Great Expectations — Page 5
我姐姐给我们切黄油面包的方式犀利而一成不变。
My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread and butter for us, that never varied.
首先，她用左手将面包紧紧地抵在胸前的围嘴上——有时面包会扎到一根别针，有时扎到一根针，这些针我们事后都会用嘴吃进去。
First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib,—where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.
然后她用刀取了一些黄油（不多不少），像药剂师调制药膏一样把黄油涂抹在面包上——用刀的两面熟练地拍抹，并沿着面包皮把多余的黄油修整抹匀。
Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way, as if she were making a plaster,—using both sides of the knife with a slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust.
接着，她把刀在那片"药膏"的边缘利落地擦了一下，然后从面包上锯下厚厚的一片。
Then, she gave the knife a final smart wipe on the edge of the plaster, and then sawed a very thick round off the loaf:
最后，她在把这片面包从整个面包上分离之前，将它劈成两半——乔拿一半，我拿另一半。
which she finally, before separating from the loaf, hewed into two halves, of which Joe got one, and I the other.
这一次，尽管我饥肠辘辘，却不敢吃我那片面包。
On the present occasion, though I was hungry, I dared not eat my slice.
我觉得我必须为那个可怕的熟人，以及他那个更加可怕的年轻同伙留些东西。
I felt that I must have something in reserve for my dreadful acquaintance, and his ally the still more dreadful young man.
我深知乔太太治家极为严格，在储物柜里偷翻也未必能找到什么可用的东西。
I knew Mrs. Joe's housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.
因此，我决定把那块黄油面包塞进裤腿里。
Therefore I resolved to put my hunk of bread and butter down the leg of my trousers.
要付诸实行，所需鼓起的那份勇气，真是令我感到无比艰难。
The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose I found to be quite awful.
Vocabulary
- sister
- 女性手足；姐妹
- trenchant
- 锐利的；切割有力的；明确的
- way
- 方法；方式；道路
- cutting
- 切割；切片的行为
- bread
- 面包；烤制的面粉食品
- butter
- 黄油；奶油制品
- never
- 从不；绝不；否定词
- varied
- 变化的；多样的；改变
- First
- 首先；最初；第一个
- left
- 左边的；左手的
- hand
- 手；掌握；帮助
- jammed
- 用力按压；卡住；挤压
- loaf
- 面包条；一整块面包
- hard
- 硬的；坚硬的；用力地
- fast
- 快速的；牢固的；迅速
- against
- 对抗；靠着；相反
- bib
- 围兜；胸部围裙
- where
- 哪里；在什么地方
- sometimes
- 有时；有时候；间或
- pin
- 针；钉子；别针
- into
- 进入；到里面；变成
- needle
- 针；缝针；医疗针
- afterwards
- 之后；后来；随后
- mouths
- 嘴；口腔；嘴巴复数
- Then
- 然后；接着；那么
- some
- 一些；某些；大约
- too
- 太；也；过度
- much
- 很多；许多；过多
- knife
- 刀；餐刀；切割工具
- spread
- 涂抹；展开；传播
- apothecary
- 药剂师；药店老板；配药人
- kind
- 种类；类型；友善的
- as
- 作为；如同；当时
- if
- 如果；好像；仿佛
- making
- 制造；制作；做
- plaster
- 膏药；石膏；涂抹
- using
- 使用；利用；应用
- both
- 两个；双方；都
- sides
- 边；侧面；方面复数
- slapping
- 拍打；拍击；用力摔
- dexterity
- 灵巧；手艺高超；熟练
- trimming
- 修剪；整理边缘；装饰
- moulding
- 塑造；成形；装饰线条
- off
- 关闭；远离；离开
- round
- 圆形的；周围；四舍五入
- crust
- 外壳；面包皮；坚硬表面
- final
- 最终的；最后的；决赛
- smart
- 聪明的；快速的；敏捷的
- wipe
- 擦拭；抹去；清洁
- edge
- 边缘；刀刃；优势
- then
- 那么；然后；接着
- sawed
- 锯；用锯子切割；过去式
- very
- 非常；很；极其
- thick
- 厚的；粗的；浓密的
- finally
- 最终；最后；终于
- before
- 之前；在前面；比...先
- separating
- 分离；分开；分别的
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