【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 63

 She folds her paisley dress and places it on top of her tennis shoes. The tent and the dark wood surround them. They are only a step past the comfort she has given others in the temporary hospitals in Ortona or Monterchi. Her body for last warmth¹, her whisper² for comfort, her needle for sleep. But the sapper’s body allows nothing to enter him that comes from another world. A boy in love who will not eat the food she gathers, who does not need or want the drug in a needle she could slide into his arm, as Caravaggio does,

1 warmth   

n.温暖，温情，暖和，激动，生气

参考例句：

• He answered with warmth.他热情地回答。
• We felt the warmth of the sun.我们感受到太阳的温暖。

2 whisper   

n.耳语，密谈，谣传，飒飒的声音；vi.耳语，密谈，飒飒地响；vt.低声说

参考例句：

• Their voices fell to a whisper.他们的话音低到成了耳语。
• I've heard a whisper that he's going to resign.我听到了一个传闻说他准备辞职。