英语听力 暮光之城•暮色 第164期:第十章 审问(12)

 It was too easy to get wrapped up in our own private, tense little bubble. 我们太容易陷入我们两人私有的世界里，这是紧绷的气氛带来的少许幻觉。

"Do you truly believe that you care more for me than I do for you?" he murmured, leaning closer to me as he spoke¹, his dark golden eyes piercing. “你真的相信，你对我的喜欢比我对你的还要多吗？”他低声说着，说话间他向我靠得更近了，他黑金色的眼眸极具穿透力。

I tried to remember how to exhale². I had to look away before it came back to me. 我努力想要回想起如何呼吸。我不得不看向别处，直到我重又开始呼吸为止。

"You're doing it again," I muttered. “你又来了。”我低声抱怨道。

His eyes opened wide with surprise. "What?" 他的眼睛因为惊讶而睁大了。“什么？”

"Dazzling me," I admitted, trying to concentrate as I looked back at him. “把我迷得晕头转向。”我坦白道。当我再次看向他时，我努力让自己集中精神。

"Oh." He frowned. “哦。”他皱起眉。

"It's not your fault," I sighed. "You can't help it." “这不是你的错。”我叹息道。“你没法控制这个。”

"Are you going to answer the question?" “你打算回答我的问题了吗？”

I looked down. "Yes." 我低下头。“是的。”

"Yes, you are going to answer, or yes, you really think that?" He was irritated again. “是的，你正准备回答，或者是的，你确实是这样认为的？”他再次烦躁起来。

"Yes, I really think that." I kept my eyes down on the table, my eyes tracing the pattern of the faux wood grains printed on the laminate. “是的，我确实这样认为。”我继续低头看着桌面，我的目光描摹着喷绘在三合板上的人造木纹的图案。

The silence dragged on. I stubbornly refused to be the first to break it this time, fighting hard against the temptation to peek³ at his expression. 沉默仍在延续着。这次我固执地拒绝成为第一个打破沉默的人，艰难地与偷瞄他的神情的诱或斗争着。

Finally he spoke, voice velvet⁴ soft. "You're wrong." 最终，他说话了，声音像天鹅绒一样柔软：“你错了。”

I glanced up to see that his eyes were gentle. 我抬起头，看见了他温柔的眼眸。

"You can't know that," I disagreed in a whisper. “你不会知道那种事的。”我耳语着，不同意他的观点。

I shook my head in doubt, though my heart throbbed⁵ at his words and I wanted so badly to believe them. 我怀疑着摇了摇头，尽管我的心为他的话悸动着，我是那么的想要相信他的话。

"What makes you think so?" His liquid topaz eyes were penetrating—trying futilely⁶, I assumed, to lift the truth straight from my mind. “是什么让你这样想的？”他清澈如黄水晶般的眼眸十分锐利——我认为，是在徒劳地尝试着，直接从我的心里挖出真相。

1 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。

2 exhale   

v.呼气，散出，吐出，蒸发

参考例句：

• Sweet odours exhale from flowers.花儿散发出花香。
• Wade exhaled a cloud of smoke and coughed.韦德吐出一口烟，然后咳嗽起来。

3 peek   

vi.偷看，窥视；n.偷偷的一看，一瞥

参考例句：

• Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
• Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。

4 velvet   

n.丝绒，天鹅绒；adj.丝绒制的，柔软的

参考例句：

• This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
• The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。

5 throbbed   

抽痛( throb的过去式和过去分词 )； （心脏、脉搏等）跳动

参考例句：

• His head throbbed painfully. 他的头一抽一跳地痛。
• The pulse throbbed steadily. 脉搏跳得平稳。

6 futilely   

futile（无用的）的变形； 干

参考例句：

• Hitler, now ashen-gray, futilely strained at his chains. 希特勒这时面如死灰，无可奈何地死拽住身上的锁链不放。 来自名作英译部分
• Spinning futilely at first, the drivers of the engine at last caught the rails. 那机车的主动轮起先转了一阵也没有用处，可到底咬住了路轨啦。