Could he be a?

descendant

?of Salazar Slytherin? He didn’t know anything about his father’s family, after all. The Dursleys had always forbidden questions about his wizarding relatives.

descendant /d??send?nt/ n.?后代

201

Quietly, Harry tried to say something in?

Parseltongue

. The words wouldn’t come. It seemed he had to be face to face with a snake to do it.

Parseltongue?蛇腔佬

202

‘But I’m in Gryffindor,’ Harry thought. ‘The Sorting Hat wouldn’t have put me in here if I had Slytherin blood …’

203

‘Ah,’ said a?

nasty

?little voice in his brain, ‘But the Sorting Hat wanted to put you in Slytherin, don’t you remember?’

nasty /?nɑ?sti/ adj.?令人厭惡的

204

Harry turned over.?

205

He’d see Justin next day in Herbology and he’d explain that he’d been calling the snake off, not egging it on, which (he thought?

angrily

,?

pummelling

?his pillow) any fool should have?

realised

.

angrily /'??grili/ adv.?憤怒地

pummel /'p?m(?)l/ vt.?用拳頭連續(xù)揍

realise /'r??la?z/ v.?意識到

206

By next morning, however, the snow that had begun in the night had turned into a?

blizzard

?so thick that the last Herbology lesson of term was cancelled:

blizzard /'bl?z?d/ n.?暴風(fēng)雪

207

Professor Sprout wanted to?

fit

?socks and?

scarves

?on the?

Mandrakes

,

fit /f?t/ v.?裝進(jìn)

scarves /skɑ?vz/ n.?圍巾（scarf的復(fù)數(shù)）

mandrake /'m?ndre?k/ n. [植]曼德拉草（可作鎮(zhèn)靜藥用）

208

a?

tricky

?

operation

?she would?

entrust

?to no one else,

tricky /?tr?ki/ adj.?棘手的

operation /??p??re??n/ n.?行動(dòng)

entrust /?n?tr?st/ vt.?委托

209

now that it was so important for the Mandrakes to grow quickly and?

revive

?Mrs Norris and Colin Creevey.

revive /r??va?v/ vt.?使蘇醒

210

Harry?

fretted

?about this next to the fire in the Gryffindor common room, while Ron and Hermione used their lesson?

off

to play a game of wizard chess.

fret /fret/ vt.?焦急

off /?f/ adv.?不上課

211

‘

For heaven’s sake

, Harry,’ said Hermione,?

exasperated

, as one of Ron’s?

bishops

?

wrestled

?her knight off his horse and dragged him off the board. ‘Go and find Justin if it’s so important to you.’

for one's sake?看......的面上

exasperate /?ɡ?z?sp?re?t/ vt.?觸怒

bishop /?b???p/ n.?主教

wrestle /?resl/ vt.?與……搏斗

212

So Harry got up and left through the?

portrait

?hole, wondering where Justin might be.

portrait /?p??tre?t/ n.?肖像

213

The castle was darker than it usually was in daytime, because of the thick, swirling grey snow at every window.

214

Shivering, Harry walked past classrooms where lessons were?

taking place

, catching?

snatches

?of what was happening within.

take place?進(jìn)行

snatch /sn?t?/ n. (聽到的)只言片語

215

Professor McGonagall was shouting at someone who, by the sound of it, had turned his friend into a?

badger

.

badger /?b?d??(r)/ n.?獾

216

Resisting

?the?

urge

?to take a look, Harry walked on by, thinking that Justin might be using his?

free

?lesson to?

catch up on

?some work, and deciding to check the library first.

resist /r??z?st/ v.?忍住

urge /??d?/ n.?沖動(dòng)

free /fri?/ adj.?免于

catch up on?彌補(bǔ)

217

A group of the Hufflepuffs who should have been in Herbology were?

indeed

?sitting at the back of the library, but they didn’t seem to be working.

indeed /?n?di?d/ adv.?的確

218

Between the long lines of high bookshelves, Harry could see that their heads were close together and they were having what looked like an?

absorbing

?conversation.

absorbing /?b'z??b??/ adj.?非常有趣的

219

He couldn’t see whether Justin was among them. He was walking towards them when something of what they were saying met his ears, and he paused to listen, hidden in the Invisibility?

section

.

section /?sek?n/ n.?區(qū)域

220

‘So anyway,’ a?

stout

?boy was saying,

stout /sta?t/ adj.?結(jié)實(shí)的

221

‘I told Justin to hide up in our dormitory. I?

mean

?to say, if Potter’s?

marked

?him down as his next?

victim

, it’s best if he keeps a?

low profile

?for a while.

mean /mi?n/ vi.?表示…的意思

mark /mɑ?k/ v.?盯?。▽κ郑?/p>

victim /?v?kt?m/ n.?受害者

low profile?低調(diào)

222

Of course, Justin’s been waiting for something like this to happen ever since he?

let slip

?to Potter he was Muggle-born. Justin?

actually

?told him he’d been?

down for

?Eton.

let slip?無意中說漏嘴

actually /??kt?u?li/ adv.?居然

down for?列入名單

223

That’s not the kind of thing you?

bandy

?about with Slytherin’s heir?

on the loose

, is it?’

bandy /'b?nd?/ v.?傳播

on the loose?散漫

224

‘You?

definitely

?think it is Potter, then, Ernie?’ said a girl with blonde?

pigtails

?anxiously.

definitely /?def?n?tli/ adv.?肯定地

pigtail /'p?gte?l/ n.?辮子

225

‘Hannah,’ said the stout boy?

solemnly

,

solemnly /?s ?l?ml?/ adv.?嚴(yán)肅地

226

‘he’s a Parselmouth. Everyone knows that’s the mark of a dark wizard. Have you ever heard of a decent one who could talk to snakes? They called Slytherin himself Serpent-tongue.’

227

There was some?

heavy

?murmuring at this, and Ernie went on,

heavy /'hev?/ adj.?大量的

228

‘Remember what was written on the wall? Enemies of the Heir Beware. Potter had some sort of?

run-in

?with Filch. Next thing we know, Filch’s cat’s attacked.

run-in /'r?nin/ n.?口角

229

That first-year, Creevey, was annoying Potter at the Quidditch match, taking pictures of him while he was lying in the mud. Next thing we know, Creevey’s been attacked.’

230

‘He always seems so nice, though,’ said Hannah uncertainly, ‘a(chǎn)nd, well, he’s the one who made You Know Who disappear. He can’t be all bad, can he?’

231

Ernie lowered his voice mysteriously, the Hufflepuffs bent closer, and Harry edged nearer so that he could catch Ernie’s words.

232

‘No one knows how he survived that attack by You Know Who.

233

I mean to say, he was only a baby when it happened. He should have been?

blasted

?into?

smithereens

. Only a really powerful Dark Wizard could have survived a curse like that.’

blast /blɑ?st/ v.?炸毀

smithereens /?sm?e?'ri?nz/ n.?小碎片

234

He dropped his voice until it was barely more than a whisper, and said,

235

‘That’s probably why You Know Who wanted to kill him in the first place. Didn’t want another Dark Lord competing with him. I wonder what other powers Potter’s been hiding?’

236

Harry couldn’t take any more. Clearing his throat loudly, he stepped out from behind the bookshelves.

237

If he hadn’t been feeling so angry, he would have found the sight that?

greeted

?him funny:

greet /ɡri?t/ v.?對……作出反應(yīng)

238

every one of the Hufflepuffs looked as though they had been Petrified by the sight of him, and the?

colour

?was draining out of Ernie’s face.

colour /'k?l?/ n.?臉色

239

‘Hello,’ said Harry. ‘I’m looking for Justin Finch-Fletchley.’

240

The Hufflepuffs’ worst fears had clearly been?

confirmed

. They all looked?

fearfully

?at Ernie.

confirm /k?n?f??m/ vt.?證實(shí)

fearfully /?f??f?l?/ adv.?害怕地

241

‘What do you want with him?’ said Ernie, in a quavering voice.

242

‘I wanted to tell him what really happened with that snake at the Duelling Club,’ said Harry.

243

Ernie bit his white lips and then, taking a deep breath, said, ‘We were all there. We saw what happened.’

244

‘Then you noticed that, after I spoke to it, the snake backed off?’ said Harry.

245

‘All I saw,’ said Ernie?

stubbornly

, though he was trembling as he spoke, ‘was you speaking Parseltongue and?

chasing

?the snake towards Justin.’

stubbornly /'st?b?nli/ adv.?頑強(qiáng)地

chase /t?e?s/ v.?催促

246

‘I didn’t chase it at him!’ Harry said, his voice shaking with anger. ‘It didn’t even touch him!’

247

‘It was a very?

near miss

,’ said Ernie.

near miss?差點(diǎn)兒發(fā)生的事

248

‘And in case you’re getting ideas,’ he added?

hastily

, ‘I might tell you that you can?

trace

?my family back through nine generations of witches and warlocks and my blood’s as pure as anyone’s, so –’

hastily /'heistili/ adv.?匆忙地

trace /tre?s/ vt.?查探

249

‘I don’t care what sort of blood you’ve got!’ said Harry fiercely. ‘Why would I want to attack Muggle-borns?’

250

‘I’ve heard you hate those Muggles you live with,’ said Ernie swiftly.

251

‘It’s not possible to live with the Dursleys and not hate them,’ said Harry. ‘I’d like to see you try it.’

252

He?

turned on his heel

?and stormed out of the library,?

earning

?himself a?

reproving

?glare from Madam Pince, who was polishing the?

gilded

?cover of a large spellbook.

turn on one’s heel?突然轉(zhuǎn)身走開

earn /??n/ vt.?博得

reproving /ri'pru:vi?/ adj.?責(zé)備的

gilded /'ɡ?ld?d/ adj.?鍍金的

253

Harry?

blundered

?up the corridor, barely noticing where he was going, he was in such a?

fury

. The result was that he walked into something very large and solid, which knocked him backwards onto the floor.

blunder /?bl?nd?(r)/ vi.?踉踉蹌蹌地走

fury /?fj??ri/ n.?狂怒

254

‘Oh, hullo, Hagrid,’ Harry said, looking up.

255

Hagrid’s face was entirely hidden by a?

woolly

, snow-covered?

balaclava

, but it couldn’t possibly be anyone else, as he filled most of the corridor in his?

moleskin

?

overcoat

.

woolly /?w?li/ adj.?羊毛制的

balaclava /?b?l??klɑ:v?/ n.?巴拉克拉法帽

moleskin /'m??lsk?n/ n.?鼴鼠毛皮

overcoat /???v?k??t/ n.?大衣

256

A dead rooster was hanging from one of his massive,?

gloved

?hands.

gloved /ɡl?vd/ adj. (手)戴著手套的

257

‘All righ’, Harry?’ he said, pulling up the balaclava so he could speak. ‘Why aren’t yeh in class?’

258

‘Cancelled,’ said Harry, getting up. ‘What’re you doing in here?’

259

Hagrid held up the?

limp

?rooster.

limp /l?mp/ adj.?無生氣的

260

‘Second one killed this term,’ he explained. ‘It’s either?

foxes

?or a Blood-

Sucki

n’?

Bugbear

, an’ I need the Headmaster’s permission ter put a charm round the?

hen-coop

.’

fox /f?ks/ n.?狐貍

suck /s?k/ vt. & vi.?吸

bugbear /'b?gbe?/ n.?怪物

hen-coop?雞窩

261

He peered more closely at Harry from under his thick, snow-

flecked

?eyebrows.

flecked /'flekd/ adj.?有斑點(diǎn)的

262

‘Yeh sure yeh’re all righ’? Yeh look all?

hot

?an’?

bothered

.’

hot /h?t/ adj.?暴躁的

bothered /'b?e?d/ adj.?煩（惱）的

263

Harry couldn’t?

bring himself to

?repeat what Ernie and the rest of the Hufflepuffs had been saying about him.

bring oneself to?鼓起勇氣

264

‘It’s nothing,’ he said. ‘I’d better get going, Hagrid, it’s Transfiguration next and I’ve got to pick up my books.’

265

He walked off, his mind still full of what Ernie had said about him.

266

‘Justin’s been waiting for something like this to happen ever since he let slip to Potter he was Muggle-born …’

267

Harry?

stamped

?up the stairs and turned along another corridor, which was particularly dark;?

stamp /st?mp/ vt.?用腳踩踏

268

the torches had been?

extinguished

?by a strong, icy?

draught

?which was blowing through a?

loose

?window?

pane

.

extinguish /?k?st??ɡw??/ v.?熄滅

draught /drɑ?ft/ n.?氣流

loose /lu?s/ adj.?不牢固的

pane /pe?n/ n.?窗玻璃

269

He was halfway down the passage when he tripped?

headlong

?over something lying on the floor.

headlong /?hedl??/ adv. & adj.?迅猛而失控地(的)

270

He turned to squint at what he’d fallen over, and felt as though his stomach had?

dissolved

.

dissolve /d??z?lv/ vi.?溶解

271

Justin Finch-Fletchley was lying on the floor, rigid and cold, a look of shock frozen on his face, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling.

272

And that wasn’t all. Next to him was another figure, the strangest sight Harry had ever seen.

273

It was Nearly Headless Nick, no longer pearly-white and?

transparent

, but black and?

smoky

, floating immobile and?

horizontal

, six inches off the floor.

transparent /tr?ns?p?r?nt/ adj.?透明的

smoky /'sm??k?/ adj.?煙狀的

horizontal /?h?r??z?ntl/ adj.?在地平線上的

274

His head was half off and his face wore an expression of shock identical to Justin’s.

275

Harry got to his feet, his breathing fast and?

shallow

, his heart doing a kind of?

drum-roll

?against his?

ribs

.

shallow /???l??/ adj.?（呼吸）淺的

drumroll /'dr?mr?ul/ n.?擊鼓

rib /r?b/ n.?肋骨

276

He looked wildly up and down the deserted corridor and saw a line of spiders?

scuttling

?as fast as they could away from the?

bodies

.

scuttle /'sk?t(?)l/ vi.?急促地跑

body /'b?d?/ n.?尸體

277

The only sounds were the?

muffled

?voices of teachers from the classes on either side.

muffled /'m?fld/ adj.?聽不清的

278

He could run, and no one would ever know he had been there. But he couldn’t just leave them lying here … he had to get help. Would anyone believe he hadn’t had anything to do with this?

279

As he stood there,?

panicking

, a door right next to him opened with a bang. Peeves the poltergeist came shooting out.

panic /?p?n?k/ vi.?十分驚慌

280

‘

Why

, it’s?

potty

?

wee

?Potter!’?

cackled

?Peeves,?

why /wa?/ int.?哎呀

potty /'p?t?/ adj.?微不足道的

wee adj.?極小的

cackle /'k?k(?)l/ vi.?咯咯地笑

281

knocking Harry’s glasses?

askew

?as he bounced past him. ‘What’s Potter up to? Why’s Potter?

lurking

?–’

askew /??skju?/ adv.?歪斜地

lurk /l??k/ vi.?潛伏

282

Peeves stopped, halfway through a mid-air?

somersault

. Upside-down, he spotted Justin and Nearly Headless Nick.

somersault /'s?m?s?lt/ n.?翻筋斗

283

He flipped the right way up, filled his lungs and, before Harry could stop him, screamed, ‘ ATTACK! ATTACK! ANOTHER ATTACK! NO?

MORTAL

?OR GHOST IS SAFE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! ATTAAAACK!’

mortal /?m??tl/ n.?普通人

284

Crash – crash – crash: door after door flew open along the corridor and people?

flooded

?out.

flood /fl?d/ vi.?涌進(jìn)

285

For several long minutes, there was a scene of such?

confusion

?that Justin was in danger of being?

squashed

?and people kept standing in Nearly Headless Nick.

confusion /k?n?fju??n/ n.?混亂

squash /skw??/ vt.?將(某人[某物])壓扁

286

Harry found himself pinned against the wall as the teachers shouted for quiet.

287

Professor McGonagall came running, followed by her own class, one of whom still had black and white?

striped

?hair.

striped /stra?pt/ adj.?有條紋的

288

She used her wand to set off a loud bang, which?

restored

?silence, and ordered everyone back into their classes.

restore /r??st??(r)/ vt.?恢復(fù)

289

No sooner

?had the scene?

cleared

?

somewhat

?than Ernie the Hufflepuff arrived, panting, on the scene.

no sooner than?一……就……

clear /kl??(r)/ v.?恢復(fù)暢通

somewhat /?s?mw?t/ adv.?稍微

290

‘Caught?

in the act

!’ Ernie yelled, his face?

stark

?white, pointing his finger?

dramatically

?at Harry.

in the act?當(dāng)場

stark /stɑ?k/ adj.?荒涼的

dramatically /dr??m?t?kli/ adv.?劇烈地

291

‘

That will do

, Macmillan!’ said Professor McGonagall sharply.

that will do?行了

292

Peeves was bobbing overhead, now grinning?

wickedly

,?

surveying

?the scene; Peeves always loved?

chaos

.

wickedly /'wikidli/ adv.?頑皮地

survey /?s??ve?/ vt.?俯瞰

chaos /?ke??s/ n.?混亂

293

As the teachers bent over Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, examining them, Peeves broke into song:

294

‘Oh Potter, you?

rotter

, oh what have you done? You’re killing off students, you think it’s good fun –’

rotter /'r?t?/ n.?無賴

295

‘That’s enough Peeves!’ barked Professor McGonagall, and Peeves zoomed away backwards, with his?

tongue

?out at Harry.

tongue /t??/ n.?舌頭

296

Justin was carried up to the hospital wing by Professor Flitwick and Professor Sinistra of the?

Astronomy

?

department

, but nobody seemed to know what to do for Nearly Headless Nick.

astronomy /??str?n?mi/ n.?天文學(xué)

department /d??pɑ?tm?nt/ n.?系

297

In the end, Professor McGonagall?

conjured

?a large?

fan

?out of thin air, which she gave to Ernie with?

instructions

?to?

waft

?Nearly Headless Nick up the stairs.

conjure /?k?nd??(r)/ vt.?用魔術(shù)變出

fan /f?n/ n.?扇子

instruction /?n?str?k?n/ n.?指示

waft /w?ft/ vt.?吹送

298

This Ernie did,?

fanning

?Nick along like a silent black?

hovercraft

. This left Harry and Professor McGonagall alone together.

fan /f?n/ vt.?扇

hovercraft /'h?v?krɑ:ft/ n.?氣墊船

299

‘This way, Potter,’ she said.

300

‘Professor,’ said Harry at once, ‘I swear I didn’t –’

301

‘This is out of my hands, Potter,’ said Professor McGonagall?

curtly

.

curtly /'k?:tli/ adv.?簡略地

302

They marched in silence around a corner and she stopped before a large and extremely ugly stone?

gargoyle

.

gargoyle /?ɡɑ?ɡ??l/ n. (尤指教堂頂上石頭怪人或怪獸狀的)滴水嘴

303

‘

Sherbet

?lemon!’ she said.

sherbet /'???b?t/ n.?冰凍果子露

304

This was evidently a password, because the gargoyle?

sprang

?suddenly to life, and?

hopped

?aside as the wall behind him split in two.?

sprang /spr??/ v.?突然運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)（spring的過去式）

hop /h?p/ vi.?跳躍

305

Even full of?

dread

?for what was coming, Harry couldn’t?

fail to

?be amazed.

dread /dred/ v.?畏懼

fail to?未能

306

Behind the wall was a spiral staircase which was moving?

smoothly

?upwards, like an?

escalator

. As he and Professor McGonagall stepped onto it, Harry heard the wall?

thud

?closed behind them.

smoothly /smu: el?/ adv.?連續(xù)而流暢地

escalator /'esk?le?t?/ n.?自動(dòng)扶梯

thud /θ?d/ n.?砰的一聲

307

They rose upwards in circles, higher and higher, until at last, slightly?

dizzy

, Harry could see a?

gleaming

?oak door ahead, with a brass?

knocker

?in the shape of a?

griffon

.

dizzy /?d?zi/ adj.?暈眩的

gleaming /'gli:mi?/ adj.?閃閃發(fā)光的

knocker /'n?k?/ n.?門環(huán)

griffon /'gr?f(?)n/ n.?（希臘）半獅半鷲的怪獸

308

He knew where he was being taken. This must be where Dumbledore lived.

309