【英语原著】哈利·波特与魔法石 （17）

‘Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall.’
He turned to smile at the tabby, but it had gone. Instead he was smiling at a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing square glasses exactly the shape of the markings the cat had had around its eyes. She, too, was wearing a cloak, an emerald one. Her black hair was drawn into a tight bun. She looked distinctly ruffled.
‘How did you know it was me?’ she asked.
‘My dear Professor, I’ve never seen a cat sit so stiffly.’
‘You’d be stiff if you’d been sitting on a brick wall all day,’ said Professor McGonagall.
‘All day? When you could have been celebrating? I must have passed a dozen feasts and parties on my way here.’
Professor McGonagall sniffed angrily.
‘Oh yes, everyone’s celebrating, all right,’ she said impatiently. ‘You’d think they’d be a bit more careful, but no – even the Muggles have noticed something’s going on. It was on their news.’ She jerked her head back at the Dursleys’ dark living-room window. ‘I heard it. Flocks of owls … shooting stars … Well, they’re not completely stupid. They were bound to notice something. Shooting stars down in Kent – I’ll bet that was Dedalus Diggle. He never had much sense.’

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Rowling, J.K.. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone . Bloomsbury. Kindle 版本.

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Knowledge Point

• ‘Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall.’
  ⇒ 尝试翻译：“Professor McGonagall，真没想到在这儿能见到你。”

• "He turned to smile at the tabby, but it had gone."
  ⇒ tabby [adjective]
  (a cat) having dark-coloured marks on gray or brawn bur
  （猫）灰色（或褐色）毛皮上有深色斑点的
  ⇒ “but it had gone”中的“gone”表示“消失了”。
  ⇒ 参见图片【tabby cat，这就是影片中的那只猫，Professor McGonagall变的】

  
  
  

  tabby cat

• "Instead he was smiling at a rather severe-looking woman who was wearing square glasses exactly the shape of the markings the cat had had around its eyes."
  ⇒ 这句句子很长，“缩句”以后如下：
  Instead he was smiling at a woman.
  ⇒ “Instead”承接上一句“他对着那只猫笑了笑，但是它却消失了”。
  “instead”，“他反而对着一位女士微笑着”。
  ⇒ a rather severe-looking woman
  一位神情严肃的女士
  ⇒ “who was wearing square glasses”定语从句修饰“woman”。
  ⇒ 参见图片【square glasses】

  
  
  

  Professor McGonagall with square glasses

⇒ “(which was) exactly the shape of the markings the cat had had around its eyes”也是定语从句，省略了（which was），修饰“glasses”。
当关系代词在定语从句中作主语，且定语从句的谓语动词是be动词，就可以省略关系代词+be
⇒ “the cat had had around its eyes”还是一句定语从句，修饰“markings”

• "She, too, was wearing a cloak, an emerald one. Her black hair was drawn into a tight bun. She looked distinctly ruffled."
  ⇒ emerald [noun] 翠绿色
  a bright green colour
  ⇒ bun [noun]
  a woman's hairstyle where the hair is brought together into a round shape at the back of the head
  ⇒ “She looked distinctly ruffled.”
  （她看起来明显很气恼。）

• "‘My dear Professor, I’ve never seen a cat sit so stiffly.’ "
  ⇒ stiffly [adverb] 笔挺地；僵硬地

• "‘You’d be stiff if you’d been sitting on a brick wall all day,’ said Professor McGonagall."
  ⇒ 虚拟语句：如果你一整天都坐在砖墙上你也会僵住的。

• "‘All day? When you could have been celebrating? I must have passed a dozen feasts and parties on my way here.’ "
  ⇒ “When you could have been celebrating?”，虚拟语句。
  （你应该去庆祝才是。）
  ⇒ 尝试翻译：“一整天？你应该去庆祝才是。我来这儿的一路上不知道有多少大餐和派对呢。”

• "Professor McGonagall sniffed angrily. "
  ⇒ sniff [verb] 嗤之以鼻地说；轻蔑地说
  to speak in an unpleasant way, showing that you have a low opinion of something

• "‘Oh yes, everyone’s celebrating, all right,’ she said impatiently. "
  ⇒ impatiently [adverb] 不耐烦地
  ⇒ 尝试翻译：“是啊，没错，每个人都在庆祝”，她不耐烦地说。

• ‘You’d think they’d be a bit more careful, but no – even the Muggles have noticed something’s going on. It was on their news.’
  ⇒ “'d”两处缩写都是“would”。
  主句中的would是说话人的预测，宾语从句中的would是主句主语的预测。
  ⇒ 尝试翻译：“你可能认为他们会更加小心一点，但是即便是Muggles都注意到有事情发生了。还上了他们的新闻。”

• She jerked her head back at the Dursleys’ dark living-room window.
  ⇒ 尝试翻译：她猛地回头看着Dursleys家黑漆漆的客厅窗口。

• ‘I heard it. Flocks of owls … shooting stars … Well, they’re not completely stupid. They were bound to notice something. Shooting stars down in Kent – I’ll bet that was Dedalus Diggle. He never had much sense.’
  ⇒ bound [adjective] 肯定的；极有可能的；必然的
  certain or extremely likely to happen
  ⇒ 尝试翻译：“我听说了。成群的猫头鹰……流星雨……他们也不完全是傻瓜。他们一定是注意到了什么。肯特郡的流星雨——我敢打赌是Dedalus Diggle干的。他本来就没什么头脑。”

总结

这段内容对话居多，正式学习地道口语表达的好机会。在此再重温一遍。

• Fancy seeing you here.
• He never had much sense.

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