杀死⼀只知更鸟阅读笔记Day3
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthou sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.
Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but emed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to e outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itlf.
quicktfallin for youWe lived on the main residential street in town—Atticus, Jem and I, plus Calpurnia our cook. Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.
Calpurnia was something el again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn’t behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn’t ready to come. Our battles were epic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly becau Atticus always took her side. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical prence as long as I could remember.
Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her abnce. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature. He was middle-aged then, she was fifteen years his junior. Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack. They said it ran in her family. I did not miss her, but I think Jem did. He remembered her clearly, and sometimes in the middle of a game he would sigh at length, then go off and play by himlf behind the car-hou. When he was like that, I knew better than to bother him.
handsomeWhen I was almost six and Jem was nearly ten, our summertime boundaries (within calling distance of Calpurnia) were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubo’s hou two doors to the north of us, and the Radley Place three doors to the south. We were never tempted to break them. The Radley Place wa
s inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end; Mrs. Dubo was plain hell.
Day 3 学习笔记
单词学习
tired 我们常见的意思是疲惫的，此外还有陈旧的，陈腐的意思（boring becau it is too familiar or has been too much）原⽂的意思是：梅科姆镇是⼀个死⽓沉沉的⽼镇
原⽂：... it was a tired old town …
red slop
原⽂： In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop
slop是污⽔，脏⽔的意思
范猛a slop bucket 污⽔桶
sidewalks
原⽂： grass grew on the sidewalks
⼈⾏道
courthou
这⾥指梅科姆镇的县政府⼤楼
原⽂：the courthou sagged in the square ⼴场中央的县政府⼤楼摇摇欲坠
flick
bony adj. ⾻瘦如柴的
Hoover carts 是⼀种马车，如下图
原⽂：bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.
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sweltering adj. 闷热的negatives
wilted原意式枯萎的，这⾥指领⼦耷拉下来
原⽂：Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.
talcum 滑⽯粉 （这⾥应该是类似baby power 的东西）
...and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
epic 时间长的
one-sided （结果）⼀边倒的
car-hou 车库
短语和搭配
icp是什么意思vague optimism 盲⽬乐观的时代
main residential street 居民区的主街
amble [V] 同义词 stroll
We ambled down the beach. 我们漫步向海滩⾛去学法语
原⽂： They ambled across the square
他们慢悠悠地穿过⼴场。
shuffled in and out慢吞吞地进出
shuffle vi.&vt.拖着脚步⾛
bed slat 床板 （下图是床板的⼴告）
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at length英语四级官方网站>helmet什么意思
原句： he would sigh at length他会长叹⼀⼝⽓
句⼦
...it had nothing to fear but fear itlf. 这是罗斯福总统的⼀句话
罗斯福总统的原句是let me asrt my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear itlf
