CHAPTER THREE

1

THE?

BURROW

burrow /?b??ro?/ n. (動(dòng)物的)洞穴

2

“Ron!” breathed Harry, creeping to the window and pushing it up so they could talk through the bars.

3

“Ron, how did you — What the — ?”

4

Harry’s mouth fell open as the full?

impact

?of what he was seeing hit him.

impact /??mp?kt/ n.?沖擊力

5

Ron was leaning out of the back window of an old?

turquoise

?car, which was parked in midair.

turquoise /?t?..?kw??z/ adj.?藍(lán)綠色的

6

Grinning at Harry from the front seats were Fred and George, Ron’s elder twin brothers.

7

“All right, Harry?”

8

“What’s been going on?” said Ron.

9

“Why haven’t you been answering my letters??

10

I’ve asked you to stay about twelve times, and then Dad came home and said you’d got an official warning for using magic in front of Muggles —”

11

“It wasn’t me — and how did he know?”

12

“He works for the?

Ministry

,” said Ron. “You know we’re not supposed to do spells outside school”

ministry /?m?n?stri/ n.?（政府的）部門(mén)

13

“

Bit rich coming from you

” said Harry, staring at the floating car.

bit rich coming from you?反諷語(yǔ)：就你可以用，我不可以用

14

“Oh, this doesn’t count,” said Ron.

15

“We’re only borrowing this. It’s Dad’s, we didn’t?

enchant

?it. But doing magic in front of those Muggles you live with —”

enchant /?n?t??nt/ vt.?施魔法

16

“I told you, I didn’t — but it’ll take too long to explain now — look, can you explain to them at Hogwarts that the Dursleys have locked me up and won’t let me come back,

17

and obviously I can’t magic myself out, because the Ministry’ll think that’s the second spell I’ve done in three days, so —”

18

“Stop?

gibbering

,” said Ron. “We’ve come to take you home with us.”

gibber /'d??b?/ vi.?嘰里咕嚕地說(shuō)

19

“But you can’t magic me out either —”

20

“We don’t need to,” said Ron, jerking his head toward the front seat and grinning. “You forget who I’ve got with me.”

21

“Tie that around the bars,” said Fred, throwing the end of a rope to Harry.

22

“If the Dursleys wake up, I’m dead,” said Harry as he tied the rope tightly around a bar and Fred?

revved

?up the car.

rev /r?v/ vi.?加快轉(zhuǎn)速

23

“Don’t worry,” said Fred, “and stand back.”

24

Harry moved back into the shadows next to Hedwig, who seemed to have realized how important this was and kept still and silent.

25

The car revved louder and louder and suddenly, with a?

crunching

?noise, the bars were pulled clean out of the window as Fred drove straight up in the air.

crunch /kr?nt?/ vi.?嘎吱嘎吱地踏過(guò)

26

Harry ran back to the window to see the bars dangling a few feet above the ground.

27

Panting, Ron?

hoisted

?them up into the car.

hoist /h??st/ vt.?把…吊起

28

Harry listened anxiously, but there was no sound from the Dursleys’ bedroom.

29

When the bars were safely in the back seat with Ron, Fred?

reversed

?as close as possible to Harry’s window.

reverse /r??v??rs/ vt. & vi. (使)翻轉(zhuǎn)

30

“Get in,” Ron said.

31

“But all my Hogwarts stuff — my wand — my broomstick —”

32

“Where is it?”

33

“Locked in the cupboard under the stairs, and I can’t get out of this room —”

34

“No problem,” said George from the front?

passenger seat

. “Out of the way, Harry.”

passenger seat?乘客座

35

Fred and George climbed carefully through the window into Harry’s room.

36

You had to hand it to them, thought Harry, as George took an ordinary?

hairpin

?from his pocket and started to pick the lock.

hairpin /?h?r?p?n/ n.?發(fā)夾

37

“A lot of wizards think it’s a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick,” said Fred, “but we feel they’re skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow.”

38

There was a small click and the door swung open.

39

“So — we’ll get your trunk — you grab anything you need from your room and hand it out to Ron,” whispered George.

40

“Watch out for the bottom stair — it?

creaks

,” Harry whispered back as the twins disappeared onto the dark?

landing

.

creak /krik/ vi.?發(fā)出咯吱咯吱聲

landing /?l?nd??/ n.?樓梯的平臺(tái)

41

Harry dashed around his room, collecting his things and passing them out of the window to Ron.

42

Then he went to help Fred and George heave his trunk up the stairs.

43

Harry heard Uncle Vernon?

cough

.

cough /k?f/ vi.?咳嗽

44

At last, panting, they reached the landing, then carried the trunk through Harry’s room to the?

open window

.

45

Fred climbed back into the car to pull with Ron, and Harry and George pushed from the bedroom side.

46

Inch by inch, the trunk slid through the window.

47

Uncle Vernon coughed again.

48

“A bit more,” panted Fred, who was pulling from inside the car. “One good push —”

49

Harry and George threw their shoulders against the trunk and it slid out of the window into the back seat of the car.

50

“Okay, let’s go,” George whispered.

51

But as Harry climbed onto the?

windowsill

?there came a sudden loud?

screech

?from behind him, followed immediately by the?

thunder

?of Uncle Vernon’s voice.

windowsill /'w?ndo,s?l/ n.?窗沿

screech /skrit?/ n.?尖利刺耳的聲音

thunder /?θ?nd?r/ n.?（雷鳴般的）怒吼

52

“THAT?

RUDDY

?OWL!”

ruddy /?r?di/ adj. (表示生氣)討厭的

53

“I’ve forgotten Hedwig!”

54

Harry?

tore

?back across the room as the landing light clicked on — he?

snatched

?up Hedwig’s cage, dashed to the window, and passed it out to Ron.

tear /t?r/ v.?狂奔

snatch /sn?t?/ vt.?奪得

55

He was scrambling back onto the?

chest of drawers

?when Uncle Vernon hammered on the unlocked door — and it crashed open.

chest of drawers?五斗柜

56

For a split second, Uncle Vernon stood framed in the doorway; then he let out a?

bellow

?like an angry bull and?

dived

?at Harry, grabbing him by the ankle.

bellow /?belo?/ n.?吼叫聲

dive /da?v/ v.?撲向

57

Ron, Fred, and George seized Harry’s arms and pulled as hard as they could.

58

“Petunia!” roared Uncle Vernon. “He’s getting away! HE’S GETTING AWAY!”

59

The Weasleys gave a?

gigantic

?

tug

?and Harry’s leg slid out of Uncle Vernon’s grasp.

gigantic /d?a??ɡ?nt?k/ adj.?巨大的

tug /t?ɡ/ n.?猛拉

60

As soon as Harry was in the car and had slammed the door shut.

61

Ron yelled, “Put your foot down, Fred!”, and the car shot suddenly toward the moon.

62

Harry couldn’t believe it — he was free. He?

wound

?down the window, the night air whipping his hair, and looked back at the shrinking rooftops of Privet Drive.

wind /w?nd/ v.?轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)(把手)

63

Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were all hanging,?

dumbstruck

, out of Harry’s window.

dumbstruck /'d?mstr?k/ adj.?被嚇得目瞪口呆的

64

“See you next summer!” Harry yelled.

65

The Weasleys roared with laughter and Harry?

settled back

?in his seat, grinning from?

ear to ear

.

settled back?仰坐

ear to ear?合不攏嘴

66

“Let Hedwig out,” he told Ron.

67

“She can fly behind us. She hasn’t had a chance to stretch her wings for ages.”

68

George handed the?

hairpin

?to Ron and, a moment later, Hedwig?

soared

?

joyfully

?out of the window to?

glide

?alongside them like a ghost.

hairpin /'he?p?n/ n.?發(fā)夾

soar /s??(r)/ vi.?翱翔

joyfully /'d??if?li/ adv.?高興地

glide /ɡla?d/ vi.?滑翔

69

“So — what’s the story, Harry?” said Ron impatiently. “What’s been happening?”

70

Harry told them all about Dobby, the warning he’d given Harry and the?

fiasco

?of the violet pudding.

fiasco /fi??sk??/ n.?慘敗

71

There was a long, shocked silence when he had finished.

72

“Very?

fishy

,” said Fred finally.

fishy /'f???/ adj.?可疑的

73

“Definitely?

dodgy

,” agreed George. “So he wouldn’t even tell you who’s supposed to be plotting all this stuff?”

dodgy /'d?d??/ adj.?可疑的

74

“I don’t think he could,” said Harry. “I told you, every time he got close to?

letting something slip

, he started banging his head against the wall.”

let slip?無(wú)意中吐露

75

He saw Fred and George look at each other.

76

“What, you think he was lying to me?” said Harry.

77

“Well,” said Fred,

78

“put it this way — house-elves have got powerful magic of their own, but they can’t usually use it without their master’s permission.

79

I reckon old Dobby was sent to stop you coming back to Hogwarts. Someone’s idea of a joke. Can you think of anyone at school with a?

grudge

?against you?”

grudge /ɡr?d?/ n.?不滿

80

“Yes,” said Harry and Ron together,?

instantly

.

instantly /??nst?ntli/ adv.?立刻

81

“Draco Malfoy,” Harry explained. “He hates me.”

82

“Draco Malfoy?” said George, turning around. “Not Lucius Malfoy’s son?”

83

“Must be, it’s not a very?

common

?name, is it?” said Harry. “Why?”

common /'k?m?n/ adj.?普通的

84

“I’ve heard Dad talking about him,” said George. “He was a big?

supporter

?of You-Know-Who.”

supporter /s??p??t?(r)/ n.?擁護(hù)者

85

“And when You-Know-Who disappeared,” said Fred,?

craning

?around to look at Harry,

crane /kre?n/ vi.?伸著脖子看

86

“Lucius Malfoy came back saying he’d never?

meant

?any of it. Load of?

dung

?— Dad reckons he was right in You-Know-Who’s?

inner circle

.”

mean /mi?n/ v.?打算

dung /d??/ n.?動(dòng)物的糞便

inner circle?核心集團(tuán)

87

Harry had heard these rumors about Malfoy’s family before, and they didn’t surprise him at all.

88

Malfoy made Dudley Dursley look like a kind,?

thoughtful

, and?

sensitive

?boy.

thoughtful /?θ??tfl/ adj.?體貼的

sensitive /?sens?t?v/ adj.?善解人意的

89

“I don’t know whether the Malfoys own a house-elf. . . .” said Harry.

90

“Well, whoever owns him will be an old Wizarding family, and they’ll be rich,” said Fred.

91

“Yeah, Mum’s always wishing we had a house-elf to do the?

ironing

,” said George.

ironing /'ai?ni?/ n.?熨衣服

92

“But all we’ve got is a?

lousy

?old?

ghoul

?in the?

attic

?and?

gnomes

?all over the garden.

lousy /'la?z?/ adj. <非正式>討厭的

ghoul /gu?l/ n.?盜尸者

attic /??t?k/ n.?閣樓

gnomes /n?um/ n.?地精

93

House-elves come with big old?

manors

?and castles and places like that; you wouldn’t catch one in our house. . . .”

manor /'m?n?/ n.?莊園

94

Harry was silent.

95

Judging by the fact that Draco Malfoy usually had the best of everything, his family was?

rolling in

?wizard gold; he could just see Malfoy?

strutting

?around a large?

manor

?house.

roll in?有大量的(錢(qián)財(cái)?shù)?

strut /str?t/ vi.?趾高氣揚(yáng)地走

manor /'m?n?/ n.?莊園

96

Sending the family servant to stop Harry from going back to Hogwarts also sounded exactly like the sort of thing Malfoy would do. Had Harry been stupid to take Dobby?

seriously

?

seriously /?s??r??sl?/ adv.?當(dāng)真地

97

“I’m glad we came to get you, anyway,” said Ron. “I was getting really worried when you didn’t answer any of my letters. I thought it was Errol’s fault at first —”

98

“Who’s Errol?”

99

“Our owl. He’s ancient. It wouldn’t be the first time he’d?

collapsed

?on a delivery. So then I tried to borrow Hermes —”

collapse /k??l?ps/ v.?突然倒下

100

“Who?”

101

“The owl Mum and Dad bought Percy when he was made prefect,” said Fred from the front.

102

“But Percy wouldn’t lend him to me,” said Ron. “Said he needed him.”

103

“Percy’s been acting very oddly this summer,” said George, frowning.

104

“And he has been sending a lot of letters and spending a load of time shut up in his room. . . . I mean, there’s only so many times you can?

polish

?a prefect?

badge

. . . . You’re driving too far west, Fred,”

polish /?p?l??/ vi.?擦亮

badge /b?d?/ n.?徽章

105

he added, pointing at a?

compass

?on the?

dashboard

.

compass /?k?mp?s/ n.?指南針

dashboard /'d??b??d/ n.?儀表板

106

Fred?

twiddled

?the?

steering wheel

.

twiddle /'tw?d(?)l/ vt.?旋弄

steering wheel n.?方向盤(pán)

107

“So, does your dad know you’ve got the car?” said Harry, guessing the answer.

108

“Er, no,” said Ron, “he had to work tonight.?

Hopefully

?we’ll be able to get it back in the garage without Mum noticing we flew it.”

hopefully /'h??pf?l?/ adv.?如果順利地話

109

“What does your dad do at the Ministry of Magic, anyway?”

110

“He works in the most boring?

department

,” said Ron. “The?

Misuse

?of Muggle?

Artifacts

?Office.”

department /d??pɑ?tm?nt/ n.?部門(mén)

misuse /m?s'ju?z/ n.?濫用

artifact n.?人工產(chǎn)品

111

“The what?”

112

“It’s all to do with bewitching things that are Muggle-made, you know, in case they end up back in a Muggle shop or house.

113

Like, last year, some old witch died and her?

tea set

?was sold to an?

antiques

?shop. This Muggle woman bought it, took it home, and tried to serve her friends tea in it.

tea set?茶具

antique /?n?ti?k/ n.?古董

114

It was a nightmare — Dad was working?

overtime

?for weeks.”

overtime /???v?ta?m/ n.?加班

115

“What happened?”

116

“The teapot went?

berserk

?and?

squirted

?boiling tea all over the place and one man ended up in the hospital with the sugar?

tongs

?

clamped

?to his nose.

berserk /b??z??k/ adj.?失控的

squirt /skw??t/ v. (使)（液體）噴射

tongs /t??z/ n.?火鉗

clamp /kl?mp/ vt.?夾住

117

Dad was going?

frantic

?— it’s only him and an old warlock called Perkins in the office — and they had to do Memory Charms and all sorts of stuff to?

cover it up

?—”

frantic /?fr?nt?k/ adj.?緊張忙亂的

cover up?掩蓋

118

“But your dad — this car —”

119

Fred laughed.

120

“Yeah, Dad’s mad about everything to do with Muggles; our shed’s full of Muggle stuff. He takes it?

apart

, puts spells on it, and puts it?

back

?together again.

apart /??pɑ?t/ adv.?分離著

back /b?k/ adv.?恢復(fù)原狀

121

If he?

raided

?our house he’d have to put himself under arrest. It drives Mum mad.”

raid /re?d/ v.?突擊搜查

122

“That’s the main road,” said George, peering down through the?

windshield

. “We’ll be there in ten minutes. . . . Just as well, it’s getting light. . . .”

windshield /'w?n(d)?i?ld/ n.?擋風(fēng)玻璃

123

A faint?

pinkish

?

glow

?was visible along the horizon to the east.

pinkish /'p??k??/ adj.?略帶桃色的

glow /ɡl??/ n.?光亮

124

Fred?

brought

?the car lower, and Harry saw a dark?

patchwork

?of fields and?

clumps

?of trees.

bring /br??/ v.?使處于某種狀況

patchwork /?p?t??w?:k/ n.?縫綴而成的各色布片

clump /kl?mp/ n.?叢

125

“We’re a little way outside the village,” said George. “Ottery St. Catchpole.”

126

Lower and lower went the flying car. The edge of a brilliant red sun was now?

gleaming

?through the trees.

gleam /ɡli?m/ v.?發(fā)微光

127

“

Touchdown

!” said Fred as, with a slight bump, they?

hit

?the ground.

touchdown /'t?t?da?n/ n. <空>著陸

hit /h?t/ v.?碰到

128

They had landed next to a?

tumbledown

?garage in a small yard, and Harry looked out for the first time at Ron’s house.

tumbledown /'t?mb(?)lda?n/ adj. (房屋)破敗不堪的

129

It looked as though it had once been a large stone?

pigsty

,

pigsty /'p?gsta?/ n.?豬圈

130

but extra rooms had been added here and there until it was several stories high and so?

crooked

?it looked as though it were held up by magic (which, Harry reminded himself, it probably was).

crooked /?kr?k?d/ adj.?彎曲的

131

Four or five chimneys were?

perched

?on top of the red roof. A?

lopsided

?sign stuck in the ground near the entrance read, THE BURROW.

perch /p??t?/ vt. & vi. (在較高處或物體邊緣)坐著

lopsided /?l?p?sa?d?d/ adj.?向一側(cè)歪斜的

132

Around the front door lay a?

jumble

?of rubber boots and a very rusty?

cauldron

. Several fat brown chickens were?

pecking

their way around the yard.

jumble /?d??mbl/ n.?雜亂的一堆東西

cauldron /'k??ldr(?)n/ n.?大鍋

peck /pek/ vi.?啄食

133

“It’s?

not much

,” said Ron.

not much?不怎么樣

134

“It’s brilliant,” said Harry happily, thinking of Privet Drive.

135

They got out of the car.

136

“Now, we’ll go upstairs really quietly,” said Fred,

137

“and wait for Mum to call us for breakfast.

138

Then, Ron, you come bounding downstairs going, Mum, look who turned up in the night!’ and she’ll be all pleased to see Harry and no one need ever know we flew the car.”

139

“Right,” said Ron. “Come on, Harry, I sleep at the —”

140

Ron had gone a nasty?

greenish

?color, his eyes fixed on the house. The other three?

wheeled

?around.

greenish /?gri:n??/ adj.?呈綠色的

wheel /wi?l/ v.?猛然轉(zhuǎn)身

141

Mrs. Weasley was?

marching

?across the yard,?

scattering

?chickens, and for a short,?

plump

, kind-faced woman, it was remarkable how much she looked like a?

saber-toothed tiger

.

march /mɑ?t?/ v.?快步走

scatter /?sk?t?(r)/ vt.?使散開(kāi)

plump /pl?mp/ adj.?圓胖的

saber-toothed tiger n.?劍齒虎(一種古生動(dòng)物)

142

“Ah,” said Fred.

143

“Oh, dear,” said George.

144

Mrs. Weasley came to a halt in front of them, her hands on her hips, staring from one guilty face to the next.

145

She was wearing a?

flowered

?

apron

?with a wand sticking out of the pocket.

flowered /'fla??d/ adj.?飾有花卉圖案的

apron /?e?pr?n/ n.?圍裙

146

“So,” she said.

147

“Morning, Mum,” said George, in what he?

clearly

?thought was a?

jaunty

,?

winning

?voice.

clearly /'kli?li/ adv.?顯然

jaunty /?d???nti/ adj.?快活的

winning /'w?n??/ adj.?吸引人的

148

“Have you any idea how worried I’ve been?” said Mrs. Weasley in a?

deadly

?whisper.

deadly /?dedli/ adj.?死一般的

149

“Sorry, Mum, but see, we had to —”

150

All three of Mrs. Weasley’s sons were taller than she was, but they?

cowered

?as her?

rage

?broke over them.

cower /?ka??(r)/ vi.?抖縮

rage /re?d?/ n.?憤怒

151

“Beds empty! No note! Car gone — could have crashed — out of my mind with worry — did you care?

152

— never, as long as I’ve lived — you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie or Percy —”

153

“Perfect Percy,” muttered Fred.

154

“YOU COULD DO WITH?

TAKING A LEAF OUT OF PERCY’S BOOK

!” yelled Mrs. Weasley,?

prodding

?a finger in Fred’s chest.

take a leaf out of sb's book?以某人為榜樣

prod /pr?d/ vt. & vi.?戳

155

“You could have died, you could have been seen, you could have?

lost

?your father his job —”

lose /lu?z/ vt.?使失去

156

It seemed to go on for hours. Mrs. Weasley had shouted herself?

hoarse

?before she turned on Harry, who backed away.

hoarse /h??s/ adj.?粗啞的

157

“I’m very pleased to see you, Harry, dear,” she said. “Come in and have some breakfast.”

158

She turned and walked back into the house and Harry, after a nervous glance at Ron, who nodded?

encouragingly

, followed her.

encouragingly /in'k?rid?i?li/ adv.?勉勵(lì)人地

159

The kitchen was small and rather?

cramped

.

cramped /kr?mpt/ adj.?狹窄的

160

There was a?

scrubbed

?wooden table and chairs in the middle, and Harry sat down on the edge of his seat, looking around. He had never been in a wizard house before.

scrub /skr?b/ vi.?擦洗

161

The clock on the wall opposite him had only one?

hand

?and no numbers at all. Written around the edge were things like Time to make tea, Time to feed the chickens, and You’re late.

hand /h?nd/ n.?指針

162

Books were stacked three deep on the?

mantelpiece

, books with titles like Charm Your Own Cheese, Enchantment in Baking, and One Minute Feasts — It’s Magic!

mantelpiece /'m?nt(?)lpi?s/ n.?壁爐臺(tái)

163

And unless Harry’s ears were?

deceiving

?him, the old radio next to the sink had just announced that coming up was “Witching?

Hour

, with the popular singing?

sorceress

, Celestina Warbeck.”

deceive /d??si?v/ v.?欺騙

hour /'a??/ n.?某個(gè)時(shí)間

sorceress /?s?:s?ris/ n.?女巫

164

Mrs. Weasley was?

clattering

?around, cooking breakfast a little?

haphazardly

, throwing?

dirty

?looks at her sons as she threw sausages into the?

frying pan

.

clatter /'kl?t?/ vi.?發(fā)出嘩啦聲

haphazardly /h?p?h?z?dli/ adv.?隨意地

dirty /'d??t?/ adj.?令人生厭的

frying pan /?fra???/?煎鍋

??

165

Every now and then she muttered things like “don’t know what you were thinking of,” and “never would have believed it.”

166

“I don’t blame you, dear,” she?

assured

?Harry,?

tipping

?eight or nine sausages onto his plate.

assure /?????(r)/ vt.?使確信

tip /t?p/ vt.?將(所盛之物)倒出

167

“Arthur and I have been worried about you, too. Just last night we were saying we’d come and get you ourselves if you hadn’t written back to Ron by Friday.

168

But really” (she was now adding three fried eggs to his plate), “flying an?

illegal

?car halfway across the country — anyone could have seen you —”

illegal /??li?ɡl/ adj.?非法的

169

She flicked her wand casually at the?

washing-up

?in the sink, which began to clean themselves,?

clinking

?gently in the background.

washing-up /'w????'?p/ n.?洗滌

clink /kl??k/ n.?叮當(dāng)聲

170

“It was?

cloudy

, Mum!” said Fred.

cloudy /'kla?d?/ adj.?困惑的

171

“You keep your mouth closed while you’re eating!” Mrs. Weasley snapped.

172

“They were starving him, Mum!” said George.

173

“And you!” said Mrs. Weasley, but it was with a slightly?

softened

?expression that she started cutting Harry bread and?

buttering

?it for him.

soften /?s?fn/ vt.?使溫和

butter /?b?t?(r)/ vt.?涂黃油于

174

At that moment there was a?

diversion

?

in the form of

?a small,?

redheaded

?figure in a long?

nightdress

, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again.

diversion /da??v???n/ n.?分散注意力

in the form of?以......的形式

redheaded /?red?hedid/ adj. (人)紅發(fā)的

nightdress /'na?tdres/ n. (婦女或孩子穿的)睡衣

175

“Ginny,” said Ron in an?

undertone

?to Harry. “My sister. She’s been talking about you all summer.”

undertone /'?nd?t??n/ n.?小聲

176

“Yeah, she’ll be wanting your?

autograph

, Harry,” grinned Fred, but he caught his mother’s eye and bent his face over his plate without another word.

autograph /???t?ɡrɑ?f/ n.?親筆簽名

177

Nothing more was said until all four plates were clean, which took a?

surprisingly

?short time.

surprisingly /s??pra?z???l?/ adv.?驚人地

178

“

Blimey

, I’m tired,” yawned Fred, setting down his knife and fork at last. “I think I’ll go to bed and —”

blimey /'bla?m?/ int.?啊呀!

179

“You will not,” snapped Mrs. Weasley. “It’s your own fault you’ve been up all night. You’re going to de-

gnome

?the garden for me; they’re getting?

completely

?

out of hand

?again —”

gnome /n??m/ n.?地精

completely /k?m'pli:tli/ adv.?完全地

out of hand?無(wú)法控制

180

“Oh, Mum —”

181

“And you two,” she said, glaring at Ron and George. “You can go up to bed, dear,” she added to Harry. “You didn’t ask them to fly that?

wretched

?car —”

wretched /?ret??d/ adj.?該死的

182

But Harry, who felt?

wide

?awake, said quickly, “I’ll help Ron. I’ve never seen a de-gnoming —”

wide /wa?d/ adv.?充分地

183

“That’s very sweet of you, dear, but it’s?

dull

?work,” said Mrs. Weasley. “Now, let’s see what Lockhart’s got to say on the subject —”

dull /d?l/ adj.?無(wú)趣的

184

And she pulled a heavy book from the stack on the?

mantelpiece

. George groaned. “Mum, we know how to de-gnome a garden —”

mantelpiece /'m?nt(?)lpi?s/ n.?壁爐臺(tái)

185

Harry looked at the cover of Mrs. Weasley’s book. Written across it in?

fancy

?gold letters were the words Gilderoy Lockhart’s Guide to?

Household

?

Pests

.

fancy /?f?nsi/ adj.?華麗的

household /?ha?sh??ld/ adj.?家庭的

pest /pest/ n.?害蟲(chóng)

186

There was a big photograph on the front of a very good-looking wizard with?

wavy

?blond hair and bright blue eyes.

wavy /?we?vi/ adj.?波狀的

187

As always in the Wizarding world, the photograph was?

moving

; the wizard, who Harry supposed was Gilderoy Lockhart, kept winking?

cheekily

?up at them all. Mrs. Weasley beamed down at him.

moving /'mu?v??/ adj.?移動(dòng)的

cheekily /'t?i:k?li/ adv.?厚臉皮地

188

“Oh, he is?

marvelous

,” she said. “He knows his household pests, all right, it’s a wonderful book. . . .”

marvelous /?mɑ:v?l?s/ adj.?了不起的

189

“Mum?

fancies

?him,” said Fred, in a very?

audible

?whisper.

fancy /?f?nsi/ v. <英，非正式>愛(ài)慕

audible /???d?bl/ adj.?聽(tīng)得見(jiàn)的

190

“Don’t be so ridiculous, Fred,” said Mrs. Weasley, her cheeks rather pink.

191

“All right, if you think you know better than Lockhart, you can go and get on with it, and?

woe betide

?you if there’s a single gnome in that garden when I come out to?

inspect

?it.”

woe betide?遇到麻煩

inspect /?n?spekt/ vt.?檢查

192

Yawning

?and?

grumbling

, the Weasleys?

slouched

?outside with Harry behind them. The garden was large, and in Harry’s eyes, exactly what a garden should be.

yawn /j??n/ vi.?打呵欠

grumble /?ɡr?mbl/ vi.?發(fā)牢騷

slouch /sla?t?/ vi.?無(wú)精打采地立、坐或行走

193

The Dursleys wouldn’t have liked it — there were plenty of weeds, and the grass needed cutting —

194

but there were?

gnarled

?trees all around the walls, plants Harry had never seen spilling from every flower bed, and a big green?

pond

?full of frogs.

gnarled /nɑ?ld/ adj. (樹(shù)、樹(shù)干、樹(shù)枝)扭曲的

pond /p?nd/ n.?池塘

195

“Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know,” Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.

196

“Yeah, I’ve seen those things they think are gnomes,” said Ron,?

bent double

?with his head in a?

peony

?bush, “l(fā)ike fat little?

Santa Clauses

?with fishing?

rods.

?. . .”

peony /'pi??n?/ n.?牡丹

bent double?屈身的

Santa Claus?圣誕老人

rod /r?d/ n.?竿

197

There was a violent?

scuffling

?noise, the peony bush?

shuddered

, and Ron?

straightened up

.

scuffle /'sk?f(?)l/ n.?扭打

shudder /???d?(r)/ v.?劇烈抖動(dòng)

straighten up?弄直身體

198

“This is a gnome,” he said?

grimly

.

grimly /'grimli/ adv.?討厭地

199

“Gerroff me! Gerroff me!”?

squealed

?the gnome.

squeal /skwi?l/ vi.?尖聲地說(shuō)

200

It was certainly nothing like Santa Claus. It was small and?

leathery

?looking, with a large,?

knobby

, bald head exactly like a potato.

leathery /'lee(?)r?/ adj.?粗糙的

knobby /'n?b?/ adj.?多節(jié)的

201

Ron held it at arm’s length as it kicked out at him with its?

horny

?little feet; he grasped it around the ankles and turned it upside down.

horny /'h??n?/ adj.?堅(jiān)硬的

202

“This is what you have to do,” he said. He raised the gnome above his head (“Gerroff me!”) and started to swing it in great circles like a?

lasso

.

lasso /l??su?/ n. <美>(套捕馬、牛等用的)套索

203

Seeing the shocked look on Harry’s face, Ron added, “It doesn’t hurt them — you’ve just got to make them really?

dizzy

?so they can’t find their way back to the gnomeholes.”

dizzy /?d?zi/ adj.?暈眩的

204

He let go of the gnome’s ankles: It flew twenty feet into the air and landed with a?

thud

?in the field over the hedge.

thud /θ?d/ n.?砰的一聲

205

“

Pitiful

,” said Fred. “I bet I can get mine beyond that?

stump

.”

pitiful /?p?t?fl/ adj.?可恥的

stump /st?mp/ n.?樹(shù)樁

206

Harry?

learned

?quickly not to feel too sorry for the gnomes.

learn /l??n/ vt.?認(rèn)識(shí)到

207

He decided just to drop the first one he caught over the hedge, but the gnome,?

sensing

?

weakness

, sank its?

razor-sharp

teeth into Harry’s finger and he had a hard job shaking it off — until —

sense /sens/ vt.?感覺(jué)到

weakness /?wi?kn?s/ n.?虛弱

razor-sharp /'reiz??ɑ:p/ adj.?鋒利的

208

“Wow, Harry — that must’ve been fifty feet. . . .”

209

The air was soon?

thick with

?flying gnomes.

thick with?充滿

210

“See, they’re not too bright,” said George, seizing five or six gnomes at once.

211

“The moment they know the de-gnoming’s going on they?

storm

?up to have a look. You’d think they’d have learned by now just to?

stay put

.”

storm /st??m/ vi.?狂怒咆哮

stay put?留在原處不動(dòng)

212

Soon, the crowd of gnomes in the field started walking away in a?

straggling

?line, their little shoulders?

hunched

.

straggle /?str?ɡl/ v.?零星地走

hunch /h?nt?/ vt.?聳肩

213

“They’ll be back,” said Ron as they watched the gnomes disappear into the hedge on the other side of the field. “They love it here. . . . Dad’s too soft with them; he thinks they’re funny. . . .”

214

Just then, the front door slammed.

215

“He’s back!” said George. “Dad’s home!”

216

They hurried through the garden and back into the house.

217

Mr. Weasley was slumped in a kitchen chair with his glasses off and his eyes closed.

218

He was a thin man, going bald, but the little hair he had was as red as any of his children’s. He was wearing long green robes, which were?

dusty

?and?

travel-worn

.

dusty /'d?st?/ adj.?落滿灰塵的

travel-worn /'tr?v?lw?:n/ adj.?旅行勞累的

219

“What a night,” he mumbled,?

groping

?for the teapot as they all sat down around him. “Nine?

raids

. Nine! And old Mundungus Fletcher tried to put a?

hex

?on me when I had my back turned. . . .”

grope /ɡr??p/ vi.?搜尋

raid /re?d/ n.?突擊檢查

hex /heks/ n.?妖法

220

Mr. Weasley took a long gulp of tea and sighed.

221

“Find anything, Dad?” said Fred eagerly.

222

“All I got were a few?

shrinking

?door keys and a biting kettle,” yawned Mr. Weasley.

shrink /?r??k/ v. (使)縮小

223

“There was some pretty nasty stuff that wasn’t my department, though.

224

Mortlake was taken away for?questioning?about some extremely odd?

ferrets

, but that’s the?

Committee

?on?

Experimental

Charms,?

thank goodness

. . . .”

ferret /'fer?t/ n.?雪豹

committee /k??m?ti/ n.?委員會(huì)

experimental /?k?sper??mentl/ adj.?實(shí)驗(yàn)(性)的

thank goodness?謝天謝地

225

“Why would anyone bother making door keys shrink?” said George.

226

“Just Muggle-

baiting

,” sighed Mr. Weasley. “Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it. . . .

baiting /'beiti?/ n.?誘餌

227

Of course, it’s very hard to?

convict

?anyone because no Muggle would admit their key keeps shrinking — they’ll insist they just keep losing it.

convict /k?n?v?kt/ v.?定罪

228

Bless

?them, they’ll?

go to any lengths

?to ignore magic, even if it’s staring them in the face. . . . But the things our lot have taken to enchanting, you wouldn’t believe —”

bless /bles/ vt.?祝福

go to any length?無(wú)所不用其極

229

“LIKE CARS, FOR?

INSTANCE

?”

instance /??nst?ns/ n.?例子

230

Mrs. Weasley had appeared, holding a long?

poker

?like a sword. Mr. Weasley’s eyes jerked open. He stared guiltily at his wife.

poker /'p??k?/ n.?撥火棍

231

“C-cars, Molly, dear?”

232

“Yes, Arthur, cars,” said Mrs. Weasley, her eyes flashing.

233

“Imagine a wizard buying a rusty old car and telling his wife all he wanted to do with it was take it apart to see how it worked, while really he was enchanting it to make it fly.”

234

Mr. Weasley blinked.

235

“Well, dear, I think you’ll find that he would be quite within the law to do that, even if — er — he maybe would have done better to, um, tell his wife the truth. . . .

236

There’s a?

loophole

?in the law, you’ll find. . . . As long as he wasn’t intending to fly the car, the fact that the car could fly wouldn’t —”

loophole /?lu?ph??l/ n.?漏洞

237

“Arthur Weasley, you made sure there was a loophole when you wrote that law!” shouted Mrs. Weasley.

238

“Just so you could carry on?

tinkering

?with all that Muggle rubbish in your shed! And for your information, Harry arrived this morning in the car you weren’t intending to fly!”

tinker /'t??k?/ v.?（徒勞地或馬虎地）小修補(bǔ)

239

“Harry?” said Mr. Weasley blankly. “Harry who?”

240

He looked around, saw Harry, and jumped.

241

“Good lord, is it Harry Potter? Very pleased to meet you, Ron’s told us so much about —”

242

“Your sons flew that car to Harry’s house and back last night!” shouted Mrs. Weasley. “What have you got to say about that, eh?”

243

“Did you really?” said Mr. Weasley eagerly.

244

“Did it go all right? I — I mean,” he?

faltered

?as sparks flew from Mrs. Weasley’s eyes, “that — that was very wrong, boys — very wrong indeed. . . .”

falter /?f??lt?(r)/ vi.?支吾

245

“Let’s leave them to it,” Ron muttered to Harry as Mrs. Weasley?

swelled

?like a?

bullfrog

. “Come on, I’ll show you my bedroom.”

swell /swel/ vi.?膨脹

bullfrog /'b?lfr?g/ n.?牛蛙

246

They slipped out of the kitchen and down a narrow passageway to an?

uneven

?staircase, which zigzagged its way up through the house.

uneven /?n?i?vn/ adj.?不規(guī)則的

247

On the third landing, a door stood ajar. Harry just caught sight of a pair of bright brown eyes staring at him before it closed with a snap.

248

“Ginny,” said Ron. “You don’t know how weird it is for her to be this shy. She never shuts up normally —”

249

They climbed two more flights until they reached a door with peeling?

paint

?and a small?

plaque

?on it, saying RONALD’S ROOM.

paint /pe?nt/ n.?漆層

plaque /pl?k/ n.?飾板

250

Harry stepped in, his head almost touching the?

sloping

?ceiling, and blinked.

sloping /sl??p??/ adj.?傾斜的

251

It was like walking into a?

furnace

: Nearly everything in Ron’s room seemed to be a?

violent

?shade of orange: the?

bedspread

, the walls, even the ceiling.

furnace /?f??n?s/ n.?火爐

violent /?va??l?nt/ adj.?強(qiáng)烈的

bedspread /'bedspred/ n.?床罩

252

Then Harry realized that Ron had covered nearly every inch of the?

shabby

?

wallpaper

?with posters of the same seven witches and wizards,

shabby /???bi/ adj.?破舊的

wallpaper /'w??lpe?p?/ n.?墻紙

253

all wearing bright orange robes, carrying broomsticks, and waving?

energetically

.

energetically /?en??d ?et?k?l?/ adv.?精力充沛地

254

“Your Quidditch team?” said Harry.

255

“The Chudley Cannons,” said Ron, pointing at the orange bedspread, which was?

emblazoned

?with two giant black C’s and a?

speeding

?

cannonball

. “Ninth in the?

league

.”

emblazon /?m'ble?z(?)n/ vt.?用紋章裝飾

speeding /?spi?d??/ adj.?高速行駛的

cannonball /'k?n?nb??l/ n.?炮彈

league /li?ɡ/ n.?級(jí)別

256

Ron’s school spellbooks were stacked untidily in a corner, next to a pile of?

comics

?which all seemed to?

feature

?The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle.

comic /?k?m?k/ n.?連環(huán)漫畫(huà)雜志

feature /?fi?t??(r)/ n.?專(zhuān)題節(jié)目

257

Ron’s magic wand was lying on top of a?

fish tank

?full of frog?

spawn

?on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was?

snoozing

?in a?

patch

?of sun.

fish tank?魚(yú)缸

spawn /sp??n/ vi.?產(chǎn)卵

snooze /snu?z/ vi.?打盹

patch /p?t?/ n.?小塊土地

258

Harry stepped over a pack of Self-

Shuffling

?

playing cards

?on the floor and looked out of the tiny window.

shuffle /???fl/ vi.?洗牌

playing card n.?撲克牌

259

In the field far below he could see a gang of gnomes sneaking one by one back through the Weasleys’ hedge.

260

Then he turned to look at Ron, who was watching him almost?

nervously

, as though waiting for his opinion.

nervously /'n?:v?sli/ adv.?提心吊膽地

261

“It’s a bit small,” said Ron quickly.

262

“Not like that room you had with the Muggles. And I’m right underneath the?

ghoul

?in the?

attic

; he’s always?

banging

?on the?

pipes

?and groaning. . . .”

ghoul /gu?l/ n.?盜尸者

attic /??t?k/ n.?閣樓

bang /b??/ vi.?砰砰作響

pipe /pa?p/ n.?管

263

But Harry, grinning widely, said, “This is the best house I’ve ever been in.”

264

Ron’s ears went pink.

265