北师大版高中英语模块7--Unit 24 Spot2

[00:00.81]It was hot in the valley,
[00:02.44]hotter still in San Bernadino,
[00:04.46]and it was still hot at five thousand feet,
[00:06.95]fifteen miles up
[00:07.79]the high-gear road to Puma¹ Lake.
[00:10.44]I had done forty of the fifty miles of curving
[00:12.99]twisting highway before it started to cool off,
[00:15.89]but it didn't really get cool
[00:17.67]until I reached the dam and started
[00:19.38]along the south shore of the lake
[00:21.32]past the piled-up granite² boulders³
[00:23.31]and the sprawled⁴ camps in the flats beyond.
[00:26.24]It was early evening
[00:27.36]when I reached Puma Point and
[00:29.08]I was as empty as a gutted⁵ fish.

[00:32.39]The Indian Head Hotel was a brown
[00:34.17]building on corner,opposite a dance hall.
[00:37.02]I registered,carried my suitcase upstairs
[00:39.39]and dropped it in a bleak⁶,
[00:40.85]hard-looking room with an oval rug
[00:42.23]on the floor,a double bed in the corner,
[00:45.09]and nothing on the bare pine wall
[00:46.73]but a hardware-store calendar all curled up
[00:49.42]from the dry mountain summer.
[00:51.39]I washed my face and hands
[00:52.61]and went downstairs to eat...
[00:54.98]I gobbled down what they called
[00:56.79]the regular dinner,
[00:58.41]drank a brandy to sit on it,
[00:59.79]and went out...
[01:02.00]The phone office was a log cabin,
[01:04.20]and there was a booth in the corner
[01:05.66]with a coin-in-the-slot telephone.
[01:07.92]I shut myself inside and dropped my nickel
[01:10.20]and dialed 2306.A woman's voice answered.
[01:10.20]

1 puma   

美洲豹

参考例句：

• The police and the volunteers combed the forest for the lost puma from the zoo.警察和志愿者们在森林里到处寻找动物园迷失的美洲狮。
• A businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree.一位商人去钓鱼，看见那只美洲狮在树上。

2 granite   

adj.花岗岩，花岗石

参考例句：

• They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。
• The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。

3 boulders   

n.卵石( boulder的名词复数 )；巨砾；（受水或天气侵蚀而成的）巨石；漂砾

参考例句：

• Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm. 海面风平浪静，海豹在巨石上晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders. 河水急流而下，入一个漂砾的漩涡中。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 sprawled   

v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词)；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）

参考例句：

• He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
• He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。

5 gutted   

adj.容易消化的v.毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的过去式和过去分词 )；取出…的内脏

参考例句：

• Disappointed? I was gutted! 失望？我是伤心透了！
• The invaders gutted the historic building. 侵略者们将那幢历史上有名的建筑洗劫一空。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。