【讀書筆記】E.B.懷特 - 《夏洛的網(wǎng)》13

內(nèi)容簡介：

《夏洛的網(wǎng)》是美國作家E.B.懷特所著的三部被譽(yù)為“二十世紀(jì)讀者最多、最受愛戴的童話”之一。

在 朱克曼家的谷倉里，快樂地生活著一群動物，其中小豬威爾伯和蜘蛛夏洛建立了最真摯的友誼。然而，一個最丑惡的消息打破了谷倉的平靜：威爾伯未來的命運(yùn) 競?是成為熏肉火腿。作為一只小豬，悲痛絕望的威爾伯似乎只能接受任人宰割的命運(yùn)了，然而，看似渺小的夏洛卻說：“我救你?！庇谑?，夏洛用自己的絲在豬欄 上織?出了被人類視為奇跡的網(wǎng)上文字，徹底逆轉(zhuǎn)了威爾伯的命運(yùn)，終于讓它在集市的大賽中贏得特別獎，和一個安享天命的未來。但，這時，蜘蛛夏洛的生命卻走 到了盡?頭……

作者簡介：

E.B.懷特(1899-1985)生于紐約蒙特弗農(nóng)，畢業(yè)于 康奈爾大學(xué)。也許你對美國作家E.B.?懷特（E.B.White）感到陌生，也許你對《Charlotte's?Web》（《夏洛的網(wǎng)》）不是很熟悉， 但是一提起一部電影《精靈鼠小弟》，你馬上就知道了，這部電影就是根據(jù)E.B.?懷特（E.B.White）的書改編拍攝的。他還有一部童話叫《吹小號的 天鵝》

Chapter 13.Good Progress

【段落賞析】

Lurvy picked up a pitchfork and walked away to get some clean straw. Having such an important pig was going to mean plenty of extra work, he could see that.

Below the apple orchard, at the end of a path, was the dump where Mr. Zuckerman threw all sorts of trash and stuff that nobody wanted anymore. Here, in a small clearing hidden by young alders and wild raspberry bushes, was an astonishing pile of old bottles and empty tin, cans and dirty rags and bits of metal and broken bottles and broken hinges and broken springs and dead batteries and last month's magazines and old discarded dishmops and tattered overalls and rusty spikes and leaky pails and forgotten stoppers and useless junk of all kinds, including a wrong-size crank for a broken ice-cream freezer.

№.1 -Next morning, Wilbur arose and stood beneath the web.

【譯文】第二天一早，韋伯醒了，爬了起來，站在網(wǎng)下。

【單詞筆記】beneath

【英英釋義】

1.? in or to a lower position than something, or directly under something[=?underneath]:

2.? covered by something:

3.? used to say that someone's real character or feelings are not shown because their appearance or behaviour is different[=?underneath]:

4.? not good enough or suitable for someone:

5.? in a lower, less important rank or job than someone else[=?below]

【例】

1.? The dolphins disappeared beneath the waves.

2.? Shiona shivered beneath the bedclothes.

3.? Dave sensed that something more sinister lay beneath the woman's cheerful exterior.

4.? She acts as if even speaking to us is beneath her.

【舉一反三】

under, underneath, below, beneath

Under is the usual way to say that one thing is at a lower level than another, or is covered by it

1. Your shoes are under the table.

2.? He lay under a blanket.

Under常作介詞，與名詞連用，表示地點(diǎn)。

Underneath has a similar meaning to under, and is used especially when something is hidden or covered

1.? a box underneath the floorboards.

它也可作副詞。

1.? She lifted the cover and peeped underneath.

Below is used when one thing is at a much lower level than another, and can be a preposition or an adverb

1.? the apartment below ours

2. Mist lay in the valley below.

Beneath can be used in the same ways as underand below, but is a more literary or formal word1、beneath the silvery moon

3.? the cliff, and the ocean beneath

№.2?-?The?rat?looked?disgusted.