CHAPTER THIRTEEN

1

The Very Secret Diary

2

Hermione?

remained

?in the hospital wing for several weeks.

remain /r?'me?n/ v.?逗留

3

There was a?

flurry

?of rumour about her disappearance when the rest of the school arrived back from their Christmas holidays,?

flurry /'fl?r?/ n.?騷動

4

because of course everyone thought that she had been attacked.

5

So many students?

filed

?past the hospital wing trying to catch a glimpse of her that Madam Pomfrey took out her curtains again and placed them around Hermione’s bed,

file /fa?l/ vi.?排成縱隊前進

6

to?

spare

?her the shame of being seen with a furry face.

spare /spe?/ v.?免去

7

Harry and Ron went to visit her every evening. When the new term started, they brought her each day’s homework.

8

‘If I’d sprouted whiskers, I’d take a?

break

?from work,’ said Ron,?

tipping

?a stack of books onto Hermione’s bedside table one evening.

break /bre?k/ n.?休息

tip /t?p/ v.?傾倒

9

‘Don’t be silly, Ron, I’ve got to keep up,’ said Hermione?

briskly

. Her spirits were greatly improved by the fact that all the hair had gone from her face and her eyes were turning slowly back to brown.

briskly /'briskli/ adv.?迅速地

10

‘I don’t suppose you’ve got any new?

leads

?’ she added in a whisper, so that Madam Pomfrey couldn’t hear her.

lead /li?d/ n.?線索

11

‘Nothing,’ said Harry?

gloomily

.

gloomily /'glu:mili/ adv.?沮喪地

12

‘I was so sure it was Malfoy,’ said Ron, for about the hundredth time.

13

‘What’s that?’ asked Harry, pointing to something gold sticking out from under Hermione’s pillow.

14

‘Just a Get Well card,’ said Hermione hastily, trying to poke it out of sight, but Ron was too quick for her. He pulled it out,?

flicked

?it open and read aloud:

flick /fl?k/ v.?（使）突然快速移動

15

‘To Miss Granger, wishing you a speedy recovery, from your concerned teacher, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart,

16

Order of Merlin, Third Class,?

Honorary

?Member of the Dark Force Defence League and five times winner of Witch Weekly’s Most-Charming-Smile Award.’

honorary /'?n(?)(r?)r?/ adj.?榮譽的

17

Ron looked up at Hermione,?

disgusted

.

disgust /d?s?ɡ?st/ v.?厭惡

18

‘You sleep with this under your pillow?’

19

But Hermione was?

spared

?answering by Madam Pomfrey?

sweeping

?over with her evening?

dose

?of medicine.

spare /spe?/ v.?免去

sweep /swi?p/ v.?大模大樣地走

dose /d??s/ n.?劑量

20

‘Is Lockhart the?

smarmiest

?

bloke

?you’ve ever met, or what?’ Ron said to Harry as they left the dormitory and started up the stairs towards Gryffindor Tower.

smarmy /?smɑ?mi/ adj. <口>逢迎的

bloke /bl??k/ n. [俚]家伙

21

Snape had given them so much homework, Harry thought he was likely to be in the sixth year before he finished it.

22

Ron was just saying he wished he had asked Hermione how many rat tails you were supposed to add to a?

Hair-Raising Potion

, when an angry?

outburst

?from the floor above reached their ears.

Hair-Raising Potion?生發(fā)藥劑

outburst /?a?tb??st/ n.?（火山、情感等的）爆發(fā)

23

‘That’s Filch,’ Harry muttered, as they hurried up the stairs and paused, out of sight, listening hard.

24

‘You don’t think someone else’s been attacked?’ said Ron tensely.

25

They stood still, their heads inclined towards Filch’s voice, which sounded quite?

hysterical

.

hysterical /h??ster?kl/ adj.?歇斯底里般的

26

‘… even more work for me! Mopping all night, like I haven’t got enough to do! No, this is the final?

straw

, I’m going to Dumbledore …’

straw /str??/ n.?稻草

27

His footsteps?

receded

?and they heard a distant door?

slam

.

recede /r??si?d/ vi.?減弱

slam /sl?m/ vt. & vi.?砰地關上(門或窗)

28

They poked their heads around the corner. Filch had clearly been?

manning

?his usual?

lookout post

: they were once again on the spot where Mrs Norris had been attacked.

man /m?n/ v.?在……崗位上工作

lookout post?哨崗

29

They saw at a glance what Filch had been shouting about.

30

A great flood of water?

stretched

?over half the corridor, and it looked as though it was still?

seeping

?from under the door of Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom.

stretch /stret?/ v.?延伸

seep /si?p/ vi.?滲出

31

Now Filch had stopped shouting, they could hear Myrtle’s wails echoing off the bathroom walls.

32

‘Now what’s up with her?’ said Ron.

33

‘Let’s go and see,’ said Harry, and holding their robes over their ankles they stepped through the great?

wash

?of water to the door?

bearing

?its ‘Out of Order’ sign, ignored it as always, and entered.

wash /w??/ n.?淺水淺灘

bear /be?(r)/ v.?刻有

34

Moaning Myrtle was crying, if possible, louder and harder than ever before.

35

She seemed to be hiding down her usual toilet. It was dark in the bathroom, because the candles had been?

extinguished

?in the great?

rush

?of water that had left both walls and floor?

soaking

?

wet

.

extinguish /?k?st??ɡw??/ v.?熄滅

rush /r??/ n.?急流

soaking /?s??k??/ adj.?濕透的

wet /wet/ n.?濕地

36

‘What’s up, Myrtle?’ said Harry.

37

‘Who’s that?’?

glugged

?Myrtle miserably. ‘Come to throw something else at me?’

glug /gl?g/ vt.?〈口〉發(fā)汩汩聲

38

Harry waded across to her cubicle and said, ‘Why would I throw something at you?’

39

‘Don’t ask me,’ Myrtle shouted, emerging with a wave of yet more water, which splashed onto the already?

sopping

floor.

sopping /'s?p??/ adv. & adj. <非正>濕透的(地)

40

‘Here I am,?

minding

?my own business, and someone thinks it’s funny to throw a book at me …’

mind /ma?nd/ v.?苦惱

41

‘But it can’t hurt you if someone throws something at you,’ said Harry,?

reasonably

. ‘I mean, it’d just go right through you, wouldn’t it?’

reasonably /'ri:zn?bli/ adv.?明辨道理地

42

He had said the wrong thing. Myrtle?

puffed

?herself up and shrieked,

puff /p?f/ vt.?使膨脹

43

‘Let’s all throw books at Myrtle, because she can’t feel it! Ten points if you can get it through her stomach! Fifty points if it goes through her head! Well, ha ha ha! What a?

lovely

?game, I don’t think!’

lovely /'l?vl?/ adj.?令人愉快的

44

‘Who threw it at you, anyway?’ asked Harry.

45

‘I don’t know … I was just sitting in the?

U-bend

, thinking about death, and it fell right through the top of my head,’ said Myrtle, glaring at them. ‘It’s over there, it got?

washed

?out.’

U-bend?馬蹄彎頭

wash /w??/ v.?沖刷

46

Harry and Ron looked under the sink, where Myrtle was pointing.

47

A small, thin book lay there. It had a shabby black cover and was as wet as everything else in the bathroom. Harry stepped forward to pick it up, but Ron suddenly?

flung out

?an arm to hold him back.

fling out?用力拋出

48

‘What?’ said Harry.

49

‘Are you mad?’ said Ron. ‘It could be dangerous.’

50

‘Dangerous?’ said Harry, laughing. ‘

Come off it

, how could it be dangerous?’

come off it?別胡說

51

‘You’d be surprised,’ said Ron, who was looking?

apprehensively

?at the book.

apprehensively adv.?擔心地

52

‘Some of the books the Ministry’s?

confiscated

?– Dad’s told me – there was one that?

burned

?your eyes out.?

confiscate /?k?nf?ske?t/ vt.?沒收

burn /b??n/ v.?燒壞

53

And everyone who read?

Sonnets

?of a Sorcerer spoke in?

limericks

?for the rest of their lives.

sonnet /'s?n?t/ n.?十四行詩

limerick /'lim?rik/ n.?五行打油詩(通常幽默)

54

And some old witch in?

Bath

?had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to?

wander

?around with your nose in it, trying to do everything one-handed. And –’

Bath?巴斯(英國城市)

wander /?w?nd?(r)/ vi.?漫步

55

‘All right, I’ve got the point,’ said Harry.

56

The little book lay on the floor,?

nondescript

?and?

soggy

.

nondescript /'n?nd?skr?pt/ adj.?無明顯特征的

soggy /?s?ɡi/ adj.?浸水的

57

‘Well, we won’t find out unless we look at it,’ he said, and he?

ducked

?round Ron and picked it off the floor.

duck /d?k/ v.?回避

58

Harry saw at once that it was a diary, and the faded year on the cover told him it was fifty years old. He opened it eagerly. On the first page he could just make out the name ‘T. M. Riddle’ in?

smudged

?ink.

smudge /sm?d?/ n.?模糊不清的景象（或圖像）

59

‘Hang on,’ said Ron, who had approached cautiously and was looking over Harry’s shoulder. ‘I know that name … T. M. Riddle got an award for special services to the school fifty years ago.’

60

‘How on earth d’you know that?’ said Harry in amazement.

61

‘Because Filch made me polish his?

shield

?about fifty times in detention,’ said Ron?

resentfully

. ‘That was the one I?

burped

?slugs all over. If you’d wiped?

slime

?off a name for an hour, you’d remember it, too.’

shield /?i?ld/ n.?盾形紋（徽）章

resentfully /ri'zentfuli/ adv.?充滿憤恨地

burp /b??p/ vi.?打嗝

slime /sla?m/ n.?黏液

62

Harry peeled the wet pages apart. They were completely blank. There wasn’t the?

faintest

?

trace

?of writing on any of them, not even ‘Auntie Mabel’s birthday’, or ‘

dentist

, half past three’.

faint /fe?nt/ adj.?微小的

trace /tre?s/ n.?痕跡

dentist /?dent?st/ n.?牙科醫(yī)生

63

‘He never wrote in it,’ said Harry,?

disappointed

.

disappointed /d?s?'p??nt?d/ adj.?失望的

64

‘I wonder why someone wanted to?

flush

?it away?’ said Ron curiously.

flush /fl??/ v.?沖（抽水馬桶）

65

Harry turned to the back cover of the book and saw the printed name of a?

newsagent’s

?in?

Vauxhall

?Road, London.

newsagent /?nju:z?e?d??nt/ n.?報刊經(jīng)銷人

Vauxhall n.?沃克斯豪爾（歐寶的英國分廠）

66

‘He must’ve been Muggle-born,’ said Harry thoughtfully, ‘to have bought a diary from Vauxhall Road …’

67

‘Well, it’s not much use to you,’ said Ron. He dropped his voice. ‘Fifty points if you can get it through Myrtle’s nose.’

68

Harry, however,?

pocketed

?it.

pocket /?p?k?t/ vt.?將…放入衣袋

69

Hermione left the hospital wing, de-

whiskered

, tail-less and fur-free, at the beginning of?

February

.

whiskered /'hwisk?d/ adj.?有須的

February /'febr??r?/ n.?二月

70

On her first evening back in Gryffindor Tower, Harry showed her T. M. Riddle’s diary and told her the story of how they had found it.

71

‘Oooh, it might have hidden?

powers

,’ said Hermione?

enthusiastically

, taking the diary and looking at it closely.

power /?pa??(r)/ n.?某方面的力量(或影響)

enthusiastically /?n?θju?zi??st?kli/ adv.?滿腔熱情地

72

‘If it has, it’s hiding them very well,’ said Ron. ‘Maybe it’s shy. I don’t know why you don’t?

chuck

?it, Harry.’

chuck /t??k/ vt.?丟棄

73

‘I wish I knew why someone did try to chuck it,’ said Harry. ‘I wouldn’t mind knowing how Riddle got an award for special services to Hogwarts, either.’

74

‘Could’ve been anything,’ said Ron. ‘Maybe he got thirty O.W.Ls or saved a teacher from the giant?

squid

. Maybe he murdered Myrtle, that would’ve?

done everyone a favour

?…’

squid /skw?d/ n.?魷魚

do sb a favour?幫某人一個忙

75

But Harry could tell from the?

arrested

?look on Hermione’s face that she was thinking what he was thinking.

arrest /??rest/ vt.?吸引

76

‘What?’ said Ron, looking from one to the other.

77

‘Well, the Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty years ago, wasn’t it?’ he said. ‘That’s what Malfoy said.’

78

‘Yeah …’ said Ron slowly.

79

‘And this diary is fifty years old,’ said Hermione, tapping it excitedly.

80

‘So?’

81

‘Oh, Ron, wake up,’ snapped Hermione.

82

‘We know the person who opened the Chamber last time was expelled fifty years ago.

83

We know T. M. Riddle got an award for special services to the school fifty years ago. Well, what if Riddle got his special award for catching the heir of Slytherin?

84

His diary would probably tell us everything: where the Chamber is, and how to open it, and what sort of creature lives in it.

85

The person who’s behind the attacks this time wouldn’t want that lying around, would they?’

86

‘That’s a brilliant?

theory

, Hermione,’ said Ron, ‘with just one tiny little?

flaw

. There’s nothing written in his diary.’

theory /?θ??ri/ n.?推測

flaw /fl??/ n.缺點

87

But Hermione was pulling her wand out of her bag.

88

‘It might be invisible ink!’ she whispered.

89

She tapped the diary three times and said, ‘Aparecium!’

90

Nothing happened.?

Undaunted

, Hermione shoved her hand back into her bag and pulled out what appeared to be a bright red?

eraser

.

undaunted /?n'd??nt?d/ adj.?百折不撓的

eraser /?'re?z?/ n.?橡皮

91

‘It’s a?

Revealer

, I got it in Diagon Alley,’ she said.

reveal /r??vi?l/ vt.?顯示

92

She?

rubbed

?hard on ‘

January

?the first’. Nothing happened.

rub /r?b/ vi.?擦

January /?d??nju?ri/ n.?一月

93

‘I’m telling you, there’s nothing to find in there,’ said Ron. ‘Riddle just got a diary for Christmas and couldn’t be?

bothered filling

?it in.’

bother doing?懶得做

94

Harry couldn’t explain, even to himself, why he didn’t just throw Riddle’s diary away.

95

The fact was that even though he knew the diary was blank, he kept?

absent-mindedly

?picking it up and turning the pages, as though it was a story he wanted to finish.

absent-mindedly /'?bs?nt'maindidli/ adv.?心不在焉地

96

And while Harry was sure he had never heard the name T. M. Riddle before, it still seemed to mean something to him,?

97

almost as though Riddle was a friend he’d had when he was very small, and?

half-forgotten

.

half-forgotten. adj.?遺忘大半的

98

But this was?

absurd

. He’d never had friends before Hogwarts, Dudley had made sure of that.

absurd /?b?s??d/ adj.?荒謬的

99

Nevertheless

, Harry was determined to find out more about Riddle,

nevertheless /?nev?e??les/ conj.?盡管如此

100

so, next day at break, he headed for the?

trophy

?room to examine Riddle’s special award,?

accompanied

?by an interested Hermione and a?

thoroughly

?

unconvinced

?Ron,

trophy /?tr??fi/ n.?獎品

accompany /??k?mp?ni/ vt.?陪同

thoroughly /'θ?r?li/ adv.?完全地

unconvinced /??nk?n?v?nst/ adj.?懷疑的

101

who told them he’d seen enough of the trophy room to?

last

?him a lifetime.

last /lɑ?st/ vi.?夠用

102

Riddle’s burnished gold?

shield

?was?

tucked

?away in a corner cabinet. It didn’t?

carry

?details of why it had been given to him (‘Good thing, too, or it’d be even bigger and I’d still be polishing it,’ said Ron).

shield /?i?ld/ n.?盾形紋（徽）章

tuck /t?k/ v.?收藏

carry /'k?r?/ v.?標有

103

However, they did find Riddle’s name on an old?

Medal

?for Magical?

Merit

, and on a list of old?

Head Boys

.

medal /?medl/ n.?獎章

merit /?mer?t/ n. <英>(成績等級)良好

head boy (英）男班長

104

‘He sounds like Percy,’ said Ron, wrinkling his nose in disgust. ‘Prefect, Head Boy – probably top of every class.’

105

‘You say that like it’s a bad thing,’ said Hermione, in a slightly hurt voice.

106

The sun had now begun to?

shine

?weakly on Hogwarts again. Inside the castle, the mood had grown more?

hopeful

.

shine /?a?n/ vi.?發(fā)光

hopeful /?h??pfl/ adj.?滿懷希望的

107

There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick,

108

and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming?

moody

?and?

secretive

, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.

moody /?mu?di/ adj.?喜怒無常的

secretive /?si?kr?t?v/ adj.?慣于掩藏自己的

109

‘The moment their?

acne

?clears up, they’ll be ready for re-

potting

?again,’ Harry heard her telling Filch kindly one afternoon.

acne /'?kn?/ n.?粉刺

repot /ri:'p?t/ vt.?移植

110

‘And after that, it won’t be long until we’re cutting them up and?

stewing

?them. You’ll have Mrs Norris back in no time.’

stew /stju?/ vt.?燉

111

Perhaps the heir of Slytherin had lost his or her nerve, thought Harry.

112

It must be getting riskier and riskier to open the Chamber of Secrets, with the school so?

alert

?and suspicious.

alert /??l??t/ vt.?使警覺

113

Perhaps the monster, whatever it was, was even now settling itself down to?

hibernate

?for another fifty years …

hibernate /?ha?b?ne?t/ vi. (某些動物)冬眠

114

Ernie Macmillan of Hufflepuff didn’t take this cheerful?

view

.?

view /vju?/ n.?觀點

115

He was still convinced that Harry was the guilty one, that he had ‘

given himself away

’ at the Duelling Club.

give away?泄露

116

Peeves wasn’t helping matters: he kept popping up in the crowded corridors singing ‘Oh Potter, you?

rotter

?…’, now with a?

dance-routine

?to?

match

.

rotter /'r?t?/ n.?壞蛋

dance-routine?一套舞蹈動作

match /m?t?/ n.?匹配

117

Gilderoy Lockhart seemed to think he himself had made the attacks stop. Harry?

overheard

?him telling Professor McGonagall so while the Gryffindors were?

lining

?up for Transfiguration.

overhear /???v??h??(r)/ vt.?無意中聽到

line /la?n/ vt.?沿…形成行(或列、排)

118

‘I don’t think there’ll be any more trouble, Minerva,’ he said, tapping his nose?

knowingly

?and winking. ‘I think the Chamber has been locked for good this time.

knowingly /?n????l?/ adv.?會意地

119

The culprit must have known it was only a matter of time before I caught them. Rather?

sensible

?to stop now, before I?

came down hard on

?them.

sensible /?sens?bl/ adj.?明智的

come down on?申斥

120

‘You know, what the school needs now is a?

morale

-

booster

. Wash away the memories of last term! I won’t say any more just now, but I think I know?

just the thing

?…’

morale /m??rɑ?l/ n.?士氣

booster /'bu?st?/ n.?起促進或激勵作用的事物

just the thing?正是想要的

121

He tapped his nose again and strode off.

122

Lockhart’s idea of a morale-booster became?

clear

?at breakfast time on?

February

?the fourteenth.

clear /kl??(r)/ adj.?清楚的

February /'febr??r?/ n.?二月

123

Harry hadn’t had much sleep because of a late-

running

?Quidditch practice the night before, and he hurried down to the Great Hall slightly late.

running /?r?n??/ adj.?連續(xù)的

124

He thought, for a moment, that he’d walked through the wrong doors.

125

The walls were all covered with large,?

lurid

?pink flowers. Worse?

still

, heart-shaped?

confetti

?was falling from the pale blue ceiling.

lurid /'l(j)??r?d/ adj.?血紅的

still /st?l/ adv.?更

confetti /k?n'fet?/ n.（婚禮、狂歡節(jié)中拋撒的）五彩紙屑

126

Harry went over to the Gryffindor table, where Ron was sitting looking?

sickened

, and Hermione seemed to have?

come over

?rather?

giggly

.

sickened /'sik?n/ adj.?惡心的

come over?逐漸變得

giggly /'ɡ?ɡl?/ adj.?傻笑的

127

‘What’s going on?’ Harry asked them, sitting down, and wiping confetti off his?

bacon

.

bacon /?be?k?n/ n.?熏豬肉

128

Ron pointed to the teachers’ table, apparently too disgusted to speak.

129

Lockhart, wearing?

lurid

?pink robes to?

match

?the?

decorations

, was waving for silence. The teachers on either side of him were looking?

stony

-faced.

lurid /'l(j)??r?d/ adj.?血紅的

match /m?t?/ vt.?使相配

decoration /?dek??re??n/ n.?裝飾品

stony /?st??ni/ adj.?（表情或態(tài)度）冷冰冰的

130

From where he sat, Harry could see a muscle going in Professor McGonagall’s cheek. Snape looked as though someone had just fed him a large?

beaker

?of?

Skele-Gro

.

beaker /'bi?k?/ n.?大口杯

Skele-Gro?生骨靈

131

‘Happy Valentine’s Day!’ Lockhart shouted. ‘And may I thank the forty-six people who have so far sent me cards! Yes, I have?

taken the liberty

?of arranging this little surprise for you all – and it doesn’t end here!’

taken the liberty?擅自

132

Lockhart clapped his hands and through the doors to the Entrance Hall marched a dozen?

surly

-looking?

dwarfs

.

surly /?s??li/ adj.?陰沉的

dwarf /dw??f/ n.?矮子

133

Not just any dwarfs, however. Lockhart had them all wearing golden wings and carrying?

harps

.

harp /hɑ?p/ n.?豎琴

134

‘My friendly, card-carrying?

cupids

!’ beamed Lockhart.

Cupid /'kju:pid/ n. (羅馬神話中的愛神)丘比特

135

‘They will be?

roving

?around the school today delivering your?

Valentines

! And the fun doesn’t stop here!?

rove /r??v/ v.?漫游于

valentine /'v?l?nta?n/ n.?情人

136

I’m sure my?

colleagues

?will want to?

enter into the spirit of

?the occasion!

colleague /?k?li?ɡ/ n.?同事

enter into the spirit of?開始像周圍的人一樣感到快樂

137

Why not ask Professor Snape to show you how to?

whip

?up a?

Love Potion

!

whip /w?p/ v.?攪打

Love Potion?春藥

138

And while you’re at it, Professor Flitwick knows more about?

Entrancing

?Enchantments than any wizard I’ve ever met, the sly old dog!’

entrancing /in'trɑ:nsi?/ adj.?使人神魂顛倒的

139

Professor Flitwick buried his face in his hands. Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

140

‘Please, Hermione, tell me you weren’t one of the forty-six,’ said Ron, as they left the Great Hall for their first lesson.

141

Hermione suddenly became very interested in searching her bag for her timetable and didn’t answer.

142

All day long

, the dwarfs kept?

barging

?into their classes to deliver?

Valentines

, to the?

annoyance

?of the teachers,

all day long adv.?整天

barge /bɑ?d?/ vi.?闖

valentine /'v?l?nta?n/ n.?情人節(jié)賀卡

annoyance /?'n???ns/ n.?煩惱

143

and late that afternoon, as the Gryffindors were walking upstairs for Charms, one of them?

caught up with

?Harry.

catch up with?追上

144

‘Oy, you! ’Arry Potter!’ shouted a particularly?

grim

-looking dwarf,?

elbowing

?people out of the way to get to Harry.

grim /ɡr?m/ adj.?嚴酷的

elbow /?elb??/ vt.?用手肘推開

145

Hot all over at the thought of being given a Valentine in front of a?

queue

?of first-years, which happened to include Ginny Weasley, Harry tried to escape.

queue /kju?/ n.?隊列

146

The dwarf, however,?

cut

?his way through the crowd by kicking people’s?

shins

, and reached him before he’d gone two paces.

cut /k?t/ v.?抄近路

shin /??n/ n.?脛骨

147

‘I’ve got a musical message to deliver to ’Arry Potter?

in person

,’ he said,?

twanging

?his?

harp

?in a?

threatening

?sort of way.

in person?親自

twang /tw??/ vi.?發(fā)撥弦聲

harp /hɑ?p/ n.?豎琴

threatening /?θretn??/ adj.?威脅(性)的

148

‘Not here,’ Harry hissed, trying to escape.

149

‘Stay still!’ grunted the dwarf,?

grabbing hold of

?Harry’s bag and pulling him back.

grab hold of vt.?控制(抓?。?/p>

150

‘Let me go!’ Harry?

snarled

,?

tugging

.

snarl /snɑ?l/ vi.?咆哮

tug /t?ɡ/ vt. & vi.?猛扯

151

With a loud?

ripping

?noise, his bag split in two. His books, wand, parchment and quill spilled onto the floor and his ink bottle?

smashed

?over the lot.

ripping /'r?p??/ adj.?撕的

smash /sm??/ vt. & vi.?打碎

152

Harry scrambled around, trying to pick it all up before the dwarf started singing, causing something of a?

hold-up

?in the corridor.

hold-up?阻礙

153

‘What’s going on here?’ came the cold,?

drawling

?voice of Draco Malfoy. Harry started stuffing everything?

feverishly

into his ripped bag, desperate to get away before Malfoy could hear his musical Valentine.

drawling /'dr?:li?/ adj.?有氣無力的

feverishly /'fi:v?ri?li/ adv.?緊張忙亂地

154

‘What’s all this?

commotion

?’ said another familiar voice, as Percy Weasley arrived.

commotion /k?'m???(?)n/ n.?騷動

155

Losing his head

, Harry tried to make a?

run for it

, but the dwarf seized him around the knees and brought him crashing to the floor.

lose head?喪失理智

run for it?快跑躲避

156

‘Right,’ he said, sitting on Harry’s ankles, ‘here is your singing Valentine:

157

‘His eyes are as green as a fresh?

pickled

?

toad

,

pickled /'p?k(?)ld/ adj.?腌制的

toad /t??d/ n.?癩蛤蟆

158

His hair is as dark as a blackboard.

159

I wish he was mine, he’s really?

divine

,

divine /d??va?n/ adj.?極好的

160

The hero who?

conquered

?the Dark Lord.’

conquer /?k??k?(r)/ v.?征服

161

Harry would have given all the gold in Gringotts to?

evaporate

?on the spot.

evaporate /??v?p?re?t/ vi.?消失

162

Trying?

valiantly

?to laugh along with everyone else, he got up, his feet?

numb

?from the weight of the dwarf, as Percy Weasley did his best to?

disperse

?the crowd, some of whom were crying with?

mirth

.

valiantly /'v?lj?ntli/ adv.?勇敢地

numb /n?m/ v.?使麻木

disperse /d??sp??s/ vt. & vi. (使)散開

mirth /m??θ/ n. <書>歡笑

163

‘

Off you go

, off you go, the bell rang five minutes ago, off to class, now,’ he said,?

shooing

?some of the younger students away. ‘And you, Malfoy.’

off you go?你走吧

shoo /?u?/ vt.?發(fā)出噓聲將…趕走

164

Harry, glancing over, saw Malfoy stoop and snatch up something.?

Leering

, he showed it to Crabbe and Goyle, and Harry realised that he’d got Riddle’s diary.

leer /l??(r)/ vi.?斜眼看

165

‘Give that back,’ said Harry quietly.

166

‘Wonder what Potter’s written in this?’ said Malfoy, who obviously hadn’t noticed the year on the cover, and thought he had Harry’s own diary.

167

A hush fell over the?

onlookers

. Ginny was staring from the diary to Harry, looking?

terrified

.

onlooker /'?nl?k?/ n.?旁觀者

terrified /'ter?fa?d/ adj.?很害怕的

168

‘

Hand it over

, Malfoy,’ said Percy sternly.

hand over?交出

169

‘When I’ve had a look,’ said Malfoy, waving the diary?

tauntingly

?at Harry.

tauntingly /'t?:nti?li/ adv.?嘲笑地

170

Percy said, ‘As a school Prefect –’, but Harry had?

lost his temper

.

lose temper?發(fā)脾氣

171

He pulled out his wand and shouted, ‘Expelliarmus!’ and just as Snape had?

disarmed

?Lockhart, so Malfoy found the diary shooting out of his hand into the air. Ron, grinning?

broadly

, caught it.

disarm /d?s?ɑ?m/ v.?繳…械

broadly /?br ?:dl?/ adv. (笑容)開懷地

172

‘Harry!’ said Percy loudly. ‘No magic in the corridors. I’ll have to report this, you know!’

173

But Harry didn’t care, he’d?

got one over on

?Malfoy, and that was worth five points from Gryffindor?

any day

.

get one over on?使某人成為惡作劇的受害者

any day?不論怎樣

174

Malfoy was looking?

furious

, and as Ginny passed him to enter her classroom, he yelled?

spitefully

?after her, ‘I don’t think Potter liked your Valentine much!’

furious /?fj??ri?s/ adj.?狂怒的

spitefully /'spaitfuli/ adv.?懷恨地

175

Ginny covered her face with her hands and ran into class. Snarling, Ron pulled out his wand, too, but Harry pulled him?

away

. Ron didn’t need to spend the whole of Charms belching slugs.

away /?'we?/ adv.?移走

176

It wasn’t until they had reached Professor Flitwick’s class that Harry noticed something rather odd about Riddle’s diary.?

177

All his other books were?

drenched

?in scarlet ink.

drench /drent?/ vt.?使?jié)裢?/p>

178

The diary, however, was as clean as it had been before the?

ink bottle

?had smashed all over it.

ink bottle?墨水瓶

179

He tried to point this out to Ron, but Ron was having trouble with his wand again; large purple?

bubbles

?were

blossoming

?out of the end, and he wasn’t much interested in anything else.

bubble /?b?bl/ n.?氣泡

blossom /?bl?s?m/ vi.?興旺

180

Harry went to bed before anyone else in his dormitory that night.

181

This was partly because he didn’t think he could stand Fred and George singing, ‘His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad’, one more time,

182

and partly because he wanted to examine Riddle’s diary again, and knew that Ron thought he was wasting his time.

183

Harry sat on his four-poster and?

flicked

?through the blank pages, not one of which had a trace of scarlet ink on it.

flick /fl?k/ v.?快速翻閱

184

Then he pulled a new bottle out of his?

bedside cabinet

, dipped his quill into it, and dropped a?

blot

?onto the first page of the diary.

bedside cabinet [家具]床頭柜

blot /bl?t/ n.?墨水漬

185

The ink shone brightly on the paper for a second and then, as though it was being sucked into the page, vanished. Excited, Harry?

loaded

?up his quill a second time and wrote, ‘My name is Harry Potter.’

load /l??d/ v.?裝上

186

The words shone?

momentarily

?on the page and they too sank without trace. Then, at last, something happened.

momentarily /?m??m?ntr?li/ adv.?頃刻之間

187

Oozing

?back out of the page, in his?

very

?own ink, came words Harry had never written.

ooze /u?z/ vi. (濃液等)慢慢地冒出

very /?veri/ adj.?正是

188

‘Hello, Harry Potter. My name is Tom Riddle. How did you?

come by

?my diary?’

come by vt.?得到

189

These words, too, faded away, but not before Harry had started to?

scribble

?back.

scribble /?skr?bl/ v.?潦草地寫

190

‘Someone tried to flush it down a toilet.’

191

He waited eagerly for Riddle’s reply.

192

‘Lucky that I?

recorded

?my memories in some more?

lasting

?way than ink. But I always knew that there would be those who would not want this diary read.’

record /?rek??d/ vt. & vi.?記錄

lasting /?lɑ?st??/ adj.?持久的

193

‘What do you mean?’ Harry scrawled,?

blotting

?the page in his excitement.

blot /bl?t/ vi.?把墨水濺到（紙上）

194

‘I mean that this diary holds memories of terrible things. Things which were covered up. Things which happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.’

195

‘That’s where I am now,’ Harry wrote quickly. ‘I’m at Hogwarts, and horrible stuff’s been happening. Do you know anything about the Chamber of Secrets?’

196

His heart was hammering. Riddle’s reply came quickly, his writing becoming untidier, as though he was hurrying to tell all he knew.

197

‘Of course I know about the Chamber of Secrets. In my day, they told us it was a legend, that it did not exist.

198

But this was a lie. In my fifth year, the Chamber was opened and the monster attacked several students, finally killing one. I caught the person who’d opened the Chamber and he was expelled.

199

But the Headmaster, Professor Dippet,?

ashamed

?that such a thing had happened at Hogwarts,?

forbade

?me to tell the truth. A story was?

given out

?that the girl had died in a?

freak

?accident.

ashamed /???e?md/ adj.?恥于……的

forbid /f??b?d/ vt.?阻止

give out?公布

freak /fri?k/ adj.?怪異的

200

They gave me a nice, shiny,?

engraved

?trophy for my?

trouble

?and warned me to keep my mouth shut. But I knew it could happen again.

engrave /?n?ɡre?v/ vt.?雕刻

trouble /?tr?bl/ n.?額外努力（或工作）

201

The monster lived on, and the one who had the power to release it was not?

imprisoned

.’

imprison /?m?pr?zn/ vt.?關押

202

Harry nearly?

upset

?his ink bottle in his hurry to write back.

upset /?p?set/ v.?打翻

203

‘It’s happening again now. There have been three attacks and no one seems to know who’s behind them. Who was it last time?’

204

‘I can show you, if you like,’ came Riddle’s reply. ‘You don’t have to?

take

?my word for it. I can take you inside my memory of the night when I caught him.’

take /te?k/ v.?相信(某人說的話)

205

Harry hesitated, his quill?

suspended

?over the diary. What did Riddle mean? How could he be taken inside somebody else’s memory? He glanced nervously at the door to the dormitory, which was growing dark.

suspend /s??spend/ v.?懸

206

When he looked back at the diary, he saw?

fresh

?words forming.

fresh /fre?/ adj.?新的

207

‘Let me show you.’

208

Harry paused for a?

fraction

?of a second and then wrote two letters.

fraction /?fr?k?n/ n.?小部分

209

‘OK.’

210

The pages of the diary began to blow as though?

caught

?in a high wind, stopping halfway through the month of June.

catch /k?t?/ v. (風或火)裹挾

211

Mouth hanging open, Harry saw that the little square for June the thirteenth seemed to have turned into a?

minuscule

television screen.

minuscule /'m?n?skju?l/ adj.?極小的

212

His hands trembling slightly, he raised the book to press his eye against the little window, and before he knew what was happening, he was?

tilting

?forwards;

tilt /t?lt/ vi.?傾斜

213

the window was widening, he felt his body leave his bed and he was?

pitched

?headfirst through the?

opening

?in the page, into a?

whirl

?of colour and shadow.

pitch /p?t?/ v. (使)跌倒

opening /???pn??/ n.?開口

whirl /w??l/ n.?旋轉

214

He felt his feet hit solid ground, and stood, shaking, as the blurred shapes around him?

came suddenly into focus

.

come into focus?清晰

215

He knew immediately where he was. This circular room with the sleeping portraits was Dumbledore’s office – but it wasn’t Dumbledore who was sitting behind the desk.

216

A?

wizened

,?

frail

-looking wizard, bald except for a few wisps of white hair, was reading a letter by?

candlelight

.

wizened /?w?znd/ adj. (尤指因年歲大了而)干瘦的

frail /fre?l/ adj.?虛弱的

candlelight /'k?nd(?)lla?t/ n.?燭光

217

Harry had never seen this man before.

218

‘I’m sorry,’ he said shakily, ‘I didn’t mean to?

butt in

?…’

butt in?闖進

219

But the wizard didn’t look up. He continued to read, frowning slightly.?

220

Harry?

drew nearer

?to his desk and?

stammered

, ‘Er – I’ll just go, shall I?’

draw near?靠近

stammer /?st?m?(r)/ vi.?結結巴巴地說

221

Still the wizard ignored him. He didn’t seem even to have heard him.

222

Thinking that the wizard might be?

deaf

, Harry raised his voice.

deaf /def/ adj.?聾的

223

‘Sorry I disturbed you, I’ll go now,’ he half-shouted.

224

The wizard folded up the letter with a sigh, stood up, walked past Harry without glancing at him and went to draw the curtains at his window.

225

The sky outside the window was?

ruby red

; it seemed to be?

sunset

. The wizard went back to the desk, sat down and?

twiddled

?his thumbs, watching the door.

ruby red?寶石紅

sunset /?s?nset/ n.?日落(時)

twiddle /'tw?d(?)l/ vt.?捻起來

226

Harry looked around the office. No Fawkes the phoenix; no?

whirring

?silver?

contraptions

.

whir /w??/ vi.?作呼呼聲

contraption /k?n'tr?p?(?)n/ n.?奇妙的裝置

227

This was Hogwarts as Riddle had known it, meaning that this?

unknown

?wizard was Headmaster, not Dumbledore,?

unknown /?n'n??n/ adj.?陌生的

228

and he, Harry, was little more than a?

phantom

, completely invisible to the people of fifty years ago.

phantom /?f?nt?m/ n.?幽靈

229

There was a knock on the office door.

230

‘Enter,’ said the old wizard in a?

feeble

?voice.

feeble /?fi?bl/ adj.?虛弱的

231

A boy of about sixteen entered, taking off his pointed hat.?

232

A silver Prefect’s badge was glinting on his chest. He was much taller than Harry, but he, too, had jet-black hair.

233

‘Ah, Riddle,’ said the Headmaster.

234

‘You wanted to see me, Professor Dippet?’ said Riddle. He looked nervous.

235

‘Sit down,’ said Dippet. ‘I’ve just been reading the letter you sent me.’

236

‘Oh,’ said Riddle. He sat down,?

gripping

?his hands together very tightly.

grip /ɡr?p/ vt. & vi.?緊握

237

‘My dear boy,’ said Dippet kindly, ‘I cannot possibly let you stay at school over the summer. Surely you want to go home for the holidays?’

238

‘No,’ said Riddle at once, ‘I’d much rather stay at Hogwarts than go back to that – to that –’

239

‘You live in a Muggle?

orphanage

?during the holidays, I?

believe

?’ said Dippet curiously.

orphanage /???f?n?d?/ n.?孤兒院

believe /b?'li?v/ vi.?猜想

240

‘Yes, sir,’ said Riddle, reddening slightly.

241

‘You are Muggle-born?’

242

‘Half-blood, sir,’ said Riddle. ‘Muggle father, witch mother.’

243

‘And are both your parents –?’

244

‘My mother died just after I was born, sir. They told me at the orphanage she lived just long enough to name me: Tom?

after

?my father, Marvolo after my grandfather.’

after /'ɑ?ft?/ adv.?以……命名

245

Dippet?

clucked

?his tongue?

sympathetically

.

cluck /kl?k/ v.?（表示遺憾或不贊成）發(fā)出嘖嘖聲

sympathetically /?simp?'θetikli/ adv.?悲憐地

246

‘The thing is, Tom,’ he sighed, ‘special arrangements might have been made for you, but in the?

current

?circumstances …’

current /?k?r?nt/ adj.?最近的

247

‘You mean all these attacks, sir?’ said Riddle, and Harry’s heart leapt, and he moved closer, scared of missing anything.

248

‘

Precisely

,’ said the Headmaster.

precisely /pr??sa?sli/ adv.?（用于表示完全同意）的確如此

249

‘My dear boy, you must see how foolish it would be of me to allow you to remain at the castle when term ends.

250

Particularly in the light of the recent?

tragedy

?… the death of that poor little girl … You will be safer?

by far

?at your orphanage.

tragedy /?tr?d??di/ n.?悲劇

by far?到目前為止

251

As a matter of fact, the Ministry of Magic is even now talking about closing the school. We are no?

nearer

?

locating

?the – er – source of all this?

unpleasantness

?…’

near /n??/ adv.?幾乎

locate /l???ke?t/ vt.?找出

unpleasantness /?n'plezntn?s/ n.?不愉快的事

252

Riddle’s eyes had widened.

253

‘Sir – if the person was caught … If it all stopped …’

254

‘What do you mean?’ said Dippet, with a squeak in his voice, sitting up in his chair. ‘Riddle, do you mean you know something about these attacks?’

255

‘No, sir,’ said Riddle quickly.

256

But Harry was sure it was the same sort of ‘no’ that he himself had given Dumbledore.

257

Dippet sank back, looking faintly disappointed.

258

‘You may go, Tom …’

259

Riddle slid off his chair and stumped out of the room. Harry followed him.

260

Down the moving spiral staircase they went, emerging next to the?

gargoyle

?in the?

darkening

?corridor. Riddle stopped, and so did Harry, watching him.

gargoyle /?ɡɑ?ɡ??l/ n.?滴水嘴

darken /?dɑ?k?n/ vt.?使變暗

261

Harry could tell that Riddle was doing some serious thinking. He was biting his lip, his forehead?

furrowed

.

furrow /'f?r??/ v.?蹙(額)

262

Then, as though he had suddenly?

reached

?a decision, he hurried off, Harry gliding?

noiselessly

?behind him.

reach /ri?t?/ v.?（經(jīng)討論或思考后）達成

noiselessly /'n?izlisli/ adv.?無聲地

263

They didn’t see another person until they reached the Entrance Hall, when a tall wizard with long,?

sweeping

?

auburn

hair and beard called to Riddle from the marble staircase.

sweeping /'swi?p??/ adj.?弧線的

auburn /'??b?n/ n.,adj.?赤褐色(的)

264

‘What are you doing, wandering around this late, Tom?’

265

Harry gaped at the wizard. He was?

none other than

?a fifty-year-younger Dumbledore.

none other than?正是

266

‘I had to see the Headmaster, sir,’ said Riddle.

267

‘Well, hurry off to bed,’ said Dumbledore, giving Riddle exactly the kind of?

penetrating

?stare Harry knew so well.?

penetrating /?pen?tre?t??/ adj.?敏銳的

268

‘Best not to?

roam

?the corridors these days. Not since …’

roam /r??m/ vi.?漫步

269

He sighed heavily,?

bade

?Riddle goodnight and strode off. Riddle watched him out of sight and then, moving quickly, headed straight down the stone steps to the dungeons, with Harry in hot?

pursuit

.

bade /be?d/ v.?向(某人)問候

pursuit /p??sju?t/ n.?追趕

270

But to Harry’s disappointment, Riddle led him not into a hidden passageway or a secret tunnel but the very dungeon in which Harry had Potions with Snape.

271

The torches hadn’t been lit, and when Riddle pushed the door almost closed, Harry could only just see Riddle, standing?

stock-still

?by the door, watching the passage outside.

stock-still /'st?k'stil/ adj.?靜止的

272

It felt to Harry that they were there for at least an hour. All he could see was the?

figure

?of Riddle at the door, staring through the crack, waiting like a statue.

figure /?f?ɡ?(r)/ n. (遠處的)人影

273

And just when Harry had stopped feeling?

expectant

?and tense, and started wishing he could return to the?

present

, he heard something move beyond the door.

expectant /?k'spekt(?)nt/ adj.?期待的

present /?preznt/ n.?現(xiàn)在

274

Someone was?

creeping

?along the passage. He heard whoever it was pass the dungeon where he and Riddle were hidden.

creep /kri?p/ vi.?慢慢地移動

275

Riddle, quiet as a shadow, edged through the door and followed, Harry tiptoeing behind him, forgetting that he couldn’t be heard.

276

For perhaps five minutes they followed the footsteps, until Riddle stopped suddenly, his head inclined in the direction of new noises.?

277

Harry heard a door creak open, and then someone speaking in a hoarse whisper.

278

‘C’mon … gotta get yeh outta here … c’mon now … in the box …’

279

There was something familiar about that voice.

280

Riddle suddenly jumped around the corner. Harry stepped out behind him. He could see the dark?

outline

?of a huge boy who was crouching in front of an open door, a very large box next to it.

outline /?a?tla?n/ n.?輪廓

281

‘Evening, Rubeus,’ said Riddle sharply.

282

The boy slammed the door shut and stood up.

283

‘What yer doin’ down here, Tom?’

284

Riddle stepped closer.

285

‘It’s all over,’ he said. ‘I’m going to have to?

turn you in

, Rubeus. They’re talking about closing Hogwarts if the attacks don’t stop.’

turn in?告發(fā)

286

‘What d’yeh –’

287

‘I don’t think you meant to kill anyone. But monsters don’t?

make

?good pets. I suppose you just let it out for exercise and –’

make /me?k/ vt.?成為

288

‘It never killed no one!’ said the large boy, backing against the closed door. From behind him, Harry could hear a funny

rustling

?and clicking.

rustle /?r?sl/ vt. & vi.?發(fā)出沙沙的聲音

289

‘Come on, Rubeus,’ said Riddle, moving yet closer. ‘The dead girl’s parents will be here tomorrow. The?

least

?Hogwarts can do is make sure that the thing that killed their daughter is?

slaughtered

?…’

least /li?st/ adv.?最少

slaughter /?sl??t?(r)/ vt.?屠殺

290

‘It wasn’ him!’ roared the boy, his voice echoing in the dark passage. ‘He wouldn’! He never!’

291

‘Stand aside,’ said Riddle, drawing out his wand.

292

His spell lit the corridor with a sudden flaming light. The door behind the large boy flew open with such force it knocked him into the wall?

opposite

.

opposite /??p?z?t/ adv.?在對面

293

And out of it came something that made Harry let out a long,?

piercing

?scream no one but he seemed to hear.

piercing /?p??s??/ adj. (指聲音等)尖銳的

294

A vast,?

low-slung

,?

hairy

?body and a tangle of black legs; a gleam of many eyes and a pair of?

razor-sharp

?

pincers

?–?

low-slung adj.?矮的

hairy /'he?r?/ adj.?多毛的

razor-sharp /'reiz??ɑ:p/ adj.?鋒利的

pincer /'pins?(r)/ n.?鉗子

295

Riddle raised his wand again, but he was too late.

296

The thing?

bowled

?him over as it?

scuttled

?away,?

tearing

?up the corridor and out of sight.

bowl /b??l/ vi.?平穩(wěn)快速移動

scuttle /'sk?t(?)l/ vi.?急促地跑

tear /t??(r)/ v.（非正式）狂奔

297

Riddle?

scrambled

?to his feet, looking after it; he raised his wand, but the huge boy leapt on him, seized his wand and threw him back down, yelling, ‘NOOOOOOO!’

scramble /?skr?mbl/ v.?匆忙地移動

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The scene whirled, the darkness became complete, Harry felt himself falling and, with a crash, he landed?

spread-eagled

?on his four-poster in the Gryffindor dormitory, Riddle’s diary lying open on his stomach.

spread-eagle /'spred,i:ɡl/ adj. vi.?手腳伸展

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Before he had had time to?

regain

?his breath, the dormitory door opened and Ron came in.

regain /r?'ge?n/ v.?恢復

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‘There you are,’ he said.

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Harry sat up. He was sweating and shaking.

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‘What’s up?’ said Ron, looking at him with concern.

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‘It was Hagrid, Ron. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago.’

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