漫漫长路 1-Track03

JESS

I shouldn't have made the noise. That was my mistake.But I yelled 'Out of the way, losers!'and made this stupid Red Indian war-whoop. and Martin rugby-tackled me before I got halfway¹.I knew what the two of them were doing up there the moment I got to the roof. So I went, how come you two are allowed to kill yourselves and I'm not?And he goes, You're too young.We've fucked our lives up. You haven't,yet. And I said, How do you know that?What if I've murdered ten people? Including my parents and,my baby twins?And he went, Well, if you're up here, you've got away with it, haven't you? Good luck to you.I'd get on a plane to Brazil if I were you.And I said,What if I want to pay for what I've done with my life? And he said, Shut up.

MARTIN

I shouted at Maureen to come and help me. She looked frightened.

What should I do?

'Sit on her.'

Maureen sat on Jess's arse, and I knelt on her arms.

let me go, you old bastard² pervert³.

I thought for a moment Jess might have known who I was, but even I'm not that paranoid.If you were rugby-tackled in the middle of the night just as you were about

to hurl⁴ yourself off the top of a tower-block, you probably wouldn't be thinking about breakfast television presenters⁵.

are you going to behave?'

'Yes.'

So Maureen stood up, Jess scrambled⁶ for the ladder, and I had to bring her crashing down again.

'Now what?' said Maureen,

'I don't bloody⁷ know.'

Why it didn't occur to any of us that a well-known suicide spot would be like Piccadilly Circus on New Year's Eve.I have no idea, But at that precise moment,the three became four.There was a polite cough, and when we turned round to look, we saw a tall, goodlooking, long-haired man, maybe ten years younger than me, holding a

crash helmet under one arm and one of those big insulated bags in the

other.'Any of you guys order a pizza?'

MAUREEN

'Are you American?' Jess asked him.

'Yeah.'

'What are you guys doing sitting on her head?'

'They're sitting on my head because this isn't a free country,' Jess said.

'You can't do what you want to.'

'She was going to jump,' Martin said.

'So were you!'

'You were all gonna jump?'

'Would you watch your language, please?' I said.

He shook his head.

'I think she's OK, now, ,' Martin said, He stood up, and I stood up, and Jess stood up and brushed herself down and swore a lot. Then she stared at Martin.'You're that bloke,' she said. 'The breakfast TV bloke. The one who slept with the fifteen-year-old. Martin Sharp. Martin Sharp was sitting on my head. You pervert.'I didn't have a clue about any fifteen-year-old.I don't

look at that sort of newspaper someone's left one on the bus.

'You kidding me?' said the pizza man. 'The guy who went to prison? I read about him.'Martin made a groaning⁸ noise. 'Does everyone in America know, too?'

The pizza man laughed,'Sure,' you are all over the the New York Times.'ok, sit down, all of you.he started to open his bag.'Vegetarian,' said the pizza man.

'Whatever,' said Jess. 'Who wants what?'

1 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

2 bastard   

n.坏蛋，混蛋；私生子

参考例句：

• He was never concerned about being born a bastard.他从不介意自己是私生子。
• There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard.据说没有办法买通那个混蛋。

3 pervert   

n.堕落者，反常者；vt.误用，滥用；使人堕落，使入邪路

参考例句：

• Reading such silly stories will pervert your taste for good books.读这种愚昧的故事会败坏你对好书的嗜好。
• Do not pervert the idea.别歪曲那想法。

4 hurl   

vt.猛投，力掷，声叫骂

参考例句：

• The best cure for unhappiness is to hurl yourself into your work.医治愁苦的最好办法就是全身心地投入工作。
• To hurl abuse is no way to fight.谩骂决不是战斗。

5 presenters   

n.节目主持人，演播员( presenter的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Each week presenters would put the case for their favourite candidate. 每个星期主持人推出他们最喜欢的候选人。 来自互联网
• Karaoke was set up to allowed presenters to sing on the stage. 宴会设有歌唱舞台，可让出席者大演唱功。 来自互联网

6 scrambled   

v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

8 groaning   

adj. 呜咽的, 呻吟的 动词groan的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• She's always groaning on about how much she has to do. 她总抱怨自己干很多活儿。
• The wounded man lay there groaning, with no one to help him. 受伤者躺在那里呻吟着，无人救助。