我们一起背单词

灵儿

這層樓太好搭了，信手拈來。

     58章Rhett回答Scarlett對她轉性的質疑時說：You might possibly sponge the spots off a leopard but he’d remain a leopard, just the same.

    江山易改本性難移。

    為啥Word直接貼過來的會有底色？

[ 本帖最后由 灵儿 于 2013-10-30 15:44 编辑 ]

灵儿

      這幾個詞要消失了，記錄一下：

       飄里Rhett曾持有的幾個標籤     carpetbaggers     投機商      scalawags     rouge   scoundrel     villain    騙子、流氓、惡棍

木耳

60章Scarlett想向Rhett道歉，说明她为了减轻自己的苦痛而说了很多伤害他的话，可一直没机会：

And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

木耳

60章Scarlett回想往事的时候，突然明白了老兵为何那么愿意谈及战争：

Now she understood why when two ex-Confederates met, they talked of the war with so much relish, with pride, with nostalgia. Those had been days that tried their hearts but they had come through them. They were veterans. She was a veteran too, but she had no cronies with whom she could refight old battles.

木耳

61章Scarlett祈祷Melanie能挺过流产，但Rhett告诉她：

“She hasn’t your strength. She’s never had any strength. She’s never had anything but heart.”

 

Melanie托付Ashley给Scarlett时终于承认了他的不足：

Only death could have forced that disloyalty from Melanie.

 

 

两个女人达成了秘密的约定：

Their glance sealed the bargain that the protection of Ashley Wilkes from a too harsh world was passing from one woman to another and that Ashley’s masculine pride should never be humbled by this knowledge.

木耳

63章Scarlett和Rhett的苦涩对白：

　　　　　“No,” said Rhett. “If you must see him as he really is, see him straight. He’s only a gentleman caught in a world he doesn’t belong in, trying to make a poor best of it by the rules of the world that’s gone.”

 

　　　　　“Well, she was right, as far as she knew. But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

冰问

今天忽然看到个好玩的：Jew's ear。这个叫做 ...... 木耳师兄会很熟悉吧？：） 

黑木耳，学名Auricularia auricula-judae, 也称Jew’s ear, jelly ear 。据说Judas Iscariot在背叛Jesus Christ后自己上吊，死在了接骨木树（elder tree）下。不巧，我们可怜的小黑木耳就喜欢生长在接骨木上，所以当民众看到了后，就把这两者联系在了一起，就说长在此树上的黑木耳乃犹大灵魂的化身（returned spirit），是在提醒人们犹大畏罪自杀了。因此Jew’s ear这个名字就给了无辜的黑木耳。 起初，并不是叫Jew’s ear，而是直接以犹大的名字来叫的：Judas’s ear，后来不知道为什么就简化成了Judas ear，到了19世纪未，直接就成了Jew’s ear。

(参见：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae)

木耳

今天一天没看书，正好看Jane Eyre第二章有个单词，送给冰问：

bourne  [bʊən]

n.  小溪; 目的地

话说想起开林我就想到kiln，以后想起冰问就想到bourne。这样还一下子就记住了。

[ 本帖最后由 木耳 于 2013-11-3 01:18 编辑 ]

木耳

Jane Eyre第三章里Jane的几句话，不过感觉起伏很大，让人感觉到有好有坏的复杂的人格品质：

Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while rending my heart-strings, you thought you were only uprooting my bad propensities.

poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.

Besides, school would be a complete change: it implied a long journey, an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life.

清和

原帖由 木耳 于 2013-11-3 21:37 发表 Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did 

基督受刑前也說：（Then said Jesus,） Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. （And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.）（《路加福音》23：34）

raiment：衣服