《哈利波特1》｜單詞注釋｜Chapter 9
CHAPTER NINE
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THE MIDNIGHT DUEL
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Harry had never believed he would meet a boy he hated more than Dudley, but that was before he met Draco Malfoy.
3
Still
, first-year Gryffindors only had Potions with the Slytherins, so they didn’t have to?
put up with
?Malfoy much.
still /st?l/ conj.?但是
put up with?忍受
4
Or at least, they didn’t until they spotted a notice pinned up in the Gryffindor common room which made them all groan.
5
Flying lessons would be starting on Thursday — and Gryffindor and Slytherin would be learning together.
6
“
Typical
,” said Harry darkly. “Just what I always wanted. To?
make a fool of myself
?on a broomstick in front of Malfoy.”
typical /?t?p?kl/ adj.?不出所料
make a fool of myself?出丑
7
He had been looking forward to learning to fly more than anything else.
8
“You don’t know that you’ll make a fool of yourself,” said Ron?
reasonably
. “Anyway, I know Malfoy’s always going on about how good he is at Quidditch, but I bet that’s all?
talk
.”
reasonably /?riz n..?bl?/ adv.?理性地
talk /t??k/ n.?空談
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Malfoy certainly did talk about flying a lot.
10
He complained loudly about first years never getting on the House Quidditch teams and told long,?
boastful
?stories which always seemed to?
end with
?him?
narrowly
?escaping Muggles in?
helicopters
.
boastful /'bostfl/ adj.?自夸的
end with?以......結(jié)束
narrowly /'n?roli/ adv.?剛好
helicopter /?hel?kɑ?pt?r/ n.?直升機(jī)
11
He wasn’t the only one, though: the way Seamus Finnigan told it, he’d spent most of his childhood?
zooming
?around the countryside on his broomstick.
zoom /zu?m/ v.?快速移動
12
Even Ron would tell anyone who’d listen about the time he’d almost hit a?
hang glider
?on Charlie’s old broom.
hang glider?懸掛式滑翔機(jī)
13
Everyone from wizarding families talked about Quidditch constantly.
14
Ron had already had a big argument with Dean Thomas, who?
shared
?their?
dormitory
, about football. Ron couldn’t?
see
?what was exciting about a game with only one ball where no one was allowed to fly.
share /?er/ v.?合用
dormitory /?d??rm?t??ri/ n.?集體宿舍
see /si/ vt. & vi.?理解
15
Harry had caught Ron?
prodding
?Dean’s poster of?
West Ham
?soccer team, trying to make the players move.
prod /prɑ?d/ vt. & vi.?戳
West Ham?西漢姆(英國地名)
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Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one.
17
Privately, Harry felt she’d had good?
reason
, because Neville managed to have an?
extraordinary
?
number of
accidents even with both feet on the ground.
reason /?riz?n/ n.?道理
extraordinary /?k?str??rd?neri/ adj.?特大(或多)的
number of?許多
18
Hermione Granger was almost as nervous about flying as Neville was.
19
This was something you couldn’t learn by heart out of a book —?
not that
?she hadn’t tried.
not that?并非
20
At breakfast on Thursday she?
bored
?them all stupid with flying?
tips
?she’d gotten out of a library book called Quidditch?
Through the Ages
.
bore /b??r/ vt.?令人厭煩
tip /t?p/ n.?訣竅
Through the Ages?古往今來
21
Neville was?
hanging on
?to her every word,?
desperate for
?anything that might help him hang on to his broomstick?
later
,
hang on?牢牢抓住
desperate?渴望
later /?le?t?r/ adv.?過些時間
22
but everybody else was very pleased when Hermione’s?
lecture
?was interrupted by the arrival of the post.
lecture /?lekt??r/ n.?演講
23
Harry hadn’t had a single letter since Hagrid’s note, something that Malfoy had been quick to notice, of course.
24
Malfoy’s eagle owl was always bringing him packages of sweets from home, which he opened?
gloatingly
?at the Slytherin table.
gloatingly /'gl?uti?li/ adv.?沾沾自喜地
25
A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother.?
26
He opened it excitedly and showed them a glass ball the size of a large marble, which seemed to be full of white smoke.
27
“It’s a?
Remembrall
!” he explained.?
remembrall?記憶球
28
“Gran knows I forget things — this tells you if there’s something you’ve forgotten to do. Look, you hold it tight like this and if it turns red — oh . . .”
29
His face fell, because the Remembrall had suddenly glowed?
scarlet
, “. . . you’ve forgotten something . . .”
scarlet /?skɑ?rl?t/ n.?鮮紅色
30
Neville was trying to remember what he’d forgotten when Draco Malfoy, who was passing the Gryffindor table, snatched the Remembrall out of his hand.
31
Harry and Ron jumped to their feet.?
32
They were half hoping for a reason to fight Malfoy, but Professor McGonagall, who could spot trouble quicker than any teacher in the school, was there in a flash.
33
“What’s going on?”
34
“Malfoy’s got my Remembrall, Professor.”
35
Scowling
, Malfoy quickly dropped the Remembrall back on the table.
scowl /ska?l/ vi.?怒視
36
“
Just looking
,” he said, and he?
sloped
?away with Crabbe and Goyle behind him.
just looking?只是看看
slope /slo?p/ v.?溜
37
At three-thirty that afternoon, Harry, Ron and the other Gryffindors hurried down the front steps into the grounds for their first flying lesson.
38
It was a clear,?
breezy
?day and the grass?
rippled
?under their feet as they marched down the?
sloping
?lawns towards a?
smooth
?lawn?
breezy /'brizi/ adj.?有微風(fēng)的
ripple /?r?pl/ v.?（使）如波浪般起伏
sloping /slop??/ adj.?成斜坡的
smooth /smu?e/ adj.?平坦的
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on the opposite side of the grounds to the Forbidden Forest, whose trees were?
swaying
?
darkly
?in the distance.
sway /swe?/ vi.?搖擺
darkly /'dɑ:kli/ adv.?黑暗地
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The Slytherins were already there, and so were twenty broomsticks lying in neat lines on the ground.
41
Harry had heard Fred and George Weasley complain about the school brooms, saying that some of them started to?
vibrate
?if you flew too high, or always flew slightly to the left.
vibrate /?va?bre?t/ vi.?顫動
42
Their teacher, Madam Hooch, arrived. She had short, gray hair, and yellow eyes like a?
hawk
.
hawk /h??k/ n.?鷹
43
“Well, what are you all waiting for?” she barked. “Everyone stand by a broomstick. Come on, hurry up.”
44
Harry glanced down at his?
broom
. It was old and some of the?
twigs
?stuck out at odd angles.
broom /bru?m/ n.?掃帚
twig /tw?ɡ/ n.?細(xì)枝
45
“Stick out your right hand over your broom,” called Madam Hooch at the front, “and say ‘Up!’”
46
“UP!” everyone shouted.
47
Harry’s broom jumped into his hand at once, but it was one of the few that did.
48
Hermione Granger’s had simply rolled over on the ground, and Neville’s hadn’t moved at all.
49
Perhaps brooms, like horses, could tell when you were afraid, thought Harry; there was a?
quaver
?in Neville’s voice that said?
only too
?clearly that he wanted to keep his feet on the ground.
quaver n.?顫抖的嗓音
only too?非常
50
Madam Hooch then showed them how to?
mount
?their brooms without sliding off the end, and walked up and down the rows?
correcting
?their?
grips
.
mount /ma?nt/ vt. & vi.?騎上
correct /k?'r?kt/ vt.?糾正
grip /ɡr?p/ n.?握法
51
Harry and Ron were delighted when she told Malfoy he’d been doing it wrong?
for years
.
for years?多年來
52
“Now, when I blow my?
whistle
, you kick off from the ground,?
hard
,” said Madam Hooch.
whistle /?w?sl/ n.?口哨
hard /hɑ?rd/ adv.?用力地
53
Keep your brooms steady, rise a few feet, and then come?
straight
?back down by leaning forward slightly. On my whistle — three — two —”
straight /stret/ adv.?徑直地
54
But Neville, nervous and?
jumpy
?and?
frightened
?of being left on the ground, pushed off hard before the whistle had touched Madam Hooch’s lips.
jumpy /?d??mpi/ adj. (人)焦慮不安的
frightened /'fraitnd/ adj.?害怕的
55
“Come back, boy!” she shouted, but Neville was rising straight up like a?
cork
?shot out of a bottle — twelve feet — twenty feet.
cork /k??rk/ n.?軟木塞
56
Harry saw his?
scared
?white face look down at the ground falling away, saw him?
gasp
, slip?
sideways
?off the broom and —
scared /skε?d/ adj.?害怕的
gasp /ɡ?sp/ vi.?喘氣
sideways /?sa?dwe?z/ adv.?向一旁
57
WHAM — a?
thud
?and a?
nasty
?crack and Neville lay?
facedown
?on the grass?
in a heap
.
thud /θ?d/ n.?砰的一聲
nasty /?n?sti/ adj.?危險的
facedown /'fes,da?n/ adv.?面向下地
in a heap /hi?p/?重重地（倒下）
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His broomstick was still rising higher and higher, and started to drift?
lazily
?toward the forbidden forest and out of sight.
lazily /?lez?l?/ adv.?慢吞吞地
59
Madam Hooch was bending over Neville, her face as white as his.
60
“Broken wrist,” Harry heard her mutter. “Come on, boy — it’s all right, up you get.”
61
She turned to the rest of the class.
62
“None of you is to move while I take this boy to the?
hospital wing
! You leave those brooms where they are or you’ll be out of Hogwarts before you can say ‘Quidditch.’ Come on, dear.”
hospital wing?校醫(yī)院
63
Neville, his face?
tear-streaked
, clutching his wrist,?
hobbled
?off with Madam Hooch, who had her arm around him.
tear-streaked adj.?布滿淚痕的
hobble /?hɑ?bl/ vi.?跛行
64
No sooner were they out of?
earshot
?than Malfoy burst into laughter.
earshot /'?r?ɑt/ n.?聽力所及之范圍
65
“Did you see his face, the great?
lump
?”
lump /l?mp/ n.?笨人
66
The other Slytherins?
joined
?in.
join /d???n/ v.?成為......的一員
67
“Shut up, Malfoy,” snapped Parvati Patil.
68
“Ooh,?
sticking up for
?Longbottom?” said Pansy Parkinson, a?
hard-faced
?Slytherin girl. “Never thought you’d like fat little?
crybabies
, Parvati.”
stick up for?維護(hù)
hard-faced /'hɑ:dfeist/ adj.?面貌難看的
crybaby /'kra?bebi/ n.?愛哭的人
69
“Look!” said Malfoy,?
darting
?forward and snatching something out of the grass. “It’s that stupid thing Longbottom’s gran sent him.”
dart /dɑ?rt/ vi.?向前沖
70
The Remembrall?
glittered
?in the sun as he held it up.
glitter /?ɡl?t?r/ vi.?閃光
71
“Give that here, Malfoy,” said Harry?
quietly
. Everyone stopped talking to watch.
quietly /?k wa??tl?/ adv.?低聲地
72
Malfoy smiled?
nastily
.
nastily /?n?st?l?/ adv.?骯臟地
73
“I think I’ll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to?
collect
?— how about — up a tree?”
collect /k?'l?kt/ v.?領(lǐng)取
74
“Give it here!” Harry yelled, but Malfoy had leapt onto his broomstick and?
taken off
.
take off?起飛
75
He hadn’t been lying, he could fly well.?
Hovering
?level with the topmost branches of an oak he called, “Come and get it, Potter!”
hover /?h?v?r/ v.?盤旋
76
Harry grabbed his broom.
77
“No!” shouted Hermione Granger. “Madam Hooch told us not to move — you’ll get us all into trouble.”
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Harry ignored her. Blood was pounding in his ears.
79
He mounted the broom and kicked hard?
against
?the ground and up, up he?
soared
; air?
rushed
?through his hair, and his robes?
whipped
?out behind him —?
against /?'ɡ?nst/ prep.?碰
soar /s??r/ v.?升空
rush /r??/ v.?急流
whip /w?p/ vt.?煽動
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and in?
a rush of
?
fierce
?
joy
?he realized he’d found something he could do without being taught — this was easy, this was wonderful.
a rush of?一陣
fierce /f?rs/ adj.?（動作或情感）強(qiáng)烈的
joy /d???/ n.?歡欣
81
He pulled his broomstick up a little to take it even higher, and heard screams and gasps of girls back on the ground and an admiring?
whoop
?from Ron.
whoop /wu?p/ n.?大叫
82
He turned his broomstick?
sharply
?to face Malfoy in midair. Malfoy looked?
stunned
.
sharply /?? ɑrpl?/ adv.?迅疾而突然地
stunned /st?nd/ adj.?（因驚訝、震驚而）目瞪口呆的
83
“Give it here,” Harry called, “or I’ll knock you off that broom!”
84
“Oh, yeah?” said Malfoy, trying to sneer, but looking?
worried
.
worried /'w??d/ adv.?擔(dān)心的
85
Harry knew,?
somehow
, what to do. He leaned forward and grasped the broom tightly in both hands, and it shot toward Malfoy like a?
javelin
.
somehow /?s?mha?/ adv.?不知為什么
javelin /'d??vl?n/ n.?標(biāo)槍
86
Malfoy only just?
got out of the way
?in time; Harry?
made a sharp about turn
?and held the broom steady. A few people below were?
clapping
.
get out of the way?避開
make a sharp turn?急轉(zhuǎn)彎
clap /kl?p/ vi.?鼓掌
87
“No Crabbe and Goyle up here to?
save your neck
, Malfoy,” Harry called.
save one's neck v.?免于遭難
88
The same thought seemed to have?
struck
?Malfoy.
strike /stra?k/ v.?突然意識到
89
“Catch it if you can, then!” he shouted, and he threw the glass ball high into the air and?
streaked
?back toward the ground.
streak /stri?k/ vi.?疾馳
90
Harry saw, as though in?
slow motion
, the ball rise up in the air and then start to fall.
slow motion?慢動作
91
He leaned forward and pointed his broom handle down — next second he was?
gathering speed
?in a?
steep dive
,?
racing
?the ball — wind whistled in his ears,?
mingled
?with the screams of people watching —
gather speed?加速
steep dive?大角度俯沖
race /re?s/ vt.?和...競賽
mingle /?m??ɡl/ vt. & vi.?混合,?混入
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he stretched out his hand — a foot from the ground he caught it, just in time to pull his broom straight, and he?
toppledgently
?onto the grass with the Remembrall clutched safely in his?
fist
.
topple /?tɑ?pl/ vi.?傾倒
gently /'d??ntli/ adv.?輕輕地
fist /f?st/ n.?拳頭
93
“HARRY POTTER!”
94
His heart sank faster than he’d just dived. Professor McGonagall was running toward them. He got to his feet, trembling.
95
“Never — in all my time at Hogwarts —”
96
Professor McGonagall was almost?
speechless
?with shock, and her glasses?
flashed
?
furiously
, “— how dare you — might have broken your neck —”
speechless /'spit?l?s/ adj. (由于強(qiáng)烈的感情)說不出話的
flash /fl??/ vi.?閃光
furiously /?fj??r??sl?/ adv.?猛烈地
97
“It wasn’t his fault, Professor —”
98
“Be quiet, Miss Patil —”
99
“But Malfoy —”
100
“That’s enough, Mr. Weasley. Potter, follow me, now.”
101
Harry?
caught sight
?of Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle’s?
triumphant
?faces as he left, walking?
numbly
?
in Professor McGonagall’s wake
?as she strode toward the castle.
catch sight?瞥見
triumphant adj.?（因勝利或成功而）洋洋得意的
numbly /'n?mli/ adv.?無知覺地
in one's wake?尾隨......
102
He was going to be expelled, he just knew it.
103
He wanted to say something to?
defend
?himself, but there seemed to be something wrong with his voice.
defend /d??fend/ vt.?辯護(hù)
104
Professor McGonagall was?
sweeping
?along without even looking at him; he had to?
jog
?to?
keep up
.
sweep /swi?p/ v.?步態(tài)輕盈地走
jog /d?ɑ?ɡ/ vt. & vi.?慢跑
keep up?不落后
105
Now he’d done it. He hadn’t even?
lasted
?two weeks. He’d be packing his bags?
in
?ten minutes. What would the Dursleys say when he turned up on the doorstep?
last /l?st/ v.?持續(xù)
in prep.?在......以后
106
Up the front steps, up the marble staircase inside, and still Professor McGonagall didn’t say a word to him. She?
wrenched
?open doors and?
marched
?along corridors with Harry?
trotting
?
miserably
?behind her.
wrench /rent?/ vt.?擰
march /mɑ?rt?/ v.?快步走
trot /trɑt/ v.?人(慢跑)
miserably /?m?z?r?bl?/ v.?悲慘地
107
Maybe she was taking him to Dumbledore. He thought of Hagrid, expelled but allowed to stay on as?
gamekeeper
. Perhaps he could be Hagrid’s?
assistant
.
gamekeeper /?ɡem?kip?/ n.?獵場看守人
assistant /??s?st?nt/ n.?助手
108
His stomach twisted as he imagined it, watching Ron and the others becoming wizards while he?
stumped
?around the grounds carrying Hagrid’s bag.
stump /st?mp/ vi.?笨重地行走
109
Professor McGonagall stopped outside a classroom. She opened the door and poked her head inside.
110
“Excuse me, Professor Flitwick, could I borrow Wood for a moment?”
111
Wood? thought Harry,?
bewildered
; was Wood a?
cane
?she was going to use on him?
bewilder /b??w?ld?r/ vt.?使迷惑
cane /ke?n/ n.?藤條
112
But Wood turned out to be a person, a?
burly
?fifth-year boy who came out of Flitwick’s class looking?
confused
.
burly /'b?li/ adj. (指人)魁梧的
confused /k?n'fjuzd/ adj.?困惑的
113
“Follow me, you two,” said Professor McGonagall, and they marched on up the corridor, Wood looking?
curiously
?at Harry.
curiously /'kj?r??sli/ adv.?好奇地
114
“In here.”
115
Professor McGonagall pointed them into a classroom that was empty except for Peeves, who was busy writing rude words on the blackboard.
116
“Out, Peeves!” she barked. Peeves threw the?
chalk
?into a?
bin
, which?
clanged
?loudly, and he?
swooped
?out cursing.
chalk /t???k/ n.?粉筆
bin /b?n/ n.?垃圾桶
clang /kl??/ n.?叮當(dāng)聲
swoop /swu?p/ vi.?猛沖
117
Professor McGonagall slammed the door behind him and turned to face the two boys.
118
“Potter, this is Oliver Wood. Wood — I’ve found you a?
Seeker
.”
seeker /'sik?/?找球手
119
Wood’s expression changed from?
puzzlement
?to delight.
puzzlement /'p?zlm?nt/ n.?迷惑
120
“Are you serious, Professor?”
121
“Absolutely,” said Professor McGonagall?
crisply
. “The boy’s a?
natural
. I’ve never seen anything like it. Was that your first time on a broomstick, Potter?”
crisply /?kr?spl?/ adv.?爽快地
natural /'n?t?r?l/ n.?有天賦的人
122
Harry nodded silently. He didn’t have a?
clue
?what was going on, but he didn’t seem to be being expelled, and some of the?
feeling
?started coming back to his legs.
clue /klu?/ n.?想法
feeling /'fil??/ n.?知覺
123
“He caught that thing in his hand after a fifty-
foot
?dive,” Professor McGonagall told Wood. “Didn’t even?
scratch
himself. Charlie Weasley couldn’t have done it.”
foot /f?t/ n.?英尺
scratch /skr?t?/ v. (尤指意外地)擦破
124
Wood was now looking as though all his dreams had come true at once.
125
“Ever seen a game of Quidditch, Potter?” he asked excitedly.
126
“Wood’s?
captain
?of the Gryffindor team,” Professor McGonagall explained.
captain /?k?pt?n/ n.?隊長
127
“He’s just the?
build
?for a Seeker, too,” said Wood, now walking around Harry and staring at him.
build /b?ld/ n.?體形
128
“Light — speedy — we’ll have to get him a?
decent
?broom, Professor — a Nimbus Two Thousand or a Cleansweep Seven, I’d say.”
decent /?di?snt/ adj.?像樣的
129
“I shall speak to Professor Dumbledore and see if we can’t?
bend
?the first-year rule.
bend /bend/ v.?通融
130
Heaven knows
, we need a better team than last year.?
Flattened
?in that last match by Slytherin, I couldn’t look Severus Snape?
in the face
?for weeks. . . .”
Heaven knows?天知道
flatten /?fl?tn/ vt.?擊敗
in the face?面對
131
Professor McGonagall peered?
sternly
?over her glasses at Harry.
sternly /?st?..nl?/ adv.?嚴(yán)厲地
132
“I want to hear you’re training hard, Potter, or I may change my mind about punishing you.”
133
Then she suddenly smiled.
134
“Your father would have been proud,” she said. “He was an excellent Quidditch player himself.”
135
“You’re joking.”
136
It was dinnertime. Harry had just finished telling Ron what had happened when he’d left the grounds with Professor McGonagall.
137
Ron had a piece of?
steak and kidney pie
?halfway to his mouth, but he’d forgotten all about it.
steak and kidney pie?牛排腰子餅
138
“Seeker?” he said. “But first years never — you must be the youngest House player in about —”
139
“— a century,” said Harry,?
shoveling
?pie into his mouth. He felt particularly hungry after the excitement of the afternoon. “Wood told me.”
shovel /'??vl/ vt.?把...胡亂塞入
140
Ron was so amazed, so?
impressed
, he just sat and?
gaped
?at Harry.
impressed /?m?prest/ adj. (對...)欽佩
gape /ɡe?p/ v?目瞪口呆地凝視
141
“I start training next week,” said Harry. “Only don’t tell anyone, Wood wants to keep it a secret.”
142
Fred and George Weasley now came into the hall, spotted Harry, and hurried over.
143
“Well done,” said George in a low voice. “Wood told us. We’re on the team too —?
Beaters
.”
beater /'bit?/ n.?擊球手
144
“I tell you, we’re going to win that Quidditch Cup?
for sure
?this year,” said Fred.
for sure adv.?毫無疑問地
145
“We haven’t won since Charlie left, but this year’s team is going to be brilliant. You must be good, Harry, Wood was almost skipping when he told us.”
146
“Anyway, we’ve got to go, Lee Jordan reckons he’s found a new secret?
passageway
?out of the school.”
passageway /'p?s?d?,we/ n. (尤指兩面有墻的)通道
147
“Bet it’s that one behind the statue of Gregory the?
Smarmy
?that we found in our first week. See you.”
smarmy /?smɑ?rmi/ adj. [口]?拍馬的
148
Fred and George had?
hardly
?disappeared when someone?
far
?
less
?welcome turned up: Malfoy,?
flanked
?by Crabbe and Goyle.
hardly /'hɑrdli/ adv.?剛剛
far /fɑr/ adv.?非常
less /l?s/ adv.?程度較低地
flank /fl??k/ v.?側(cè)面有
149
“Having a last meal, Potter? When are you getting the train back to the Muggles?”
150
“You’re a lot braver now that you’re back on the ground and you’ve got your little friends with you,” said Harry coolly.
151
There was of course?
nothing at all
?little about Crabbe and Goyle, but as the High Table was full of teachers, neither of them could do more?
than
?crack their?
knuckles
?and scowl.
nothing at all?根本沒有什么東西
than /e?n/ prep.?除......
knuckle /'n?kl/ n. (指人)指關(guān)節(jié)
152
“I’d?
take you on
?anytime?
on my own
,” said Malfoy. “Tonight, if you want. Wizard’s?
duel
. Wands only — no contact.?
What’s the matter
? Never heard of a wizard’s duel before, I suppose?”
take sb on?同......較量
on my own?獨(dú)自一人
duel /'d??l/ n.?決斗
What’s the matter?怎么了
153
“Of course he has,” said Ron,?
wheeling around
. “I’m his?
second
, who’s yours?”
wheel around?突然轉(zhuǎn)身
second /'s?k?nd/ n.?助手
154
Malfoy looked at Crabbe and Goyle,?
sizing them up
.
size up v.?評估
155
“Crabbe,” he said. “Midnight all right? We’ll meet you in the?
trophy room
; that’s always unlocked.”
trophy room?獎杯室
156
When Malfoy had gone, Ron and Harry looked at each other.
157
“What is a wizard’s duel?” said Harry. “And what do you mean, you’re my second?”
158
“Well, a second’s there to?
take over
?if you die,” said Ron casually, getting started at last on his cold pie.
take over?接管
159
Catching the?
look
?on Harry’s face, he added quickly,
look /l?k/ n.?神色
160
“But people only die in?
proper
?duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage.
proper /?prɑp?/ adj.?真正的
161
I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.”
162
“And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?”
163
“Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.
164
“Excuse me.”
165
They both looked up. It was Hermione Granger.
They both looked up. It was Hermione Granger.
166
“Can’t a person eat?
in peace
?in this place?” said Ron.
in peace?安靜
167
Hermione ignored him and spoke to Harry.
168
“I couldn’t help?
overhearing
?what you and Malfoy were saying —”
overhear /?o?v?r?h?r/ vt.?偷聽
169
“
Bet
?you could,” Ron muttered.
bet /bet/ v.?確信
170
“— and you mustn’t go wandering around the school at night, think of the points you’ll lose Gryffindor if you’re caught, and you’re?
bound
?to be. It’s really very selfish of you.”
bound /ba?nd/ adj.?必然的
171
“And it’s really?
none of your business
,” said Harry.
none of your business?不關(guān)你的事
172
“Good-bye,” said Ron.
173
All the same
, it wasn’t what you’d call the perfect end to the day, Harry thought, as he lay awake much later listening to Dean and Seamus falling asleep (Neville wasn’t back from the hospital wing).
all the same?盡管如此
174
Ron had spent all evening giving him advice such as “If he tries to?
curse
?you, you’d better dodge it, because I can’t remember how to?
block
?them.”
curse /k??rs/ v.?念咒語詛咒
block /blɑ?k/ v.?阻撓
175
There was a very good chance they were going to get caught by Filch or Mrs. Norris, and Harry felt he was?
pushing his luck
, breaking another school rule today.
push one's luck?碰運(yùn)氣
176
On the other hand, Malfoy’s?
sneering
?face kept?
looming
?up out of the darkness — this was his big chance to beat Malfoy face-to-face.
sneering /'sniri?/ adj.?嘲笑的
loom /lu?m/ vi.?朦朧地出現(xiàn)
177
He couldn’t miss it.
178
“Half-past eleven,” Ron muttered at last, “we’d better go.”
179
They?
pulled on
?their?
bathrobes
, picked up their wands, and crept across the tower room, down the?
spiral staircase
, and into the Gryffindor common room.
pull on?穿
bathrobe?浴袍
spiral staircase n.?螺旋梯
180
A few?
embers
?were still glowing in the?
fireplace
, turning all the armchairs into?
hunched
?black shadows.
ember /'?mb?/ n.?余燼
fireplace /?fa??rple?s/ n.?壁爐
hunched /h?nt?t/ adj.?縮成一團(tuán)的
181
They had almost reached the?
portrait
?
hole
?when a voice spoke from the chair nearest them, “I can’t believe you’re going to do this, Harry.”
portrait /?p??rtr?t/ n.?畫像
hole /hol/ n.?洞穴
182
A lamp flickered on. It was Hermione Granger, wearing a pink bathrobe and a?
frown
.
frown /fra?n/ vi.?皺眉
183
“You!” said Ron?
furiously
. “Go back to bed!”
furiously /?fj??r??sl?/ adv.?狂暴地
184
“I almost told your brother,” Hermione snapped, “Percy — he’s a prefect, he’d?
put a stop to
?this.”
put a stop to?制止
185
Harry couldn’t believe anyone could be so?
interfering
.
interfering adj.?多管閑事的
186
“Come on,” he said to Ron. He pushed open the portrait of the Fat Lady and climbed through the hole.
187
Hermione wasn’t going to?
give up
?that easily. She followed Ron through the portrait hole,?
hissing
?at them like an angry goose.
give up?放棄
hiss /h?s/ v.?帶怒氣地低聲說出(某事)
188
“Don’t you care about Gryffindor, do you only care about yourselves,?
189
I don’t want Slytherin to win the House Cup, and you’ll lose all the points I got from Professor McGonagall for knowing about Switching Spells.”
190
“Go away.”
191
“All right, but I warned you, you just remember what I said when you’re on the train?
home
?tomorrow, you’re so —”
home /hom/ adv.?回家
192
But what they were, they didn’t find out.
193
Hermione had turned to the portrait of the Fat Lady to get back inside and found herself facing an empty painting.
194
The Fat Lady had gone on a nighttime?
visit
?and Hermione was locked out of Gryffindor Tower.
visit /'v?z?t/ n.?拜訪
195
“Now what am I going to do?” she asked?
shrilly
.
shrilly /??r?l?/ adv.?尖聲地
196
“That’s your problem,” said Ron. “We’ve got to go, we’re going to be late.”
197
They hadn’t even reached the end of the corridor when Hermione?
caught up with
?them.
catch up with?趕上
198
“I’m coming with you,” she said.
199
“You are not.”
200
“D’you think I’m going to stand out here and wait for Filch to catch me? If he finds all three of us I’ll tell him the truth, that I was trying to stop you, and you can?
back me up
.”
back sb up?支持某人
201
“You’ve got some?
nerve
?—” said Ron loudly.
nerve /n??rv/ n.?膽量
202
“Shut up, both of you!” said Harry sharply. “I heard something.”
203
It was a sort of?
snuffling
.
snuffling /'sn?fli?/ vi.?抽鼻子
204
“Mrs. Norris?” breathed Ron,?
squinting
?through the dark.
squint /skw?nt/ vi.?瞇眼看
205
It wasn’t Mrs. Norris. It was Neville. He was curled up on the floor, fast asleep, but jerked suddenly awake as they crept nearer.
206
“
Thank goodness
?you found me! I’ve been out here for hours, I couldn’t remember the new?
password
?to get in to bed.”
Thank goodness?謝天謝地
password /?p?sw??rd/ n. (進(jìn)入房間、建筑或某個地區(qū)的)口令
207
“Keep your voice down, Neville. The password’s ‘Pig?
snout
’ but it won’t help you now, the Fat Lady’s gone off somewhere.”
snout /sna?t/ n.?鼻子
208
“How’s your arm?” said Harry.
209
“Fine,” said Neville, showing them. “Madam Pomfrey?
mended
?it in about a minute.”
mend /mend/ vt. (使)痊愈
210
“Good — well, look, Neville, we’ve got to be somewhere, we’ll see you later —”
211
“Don’t leave me!” said Neville,?
scrambling
?to his feet, “I don’t want to stay here alone, the Bloody Baron’s been?
past
twice already.”
scramble /?skr?mbl/ vi.?快速爬行
past /p?st/ prep.?經(jīng)過
212
Ron looked at his watch and then glared?
furiously
?at Hermione and Neville.
furiously /?fj??r??sl?/ adv.?狂怒地
213
“If either of you get us caught, I’ll never?
rest
?until I’ve learned that Curse of the?
Bogies
?Quirrell told us about, and used it on you.”
rest /r?st/ vt. & vi.（使）休息
bogies n.?妖怪
214
Hermione opened her mouth, perhaps to tell Ron exactly how to use the Curse of the Bogies, but Harry hissed at her to be quiet and?
beckoned
?them all?
forward
.
beckon /?bek?n/ vt. & vi. (用頭或手的動作)示意
forward /?f??rw?rd/ adv.?前進(jìn)地
215
They?
flitted
?along corridors?
striped
?with?
bars
?of moonlight from the high windows.?
flit /fl?t/ vi.?輕快地掠過
stripe /stra?p/ vt.?加條紋與...
bar /bɑ?r/ n.?條狀物
216
At every?
turn
?Harry expected to?
run into
?Filch or Mrs. Norris, but they were lucky.
turn n.?拐彎
run into vt.?偶然遇見
217
They?
sped
?up a staircase to the third floor and?
tiptoed
?toward the?
trophy room
.
speed /spid/ vi.?快速移動
tiptoe /'t?pto/ v.?躡手躡腳地走
trophy room?獎杯室
218
Malfoy and Crabbe weren’t there yet.
219
The crystal trophy cases?
glimmered
?where the moonlight?
caught
?them.?
glimmer /?ɡl?m?r/ vi.?發(fā)微光
catch /k?t?/ v. (光)照射于
220
Cups,?
shields
,?
plates
, and statues?
winked
?silver and gold in the darkness.
shield /?i?ld/ n.?盾
plate /ple?t/ n.?（銀質(zhì)或金質(zhì)）獎杯
wink /w??k/ vi.?閃爍
221
They?
edged
?along the walls, keeping their eyes on the doors at either end of the room. Harry took out his wand in case Malfoy leapt in and started at once. The minutes?
crept
?by.
edge /ed?/ v.?緩緩移動
creep /kri?p/ vi.?慢慢地移動
222
“He’s late, maybe he’s?
chickened out
,” Ron whispered.
chicken out?臨陣退縮
223
Then a noise in the next room made them jump. Harry had only just raised his wand when they heard someone speak — and it wasn’t Malfoy.
224
“Sniff around, my sweet, they might be lurking in a corner.”
225
It was Filch speaking to Mrs. Norris.?
Horror-struck
, Harry waved?
madly
?at the other three to follow him as quickly as possible; they?
scurried
?silently toward the door, away from Filch’s voice.
horror-struck /'h?r?str?k/ adj.?驚恐地
madly /'m?dli/ adv.?發(fā)瘋似地
scurry /?sk??ri/ v.?碎步急跑
226
Neville’s robes had barely?
whipped
?round the corner when they heard Filch enter the trophy room.
whip /w?p/ v. (使朝某一方向)猛然移動
227
“They’re in here somewhere,” they heard him mutter, “probably hiding.”
228
“This way!” Harry?
mouthed
?to the others and,?
petrified
, they began to creep down a long?
gallery
?full of suits of?
armor
.?
mouth /ma?θ/ v.?不出聲地說
petrify /?petr?fa?/ vt. & vi.?嚇呆
gallery /?ɡ?l?ri/ n.?走廊
armor /?ɑ?m?r/ n.?盔甲
229
They could hear Filch getting nearer.
230
Neville suddenly let out a frightened squeak and?
broke into a run
?—?
broke into a run?拔腿狂奔
231
he?
tripped
, grabbed Ron around the waist, and the pair of them?
toppled
?right into a suit of armor.
trip /tr?p/ vi.?絆倒
topple /?tɑ?pl/ vi.?傾倒
232
The?
clanging
?and?
crashing
?were enough to wake the whole castle.
clang /kl??/ v. (使)叮當(dāng)?shù)仨?/p>
crash /kr??/ v.?發(fā)出巨響
233
“RUN!” Harry yelled, and the four of them?
sprinted
?down the gallery, not looking back to see whether Filch was following —?
sprint /spr?nt/ vi.?全速跑
234
they?
swung around
?the?
doorpost
?and?
galloped
?down one corridor then another,
swing around?使轉(zhuǎn)過
doorpost /?d?r?post/ n.?門柱
gallop /?ɡ?l?p/ vi.?飛馳
235
Harry in the lead, without any idea where they were or where they were going —
236
they?
ripped
?through a?
tapestry
?and found themselves in a?
hidden
?passageway,?
hurtled
?along it?
rip /r?p/ v.?穿過
tapestry /'t?p?stri/ n.?掛毯
hidden /'h?dn/ adj.?難以發(fā)現(xiàn)的
hurtle /?h??rtl/ vi.?疾飛
237
and came out near their?
Charms
?classroom, which they knew was?
miles
?from the trophy room.
charm /t?ɑ?rm/ n.?咒語
miles /mailz/ n.?遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)地
238
“I think we’ve?
lost
?him,” Harry panted, leaning against the cold wall and?
wiping
?his forehead. Neville was?
bent double
, wheezing and?
spluttering
.
lose /luz/ v.?甩掉(追趕者)
wipe /wa?p/ v.?擦掉(液體、污垢、印跡)
bent double?彎腰的
splutter /'spl?t?/ vi.?語無倫次地說
239
“I — told — you,” Hermione gasped, clutching at the?
stitch
?in her chest, “I — told — you.”
stitch /st?t?/ n.?縫線
240
“We’ve got to get back to Gryffindor Tower,” said Ron, “quickly as possible.”
241
“Malfoy?
tricked
?you,” Hermione said to Harry. “You realize that, don’t you? He was never going to meet you — Filch knew someone was going to be in the trophy room, Malfoy must have?
tipped him off
.”
trick /tr?k/ vt.?欺騙
tip sb off (向某人)泄露消息
242
Harry thought she was probably right, but he wasn’t going to tell her that.
243
“Let’s go.”
244
It wasn’t going to be that simple. They hadn’t gone more than a?
dozen
?
paces
?when a doorknob?
rattled
?and something came?
shooting
?out of a classroom in front of them.
dozen n.?十多個
pace /pe?s/ n.?步子
rattle /?r?tl/ vt.?使發(fā)出咯咯聲
shoot /?u?t/ v. (使)急速移動
245
It was Peeves. He?
caught sight of
?them and gave a?
squeal
?of delight.
catch sight of?瞥見
squeal /skwil/ n.?尖叫聲
246
“Shut up, Peeves — please — you’ll get us?
thrown out
.”
thrown out?趕走
247
Peeves?
cackled
.
cackle /'k?kl/ v.?嘎嘎地笑
248
“Wandering around at midnight,?
Ickle
?Firsties??
Tut
, tut, tut.?
Naughty
, naughty, you’ll?
get caughty
.”
ickle??。╨ittle，非正式）
tut /t?t/ int. (作書面語或口語，表示不贊成的咂嘴聲)嘖嘖
naughty /?n??ti/ adj.?淘氣的
get caught?遭逮捕
249
“Not if you don’t?
give us away
, Peeves, please.”
give sb away?出賣
250
“Should tell Filch, I should,” said Peeves in a?
saintly
?voice, but his eyes glittered?
wickedly
. “It’s for your own good, you know.”
saintly /'sentli/ adj.?非常圣潔善良的
wickedly /'wikidli/ adv.?頑皮地
251
“Get out of the way,” snapped Ron, taking a?
swipe
?at Peeves — this was a big mistake.
swipe /swa?p/ n.?重?fù)?/p>
252
“STUDENTS OUT OF BED!” Peeves?
bellowed
, “STUDENTS OUT OF BED DOWN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR!”
bellow /?belo?/ vi.?吼叫
253
Ducking
?under Peeves, they ran?
for their lives
, right to the end of the corridor where they?
slammed into
?a door — and it was locked.
duck v. (迅速)低頭
for one's life?拼命地
slam into?猛烈撞擊
254
“This is it!” Ron moaned, as they pushed?
helplessly
?at the door, “
We’re done for
! This is the end!”
helplessly /?h ?lpl?sl?/ adv.?無力地,無助地
be done for?完蛋了
255
They could hear?
footsteps
, Filch running as fast as he could toward Peeves’s shouts.
footstep /?f?tstep/ n.?腳步聲
256
“Oh,?
move over
,” Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry’s wand, tapped the lock, and whispered, “Alohomora!”
move over?挪開
257
The lock clicked and the door swung open — they?
piled
?through it, shut it quickly, and pressed their ears against it, listening.
pile /pa?l/ v.?蜂擁
258
“Which way did they go, Peeves?” Filch was saying. “Quick, tell me.”
259
“Say ‘please.’”
260
“Don’t?
mess
?with me, Peeves, now where did they go?”
mess /mes/ v.?玩弄
261
“
Shan’t
?say nothing if you don’t say please,” said Peeves in his annoying?
singsong
?voice.
shan't /??nt/ abbr. shall not?不應(yīng)該的(口語的
singsong /'s??s??/ n.?抑揚(yáng)頓挫的說話腔調(diào)
262
“All right — please.”
263
“NOTHING! Ha haaa! Told you I wouldn’t say nothing if you didn’t say please! Ha ha! Haaaaaa!” And they heard the sound of Peeves?
whooshing
?away and Filch?
cursing
?in?
rage
.
whoosh /w??/ vi.?飛快地移動
curse /k??rs/ v.?咒罵
rage /re?d?/ n.?憤怒
264
“He thinks this door is locked,” Harry whispered. “I think we’ll be okay — get off, Neville!”?
265
For Neville had been?
tugging
?on the sleeve of Harry’s bathrobe for the last minute. “What?”
tug /t?ɡ/ vt. & vi.?猛扯
266
Harry turned around — and saw, quite clearly, what. For a moment, he was sure he’d walked into a?
nightmare
?— this was?
too much
,?
on top of
?everything that had happened?
so far
.
nightmare /?na?tmer/ n.?噩夢
too much [口]?太過分
on top of?緊接著
so far?到目前為止
267
They weren’t in a room, as he had supposed. They were in a corridor. The forbidden corridor on the third floor. And now they knew why it was forbidden.
268
They were looking straight into the eyes of a?
monstrous
?dog, a dog which filled the whole space between ceiling and floor.
monstrous /?mɑ?nstr?s/ adj.?大得古怪的
269
It had three heads. Three pairs of rolling,?
mad
?eyes; three noses, twitching and quivering in their direction; three?
drooling
?mouths,?
saliva
?hanging in?
slippery
?ropes from yellowish fangs.
mad /m?d/ adj.?生氣的
drool /dru?l/ vi.?流口水
saliva /s?'la?v?/ n.?唾液
slippery /?sl?p?ri/ adj.?濕滑的
270
It was standing quite still, all six eyes staring at them, and Harry knew that the only reason they weren’t already dead was that their sudden appearance had taken it by surprise,
271
but it was quickly?
getting over
?that, there was no mistaking what those?
thunderous
?
growls
?meant.
get over?恢復(fù)
thunderous /'θ?nd?r?s/ adj.?雷鳴般的;?聲音很大的
growl /ɡra?l/ v.?（動物）低沉吼叫
272
Harry?
groped
?for the doorknob — between Filch and death, he’d take Filch.
grope /ɡro?p/ vt. & vi.?摸索
273
They fell backward — Harry slammed the door shut, and they ran, they almost flew, back down the corridor.
274
Filch must have hurried off to look for them somewhere else, because they didn’t see him anywhere, but they hardly cared —?
275
all they wanted to do was put as much space as possible between them and that monster.
276
They didn’t stop running until they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady on the seventh floor.
277
“Where on earth have you all been?” she asked, looking at their bathrobes hanging off their shoulders and their?
flushed
, sweaty faces.
flushed /fl ??t/ adj.?臉紅的
278
“Never mind that — pig snout, pig snout,” panted Harry, and the portrait swung forward. They?
scrambled
?into the common room and collapsed, trembling, into armchairs.
scramble /?skr?mbl/ v.?慌忙前往
279
It was a while before any of them said anything. Neville, indeed, looked as if he’d never speak again.
280
“What do they think they’re doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in a school?” said Ron finally. “If any dog needs exercise, that one does.”
281
Hermione had got both her breath and her bad?
temper
?back again.
temper /?temp?r/ n.?脾氣
282
“You don’t use your eyes, any of you, do you?” she snapped. “Didn’t you see what it was standing on?”
283
“The floor?” Harry suggested. “I wasn’t looking at its feet, I was too busy with its heads.”
284
“No, not the floor. It was standing on a?
trapdoor
. It’s obviously guarding something.”
trapdoor /'tr?pd?r/ n.?活板門
285
She stood up,?
glaring
?at them.
glare /ɡler/ vt. & vi.?怒目而視
286
“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.”
287
Ron stared after her, his mouth open.
288
“No, we don’t mind,” he said. “You’d think we dragged her along, wouldn’t you?”
289
But Hermione had given Harry something else to?
think about
?as he climbed back into bed.?
think about?認(rèn)真考慮
290
The dog was guarding something. . . .?
291
What had Hagrid said? Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.
292
It looked as though Harry had found out where the?
grubby
?little package from vault seven hundred and thirteen was.
grubby /'ɡr?bi/ adj.?骯臟的
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