Time after time------Author: Sue Haasler
1. There you are, I’ve been looking all over the place for you.
2. It was usually me.
3. There’s a first time for everything.
4. Hilarious a. 热闹的;欢笑的; get quite ~ 热闹起来.
5. The reunion was warming up. A dozen or so people were trying to dance in a disjointed fashion, looking like their dads.
6. A small, brown-eyed woman detached herself from the gaggle and smiled at me.
7. A man who was handsome yet strangely inert.
8. We rejoined the group we’d been sitting with earlier.
9. bandanna n.花色丝质大手帕
10. In various dingy places I could no longer remember.
11. I’ve been looking around for him ever since we arrived – really he was the only reason I was there at all.
12. It had all started with a letter that arrived on a freezing spring morning.
13. sprint vi. & vt.全速奔跑(尤指短距离);I’d done the usual sprint down to the front door, trailing my dressing-grown behind me, grabbed the pile of letters and quickly retreated back up the stairs to my flat.
He ~ed past his competitors just before reaching the tape.刚好在到达终点以前,他以全速超过了他的对手们.n.①全速奔跑;短(距离赛)跑;②短时间的紧张活动;长距离赛跑中的冲刺;His ~ at the finish was really wonderful.他的终点冲刺的确了不起
14. dapper a.①干净利落的,衣冠楚楚的;He looked very ~ in his new suit.他穿着新衣服看上去很帅.
15. I sat down at the kitchen table and glanced at the clock. There was no sign for Greg getting up yet. I couldn’t remember what he was supposed to be doing today, and whether or not I ought to be waking him, but after all, he was a grown man and if he was late for anything it was his problem.
16. gullible a.易受欺骗的;轻信的;He is so ~ that he believes everything you tell him.他很轻信别人,你无论告诉他什么事,他都相信.
17. But I didn’t recognize the large, loopy handwriting, but the northern postmark intrigued me: it was very close to the town where I’d grown up. I hadn’t been up that way since my grandfather died twelve years earlier. He was my last family tie with the area, and since his death I suppose I’d practically started to think of myself as a Londoner, so much so that I felt a little bit surprised when people still detected the remnants of a northern accent.
18. remnant n.剩余, 零碎货
19. The letter was from someone called Alison. The name didn’t ring any bells, until I noticed that under her signature she’d written: Alison Mutch.
20. Thinking of her name transported me back to the school playground, some time right at the beginning of the 1980s.
21. I was deeply envious.
22. Trudy nodded in a fellow-sufferer way.
23. A crocheted scarf
24. Trudy insisted that you felt the cold a lot more when it was your “time of the month”.
25. Puberty apartheid
今天记住的,不知一年后我的英语能否有质的提高?明天的英语课讨论网络的好处和坏处!