【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 94

 Above the well named Ain Dua. 

“Caravaggio thinks he knows who you are,” Hana said. 

The English patient said nothing. 

“He says you are not English. He worked with intelligence out of Cairo and Italy for a while. Till he was captured¹. My family knew Caravaggio before the war. He was a thief. He believed in ‘the movement of things.’ Some thieves are collectors, like some of the explorers you scorn², like some men with women or some women with men. But Caravaggio was not like that. He was too curious and generous to be a successful thief. Half the things he stole never came home. He thinks you are not English.” 

She watched his stillness as she spoke³; it appeared that he was not listening carefully to what she was saying. Just his distant thinking. (The way Duke Ellington looked and thought when he played “Solitude.”) 

She stopped talking. 

1 captured   

俘获( capture的过去式和过去分词 )； 夺取； 夺得； 引起（注意、想像、兴趣）

参考例句：

• Allied troops captured over 300 enemy soldiers. 盟军俘虏了300多名敌方士兵。
• Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。

2 scorn   

n./vt.轻蔑，鄙视，拒绝，不屑（做）

参考例句：

• He looked at me with scorn.他轻蔑地看了看我。
• You've no right to scorn a poor girl.你没有任何理由看不起一个贫穷的姑娘。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。