CHAPTER EIGHT

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THE POTIONS MASTER

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There, look.”

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“Where?”

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“Next to the tall kid with the red hair.”

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“Wearing the glasses?”

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“Did you see his face?”

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“Did you see his scar?”

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Whispers followed Harry from the moment he left his dormitory the next day.

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People?

queuing?

outside classrooms?

stood on tiptoe

?to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring.

queue /kju?/ vi.?排隊

stand on tiptoe?足尖站立

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Harry wished they wouldn’t, because he was trying to concentrate on finding his way to classes.

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There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts:?

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wide,?

sweeping

?ones; narrow,?

rickety

?ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step?

halfway

?up that you had to remember to jump.

sweeping /'swip??/ adj.?弧線的

rickety /'r?k?ti/ adj.?搖晃的

halfway /?h?f?we?/ adj. & adv.?半途(的)

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Then there were doors that wouldn’t open unless you asked politely, or?

tickled

?them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren’t really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending.

tickle /?t?kl/ vt. (使)發(fā)癢

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It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot.?

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The people in the?

portraits

?kept going to visit each other, and Harry was sure the coats of?

armor

?could walk.

portrait /?p??rtr?t/ n.?畫像

armor /?ɑ?m?r/ n.?盔甲

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The ghosts didn’t?

help

, either.?

help /h?lp/ v.?對......有益

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It was always a?

nasty

?shock when one of them?

glided

?suddenly through a door you were trying to open.

nasty /?n?sti/ adj.?令人厭惡的

glide /ɡla?d/ vi.?使滑行

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Nearly Headless Nick was always happy to point new Gryffindors in the right direction,

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but Peeves the?

Poltergeist

?was worth two locked doors and a?

trick

?staircase if you met him when you were late for class.

poltergeist /'polt?'ga?st/ n.?令人不快的事物

trick /tr?k/ adj.?騙人的

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He would drop wastepaper baskets on your head, pull?

rugs

?from under your feet,?

pelt

?you with bits of?

chalk

, or sneak up behind you, invisible, grab your nose, and screech, “GOT YOUR?

CONK

!”

rug /r?ɡ/ n.?小塊地毯

pelt /pelt/ vt. (連續(xù)地)投擲

chalk /t???k/ n.?粉筆

conk /kɑ?k/ n.?鼻

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Even worse than Peeves, if that was possible, was the?

caretaker

, Argus Filch.

caretaker /'k?r'tek?/ n.?看門人

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Harry and Ron managed to?

get on the wrong side of him

?on their very first morning.

get on the wrong side of sb?使某人生氣

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Filch found them trying to?

force their way

?through a door which?

unluckily

?

turned out

?to be the entrance to the?

out-of-bounds

?corridor on the third floor.

force one's way?強行前進或進入

unluckily /?n?l ?k?l?/?不湊巧地

turn out?結(jié)果是

out-of-bounds /?a?t?v?ba?ndz/ adj.?禁止入內(nèi)的

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He wouldn’t believe they were?

lost

, was sure they were trying to?

break into

?it on purpose, and was?

threatening

?to lock them in the?

dungeons

?when they were rescued by Professor Quirrell, who was passing.

lost /l?st/ adj.?迷路的

break into?闖入

threaten /?θretn/ vi.?威脅

dungeon /'d?nd??n/ n.?地牢

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Filch owned a cat called Mrs. Norris, a?

scrawny

, dust-colored creature with?

bulging

, lamplike eyes just like Filch’s.?

scrawny /'skr?ni/ adj.?骨瘦如柴的

bulge /b?ld?/ n.?膨脹

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She?

patrolled

?the corridors alone. Break a rule in front of her, put just one?

toe

?out of line, and she’d?

whisk

?off for Filch, who’d appear,?

wheezing

, two seconds later.

patrol /p??tro?l/ vt.?巡邏

toe /to?/ n.?腳趾

whisk /w?sk/ vi.?飛奔

wheeze /wi?z/ vi.?發(fā)出呼哧呼哧的喘息聲

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Filch knew the secret passageways of the school better than anyone (except perhaps the Weasley twins) and could?

pop up

?as suddenly as any of the ghosts.

pop up v.?突然出現(xiàn)

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The students all hated him, and it was the?

dearest

?

ambition

?of many to give Mrs. Norris a good kick.

dearest /'di?rist/ adj.?由衷的

ambition /?m?b??n/ n.?追求的目標(biāo)

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And then, once you had managed to find them, there were the classes themselves.?

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There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

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They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the?

movements

?of the planets.

movement /?mu?vm?nt/ n.?活動

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Three times a week they went out to the?

greenhouses

?behind the castle to study?

Herbology

, with a?

dumpy

?little witch called Professor Sprout,

greenhouse /?ɡri?nha?s/ n.?溫室

herbology /h?:'b?l?d?i/?草藥學(xué)

dumpy /'d?mpi/ adj.?矮胖的

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where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and?

fungi

, and found out what they were used for.

fungi /?f??ɡi/ n.?真菌類植物?（fungus?的復(fù)數(shù)）

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Easily the most boring lesson was History of Magic, which was the only class taught by a ghost.

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Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the?

staff-room

?

fire

?and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him.

staff-room?教員辦公室

fire /?fa??r/ n.?爐火

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Binns?

droned

?

on and on

?while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emeric the Evil and Uric the?

Oddballmixed up

.

drone /dro?n/ vi.?嗡嗡作聲

on and on?繼續(xù)不停地

oddball /?ɑd?b?l/ n.?古怪的人

get mixed up?混淆

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Professor Flitwick, the?

Charms

?teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk.

charm /t?ɑ?rm/ n.?咒語

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At the start of their first lesson he took the?

register

, and when he reached Harry’s name he gave an excited squeak and?

toppled

?out of sight.

register /?red??st?r/ n.?登記表

topple /?tɑ?pl/ v. (使)不穩(wěn)而倒下

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Professor McGonagall was again different.?

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Harry had been quite right to think she wasn’t a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a?

talking-to

?the moment they sat down in her first class.

talking-to n.?申斥

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“Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts,” she said. “Anyone?

messing

?around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned.”

mess?弄亂

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Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again.

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They were all very impressed and couldn’t wait to get started, but soon realized they weren’t going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time.

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After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a?

needle

.

needle /?ni?dl/ n.?針

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By the end of the lesson, only Hermione Granger had?

made any difference

?to her match;?

made any difference?有影響

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Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and?

pointy

?and gave Hermione a?

rare

?smile.

pointy /'p??nti/ adj.?有尖頭的

rare /rer/ adj.?少見的

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The class everyone had really been?

looking forward to

?was?

Defense Against

?the Dark Arts, but Quirrell’s lessons turned out to be a bit of a joke.

looking forward to?期待

defense Against?防御

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His classroom smelled strongly of?

garlic

, which everyone said was to?

ward

?off a?

vampire

?he’d met in Romania and was afraid would be coming back to get him one of these days.

garlic /?ɡɑ?rl?k/ n.?大蒜

ward /w??rd/ vt.?避開

vampire /?v?m?pa?r/ n.?吸血鬼

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His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a?

troublesomezombie

, but they weren’t sure they believed this story.

troublesome /?tr?bls?m/ adj.?令人煩惱的

zombie /'zɑmbi/ n.?僵尸

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For one thing, when Seamus Finnigan asked eagerly to hear how Quirrell had fought off the zombie, Quirrell went pink and started talking about the weather;

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for another, they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed full of garlic as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went.

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Harry was very relieved to find out that he wasn’t?

miles

?behind everyone else.?

miles /mailz/ n.?很多

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Lots of people had come from Muggle families and, like him, hadn’t had any?

idea

?that they were witches and wizards.

idea /a?'di?/ n.?猜想

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There was so much to learn that even people like Ron didn’t have much of a?

head start

.

head start?領(lǐng)先

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Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast without getting lost once.

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“What have we got today?” Harry asked Ron as he poured sugar on his?

porridge

.

porridge /?p??r?d?/ n.?麥片粥

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“Double Potions with the Slytherins,” said Ron. “Snape’s Head of Slytherin House. They say he always?

favors

?them — we’ll be able to see if it’s true.”

favor /?fe?v?/ v.?偏袒

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“Wish McGonagall favored us,” said Harry. Professor McGonagall was head of Gryffindor House, but it hadn’t stopped her from giving them a huge pile of homework?

the day before

.

the day before?前一天

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Just then, the post arrived.

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Harry had gotten used to this by now, but it had given him a bit of a shock on the first morning, when about a hundred owls had suddenly?

streamed into

?the Great Hall during breakfast,

stream into?不斷涌進

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circling the tables until they saw their owners, and dropping letters and packages onto their laps.

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Hedwig hadn’t brought Harry anything?

so far

. She sometimes flew in to?

nibble

?his ear and have a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the?

owlery

?with the other school owls.

so far?到目前為止

nibble /?n?bl/ vt. & vi.?啃

owlery /'aul?ri/ n.?鸮棲息地

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This morning, however, she fluttered down between the?

marmalade

?and the?

sugar bowl

?and dropped a note onto Harry’s plate.

marmalade /'mɑrm?led/ n.?果子醬

sugar bowl?糖罐子

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Harry?

tore

?it open at once.

tear /t?r/ v.?扯下

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Dear Harry,

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It said, in a very?

untidy

?

scrawl

:

untidy /?n'ta?di/ adj.?凌亂的

scrawl /skr??l/ n.?潦草的筆跡

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I know you get Friday afternoons off, so would you like to come and have a cup of tea with me around three? I want to hear all about your first week. Send us an answer back with Hedwig.

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Hagrid

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Harry borrowed Ron’s?

quill

,?

scribbled

?‘Yes, please, see you later’ on the back of the note and sent Hedwig off again.

quill /kw?l/ n. (羽毛管制成的)羽毛筆

scribble /?skr?bl/ v.?匆匆地寫

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It was lucky that Harry had tea with Hagrid to look forward to, because the Potions lesson turned out to be the worst thing that had happened to him so far.

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At the start-of-term banquet, Harry had gotten the idea that Professor Snape disliked him.?

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By the end of the first Potions lesson, he knew he’d been wrong. Snape didn’t dislike Harry — he hated him.

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Potions lessons took place down in one of the?

dungeons

.

dungeon /'d?nd??n/ n.?地牢

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It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the?

pickled

?animals floating in glass?

jars

?all around the walls.

pickled /'p?kld/ adj.?腌制的

jar /d?ɑ?r/ n.?罐子

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Snape, like Flitwick, started the class by taking the register, and like Flitwick, he paused at Harry’s name.

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“Ah, yes,” he said?

softly

, “Harry Potter. Our new —?

celebrity

.”

softly /'s?ftli/ adv.?輕聲地

celebrity /s??lebr?ti/ n.?名人

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Draco Malfoy and his friends Crabbe and Goyle?

sniggered

?behind their hands.

snigger /'sn?ɡ?/ vi.?暗笑

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Snape finished calling the names and looked up at the class. His eyes were black like Hagrid’s, but they had none of Hagrid’s warmth. They were cold and empty and made you think of dark tunnels.

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“You are here to learn the?

subtle

?science and?

exact

?

art

?of potion-making,” he began.

subtle /?s?tl/ adj.?微妙的

exact /?ɡ?z?kt/ adj.?精確的

art /ɑrt/ n.?技術(shù)

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He spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word — like Professor McGonagall, Snape had the?

gift

of keeping a class silent?

without effort

.

gift /ɡ?ft/ n.?天賦

without effort?毫不費力

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“As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic.

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I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly?

simmering

?cauldron with its?

shimmering

?

fumes

,

simmer /?s?m?r/ vi.?燉

shimmer /'??m?/ vi.?閃閃發(fā)光

fume /fju?m/ n.?煙

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the delicate power of liquids that creep through human?

veins

,?

bewitching

?the mind,?

ensnaring

?the senses. . . .

vein /ve?n/ n.?血管

bewitching /bi'wit?i?/ adj.?使人著迷的

ensnare /?n?sner/ vt.?誘捕

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I can teach you how to?

bottle

?fame,?

brew

?

glory

, even?

stopper

?death —?

bottle /'bɑtl/ vt.?把…裝入瓶中

brew /bru?/ vt.?釀造

glory /?ɡl??ri/ n.?榮譽

stopper /'stɑp?/ vt.?用塞子塞住

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if you aren’t as big a bunch of?

dunderheads

?as I usually have to teach.”

dunderhead /?d?nd??h?d/ n.?笨蛋

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More silence followed this little speech.

87

Harry and Ron exchanged looks with raised eyebrows.?

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Hermione Granger was on the edge of her seat and looked?

desperate

?to start proving that she wasn’t a dunderhead.

desperate /?desp?r?t/ adj.?極渴望的

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“Potter!” said Snape suddenly. “What would I get if I added?

powdered

?root of?

asphodel

?to an?

infusion

?of?

wormwood

?”

powdered /'pa?d?d/ adj.?變成粉末的

asphodel /'?sf?'d?l/ n.?水仙

infusion /?n'fju?n/ n.?浸泡

wormwood /'w?mw?d/ n.?苦艾

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Powdered root of what to an infusion of what? Harry glanced at Ron, who looked as?

stumped

?as he was; Hermione’s hand had?

shot

?into the air.

stump /st?mp/ v.?使困惑

shoot /?u?t/ v. (使)急速移動

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“I don’t know, sir,” said Harry.

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Snape’s lips?

curled

?into a?

sneer

.

curl /k??rl/ v.?撇(嘴)

sneer /sn?r/ vi.?冷笑

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“

Tut

, tut — fame?

clearly

?isn’t everything.”

tut /t?t/ int.?嘖(表示不耐煩或指責(zé))

clearly /?kl?rl?/ adv.?顯然

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He ignored Hermione’s hand.

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“Let’s try again. Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a?

bezoar

?”

bezoar /'bizor/ n.?胃石

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Hermione stretched her hand as high into the air as it would go without her leaving her seat, but Harry didn’t have the?

faintest

?idea what a bezoar was.

faintest /'feintist/ adj.?一點也不的（用于否定句，加強語氣）

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He tried not to look at Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, who were shaking with laughter.

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“I don’t know, sir.”

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“Thought you wouldn’t open a book before coming, eh, Potter?”

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Harry forced himself to keep looking?

straight

?into those cold eyes.

straight /stret/ adv.?徑直地

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He had?

looked through

?his books at the Dursleys’, but did Snape expect him to remember everything in One Thousand Magical?

Herbs

?and?

Fungi

?

look through?瀏覽

herb /??rb/ n.?藥草

fungi /?f??ɡi/ n.?真菌類植物?（fungus?的復(fù)數(shù)）

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Snape was still ignoring Hermione’s?

quivering

?hand.

quivering /'kwiv?ri?/ adj.?顫抖的

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“What is the difference, Potter, between?

monkshood

?and?

wolfsbane

?”

monkshood /?m??ks?h?d/ n.?舟形烏頭

wolfsbane /'w?lfs,ben/ n.?狼毒

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At this, Hermione stood up, her hand stretching toward the?

dungeon

?ceiling.

dungeon /'d?nd??n/ n.?地牢

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“I don’t know,” said Harry quietly. “I think Hermione does, though, why don’t you try her?”

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A few people laughed; Harry caught Seamus’s eye, and Seamus winked. Snape, however, was not pleased.

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“Sit down,” he snapped at Hermione.

108

“For your information, Potter,?

asphodel

?and?

wormwood

?make a sleeping potion so powerful it is?

known as

?the?

Draught

?of Living Death.

asphodel /'?sf?'d?l/ n.?水仙

wormwood /'w?mw?d/ n.?苦艾

known as?被稱為

draught /drɑft/ n.?飲劑

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A?

bezoar

?is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most?

poisons

.

bezoar /'bizor/ n.?胃石

poison /?p??zn/ n.?毒藥

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As for?

monkshood

?and?

wolfsbane

, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of?

aconite

. Well? Why aren’t you all copying that down?”

monkshood /?m??ks?h?d/ n.?舟形烏頭

wolfsbane /'w?lfs,ben/ n.?狼毒

aconite /'?k?na?t/ n. [植]烏頭毒草

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There was a sudden?

rummaging

?for quills and?

parchment

.?

rummage /'r?m?d?/ vt.?翻找出

parchment /'pɑrt?m?nt/ n.?羊皮紙

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Over the noise, Snape said, “And a point will be?

taken from

?Gryffindor House for your?

cheek

, Potter.”

taken from v.?降低

cheek /t?i?k/ vt.?無禮地向…講話

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Things didn’t improve for the Gryffindors as the Potions lesson continued.

114

Snape put them all into?

pairs

?and set them to mixing up a simple potion to?

cure

?

boils

.

pair /p?r/ n.?兩個共事的人

cure /kj?r/ vt.?治療

boil /b??l/ n.?癤子

115

He swept around in his long black cloak, watching them weigh?

dried

?

nettles

?and?

crush

?snake?

fangs

, criticizing almost everyone except Malfoy, whom he seemed to like.

dried /dra?d/ adj.?弄干了的

nettle /?netl/ n.?蕁麻

crush /kr??/ vt. & vi.?壓碎

fang /f??/ n. (蛇的)毒牙

116

He was just telling everyone to look at the perfect way Malfoy had?

stewed

?his?

horned

?

slugs

?when clouds of acid green smoke and a loud hissing filled the?

dungeon

.

stewed /stud/ v.?用文火慢慢煨燉

horned /h?rnd/ adj.?有角的

slug /sl?ɡ/ n.?鼻涕蟲

dungeon /'d?nd??n/ n.?地牢

117

Neville had somehow managed to melt Seamus’s?

cauldron

?into a twisted?

blob

, and their potion was?

seeping

?across the stone floor, burning holes in people’s shoes.

cauldron /'k?ldr?n/ n.?大鍋

blob /blɑb/ n.?難以名狀的一團

seep /si?p/ vi.?滲出

118

Within seconds

, the whole class was standing on their stools while Neville, who had been?

drenched

?in the potion when the cauldron collapsed,?

within seconds?在幾秒鐘內(nèi)

drench /drent?/ vt.?在某人(某物)上大量使用(某液體)

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moaned in pain as?

angry

?red boils?

sprang up

?all over his arms and legs.

angry /'??ɡri/ adj.?紅腫的

spring up?出現(xiàn)

120

“

Idiot

?boy!”?

snarled

?Snape, clearing the?

spilled

?potion away with one wave of his wand. “I suppose you added the?

porcupine

?quills before taking the cauldron off the fire?”

spill /sp?l/ vt. (使)灑出

idiot /??di?t/ n.?白癡

snarl /snɑ?rl/ v.?咆哮

porcupine /'p?rkj?'pa?n/ n.?豪豬

121

Neville whimpered as boils started to pop up all over his nose.

122

“Take him up to the?

hospital wing

,” Snape?

spat

?at Seamus.?

hospital wing?校醫(yī)院

spit /sp?t/ v.?怒斥

123

Then he rounded on Harry and Ron, who had been working next to Neville.

124

“You — Potter — why didn’t you tell him not to add the quills? Thought he’d make you look good if he got it wrong, did you? That’s another point you’ve lost for Gryffindor.”

125

This was so unfair that Harry opened his mouth to argue, but Ron kicked him behind their cauldron.

126

“Don’t?

push

?it,” he muttered, “I’ve heard Snape can turn very?

nasty

.”

push /p??/ v.?說服

nasty /?n?sti/ adj.?難對付的

127

As they climbed the steps out of the dungeon an hour later, Harry’s mind was?

racing

?and his spirits were low.

race v.?（因害怕、興奮而）急速跳動

128

He’d lost two points for Gryffindor in his very first week — why did Snape hate him so much?

129

“Cheer up,” said Ron, “Snape’s always taking points off Fred and George. Can I come and meet Hagrid with you?”

130

At five?

to

?three they left the castle and?

made their way

?across the grounds.

to /t?,tu,tu?/ prep.?差

make one's way?前進

131

Hagrid lived in a small wooden house on the edge of the?

forbidden

?forest.?

forbidden /f??b?dn../ adj.?被禁止的

132

A?

crossbow

?and a pair of?

galoshes

?were outside the front door.

crossbow /'kr?s'bo/ n.?石弓

galoshes /ɡ?'lɑ??z/ n. (雨天用的)膠套鞋

133

When Harry knocked they heard a?

frantic

?

scrabbling

?from inside and several?

booming

?barks. Then Hagrid’s voice rang out, saying, “Back,?

Fang

?— back.”

frantic /?fr?nt?k/ adj.?狂亂的

scrabble /'skr?bl/ vi.?很快地抓(或撓)

booming /'bu:mi?/ adj. (聲音)低沉而洪亮的

fang /f??/ n. (尤指狗和狼的)長而尖的牙

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Hagrid’s big,?

hairy

?face appeared in the?

crack

?as he pulled the door open.

hairy /'h?ri/ adj.?多毛的

crack /kr?k/ n.?縫隙

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“

Hang on

,” he said. “Back, Fang.”

hang on?稍等

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He let them in,?

struggling

?to keep a?

hold

?on the?

collar

?of an enormous black?

boarhound

.

struggle /?str?ɡl/ vi.?努力

hold /ho?ld/ n.?抓

collar /?kɑ?l?r/ n. (狗等的)項圈

boarhound /'b?r,ha?nd/ n.?用以獵野豬的大獵狗

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There was only one room inside.?

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Hams

?and?

pheasants

?were hanging from the ceiling, a?

copper kettle

?was boiling?

on the open fire

,?

ham /h?m/ n.?火腿

pheasant /'f?znt/ n.?野雞

copper kettle?紫銅壺

on the open fire?在野外生起的膏火上

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and in the corner stood a?

massive

?bed with a?

patchwork

?

quilt

?over it.

massive /?m?s?v/ adj.?巨大的

patchwork /'p?t?'w?k/ n.?縫綴而成的各色布片

quilt /kw?lt/ n.?被子

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“

Make yerselves at home

,” said Hagrid, letting go of Fang, who?

bounded

?straight at Ron and started licking his ears. Like Hagrid, Fang was clearly not as?

fierce

?as he looked.

make oneself at home?別客氣

bound /ba?nd/ vi.?跳

fierce /f?rs/ adj.?兇猛的

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“This is Ron,” Harry told Hagrid, who was pouring boiling water into a large teapot and putting?

rock cakes

?onto a plate.

rock cake n.?巖皮餅(一種表面粗硬的糕餅)

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“Another Weasley, eh?” said Hagrid, glancing at Ron’s freckles. “I spent half me life?

chasin’

?yer twin brothers away from the forest.”

chase /t?e?s/ vt.?追逐

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The rock cakes almost broke their teeth, but Harry and Ron pretended to be enjoying them as they told Hagrid all about their first lessons.

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Fang rested his head on Harry’s knee and?

drooled

?all over his robes.

drool /dru?l/ vi.?流口水

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Harry and Ron were?

delighted

?to hear Hagrid call Filch “that old?

git

.”

delighted /d?'la?t?d/ adj.?高興的

git /ɡ?t/ n. [俚]飯桶

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“An’ as fer that cat, Mrs. Norris, I’d like ter introduce her to Fang sometime. D’yeh know, every time I go up ter the school, she follows me everywhere? Can’t get rid of her — Filch?

puts her up to it

.”

put sb up to sth?攛掇

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Harry told Hagrid about Snape’s lesson. Hagrid, like Ron, told Harry not to worry about it, that Snape liked?

hardly any

of the students.

hardly any?幾乎沒有

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“But he seemed to really hate me.”

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“Rubbish!” said Hagrid. “Why should he?”

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Yet Harry?

couldn’t help

?thinking that Hagrid didn’t quite?

meet

?his eyes when he said that.

can't help?忍不住

meet /mi?t/ v.?對視

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“How’s yer brother Charlie?” Hagrid asked Ron. “I liked him a lot — great with animals.”

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Harry wondered if Hagrid had changed the subject on purpose.

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While Ron told Hagrid all about Charlie’s work with dragons, Harry picked up a piece of paper that was lying on the table under the?

tea cozy

.

tea cozy?茶壺套

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It was a cutting from the Daily Prophet:

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GRINGOTTS?

BREAK-IN

?LATEST

break-in /?bre?k ?n/ n.?非法強行進入

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Investigations

?continue into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July,?

widely

?believed to be the work of Dark wizards or witches?

unknown

.

investigation /?n?vest??ɡe??n/ n. (正式的)調(diào)查

widely /'waidli/ adv.?廣泛地

unknown /??n'non/ adj.?未知的

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Gringotts goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken. The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied the same day.

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“But we’re not telling you what was in there, so?

keep your noses out

?if you know what’s good for you,” said a Gringotts?

spokesgoblin

?this afternoon.

keep your nose out?別去多管閑事

speak /spik/ v.?充當(dāng)......的代言人

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Harry remembered Ron telling him on the train that someone had tried to rob Gringotts, but Ron hadn’t mentioned the date.

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“Hagrid!” said Harry, “that Gringotts break-in happened on my birthday! It might’ve been happening while we were there!”

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There was no doubt about it, Hagrid?

definitely

?didn’t meet Harry’s eyes this time.

definitely /?def?n?tli/ adv.?明確地

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He grunted and offered him another rock cake.

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Harry read the story again. The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied earlier that same day.

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Hagrid had?

emptied

?vault seven hundred and thirteen, if you could call it emptying, taking out that?

grubby

?little package. Had that been what the thieves were looking for?

empty /?empti/ vt. & vi.?把…弄空

grubby /'ɡr?bi/ adj.?骯臟的

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As Harry and Ron walked back to the castle for dinner, their pockets?

weighed

?down with rock cakes they’d been too polite to refuse,

weigh /we?/ v.?有......重

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Harry thought that none of the lessons he’d had so far had given him as much to think about as tea with Hagrid.

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Had Hagrid collected that package just in time? Where was it now? And did Hagrid know something about Snape that he didn’t want to tell Harry?

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