The?

Highway

?and the?

Peregrine

highway /?ha?we?/?大路 peregrine /?p?r?ɡr?n/ adj.?異國的 1

Robert Kincaid gave up photography for the next few days.? 2

And except for the necessary chores, which she?

minimized

, Francesca Johnson gave up farm life. minimize /?m?n?ma?z/ v.?使減少到最低限度 3

The two of them spent all their time together, either talking or making love. 4

Twice, when she asked, he played the guitar and sang for her in a voice somewhere between fair and good, a little uncomfortable, telling her she was his first?

audience

. audience /???di?ns/ n.?聽眾 5

When he said that, she smiled and kissed him, then lay back upon her feelings, listening to him sing of?

whaling

?ships and?

desert

?winds. whale /we?l/ vi.?捕鯨 desert /?dez?rt/ n.?沙漠 6

She rode with him in Harry to the Des Moines airport, where he?

shipped

?film to New York. ship /??p/ vt.?運送 7

He always sent the first few rolls ahead, when it was possible, so the editors could look at what he was getting and the?

technicians

?could check to make sure his camera?

shutters

?were?

functioning

?

properly

. technician /tek?n??n/ n.?技術(shù)人員 shutter /'??t?/ n. (照相機的)快門 function /?f??k?n/ vi.?運行 properly /'prɑp?li/ adv.?正確地 8

Afterward he took her to a?

fancy

?restaurant for lunch and held her hands across the table, looking at her in his?

intense

?way. fancy adj.?昂貴的 intense /?n?tens/ adj.?專注的 9

And the waiter smiled, just watching them, hoping he would feel that way sometime. 10

She?

marveled

?at the sense Robert Kincaid had of his ways coming to a?

close

?and the?

ease

?with which he accepted it. marvel /?mɑ?rvl/ vi.?感到驚訝 close /klo?z/ n.?結(jié)束 ease /i?z/ n.?舒適 11

He could see the approaching death of cowboys and others like them, including himself. 12

And she began to understand what he meant when he said he was at the?

terminus

?of a?

branch

?of?

evolution

?and that it was a dead end. terminus /?t??rm?n?s/ n.?終點 branch /br?nt?/ n.?分支 evolution /ev??lu??n/ n.?演變 13

Once, in talking about what he called “l(fā)ast things,” he whispered: “ ‘Never again,’ cried the High-Desert Master. ‘Never and never and never again.’ ” 14

He saw nothing beyond himself along the branch. His kind was obsolete. 15

On Thursday they talked after making love in the afternoon. Both of them knew this conversation had to?

occur

. Both of them had been avoiding it. occur /??k??r/ vi.?發(fā)生 16

“What are we going to do?” he said. 17

She was silent,?

torn-apart

?silent. Then, “I don’t know,” softly. torn-apart?心痛欲裂 18

“Look, I’ll stay here if you want, or in town, or wherever. When your family comes home, I’ll simply talk with your husband and explain how it?

lies

. It won’t be easy, but I’ll get it done.” lie /la?/ vi.?存在 19

She shook her head. 20

“Richard could never get his arms around this; he doesn’t think in these?

terms

. terms /t?:mz/ n.?說話的方式 21

He doesn’t understand magic and passion and all those other things we talk about and experience, and he never will. 22

That doesn’t necessarily make him an?

inferior

?person. It’s just too far removed from anything he’s ever felt or thought about. He has no way of dealing with it.” inferior /?n?f?ri?r/ adj.?下等的 23

“Are we going to let all of this go, then?” He was serious, not smiling. 24

“I don’t know that, either. Robert, in a curious way, you?

own

?me. I didn’t want to be owned, didn’t need it, and I know you didn’t intend that, but that’s what has happened. own /on/ vt.?擁有 25

I’m no longer sitting next to you, here on the grass. You have me inside of you as a?

willing

?

prisoner

.” willing /?w?l??/ adj.?心甘情愿的 prisoner /?pr?zn?r/ n.?囚徒 26

He replied, “I’m not sure you’re inside of me, or that I am inside of you, or that I own you. At least I don’t want to own you. I think we’re both inside of another being we have created called ‘us.’ 27

“Well, we’re really not inside of that being. We are that being. We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an?

interlacing

?of the two of us. interlace /??nt?r?le?s/ vt.?使交織 28

Christ, we’re in love. As deeply, as?

profoundly

, as it’s possible to be in love. profoundly /pr?'fa?ndli/ adv.?深切地 29

“Come travel with me, Francesca. That’s not a problem. 30

We’ll make love in desert sand and drink brandy on?

balconies

?in Mombasa, watching?

dhows

?from Arabia run up their?

sails

?in the first wind of morning. balcony /?b?lk?ni/ n.?陽臺 dhow /da?/ n. (阿拉伯國家沿海的)獨桅帆船的一種 sail /se?l/ n.?帆 31

I’ll show you lion country and an old French city on the Bay of Bengal where there’s a wonderful?

rooftop

?restaurant, rooftop /'r?f'tɑp/ n.?屋頂 32

and trains that climb through mountain?

passes

?and little?

inns

?run by Basques high in the Pyrenees. pass /p?s/ n.?山道 inn /?n/ n.?小旅館 33

In a tiger?

preserve

?in south India, there’s a special place on an island in the middle of a huge lake. preserve /pr??z??rv/ n.?保護區(qū) 34

If you don’t like the road, I’ll set up shop somewhere and shoot local stuff or?

portraits

?or whatever it takes to keep us going.” portrait /?p??rtr?t/ n.?肖像 35

“Robert, when we were making love last night, you said something that I still remember. I kept whispering to you about your power — and, my God, you have that. 36

You said, ‘I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea.’ You were right. That’s what you feel; you feel the road inside of you. 37

?No, more than that, in a way that I’m not certain I can explain, you are the road. In the crack where?

illusion

?meets reality, that’s where you are, out there on the road, and the road is you. illusion /??lu??n/ n.?幻想 38

“You’re old knapsacks and a truck named Harry and jet airplanes to Asia. And that’s what I want you to be. 39

If your evolutionary branch is a dead end, as you say it is, then I want you to hit that end at full speed. I’m not sure you can do that with me along. 40

Don’t you see, I love you so much that I cannot think of?

restraining

?you for a moment. To do that would be to kill the wild,?

magnificent

?animal that is you, and the power would die with it.” restrain /r??stre?n/ vt.?抑制 magnificent /m?ɡ?n?f?snt/ adj.?出色的 41

He started to speak, but Francesca stopped him. 42

“Robert, I’m not quite finished. If you took me in your arms and carried me to your truck and forced me to go with you, I wouldn’t murmur a complaint. You could do the same thing just by talking to me. 43

But I don’t think you will. You’re too sensitive, too aware of my feelings, for that. And I have feelings of responsibility here. 44

“Yes, it’s boring in its way. My life, that is. It lacks romance, eroticism, dancing in the kitchen to candlelight, and the wonderful feel of a man who knows how to love a woman. Most of all, it lacks you. 45

But there’s this?

damn

?sense of responsibility I have. To Richard, to the children. Just my leaving, taking away my physical presence, would be hard enough for Richard. That alone might destroy him. damn /d?m/ adj.?可惡的 46

“On top of that, and this is even worse, he would have to live the rest of his life with the whispers of the people here. 47

‘That’s Richard Johnson. His hot little Italian wife ran off with some long-haired photographer a few years back.’ 48

Richard would have to suffer that, and the children would hear the?

snickering

?of Winterset for as long as they live here. They would suffer, too. And they would hate me for it. snicker /?sn?k?r/ v.?偷笑 49

“As much as I want you and want to be with you and part of you, I can’t tear myself away from the?

realness

?of my responsibilities. realness /'ri:lnis/ n.?真實性 50

If you force me, physically or?

mentally

, to go with you, as I said earlier, I cannot fight that. I don’t have the strength, given my feelings for you. mentally /'m?ntli/ adv.?精神上 51

In spite of what I said about not taking the road away from you, I’d go because of my own selfish wanting of you. 52

“But please don’t make me. Don’t make me give this up, my responsibilities. I cannot do that and live with the thought of it. 53

If I did leave now, those thoughts would turn me into something other than the woman you have come to love.” 54

Robert Kincaid was silent. He knew what she was saying about the road and responsibilities and how the guilt could?

transform

?her. He knew she was right, in a way. transform /tr?ns?f??rm/ vt. & vi.?改變 55

Looking out the window, he fought within himself, fought to understand her feelings. 56

She began to cry. 57

Then they held each other for a long time. And he whispered to her, 58

“I have one thing to say, one thing only; I’ll never say it another time, to anyone, and I ask you to remember it: 59

In a universe of?

ambiguity

, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.” ambiguity /??mb??ɡju??ti/ n.?不明確 60

They made love again that night, Thursday night, lying together until well after sunrise, touching and whispering. 61

Francesca slept a little then, and when she awoke, the sun was high and already hot. She heard one of Harry’s doors?

creaking

?and threw on some clothes. creak /krik/ vi.?發(fā)出咯吱咯吱聲 throw on?匆匆穿上 62

He had made coffee and was sitting at the kitchen table, smoking, when she got there. 63

He grinned at her. She moved across the room and buried her face in his neck, her hands in his hair, his arms around her waist. He turned her around and sat her on his?

lap

, touching her. lap /l?p/ n.?（人坐下時的）大腿面 64

Finally he stood. He had his old jeans on, with orange suspenders running over a clean khaki shirt, his Red Wing boots were?

laced

?tight, the Swiss Army knife was on his belt. lace /le?s/ vt. & vi.?系緊 65

His photo vest hung from the back of the chair, the?

cable release

?poking out of a pocket. The cowboy was?

saddled

up. cable release?快門線 saddle /?s?dl/ vi.?跨上馬鞍 ? 66

“I’d better be going.” 67

She nodded, beginning to cry. She saw the tears in his eyes, but he kept smiling that little smile of his. 68

“Is it okay if I write you sometime? I want to at least send a photo or two.” 69

“It’s all right,” Francesca said, wiping her eyes on the towel hanging from the cupboard door. “I’ll make some excuse for getting mail from a hippie photographer, as long as it’s not too much.” 70

“You have my Washington address and phone, right?” She nodded. 71

“If I’m not there, call the National Geographic offices. Here, I’ll write the number down for you.” He wrote on the?

pad

by the phone, tore off the?

sheet

, and handed it to her. pad /p?d/ n.?便箋簿 sheet /?i?t/ n.?一片 72

“Or you can always find the number in the magazine. Ask for the?

editorial offices

. They know where I am most of the time. editorial office?編輯部 73

“Don’t hesitate if you want to see me, or just to talk. Call me?

collect

?anywhere in the world; the?

charges

?won’t appear on your?

bill

?that way. collect /k?'l?kt/ adv.?對方付通話費地 charge /t?ɑ?rd?/ n.?費用 bill /b?l/ n.?賬單 74

And I’ll be around here for a few more days. Think about what I’ve said. I can be here,?

settle

?the matter?

in short order

, and we could drive northwest together.” settle /?setl/ vt.?解決 in short order?迅速地 75

Francesca said nothing. She knew he could, indeed, settle the matter in short order. Richard was five years younger than him, but no?

match

?

intellectually

?or physically for Robert Kincaid. match /m?t?/ n.?對手 intellectually /inti'lekt?ju?li/ adv.?智力上 76

He slipped into his vest. Her mind was gone, empty, turning. “Don’t leave, Robert Kincaid,” she could hear herself crying out from somewhere inside. 77

Taking her hand, he walked through the back door toward the truck. He opened the driver’s door, put his foot on the?

running board

, then stepped off it and held her again for several minutes. running board?踏腳板 78

Neither of them spoke; they simply stood there,?

sending

, receiving,?

imprinting

?the feel of each on the other,?

indelibly

.?

Reaffirming

?the existence of that special being he had talked about. send /s?nd/ v.?傳達 imprint /?m?pr?nt/ vt.?銘刻 indelibly /in'delibli/ adv.?不能消滅地 reaffirm /?ri???f??rm/ vt.?再確認 79

For the last time, he let her go and stepped into the truck, sitting there with the door open. Tears running down his cheeks. Tears running down her cheeks. 80

Slowly he pulled the door shut,?

hinges

?creaking. Harry was?

reluctant

?to start, as usual, but she could hear his boot hitting the?

accelerator

, and the old truck eventually?

relented

. hinge /h?nd?/ n.?合葉 reluctant /r??l?kt?nt/ adj.?不情愿的 accelerator /?k's?l?'ret?/ n.?加速裝置(尤指車輛的油門踏板) relent /r??lent/ v.?不再反對 81

He shifted into?

reverse

?and sat there with the?

clutch

?in. First serious, then with a little grin, pointing toward the lane. reverse /r??v??rs/ v.?（發(fā)動機）反向運轉(zhuǎn) clutch /kl?t?/ n.?離合器 82

“The road, you know. I’ll be in southeast India next month. Want a card from there?” 83

She couldn’t speak but said no with a shake of her head. That would be too much for Richard to find in the mailbox. She knew Robert understood. He nodded. 84

The truck backed into the farmyard,?

crunching

?across the gravel, chickens?

scattering

?from under its wheels.? crunch /kr?nt?/ v.?嘎吱嘎吱地行進 scatter /?sk?t?r/ vi.?散開 85

Jack chased one of them into the machine shed, barking. 86

Robert Kincaid waved to her through the open passenger-side window.? 87

She could see the sun flashing off his silver bracelet. The top two buttons of his shirt were open. 88

He moved into the lane and down it. Francesca kept wiping her eyes, trying to see, the sunlight making strange?

prisms

?from her tears. prism /'pr?z?m/ n.[物]棱鏡 89

As she had done the first night they met, she hurried to the head of the lane and watched the old pickup?

bounce

along. bounce v.?（使）上下晃動 90

At the end of it, the truck stopped, the driver’s door swung open, and he stepped out on the running board. He could see her a hundred yards back, looking small from this distance. 91

He stood there, with Harry turning over impatiently in the?

heat

, and stared. Neither of them moved; they already had said good-bye. heat /hi?t/ n.?高溫 92

They just looked — the Iowa farm wife, the creature at the end of his?

evolutionary

?branch, one of the last cowboys. evolutionary /?i?v??lu???neri/ adj.?進化的 93

For thirty seconds he stood there, his photographer’s eyes missing nothing, making their own image that he never would lose. 94

He closed the door,?

ground

?the gears, and was crying again as he turned left on the county road toward Winterset. grind /ɡra?nd/ v.?（機器或車輛伴有噪音地）緩慢運轉(zhuǎn) 95

He looked back just before a?

grove

?of trees on the northwest edge of the farm would block his view and saw her sitting cross-legged in the dust where the lane began, her head in her hands. grove /ɡro?v/ n.?小樹林 96

Richard and the children arrived in early evening with stories of the fair and a?

ribbon

?the steer had won before being sold for?

slaughter

. Carolyn was on the phone immediately. ribbon /?r?b?n/ n.?（作為比賽獎品的）綬帶 slaughter /?sl??t?r/ vt.?屠宰 97

It was Friday, and Michael took the pickup truck into town for the things that seventeen-year-old boys do on Friday nights — mostly hang around the square and talk or shout at girls going by in cars. 98

Richard turned on the television, telling Francesca how good the cornbread was as he ate a piece with butter and?

maple syrup

. maple syrup n.?糖楓汁 99

She sat on the front porch swing. 100

Richard came out after his program was finished at ten o’clock. He stretched and said, “Sure is good to be home.” 101

Then, looking at her, “You okay, Frannie? You seem a little tired or?

dreamy

?or somethin’.” dreamy /'drimi/ adj.?恍惚的 102

“Yes, I’m just fine, Richard. It’s good to have you back safe and sound.” 103

“Well, I’m turnin’ in; it’s been a long week at the fair, and I’m?

bushed

. You comin’, Frannie?” bushed /b??t/ adj.?疲倦的 104

“Not for a little bit. It’s kind of nice out here, so I think I’ll just sit awhile.” She was tired, but she was also afraid Richard might have sex in mind. She just couldn’t handle that tonight. 105

She could hear him walking around in their bedroom, above where she pushed back and forth on the swing, her bare feet on the porch floor. 106

From the back of the house, she could hear Carolyn’s radio playing. 107

She avoided going into town for the next few days, aware all the time that Robert Kincaid was only a few miles away. Frankly, she didn’t think she could stop herself if she saw him. 108

She might run to him and say, “Now! We must go now!” She had?

defied

?risk to see him at Cedar Bridge, now there was too much risk in seeing him again. defy /d??fa?/ vt.?頂住 109

By Tuesday the groceries were running low and Richard needed a part for the corn picker he was getting back?

in shape

. The day was low-

slung

,?

steady

?rain, light fog, cool for August. in shape?處于良好狀態(tài) sling /sl??/ vt.?吊起 steady /?stedi/ adj.?持續(xù)的 110

Richard got his part and had coffee with the other men at the cafe while she shopped for?

groceries

. He knew her schedule and was waiting out in front of the?

Super Value

?when she finished. grocery /?ɡro?s?ri/ n.?雜貨店 Super Value?超值 111

He jumped out, wearing his Allis-Chalmers cap, and helped her load the bags into the Ford pickup, on the seat and around her knees. And she thought of tripods and knapsacks. 112

“I’ve got to run up to the?

implement

?place again. I forgot one more piece I might need.” implement /??mpl?ment/ n.?工具 113

They drove north on U.S. Route 169, which?

formed

?the main street of Winterset. form /f??rm/ v.?構(gòu)成 114

A block south of the Texaco station, she saw Harry rolling away from the pumps,?

windshield wipers

?

slapping

, and out onto the road ahead of them. windshield wiper?風(fēng)擋刮水器 slap /sl?p/ vt.?（快速地、隨意地或用力地）涂抹（某物） 115

Their?

momentum

?brought them up right behind the old pickup, momentum /mo??ment?m/ n.?動力 116

and sitting high in the Ford, she could see a black?

tarpaulin

?

lashed

?down tight in the back,?

outlining

?a suitcase and guitar case wedged in next to the spare tire lying flat. tarpaulin /tɑr?p?l?n/ n.?防水帆布罩 lash /l??/ vt.?扎捆 outline /?a?tla?n/ vt.?描畫…輪廓 117

The back window was rain-

spattered

, but part of his head was?

visible

. He leaned over as if to get something from the?

glove box

; eight days ago he’d done that and his arm had brushed across her leg. spatter /?sp?t?r/ vt. & vi.?濺 visible /?v?z?bl/ adj.?看得見的 glove box n. (汽車前部擋風(fēng)玻璃下的)儲物箱 118

A week ago she’d been in Des Moines buying a pink dress. 119

“That truck’s a long way from home,”?

remarked

?Richard. remark /r??mɑ?rk/ vt. & vi.?談?wù)?120

“Washington State. Looks like a woman driving it; long hair, anyway.?

On second thought

, I’ll bet it’s that photographer they been talkin’ about at the cafe.” on second thought?轉(zhuǎn)念一想 121

They followed Robert Kincaid a few blocks north to where 169?

intersected

?with 92 running east and west. intersect /??nt?r?sekt/ vt. & vi. (指線條、道路等)相交 122

It was a four-way stop, with?

heavy

?

cross traffic

?in all directions,?

complicated

?by the rain and the fog, which had gotten heavier. heavy /'h?vi/ adj.?大量的 cross traffic?交叉車流 complicate /?kɑ?mpl?ke?t/ vt.?使復(fù)雜化 123

For maybe twenty seconds they sat there. He was up ahead, only thirty feet from her. She could still do it. Get out and run to Harry’s right door, climb in over the knapsacks and cooler and tripods. 124

Since Robert Kincaid had driven away from her last Friday, she realized, in spite of how much she thought she’d cared for him then, she had?

nonetheless

?

badly

?

underestimated

?her feelings. nonetheless /?n?ne??les/ adv.?然而 badly /?b?dli/ adv.?非常 underestimate /??nd?r?est?me?t/ vt.?低估 125

That didn’t seem possible, but it was true. She had begun to understand what he already understood. 126

But she sat frozen by her responsibilities, staring at that back window harder than she had ever looked at anything in her life. 127

His left?

signal

?light came on. In a moment he’d be gone. Richard was?

fiddling

?with the Ford’s radio. signal /?s?ɡn?l/ adj.?作為信號的 fiddle /'f?dl/ vi.?瞎搞 128

She began to see things in slow motion, some curious trick of the mind.? 129

His turn came, and… slowly… slowly… he moved Harry into the?

intersection

?— intersection /??nt?r?sek?n/ n.?十字路口 130

she could?

visualize

?his long legs working the clutch and?

accelerator

?and the muscles in his right forearm flexing as he shifted gears —?

curling

?left now onto 92 toward?

Council

?Bluffs, the Black Hills, visualize /'v??u?la?z/ vt.?在腦中使(某人或某物)形象化 accelerator /?k's?l?'ret?/ n.?油門 curl /k??rl/ v.（使）彎彎曲曲移動 council n.?會議 131

and the Northwest… slowly… slowly… the old pickup came around… so slowly it came around through the intersection, putting its?

nose

?to the west. nose /noz/ n.?頭部 132

Squinting

?through tears and rain and fog, she could barely make out the faded red paint on the door: “Kincaid Photography — Bellingham, Washington.” squint /skw?nt/ vi.?瞇眼看 133

He had lowered his window to help him get through the bad?

visibility

?as he turned. visibility /?v?z??b?l?ti/ n.?能見度 134

He made the?

corner

, and she could see his hair blowing as he began to?

accelerate

?down 92, heading west,?

rolling up

?the window as he drove. corner /'k?rn?/ n.?（道路的）急轉(zhuǎn)彎 accelerate /?k?sel?re?t/ vt. & vi. (使)增速 roll up?滾滾上升 135

“Oh, Christ—oh, Jesus?

Christ

?

Almighty

… no!” The words were inside of her. Christ /kra?st/ n.?救世主 almighty /??l?ma?ti/ adj.?萬能的 136

“I was wrong, Robert, I was wrong to stay… but I can’t go…. Let me tell you again… why I can’t go…. Tell me again why I should go.” 137

And she heard his voice coming back down the highway.? 138

“In a universe of?

ambiguity

, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many?

lifetimes

you live.” ambiguity /??mb??ɡju??ti/ n.?不明確 lifetime /?la?fta?m/ n.?一生 139

Richard took the truck across the intersection heading north. She looked for an?

instant

?

past

?his face toward Harry’s red?

taillights

?moving off into the fog and rain. instant /??nst?nt/ n.?片刻 past /p?st/ prep.?經(jīng)過 taillight /?tel?la?t/ n.?尾燈 140

The old Chevy pickup looked small beside a huge?

semitrailer

?rig roaring into Winterset,?

spraying

?a wave of road water over the last cowboy. semitrailer /?s?ma?'trel?/ n.?半拖車 spray /spre?/ v.?（使）飛濺 141

“Good-bye, Robert Kincaid,” she whispered, and began to cry,?

openly

. openly /?o?p?nli/ adv.?公然地 142

Richard looked over at her. “What’s wrong, Frannie? Will you please tell me what’s wrong with you?” 143

“Richard, I just need some time to myself. I’ll be all right in a few minutes.” 144

Richard tuned in the noon?

livestock

?reports, looked over at her, and shook his head. livestock /?la?vstɑ?k/ n.?家畜 145