自学考试本科《高级英语》串讲讲义全.ppt

22 The line must be drawn… 23 She was loaded down beyond the vases or even the places for flowers in her sister’s house. She turned away at last and ran head on into the man who opened car doors. 24 He puttered to her car and fumbled for her car door. 25…shuddered because she could not stand the touch of his hand on her door. 26 She banged the car door and drove away. 27 Downtown, she parked her car in a garage. Everything was getting ready for this moment. She did not carry the flowers in her car but she carried them in her heart. Now she was going to find out whether it was death or life. Either she could tolerate. It did not occur to her that the newsreel might not be there. 28 The French words were finely enunciated. 29 Chris was whittling away. 30…because of her pent-up love and terror for Jerry. 　　 31 She looked sideways to the right but without shifting her head. 32 The smell was a barrier she was holding on to, to keep the movie from going ahead…But all the same it did come to the boy who might be Jerry. 33 The hand looked chapped and wizened, not a boy’s…Her eyes blinked, waiting for the end anxiously. 34 With her eyes riveted on him she could still see Chris in the back. The face of the boy who turned, now filling the camera, unmercifully filling the screen, was Jerry’s face, but it was blank, as empty as an idiot’s. He grimaced with his mouth and the hand with the ring was lifted to catch the twitching, trying to hold it. His eyes were focused straight out and his mother drowned in those vacant eyes. 35 A woman had been plucking at her mouth. 36 She wanted to drive her car, in motion and tension to find rest. 37 He said the double “l” against the “r” as if it were a caress that one known stranger was permitted to give another. 38 His hand were thrown down on the cement of the sidewalk, no longer trembling and shaking, but abandoned. 　　 1 丈夫让她独自一人到墨西哥就证明了这一点;这次来墨西哥就是为了让她弄清自己的处境,重新站起,抚平心灵的创伤后回到他的身边。 Evidence of that was her husband’s letting her come