1.Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone外文.doc

Harry Potter And the Sorcerers Stone By J. K. Rowling CHAPTER ONE THE BOY WHO LIVED (survive) Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet (水蜡树；女贞) Drive (车道), were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much（谢天谢地）. They were the last people youd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didnt hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director(主管) of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills(钻床,钻机). He was a big, beefy (muscular; fat结实,粗壮) man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache(US-moustache). Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful (came in useful - be useful) as she spent so much of her time craning (crane - stretch out ones neck (like a crane(鹤) over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didnt think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursleys sister, but they hadnt met for several years; in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didnt have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing (worthless, useless) husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered (tremble, shake) to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didnt want Dudley mixing with a child like that. When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray (阴沉的) Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley hummed低声