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1、复旦研究生英语Unit-Four精品文档TheStoryofAnHourKnowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentence
2、s; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the
3、list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.马拉德太太有心脏病,要告知她丈夫意外身亡得格外小心才是。她姐姐约瑟芬来亲口转告,吞吞吐吐,半遮半掩。马拉德先生的好友
4、理查兹也在场,就坐在马拉德太太身边。火车事故的消息传来时,他正好在报馆,发现布伦特利马拉德先生的名字就是“遇难者”名单上的第一个。他只来得及根据接下来的一份电报确认了一下便匆匆赶了过来,惟恐那些不那么细心体贴的人说漏了嘴,冒冒失失地把噩耗告诉马拉德夫人。She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She we
5、pt at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.马拉德太太听到这一噩耗,并没有像大多数女人那样手足无措,无法接受这个事实。她一头栽进姐姐的怀里,号啕痛哭。当悲伤的风暴平息之后,她独自走进房间,不让任何人进
6、来。There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. 房间的窗户敞开着,对面放了张舒适、宽大的沙发。身体的疲惫令她精疲力竭,这种疲惫感似乎浸透到她的灵魂深处,让她一下子瘫倒进沙发里。S
7、he could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some
8、 one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.她看得见房前开阔的广场上大树的树梢,树梢上洋溢着初春的勃勃生机。空气中散发着春雨的醉人气息,楼下有个小贩吆喝着,远处隐约传来阵阵歌声,屋檐下成群的麻雀唧唧喳喳地闹个不停。There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds th