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| I jumped to my feet, completely thunder- struck. I blinked my eyes hard. I looked carefully all around me. And I saw a most extraordinary small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness. Here you may see the best portrait that, later, I was able to make of him. But my drawing is certainly very much less charming than its model. That, however, is not my fault. The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside. Now I stared at this sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment. Remember, I had crashed in the de sert a thousand miles from any inhabited region. And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sand, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear. Nothing about him gave any s uggestion of a child lost in the middle of the desert, a thousand miles from any human habitation. When at last I was able to speak, I said to him: "But......what are you doing here?" | 我惊恐万分，猝然从沙地跳起来。 眼睛眨了几下。 左顾右盼环视周遭环境。 看见一个奇怪且身材短小的人，伫立在那里，若有所思地注视着我。 以下就是我为他画出的一张肖像。 但他本人比画中人还要可爱许多。 可是，这件事并不能完全怪我。 在我六岁的时候，大人就规劝我放弃绘画生涯，所以除了那两张看不见和看得见大蟒蛇里面的画之外，我再也没有动手画过任何一张完整的画了。 此刻，我惊愕的张大眼睛紧瞅着这个突然出现的小孩。 别忘了，我当时正处于人烟罕见的沙漠之中。 而这个小家伙，看起来不像是在沙漠中走丢的，也不像是有因疲惫、饥渴及害怕而将昏厥的迹象。 在他的身上找不到一丝一毫在沙漠中迷路的模样。 等我心情恢复平静，便开口问他："你......你在这里做什么呢？" |
- extraordinary [ik´strɔ:dinəri]
a.非常的；额外的 (初中英语单词) - charming [´tʃɑ:miŋ] a.可爱的；极好的 (初中英语单词)
- career [kə´riə] n.经历；生涯；职业 (初中英语单词)
- astonishment [ə´stɔniʃmənt] n.吃惊；惊异 (初中英语单词)
- hunger [´hʌŋgə] n.饥饿；渴望 (初中英语单词)
- thirst [θə:st] n.渴，口渴；渴望 (初中英语单词)
- portrait [´pɔ:trit] n.肖像；相片；雕像 (高中英语单词)
- learned [´lə:nid] a.有学问的，博学的 (高中英语单词)
- fatigue [fə´ti:g] n.&vt.(使)疲劳(劳累) (高中英语单词)
- drawing [´drɔ:iŋ] n.画图；制图；图样 (英语四级单词)
- habitation [,hæbi´teiʃən] n.居住；住所 (英语四级单词)
- seriousness [´siəriəsnis] n.严肃，认真；重要性 (英语六级单词)
- apparition [,æpə´riʃən] n.(幽灵)出现；鬼；幻影 (英语六级单词)
- uncertainly [ʌn´sə:tnli] ad.不明确地；怀疑地 (英语六级单词)
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