英语灵异故事-Voodoo Magic(伏都巫术) 03

It was that bird again. Clear as day. I looked to the ground instantly, and I saw my voodoo doll. I took a step towards it, and it flew off, disappeared, whatever when I blinked. The voodoo doll was gone as well.

　　Once again, we skip time to the house I am currently living in now. We finally got a computer with Internet, and my mother and I put it by the window (dad's outta the picture again). We just moved in, and the previous owners had put miniblinds on the windows. It was a pretty nice day; it had blue skies, sunny...

　　I went to the computer and started instant messaging my friends. I know this sounds weird¹, but I was so interested in my friends, I didn't even notice the sky had gotten darker- not much, just enough. The computer is in the corner of the room, where there are two windows against my left wall, and two windows on the north wall. Wouldn't you know it, guess where we put the computer? Right in between them! I took a breath, leaning back in my chair. One of them (the fast/normal-speed typist) logged out. I looked to my window and (literally) jumped out of my chair, scrambling² on the floor. There was the shadow of that bird. I screamed, and it flew off. I ran outside as hastily as possible and walked to the window where it was. I bent³ down and picked up my doll in the grass. To this day, it's resting on the counter in the kitchen.

又是那只鸟。看得一清二楚。我马上向地上看去，看到了我的伏都人偶。我朝它迈了一步，它飞了起来，在我眨眼的一瞬间消失了，不知去了哪里。那个伏都人偶也不见了。

　　让我们再次略过时间，把故事带到我们现在住的房子。我们终于有了电脑，能上网了。母亲和我把电脑放在窗旁（我又没有父亲了）。我们只是搬了进去，以前的房子主人在窗户上装了百叶窗。那天天气很好，天很蓝，阳光灿烂……

　　我坐到电脑前，开始与朋友们即时聊天。我知道这听起来很古怪，但是我当时与朋友聊得太投入了，没有注意到天变暗了——暗得不是太明显，只是足以让人察觉。我左边的墙上有两扇窗户，北面的墙上也有两个窗户。你不会知道的，猜猜我们把电脑放在了哪里？在它们的正中间！我吸了口气，向后靠向椅背，其中一人（打字速度最快/标准的那人）下线了。我看向窗户，（完全地）从椅子上跳了起来，跌在地上乱爬。是那只鸟的身影。我尖叫起来，它飞走了。我以最快的速度跑到外面，走到它停留的窗口，弯下腰，从草丛中捡起我的伏都人偶。直到今天，它一直被放在厨房的柜子上。

1 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

2 scrambling   

v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发，冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 bent   

n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的

参考例句：

• He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
• We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。