《哈利波特2》｜单词注释｜Chapter 3
CHAPTER THREE
1
THE
BURROW
burrow /ˈbɜːroʊ/ n. (动物的)洞穴
2
“Ron!” breathed Harry, creeping to the window and pushing it up so they could talk through the bars.
3
“Ron, how did you — What the — ?”
4
Harry’s mouth fell open as the full
impact
of what he was seeing hit him.
impact /ˈɪmpækt/ n. 冲击力
5
Ron was leaning out of the back window of an old
turquoise
car, which was parked in midair.
turquoise /ˈtə..ˌkwɔɪz/ adj. 蓝绿色的
6
Grinning at Harry from the front seats were Fred and George, Ron’s elder twin brothers.
7
“All right, Harry?”
8
“What’s been going on?” said Ron.
9
“Why haven’t you been answering my letters?
10
I’ve asked you to stay about twelve times, and then Dad came home and said you’d got an official warning for using magic in front of Muggles —”
11
“It wasn’t me — and how did he know?”
12
“He works for the
Ministry
,” said Ron. “You know we’re not supposed to do spells outside school”
ministry /ˈmɪnɪstri/ n. （政府的）部门
13
“
Bit rich coming from you
” said Harry, staring at the floating car.
bit rich coming from you 反讽语：就你可以用，我不可以用
14
“Oh, this doesn’t count,” said Ron.
15
“We’re only borrowing this. It’s Dad’s, we didn’t
enchant
it. But doing magic in front of those Muggles you live with —”
enchant /ɪnˈtʃænt/ vt. 施魔法
16
“I told you, I didn’t — but it’ll take too long to explain now — look, can you explain to them at Hogwarts that the Dursleys have locked me up and won’t let me come back,
17
and obviously I can’t magic myself out, because the Ministry’ll think that’s the second spell I’ve done in three days, so —”
18
“Stop
gibbering
,” said Ron. “We’ve come to take you home with us.”
gibber /'dʒɪbɚ/ vi. 叽里咕噜地说
19
“But you can’t magic me out either —”
20
“We don’t need to,” said Ron, jerking his head toward the front seat and grinning. “You forget who I’ve got with me.”
21
“Tie that around the bars,” said Fred, throwing the end of a rope to Harry.
22
“If the Dursleys wake up, I’m dead,” said Harry as he tied the rope tightly around a bar and Fred
revved
up the car.
rev /rɛv/ vi. 加快转速
23
“Don’t worry,” said Fred, “and stand back.”
24
Harry moved back into the shadows next to Hedwig, who seemed to have realized how important this was and kept still and silent.
25
The car revved louder and louder and suddenly, with a
crunching
noise, the bars were pulled clean out of the window as Fred drove straight up in the air.
crunch /krʌntʃ/ vi. 嘎吱嘎吱地踏过
26
Harry ran back to the window to see the bars dangling a few feet above the ground.
27
Panting, Ron
hoisted
them up into the car.
hoist /hɔɪst/ vt. 把…吊起
28
Harry listened anxiously, but there was no sound from the Dursleys’ bedroom.
29
When the bars were safely in the back seat with Ron, Fred
reversed
as close as possible to Harry’s window.
reverse /rɪˈvɜːrs/ vt. & vi. (使)翻转
30
“Get in,” Ron said.
31
“But all my Hogwarts stuff — my wand — my broomstick —”
32
“Where is it?”
33
“Locked in the cupboard under the stairs, and I can’t get out of this room —”
34
“No problem,” said George from the front
passenger seat
. “Out of the way, Harry.”
passenger seat 乘客座
35
Fred and George climbed carefully through the window into Harry’s room.
36
You had to hand it to them, thought Harry, as George took an ordinary
hairpin
from his pocket and started to pick the lock.
hairpin /ˈhɛrˌpɪn/ n. 发夹
37
“A lot of wizards think it’s a waste of time, knowing this sort of Muggle trick,” said Fred, “but we feel they’re skills worth learning, even if they are a bit slow.”
38
There was a small click and the door swung open.
39
“So — we’ll get your trunk — you grab anything you need from your room and hand it out to Ron,” whispered George.
40
“Watch out for the bottom stair — it
creaks
,” Harry whispered back as the twins disappeared onto the dark
landing
.
creak /krik/ vi. 发出咯吱咯吱声
landing /ˈlændɪŋ/ n. 楼梯的平台
41
Harry dashed around his room, collecting his things and passing them out of the window to Ron.
42
Then he went to help Fred and George heave his trunk up the stairs.
43
Harry heard Uncle Vernon
cough
.
cough /kɔf/ vi. 咳嗽
44
At last, panting, they reached the landing, then carried the trunk through Harry’s room to the
open window
.
45
Fred climbed back into the car to pull with Ron, and Harry and George pushed from the bedroom side.
46
Inch by inch, the trunk slid through the window.
47
Uncle Vernon coughed again.
48
“A bit more,” panted Fred, who was pulling from inside the car. “One good push —”
49
Harry and George threw their shoulders against the trunk and it slid out of the window into the back seat of the car.
50
“Okay, let’s go,” George whispered.
51
But as Harry climbed onto the
windowsill
there came a sudden loud
screech
from behind him, followed immediately by the
thunder
of Uncle Vernon’s voice.
windowsill /'wɪndo,sɪl/ n. 窗沿
screech /skritʃ/ n. 尖利刺耳的声音
thunder /ˈθʌndər/ n. （雷鸣般的）怒吼
52
“THAT
RUDDY
OWL!”
ruddy /ˈrʌdi/ adj. (表示生气)讨厌的
53
“I’ve forgotten Hedwig!”
54
Harry
tore
back across the room as the landing light clicked on — he
snatched
up Hedwig’s cage, dashed to the window, and passed it out to Ron.
tear /tɪr/ v. 狂奔
snatch /snætʃ/ vt. 夺得
55
He was scrambling back onto the
chest of drawers
when Uncle Vernon hammered on the unlocked door — and it crashed open.
chest of drawers 五斗柜
56
For a split second, Uncle Vernon stood framed in the doorway; then he let out a
bellow
like an angry bull and
dived
at Harry, grabbing him by the ankle.
bellow /ˈbeloʊ/ n. 吼叫声
dive /daɪv/ v. 扑向
57
Ron, Fred, and George seized Harry’s arms and pulled as hard as they could.
58
“Petunia!” roared Uncle Vernon. “He’s getting away! HE’S GETTING AWAY!”
59
The Weasleys gave a
gigantic
tug
and Harry’s leg slid out of Uncle Vernon’s grasp.
gigantic /dʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/ adj. 巨大的
tug /tʌɡ/ n. 猛拉
60
As soon as Harry was in the car and had slammed the door shut.
61
Ron yelled, “Put your foot down, Fred!”, and the car shot suddenly toward the moon.
62
Harry couldn’t believe it — he was free. He
wound
down the window, the night air whipping his hair, and looked back at the shrinking rooftops of Privet Drive.
wind /wɪnd/ v. 转动(把手)
63
Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were all hanging,
dumbstruck
, out of Harry’s window.
dumbstruck /'dʌmstrʌk/ adj. 被吓得目瞪口呆的
64
“See you next summer!” Harry yelled.
65
The Weasleys roared with laughter and Harry
settled back
in his seat, grinning from
ear to ear
.
settled back 仰坐
ear to ear 合不拢嘴
66
“Let Hedwig out,” he told Ron.
67
“She can fly behind us. She hasn’t had a chance to stretch her wings for ages.”
68
George handed the
hairpin
to Ron and, a moment later, Hedwig
soared
joyfully
out of the window to
glide
alongside them like a ghost.
hairpin /'heəpɪn/ n. 发夹
soar /sɔː(r)/ vi. 翱翔
joyfully /'dʒɔifəli/ adv. 高兴地
glide /ɡlaɪd/ vi. 滑翔
69
“So — what’s the story, Harry?” said Ron impatiently. “What’s been happening?”
70
Harry told them all about Dobby, the warning he’d given Harry and the
fiasco
of the violet pudding.
fiasco /fiˈæskəʊ/ n. 惨败
71
There was a long, shocked silence when he had finished.
72
“Very
fishy
,” said Fred finally.
fishy /'fɪʃɪ/ adj. 可疑的
73
“Definitely
dodgy
,” agreed George. “So he wouldn’t even tell you who’s supposed to be plotting all this stuff?”
dodgy /'dɒdʒɪ/ adj. 可疑的
74
“I don’t think he could,” said Harry. “I told you, every time he got close to
letting something slip
, he started banging his head against the wall.”
let slip 无意中吐露
75
He saw Fred and George look at each other.
76
“What, you think he was lying to me?” said Harry.
77
“Well,” said Fred,
78
“put it this way — house-elves have got powerful magic of their own, but they can’t usually use it without their master’s permission.
79
I reckon old Dobby was sent to stop you coming back to Hogwarts. Someone’s idea of a joke. Can you think of anyone at school with a
grudge
against you?”
grudge /ɡrʌdʒ/ n. 不满
80
“Yes,” said Harry and Ron together,
instantly
.
instantly /ˈɪnstəntli/ adv. 立刻
81
“Draco Malfoy,” Harry explained. “He hates me.”
82
“Draco Malfoy?” said George, turning around. “Not Lucius Malfoy’s son?”
83
“Must be, it’s not a very
common
name, is it?” said Harry. “Why?”
common /'kɒmən/ adj. 普通的
84
“I’ve heard Dad talking about him,” said George. “He was a big
supporter
of You-Know-Who.”
supporter /səˈpɔːtə(r)/ n. 拥护者
85
“And when You-Know-Who disappeared,” said Fred,
craning
around to look at Harry,
crane /kreɪn/ vi. 伸着脖子看
86
“Lucius Malfoy came back saying he’d never
meant
any of it. Load of
dung
— Dad reckons he was right in You-Know-Who’s
inner circle
.”
mean /miːn/ v. 打算
dung /dʌŋ/ n. 动物的粪便
inner circle 核心集团
87
Harry had heard these rumors about Malfoy’s family before, and they didn’t surprise him at all.
88
Malfoy made Dudley Dursley look like a kind,
thoughtful
, and
sensitive
boy.
thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfl/ adj. 体贴的
sensitive /ˈsensətɪv/ adj. 善解人意的
89
“I don’t know whether the Malfoys own a house-elf. . . .” said Harry.
90
“Well, whoever owns him will be an old Wizarding family, and they’ll be rich,” said Fred.
91
“Yeah, Mum’s always wishing we had a house-elf to do the
ironing
,” said George.
ironing /'aiəniŋ/ n. 熨衣服
92
“But all we’ve got is a
lousy
old
ghoul
in the
attic
and
gnomes
all over the garden.
lousy /'laʊzɪ/ adj. <非正式>讨厌的
ghoul /guːl/ n. 盗尸者
attic /ˈætɪk/ n. 阁楼
gnomes /nəum/ n. 地精
93
House-elves come with big old
manors
and castles and places like that; you wouldn’t catch one in our house. . . .”
manor /'mænə/ n. 庄园
94
Harry was silent.
95
Judging by the fact that Draco Malfoy usually had the best of everything, his family was
rolling in
wizard gold; he could just see Malfoy
strutting
around a large
manor
house.
roll in 有大量的(钱财等)
strut /strʌt/ vi. 趾高气扬地走
manor /'mænə/ n. 庄园
96
Sending the family servant to stop Harry from going back to Hogwarts also sounded exactly like the sort of thing Malfoy would do. Had Harry been stupid to take Dobby
seriously
?
seriously /ˈsɪərɪəslɪ/ adv. 当真地
97
“I’m glad we came to get you, anyway,” said Ron. “I was getting really worried when you didn’t answer any of my letters. I thought it was Errol’s fault at first —”
98
“Who’s Errol?”
99
“Our owl. He’s ancient. It wouldn’t be the first time he’d
collapsed
on a delivery. So then I tried to borrow Hermes —”
collapse /kəˈlæps/ v. 突然倒下
100
“Who?”
101
“The owl Mum and Dad bought Percy when he was made prefect,” said Fred from the front.
102
“But Percy wouldn’t lend him to me,” said Ron. “Said he needed him.”
103
“Percy’s been acting very oddly this summer,” said George, frowning.
104
“And he has been sending a lot of letters and spending a load of time shut up in his room. . . . I mean, there’s only so many times you can
polish
a prefect
badge
. . . . You’re driving too far west, Fred,”
polish /ˈpɒlɪʃ/ vi. 擦亮
badge /bædʒ/ n. 徽章
105
he added, pointing at a
compass
on the
dashboard
.
compass /ˈkʌmpəs/ n. 指南针
dashboard /'dæʃbɔːd/ n. 仪表板
106
Fred
twiddled
the
steering wheel
.
twiddle /'twɪd(ə)l/ vt. 旋弄
steering wheel n. 方向盘
107
“So, does your dad know you’ve got the car?” said Harry, guessing the answer.
108
“Er, no,” said Ron, “he had to work tonight.
Hopefully
we’ll be able to get it back in the garage without Mum noticing we flew it.”
hopefully /'həʊpfʊlɪ/ adv. 如果顺利地话
109
“What does your dad do at the Ministry of Magic, anyway?”
110
“He works in the most boring
department
,” said Ron. “The
Misuse
of Muggle
Artifacts
Office.”
department /dɪˈpɑːtmənt/ n. 部门
misuse /mɪs'juːz/ n. 滥用
artifact n. 人工产品
111
“The what?”
112
“It’s all to do with bewitching things that are Muggle-made, you know, in case they end up back in a Muggle shop or house.
113
Like, last year, some old witch died and her
tea set
was sold to an
antiques
shop. This Muggle woman bought it, took it home, and tried to serve her friends tea in it.
tea set 茶具
antique /ænˈtiːk/ n. 古董
114
It was a nightmare — Dad was working
overtime
for weeks.”
overtime /ˈəʊvətaɪm/ n. 加班
115
“What happened?”
116
“The teapot went
berserk
and
squirted
boiling tea all over the place and one man ended up in the hospital with the sugar
tongs
clamped
to his nose.
berserk /bəˈzɜːk/ adj. 失控的
squirt /skwɜːt/ v. (使)（液体）喷射
tongs /tɒŋz/ n. 火钳
clamp /klæmp/ vt. 夹住
117
Dad was going
frantic
— it’s only him and an old warlock called Perkins in the office — and they had to do Memory Charms and all sorts of stuff to
cover it up
—”
frantic /ˈfræntɪk/ adj. 紧张忙乱的
cover up 掩盖
118
“But your dad — this car —”
119
Fred laughed.
120
“Yeah, Dad’s mad about everything to do with Muggles; our shed’s full of Muggle stuff. He takes it
apart
, puts spells on it, and puts it
back
together again.
apart /əˈpɑːt/ adv. 分离着
back /bæk/ adv. 恢复原状
121
If he
raided
our house he’d have to put himself under arrest. It drives Mum mad.”
raid /reɪd/ v. 突击搜查
122
“That’s the main road,” said George, peering down through the
windshield
. “We’ll be there in ten minutes. . . . Just as well, it’s getting light. . . .”
windshield /'wɪn(d)ʃiːld/ n. 挡风玻璃
123
A faint
pinkish
glow
was visible along the horizon to the east.
pinkish /'pɪŋkɪʃ/ adj. 略带桃色的
glow /ɡləʊ/ n. 光亮
124
Fred
brought
the car lower, and Harry saw a dark
patchwork
of fields and
clumps
of trees.
bring /brɪŋ/ v. 使处于某种状况
patchwork /ˈpætʃˌwɜ:k/ n. 缝缀而成的各色布片
clump /klʌmp/ n. 丛
125
“We’re a little way outside the village,” said George. “Ottery St. Catchpole.”
126
Lower and lower went the flying car. The edge of a brilliant red sun was now
gleaming
through the trees.
gleam /ɡliːm/ v. 发微光
127
“
Touchdown
!” said Fred as, with a slight bump, they
hit
the ground.
touchdown /'tʌtʃdaʊn/ n. <空>着陆
hit /hɪt/ v. 碰到
128
They had landed next to a
tumbledown
garage in a small yard, and Harry looked out for the first time at Ron’s house.
tumbledown /'tʌmb(ə)ldaʊn/ adj. (房屋)破败不堪的
129
It looked as though it had once been a large stone
pigsty
,
pigsty /'pɪgstaɪ/ n. 猪圈
130
but extra rooms had been added here and there until it was several stories high and so
crooked
it looked as though it were held up by magic (which, Harry reminded himself, it probably was).
crooked /ˈkrʊkɪd/ adj. 弯曲的
131
Four or five chimneys were
perched
on top of the red roof. A
lopsided
sign stuck in the ground near the entrance read, THE BURROW.
perch /pɜːtʃ/ vt. & vi. (在较高处或物体边缘)坐着
lopsided /ˌlɒpˈsaɪdɪd/ adj. 向一侧歪斜的
132
Around the front door lay a
jumble
of rubber boots and a very rusty
cauldron
. Several fat brown chickens were
pecking
their way around the yard.
jumble /ˈdʒʌmbl/ n. 杂乱的一堆东西
cauldron /'kɔːldr(ə)n/ n. 大锅
peck /pek/ vi. 啄食
133
“It’s
not much
,” said Ron.
not much 不怎么样
134
“It’s brilliant,” said Harry happily, thinking of Privet Drive.
135
They got out of the car.
136
“Now, we’ll go upstairs really quietly,” said Fred,
137
“and wait for Mum to call us for breakfast.
138
Then, Ron, you come bounding downstairs going, Mum, look who turned up in the night!’ and she’ll be all pleased to see Harry and no one need ever know we flew the car.”
139
“Right,” said Ron. “Come on, Harry, I sleep at the —”
140
Ron had gone a nasty
greenish
color, his eyes fixed on the house. The other three
wheeled
around.
greenish /ˈgri:nɪʃ/ adj. 呈绿色的
wheel /wiːl/ v. 猛然转身
141
Mrs. Weasley was
marching
across the yard,
scattering
chickens, and for a short,
plump
, kind-faced woman, it was remarkable how much she looked like a
saber-toothed tiger
.
march /mɑːtʃ/ v. 快步走
scatter /ˈskætə(r)/ vt. 使散开
plump /plʌmp/ adj. 圆胖的
saber-toothed tiger n. 剑齿虎(一种古生动物)
142
“Ah,” said Fred.
143
“Oh, dear,” said George.
144
Mrs. Weasley came to a halt in front of them, her hands on her hips, staring from one guilty face to the next.
145
She was wearing a
flowered
apron
with a wand sticking out of the pocket.
flowered /'flaʊəd/ adj. 饰有花卉图案的
apron /ˈeɪprən/ n. 围裙
146
“So,” she said.
147
“Morning, Mum,” said George, in what he
clearly
thought was a
jaunty
,
winning
voice.
clearly /'kliəli/ adv. 显然
jaunty /ˈdʒɔːnti/ adj. 快活的
winning /'wɪnɪŋ/ adj. 吸引人的
148
“Have you any idea how worried I’ve been?” said Mrs. Weasley in a
deadly
whisper.
deadly /ˈdedli/ adj. 死一般的
149
“Sorry, Mum, but see, we had to —”
150
All three of Mrs. Weasley’s sons were taller than she was, but they
cowered
as her
rage
broke over them.
cower /ˈkaʊə(r)/ vi. 抖缩
rage /reɪdʒ/ n. 愤怒
151
“Beds empty! No note! Car gone — could have crashed — out of my mind with worry — did you care?
152
— never, as long as I’ve lived — you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie or Percy —”
153
“Perfect Percy,” muttered Fred.
154
“YOU COULD DO WITH
TAKING A LEAF OUT OF PERCY’S BOOK
!” yelled Mrs. Weasley,
prodding
a finger in Fred’s chest.
take a leaf out of sb's book 以某人为榜样
prod /prɒd/ vt. & vi. 戳
155
“You could have died, you could have been seen, you could have
lost
your father his job —”
lose /luːz/ vt. 使失去
156
It seemed to go on for hours. Mrs. Weasley had shouted herself
hoarse
before she turned on Harry, who backed away.
hoarse /hɔːs/ adj. 粗哑的
157
“I’m very pleased to see you, Harry, dear,” she said. “Come in and have some breakfast.”
158
She turned and walked back into the house and Harry, after a nervous glance at Ron, who nodded
encouragingly
, followed her.
encouragingly /in'kʌridʒiŋli/ adv. 勉励人地
159
The kitchen was small and rather
cramped
.
cramped /kræmpt/ adj. 狭窄的
160
There was a
scrubbed
wooden table and chairs in the middle, and Harry sat down on the edge of his seat, looking around. He had never been in a wizard house before.
scrub /skrʌb/ vi. 擦洗
161
The clock on the wall opposite him had only one
hand
and no numbers at all. Written around the edge were things like Time to make tea, Time to feed the chickens, and You’re late.
hand /hænd/ n. 指针
162
Books were stacked three deep on the
mantelpiece
, books with titles like Charm Your Own Cheese, Enchantment in Baking, and One Minute Feasts — It’s Magic!
mantelpiece /'mænt(ə)lpiːs/ n. 壁炉台
163
And unless Harry’s ears were
deceiving
him, the old radio next to the sink had just announced that coming up was “Witching
Hour
, with the popular singing
sorceress
, Celestina Warbeck.”
deceive /dɪˈsiːv/ v. 欺骗
hour /'aʊə/ n. 某个时间
sorceress /ˈsɔ:səris/ n. 女巫
164
Mrs. Weasley was
clattering
around, cooking breakfast a little
haphazardly
, throwing
dirty
looks at her sons as she threw sausages into the
frying pan
.
clatter /'klætə/ vi. 发出哗啦声
haphazardly /hæpˈhæzədli/ adv. 随意地
dirty /'dɜːtɪ/ adj. 令人生厌的
frying pan /ˈfraɪɪŋ/ 煎锅
165
Every now and then she muttered things like “don’t know what you were thinking of,” and “never would have believed it.”
166
“I don’t blame you, dear,” she
assured
Harry,
tipping
eight or nine sausages onto his plate.
assure /əˈʃʊə(r)/ vt. 使确信
tip /tɪp/ vt. 将(所盛之物)倒出
167
“Arthur and I have been worried about you, too. Just last night we were saying we’d come and get you ourselves if you hadn’t written back to Ron by Friday.
168
But really” (she was now adding three fried eggs to his plate), “flying an
illegal
car halfway across the country — anyone could have seen you —”
illegal /ɪˈliːɡl/ adj. 非法的
169
She flicked her wand casually at the
washing-up
in the sink, which began to clean themselves,
clinking
gently in the background.
washing-up /'wɔʃɪŋ'ʌp/ n. 洗涤
clink /klɪŋk/ n. 叮当声
170
“It was
cloudy
, Mum!” said Fred.
cloudy /'klaʊdɪ/ adj. 困惑的
171
“You keep your mouth closed while you’re eating!” Mrs. Weasley snapped.
172
“They were starving him, Mum!” said George.
173
“And you!” said Mrs. Weasley, but it was with a slightly
softened
expression that she started cutting Harry bread and
buttering
it for him.
soften /ˈsɒfn/ vt. 使温和
butter /ˈbʌtə(r)/ vt. 涂黄油于
174
At that moment there was a
diversion
in the form of
a small,
redheaded
figure in a long
nightdress
, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again.
diversion /daɪˈvɜːʃn/ n. 分散注意力
in the form of 以......的形式
redheaded /ˈredˈhedid/ adj. (人)红发的
nightdress /'naɪtdres/ n. (妇女或孩子穿的)睡衣
175
“Ginny,” said Ron in an
undertone
to Harry. “My sister. She’s been talking about you all summer.”
undertone /'ʌndətəʊn/ n. 小声
176
“Yeah, she’ll be wanting your
autograph
, Harry,” grinned Fred, but he caught his mother’s eye and bent his face over his plate without another word.
autograph /ˈɔːtəɡrɑːf/ n. 亲笔签名
177
Nothing more was said until all four plates were clean, which took a
surprisingly
short time.
surprisingly /səˈpraɪzɪ ŋlɪ/ adv. 惊人地
178
“
Blimey
, I’m tired,” yawned Fred, setting down his knife and fork at last. “I think I’ll go to bed and —”
blimey /'blaɪmɪ/ int. 啊呀!
179
“You will not,” snapped Mrs. Weasley. “It’s your own fault you’ve been up all night. You’re going to de-
gnome
the garden for me; they’re getting
completely
out of hand
again —”
gnome /nəʊm/ n. 地精
completely /kəm'pli:tli/ adv. 完全地
out of hand 无法控制
180
“Oh, Mum —”
181
“And you two,” she said, glaring at Ron and George. “You can go up to bed, dear,” she added to Harry. “You didn’t ask them to fly that
wretched
car —”
wretched /ˈretʃɪd/ adj. 该死的
182
But Harry, who felt
wide
awake, said quickly, “I’ll help Ron. I’ve never seen a de-gnoming —”
wide /waɪd/ adv. 充分地
183
“That’s very sweet of you, dear, but it’s
dull
work,” said Mrs. Weasley. “Now, let’s see what Lockhart’s got to say on the subject —”
dull /dʌl/ adj. 无趣的
184
And she pulled a heavy book from the stack on the
mantelpiece
. George groaned. “Mum, we know how to de-gnome a garden —”
mantelpiece /'mænt(ə)lpiːs/ n. 壁炉台
185
Harry looked at the cover of Mrs. Weasley’s book. Written across it in
fancy
gold letters were the words Gilderoy Lockhart’s Guide to
Household
Pests
.
fancy /ˈfænsi/ adj. 华丽的
household /ˈhaʊshəʊld/ adj. 家庭的
pest /pest/ n. 害虫
186
There was a big photograph on the front of a very good-looking wizard with
wavy
blond hair and bright blue eyes.
wavy /ˈweɪvi/ adj. 波状的
187
As always in the Wizarding world, the photograph was
moving
; the wizard, who Harry supposed was Gilderoy Lockhart, kept winking
cheekily
up at them all. Mrs. Weasley beamed down at him.
moving /'muːvɪŋ/ adj. 移动的
cheekily /'tʃi:kəli/ adv. 厚脸皮地
188
“Oh, he is
marvelous
,” she said. “He knows his household pests, all right, it’s a wonderful book. . . .”
marvelous /ˈmɑ:vələs/ adj. 了不起的
189
“Mum
fancies
him,” said Fred, in a very
audible
whisper.
fancy /ˈfænsi/ v. <英，非正式>爱慕
audible /ˈɔːdəbl/ adj. 听得见的
190
“Don’t be so ridiculous, Fred,” said Mrs. Weasley, her cheeks rather pink.
191
“All right, if you think you know better than Lockhart, you can go and get on with it, and
woe betide
you if there’s a single gnome in that garden when I come out to
inspect
it.”
woe betide 遇到麻烦
inspect /ɪnˈspekt/ vt. 检查
192
Yawning
and
grumbling
, the Weasleys
slouched
outside with Harry behind them. The garden was large, and in Harry’s eyes, exactly what a garden should be.
yawn /jɔːn/ vi. 打呵欠
grumble /ˈɡrʌmbl/ vi. 发牢骚
slouch /slaʊtʃ/ vi. 无精打采地立、坐或行走
193
The Dursleys wouldn’t have liked it — there were plenty of weeds, and the grass needed cutting —
194
but there were
gnarled
trees all around the walls, plants Harry had never seen spilling from every flower bed, and a big green
pond
full of frogs.
gnarled /nɑːld/ adj. (树、树干、树枝)扭曲的
pond /pɒnd/ n. 池塘
195
“Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know,” Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.
196
“Yeah, I’ve seen those things they think are gnomes,” said Ron,
bent double
with his head in a
peony
bush, “like fat little
Santa Clauses
with fishing
rods.
. . .”
peony /'piːənɪ/ n. 牡丹
bent double 屈身的
Santa Claus 圣诞老人
rod /rɒd/ n. 竿
197
There was a violent
scuffling
noise, the peony bush
shuddered
, and Ron
straightened up
.
scuffle /'skʌf(ə)l/ n. 扭打
shudder /ˈʃʌdə(r)/ v. 剧烈抖动
straighten up 弄直身体
198
“This is a gnome,” he said
grimly
.
grimly /'grimli/ adv. 讨厌地
199
“Gerroff me! Gerroff me!”
squealed
the gnome.
squeal /skwiːl/ vi. 尖声地说
200
It was certainly nothing like Santa Claus. It was small and
leathery
looking, with a large,
knobby
, bald head exactly like a potato.
leathery /'leð(ə)rɪ/ adj. 粗糙的
knobby /'nɒbɪ/ adj. 多节的
201
Ron held it at arm’s length as it kicked out at him with its
horny
little feet; he grasped it around the ankles and turned it upside down.
horny /'hɔːnɪ/ adj. 坚硬的
202
“This is what you have to do,” he said. He raised the gnome above his head (“Gerroff me!”) and started to swing it in great circles like a
lasso
.
lasso /læˈsuː/ n. <美>(套捕马、牛等用的)套索
203
Seeing the shocked look on Harry’s face, Ron added, “It doesn’t hurt them — you’ve just got to make them really
dizzy
so they can’t find their way back to the gnomeholes.”
dizzy /ˈdɪzi/ adj. 晕眩的
204
He let go of the gnome’s ankles: It flew twenty feet into the air and landed with a
thud
in the field over the hedge.
thud /θʌd/ n. 砰的一声
205
“
Pitiful
,” said Fred. “I bet I can get mine beyond that
stump
.”
pitiful /ˈpɪtɪfl/ adj. 可耻的
stump /stʌmp/ n. 树桩
206
Harry
learned
quickly not to feel too sorry for the gnomes.
learn /lɜːn/ vt. 认识到
207
He decided just to drop the first one he caught over the hedge, but the gnome,
sensing
weakness
, sank its
razor-sharp
teeth into Harry’s finger and he had a hard job shaking it off — until —
sense /sens/ vt. 感觉到
weakness /ˈwiːknəs/ n. 虚弱
razor-sharp /'reizəʃɑ:p/ adj. 锋利的
208
“Wow, Harry — that must’ve been fifty feet. . . .”
209
The air was soon
thick with
flying gnomes.
thick with 充满
210
“See, they’re not too bright,” said George, seizing five or six gnomes at once.
211
“The moment they know the de-gnoming’s going on they
storm
up to have a look. You’d think they’d have learned by now just to
stay put
.”
storm /stɔːm/ vi. 狂怒咆哮
stay put 留在原处不动
212
Soon, the crowd of gnomes in the field started walking away in a
straggling
line, their little shoulders
hunched
.
straggle /ˈstræɡl/ v. 零星地走
hunch /hʌntʃ/ vt. 耸肩
213
“They’ll be back,” said Ron as they watched the gnomes disappear into the hedge on the other side of the field. “They love it here. . . . Dad’s too soft with them; he thinks they’re funny. . . .”
214
Just then, the front door slammed.
215
“He’s back!” said George. “Dad’s home!”
216
They hurried through the garden and back into the house.
217
Mr. Weasley was slumped in a kitchen chair with his glasses off and his eyes closed.
218
He was a thin man, going bald, but the little hair he had was as red as any of his children’s. He was wearing long green robes, which were
dusty
and
travel-worn
.
dusty /'dʌstɪ/ adj. 落满灰尘的
travel-worn /'trævəlwɔ:n/ adj. 旅行劳累的
219
“What a night,” he mumbled,
groping
for the teapot as they all sat down around him. “Nine
raids
. Nine! And old Mundungus Fletcher tried to put a
hex
on me when I had my back turned. . . .”
grope /ɡrəʊp/ vi. 搜寻
raid /reɪd/ n. 突击检查
hex /heks/ n. 妖法
220
Mr. Weasley took a long gulp of tea and sighed.
221
“Find anything, Dad?” said Fred eagerly.
222
“All I got were a few
shrinking
door keys and a biting kettle,” yawned Mr. Weasley.
shrink /ʃrɪŋk/ v. (使)缩小
223
“There was some pretty nasty stuff that wasn’t my department, though.
224
Mortlake was taken away for questioning about some extremely odd
ferrets
, but that’s the
Committee
on
Experimental
Charms,
thank goodness
. . . .”
ferret /'ferɪt/ n. 雪豹
committee /kəˈmɪti/ n. 委员会
experimental /ɪkˌsperɪˈmentl/ adj. 实验(性)的
thank goodness 谢天谢地
225
“Why would anyone bother making door keys shrink?” said George.
226
“Just Muggle-
baiting
,” sighed Mr. Weasley. “Sell them a key that keeps shrinking to nothing so they can never find it when they need it. . . .
baiting /'beitiŋ/ n. 诱饵
227
Of course, it’s very hard to
convict
anyone because no Muggle would admit their key keeps shrinking — they’ll insist they just keep losing it.
convict /kənˈvɪkt/ v. 定罪
228
Bless
them, they’ll
go to any lengths
to ignore magic, even if it’s staring them in the face. . . . But the things our lot have taken to enchanting, you wouldn’t believe —”
bless /bles/ vt. 祝福
go to any length 无所不用其极
229
“LIKE CARS, FOR
INSTANCE
?”
instance /ˈɪnstəns/ n. 例子
230
Mrs. Weasley had appeared, holding a long
poker
like a sword. Mr. Weasley’s eyes jerked open. He stared guiltily at his wife.
poker /'pəʊkə/ n. 拨火棍
231
“C-cars, Molly, dear?”
232
“Yes, Arthur, cars,” said Mrs. Weasley, her eyes flashing.
233
“Imagine a wizard buying a rusty old car and telling his wife all he wanted to do with it was take it apart to see how it worked, while really he was enchanting it to make it fly.”
234
Mr. Weasley blinked.
235
“Well, dear, I think you’ll find that he would be quite within the law to do that, even if — er — he maybe would have done better to, um, tell his wife the truth. . . .
236
There’s a
loophole
in the law, you’ll find. . . . As long as he wasn’t intending to fly the car, the fact that the car could fly wouldn’t —”
loophole /ˈluːphəʊl/ n. 漏洞
237
“Arthur Weasley, you made sure there was a loophole when you wrote that law!” shouted Mrs. Weasley.
238
“Just so you could carry on
tinkering
with all that Muggle rubbish in your shed! And for your information, Harry arrived this morning in the car you weren’t intending to fly!”
tinker /'tɪŋkə/ v. （徒劳地或马虎地）小修补
239
“Harry?” said Mr. Weasley blankly. “Harry who?”
240
He looked around, saw Harry, and jumped.
241
“Good lord, is it Harry Potter? Very pleased to meet you, Ron’s told us so much about —”
242
“Your sons flew that car to Harry’s house and back last night!” shouted Mrs. Weasley. “What have you got to say about that, eh?”
243
“Did you really?” said Mr. Weasley eagerly.
244
“Did it go all right? I — I mean,” he
faltered
as sparks flew from Mrs. Weasley’s eyes, “that — that was very wrong, boys — very wrong indeed. . . .”
falter /ˈfɔːltə(r)/ vi. 支吾
245
“Let’s leave them to it,” Ron muttered to Harry as Mrs. Weasley
swelled
like a
bullfrog
. “Come on, I’ll show you my bedroom.”
swell /swel/ vi. 膨胀
bullfrog /'bʊlfrɒg/ n. 牛蛙
246
They slipped out of the kitchen and down a narrow passageway to an
uneven
staircase, which zigzagged its way up through the house.
uneven /ʌnˈiːvn/ adj. 不规则的
247
On the third landing, a door stood ajar. Harry just caught sight of a pair of bright brown eyes staring at him before it closed with a snap.
248
“Ginny,” said Ron. “You don’t know how weird it is for her to be this shy. She never shuts up normally —”
249
They climbed two more flights until they reached a door with peeling
paint
and a small
plaque
on it, saying RONALD’S ROOM.
paint /peɪnt/ n. 漆层
plaque /plæk/ n. 饰板
250
Harry stepped in, his head almost touching the
sloping
ceiling, and blinked.
sloping /sləʊpɪŋ/ adj. 倾斜的
251
It was like walking into a
furnace
: Nearly everything in Ron’s room seemed to be a
violent
shade of orange: the
bedspread
, the walls, even the ceiling.
furnace /ˈfɜːnɪs/ n. 火炉
violent /ˈvaɪələnt/ adj. 强烈的
bedspread /'bedspred/ n. 床罩
252
Then Harry realized that Ron had covered nearly every inch of the
shabby
wallpaper
with posters of the same seven witches and wizards,
shabby /ˈʃæbi/ adj. 破旧的
wallpaper /'wɔːlpeɪpə/ n. 墙纸
253
all wearing bright orange robes, carrying broomsticks, and waving
energetically
.
energetically /ˌenəˈd ʒetɪkəlɪ/ adv. 精力充沛地
254
“Your Quidditch team?” said Harry.
255
“The Chudley Cannons,” said Ron, pointing at the orange bedspread, which was
emblazoned
with two giant black C’s and a
speeding
cannonball
. “Ninth in the
league
.”
emblazon /ɪm'bleɪz(ə)n/ vt. 用纹章装饰
speeding /ˈspiːdɪŋ/ adj. 高速行驶的
cannonball /'kænənbɔːl/ n. 炮弹
league /liːɡ/ n. 级别
256
Ron’s school spellbooks were stacked untidily in a corner, next to a pile of
comics
which all seemed to
feature
The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle.
comic /ˈkɒmɪk/ n. 连环漫画杂志
feature /ˈfiːtʃə(r)/ n. 专题节目
257
Ron’s magic wand was lying on top of a
fish tank
full of frog
spawn
on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was
snoozing
in a
patch
of sun.
fish tank 鱼缸
spawn /spɔːn/ vi. 产卵
snooze /snuːz/ vi. 打盹
patch /pætʃ/ n. 小块土地
258
Harry stepped over a pack of Self-
Shuffling
playing cards
on the floor and looked out of the tiny window.
shuffle /ˈʃʌfl/ vi. 洗牌
playing card n. 扑克牌
259
In the field far below he could see a gang of gnomes sneaking one by one back through the Weasleys’ hedge.
260
Then he turned to look at Ron, who was watching him almost
nervously
, as though waiting for his opinion.
nervously /'nə:vəsli/ adv. 提心吊胆地
261
“It’s a bit small,” said Ron quickly.
262
“Not like that room you had with the Muggles. And I’m right underneath the
ghoul
in the
attic
; he’s always
banging
on the
pipes
and groaning. . . .”
ghoul /guːl/ n. 盗尸者
attic /ˈætɪk/ n. 阁楼
bang /bæŋ/ vi. 砰砰作响
pipe /paɪp/ n. 管
263
But Harry, grinning widely, said, “This is the best house I’ve ever been in.”
264
Ron’s ears went pink.
265
