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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
I’m very hungry. I’m very tired. I’m supposed to be in Dr. Quarrie’s Shakespeare seminar, but I’m sure I’ve managed to miss it. Too bad. We’re doing Midsummer Night’s Dream.The upside of this police car is: it’s warm and I’m not in Chicago. Chicago’s Finest hate me because I keep disappearing while I’m in custody1, and they can’t figure it out. Also I refuse to talk to them, so they still don’t know who I am, or where I live. The day they find out, I’m toast because there are several outstanding warrants for my arrest: breaking and entering, shoplifting, resisting arrest, breaking arrest, trespassing2, indecent exposure, robbery, und so weiter. From this one might deduce that I am a very inept3 criminal, but really the main problem is that it’s so hard to be inconspicuous when you’re naked. Stealth and speed are my main assets and so, when I try to burgle houses in broad daylight stark4 naked, sometimes it doesn’t work out. I’ve been arrested seven times, and so far I’ve always vanished before they can fingerprint5 me or take a photo. The neighbors keep peering in the windows of the police car at me. I don’t care. I don’t care. This is taking a long time. Fuck, I hate this. I lean back and close my eyes. A car door opens. Cold air—my eyes fly open—for an instant I see the metal grid6 that separates the front of the car from the back, the cracked vinyl seats, my hands in the cuffs7, my gooseflesh legs, the flat sky through the windshield, the black visored hat on the dashboard, the clipboard in the officer’s hand, his red face, tufted graying eyebrows8 and jowls like drapes—everything shimmers9, iridescent10, butter fly-wing colors and the policeman says, “Hey, he’s having some kinda fit—” and my teeth are chattering11 hard and before my eyes the police car vanishes and I am lying on my back in my own backyard. Yes. Yes! I fill my lungs with the sweet September night air. I sit up and rub my wrists, still marked where the handcuffs were.“好吧,没问题。还会发生什么?”
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n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留 | |
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[法]非法入侵 | |
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adj.不恰当的,荒谬的,拙劣的 | |
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4 stark | |
adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地 | |
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5 fingerprint | |
n.指纹;vt.取...的指纹 | |
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6 grid | |
n.高压输电线路网;地图坐标方格;格栅 | |
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7 cuffs | |
n.袖口( cuff的名词复数 )v.掌打,拳打( cuff的第三人称单数 ) | |
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8 eyebrows | |
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 ) | |
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9 shimmers | |
n.闪闪发光,发微光( shimmer的名词复数 )v.闪闪发光,发微光( shimmer的第三人称单数 ) | |
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adj.彩虹色的,闪色的 | |
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11 chattering | |
n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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