.火炉两边的凹室里是书架。

2 sane   

adj.心智健全的，神志清醒的，明智的，稳健的

参考例句：

• He was sane at the time of the murder.在凶杀案发生时他的神志是清醒的。
• He is a very sane person.他是一个很有头脑的人。