【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 7

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E - Evie

P - Mrs Pelham

S - Sylvia Satterthwaite

 

S: You're hurting yourself for no reason, keeping the boy in Yorkshire. I'm going to live chaste¹, just because I want to. It will be Swedish exercises and occasional retreats. Father Consett knows a convent where you can bring your own maid.

P: A suite²! But darling, what does one do here, for a whole weekend?

S: I don't think that's an ashtray³.

P: No, I don't think Johnnie would wear it. He'd just look at me as if I'd gone off to Maidenhead with someone and we both knew it. I've had some rotten times at Maidenhead.

S: Evie? Would you take Mrs Pelham's cigarette outside and put it somewhere?

E: Yes, madam.

1 chaste   

adj.贞洁的；有道德的；善良的；简朴的

参考例句：

• Comparatively speaking,I like chaste poetry better.相比较而言，我更喜欢朴实无华的诗。
• Tess was a chaste young girl.苔丝是一个善良的少女。

2 suite   

n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员

参考例句：

• She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
• That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。

3 ashtray   

n.烟灰缸

参考例句：

• He knocked out his pipe in the big glass ashtray.他在大玻璃烟灰缸里磕净烟斗。
• She threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray.她把烟头扔进烟灰缸。