CHAPTER SEVEN

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THE SORTING HAT

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The door swung open at once. A tall, black-haired witch in emerald-green robes stood there.?

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She had a very stern face and Harry’s first thought was that this was not someone to?

cross

.

cross v.?反對

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“The firs’ years, Professor McGonagall,” said Hagrid.

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“Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here.”

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She pulled the door?

wide

.

wide /wa?d/ adv.?充分地

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The entrance hall was so big you could have?

fit

?the whole of the Dursleys’ house in it.

fit /f?t/ v.?可容納

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The stone walls were lit with flaming?

torches

?like the ones at Gringotts, the ceiling was too high to?

make out

, and a?

magnificent

?marble?

staircase

?facing them led to the upper floors.

torch /t??rt?/ n.?火把

make out?托福?vt. (勉強地)辨認(rèn)

magnificent /m?ɡ?n?f?snt/ adj.?壯麗的

staircase /?sterke?s/ n.?樓梯

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They followed Professor McGonagall?

across

?the?

flagged

?stone floor.

across /?'kr?s/ adv.?朝

flagged /fl?ɡd/ adj.?鋪石板的

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Harry could hear the?

drone

?of hundreds of voices from a doorway to the right — the rest of the school must already be here —?

drone /dro?n/ n.?嗡嗡的聲音

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but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty?

chamber

?

off

?the hall.

chamber /?t?e?mb?r/ n.?房間

off /?f/ prep.?靠近

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They crowded in, standing rather closer together than they would usually have done, peering about nervously.

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“Welcome to Hogwarts,” said Professor McGonagall.

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“The start-of-term?

banquet

?will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your Houses.

banquet /?b??kw?t/ n.?宴會

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The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your House will be something like your family?

within

?Hogwarts.

within /w??e?n/ prep.?在…之內(nèi)

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You will have classes with the rest of your House, sleep in your House?

dormitory

, and spend free time in your House?

common room

.

dormitory /?d??rm?t??ri/ n.?集體宿舍

common room?公共休息室

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The four Houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each House has its own?

noble

?history and each has produced?

outstanding

?witches and wizards.

noble /?no?bl/ adj.?卓越的

outstanding /a?t?st?nd??/ adj.?杰出的

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While you are at Hogwarts, your?

triumphs

?will?

earn

?your House points, while any rule-breaking will lose House points.

triumph /?tra??mf/ n.?重大勝利

earn /??rn/ v.?贏得

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At the end of the year, the House with the most points is?

awarded

?the House Cup, a great honor.

award /??w??rd/ vt.?授予

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I hope each of you will be a?

credit

?to whichever House becomes yours.

credit /?kred?t/ n.?榮譽

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The Sorting Ceremony will?

take place

?in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all?

smarten

yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.”

take place?舉行

smarten /'smɑrtn/ vt.?使漂亮瀟灑

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Her eyes?

lingered

?for a moment on Neville’s cloak, which was?

fastened

?under his left ear, and on Ron’s?

smudged

nose.?

linger /?l??ɡ?r/ vi.?逗留

fasten /?f?sn/ v.?記牢

smudge /sm?d?/ n.?五點

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Harry nervously tried to?

flatten

?his hair.

flatten /?fl?tn/ vt.?使……平坦

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“I shall return when we are ready for you,” said Professor McGonagall. “Please wait quietly.”

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She left the chamber. Harry swallowed.

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“How exactly do they sort us into Houses?” he asked Ron.

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“Some sort of test, I think. Fred said it hurts a lot, but I think he was joking.”

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Harry’s heart gave a?

horrible

?

jolt

. A test? In front of the whole school? But he didn’t know any magic?

yet

?— what on earth would he have to do?

horrible /?h??r?bl/ adj.?可怕的

jolt /d?o?lt/ n.?震驚

yet /j?t/ adv.?到目前為止

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He hadn’t expected something like this the moment they arrived.

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He looked around anxiously and saw that everyone else looked?

terrified

, too.

terrified /'t?r?fa?d/ adj.?很害怕的

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No one was talking much except Hermione Granger, who was whispering very fast about all the spells she’d learned and wondering which one she’d need.

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Harry tried hard not to listen to her. He’d never been more nervous, never, not even when he’d had to take a?

school report

?home to the Dursleys saying that he’d somehow turned his teacher’s wig blue.

school report n.?學(xué)生成績報告單

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He kept his eyes fixed on the door. Any second now, Professor McGonagall would come back and lead him to his doom.

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Then something happened which made him jump about a foot in the air — several people behind him screamed.

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“What the — ?”

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He gasped. So did the people around him. About twenty ghosts had just?

streamed

?through the back wall.

stream /stri?m/ v.?涌動

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Pearly

-white and slightly?

transparent

, they?

glided

?across the room talking to each other and hardly glancing at the first years. They seemed to be arguing.

pearly /'p?li/ adj.?珍珠似的

transparent /tr?ns?p?r?nt/ adj.?透明的

glide /ɡla?d/ vi.?使滑行

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What looked like a fat little?

monk

?was saying: “

Forgive

?and forget, I say, we ought to give him a second chance —”

monk /m??k/ n.?修道士

forgive /f?r?ɡ?v/ vt. & vi.?原諒

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“My dear Friar, haven’t we given Peeves all the chances he?

deserves

? He gives us all a bad name and you know, he’s not really even a ghost — I say, what are you all doing here?”

deserve /d??z??rv/ vi.?應(yīng)得

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A ghost wearing a?

ruff

?and?

tights

?had suddenly noticed the first years.

ruff /r?f/ n.?飛邊（舊時硬的輪狀皺領(lǐng)）

tights /ta?ts/ n.?緊身衣

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Nobody answered.

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“New students!” said the Fat Friar, smiling around at them. “About to be Sorted, I suppose?”

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A few people nodded?

mutely

.

mutely /mjutl?/ adv.?無言地

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“Hope to see you in Hufflepuff!” said the Friar. “My old House, you know.”

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“Move?

along

?now,” said a sharp voice. “The Sorting Ceremony’s about to start.”

along /?'l??/ adv.?向前

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Professor McGonagall had returned. One by one, the ghosts floated away through the opposite wall.

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“Now, form a line,” Professor McGonagall told the first years, “and follow me.”

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Feeling?

oddly

?as though his legs had turned to?

lead

, Harry got into line behind a boy with?

sandy

?hair, with Ron behind him,

oddly /'ɑdli/ adv.?古怪地

lead /li?d/ n.?鉛

sandy /'s?ndi/ adj.?淺棕色的

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and they walked out of the chamber, back across the hall, and through a pair of?

double doors

?into the Great Hall.

double door?雙開門

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Harry had never even imagined such a strange and?

splendid

?place.

splendid /?splend?d/ adj.?輝煌的

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It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting.?

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These tables were laid with glittering golden plates and?

goblets

.

goblet /?ɡɑ?bl?t/ n.?高腳酒杯

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At the top of the hall was another long table where the teachers were sitting.

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Professor McGonagall led the first years up here, so that they came to a halt in a line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them.

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The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale?

lanterns

?in the flickering candlelight.

lantern /?l?nt?rn/ n.?燈籠

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Dotted

?here and there among the students, the ghosts shone?

misty

?silver.

dotted /'dɑt?d/ v.?點綴

misty /?m?sti/ adj.?模糊的

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Mainly to avoid all the staring eyes, Harry looked upward and saw a?

velvety

?black ceiling dotted with stars.

velvety /?velv?ti/ adj.?天鵝絨般柔軟的

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He heard Hermione whisper, “It’s bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts: A History.”

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It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great Hall didn’t simply open on to the?

heavens

.

heaven /?hevn/ n.?天空

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Harry quickly looked down again as Professor McGonagall silently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first years. On top of the stool she put a pointed wizard’s hat.

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This hat was?

patched

?and?

frayed

?and extremely dirty. Aunt Petunia wouldn’t have let it in the house.

patch /p?t?/ vi.?打補丁

fray /fre?/ vi.?被磨損

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Maybe they had to try and get a rabbit out of it, Harry thought wildly, that seemed the sort of thing — noticing that everyone in the hall was now staring at the hat, he stared at it, too.

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For a few seconds, there was complete silence. Then the hat twitched. A?

rip

?near the?

brim

?opened wide like a mouth — and the hat began to sing:

rip /r?p/ n.?裂縫

brim /br?m/ n.?邊緣

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“Oh, you may not think I’m pretty,

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But don’t judge on what you see,

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I’ll eat myself if you can find

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A smarter hat than me.

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You can keep your?

bowlers

?black,

bowler n.?圓頂禮帽

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Your top hats?

sleek

?and tall,

sleek /slik/ adj.?光滑的

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For I’m the Hogwarts Sorting Hat

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And I can?

cap

?them all.

cap /k?p/ vt.?勝過

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There’s nothing hidden in your head

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The Sorting Hat can’t see,

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So try me on and I will tell you

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Where you ought to be.

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You might belong in Gryffindor, Where?

dwell

?the brave at heart, Their?

daring

, nerve, and?

chivalry

?Set Gryffindors?

apart

;?

dwell /dwel/ v.?棲身

daring /?der??/ n.?膽量

chivalry /'??v?lri/ n.?騎士氣概

apart /??pɑ?rt/ adv.?與眾不同地

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You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are?

just

?and?

loyal

, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true And unafraid of?

toil

;?

just /d??st/ adj.?正直的

loyal /?l???l/ adj.?忠誠的

toil /t??l/ n.?辛苦

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Or yet in?

wise

?old Ravenclaw, If you’ve a ready?

mind

, Where those of?

wit

?and?

learning

, Will always find their kind;

wise /wa?z/ adj.?明智的

mind /ma?nd/ n.?富有才智的人

wit /w?t/ n.?智慧

learning /'l?n??/ n.?學(xué)問

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Or perhaps in Slytherin You’ll make your real friends, Those?

cunning

?folk use any?

means

?To achieve their?

ends

.

cunning /?k?n??/ adj.?狡猾的

means /mi?nz/ n.?手段

end /end/ n.?目標(biāo)

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So put me on! Don’t be afraid! And don’t get in a?

flap

! You’re in safe hands (though I have none) For I’m a?

Thinking

Cap!”

flap /fl?p/ n.?憂慮

thinking /'θ??k??/ adj.?有思考力的

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The whole hall burst into?

applause

?as the hat finished its song. It bowed to each of the four tables and then became quite still again.

applause /??pl??z/ n.?熱烈鼓掌

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“So we’ve just got to try on the hat!” Ron whispered to Harry. “I’ll kill Fred, he was?

going on about

?

wrestling

?a?

troll

.”

go on about?長時間談?wù)撃呈?/p>

wrestle /?resl/ vt.?與…搏斗

troll /tro?l/ n.?巨怪

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Harry smiled?

weakly

. Yes, trying on the hat was a lot better than having to do a spell, but he did wish they could have tried it on without everyone watching.

weakly /'wikli/ adv.?冷淡地

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The hat seemed to be asking rather a lot; Harry didn’t feel brave or?

quick-witted

?or any of it at the moment.

quick-witted /?kw?k?w?t?d/ adj.?富有機智的

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If only the hat had mentioned a House for people who felt a bit?

queasy

, that would have been the one for him.

queasy /'kwizi/ adj.?心神不定的

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Professor McGonagall now stepped forward holding a long roll of parchment.

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“When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted,” she said. “Abbott, Hannah!”

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A?

pink

-faced girl with?

blonde

?

pigtails

?

stumbled

?out of line, put on the hat, which fell right down over her eyes, and sat down.

pink /p??k/ adj.?臉色發(fā)紅的

blonde /blɑ?nd/ adj.?金黃色的

pigtail /'p?ɡtel/ n.辮子

stumble /?st?mbl/ v.?跌跌撞撞地走

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A moment’s pause — “HUFFLEPUFF!” shouted the hat.

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The table on the right cheered and clapped as Hannah went to sit down at the Hufflepuff table. Harry saw the ghost of the Fat Friar waving?

merrily

?at her.

merrily /'m?r?li/ adv.?愉快地

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“Bones, Susan!”

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“HUFFLEPUFF!” shouted the hat again, and Susan?

scuttled

?off to sit next to Hannah.

scuttle /'sk?tl/ vi.?急促地跑

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“Boot, Terry!”

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“RAVENCLAW!”

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The table second from the left clapped this time; several Ravenclaws stood up to shake hands with Terry as he joined them.

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“Brocklehurst, Mandy” went to Ravenclaw too, but “Brown, Lavender” became the first new Gryffindor, and the table on the far left exploded with cheers; Harry could see Ron’s twin brothers?

catcalling

.

catcall /'k?tk?l/ n.?噓聲

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“Bulstrode, Millicent” then became a Slytherin. Perhaps it was Harry’s imagination, after all he’d heard about Slytherin, but he thought they looked like an?

unpleasant

?lot.

unpleasant /?n'pl?znt/ adj.?令人不快的

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He was starting to feel definitely sick now. He remembered being picked for teams during gym at his old school.

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He had always been last to be chosen, not because he was no good, but because no one wanted Dudley to think they liked him.

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“Finch-Fletchley, Justin!”

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“HUFFLEPUFF!”

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Sometimes, Harry noticed, the hat shouted out the House at once, but at others it took a little?

while

?to decide.

while /wa?l/ n.?一段時間

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“Finnigan, Seamus,” the sandy-haired boy next to Harry in the line, sat on the stool for almost a whole minute before the hat?

declared

?him a Gryffindor.

declare /d??kler/ vt.?宣告

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“Granger, Hermione!”

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Hermione almost ran to the stool and?

jammed

?the hat eagerly on her head.

jam /d??m/ vt. & vi. (使)塞緊

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“GRYFFINDOR!” shouted the hat.

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Ron groaned.

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A horrible thought?

struck

?Harry, as horrible thoughts always do when you’re very nervous.

strike /stra?k/ vi.?侵襲

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What if he wasn’t chosen at all?

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What if he just sat there with the hat over his eyes for ages, until Professor McGonagall jerked it off his head and said there had obviously been a mistake and he’d better get back on the train?

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When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool.

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The hat took a long time to decide with Neville. When it finally shouted, “GRYFFINDOR,” Neville ran off still wearing it, and had to?

jog

?back?

amid

?

gales

?of laughter to give it to “MacDougal, Morag.”

jog /d?ɑ?ɡ/ vt. & vi.?慢跑

amid /??m?d/ prep.?在其間

gale /ɡel/ n. (突發(fā)的)一陣

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Malfoy?

swaggered

?forward when his name was called and got his wish at once: the hat had?

barely

?touched his head when it screamed, “SLYTHERIN!”

swagger /?sw?ɡ?r/ vi.?大搖大擺

barely /?berli/ adv.?幾乎不

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Malfoy went to join his friends Crabbe and Goyle, looking pleased with himself.

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There weren’t many people left now.

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“Moon” . . . , “Nott” . . . , “Parkinson” . . . , then a pair of twin girls, “Patil” and “Patil” . . . , then “Perks, Sally-Anne” . . . , and then, at last — “Potter, Harry!”

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As Harry stepped forward, whispers suddenly broke out like little hissing fires all over the hall.

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“Potter, did she say?”

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“The Harry Potter?”

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The last thing Harry saw before the hat dropped over his eyes was the hall full of people?

craning

?to get a good look at him. Next second he was looking at the black inside of the hat. He waited.

crane /kre?n/ vi.?伸著脖子看

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“Hmm,” said a small voice in his ear.

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“Difficult. Very difficult. Plenty of?

courage

, I see. Not a bad mind either. There’s talent, oh my goodness, yes — and a nice?

thirst

?to prove yourself, now that’s interesting. . . . So where shall I put you?”

courage /?k??r?d?/ n.?勇氣

thirst /θ??rst/ n.?渴望

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Harry gripped the edges of the stool and thought, Not Slytherin, not Slytherin.

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“Not Slytherin, eh?” said the small voice.

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“Are you sure? You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to?

greatness

, no doubt about that — no? Well, if you’re sure — better be GRYFFINDOR!”

greatness /?ɡretn?s/ n.?偉大

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Harry heard the hat shout the last word to the whole hall. He took off the hat and walked?

shakily

?toward the Gryffindor table.

shakily /'?eik?li/ adv.?顫抖地

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He was so relieved to have been chosen and not put in Slytherin, he hardly noticed that he was getting the?

loudest

cheer yet.

loud /la?d/ adj.?響亮的

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Percy the Prefect got up and shook his hand?

vigorously

, while the Weasley twins yelled, “We got Potter! We got Potter!”

vigorously /'v?g?r?sli/ adv.?精神旺盛地

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Harry sat down opposite the ghost in the ruff he’d seen earlier. The ghost patted his arm, giving Harry the sudden, horrible feeling he’d just?

plunged

?it into a bucket of ice-cold water.

plunge /pl?nd?/ vt.?使投入

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He could see the?

High Table

?

properly

?now.

high table n. (宴會上的)貴賓席

properly /'prɑp?li/ adv.?完全地

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At the end nearest him sat Hagrid, who caught his eye and gave him the?

thumbs up

. Harry grinned back.

thumbs up n. (表示贊成或滿意)翹拇指

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And there, in the center of the High Table, in a large gold chair, sat Albus Dumbledore.

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Harry recognized him at once from the card he’d gotten out of the Chocolate Frog on the train. Dumbledore’s silver hair was the only thing in the whole hall that shone as brightly as the ghosts.

134

Harry spotted Professor Quirrell, too, the nervous young man from the Leaky Cauldron. He was looking very peculiar in a large purple turban.

135

And now there were only three people left to be sorted.

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Turpin, Lisa’ became a Ravenclaw and then it was Ron’s turn. He was pale green by now. Harry crossed his fingers under the table and a second later the hat had shouted, ‘GRYFFINDOR!’

137

Harry clapped loudly with the rest as Ron collapsed into the chair next to him.

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“Well done, Ron, excellent,” said Percy Weasley?

pompously

?across Harry as “Zabini, Blaise,” was made a Slytherin. Professor McGonagall?

rolled up

?her?

scroll

?and took the Sorting Hat away.

pompously /'p?mp?sli/ adv.?盛大壯觀地

roll up?卷起

scroll /skrol/ n. (常用于錄寫正式文件的)紙卷

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Harry looked down at his empty gold plate. He had only just realized how hungry he was. The?

pumpkin

?

pasties

seemed ages ago.

pumpkin /?p?mpk?n/ n.?南瓜

pasty /'p?sti/ n.?肉餡餅

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Albus Dumbledore had?

gotten to his feet

. He was beaming at the students, his arms opened wide, as if nothing could have pleased him more than to see them all there.

get to one's feet?站起來

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“Welcome!” he said. “Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are:?

Nitwit

!?

Blubber

!?

Oddment

!?

Tweak

! “Thank you!”

nitwit /'n?tw?t/ n.?傻子

blubber /'bl?b?/ n.?哭泣

oddment /'ɑdm?nt/ n.?碎屑

tweak /twi?k/ n.?擰

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He sat back down. Everybody clapped and cheered. Harry didn’t know whether to laugh or not.

143

“Is he — a bit mad?” he asked Percy?

uncertainly

.

uncertainly /?n?s?..t n..l?/ adv.?猶豫地

144

“Mad?” said Percy?

airily

. “He’s a genius! Best wizard in the world! But he is a bit mad, yes. Potatoes, Harry?”

airily /'?r?li/ adv.?活波地

145

Harry’s mouth?

fell open

.?

fall open?不知不覺地張開了

146

The dishes in front of him were now piled with food. He had never seen so many things he liked to eat on one table: roast beef, roast chicken,?

pork

?

chops

?and lamb chops, sausages,?

bacon

?and?

steak

,

pork /p?rk/ n.?豬肉

chop /t?ɑ?p/ n. (羊或豬）排

bacon /?be?k?n/ n.?熏豬肉

steak /ste?k/ n.?牛排

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boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, chips, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots,?

gravy

,?

ketchup

, and, for some strange reason,?

mint

?

humbugs

.

gravy /'ɡrevi/ n.?肉汁

ketchup /'k?t??p/ n.?番茄醬

mint /m?nt/ n.?薄荷

humbug /'h?mb?ɡ/ n.?薄荷硬糖

148

The Dursleys had never exactly?

starved

?Harry, but he’d never been allowed to eat as much as he liked. Dudley had always taken anything that Harry really wanted, even if it made him sick.

starve /stɑ?rv/ vt. & vi. (使)挨餓

149

Harry?

piled

?his plate with a bit of everything except the humbugs and began to eat. It was all delicious.

pile /pa?l/ v.?堆放

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“That does look good,” said the ghost in the ruff?

sadly

, watching Harry cut up his steak.

sadly /'s?dli/ adv.?憂愁地

151

“Can’t you — ?”

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“I haven’t eaten for nearly five hundred years,” said the ghost.

153

“I don’t need to, of course, but one does miss it. I don’t think I’ve introduced myself? Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington?

at your service

.?

Resident

?ghost of Gryffindor Tower.”

at your service?聽候吩咐

resident /?rez?d?nt/ adj.?常駐的

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“I know who you are!” said Ron suddenly. “My brothers told me about you — you’re Nearly Headless Nick!”

155

“I?

would prefer

?you to call me?

Sir

?Nicholas de Mimsy —” the ghost began?

stiffly

, but sandy-haired Seamus Finnigan interrupted. “Nearly Headless? How can you be nearly headless?”

would prefer?更喜歡

Sir /s?/ n.?（對爵士或男爵前的尊稱）爵士

stiffly /?st?fl?/ adv.?拘謹(jǐn)?shù)?/p>

156

Sir Nicholas looked extremely?

miffed

, as if their little chat wasn’t going at all the way he wanted.

miffed /mift/ adj.?有點生氣

157

“Like this,” he said?

irritably

.

irritably /??r?t?bl?/ adv.?性急地

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He seized his left ear and pulled. His whole head swung off his neck and fell onto his shoulder as if it was on a?

hinge

.

hinge /h?nd?/ n.?鉸鏈

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Someone had obviously tried to?

behead

?him, but not done it?

properly

.

behead /b?'h?d/ vt.?砍(某人的)頭

properly /'prɑp?li/ adv.?徹底地

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Looking pleased at the?

stunned

?looks on their faces, Nearly Headless Nick?

flipped

?his head back onto his neck,?

coughed

, and said,

stunned /st?nd/ adj.?受驚的

flip /fl?p/ v.?（使）快速翻轉(zhuǎn)

cough /k?f/ vi.?咳嗽

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“So — new Gryffindors! I hope you’re going to help us win the House Championship this year? Gryffindors have never gone so long without winning. Slytherins have got the Cup six years?

in a row

!

in a row?連續(xù)

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The Bloody Baron’s becoming almost?

unbearable

?— he’s the Slytherin ghost.”

unbearable /?n'b?r?bl/ adj.?不能忍受的

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Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and saw a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank?

staring

?eyes, a?

gaunt

?face, and robes?

stained

?with silver blood.

staring /'st?r??/ adj.?目不轉(zhuǎn)睛的

gaunt /ɡ??nt/ adj.?枯瘦的

stain /ste?n/ vi.?被染污

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He was right next to Malfoy who, Harry was pleased to see, didn’t look too pleased with the seating arrangements.

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“How did he get covered in blood?” asked Seamus with great interest.

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“I’ve never asked,” said Nearly Headless Nick?

delicately

.

delicately /?d ?l?k?tl?/ adv.?微妙地

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When everyone had eaten as much as they could, the?

remains

?of the food faded from the plates, leaving them?

sparkling

?clean as before.

remains /r??me?nz/ n.?殘余

sparkling /'spɑrkl??/ adj.?閃亮的

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A moment later the puddings appeared.?

Blocks

?of ice cream in every flavor you could think of,?

block /blɑ?k/ n.?塊

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apple pies,?

treacle tarts

, chocolate?

éclairs

?and jam doughnuts,?

trifle

, strawberries, Jell-O,?

rice pudding

?. . .

treacle tart?蜜糖果餡餅(一種甜品糕點)

éclair n.?（巧克力）長形泡夫

trifle /?tra?fl/ n.?蛋糕

rice pudding?大米布丁

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As Harry helped himself to a treacle tart, the talk turned to their families.

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“I’m half-and-half,” said Seamus. “Me dad’s a Muggle. Mum didn’t tell him she was a witch ’til after they were married. Bit of a?

nasty

?shock for him.”

nasty /?n?sti/ adj.?造成很大傷害的

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The others laughed.

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“What about you, Neville?” said Ron.

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“Well, my gran brought me up and she’s a witch,” said Neville,

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“but the family thought I was all-Muggle for ages.

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My Great Uncle Algie kept trying to catch me off my?

guard

?and force some magic out of me —?

guard /ɡɑ?rd/ n.?警惕

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he pushed me off the end of Blackpool?

pier

?once, I nearly?

drowned

?— but nothing happened until I was eight.

pier /p?r/ n.?碼頭

drown /dra?n/ vi.?淹死

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Great-uncle Algie?

came round

?for tea and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by the ankles when my great-auntie Enid offered him a?

meringue

?and he?

accidentally

?

let go

.

came round?順道拜訪

meringue /m?'r??/ n.?蛋白酥餅

accidentally /??ks??dent?li/ adv.?意外地

let go?松手

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But I bounced — all the way down the garden and into the road.

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They were all really pleased, Gran was crying, she was so happy.

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And you should have seen their faces when I got in here — they thought I might not be magic enough to come, you see. Great Uncle Algie was so pleased he bought me my toad.”

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On Harry’s other side, Percy Weasley and Hermione were talking about lessons

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(“I do hope they start right away, there’s so much to learn, I’m particularly interested in?

Transfiguration

, you know, turning something into something else, of course, it’s supposed to be very difficult —”;

transfiguration /?tr?nzf?ɡj?'re??n/ n.?變形

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“You’ll be starting small, just?

matches

?into needles and that sort of thing —”).

match /m?t?/ n.?火柴

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Harry, who was starting to feel warm and sleepy, looked up at the High Table again.

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Hagrid was drinking deeply from his goblet.

187

Professor McGonagall was talking to Professor Dumbledore.

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Professor Quirrell, in his?

absurd

?turban, was talking to a teacher with?

greasy

?black hair, a?

hooked

?nose, and?

sallow

skin.

absurd /?b?s??rd/ adj.?可笑的

greasy /'grisi/ adj.?油膩的

hooked /h?kt/ adj.?鉤狀的

sallow /'s?lo/ adj.?灰黃色的

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It happened very suddenly. The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell’s turban straight into Harry’s eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry’s forehead.

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“Ouch!” Harry clapped a hand to his head.

191

“What is it?” asked Percy.

192

“N-nothing.”

193

The pain had gone as quickly as it had come. Harder to shake off was the feeling Harry had gotten from the teacher’s look — a feeling that he didn’t like Harry at all.

194

“Who’s that teacher talking to Professor Quirrell?” he asked Percy.

195

“Oh, you know Quirrell already, do you? No wonder he’s looking so nervous, that’s Professor Snape. He teaches Potions, but he doesn’t want to — everyone knows?

he’s after

?Quirrell’s job.

be after?追求

196

Knows an?

awful

?lot about the Dark Arts, Snape.

awful /'?fl/ adj.?非常的

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Harry watched Snape for a while, but Snape didn’t look at him again.

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At last, the puddings too disappeared, and Professor Dumbledore got to his feet again.?

199

The hall?

fell

?silent.

fall /f??l/ v.?進(jìn)入(某狀態(tài))

200

“Ahem — just a few more words now we are all?

fed

?and watered. I have a few start-of-term notices to give you.

fed /fid/ v.?吃（feed?的過去式）

201

First years should?

note

?that the forest on the grounds is forbidden to all pupils. And a few of our older students would do well to remember that as well.”

note /no?t/ vt.?注意

202

Dumbledore’s twinkling eyes?

flashed

?in the direction of the Weasley twins.

flash /fl??/ v.?掠過

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“I have also been asked by Mr. Filch, the?

caretaker

, to remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in the?

corridors

.

caretaker /'k?r'tek?/ n.?看門人

corridor /?k??r?d??r/ n.?走廊

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Quidditch?

trials

?will be held in the second week of the term. Anyone interested in playing for their House teams should contact Madam Hooch.

trial /?tra??l/ n.?選拔賽

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And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is?

out of bounds

?to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death.”

out of bounds adj.?禁止入內(nèi)的

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Harry laughed, but he was one of the few who did.

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“He’s not serious?” he muttered to Percy.

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“Must be,” said Percy, frowning at Dumbledore.

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“It’s odd, because he usually gives us a reason why we’re not allowed to go somewhere — the forest’s full of dangerous beasts, everyone knows that. I do think he might have told us prefects, at least.”

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“And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the school song!” cried Dumbledore. Harry noticed that the other teachers’ smiles had become rather?

fixed

.

fixed /f?kst/ adj. (神情)僵硬的

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Dumbledore gave his wand a little flick, as if he was trying to get a fly off the end, and a long golden?

ribbon

?flew out of it, which rose high above the tables and twisted itself,?

snakelike

, into words.

ribbon /?r?b?n/ n.?緞帶

snakelike /'sneiklaik/ adj.?蛇形的

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“Everyone pick their favorite tune,” said Dumbledore, “and off we go!”

213

And the school?

bellowed

:

bellow /?belo?/ vi.?吼叫

214

“Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,

215

Teach us something please,

216

Whether we be old and bald

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Or young with?

scabby

?knees,

scabby /?sk?bi/ adj. [醫(yī)]結(jié)痂的

218

Our heads could do with filling

219

With some interesting stuff,

220

For now they’re bare and full of air,

221

Dead flies and bits of?

fluff

,

fluff /fl?f/ n. (毛毯等落下的)絨毛

222

So teach us things worth?

knowing

,

knowing /'no??/ n.?認(rèn)識

223

Bring back what we’ve forgot,

224

Just do your best, we’ll do the rest,

225

And learn until our brains all?

rot

.”

rot /rɑ?t/ n.?腐爛

226

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow?

funeral march

.

funeral march?葬禮進(jìn)行曲

227

Dumbledore?

conducted

?their last few?

lines

?with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest.

conduct /k?n?d?kt/ v.?指揮

line /la?n/ n. (五線譜中的)譜線

228

“Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you?

trot

!”

trot /trɑt/ vi. [口]快步走

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The Gryffindor first years followed Percy through the chattering crowds, out of the Great Hall, and up the marble staircase.

230

Harry’s legs were like lead again, but only because he was so tired and full of food.

231

He was too sleepy even to be surprised that the people in the?

portraits

?along the corridors whispered and pointed as they passed,

portrait /?p??rtr?t/ n.?肖像

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or that twice Percy led them through?

doorways

?hidden behind sliding?

panels

?and hanging?

tapestries

.

doorway /?d??rwe?/ n.?門口

panel /?p?nl/ n.?嵌板

tapestry /'t?p?stri/ n.?繡帷

233

They climbed more staircases, yawning and dragging their feet, and Harry was just wondering how much farther they had to go when they came to a sudden halt.

234

A bundle of

?

walking sticks

?was floating in midair ahead of them, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him.

a bundle of?一束

walking stick?手杖

235

“Peeves,” Percy whispered to the first years. “A?

poltergeist

.” He raised his voice, “Peeves —?

show yourself

.”

poltergeist /'polt?'ga?st/ n.?敲擊作響鬧惡作劇的鬼

show yourself?現(xiàn)身

236

A loud, rude sound, like the air being let out of a balloon, answered.

237

“Do you want me to go to the Bloody Baron?”

238

There was a?

pop

, and a little man with?

wicked

, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating?

cross-legged

?in the air, clutching the walking sticks.

pop /pɑ?p/ n. (發(fā)出)砰的一聲

wicked /?w?k?d/ adj.?邪惡的

cross-legged /?kr?s?l?ɡ?d/ adj.?盤著腿的

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“Oooooooh!” he said, with an?

evil

?

cackle

. “Ickle Firsties! What fun!”

evil /?i?vl/ adj.?邪惡的

cackle /'k?kl/ v.?躲避

240

He swooped suddenly at them. They all?

ducked

.

duck /d?k/ vi.?閃避

241

“Go away, Peeves, or the Baron’ll hear about this,?

I mean it

!” barked Percy.

I mean it?我是認(rèn)真的

242

Peeves?

stuck out

?his tongue and vanished, dropping the walking sticks on Neville’s head. They heard him?

zooming

away,?

rattling

?coats of?

armor

?as he passed.

stick out?伸出來

zoom /zu?m/ v.?快速移動

rattling /'r?tl??/ adj.?咔嗒咔嗒的

armor /?ɑ?m?r/ n.?盔甲

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“You want to?

watch out

?for Peeves,” said Percy, as they?

set off

?again. “The Bloody Baron’s the only one who can control him, he won’t even listen to us prefects. Here we are.”

watch out?小心

set off v.?出發(fā)

244

At the very end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very fat woman in a pink?

silk

?dress.

silk /s?lk/ n.?蠶絲

245

“Password?” she said.

246

“

Caput

?

Draconis

,” said Percy, and the portrait swung forward to?

reveal

?a round hole in the wall.

caput /'kep?t/ n.?頭

Draconis /dr?'k?unis/ adj.?天龍星座的

reveal /r??vi?l/ vt.?露出

247

They all scrambled through it — Neville needed a leg up — and found themselves in the Gryffindor common room, a?

cozy

, round room full of?

squashy

?

armchairs

.

cozy /?ko?zi/ adj.?舒適的

squashy /'skw??i/ adj.?柔軟的

armchair /'ɑrmt??r/ n.?扶手椅

248

Percy directed the girls through one door to their?

dormitory

?and the boys through another.

dormitory /?d??rm?t??ri/ n.?集體宿舍

249

At the top of a?

spiral

?

staircase

?— they were obviously in one of the towers — they found their beds at last: five?

four-posters

?hung with deep-red,?

velvet

?curtains.

spiral /?spa?r?l/ adj.?螺旋形的

staircase /?sterke?s/ n.?樓梯

four-posters n.?四柱床

velvet /?velv?t/ adj.?天鵝絨的

250

Their trunks had already been brought up.

251

Too tired to talk much, they pulled on their?

pajamas

?and fell into bed.

pajamas /p?'d??m?z/ n.?睡衣

252

“Great food, isn’t it?” Ron muttered to Harry through the?

hangings

. “Get off, Scabbers! He’s chewing my?

sheets

.”

hanging /?h????/ n.?幔帳

sheet /?i?t/ n.?床單

253

Harry was going to ask Ron if he’d had any of the treacle tart, but he fell asleep almost at once.

254

Perhaps Harry had eaten a bit too much, because he had a very strange dream.

255

He was wearing Professor Quirrell’s turban, which kept talking to him, telling him he must?

transfer

?to Slytherin at once, because it was his?

destiny

.

transfer /tr?ns?f??r/ vi.?轉(zhuǎn)移

destiny /?dest?ni/ n.?命運

256

Harry told the turban he didn’t want to be in Slytherin; it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but it tightened painfully — and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he?

struggled

?with it —

struggle /?str?ɡl/ vi.?掙扎

257

then Malfoy turned into the hook-nosed teacher, Snape, whose laugh became high and cold — there was a burst of green light and Harry woke,?

sweating

?and shaking.

sweat /swet/ vi.?出汗

258

He rolled over and fell asleep again, and when he woke next day, he didn’t remember the dream at all.

259