经典名句-英文:cheatig a black ma is te times worse tha cheatig a white.
经典名句-译文:欺骗一个黑人比欺骗一个白人要坏十倍。
2021考研英语文章阅读:杀死一只知更鸟第5章-2
“Miss Maudie,” I said one evening, “do you think Boo Radley’s still alive?”
“His name’s Arthur and he’s alive,” she said. She was rocking slowly in her big oakchair. “Do you smell my mimosa? It’s like angels’ breath this evening.”
“Yessum. How do you know?”
“Know what, child?”
“That B—Mr. Arthur’s still alive?”
“莫迪小姐,”有天晚上我问道,“你说布·拉德利还活着吗?”
“他叫亚瑟,还活着。”她一边说一边坐在很大的橡木椅子里慢慢地摇着。“你闻到我的含羞草的香味吗?今天晚上的气味真好,象天使的呼吸一样。”
“闻到了,你怎么知道?”
“知道什么,孩子?”
“布……亚瑟先生还活着?”
“What a morbid question. But I suppose it’s a morbid subject. I know he’s alive, JeanLouise, because I haven’t seen him carried out yet.”
“Maybe he died and they stuffed him up the chimney.”
“Where did you get such a notion?”
“That’s what Jem said he thought they did.”
“S-ss-ss. He gets more like Jack Finch every day.”
“多么可怕的问题。我认为这是个令人毛骨悚然的问题。琼·路易斯,我知道他还活着是因为我没看见谁抬他出去。”
“可能是他死了,他们把他塞进了烟囱。”
“你哪来这么个想法?”
“杰姆是这样认为的。”
“咝——咝——咝,他越来越象杰克?芬奇了,”
Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus’s brother, since they were children.
莫迪小姐从小就认识阿迪克斯的弟弟杰克·芬奇。
Nearly the same age, they had grown up together at Finch’s Landing. Miss Maudie wasthe daughter of a neighboring landowner, Dr. Frank Buford. Dr. Buford’s profession wasmedicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.
Uncle Jack Finch confined his passion for digging to his window boxes in Nashville andstayed rich. We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled acrossthe street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Maudie would yell back, “Call a littlelouder, Jack Finch, and they’ll hear you at the post office, I haven’t heard you yet!” Jemand I thought this a strange way to ask for a lady’s hand in marriage, but then UncleJack was rather strange. He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie’s goat, that he hadbeen trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world MissMaudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, andthe best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.