高级英语第一册修订本第12课Lesson12TheLoons原文和翻译Word文档格式.docx

1、s brick houses and offer for sale a lard -pail full of bruised wild strawberries, and if he got as much as a quarter he would grab the coin and run before the customer had time to change her mind. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl , and would hit o

2、ut at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street, and then the Mountie would put them for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House, and the next morning they would be quiet again.3、Piquette Tonnerre, the daughter of Lazarus, was in my class at sch

3、ool. She was older than I, but she had failed several grades, perhaps because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible . Part of the reason she had missed a lot of school was that she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent many months in hospita

4、l. I knew this because my father was the doctor who had looked after her. Her sickness was almost the only thing I knew about her, however. Otherwise, she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence, with her hoarse voice and her clumsy limping walk and her grimy cotton dresses that were

5、always miles too long. I was neither friendly nor unfriendly towards her. She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision, but I did not actually notice her very much until that peculiar summer when I was eleven.4、I dont know what to do about that kid. my father said at dinner one evening. P

6、iquette Tonnerre, I mean. The damn bones flared up again. Ive had her in hospital for quite a while now, and its under control all right, but I hate like the dickens to send her home again.5、Couldnt you explain to her mother that she has to rest a lot? my mother said.6、The mothers not there my fathe

7、r replied. She took off a few years back. Cant say I blame her. Piquette cooks for them, and she says Lazarus would never do anything for himself as long as shes there. Anyway, I dont think shed take much care of herself, once she got back. Shes only thirteen, after all. Beth, I was thinkingWhat abo

8、ut taking her up to Diamond Lake with us this summer? A couple of months rest would give that bone a much better chance.7、My mother looked stunned.8、But Ewen - what about Roddie and Vanessa?9、Shes not contagious , my father said. And it would be company for Vanessa.10、Oh dear, my mother said in dist

9、ress, Ill bet anything she has nits in her hair.11、For Petes sake, my father said crossly, do you think Matron would let her stay in the hospital for all this time like that? Dont be silly, Beth. 12、Grandmother MacLeod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo , now brought her mauve -veined

10、 hands together as though she were about to begin prayer.13、Ewen, if that half breed youngster comes along to Diamond Lake, Im not going, she announced. ll go to Morags for the summer.14、I had trouble in stifling my urge to laugh, for my mother brightened visibly and quickly tried to hide it. If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.15、It might be quite nice for you, at that, she mused. You havent seen Morag for over a year, and you mig