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[00:03.20]24 "家丑"
[00:06.40]Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
[00:13.71]听录音,然后回答以下问题.
[00:21.03]Who was Sebastian?
[00:23.97]谁是塞巴斯蒂安?
[00:26.91]We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family
[00:30.38]在小说中,我们经常读到一个表面上受人尊重的人物或家族
[00:33.85]has some terrible secret
[00:35.74]有着许多骇人听闻的秘密.
[00:37.62]which has been concealed from strangers for years.
[00:39.94]这些秘密是不为人所知的
[00:42.27]The English language
[00:43.86]英语中
[00:45.45]possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situation
[00:48.42]有一个生动的说法来形容这种情况
[00:51.38]The terrible secret is called 'a skeleton in the cupboard'.
[00:54.31]惊人的秘密被称作"柜中骷髅".
[00:57.23]At some dramatic moment in the story,
[00:59.59]在小说的某个戏剧性时刻,
[01:01.94]the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined.
[01:05.18]可怕的秘密泄露出来,接着便是某人的声誉扫地.
[01:08.41]The reader's hair stands on end
[01:10.39]读者不禁会毛骨悚然,
[01:12.36]when he reads in the final pages of the novel
[01:14.64]当读者读到小说最后几页时,
[01:16.93]that the heroine,a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody
[01:20.61]了解到书中女主人公,那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人
[01:24.30]had,in her youth,poisoned every one of her five husbands.
[01:27.54]年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫.
[01:30.78]It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction.
[01:33.35]这种事发生在小说中是无可非议的.
[01:35.92]To varying degrees,we all have secrets
[01:38.40]尽管我们人人都有各种大小秘密,
[01:40.88]which we do not want even our closest friends to learn,
[01:43.47]连最亲密的朋友都不愿让他们知道,
[01:46.06]but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard.
[01:48.38]但我们当中极少有人有柜中骷髅.
[01:50.71]The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton
[01:54.39]我所认识的唯一的在柜中藏骷髅的人便是乔治.卡尔顿,
[01:58.07]and he is very proud of the fact.
[02:00.10]他甚至引以为自豪.
[02:02.12]George studied medicine in his youth.
[02:04.36]乔治年轻时学过医,
[02:06.59]Instead of becoming a doctor,however,
[02:08.76]然而,他后来没当上医生,
[02:10.93]he became a successful writer of detective stories.
[02:13.66]却成了一位成功的侦探小说作家.
[02:16.39]I once spent an uncomfortable weekend
[02:18.89]有一次,我在他家里度周末,
[02:21.40]which I shall never forget at his house.
[02:23.58]过得很不愉快.
[02:25.76]George showed me to the guestroom which,he said,was rarely used
[02:29.03]乔治把领进客房,说这间房间很少使用.
[02:32.29]He told me to unpack my things and then come down to dinner.
[02:35.08]他让我打开行装后下楼吃饭.
[02:37.86]After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers
[02:40.94]我将衬衫、内衣放进两个空抽屉里,
[02:44.02]I decided to hang one of the two suits I had brought with me in the cupboard
[02:47.41]然后我想把随身带来的两套西服中的一套挂到大衣柜里.
[02:50.79]I opened the cupboard door and then stood in front of it petrified.
[02:53.95]我打开柜门,站在柜门前一下子惊呆了.
[02:57.11]A skeleton was dangling before my eyes.
[02:59.45]一具骷髅悬挂在眼前.
[03:01.79]The sudden movement of the door made it sway slightly
[03:04.42]由于柜门突然打开,它也随之轻微摇晃起来,
[03:07.06]and it gave me the impression that it was about to leap out at me
[03:09.99]让我觉得它好像马上要跳出柜门朝我扑过来似的.
[03:12.91]Dropping my suit,I dashed downstairs to tell George.
[03:15.74]我扔下西服冲下楼去告诉乔治.
[03:18.56]This was worse than 'a terrible secret';
[03:20.74]这是比"骇人听闻的秘密"更加惊人的东西,
[03:22.92]this was a real skeleton!
[03:24.96]这是一具真正的骷髅啊!
[03:26.99]But George was unsympathetic.
[03:28.97]但乔治却无动于衷.
[03:30.94]'Oh,that,'he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend
[03:34.62]"噢,是它呀!他笑着说,俨然在谈论一位老朋友."
[03:38.31]'That's Sebastian.
[03:40.04]那是塞巴斯蒂安.
[03:41.78]You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time.
[03:44.72]你忘了我以前是学医的了.
[03:47.66]The part below is the analysis of this text(以下是此篇课文的讲解)