The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-16 18:04

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Jim shook his head and said:

"Can't, Mars Tom. Ole missis, she tole me I got to go an' git dis water an' not stop foolin' roun' wid anybody. She say she spec' Mars Tom gwine to ax me to whitewash, an' so she tole me go 'long an' 'tend to my own business -- she 'lowed she'd 'tend to de whitewashin'."

"Oh, never you mind what she said, Jim. That's the way she always talks. Gimme the bucket -- I won't be gone only a a minute. SHE won't ever know."

"Oh, I dasn't, Mars Tom. Ole missis she'd take an' tar de head off'n me. 'Deed she would."

"She! She never licks anybody -- whacks 'em over the head with her thimble -- and who cares for that, I'd like to know. She talks awful, but talk don't hurt -- anyways it don't if she don't cry. Jim, I'll give you a marvel. I'll give you a white alley!"

Jim began to waver.

"White alley, Jim! And it's a bully taw."

"My! Dat's a mighty gay marvel, I tell you! But Mars Tom I's powerful 'fraid ole missis --"

"And besides, if you will I'll show you my sore toe."

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gwine = going
gimme = give me, give it to me
spec' = expect = 料想, etc.
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fool around = 闲荡, 游手好闲
go along = 进行, 继续
attend to = 留意, 注意, 致力于
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I won't be gone only a minute => "gone" is adjective and "only" is conjunction here.
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THE 2ND SENTENCE => I can't, Master Tom. Old mistress, she told me I have got to go and get this water and not stop fooling round with anybody. She said she expected Master Tom going to ask me to whitewash, and so she told me to go along and attend to my own business -- she allowed she'd attend to do whitewashing.
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THE 4TH SENTENCE => Oh, I dare not, Master Tom. Old mistress she'd take (and tar) the head off in me. Indeed she would.
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THE 8TH SENTENCE => My! That's a mighty gay marvel, I tell you! But Master Tom I was powerfully afraid of old mistress --
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only = 除了, 但是, 不过, etc.
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mighty = 很, 极, etc.
anyways = [口]无论如何 = anyway
any ways = 任何方式
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bully = [口]特好的, 一流的
gone = 离去的, etc.
sore
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waver = 犹豫, etc.
shake, shook, shaken
whack
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alley = (儿童游戏用的)大石弹, etc.
taw = 石弹, etc.
thimble
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Lens · 发表于 2009-10-16 18:18

程普 · 发表于 2009-10-17 01:21

i wanna read tom

程普 · 发表于 2009-10-17 07:16

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-17 17:39

"发表于 2009-10-17 07:16"
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get up early ?
or haven't slept all night ?

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-17 19:09

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-17 19:54 编辑

Jim was only human -- this attraction was too much for him. He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound. In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye. But Tom's energy did not last. He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day, and his sorrows multiplied. Soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to work -- the very thought of it burnt him like fire. He got out his worldly wealth and examined it -- bits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange of WORK, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure freedom. So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys. At this dark and hopeless moment an inspiration burst upon him! Nothing less than a great, magnificent inspiration.

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not half = 一点也不 = not at all
not half = [英]非常
nothing less than = 不亚于, 完全是
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trip along = 轻快的向前跑
get out = 拿出
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think of = 想起
a world of = 大量的
all sorts of = 各种各样的
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very => 正是那个(用于加强语气, 和 the, this, that 或my, your, his等连用), etc.
expedition=> (sometimes humorous) for example: a shopping/fishing expedition
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burst = 突然出现, etc.
last = 持续, etc.
burn, burnt, burnt
bend, bent, bent
unwind, unwound, unwound
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straitened = 窘迫的, 困苦的, 拮据的
absorbing
tingling
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delicious = 极有趣的, etc.
magnificent
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means = 财产, etc.
attraction
rear
vigor
triumph
sorrow
wealth
marble
inspiration
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learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-18 10:55

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-18 12:04 编辑

He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. Ben Rogers hove in sight presently -- the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading. Ben's gait was the hop-skip-and-jump -- proof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high. He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to star-board and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance -- for he was personating the Big missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water. He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them:

"Stop her, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling!" The headway ran almost out, and he drew up slowly toward the sidewalk.

"Ship up to back! Ting-a-ling-ling!" His arms straightened and stiffened down his sides.

"Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow!" His right hand, meantime, describing stately circles -- for it was representing a forty-foot wheel.

"Let her go back on the labboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ch-chow-chow!" The left hand began to describe circles.

"Stop the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Stop the labboard! Come ahead on the stabboard! Stop her! Let your outside turn over slow! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ow-ow! Get out that head-line! lively now! Come -- out with your spring-line -- what're you about there! Take a turn round that stump with the bight of it! Stand by that stage, now -- let her go! Done with the engines, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling!"

"Sh't! s'h't! sh't!" (trying the gauge-cocks).

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draw near = 临近, 接近
draw up = 靠近, etc.
come ahead = 前进
lean to = 倾向, 偏向
turn over = 翻身
run out = 消退, etc.
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take up = 拿出, etc.
get out = 拿出, etc.
out with = 拿出, etc.
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follow by = 接着是, 紧跟着是
stand by = 维持, 准备, 待命
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round to = 掉头顶风停下
heave in sight = 映入视线
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pomp and circumstance = 排场, 装腔作势
hop skip and jump = 三级跳
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lively now! => look lively(行动敏捷些, 拿出劲头来)
ship up => ship off(送往, 遣送)
far over => far beyond(远远超过), far out(极端的, etc.)
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Big missouri => the name of a large steam ship
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Done with the engines => have done with the engines
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His right hand, meantime, describing stately circles => His right hand, meantime, was describing stately circles
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tranquilly = 安静地
ponderously = 生硬地
laborious = 吃力的, etc.
deep-toned = 深沉声调的
melodious
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stage = (阶)段, (时)期, 进程, 步骤, etc.
bight = 绳圈, etc.
headway
stump
ridicule
gait
anticipation
engine
hurricane
circle
wheel
interval
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draw = (船)吃水, etc.
heave, hove, hove
dread
slacken
consider
combine
execute
straighten
stiffen
represent
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star-board
stabboard
labboard
spring-line
head-line
gauge-cocks
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Maisonette · 发表于 2009-10-18 11:08

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-18 11:10

This paragraph is so boring.
So dull.
I hate it.

Maisonette · 发表于 2009-10-18 11:12

post it quickly and then start chapter 3

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-19 01:06

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-19 01:57 编辑

Tom went on whitewashing -- paid no attention to the steamboat. Ben stared a moment and then said: "Hi-Yi! you're up a stump, ain't you!"

No answer. Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before. Ben ranged up alongside of him. Tom's mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work. Ben said:

"Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?"

Tom wheeled suddenly and said:

"Why, it's you, Ben! I warn't noticing."

"Say -- I'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd druther work -- wouldn't you? Course you would!"

Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:

"What do you call work?"

"Why, ain't that work?"

Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:

"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."

"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"

The brush continued to move.

"Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"

That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth -- stepped back to note the effect -- added a touch here and there -- criticised the effect again -- Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:

"Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."

Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:

"No -- no -- I reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence -- right here on the street, you know -- but if it was the back fence I wouldn't mind and she wouldn't. Yes, she's awful particular about this fence; it's got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it's got to be done."

"No -- is that so? Oh come, now -- lemme just try. Only just a little -- I'd let you, if you was me, Tom."

"Ben, I'd like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly -- well, Jim wanted to do it, but she wouldn't let him; Sid wanted to do it, and she wouldn't let Sid. Now don't you see how I'm fixed? If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it --"

"Oh, shucks, I'll be just as careful. Now lemme try. Say -- I'll give you the core of my apple."

"Well, here -- No, Ben, now don't. I'm afeard --"

"I'll give you all of it!"

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warn't = wasn't, weren't
lemme = let me
druther = rather
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go on = 继续
stick to = 坚持
let on = 泄露(秘密)
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range up = 漫游, 徘徊, etc.
step back = 后退一步
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back and forth = 来回地
just as = 同样地, 正如
alongside of = 在旁边, 与...并肩
up a stump = 束手无策, 不知如何是好, 不能行动说话等
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honest injun = 说真的, 绝对不假
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old chap = 老兄
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You got to work, hey? => You have got to work, hey?
Course you would! => Of course you would!
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Don't you see how I'm fixed? => "fixed" used to ask how much of sth a person has, for example: How are you fixed for cash?
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shucks = [俚]呸! 哼! 什么! 那有这回事!
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water = 垂涎, 流口水, etc.
contemplate
resume
nibble
criticise
consent
alter
tackle
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result
particular
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absorbed
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程普 · 发表于 2009-10-19 01:11

tom is great

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-19 02:33

The paragraph is interesting.

Lens · 发表于 2009-10-20 11:22

but too slow...

大帅 · 发表于 2009-10-21 00:57

楼主呢？？？等不及了啊！

程普 · 发表于 2009-10-27 11:47

where is lz

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-28 22:34

I have died...

程普 · 发表于 2009-10-28 23:12

reborn?

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-29 11:14

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-29 10:17 编辑

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. There was no lack of material; boys happened along every little while; they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash. By the time Ben was fagged out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with -- and so on, and so on, hour after hour. And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass doorknob, a dog-collar -- but no dog -- the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash.

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happen along = 偶然到来
fag out = 累坏
play out = 玩够, etc.
buy in = 买进
look through = 透视, etc.
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close by = 在附近, 接近于
every little while = 每隔一会
hour after hour = 连续地
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be rolling in = 富于, 在...中打滚, 沉溺于
came to (+ v) = 开始..., 终于...
trade sth.for sth. = 以...换取...
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and so on = 诸如此类
by the time 到...的时候
no lack of = 不缺乏
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before mentioned = 上述的
poverty-stricken = 为贫穷所困恼的
dilapidated
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literally
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jews-harp
reluctance
alacrity
barrel
slaughter
innocent
material
string
wealth
marble
fragment
decanter
tadpole
cracker
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dangle
munch
swing
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Lens · 发表于 2009-10-29 12:10

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-30 00:56

本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-30 03:19 编辑

He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while -- plenty of company -- and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.

The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report.

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all the while = 一直, 始终
after all = 毕竟, 到底, 究竟
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run out of = 用完, 从...跑出
consist of = 由...组成
take place = 发生
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without knowing it => 不知不觉
wend => (old use or literary) to move or travel slowly somewhere
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tread-mill = 踏车, 单调乏味的工作, 跑步机
ten-pins = 十柱保龄球游戏
passenger-coaches = 客车
Mont Blanc = 勃朗峰, 阿尔卑斯山脉最高峰
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philosopher
privilege
wage
circumstance
headquarters
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bankrupt
covet
attain
comprehend
oblige
construct
perform
muse
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artificial
considerable
substantial
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learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-10-30 01:40

Chapter 2 is over, at last.

程普 · 发表于 2009-10-30 22:05

快点更新啊

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-11-2 00:59

Don't want to read...
Too difficult...
Want to find an easier one to read...

程普 · 发表于 2009-11-2 01:39

楼主，都给你精华了，贵在坚持，加油吧

learnEnglish · 发表于 2009-11-3 06:35

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楼主，都给你精华了，贵在坚持，加油吧$ v! I+ |9 q9 E! l
程普发表于 2009-11-2 00:39

Thank you moderator...
I'll continue to read it in a few days...

程普 · 发表于 2010-7-14 01:02

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