懒懒的拖延的豹豹和你一起读纳尼亚第十三章啦！

这一章里讲的是纳尼亚远古时代的魔法，爱德蒙终于被得救了，可是代价却是巨大的。标题Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time中的the down of time就是远古时代，开天辟地之意。

When he had been made to walk far further than he had ever known that anybody could walk, the Witch at last halted in a dark valley all overshadowed with fir trees and yew trees.

爱德蒙觉得没有谁走过这么远的路。

这里想说一下halt和stop

一说到 “停”，首先就是stop,stop+ving/n.比如stop crying, stop the car单词 “halt” 较为正式，指  “正在进行中的动作中止”。

eg. Suddenly he halted as though his mind were made up.

yew trees紫杉

Edmund simply sank down and lay on his face doing nothing at all and not even caring what was going to happen ...

爱德蒙一停下立马趴窝了。lay on his face 扑倒在地，趴着(躺脸上)

在爱德华奇妙旅行中有一句话，he was on his back, staring up at the night,sky.指仰面朝天

Then, stomach down on the bed, he began to draw.趴着(仙境之桥)

以及和此句相当相似的一句话:Your friends crossed after the flood had passed and they found you lying on your face at the top of the bank, with a broken sword under you.

“Perhaps the Wolf will smell us out and bring us news,” said the Witch.

“It cannot be good news if he does,” said the dwarf.

smell out: sniff out 嗅出

或许狼群会带来消息---来了也不一定是好消息。

豹豹想起了一句俗语No news is good news.

What difference would that make now that He is here?

一般常见为make a difference 对什么造成影响。

now that在语法书中暂时没翻到，网上给出的是既然(因为我对这个用法也不是很熟)，可以和as,since一类，但必须是一种新情况。

eg.Now that everyone is here, let's start.

此句解析仅供参考。

“It will be a long time now before the Stone Table can again be put to its proper use,” said the dwarf.

要过很长时间石桌才能派上用场。

it will be +时间+before固定句型“......以后才......”(may be同样适用)否定在be前＋not即可。

There need be no flying. Go quickly. Summon all our people to meet me here as speedily as they can. Call out the giants and the werewolves and the spirits of those trees who are on our side. Call the Ghouls, and the Boggles, the Ogres, and the Minotaurs. Call the Cruels, the Hags, the Specters, and the people of the Toadstools.

there need be no+n 没有必要

eg. There need be no ceremony between us .我们之间不必客套。

summon正式用语，官方/正式的召集，有一种权威性在里面。call比较常用，口语非正式。

这一句生词较多，giant(巨人)，werewolf(狼人)，the spirits of those trees (即dryads树精)，ghoul(食尸鬼)，boggle(妖怪)，ogre(食人魔)，hag(女巫婆)，toadstool(毒蘑菇)这些词基本上在国外魔幻童话中较常见，不算生僻，不过日常极少用到。

“Prepare the victim,” said the Witch.

victim通常表示“受害者”，这里指祭祀的牺牲品，

最常用词组fall victim to 成为…的牺牲品

eg.The rest will fall victim to predators, starvation, and the elements.

I didn’t see her after I knocked the knife out of her hand …A chap can’t mind everything at once…

knock the knife out of her hand表示撞出去，此处可同义knock off the knife。游戏中或拳击中的K.O.其实是knock out的缩写表示“击倒，绝胜"

A chap can’t mind everything at once翻译是一个人不可能面面俱到，mind 此处有take care的意思

chap:  brit, informal A chap is a man or boy. 男人，小伙子

(有时候也可用lad，但lad特指小伙子)，有时候我们会见到old chap老伙计这个表达

For it was part of her magic that she could make things look like what they aren’t, and she had the presence of mind to do so at the very moment when the knife was knocked out of her hand.

她能把东西变形，所以刀子撞出去的一刹那她就立刻启动了。

have the presence of mind 沉着镇静

at the very moment就在那非常的一瞬间，有点千钧一发的感觉，不过千钧一发豹豹一直用的是at the critical moment，也只记得这个词组。

There is no need to tell you (and no one ever heard) what Aslan was saying, ...

there is no need to do已经反复出现在此书中，包括下文there is no need to talk to him about what is past.(过去就过去了)

But before they had time to feel really awkward one of the leopards approached Aslan and said,...

approach v.接近 n.途径  常见词组approach to 接近 approach toward 靠近

后面出现了阿斯兰说的让他进来也用了此词“Let him approach,” said Aslan.

“Sire, there is a messenger from the enemy who craves audience.”

Sire是古用法，就是陛下，大人的意思

crave v. 此处为恳求，audience此处不表示观众而是觐见(n.)

“The Queen of Narnia and Empress of the Lone Islands desires a safe conduct to come and speak with you,” said the dwarf, “on a matter which is as much to your advantage as to hers.”

“Queen of Narnia, indeed!” said Mr. Beaver. “Of all the cheek—”

a safe conduct 表示安全通行证，本文指白女巫要求安全保证

as much to your advantage as to hers，

as +adj + as的结构，表示“和…一样”，hers指代的是her advantage

be to one's advanyage 对某人有利

of all the cheek 算是一个常用词团，表示不讲理的，本书译为“厚脸皮的”还是蛮有意思的。

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners. 一切都会正名，回到原位。

I think the same idea had occurred to the leopards themselves; at any rate, as they walked off their fur was all standing up on their backs and their tails were bristling—like a cat’s when it sees a strange dog.

这一段笑死了，这两只豹子也害怕自己被变成石头，所以跟随矮人(文中用了Son of Earth)去见白女巫的紧张模样。

I think the same idea had occurred to the leopards themselves;此句型在盖茨比第二章也有出现:

It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous(means rich and superior in quality ) and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.

it (had) occurred to me that... = it (had) dawned on me that... 忽然想到，开始明白

at any rate 无论如何

两只豹子的毛发都立了起来，上一章中出现了All the hair on its back stoop up on end.

It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this.

odd古怪的，strange and unusual

odd做形容词表示奇数的(usually ADJ n)前面＋an

There's an odd number of candidates.(释义来自柯林斯)

the dead-white face 惨白的脸色(:pale)

not that 并非，并不是  指后面The Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes不是最怪的事，(最怪的是两者的对比)

that human creature is mine. His life is forfeit to me. His blood is my property.

可怜的爱德蒙。

be forfeit to sb. 归某人所有

与上一段You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that for every treachery I have a right to a kill.同义

“do you really think your master can rob me of my rights by mere force? He knows the Deep Magic better than that. He knows that unless I have blood as the Law says all Narnia will be overturned and perish in fire and water.”

by mere force仅仅靠武力(only by force)

rob sb.of sth.掠夺

类似deprive  sb. of sth剥夺

overturn 推翻

unless I have blood as the Law says 即上文说的every traitor belongs to her as her lawful prey.

不管怎样，第十三章豹豹已经精听精读完毕，一会儿开本新书换换状态。原版阅读路上，不妨把目标放的小些，把难度放的低些。慢慢的，你会发现以前走过曲折的路已经再也看不清楚，康庄大道就在脚下了。