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【英文短篇小说】SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK(2)

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  “Jim?”
“Hmmm?”
“Is something wrong?”
“No.”
“Those Living with Lit boys still giving you a hard time?”
No answer.
“Jim?”
“No.”
“Why don't you go to bed early tonight?”
But he didn't.
 
The dream was very bad that night. When the kid with the strawberry birthmark stabbed his brother with his knife, he called after Jim: “You next, kid. Right through the bag.”
He woke up screaming.
 
He was teaching Lord of the Flies that week, and talking about symbolism when Lawson raised his hand.
“Robert?” he said evenly.
“Why do you keep starin’ at me?” Jim blinked and felt his mouth go dry.
“You see somethin’ green? Or is my fly unzipped?”
A nervous titter from the class.
Jim replied evenly: “I wasn't staring at you, Mr. Lawson. Can you tell us why Ralph and Jack1 disagreed over—”
“You were starin’ at me.”
“Do you want to talk about it with Mr. Fenton?”
Lawson appeared to think it over. “Naw.”
“Good. Now can you tell us why Ralph and Jack—”
“I didn't read it. I think it's a dumb book.”
Jim smiled tightly. “Do you, now? You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. Now can anyone else tell me why they disagreed over the existence of the beast?”
Kathy Slavin raised her hand timidly, and Lawson gave her a cynical2 once-over and said something to Chip Osway. The words leaving his lips looked like “nice tits.” Chip nodded.
“Kathy?”
“Isn't it because Jack wanted to hunt the beast?”
“Good.” He turned and began to write on the board. At the instant his back was turned, a grapefruit smashed against the board beside his head.
He jerked backward and wheeled around. Some class members laughed, but Osway and Lawson only looked at Jim innocently.
Jim stooped and picked up the grapefruit. “Someone,” he said, looking toward the back of the room, “ought to have this jammed down his goddamn throat.”
Kathy Slavin gasped3.
He tossed the grapefruit in the wastebasket and turned back to the blackboard.
 
He opened the morning paper, sipping4 his coffee, and saw the headline about halfway5 down. “God!” he said, splitting his wife's easy flow of morning chatter6. His belly7 felt suddenly filled with splinters—
“Teen-Age Girl Falls to Her Death: Katherine Slavin, a seventeen-year-old junior at Harold Davis High School, either fell or was pushed from the roof of her downtown apartment house early yesterday evening. The girl, who kept a pigeon coop on the roof, had gone up with a sack of feed, according to her mother.
“Police said an unidentified woman in a neighboring development had seen three young boys running across the roof at 6:45 P.M., just minutes after the girl's body (continued page 3—”
“Jim, was she one of yours?”
But he could only look at her mutely.
 
Two weeks later, Simmons met him in the hall after the lunch bell with a folder8 in his hand, and Jim felt a terrible sinking in his belly.
“New student,” he said flatly to Simmons. “Living with Lit.”
Sim's eyebrows9 went up. “How did you know that?”
Jim shrugged10 and held his hand out for the folder.
“Got to run,” Simmons said. “Department heads are meeting on course evaluations11. You look a little run-down. Feeling okay?”
That's right, a little run-down. Like Billy Stearns.
“Sure,” he said.
“That's the stuff,” Simmons said, and clapped him on the back.
When he was gone, Jim opened the folder to the picture, wincing12 in advance, like a man about to be hit.
But the face wasn't instantly familiar. Just a kid's face. Maybe he'd seen it before, maybe not. The kid, David Garcia, was a hulking, dark-haired boy with rather negroid lips and dark, slumbering14 eyes. The yellow sheet said he was also from Mil-ford High and that he had spent two years in Granville Reformatory. Car theft.
Jim closed the folder with hands that trembled slightly.
 
“Sally?”
She looked up from her ironing. He had been staring at a TV basketball game without really seeing it.
“Nothing,” he said. “Forgot what I was going to say.”
“Must have been a lie.”
He smiled mechanically and looked at the TV again. It had been on the tip of his tongue to spill everything. But how could he? It was worse than crazy. Where would you start? The dream? The breakdown15? The appearance of Robert Lawson?
No. With Wayne—your brother.
But he had never told anyone about that, not even in analysis. His thoughts turned to David Garcia, and the dreamy terror that had washed over him when they had looked at each other in the hall. Of course, he had only looked vaguely16 familiar in the picture. Pictures don't move . . . or twitch17.
Garcia had been standing18 with Lawson and Chip Osway, and when he looked up and saw Jim Norman, he smiled and his eyelids19 began to jitter20 up and down and voices spoke21 in Jim's mind with unearthly clarity:
Come on, kid, how much you got?
F-four cents.
You fuckin’ liar13 . . . look, Vinnie, he wet himself!”
“Jim? Did you say something?”
“No.” But he wasn't sure if he had or not. He was getting very scared.
 
• • •
 
One day after school in early February there was a knock on the teachers’-room door, and when Jim opened it, Chip Osway stood there. He looked frightened. Jim was alone; it was ten after four and the last of the teachers had gone home an hour before. He was correcting a batch22 of American Lit themes.
“Chip?” he said evenly.
Chip shuffled23 his feet. “Can I talk to you for a minute, Mr. Norman?”
“Sure. But if it's about that test, you're wasting your—”
“It's not about that. Uh, can I smoke in here?”
“Go ahead.”
He lit his cigarette with a hand that trembled slightly. He didn't speak for perhaps as long as a minute. It seemed that he couldn't. His lips twitched24, his hands came together, and his eyes slitted, as if some inner self was struggling to find expression.
He suddenly burst out: “If they do it, I want you to know I wasn't in on it! I don't like those guys! They're creeps!”
“What guys, Chip?”
“Lawson and that Garcia creep.”
“Are they planning to get me?” The old dreamy terror was on him, and he knew the answer.
“I liked them at first,” Chip said. “We went out and had a few beers. I started bitchin’ about you and that test. About how I was gonna get you. But that was just talk! I swear it!”
“What happened?”
“They took me right up on it. Asked what time you left school, what kind of car you drove, all that stuff. I said what have you got against him and Garcia said they knew you a long time ago . . . hey, are you all right?”
“The cigarette,” he said thickly. “Haven't ever gotten used to the smoke.”
Chip ground it out. “I asked them when they knew you and Bob Lawson said I was still pissin’ my didies then. But they're seventeen, the same as me.”
“Then what?”
“Well, Garcia leans over the table and says you can't want to get him very bad if you don't even know when he leaves the fuckin’ school. What was you gonna do? So I says I was gonna matchstick your tires and leave you with four flats.” He looked at Jim with pleading eyes. “I wasn't even gonna do that. I said it because . . .”
“You were scared?” Jim asked quietly.
“Yeah, and I'm still scared.”
“What did they think of your idea?”
Chip shuddered25. “Bob Lawson says, is that what you was gonna do, you cheap prick26? And I said, tryin’ to be tough, what was you gonna do, off him? And Garcia—his eyelids start to go up and down—he takes something out of his pocket and clicked it open and it's a switchknife. That's when I took off.”
“When was this, Chip?”
“Yesterday. I'm scared to sit with those guys now, Mr. Norman.”
“Okay,” Jim said. “Okay.” He looked down at the papers he had been correcting without seeing them.
“What are you going to do?”
“I don't know,” Jim said. “I really don't.”
 
On Monday morning he still didn't know. His first thought had been to tell Sally everything, starting with his brother's murder sixteen years ago. But it was impossible. She would be sympathetic but frightened and unbelieving.
Simmons? Also impossible. Simmons would think he was mad. And maybe he was. A man in a group encounter session he had attended had said having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with any surety. You couldn't put a flower in it because flowers need water and water might dissolve the glue.
Am I crazy, then?
If he was, Chip Osway was, too. That thought came to him as he was getting into his car, and a bolt of excitement went through him.
Of course! Lawson and Garcia had threatened him in Chip Osway's presence. That might not stand up in court, but it would get the two of them suspended if he could get Chip to repeat his story in Fenton's office. And he was almost sure he could get Chip to do that. Chip had his own reasons for wanting them far away.
He was driving into the parking lot when he thought about what had happened to Billy Stearns and Kathy Slavin.
During his free period, he went up to the office and leaned over the registration27 secretary's desk. She was doing the absence list.
“Chip Osway here today?” he asked casually28.
“Chip . . . ?” She looked at him doubtfully.
“Charles Osway,” Jim amended29. “Chip's a nickname.”
She leafed through a pile of slips, glanced at one, and pulled it out. “He's absent, Mr. Norman.”
“Can you get me his phone number?”
She pushed her pencil into her hair and said, “Certainly.” She dug it out of the O file and handed it to him. Jim dialed the number on an office phone.
The phone rang a dozen times and he was about to hang up when a rough, sleep-blurred voice said, “Yeah?”
“Mr. Osway?”
“Barry Osway's been dead six years. I'm Gary Denkinger.”
“Are you Chip Osway's stepfather?”
“What'd he do?”
“Pardon?”
“He's run off. I want to know what he did.”
“So far as I know, nothing. I just wanted to talk with him. Do you have any idea where he might be?”
“Naw, I work nights. I don't know none of his friends.”
“Any idea at a—”
“Nope. He took the old suitcase and fifty bucks30 he saved up from stealin’ car parts or sellin’ dope or whatever these kids do for money. Gone to San Francisco to be a hippie for all I know.”
“If you hear from him, will you call me at school? Jim Norman, English wing.”
“Sure will.”
Jim put the phone down. The registration secretary looked up and offered a quick meaningless smile. Jim didn't smile back.
 
Two days later, the words “left school” appeared after Chip Osway's name on the morning attendance slip. Jim began to wait for Simmons to show up with a new folder. A week later he did.
He looked dully down at the picture. No question about this one. The crew cut had been replaced by long hair, but it was still blond. And the face was the same, Vincent Corey. Vinnie, to his friends and intimates. He stared up at Jim from the picture, an insolent31 grin on his lips.
When he approached his period-seven class, his heart was thudding gravely in his chest. Lawson and Garcia and Vinnie Corey were standing by the bulletin board outside the door—they all straightened when he came toward them.
Vinnie smiled his insolent smile, but his eyes were as cold and dead as ice floes. “You must be Mr. Norman. Hi, Norm.”
Lawson and Garcia tittered.
“I'm Mr. Norman,” Jim said, ignoring the hand that Vinnie had put out. “You'll remember that?”
“Sure, I'll remember it. How's your brother?”
Jim froze. He felt his bladder loosen, and as if from far away, from down a long corridor somewhere in his cranium, he heard a ghostly voice: Look, Vinnie, he wet himself!
“What do you know about my brother?” he asked thickly.
“Nothin’,” Vinnie said. “Nothin’ much.” They smiled at him with their empty dangerous smiles.
The bell rang and they sauntered inside.
 
Drugstore phone booth, ten o'clock that night.
“Operator, I want to call the police station in Stratford, Connecticut. No, I don't know the number.”
Clickings on the line. Conferences.
The policeman had been Mr. Nell. In those days he had been white-haired, perhaps in his mid-fifties. Hard to tell when you were just a kid. Their father was dead, and somehow Mr. Nell had known that.
Call me Mr. Nell, boys.
Jim and his brother met at lunchtime every day and they went into the Stratford Diner to eat their bag lunches. Mom gave them each a nickel to buy milk—that was before school milk programs started. And sometimes Mr. Nell would come in, his leather belt creaking with the weight of his belly and his .38 revolver, and buy them each a pie a la mode.
Where were you when they stabbed my brother, Mr. Nell?
A connection was made. The phone rang once.
“Stratford Police.”
“Hello. My name is James Norman, Officer. I'm calling long-distance.” He named the city. “I want to know if you can give me a line on a man who would have been on the force around 1957.”
“Hold the line a moment, Mr. Norman.”
A pause, then a new voice.
“I'm Sergeant32 Morton Livingston, Mr. Norman. Who are you trying to locate?”
“Well,” Jim said, “us kids just called him Mr. Nell. Does that—”
“Hell, yes! Don Nell's retired33 now. He's seventy-three or -four.”
“Does he still live in Stratford?”
“Yes, over on Barnum Avenue. Would you like the address?”
“And the phone number, if you have it.”
“Okay. Did you know Don?”
“He used to buy my brother and me apple pie a la mode down at the Stratford Diner.”
“Christ, that's been gone ten years. Wait a minute.” He came back on the phone and read an address and a phone number. Jim jotted34 them down, thanked Livingston, and hung up.
He dialed O again, gave the number, and waited. When the phone began to ring, a sudden hot tension filled him and he leaned forward, turning instinctively35 away from the drugstore soda36 fountain, although there was no one there but a plump teen-age girl reading a magazine.
The phone was picked up and a rich, masculine voice, sounding not at all old, said, “Hello?” That single word set off a dusty chain reaction of memories and emotions, as startling as the Pavlovian reaction that can be set off by hearing an old record on the radio.
“Mr. Nell? Donald Nell?”
“Yes.”
“My name is James Norman, Mr. Nell. Do you remember me, by any chance?”
“Yes,” the voice responded immediately. “Pie à la mode. Your brother was killed . . . knifed. A shame. He was a lovely boy.”
Jim collapsed37 against one of the booth's glass walls. The tension's sudden departure left him as weak as a stuffed toy. He found himself on the verge38 of spilling everything, and he bit the urge back desperately39.
“Mr. Nell, those boys were never caught.”
“No,” Nell said. “We did have suspects. As I recall, we had a lineup at a Bridgeport police station.”
“Were those suspects identified to me by name?”
“No. The procedure at a police showup was to address the participants by number. What's your interest in this now, Mr. Norman?”
“Let me throw some names at you,” Jim said. “I want to know if they ring a bell in connection with the case.”
“Son, I wouldn't—”
“You might,” Jim said, beginning to feel a trifle desperate. “Robert Lawson, David Garcia, Vincent Corey. Do any of those—”
“Corey,” Mr. Nell said flatly. “I remember him. Vinnie the Viper40. Yes, we had him up on that. His mother alibied him. I don't get anything from Robert Lawson. That could be anyone's name. But Garcia . . . that rings a bell. I'm not sure why. Hell. I'm old.” He sounded disgusted.
“Mr. Nell, is there any way you could check on those boys?”
“Well, of course, they wouldn't be boys anymore.”
Oh, yeah?
“Listen, Jimmy. Has one of those boys popped up and started harassing41 you?”
“I don't know. Some strange things have been happening. Things connected with the stabbing of my brother.”
“What things?”
“Mr. Nell, I can't tell you. You'd think I was crazy.”
His reply, quick, firm, interested: “Are you?”
Jim paused. “No,” he said.
“Okay, I can check the names through Stratford R&I. Where can I get in touch?”
Jim gave his home number. “You'd be most likely to catch me on Tuesday night.” He was in almost every night, but on Tuesday evenings Sally went to her pottery42 class.
“What are you doing these days, Jimmy?”
“Teaching school.”
“Good. This might take a few days, you know. I'm retired now.”
“You sound just the same.”
“Ah, but if you could see me!” He chuckled43. “D'you still like a good piece of pie a la mode, Jimmy?”
“Sure,” Jim said. It was a lie. He hated pie a la mode.
“I'm glad to hear that. Well, if there's nothing else, I'll—”
“There is one more thing. Is there a Milford High in Stratford?”
“Not that I know of.”
“That's what I—”
“Only thing name of Milford around here is Milford Cemetery44 out on the Ash Heights Road. And no one ever graduated from there.” He chuckled dryly, and to Jim's ears it sounded like the sudden rattle45 of bones in a pit.
“Thank you,” he heard himself saying. “Goodbye.”
Mr. Nell was gone. The operator asked him to deposit sixty cents, and he put it in automatically. He turned, and stared into a horrid46, squashed face plastered up against the glass, framed in two spread hands, the splayed fingers flattened47 white against the glass, as was the tip of the nose.
It was Vinnie, grinning at him.
Jim screamed.

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1 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 cynical Dnbz9     
adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的,不信世道向善的
参考例句:
  • The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大,他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
  • He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。
3 gasped e6af294d8a7477229d6749fa9e8f5b80     
v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要
参考例句:
  • She gasped at the wonderful view. 如此美景使她惊讶得屏住了呼吸。
  • People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4 sipping e7d80fb5edc3b51045def1311858d0ae     
v.小口喝,呷,抿( sip的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • She sat in the sun, idly sipping a cool drink. 她坐在阳光下懒洋洋地抿着冷饮。
  • She sat there, sipping at her tea. 她坐在那儿抿着茶。
5 halfway Xrvzdq     
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
参考例句:
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
6 chatter BUfyN     
vi./n.喋喋不休;短促尖叫;(牙齿)打战
参考例句:
  • Her continuous chatter vexes me.她的喋喋不休使我烦透了。
  • I've had enough of their continual chatter.我已厌烦了他们喋喋不休的闲谈。
7 belly QyKzLi     
n.肚子,腹部;(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分,膛
参考例句:
  • The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
  • His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。
8 folder KjixL     
n.纸夹,文件夹
参考例句:
  • Peter returned the plan and charts to their folder.彼得把这份计划和表格放回文件夹中。
  • He draws the document from its folder.他把文件从硬纸夹里抽出来。
9 eyebrows a0e6fb1330e9cfecfd1c7a4d00030ed5     
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
  • His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。
10 shrugged 497904474a48f991a3d1961b0476ebce     
vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀,什么也没说。
  • She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩,装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
11 evaluations a116c012e4b127eb506b6098697095ab     
估价( evaluation的名词复数 ); 赋值; 估计价值; [医学]诊断
参考例句:
  • In fact, our moral evaluations are merely expressions of our desires. 事实上,我们的道德评价只是我们欲望的表达形式。 来自哲学部分
  • Properly speaking, however, these evaluations and insights are not within the concept of official notice. 但准确地讲,这些评估和深远见识并未包括在官方通知概念里。
12 wincing 377203086ce3e7442c3f6574a3b9c0c7     
赶紧避开,畏缩( wince的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • She switched on the light, wincing at the sudden brightness. 她打开了灯,突如其来的强烈光线刺得她不敢睜眼。
  • "I will take anything," he said, relieved, and wincing under reproof. “我什么事都愿意做,"他说,松了一口气,缩着头等着挨骂。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
13 liar V1ixD     
n.说谎的人
参考例句:
  • I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了,一个又偷又骗的家伙!
  • She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。
14 slumbering 26398db8eca7bdd3e6b23ff7480b634e     
微睡,睡眠(slumber的现在分词形式)
参考例句:
  • It was quiet. All the other inhabitants of the slums were slumbering. 贫民窟里的人已经睡眠静了。
  • Then soft music filled the air and soothed the slumbering heroes. 接着,空中响起了柔和的乐声,抚慰着安睡的英雄。
15 breakdown cS0yx     
n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌
参考例句:
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障,但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
16 vaguely BfuzOy     
adv.含糊地,暖昧地
参考例句:
  • He had talked vaguely of going to work abroad.他含糊其词地说了到国外工作的事。
  • He looked vaguely before him with unseeing eyes.他迷迷糊糊的望着前面,对一切都视而不见。
17 twitch jK3ze     
v.急拉,抽动,痉挛,抽搐;n.扯,阵痛,痉挛
参考例句:
  • The smell made my dog's nose twitch.那股气味使我的狗的鼻子抽动着。
  • I felt a twitch at my sleeve.我觉得有人扯了一下我的袖子。
18 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
19 eyelids 86ece0ca18a95664f58bda5de252f4e7     
n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色
参考例句:
  • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了,眼睑开始往下垂。
  • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
20 jitter IabzC     
v.神经过敏,战战兢兢
参考例句:
  • I jittered when the headmaster came in.当校长进来的时候,我一阵紧张。
  • Emerging-market bonds and shares,for instance,may jitter further.例如,新兴市场债券和股票可能更加震荡。
21 spoke XryyC     
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。
22 batch HQgyz     
n.一批(组,群);一批生产量
参考例句:
  • The first batch of cakes was burnt.第一炉蛋糕烤焦了。
  • I have a batch of letters to answer.我有一批信要回复。
23 shuffled cee46c30b0d1f2d0c136c830230fe75a     
v.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的过去式和过去分词 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼
参考例句:
  • He shuffled across the room to the window. 他拖着脚走到房间那头的窗户跟前。
  • Simon shuffled awkwardly towards them. 西蒙笨拙地拖着脚朝他们走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
24 twitched bb3f705fc01629dc121d198d54fa0904     
vt.& vi.(使)抽动,(使)颤动(twitch的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • Her lips twitched with amusement. 她忍俊不禁地颤动着嘴唇。
  • The child's mouth twitched as if she were about to cry. 这小孩的嘴抽动着,像是要哭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
25 shuddered 70137c95ff493fbfede89987ee46ab86     
v.战栗( shudder的过去式和过去分词 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动
参考例句:
  • He slammed on the brakes and the car shuddered to a halt. 他猛踩刹车,车颤抖着停住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I shuddered at the sight of the dead body. 我一看见那尸体就战栗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
26 prick QQyxb     
v.刺伤,刺痛,刺孔;n.刺伤,刺痛
参考例句:
  • He felt a sharp prick when he stepped on an upturned nail.当他踩在一个尖朝上的钉子上时,他感到剧烈的疼痛。
  • He burst the balloon with a prick of the pin.他用针一戳,气球就爆了。
27 registration ASKzO     
n.登记,注册,挂号
参考例句:
  • Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
  • What's your registration number?你挂的是几号?
28 casually UwBzvw     
adv.漠不关心地,无动于衷地,不负责任地
参考例句:
  • She remarked casually that she was changing her job.她当时漫不经心地说要换工作。
  • I casually mentioned that I might be interested in working abroad.我不经意地提到我可能会对出国工作感兴趣。
29 Amended b2abcd9d0c12afefe22fd275996593e0     
adj. 修正的 动词amend的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • He asked to see the amended version. 他要求看修订本。
  • He amended his speech by making some additions and deletions. 他对讲稿作了些增删修改。
30 bucks a391832ce78ebbcfc3ed483cc6d17634     
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
参考例句:
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
31 insolent AbGzJ     
adj.傲慢的,无理的
参考例句:
  • His insolent manner really got my blood up.他那傲慢的态度把我的肺都气炸了。
  • It was insolent of them to demand special treatment.他们要求给予特殊待遇,脸皮真厚。
32 sergeant REQzz     
n.警官,中士
参考例句:
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
33 retired Njhzyv     
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
参考例句:
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
34 jotted 501a1ce22e59ebb1f3016af077784ebd     
v.匆忙记下( jot的过去式和过去分词 );草草记下,匆匆记下
参考例句:
  • I jotted down her name. 我匆忙记下了她的名字。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The policeman jotted down my address. 警察匆匆地将我的地址记下。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
35 instinctively 2qezD2     
adv.本能地
参考例句:
  • As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled. 他向她靠近,她本能地往后缩。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He knew instinctively where he would find her. 他本能地知道在哪儿能找到她。 来自《简明英汉词典》
36 soda cr3ye     
n.苏打水;汽水
参考例句:
  • She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。
  • I will freshen your drink with more soda and ice cubes.我给你的饮料重加一些苏打水和冰块。
37 collapsed cwWzSG     
adj.倒塌的
参考例句:
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
38 verge gUtzQ     
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
参考例句:
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
39 desperately cu7znp     
adv.极度渴望地,绝望地,孤注一掷地
参考例句:
  • He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
  • He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。
40 viper Thlwl     
n.毒蛇;危险的人
参考例句:
  • Envy lucks at the bottom of the human heart a viper in its hole.嫉妒潜伏在人心底,如同毒蛇潜伏在穴中。
  • Be careful of that viper;he is dangerous.小心那个阴险的人,他很危险。
41 harassing 76b352fbc5bcc1190a82edcc9339a9f2     
v.侵扰,骚扰( harass的现在分词 );不断攻击(敌人)
参考例句:
  • The court ordered him to stop harassing his ex-wife. 法庭命令他不得再骚扰前妻。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It was too close to be merely harassing fire. 打得这么近,不能完全是扰乱射击。 来自辞典例句
42 pottery OPFxi     
n.陶器,陶器场
参考例句:
  • My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
  • The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。
43 chuckled 8ce1383c838073977a08258a1f3e30f8     
轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She chuckled at the memory. 想起这件事她就暗自发笑。
  • She chuckled softly to herself as she remembered his astonished look. 想起他那惊讶的表情,她就轻轻地暗自发笑。
44 cemetery ur9z7     
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
参考例句:
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
45 rattle 5Alzb     
v.飞奔,碰响;激怒;n.碰撞声;拨浪鼓
参考例句:
  • The baby only shook the rattle and laughed and crowed.孩子只是摇着拨浪鼓,笑着叫着。
  • She could hear the rattle of the teacups.她听见茶具叮当响。
46 horrid arozZj     
adj.可怕的;令人惊恐的;恐怖的;极讨厌的
参考例句:
  • I'm not going to the horrid dinner party.我不打算去参加这次讨厌的宴会。
  • The medicine is horrid and she couldn't get it down.这种药很难吃,她咽不下去。
47 flattened 1d5d9fedd9ab44a19d9f30a0b81f79a8     
[医](水)平扁的,弄平的
参考例句:
  • She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
  • I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
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