高级英语电子档很实用

and when he sang about the lass少女 that loves a sailor 水手的少女, she always felt pleasantly confused 愉快的困惑. 当他唱到爱上一个水手的少女时她常会感到一种愉快的困惑。

He used to call her Poppens雌天鹅 out of fun .

他总是开玩笑地叫她雌天鹅。

First of all it had been an excitement for her to have a fellow and then she had begun to like him .

起初她觉得有个男朋友是件令人兴奋的事，接着她开始喜欢他了

He had tales of distant countries .

他会讲许多遥远的国家的故事。

He had started as a deck boy at a pound a month on a ship of the Allan Line going out to Canada .

他一开始在阿伦航运公司的一艘开往加拿大的船上做舱面水手，月薪一英镑。

He told her the names of the ships he had been on and the names of the different services .

他告诉她他呆过的船的名字以及船上不同活计的名称。

He had sailed through the Straits of Magellan and he told her stories of the terrible Patagonians .

他曾经穿过了麦哲伦海峡，他给她讲可怕的巴塔丹尼亚印地安人的故事。

He had fallen on his feet in Buenos Ayres , he said , and had come over to the old country just for a holiday . 他说在布宜诺斯艾利斯他站稳了脚跟，回到祖国只是为了度假。

Of course , her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him .

当然，她的父亲知道了他们的事并禁止他们交往。

― I know these sailor chaps , ― he said .

―我知道那些水手，‖他说。

One day he had quarreled with Frank , and after that she had to meet her lover secretly .

有一天他和弗兰克吵了起来，从那以后她就不得不和她的情人偷偷地约会了。

The evening deepened in the avenue .

街上的夜色更深了

The white of two letters in her lap grew indistinct .

她腿上放的两封信的白色已变得模糊难辨了。

One was to Harry ; the other was to her father .

一封是给哈利的；另一封是给她父亲的

Ernest had been her favourite , but she likeed Harry too .

她最喜欢欧内斯特，但她也喜欢哈利。

Her father was becoming old lately , she noticed ;

她注意到近来父亲变老了；

he would miss her . Sometimes he could be very nice .

他会想她的。有时他还是非常不错的。

Not long before , when she had been laid up for a day , he had read her out a ghost story and made toast烤面包 for her at the fire .

不久以前，她生病躺了一天，他给她读了一个鬼的故事，还在火炉上给她烤面包片。

Another day , when their mother was alive , they had all gone for a picnic to the Hill of Howth .

还有一天，他们的母亲还活着的时候，他们一起去霍斯山野餐，

She remembered her father putting on her mother‘s bonnet(無沿女帽) to make the children laugh .

她记得父亲带着母亲的无沿女帽逗孩子们笑。

Her time was running out , but she continued to sit by the window ,leaning her head against the window curtain , inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne .

她的时间不多了，但她仍然坐在窗前，头靠着窗帘，呼吸着提花窗帘上的尘土气味。

Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ 風琴playing .