Week 02 Day 05
(…‘Shake ’em off … shake ’em off,’ he would mutter whenever he did this.)
kindle #503-547/扇贝chapter 3第3节/有声音频（12:05-18:08）
Vocabulary
一、重点单词：
- strangled cry/gasp/voice: a cry or other sound that is suddenly stopped before it is finished 突然止住的喊叫/喘气/说话声等
Then he shouted, ‘There’s another one! Mr H. Potter, The Smallest Bedroom, 4 Privet Drive –’
With a strangled cry, Uncle Vernon leapt from his seat and ran down the hall, Harry right behind him.
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wrestle: to fight someone by holding them and pulling or pushing them （与某人）摔跤；扭打
wrestle to the ground: 把……摔倒在地
Uncle Vernon had to wrestle Dudley to the ground to get the letter from him, which was made difficult by the fact that Harry had grabbed Uncle Vernon around the neck from behind.
- straighten up: to make your back straight, or to stand up straight after bending down 挺直身子，直起身来
After a minute of confused fighting, in which everyone got hit a lot by the Smeltings stick, Uncle Vernon straightened up, gasping for breath, with Harry’s letter clutched in his hand.
- wheez: to breathe with difficulty, making a noise in your throat and chest 气喘吁吁，发出呼哧声
‘Go to your cupboard – I mean, your bedroom,’ he wheezed at Harry. ‘Dudley – go – just go.’
- steal = creep = sneak: to move quietly without anyone noticing you 悄悄地移动
He stole downstairs without turning on any of the lights.
He was going to wait for the postman on the corner of Privet Drive and get the letters for number four first. His heart hammered as he crept across the dark hall towards the front door –
‘AAAAARRRGH!’
Harry leapt into the air – he’d trodden on something big and squashy on the doormat – something alive!
- hammer = pound: if your heart hammers, you feel it beating strongly and quickly （心）猛烈跳动，怦怦直跳
- tread in/on = step in/on: to put your foot on or in something while you are walking 踩，踏
- squashy: soft and easy to press （英，非正式）软而容易被压坏（扁）的
the foot of sth: the lowest or bottom part of something 某物的底部，某物的下端
lap = knee: the upper part of your legs when you are sitting down （坐着时的）大腿部
on/in sb's lap与“撕信”相关
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tear = rip
vi.
‘I want –’ he began, but Uncle Vernon was tearing the letters into pieces before his eye
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shred
n. a small thin piece that is torn or cut roughly from something （撕下或切下的）细条，碎片
tear/rip sth to shreds: 把……撕成碎片；把……批评得体无完肤
vt.
(1) to cut or tear something into small thin pieces 把……切成细条；把……撕成碎片
(2) to put a document into a shredder 把（文件）放进碎纸机粉碎
Aunt Petunia shredded the letters in her food mixer.
- 与“封死”相关
- nail sth ↔ up: permanently close a window or door by fixing something across it using nails （用钉子）封死（窗或门）
He stayed at home and nailed up the letter-box.
- board sth ↔ up: to cover a window or door, or all the windows and doors of a building, with wooden boards 用木板封住（门窗）
After burning all the letters, he got out a hammer and nails and boarded up the cracks around the front and back doors so no one could go out.
- get sth ↔ out:
TAKE SOMETHING FROM 从某处拿出某物
to take something from the place where it is kept 拿出某物，取出某物 - crack:
a very narrow space between two things or two parts of something 裂缝，缝隙
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slot:
n./vi.
vi. to go into a slot, or to put something in a slot （把……）插进窄孔（狭缝）
On Friday, no fewer than twelve letters arrived for Harry. As they couldn’t go through the letter-box they had been pushed under the door, slotted through the sides and a few even forced through the small window in the downstairs toilet.
- jump: IN FEAR/SURPRISE 恐惧/吃惊 to make a quick sudden movement because you are surprised or frightened （因惊讶或害怕而）突然一跳
He hummed ‘Tiptoe through the Tulips’ as he worked, and jumped at small noises.
Something came whizzing down the kitchen chimney as he spoke and caught him sharply on the back of the head.
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whizz
[always + adverb/preposition] informal
to move very quickly, often making a sound like something rushing through the air （非正式）嗖嗖的飞驰 -
catch
GET STUCK 被卡住
if your hand, finger, clothing etc catches or is caught in something, it gets stuck in it accidentally （被）夹住；（被）卡住；（被）钩住
Next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets. The Dursleys ducked, but Harry leapt into the air trying to catch one –
pelt:
duck: to lower your head or body very quickly, especially to avoid being seen or hit （迅速）低下（头），弯下（身），躲闪
They could hear the letters still streaming into the room, bouncing off the walls and floor.
stream=pour: FLOW 流动 to move in a continuous flow in the same direction 不断地流动；（朝同一方向）涌
bounce off: BALL/OBJECT 球/物体 if a ball or other object bounces, or you bounce it, it immediately moves up or away from a surface after hitting it （使）弹起；（使）反弹；（使）弹跳
That does it!
spoken used to say angrily that you will not accept a situation anymore （口）够了！（用于表示受不了某情况）wrench: If you wrench yourself free from someone who is holding you, you get away from them by suddenly twisting the part of your body that is being held. 挣脱；挣开
Ten minutes later they had wrenched their way through the boarded-up doors and were in the car, speeding towards the motorway.
- hold sb/sth ↔ up: to delay someone or something 耽搁某人；推迟（阻延）某事
Dudley was sniffling in the back seat; his father had hit him round the head for holding them up while he tried to pack his television, video and computer in his sports bag.
- shake sb/sth ↔ off: to escape from someone who is chasing you 摆脱，甩掉（追赶你的人）
二、其他单词：
1.shout
a mouthful of
roll up
badly
marmalade
waist
tuft
every now and then
三、旧词重现：
grab
gasp
creep
click
shuffle
crack
hum
furious
sniff
mutter
bang
作业
- 今天的作业是仔细阅读上面的词汇讲解，挑选其中3个句子进行翻译。
