The Most Dangerous Game(12)

现代大学英语 12A The Most Dangerous Game

numb [n m]

vt. 使麻木；使发愣；使失去感觉 adj. 麻木的；发愣的

uncanny [, n'kæni]

adj.

1. 神秘的；离奇的；可怕的

2. 不可思议的；难以置信的；异乎寻常的 3. [苏格兰方言]严重的；激烈的；危险的

quarry ['kw ri]

n. 采石场；猎物；来源 vi. 费力地找 vt. 挖出；努力挖掘

shudder [' d ] n. 发抖；战栗；震动 vi. 发抖；战栗

25 “I will not lose my nerve. I will not.”

26 He slid down from the tree and struck off again into the woods. He forced himself to think. 300 yards away he stopped where a huge dead tree

leaned precariously on a smaller, living one. Throwing off his sack of food, he began to work. The job was soon finished, and he threw himself down behind a fallen log a hundred feet away. He did not have to wait long. The cat was coming again to play with the mouse.

27crushed blade of the grass, no bent twig, no mark in the moss. So intent was the Cossack on

his stalking that he was upon the thing Rainsford had made before he saw it. His foot touched the protruding bough that was the trigger. He sensed the danger and leaped back with the agility of an ape. But he was not quite quick enough; the dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one, crushed down and struck him on the shoulder; but for his alertness, he would have been smashed beneath it. He staggered, but he did not fall. He stood there, rubbing his shoulder, and Rainsford heard his mocking laugh ring through the jungle.

”我不能胆怯，我不能。“

他从树上滑下来，再次走进了树林。他强迫自己去思考。走了三百码后，他停了下来，那里有一棵巨大的枯树，摇摇欲坠地靠在一棵小一点的活树上。他丢下食物袋，开始干活，活不