The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-6 02:19 编辑I decide to try to read at least a paragraph of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" every day.
Maybe you want to do it, too.
Let's start. wow, i read it one month ago... still nice
it is my fav book!
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter01-01)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-15 09:20 编辑"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them.She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service -- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment,and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll --"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"
She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and "jimpson" weeds that constituted the garden.No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:
"Y-o-u-u Tom!"
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pull down = 拉下
pull up = 拉上
bend down = 弯腰
lift up = 抬起
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look out under = 在...之下往外看
look over = 在...之上看
look through = 穿过...看
look out among = 朝向...之中看
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just as well = 完全一样好, 幸好, 还好, 无妨
by this time = 到这时
get hold of = 抓住..., 得到...
the beat of = 这样(让人吃惊, 厉害, 等等)的..., 比这更(让人吃惊, 厉害, 等等)的...
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she needed breath to punctuate the punches with => "to punctuate the punches with" is attribute
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lay = 发誓, 打赌, etc.
punch
punctuate
resurrect
constitute
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seldom
perplexed
fiercely
calculated
-------------------- wow, i read it one month ago... still nice
it is my fav book!
daniellwolfe 发表于 2009-10-6 02:21 http://www.dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
envy you {:4_299:}
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter01-02)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-16 18:16 编辑There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
"There! I might 'a thought of that closet. What you been doing in there?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?"
"I don't know, aunt."
"Well, I know. It's jam -- that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch."
The switch hovered in the air -- the peril was desperate --
"My! Look behind you, aunt!"
The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.
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'a thought = have a thought
What you been doing? => What have you been doing?
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the slack of = ...的下摆
on the instant = 立即
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whirl round = 转身
scramble up = 爬上
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roundabout = [美]男用紧身短外套
truck = [口]垃圾, 破烂, 废话
peril
fence
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seize
arrest
hover
snatch
flee, fled
disappear
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desperate
slight
-------------------- 大爱！
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter01-03)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-17 20:22 编辑His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh.
"Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what's coming? He 'pears to know just how long he can torment me before I get my dander up, and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it's all down again and I can't hit him a lick. I ain't doing my duty by that boy, and that's the Lord's truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He's full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks. Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it's so. He'll play hookey this evening, and I'll just be obliged to make him work, to-morrow, to punish him. It's mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday, but he hates work more than he hates anything else, and I've got to do some of my duty by him, or I'll be the ruination of the child."
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ain't = am not, are not, is not, have not, has not
'pear = appear = 似乎, 显得, etc.
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hang it = [口]见鬼, 该死, 岂有此理
learn anything = [俚]吸取任何教训
get one's dander up = 发怒, 发脾气
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goodness knows = 上天作证, 天知道
laws-a-me = Lord save me("laws-a-me" is rural dialect)
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Good Book = (基督教的)圣经
the Lord =主, 耶稣基督
Old Scratch = 魔鬼, 撒旦
old fool = 老糊涂
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break into = 突然, 爆发出, etc.
have got to = 不得不, 必须
suffer for = 为...遭受/受苦
lay up = 贮存, 搁置, 卧床
put off= 敷衍, 搪塞, 拖延, etc.
let off= 放过, 免罚, 宽恕
make out = 设法应付, etc.
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be obliged = 被迫
be born of = 源于..., 由...生产的
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heart break = 心碎
conscience hurt = 良心谴责
play trick = 开玩笑, 玩把戏
play hookey = 逃学
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can't I never learn anything? = 我不能总不吸取教训吧?
I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both = ?
can't learn an old dog new tricks = an old dog can't learn new tricks
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as the saying is = 俗话说得好
spare the rod and spile the child = 不打不成器("spile" is southwestern dialect for “spoil”)
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torment
punish
lash
reckon
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scripture
conscience
ruination
-------------------- OMG! So difficult.
{:4_284:} 本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-8 12:41 编辑
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I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us=(=???)I'm laying up sin and suffering for us
↑ a lapse of the pen? ↑
↑ typographical error? ↑
↑ clerical error? ↑
-- I want to give up.
The third took me several hours to consult the dictionary and the example sentence and to ask others for help. if you insist on it, you will make progress every day. But you get up very early today{:5_336:} 猜他的意思是想表达, 孩子比自己要聪明的多，又不听话，而自己是个卧床的不中用的老家伙，根本没法抚养他的sister的孩子，对那个孩子和自己来说，他自己就是罪孽和痛苦。
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I'm a laying up sin and suffering =(=???) I'm laying up sin and suffering
learnEnglish 发表于 2009-10-8 03:11 http://dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif 本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-8 13:56 编辑
if you insist on it, you will make progress every day. But you get up very early today{:5_336:}
deutschlandcard 发表于 2009-10-8 09:09 http://www.dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
I didn't go to bed until about 6:00am
{:4_297:} 本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-8 13:49 编辑
猜他的意思是想表达, 孩子比自己要聪明的多，又不听话，而自己是个卧床的不中用的老家伙，根本没法抚养他的sister的孩子，对那个孩子和自己来说，他自己就是罪孽和痛苦。
deutschlandcard 发表于 2009-10-8 09:44 http://www.dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both.
我是一个造孽的并且为我们两个遭受着这个罪孽？？
对我们两个来说，我是一个造孽的并且遭受着这个罪孽？？
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I didn't go to bed until about 6:00am
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learnEnglish 发表于 2009-10-8 13:08 http://dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
why that?
why that?
Maisonette 发表于 2009-10-8 14:01 http://www.dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
for reading "The Adventures of Tom"
for reading "The Adventures of Tom"
learnEnglish 发表于 2009-10-8 14:09 http://dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
i finished it in one night
i finished it in one night
Maisonette 发表于 2009-10-8 14:14 http://www.dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
worship you
{:4_299:} i want to read huckleberry finn, but want to read it in chinese... 本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-8 14:42 编辑
i want to read huckleberry finn, but want to read it in chinese...
程普 发表于 2009-10-8 14:23 http://www.dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
I guess your English is much better than your Chinese.
{:4_299:}
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Chapter01-04)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:12 编辑Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. He got back home barely in season to help Jim, the small colored boy, saw next-day's wood and split the kindlings before supper -- at least he was there in time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the work. Tom's younger brother (or rather half-brother) Sid was already through with his part of the work (picking up chips), for he was a quiet boy, and had no adventurous, troublesome ways.
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in season = 及时
in time = 及时
or rather = 确切说
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kindlings = [复数]引火物
half-brother = 异父兄弟, 异母兄弟
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barely = 仅仅, 刚刚, 几乎不
colored = 彩色的, 有色的(人种, 尤指黑人)
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saw
split
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Chapter01-05)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-17 20:03 编辑While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile,and very deep -- for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said she:
"Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?"
"Yes'm."
"Powerful warm, warn't it?"
"Yes'm."
"Didn't you want to go in a-swimming, Tom?"
A bit of a scare shot through Tom -- a touch of uncomfortable suspicion. He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing. So he said:
"No'm -- well, not very much."
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opportunity offer = 机会出现
transparent device = 极易识破的诡计
low cunning = 卑鄙狡诈, 高明
a touch of = 一丝, 一点
warn't = wasn't, weren't
'm = mam
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trap
endow
contemplate
shoot, shot
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revealment = 泄露
diplomacy
marvel
guile
suspicion
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middling = [俗]相当地
damaging
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Chapter01-06)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:13 编辑The old lady reached out her hand and felt Tom's shirt, and said:
"But you ain't too warm now, though." And it flattered her to reflect that she had discovered that the shirt was dry without anybody knowing that that was what she had in her mind. But in spite of her, Tom knew where the wind lay, now. So he forestalled what might be the next move:
"Some of us pumped on our heads -- mine's damp yet. See?"
Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. Then she had a new inspiration:
"Tom, you didn't have to undo your shirt collar where I sewed it, to pump on your head, did you? Unbutton your jacket!"
The trouble vanished out of Tom's face. He opened his jacket. His shirt collar was securely sewed.
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in spite of = 不顾, 不管
next move = 下一步行动
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wind = 动向, etc.
trick
inspiration
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forestall
pump
vex
undo
vanish
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damp
circumstantial
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Chapter01-07)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-15 00:52 编辑"Bother! Well, go 'long with you. I'd made sure you'd played hookey and been a-swimming. But I forgive ye, Tom. I reckon you're a kind of a singed cat, as the saying is -- better'n you look. This time."
She was half sorry her sagacity had miscarried, and half glad that Tom had stumbled into obedient conduct for once.
But Sidney said:
"Well, now, if I didn't think you sewed his collar with white thread, but it's black."
"Why, I did sew it with white! Tom!"
But Tom did not wait for the rest. As he went out at the door he said:
"Siddy, I'll lick you for that."
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Bother! = [口]讨厌!
go 'long with you = go along with you = [口]去你的(表示不相信)
ye = [古]你们;你
better'n = better than
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make sure = 弄明白, 查明白
stumble into = 偶尔走入
for once = 仅此一次
the rest = 其余的
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if I didn't think = 我不记得是否
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singe
lick
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sagacity
conduct
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obedient
-------------------- {:4_276:}like it so much
lz keep on!~ {:4_276:}like it so much
lz keep on!~
大帅 发表于 2009-10-12 12:59 http://www.dolc.de/forum/images/common/back.gif
Thank you{:5_377:}
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Chapter01-08)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:13 编辑In a safe place Tom examined two large needles which were thrust into the lapels of his jacket, and had thread bound about them -- one needle carried white thread and the other black. He said:
"She'd never noticed if it hadn't been for Sid. Confound it! sometimes she sews it with white, and sometimes she sews it with black. I wish to geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other -- I can't keep the run of 'em. But I bet you I'll lam Sid for that. I'll learn him!"
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though -- and loathed him.
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confound it! = [口]讨厌!该死!可恶!
geeminy = [感叹词] jiminy
t'other = the other
'em = them
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the run = 运转, 发展, etc.
lapel
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learn = [俚]教, 教训
stick = 坚持, 固定, etc.
lam
thrust
bind, bound
loathe
-------------------- {:3_259:}nice
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Chapter01-09)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-14 21:14 编辑Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles. Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time -- just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it undisturbed. It consisted in a peculiar bird-like turn, a sort of liquid warble, produced by touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth at short intervals in the midst of the music -- the reader probably remembers how to do it, if he has ever been a boy. Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet -- no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.
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bear down = 克服, 击败
drive out of = 驱逐出
consist in = 在于, 存在于
produce by = 产生于
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for the time = 在当时
at short intervals = 不时地
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in the midst of = 在...当中
so far as ... be concerned = 就...而言, 至于, 关于
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whit = 一点点,丝毫(多用于否定句中)
negro
novelty
whistling
misfortune
enterprise
warble
diligence
knack
gratitude
astronomer
advantage
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stride, strode, stridden
acquire
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peculiar
unalloyed
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(Chapter01-10)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-16 18:18 编辑The summer evenings were long. It was not dark, yet. Presently Tom checked his whistle. A stranger was before him -- a boy a shade larger than himself. A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg. This boy was well dressed, too -- well dressed on a week-day. This was simply astounding. His cap was a dainty thing, his closebuttoned blue cloth roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons. He had shoes on -- and it was only Friday. He even wore a necktie, a bright bit of ribbon. He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom's vitals. The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow. Neither boy spoke. If one moved, the other moved -- but only sidewise, in a circle; they kept face to face and eye to eye all the time. Finally Tom said:
"I can lick you!"
"I'd like to see you try it."
"Well, I can do it."
"No you can't, either."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"I can."
"You can't."
"Can!"
"Can't!"
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have on = 穿着, 戴着
turn up = 朝上翻, etc.
eat into = 腐蚀, 侵蚀, 耗费
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all the time = 一直, 始终
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pantaloons = [古]男式马裤
roundabout = [美](尤指十九世纪)男用紧身短上衣
air = 态度, etc.
shade = 稍微, etc.
circle
outfit
curiosity
vitals
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check = 突然停住, etc.
stare
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simply = 简直, 完全, etc.
either = (用在否定句中)根本, etc.
sidewise = sideways
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shabby
impressive
astounding
dainty
natty
splendid
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