《哈利波特2》｜单词注释｜Chapter 1
CHAPTER ONE
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THE WORST BIRTHDAY
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Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.
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Mr. Vernon Dursley had been woken in
the early
hours
of the morning by a loud,
hooting
noise from his nephew Harry’s room.
the early hours 凌晨
hoot /hut/ n. 猫头鹰叫声
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“Third time this week!” he
roared
across the table. “If you can’t control that owl, it’ll have to go!”
roar /rɔːr/ vi. 咆哮
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Harry tried, yet again, to explain.
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“She’s bored,” he said. “She’s used to flying around outside. If I could just let her out at night —”
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“Do I look stupid?”
snarled
Uncle Vernon, a bit of
fried
egg
dangling
from his
bushy
mustache. “I know what’ll happen if that owl’s let out.”
snarl /snɑːrl/ vi. 咆哮
fried /fraɪd/ adj. 油炸的
dangling v. 摇晃（dangle的ing形式）
bushy /ˈbʊʃi/ adj. 浓密的
mustache /'mʌstæʃ/ n. 胡子
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He exchanged
dark
looks with his wife, Petunia.
dark /dɑrk/ adj. 阴险的
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Harry tried to argue back but his words were
drowned
by a long, loud
belch
from the Dursleys’ son, Dudley.
drown /draʊn/ v. (声音)压过
belch /bɛltʃ/ n. 打嗝
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“I want more bacon.”
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“There’s more in the
frying pan
,
sweetums
,” said Aunt Petunia, turning
misty
eyes on her
massive
son.
frying pan /ˈfraɪɪŋ/ 煎锅
sweetums 宝贝
misty /ˈmɪsti/ adj. 泪眼模糊的
massive /ˈmæsɪv/ adj. 结实的
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“We must feed you up while we’ve got the chance. . . . I don’t like the sound of that school food. . . .”
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“Nonsense, Petunia, I never went hungry when I was at Smeltings,” said Uncle Vernon
heartily
. “Dudley gets enough, don’t you, son?”
heartily /'hɑrtɪli/ adv. 衷心地
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Dudley, who was so large his bottom
drooped
over either side of the kitchen chair, grinned and turned to Harry. “Pass the frying pan.”
droop /druːp/ vi. 下垂
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“You’ve forgotten the magic word,” said Harry
irritably
.
irritably /ˈɪrətəblɪ/ adv. 易怒地
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The effect of this simple sentence on the rest of the family was incredible:
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Dudley gasped and fell off his chair with a crash that shook the whole kitchen; Mrs. Dursley gave a small scream and clapped her hands to her mouth;
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Mr. Dursley jumped to his feet,
veins
throbbing
in his
temples
.
vein /veɪn/ n. 血管
throb /θrɑb/ v. （有规律地）抽动
temple /ˈtempl/ n. 太阳穴
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“I meant ‘please’!” said Harry quickly. “I didn’t mean —”
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“WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU,” thundered his uncle,
spraying
spit over the table, “ABOUT SAYING THE ‘M’ WORD IN OUR HOUSE?”
spraying /spre/ n. 喷雾
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“But I —”
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“HOW DARE YOU THREATEN DUDLEY!” roared Uncle Vernon, pounding the table with his fist.
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“I just —”
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“I WARNED YOU! I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR
ABNORMALITY
UNDER THIS ROOF!”
abnormality /ˌæbnɔr'mæləti/ n. (身体、行为等)不正常
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Harry stared from his purple-faced uncle to his pale aunt, who was trying to
heave
Dudley to his feet.
heave /hiːv/ v. 使劲拖
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“All right,” said Harry, “all right . . .”
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Uncle Vernon sat back down, breathing like a
winded
rhinoceros
and watching Harry closely out of the corners of his small, sharp eyes.
winded /'wɪndɪd/ adj. 喘气的
Rhinoceros /raɪ'nɑsərəs/ n. 犀牛
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Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might
go off
at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy.
go off vi. 爆炸
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As a matter of fact, he was as not normal as it is possible to be.
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Harry Potter was a wizard — a wizard
fresh
from his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
fresh /frɛʃ/ adv. 刚刚
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And if the Dursleys were unhappy to have him back for the holidays, it was nothing to how Harry felt.
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He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache.
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He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his lessons (though perhaps not Snape, the Potions master),
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the post arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory,
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visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin in the grounds next to the Forbidden Forest
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and, especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the Wizarding world (six tall
goalposts
, four flying balls, and fourteen players on broomsticks).
goalpost /'ɡolpost/ n. (足球、曲棍球的)球门柱
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All Harry’s spellbooks, his wand, robes, cauldron, and
top-of-the-range
Nimbus Two Thousand broomstick had been locked in a cupboard under the stairs by Uncle Vernon the instant Harry had come home.
top-of-the-range adj. 最好的
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What did the Dursleys care if Harry lost his place on the House Quidditch team because he hadn’t practiced all summer?
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What was it to the Dursleys if Harry went back to school without any of his homework done?
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The Dursleys were what wizards called Muggles (not a drop of magical blood in their veins), and
as far as
they were concerned, having a wizard in the family was a matter of deepest shame.
as far as prep. 就...而言
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Uncle Vernon had even
padlocked
Harry’s owl, Hedwig, inside her cage, to stop her carrying messages to anyone in the Wizarding world.
padlock /'pæd'lɑk/ vt. 用挂锁锁上
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Harry looked nothing like the rest of the family. Uncle Vernon was large and neckless, with an enormous black mustache;
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Aunt Petunia was horse-faced and
bony
; Dudley was blond, pink, and
porky
.
bony /'boni/ adj. 骨瘦如柴的
porky /'pɔrki/ adj. 肥胖的
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Harry, on the other hand, was small and
skinny
, with brilliant green eyes and jet-black hair that was always untidy. He wore round glasses, and on his forehead was a thin, lightning-shaped scar.
skinny /ˈskɪni/ adj. 极瘦的
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It was this scar that made Harry so particularly unusual, even for a wizard.
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This scar was the only hint of Harry’s very mysterious past, of the reason he had been left on the Dursleys’ doorstep eleven years before.
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At the age of one year old, Harry had somehow survived a curse from the greatest Dark
sorcerer
of all time, Lord Voldemort, whose name most witches and wizards still feared to speak.
sorcerer /'sɔrsərɚ/ n. 男巫士
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Harry’s parents had died in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar,
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and somehow — nobody understood why — Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he had failed to kill Harry.
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So Harry had been brought up by his dead mother’s sister and her husband.
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He had spent ten years with the Dursleys, never understanding why he kept making odd things happen without meaning to,
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believing the Dursleys’ story that he had got his scar in the car crash which had killed his parents.
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And then, exactly a year ago, Hogwarts had written to Harry, and the whole story had come out. Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where he and his scar were famous . . .
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but now the school year was over, and he was back with the Dursleys for the summer, back to being treated like a dog that had rolled in something
smelly
.
smelly /'smɛli/ adj. 发出难闻气味的
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The Dursleys hadn’t even remembered that today happened to be Harry’s twelfth birthday.
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Of course, his hopes hadn’t been high; they’d never given him a real present, let alone a cake — but to ignore it completely . . .
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At that moment, Uncle Vernon cleared his throat importantly and said, “Now, as we all know, today is a very important day.”
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Harry looked up, hardly daring to believe it.
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“This could well be the day I make the biggest deal of my
career
,” said Uncle Vernon.
career /kəˈrɪr/ n. 生涯
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Harry went back to his toast. Of course, he thought
bitterly
, Uncle Vernon was talking about the stupid dinner party.
bitterly /'bɪtɚli/ adv. 怨恨地
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He’d been talking of nothing else for a fortnight.
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Some rich builder and his wife were coming to dinner and Uncle Vernon was hoping to get a huge order from him (Uncle Vernon’s company made drills).
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“I think we should run through the schedule one more time,” said Uncle Vernon. “We should all
be in position
at eight o’clock. Petunia, you will be — ?”
be in position 在适当的位置
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“In the
lounge
,” said Aunt Petunia promptly, “waiting to welcome them
graciously
to our home.”
lounge /laʊndʒ/ n. 客厅
graciously /ˈɡreʃəslɪ/ adv. 亲切地
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“Good, good. And Dudley?”
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“I’ll be waiting to open the door.” Dudley put on a
foul
,
simpering
smile. “May I take your coats, Mr. and Mrs. Mason?”
foul /faʊl/ adj. 令人恶心的
simper /ˈsɪmpər/ n. 假笑
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“They’ll love him!” cried Aunt Petunia
rapturously
.
rapturously /'ræptʃərəsli/ adv. 狂喜地
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“Excellent, Dudley,” said Uncle Vernon. Then he
rounded
on Harry. “And you?”
round /raʊnd/ vt. & vi. 绕行
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“I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I’m not there,” said Harry
tonelessly
.
toneless /'tonləs/ adj. 缺乏声调的
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“Exactly,” said Uncle Vernon
nastily
. “I will lead them into the lounge, introduce you, Petunia, and pour them drinks. At eight-fifteen —”
nastily /ˈnæstəlɪ/ adv. 不洁地
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“I’ll announce dinner,” said Aunt Petunia.
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“And, Dudley, you’ll say —”
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“May I take you through to the dining room, Mrs. Mason?” said Dudley, offering his fat arm to an invisible woman.
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“My perfect little gentleman!” sniffed Aunt Petunia.
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“And you?” said Uncle Vernon
viciously
to Harry.
viciously /'viʃəsli/ adv. 凶恶地
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“I’ll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I’m not there,” said Harry
dully
.
dully /ˈd ʌllɪ/ adv. 没精打采地
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“
Precisely
. Now, we should
aim to
get in a few good
compliments
at dinner. Petunia, any ideas?”
precisely /prɪˈsaɪsli/ 的确如此
aim to vt. 计划
compliment /ˈkɑːmplɪmənt/ n. 赞美(话)
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“Vernon tells me you’re a wonderful golfer, Mr. Mason. . . . Do tell me where you bought your dress, Mrs. Mason. . . .”
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“Perfect . . . Dudley?”
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“How about — ‘We had to write an essay about our hero at school, Mr. Mason, and I wrote about you.’”
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This was too much for both Aunt Petunia and Harry. Aunt Petunia burst into tears and hugged her son, while Harry ducked under the table so they wouldn’t see him laughing.
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“And you, boy?”
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Harry
fought
to keep his face straight as he
emerged
.
fought /fɔt/ v. 努力争取（fight的过去式和过去分词）
emerge /iˈmɜːrdʒ/ vi. 出现
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“I’ll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I’m not there,” he said.
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“Too right, you will,” said Uncle Vernon
forcefully
.
forcefully /ˈf ɔrsfəlɪ/ adv. 强有力地
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“The Masons don’t know anything about you and it’s going to stay that way. When dinner’s over, you take Mrs. Mason back to the lounge for coffee, Petunia, and I’ll bring the subject around to drills.
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With any luck, I’ll have the deal signed and
sealed
before the news at ten. We’ll be shopping for a holiday home in Majorca this time tomorrow.”
seal /siːl/ vt. 盖章于
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Harry couldn’t feel too excited about this. He didn’t think the Dursleys would like him any better in Majorca than they did on Privet Drive.
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“Right — I’m off into town to pick up the dinner jackets for Dudley and me. And you,” he snarled at Harry. “You stay out of your aunt’s way while she’s cleaning.”
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Harry left through the back door. It was a brilliant, sunny day. He crossed the lawn, slumped down on the garden bench, and sang under his breath: “Happy birthday to me . . . happy birthday to me . . .”
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No cards, no presents, and he would be spending the evening pretending not to exist. He
gazed
miserably into the
hedge
.
gaze /ɡeɪz/ vi. 凝视
hedge /hedʒ/ n. 树篱
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He had never felt so lonely. More than anything else at Hogwarts, more even than playing Quidditch, Harry missed his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
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They, however, didn’t seem to be missing him at all. Neither of them had written to him all summer, even though Ron had said he was going to ask Harry to come and stay.
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Countless
times, Harry had been
on the point of
unlocking Hedwig’s cage by magic and sending her to Ron and Hermione with a letter, but it wasn’t worth the risk.
countless /ˈkaʊntləs/ adj. 无数的
on the point of 正要......地时候
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Underage wizards weren’t allowed to use magic outside of school.
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Harry hadn’t told the Dursleys this;
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he knew it was only their terror that he might turn them all into
dung beetles
that stopped them locking him in the cupboard under the stairs with his wand and broomstick.
dung beetle n. 金龟子科
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For the first couple of weeks back, Harry had enjoyed muttering nonsense words under his breath and watching Dudley tearing out of the room as fast as his fat legs would carry him.
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But the long silence from Ron and Hermione had made Harry feel so
cut off
from the magical world that even
taunting
Dudley had lost its appeal — and now Ron and Hermione had forgotten his birthday.
cut off 使隔绝
taunt /tɔːnt/ v. 逗弄
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What wouldn’t he give now for a message from Hogwarts? From any witch or wizard? He’d almost be glad of a sight of his
archenemy
, Draco Malfoy, just to be sure it hadn’t all been a dream. . . .
archenemy /ɑrtʃˈɛnəmi/ n. 主要敌人
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Not that his whole year at Hogwarts had been fun. At the very end of last term, Harry had come face-to-face with none other than Lord Voldemort himself.
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Voldemort might be a
ruin
of his former self, but he was still
terrifying
, still
cunning
, still determined to
regain
power.
ruin /ˈruːɪn/ n. 毁坏
terrifying /ˈterɪfaɪɪŋ/ adj. 可怕的
cunning /ˈkʌnɪŋ/ adj. 狡猾的
regain /rɪ'ɡen/ vt. 复得
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Harry had slipped through Voldemort’s clutches for a second time, but it had been a
narrow
escape, and even now, weeks later,
narrow /ˈnæroʊ/ adj. 勉强的
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Harry kept waking in the night,
drenched
in cold sweat, wondering where Voldemort was now, remembering his
livid
face, his wide, mad eyes —
drench /drentʃ/ vt. 使湿透
livid /'lɪvɪd/ adj. 铅色的
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Harry suddenly sat bolt upright on the garden bench. He had been staring
absent-mindedly
into the hedge — and the hedge was staring back. Two enormous green eyes had appeared among the leaves.
absent-mindedly /ˌæbsəntˈmaɪndɪdlɪ/ adv. 心不在焉地
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Harry jumped to his feet just as a
jeering
voice floated across the lawn.
jeer /dʒɪr/ vt. & vi. 嘲笑
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“I know what day it is,” sang Dudley,
waddling
toward him.
waddle /ˈwɑːdl/ vi. (像鸭子一样)摇摇摆摆地走
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The huge eyes blinked and vanished.
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“What?” said Harry, not taking his eyes off the spot where they had been.
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“I know what day it is,” Dudley repeated, coming
right
up to him.
right /raɪt/ adv. 直接地
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“Well done,” said Harry. “So you’ve finally learned the days of the week.”
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“Today’s your birthday,” sneered Dudley. “How come you haven’t got any cards? Haven’t you even got friends at that
freak
place?”
freak /frik/ adj. 不正常的
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“Better not let your mum hear you talking about my school,” said Harry coolly.
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Dudley
hitched
up his trousers, which were slipping down his fat bottom.
hitch /hɪtʃ/ v. 提起
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“Why’re you staring at the hedge?” he said suspiciously.
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“I’m trying to decide what would be the best spell to set it on fire,” said Harry.
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Dudley stumbled backward at once, a look of panic on his fat face.
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“You c-can’t — Dad told you you’re not to do m-magic — he said he’ll
chuck
you out of the house — and you haven’t got anywhere else to go — you haven’t got any friends to take you —”
chuck /tʃʌk/ vt. 驱逐
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“Jiggery pokery!” said Harry in a fierce voice. “
Hocus
pocus —
squiggly
wiggly
—”
hocus /ˈhokəs/ vt. 欺骗
squiggly /'skwɪgli/ adj. 弯弯曲曲的
wiggly /'wɪɡli/ adj. 扭动的
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“MUUUUUUM!” howled Dudley, tripping over his feet as he dashed back toward the house. “MUUUUM! He’s doing you know what!”
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Harry paid
dearly
for his moment of fun.
dearly /'dɪrli/ adv. 昂贵地
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As neither Dudley nor the hedge was in any way hurt, Aunt Petunia knew he hadn’t really done magic, but he still had to duck as she
aimed
a heavy
blow
at his head with the
soapy
frying pan.
aim /eɪm/ vt. & vi. (以…)瞄准
blow /bloʊ/ n. 打击
soapy /'sopi/ adj. 涂着肥皂的
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Then she gave him work to do, with the promise he wouldn’t eat again until he’d finished.
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While Dudley
lolled
around watching and eating ice cream, Harry cleaned the windows, washed the car, mowed the lawn, trimmed the flower beds,
loll /lɑl/ vi. 懒洋洋地躺着〔坐着、站着〕
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pruned and watered the roses, and
repainted
the garden bench.
repaint /ri:'peint/ vt. 再次(重新)油漆
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The sun
blazed
overhead, burning the back of his neck.
blaze /bleɪz/ vi. 照耀
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Harry knew he shouldn’t have
risen to Dudley’s bait
, but Dudley had said the
very
thing Harry had been thinking himself . . . maybe he didn’t have any friends at Hogwarts. . . .
rise to the bait 入圈套
very /ˈvɛri/ adj. 正是
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Wish they could see famous Harry Potter now, he thought
savagely
as he spread
manure
on the flower beds, his back
aching
, sweat running down his face.
savagely /'sævɪdʒli/ adv. 野蛮地
manure /məˈnʊr/ n. 肥料
ache /eɪk/ vi. 疼痛
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It was half past seven in the evening when at last, exhausted, he heard Aunt Petunia calling him.
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“Get in here! And walk on the newspaper!”
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Harry moved gladly into the shade of the gleaming kitchen.
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On top of the
fridge
stood tonight’s pudding: a huge mound of
whipped cream
and sugared violets. A
joint
of roast pork was sizzling in the
oven
.
fridge /frɪdʒ/ n. 冰箱
whipped cream n. 掼奶油（搅打至松软的奶油）
joint /dʒɔɪnt/ n. （牛，羊等的腿）大块肉
oven /ˈʌvn/ n. 烤箱
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“Eat quickly! The Masons will be here soon!” snapped Aunt Petunia, pointing to two slices of bread and a lump of cheese on the kitchen table. She was already wearing a
salmon-pink
cocktail dress.
salmon-pink 橙红色
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Harry washed his hands and bolted down his
pitiful
supper. The moment he had finished, Aunt Petunia
whisked
away his plate.
pitiful /ˈpɪtɪfl/ adj. 可怜的
whisk /wɪsk/ v. 迅速带走
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“Upstairs! Hurry!” As he passed the door to the living room, Harry caught a glimpse of Uncle Vernon and Dudley in
bow
ties and dinner jackets.
bow /baʊ/ n. 蝴蝶结
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He had only just reached the upstairs landing when the doorbell rang and Uncle Vernon’s furious face appeared at the foot of the stairs.
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“Remember, boy — one sound —”
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Harry crossed to his bedroom on
tiptoe
, slipped inside, closed the door, and turned to collapse on his bed.
tiptoe /'tɪpto/ n. 脚尖
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The trouble was, there was already someone sitting on it.
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