《哈利波特》| 哈利躺在床上看太阳在窗栅后面落下，悲哀地想着自己今后的命运

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Three days later, the Dursleys were showing no sign of relenting, and Harry couldnt see any way out of his situation.

三天后，德思礼一家还丝毫没有发慈悲的迹象，哈利想不出脱身的办法。

He lay on his bed watching the sun sinking behind the bars on the window and wondered miserably what was going to happen to him.

他躺在床上看太阳在窗栅后面落下，悲哀地想着自己今后的命运。

What was the good of magicking himself out of his room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it?

如果会被霍格沃茨开除，那用魔法逃出去又有什么意义呢？

Yet life at Privet Drive had reached an all-time low.

可是女贞路的生活实在是过不下去了。

Now that the Dursleys knew they werent going to wake up

as fruit bats, he had lost his only weapon.

现在，德思礼一家知道他们不会一觉醒来变成蝙蝠了，哈利失去了惟一的武器。

Dobby might have saved Harry from horrible happenings at Hogwarts, but the way things were going, hed probably starve to death

anyway.

多比也许使哈利躲过了霍格沃茨的可怕劫难，可是照现在这样下去，他可能会饿死。

The cat-flap rattled and Aunt Petunias hand appeared, pushing a bowl of canned soup into the room.

活板门一响，佩妮姨妈的手从洞口推进来一碗罐头汤。

Harry, whose insides were aching with hunger, jumped off his bed and seized it.

哈利早就饿得肚子疼了，赶紧跳下床捧起那只碗。

The soup was stone-cold, but he drank half of it in one gulp.

汤是冰凉的，可他一口气喝了半碗。

Then he crossed the room to Hedwigs cage and tipped

the soggy vegetables at the bottom of the bowl into her empty food tray.

然后他走到海德薇的笼子旁，把碗底那几根泡了水的蔬菜倒进它空空的食盘里。

She ruffled her feathers and gave him a look of deep disgust.

它竖起羽毛，充满厌恶地看了他一眼。

"Its no good turning your beak up at it — thats all weve got," said Harry grimly.

“别把你的鸟嘴翘得老高，我们只有这些。”哈利板着脸说。

He put the empty bowl back on the floor next to the cat-flap and lay back down on the bed, somehow even hungrier than he had been before the soup.

他把空碗放回活板门旁，重新躺到床上，感觉比喝汤前更饿了。

Supposing he was still alive in another four weeks, what would happen if he didnt turn up

at Hogwarts?

假设他四星期后还活着，却没去霍格沃茨报到，那会怎么样呢？

Would someone be sent to see why he hadnt come back?

他们会不会派人来调查他为什么没回去？

Would they be able to make the Dursleys let him go

?

他们能使德思礼一家放他走吗？

词句解析

重点词汇词组

1.wake up  醒来; 唤醒例：I woke up

with a headache.

我醒来时觉得头疼。

相关俚语：wake up to sth. 开始意识到（问题）例：Governments are finally waking up to

the fact that the environment should be cleaned up.

各国政府终于开始意识到应该整治环境这个事实。

2.starve to death 饿死例：Whole communities starved to death

during the long drought.

在这场漫长的大旱中，整个村落的人都饿死了。

常见搭配：be starved of 使极其缺乏例：The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of

investment.

电力行业并不是惟一极其缺乏投资的行业。

3.tip 倒；倾倒例：He tipped

his breakfast cereal into a bowl.

他把早餐麦片倒入碗中。

常见搭配：

①tip sb. off 向（某人）告密；给（某人）通风报信 例：The robber was caught when someone tipped off

the police.

有人向警方报信后，抢劫者即被抓获。

②tip over into sth. （由……）转变（为……）例：At various points in the play, the action tips over from comedy into

farce.

这出戏中有好多地方，情节由喜剧变成了闹剧。

4.turn up 到达，来到；突然出现例：She turned up

at my house late one night.

一天深夜她突然来到我家。

常见搭配：

①turn sth. in 交还；上交；交出 例：Please turn your old parking permits in

at the end of the week.

请于本周末交回旧的停车证。

②turn on sth. 取决于，依……而定例：The success of the talks turns on

whether both sides are willing to make some concessions.

会谈成功与否取决于双方是否愿意作出些让步。

5.let sb. go 使（某人）自由；使（某人）离职例：The firm hired the staff to sell the stocks, then let most of them go

only a few months after the crash.

这家公司聘请员工出售存活，但就在生意下跌几月后就把他们解雇了。

常见搭配：

①let sb. down 辜负（某人），使（某人）失望 例：You will be there tomorrow--you wont let me down

, will you?

明天你会去那里的——你不会让我失望，对吧？

②let sb. off 宽宥（某人）；从轻处罚（某人）例：Instead of a prison sentence they were let off

with a fine.

他们没有被判刑，只是被罚了款而已。

长难句解析

He lay on his bed watching the sun sinking behind the bars on the window and wondered miserably what was going to happen to him.他躺在床上看太阳在窗栅后面落下，悲哀地想着自己今后的命运。

解：

主语+谓语+宾语+状语+谓语+宾语从句

析：现在分词短语“watching the sun sinking behind the bars on the window”作伴随状语，“sinking behind the bars”作补语；宾语从句

“what was going to happen to him”使用了过去将来时，表示从过去某一时间来看将要发生的事情。

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