Robert Kincaid

1

On the morning of August 8, 1965, Robert Kincaid locked the door to his small two-room apartment on the third floor of a?

rambling

?house in Bellingham, Washington.

rambling /?r?mbl??/ adj.?規(guī)劃凌亂的

2

He carried a?

knapsack

?full of photography equipment and a?

suitcase

?down wooden stairs and through a?

hallway

?to the back,

knapsack /'n?ps?k/ n.?背包

suitcase /?su?tke?s/ n.?手提箱

hallway /'h?lwe/ n.?門廳

3

where his old?

Chevrolet

?

pickup truck

?was parked in a space?

reserved

?for?

residents

?of the building.

Chevrolet /'?evr?ulei/ n. (美國)雪佛蘭牌汽車

pickup truck?敞篷小型載貨卡車

reserve /r??z??rv/ v.?保留

resident /?rez?d?nt/ n.?居民

4

Another knapsack, a medium-size?

ice chest

, two?

tripods

, cartons of Camel cigarettes, a?

Thermos

, and a bag of fruit were already inside.

ice chest?冰箱

tripod /'tra?pɑd/ n. (照相機(jī)等的)三腳架

thermos /'θ?m?s/ n.?熱水瓶

5

In the?

truck box

?was a guitar?

case

.

truck box?載重車箱

case /ke?s/ n.?箱

6

Kincaid arranged the knapsacks on the seat and put the?

cooler

?and tripods on the floor.

cooler /'kul?/ n.?電冰箱

7

He climbed into the truck box and wedged the guitar case and suitcase into a corner of the box,?

bracing

?them with a?

spare tire

?lying on its side?

brace /bre?s/ v.?抵住

spare tire?備用輪胎

8

and?

securing

?both cases to the tire with?

a length of

?

clothesline

?rope.

secure /s??kj?r/ v.?捆牢

a length of?一根

clothesline /'kloz,la?n/ n.?曬衣繩

9

Under the?

worn

?spare he shoved a black?

tarpaulin

.

worn /w?rn/ adj.?用舊的

tarpaulin /tɑr?p?l?n/ n.?防水帆布

10

He stepped in behind the wheel, lit a Camel, and?

went through

?his?

mental

?

checklist

:

go through?仔細(xì)檢查

mental /?mentl/ adj.?心理的

checklist /'t??k'l?st/?清單

11

two hundred?

rolls

?of?

assorted

?film, mostly slow-speed?

Kodachrome

; tripods; cooler;?

roll /rol/ n.?捆

assorted /??s??rt?d/ adj.?各種各樣的

kodachrome /'k?ud?kr?um/ n.?柯達(dá)彩色膠片

12

three cameras and five lenses; jeans and?

khaki

?

slacks

; shirts; wearing photo?

vest

.

khaki /'kɑki/ n.?黃卡其布的

slack /sl?k/ n.?寬松褲

vest /vest/ n.?〈美〉背心

13

Okay. Anything else he could buy on the road if he had forgotten it.

14

Kincaid wore faded Levi’s,?

well-used

?Red Wing?

field boots

, a khaki shirt, and orange?

suspenders

.

well-used?經(jīng)常使用的

field boots n.?長統(tǒng)靴

suspender /s?'sp?nd?/ n.?吊褲帶

15

On his wide?

leather belt

?was fastened a?

Swiss Army knife

?in its own case.

leather belt?皮帶

Swiss Army knife?瑞士軍刀

16

He looked at his watch: eight-seventeen. The truck started on the second try, and he backed out,?

shifted gears

, and moved slowly down the?

alley

?under?

hazy

?sun.

shifted gears <美>換擋

alley /??li/ n.?小路

hazy /?he?zi/ adj.?朦朧的

17

Through the streets of Bellingham he went,?

heading

?south on Washington 11, running along the?

coast

?of?

Puget Sound

?for a few miles,

head /hed/ v.?朝......行進(jìn)

coast /k??st/ n.?海岸

Puget Sound?普吉特海灣

18

then following the highway as it?

swung

?east a little before meeting U.S. Route 20.

swing /sw??/ vi.?轉(zhuǎn)向

19

Turning into the sun, he began the long,?

winding

?drive through?

the Cascades

.

winding /'wa?nd??/ adj.?蜿蜒的

the Cascades?喀斯喀特山脈

20

He liked this country and felt unpressed, stopping?

now and then

?to make notes about interesting possibilities for future?

expeditions

?or to shoot what he called “memory snapshots.”

now and then?不時(shí)

expedition /?eksp??d??n/ n.?探險(xiǎn)

21

The purpose of these?

cursory

?photographs was to remind him of places he might want to visit again and approach more seriously.

cursory /?k??rs?ri/ adj.?粗略的

22

In late afternoon he turned north at?

Spokane

, picking up U.S. Route 2, which would take him halfway across the northern United States to?

Duluth

,?

Minnesota

.

Spokane /sp?u'k?n/ n.?斯波坎市(美國華盛頓州)

Duluth /d?'lu:θ/?德盧斯(在蘇必利爾湖畔)

Minnesota /?m?n??sot?/ n.?明尼蘇達(dá)州(美國州名)

23

He wished for the?

thousandth

?time in his life that he had a dog, a golden?

retriever

, maybe, for travels like this and to?

keep him company

?at home.

thousandth /'θa?znθ/ num.?第一千

retriever /r?'triv?/ n.?尋獵物犬

keep company?陪伴(某人)

24

But he was frequently away,?

overseas

?much of the time, and it would not be fair to the animal. Still, he thought about it anyway.?

overseas /?o?v?r?si?z/ adv.?在海外

25

In a few years he would be getting too old for the hard?

fieldwork

. “I might get a dog then,” he said to the?

coniferous

green?

rolling by

?his truck window.

fieldwork /'fild'w?k/ n.?野外工作

coniferous /ko'n?f?r?s/ adj.?針葉植物

roll by?駛過

26

Drives like this always put him into a?

taking-stock

?mood. The dog was part of it.

take stock?回想生活

27

Robert Kincaid was as alone as it’s possible to be — an?

only child

, parents both dead, distant relatives who had?

lost truck of

?him and he of them, no close friends.

only child?獨(dú)生子女

lost track of?失去與......的聯(lián)系

28

He knew the names of the man who owned the corner market in Bellingham and the?

proprietor

?of the photographic store where he bought his supplies.

proprietor /pr?'pra??t?/ n.?業(yè)主

29

He also had?

formal

, professional relationships with several magazine editors.

formal /?f??rml/ adj.?正式的

30

Other than that, he knew?

scarcely

?anyone well, nor they him. Gypsies?

make difficult friends

?for ordinary people, and he was?

something of

?a gypsy.

scarcely /?skersli/ adv.?簡直沒有

make friends?交朋友

something of?有點(diǎn)兒

31

He thought about Marian. She had left him nine years ago after five years of marriage. He was fifty-two now; that would make her just under forty.

32

Marian had dreams of becoming a musician, a?

folksinger

. She knew all of the Weavers’ songs and sang them pretty well in the coffeehouses of Seattle.

folk-singer /?fok?s???/ n.?民歌歌手

33

When he was home in the old days, he drove her to gigs and sat in the?

audience

?while she sang.

audience /???di?ns/ n.?聽眾

34

His long absences — two or three months sometimes — were hard on the marriage. He knew that.

35

She was aware of what he did when they decided to get married, and each of them had a?

vague

?sense that it could all be handled somehow. It couldn’t.

vague /ve?ɡ/ adj.?含糊的

36

When he came home from photographing a story in Iceland, she was gone. The note read: “Robert, it didn’t?

work out

. I left you the?

Harmony

?guitar.?

Stay in touch

.”

work out?解決

harmony /?hɑ?rm?ni/ n.?和聲

stay in touch?保持聯(lián)系

37

He didn’t stay in touch. Neither did she.

38

He signed the divorce papers when they arrived a year later and caught a plane for Australia the next day. She had asked for nothing except her freedom.

39

At Kalispell,?

Montana

, he stopped?

for the night

, late.

Montana /m?n't?n?/ n.?蒙大納(美國州名)

for the night?過夜

40

The Cozy?

Inn

?looked inexpensive, and was. He carried his gear into a room containing two table lamps, one of which had a?

burned-out

?bulb.

inn /?n/ n.?小旅館

burned-out /?b?nd?a?t/ adj.?燒壞的

41

Lying in bed, reading The Green Hills of Africa and drinking a beer, he could smell?

the paper mills

?of Kalispell.

the paper mills?造紙廠

42

In the morning he?

jogged

?for forty minutes, did fifty?

push-ups

, and used his cameras as small hand?

weights

?to complete the routine.

jog /d?ɑ?ɡ/ vt. & vi.?慢跑

push-up n.?俯臥撐

weight /we?t/ n.?砝碼

43

Across the top of Montana he drove, into North?

Dakota

?and the?

spare

, flat country he found as?

fascinating

?as the mountains or the sea.

Dakota /d?'k?ut?/ n.?達(dá)科他(美國過去一地區(qū)名)

spare /sp?r/ adj.?簡樸的

fascinating /?f?s?ne?t??/ adj.?有極大吸引力的

44

There was a kind of?

austere

?beauty to this place, and he stopped several times, set up a tripod, and shot some black-and-whites of old farm buildings.

austere /???st?r/ adj.?樸素的

45

This?

landscape

?appealed to his?

minimalist

?

leanings

.

landscape /?l?ndske?p/ n.?風(fēng)景

minimalist /'m?n?ml?st/ adj.?極簡抽象藝術(shù)的

leaning /'lin??/ n.?偏愛

46

The Indian?

reservations

?were depressing, for all of the reasons everybody knows and ignores.

reservation /?rez?r?ve??n/ n.?居留地

47

Those kinds of?

settlements

?were no better in northwestern Washington, though, or anywhere else he had seen them.

settlement /?setlm?nt/ n.?移居地

48

On the morning of August 14, two hours out of?

Duluth

, he sliced northeast and took a?

back road

?up to?

Hibbing

?and the iron?

mines

.

Duluth /d?'lu:θ/?德盧斯(在蘇必利爾湖畔)

back road?僻徑

Hibbing n.?希賓

mine /ma?n/ n.?礦山

49

Red dust floated in the air, and there were big machines and trains specially designed to?

haul

?the?

ore

?to?

freighters

?at Two Harbors on?

Lake Superior

.

haul /h??l/ vt.?拖運(yùn)

ore /??r/ n.?礦石

freight /fre?t/ n. <美國>貨運(yùn)列車

Lake Superior?蘇必略湖

50

He spent an afternoon looking around Hibbing and found it not to his liking, even if Bob Zimmer-man-Dylan was from there?

originally

.

originally /?'r?d??n?li/ adv.?原來

51

The only song of Dylan’s he had ever really cared for was “Girl from the North Country.”

52

He could play and sing that one, and he hummed the words to himself as he left behind the place with giant red holes in the earth.

53

Marian had shown him some?

chords

?and how to handle basic?

arpeggios

?to?

accompany

?himself.

chord /k??rd/ n.?和弦

arpeggio /ɑr'p?d??o/ n.?琶音

accompany /??k?mp?ni/ vt.?伴奏

54

“She left me with more than I left her,” he said once to a?

boozy

?

riverboat

?

pilot

?in a place called McElroy’s Bar, somewhere in the Amazon?

basin

. And it was true.

boozy /'b?zi/ adj.?酩酊的

riverboat /'r?v?,bot/ n.?內(nèi)河船

pilot /?pa?l?t/ n.?領(lǐng)航員

basin /?be?sn/ n.?盆地

55

The Superior National Forest was nice, real nice.?

Voyageur

?country.

voyageur /?v??????/ n.?旅客

56

When he was young, he’d wished the old voyageur days were not over so he could become one.

57

He drove by?

meadows

, saw three?

moose

, a red fox, and lots of?

deer

.

meadow /'med?u/ n.?草地

moose /mus/ n. [動]駝鹿

deer /d?r/ n.?鹿

58

At a?

pond

?he stopped and?

shot

?some reflections on the water made by an odd-shaped tree branch.

pond /pɑ?nd/ n.?池塘

shoot /?u?t/ vt.?拍攝

59

When he finished he sat on the?

running board

?of his truck, drinking coffee, smoking a Camel, and listening to the wind in the?

birch

?trees.

running board?踏腳板

birch /b?t?/ n.?樺樹

60

“It would be good to have someone, a woman,” he thought, watching the smoke from his cigarette blow out over the pond.?

61

“Getting older puts you in that?

frame of mind

.”

frame of mind n.?心態(tài)

62

But with him gone so much, it would be tough on the one left at home. He’d already learned that.

63

When he was home in Bellingham, he?

occasionally

?dated the creative director for a Seattle?

advertising agency

.

occasionally /??ke??n?li/ adv.?間或

advertising agency?廣告公司

64

He had met her while doing a?

corporate

?job. She was forty-two, bright, and a nice person, but he didn’t love her, would never love her.

corporate /?k??rp?r?t/ adj.?共同的

65

Sometimes they both got a little lonely, though, and would spend an evening together, going to a movie, having a few beers, and making pretty decent love?

later on

.

later on?過些時(shí)候

66

She’d been around — two marriages, worked as a waitress in several bars while?

attending

?college.

attend /??tend/ vt.?上（大學(xué)等）

67

Invariably

, after they’d completed their lovemaking and were lying together, she’d tell him, “You’re the best, Robert, no competition, nobody even close.”

invariably /?n?veri?bli/ adv.?始終不變地

68

He supposed that was a good thing for a man to hear, but he was not all that experienced and had no way of knowing whether or not she was telling the truth anyway.

69

But she did say something one time that?

haunted

?him:

haunt /h??nt/ vt.?縈繞

70

“Robert, there’s a creature inside of you that I’m not good enough to bring out, not strong enough to reach.

71

I sometimes have the feeling you’ve been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you’ve?

dwelt

?in?

private

places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

dwell /dwel/ vi.?居住

private /?pra?v?t/ adj.?秘密的

72

You?

frighten

?me, even though you’re gentle with me. If I didn’t?

fight

?to control myself with you, I feel like I might lose my center and never get back.”

frighten /?fra?tn/ vt. & vi. (使)驚恐

fight /fa?t/ vt. & vi.?努力爭取

73

He knew in an?

obscure

?way what she was talking about. But he couldn’t?

get his hands on

?it himself.

obscure /?b?skj?r/ adj.?模糊的

get one's hands on?找到

74

He’d had these?

drifting

?kinds of thoughts, a?

wistful

?sense of the?

tragic

?combined with?

intense

?physical and intellectual power,?

drifting /'drifti?/ adj.?漂泊不定的

wistful /?w?stfl/ adj.?渴望的

tragic /?tr?d??k/ adj.?悲劇因素

intense /?n?tens/ adj.?強(qiáng)烈的

75

even as

?a young boy growing up in a small?

Ohio

?town.

even as?正當(dāng)

Ohio /o?ha?o/ n.?俄亥俄州（美國一個(gè)州）

76

When other kids were singing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” he was learning the?

melody

?and English words to a French?

cabaret

?song.

melody /?mel?di/ n.?歌曲

cabaret /?k?b?'re/ n.?歌舞表演

77

He liked words and images. “Blue” was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.

78

Words have physical feeling, not just meaning, he remembered thinking when he was young.

79

He liked other words, such as “distant,” “

woodsmoke

,” “highway,” “

ancient

,” “

passage

,” “voyageur,” and “India” for how they sounded, how they tasted, and what they?

conjured

?up in his mind.

woodsmoke n.?木煙

ancient /'en??nt/ adj.?古老的

passage /?p?s?d?/ n.?通路

conjure /?k?nd??r/ vi.?使…呈現(xiàn)于腦際

80

He kept lists of words he liked?

posted

?in his room. Then he?

joined

?the words into?

phrases

?and posted those as well:

post /po?st/ vt.?貼在...上

join /d???n/ vt.?連接

phrase /fre?z/ n.?〈語〉短語

81

Too close to the fire. I came from the East with a small band of travelers.

82

The constant?

chirping

?of those who would save me and those who would sell me.

chirping /t??p/ n.?鳴叫

83

Talisman

, Talisman, show me your secrets.?

Helmsman

, Helmsman, turn me for home.

talisman /'t?l?sm?n/ n.?法寶

helmsman /'h?lmzm?n/ n.?舵手

84

Lying?

naked

?where blue?

whales

?swim.

naked /?ne?k?d/ adj.?裸體的

whale /we?l/ n.?鯨

85

She wished him?

steaming

?trains that left from winter stations.

steaming /'stim??/ adj.?冒熱氣的

86

Before I became a man, I was an?

arrow?

— long time ago.

arrow /??ro?/ n.?箭

87

Then there were the places whose names he liked:?

the Somali Current

,?

the Big Hatchet Mountains

,?

the Malacca Strait

, and a long list of others.

the Somali Current?索馬里洋流

the Big Hatchet Mountains?大哈切特山脈

the Malacca Strait?馬六甲海峽

88

The?

sheets

?of paper with words and phrases and?

places

?eventually covered the walls of his room.

sheet /?i?t/ n.?一片

place /ples/ n.?地點(diǎn)

89

Even his mother noticed something different about him.?

90

He never spoke a word until he was three, then began talking in complete sentences, and he could read?

extremely

well by five.

extremely /?k?stri?mli/ adv.?非常

91

In school he was an?

indifferent

?student,?

frustrating

?the teachers.

indifferent adj.?漠不關(guān)心的

frustrate /?fr?stre?t/ vt.?使受挫折

92

They looked at his IQ scores and talked to him about?

achievement

, about doing what he was?

capable

?of doing, that he could become anything he wanted to become.

achievement /??t?i?vm?nt/ n.?成就

capable /?ke?p?bl/ adj.?有能力的

93

One of his high school teachers wrote the following in an?

evaluation

?of him:

evaluation /??v?lju?e??n/ n.?評價(jià)

94

“He believes that?

95

IQ tests are a poor way to judge people’s abilities, failing as they do to?

account for

?magic, which has its own importance, both by itself and as a complement to logic.’

account for?對…做出解釋

96

I suggest a?

conference

?with his parents.”

conference /?kɑ?nf?r?ns/ n.?討論

97

His mother met with several teachers. When the teachers talked about Robert’s quietly?

recalcitrant

?behavior?

in light of

?his abilities, she said,

recalcitrant /r??k?ls?tr?nt/ adj.?拒不服從的

in light of?鑒于

98

“Robert lives in a world of his own making. I know he’s my son, but I sometimes have the feeling that he came not from my husband and me, but from another place to which he’s trying to return.

99

I appreciate your interest in him, and I’ll try once more to encourage him to do better in school.”

100

But he had been content to read all the adventure and travel books in the local library and?

kept to himself

?otherwise, spending days along the river that ran through the edge of town,

keep to oneself?不交際

101

ignoring?

proms

?and football games and other things that bored him.

prom /prɑm/ n.?正式舞會

102

He fished and swam and walked and lay in long grass listening to distant voices he?

fancied

?only he could hear.

fancied /?f?ns?d/ adj.?空想的

103

“There are wizards out there,” he used to say to himself. “If you’re quiet and open enough to hear them, they’re?

out there

.”

out there?在那里

104

And he wished he had a dog to share these moments.

105

There was no money for college. And no desire for it, either.

106

His father worked hard and was good to his mother and him, but the job in a?

valve

?factory didn’t leave much for other things, including the?

care

?of a dog.

valve /v?lv/ n. [機(jī)]閥

care /k?r/ n.?收養(yǎng)

107

He was eighteen when his father died, so with the?

Great Depression

?

bearing down

?hard, he?

enlisted

?in the army as a way of supporting his mother and himself.

Great Depression?〈美〉大蕭條

bear down?壓倒

enlist /?n?l?st/ vi.?從軍

108

He stayed there four years, but those four years changed his life.

109

In the mysterious way that?

military

?minds work, he was?

assigned

?to a job as photographer’s?

assistant

, though he had no idea of even how to?

load

?a camera.

military /?m?l?teri/ adj.?軍隊(duì)的

assign /??sa?n/ vt.?分配

assistant /??s?st?nt/ n.?助手

load /lo?d/ v.?裝上(底片)

110

But in that work, he discovered his?

profession

. The?

technical

?details were easy for him.

profession /pr??fe?n/ n.?職業(yè)

technical /?tekn?kl/ adj.?技術(shù)的

111

Within a month he was not only doing the?

darkroom

?work for two of the staff photographers, but also was allowed to shoot simple projects himself.

darkroom /'dɑrkrum/ n. [攝]暗房

112

One of the photographers, Jim Peterson, liked him and spent extra time showing him the?

subtleties

?of photography.

subtlety /'s?tlti/ n.?細(xì)小但重要的地方

113

Robert Kincaid checked out photo books and art books from the Fort Monmouth town library and studied them.

114

Early on

, he particularly liked the French?

impressionists

?and?

Rembrandt’s

?use of light.

early on?在早起

impressionist /?m'pr???n?st/ n.?印象派畫家

Rembrandt /'rembrɑ:nt/?倫布蘭特

115

Eventually he began to see that light was what he photographed, not objects.

116

The objects merely were the?

vehicles

?for reflecting the light. If the light was good, you could always find something to photograph.

vehicle /?vi??kl/ n.?手段

117

The 35-millimeter camera was beginning to?

emerge

?then, and he?

purchased

?a used Leica at a local camera store.

emerge /i?m??rd?/ vi.?出現(xiàn)

purchase /?p??rt??s/ vt.?購買

118

He took it down to Cape May,?

New Jersey

, and spent a week of his?

leave

?there photographing life along the shore.

New Jersey?美國新澤西州

leave /liv/ n.?休假

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Another time he rode a bus to Maine and?

hitch-hiked?

up the?

coast

, caught the dawn?

mail boat

?out to?

Isle

?Au Haut from Stonington, and camped,?

hitch-hiked vi.?免費(fèi)搭便車

coast /k??st/ n.?海岸

mail boat n. (裝運(yùn)郵件的)郵船

isle /a?l/ n.?島

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then took a?

ferry

?across the Bay of Fundy to?

Nova Scotia

.

ferry /?feri/ n.?渡船

Nova Scotia /?nov? ?sko??/?新斯科舍

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He began keeping notes of his camera settings and places he wanted to visit again.

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When he came out of the army at twenty-two, he was a pretty decent shooter and found work in New York?

assisting

?a well-known?

fashion

?photographer.

assist /??s?st/ vt. & vi.?幫助

fashion /?f??n/ n.?時(shí)裝

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The female models were beautiful; he dated a few and fell partially in love with one before she moved to Paris and they?

drifted apart

.

drift apart?各奔東西

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She had said to him: “Robert, I don’t know who or what you are for sure, but please come visit me in Paris.”?

125

He told her he would,?

meant

?it when he said it, but never got there.

mean /mi?n/ vt.?打算

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Years later when he was doing a?

story

?on the beaches of Normandy, he found her name in the Paris book, called, and they had coffee at an outdoor cafe.

story /'st?ri/ n.?新聞報(bào)道

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She was married to a cinema director and had three children.

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He couldn’t get very?

keen

?on the idea of fashion.?

keen /ki?n/ adj.?喜愛的

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People threw away perfectly good clothes or?

hastily

?had them?

made over

?according to the?

instructions

?of European fashion?

dictators

.

hastily /?hest?l?/ adv.?匆忙地

make over?修改

instructions n.?操作指南

dictator /?d?kte?t?r/ n.?獨(dú)裁者

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It seemed dumb to him, and he felt?

lessened

?doing the photography.

lessen /'l?sn/ vt.?使…變小

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“You are what you produce,” he said as he left this work.

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His mother died during his second year in New York. He went back to Ohio, buried her, and sat before a?

lawyer

, listening to the reading of the?

will

.

lawyer /?l??j?r/ n.?律師

will /w?l/ n.?遺囑

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There wasn’t much. He didn’t expect there would be anything.

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But he was surprised to find his parents had?

accumulated

?a little?

equity

?in the tiny house on Franklin Street where they had lived all their married lives.

accumulate /??kju?mj?le?t/ vt. & vi.?積累

equity /?ekw?ti/ n.?抵押資產(chǎn)的凈值

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He sold the house and bought?

first-class

?equipment with the money.

first-class /?f?st?kl?s/ adj.?最好的

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As he paid the camera?

salesman

, he thought of the years his father had worked for those dollars and the?

plain

?life his parents had?

led

.

salesman /?se?lzm?n/ n.?售貨員

plain /ple?n/ adj.?樸素的

lead /li?d/ v.?過(某種生活)

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Some of his work began to appear in small magazines. Then?

National Geographic

?called. They had seen a?

calendar

shot he had taken out on?

Cape May

.

National Geographic?國家地理

calendar /?k?l?nd?r/ n.?日歷

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He talked with them, got a minor?

assignment

,?

executed

?it professionally, and was on his way.

assignment /??sa?nm?nt/ n.?任務(wù)

execute /?eks?kju?t/ vt.?執(zhí)行

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The military asked him back in 1943.

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He went with?

the Marines

?and?

slogged

?his way up South Pacific beaches, cameras swinging from his shoulders,?

the Marines?海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)

slog /slɑ?ɡ/ v.?步履艱難地行進(jìn)

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lying on his back, photographing the men coming off?

amphibious

?

landing craft

.

amphibious /?m'f?b??s/ adj.?兩棲的

landing craft?登陸艇

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He saw the terror on their faces, felt it himself. Saw them cut in two by?

machine-gun

?fire, saw them?

plead

?to God and their mothers for help.

machine-gun /m???in?ɡ ?n/ n.?機(jī)關(guān)槍

plead /pli?d/ vi.?請求

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He got it all, survived, and never became?

hooked on

?the?

so-called

?

glory

?and romance of war photography.

hook on?著迷

so-called /?so? ?k??ld/ adj.?所謂的

glory /?ɡl??ri/ n.?榮譽(yù)

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Coming out of the service in 1945, he called National Geographic. They were ready for him, anytime.

145

He bought a motorcycle in San Francisco, ran it south to Big Sur, made love on a beach with a?

cellist

?from Carmel, and turned north to explore Washington.

cellist /'t??l?st/ n.?大提琴手

146

He liked it there and decided to make it his base.

147

Now, at fifty-two, he was still watching the light.

148

He had been to most of the places posted on his boyhood walls and?

marveled

?he actually was there when he visited them,?

marvel /?mɑ?rvl/ vt.?大為贊嘆

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sitting in the Raffles Bar, riding up the Amazon on a?

chugging

?riverboat, and?

rocking

?on a camel through the Rajasthani?

desert

.

chug /t??g/ n. (發(fā)動機(jī)緩慢運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)時(shí)發(fā)出的)突突聲

rock /rɑ?k/ vt. & vi. (使)來回?cái)[動

desert /?dez?rt/ n.?沙漠

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The Lake Superior shore was as nice as he’d heard it was.

151

He marked down several locations for future?

reference

, took some shots to?

jog his memory

?later on, and headed south along the?

Mississippi River

?toward Iowa.

reference /?refr?ns/ n.?參考

jog memory?喚起記憶

Mississippi River?密西西比河

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He’d never been to Iowa but was taken with the?

hills

?of the northeast part along the big river.

hill /h?l/ n.?丘陵

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Stopping in the little town of Clayton, he stayed at a fisherman’s motel and spent two mornings shooting the?

towboats

and an afternoon on a?

tug

?at the invitation of a pilot he met in a local bar.

towboat /?to?bot/ n.?拖船

tug /t?ɡ/ n.?拖船

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Cutting over to U.S. Route 65, he went through Des Moines early on a Monday morning, August 16, 1965,?

155

swung west at Iowa 92, and headed for Madison County and the?

covered bridges

?that were supposed to be there, according to National Geographic.

covered bridge?棚橋

156

They were there all right; the man in the Texaco station said so and gave him directions, just?

fairish

?directions, to all seven.

fairish /?f?r??/ adj.?還可以的

157

The first six were easy to find as he?

mapped

?out his?

strategy

?for photographing them. The seventh, a place called Roseman Bridge,?

eluded

?him.

map /m?p/ vt.?繪制地圖

strategy /?str?t?d?i/ n.?行動計(jì)劃

elude /i?lu?d/ vt.?使達(dá)不到

158

It was hot, he was hot, Harry — his truck — was hot,?

159

and he was wandering around on?

gravel

?roads that seemed to lead nowhere except to the next gravel road.

gravel /?ɡr?vl/ n.?碎石

160

In foreign countries, his?

rule of thumb

?was, “Ask three times.”?

rule of thumb?經(jīng)驗(yàn)法則

161

He had discovered that three?

responses

, even if they all were wrong, gradually?

vectored

?you in to where you wanted to go.

response /r??spɑ?ns/ n.回答

vector /'v?kt?/ vt.?用無線電導(dǎo)航

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Maybe twice would be enough here.

163

A mailbox was coming up, sitting at the end of a?

lane

?about one hundred yards long. The name on the box read “Richard Johnson, RR 2.”

lane /le?n/ n.?小巷

164

He slowed down and turned up the lane, looking for guidance.

165

When he pulled into the yard, a woman was sitting on the front porch. It looked cool there, and she was drinking something that looked even cooler.

166

She came off the porch toward him. He stepped from the truck and looked at her, looked closer, and then closer still.

167

She was lovely, or had been at one time, or could be again.?

168

And immediately he began to feel the old?

clumsiness

?he always suffered around women to whom he was even faintly attracted.

clumsiness /'kl?mzinis/ n.?笨拙

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