2020年整理21世纪大学英语第二册_Reading_Aloud___Uint~Unit8原文及翻译.docVIP

学 海 无 涯 Unit1 “Very hesitantly I selected a tube of blue paint , and with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean on the snow-white field . At that moment I heard the sound of a motorcar in the drive and threw down my brush in a panic . I was even more alarmed when I saw who stepped from the car: the wife of Sir John Lavery , the celebrated painter who lived nearby. “’Painting!’she declared,’What fun. But what are you waiting for? Let me have the brush---the big one.’ She plunged into the paints and before I knew it , she had swept several fierce stokes and slashes of blue on