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下午afternoon[英][ˌɑ:ftəˈnu:n] [美][ˌæftɚˈnun] 中英文故事：康拉丁（10） 那天下午很冷，康拉丁授命待在屋里。在餐厅最里面的一扇窗前，从灌木丛的一角可以看见工具棚的门。康拉丁就站在那儿看着“妇人”进了工具棚。接着他想象着“妇人”打开了那个神圣笼子的门，她那双近视眼向里面厚厚的草铺窥视着，他的神就藏在那里。也许她会不耐烦地笨手笨脚地翻弄草铺。康拉丁最后一次拼命地低声祈祷，但祈祷时他知道自己不相信祈祷会奏效的。他知道不一会儿“妇人”就会抿嘴微笑着走出屋来，他非常憎恶她这种表情。一两个小时之后,花匠就会带走他那了不起的神，它再也不会是神了，只不过是一只关在笼子里的普通的棕色雪貂，而且他知道“妇人”会像现在这样将永远获胜。他知道她善用心机,盛气凌人,在她的折磨下，自己的病将日益加重，直到有一天，一切对他来说都不再那么重要了，医生的话得到应验。失败刺痛了他的心，给他带来了痛苦，他为他那身处危境的“神”高声唱起圣歌，以示反抗： 向前，斯瑞德尼•瓦什塔; 嗜血的心，洁白的齿, 敌人祈求和平，他却置之于死地。 斯瑞德尼•瓦什塔，美丽的神。 It was a cold afternoon, and Conradin had been bidden to keep to the house. From the furthest window of the dining-room the door of the shed could just be seen beyond the corner of the shrubbery, and there Conradin stationed himself. He saw the Woman enter, and then be imagined her opening the door of the sacred hutch and peering down with her short-sighted eyes into the thick straw bed where his god lay hidden. Perhaps she would prod at the straw in her clumsy impa¬tience. And Conradin fervently breathed his prayer for the last time. But he knew as he prayed that he did not believe. He knew that the Woman would come out presently with that pursed smile he loathed so well on her face, and that in an hour or two the gardener would carry away his wonderful god, a god no longer, but a simple brown ferret in a hutch. And he knew that the Woman would triumph always as she triumphed now, and that he would grow ever more sickly under her pestering and domineering and superior wisdom, till one day nothing would matter much more with him, and the doctor would be proved right. And in the sting and misery of his defeat, he began to chant loudly and de¬fiantly the hymn of his threatened idol ： Sredni Vashtar went forth， His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white. His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death. Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful. 中英文例句 1. It was a busy afternoon. 那是一个忙绿的下午。 2. The afternoon is pretty downhill. 下午我的精力是个低谷。 3. That was a beautiful afternoon. 那是一个美丽的下午。 4. The indoor cat goes for an afternoon stroll in a scenic meadow. 午后，宅猫去了一个风景优美的牧场散步。 5. Problems were first reported yesterday afternoon. 昨天下午首次报道了上述问题。 |
