英语听力 暮光之城•暮色 第18期:初见(8)

 "Aren't you Isabella Swan?" a male voice asked.

"你是伊萨贝拉·斯旺吧?"一个男声问道。

 

I looked up to see a cute, baby-faced boy, his pale blond hair carefully gelled into orderly spikes¹, smiling at me in a friendly way. He obviously didn't think I smelled bad.

 

我抬眼一看，只见一张可爱的娃娃脸，正友好地冲着我微笑，他浅黄色的头发用发胶整整齐齐地定成了一簇一簇的。他显然不认为我难闻。

"Bella," I corrected him, with a smile.

 

"贝拉，"我微笑着纠正了他的说法。

 

"I'm Mike."

 

"我是迈克。"

 

"Hi, Mike."

 

"你好，迈克。"

 

"Do you need any help finding your next class?"

 

"你下一节课在哪儿上?需要我帮忙吗?"

 

"I'm headed to the gym, actually. I think I can find it."

 

"事实上，我要去体育馆。我想我能找到。"

 

"That's my next class, too." He seemed thrilled, though it wasn't that big of a coincidencein a school this small.

 

"那也是我的下一节课。"他似乎很激动，尽管在这么小的一所学校里，这并不是什么大的巧合。

 

We walked to class together; he was a chatterer — he supplied most of the conversation, which made it easy for me. He'd lived in California till he was ten, so he knew how I felt about the sun. It turned out he was in my English class also. He was the nicest person I'd met today.

 

我们一起向上课的地方走去;他是个话匣子——主要是他讲我听，这让我感到很轻松。他十岁以前住在加利福尼亚，所以他能理解我对阳光的感受。后来才知道，他跟我英语课也是同班。他是我今天遇到的最好的人了。

 

But as we were entering the gym, he asked, "So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that."

 

不过，我们进体育馆的时候，他问了一句："那你有没有用铅笔什么的刺了爱德华·卡伦一下?我从来没有见过他那样。"

 

I cringed. So I wasn't the only one who had noticed. And, apparently², that wasn't Edward Cullen's usual behavior. I decided³ to play dumb.

 

我愣住了。这么说来，我不是惟一注意到了的人。而且，显然爱德华·卡伦平时也不是这样。我决定装傻充愣。

 

"Was that the boy I sat next to in Biology?" I asked artlessly.

 

"你是说生物学课坐我旁边的那个男生吗?"我问得很不艺术。

 

"Yes," he said. "He looked like he was in pain or something."

 

"对，"他说，"他看上去好像很苦恼或者有什么难言之隐似的。"

 

"I don't know," I responded. "I never spoke⁴ to him."

 

"我不知道，"我回答说，"我没跟他说过话。"

 

"He's a weird⁵ guy." Mike lingered by me instead of heading to the dressing⁶ room. "If I were lucky enough to sit by you, I would have talked to you."

 

"他是个不可思议的家伙。"迈克在我边上耗着，迟迟不去更衣室，"要是我当时有幸坐在你旁边的话，我肯定就跟你说过话了。"

 

I smiled at him before walking through the girls' locker⁷ room door. He was friendly and clearly admiring. But it wasn't enough to ease my irritation⁸.

 

我冲他笑了笑，进了女更衣室。他很友好而且明显对我有好感。但这还不足以平息我的愤怒。

 

The Gym teacher, Coach Clapp, found me a uniform but didn't make me dress down for today's class. At home, only two years of RE. were required. Here, P.E. was mandatory⁹ all four years. Forks was literally¹⁰ my personal hell on Earth.

 

体育老师克拉普教练给我找了一件校服，但并没让我穿着上今天这节课。在家那边，只要求上两年的体育课，而在这里，体育整个四年都是必修课。福克斯对我而言，简直就是一座人间地狱。

 

I watched four volleyball games running simultaneously¹¹. Remembering how many injuries I had sustained — and inflicted¹² — playing volleyball, I felt faintly nauseated¹³.

 

我观看了同时进行的四场排球赛。想起我曾经受过多少伤，遭受过多少痛苦，我就有点儿恶心。

1 spikes   

n.穗( spike的名词复数 )；跑鞋；（防滑）鞋钉；尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 )；偷偷地给某人的饮料加入（更多）酒精（ 或药物）；把尖状物钉入；打乱某人的计划

参考例句：

• a row of iron spikes on a wall 墙头的一排尖铁
• There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping. 监狱墙头装有一排尖钉，以防犯人逃跑。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

4 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。

5 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。

6 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

7 locker   

n.更衣箱，储物柜，冷藏室，上锁的人

参考例句：

• At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
• He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。

8 irritation   

n.激怒，恼怒，生气

参考例句：

• He could not hide his irritation that he had not been invited.他无法掩饰因未被邀请而生的气恼。
• Barbicane said nothing,but his silence covered serious irritation.巴比康什么也不说，但是他的沉默里潜伏着阴郁的怒火。

9 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

10 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

11 simultaneously   

adv.同时发生地，同时进行地

参考例句：

• The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
• The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。

12 inflicted   

把…强加给，使承受，遭受( inflict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team. 他们使主队吃了一场很没面子的败仗。
• Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her. 卓娅英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑。

13 nauseated   

adj.作呕的，厌恶的v.使恶心，作呕( nauseate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• I was nauseated by the violence in the movie. 影片中的暴力场面让我感到恶心。
• But I have chewed it all well and I am not nauseated. 然而我把它全细细咀嚼后吃下去了，没有恶心作呕。 来自英汉文学 - 老人与海