VOA慢速英语:Short Story: ‘The Diamond Lens’ by Fitz-James O'Brien (Part 2)

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短语讲解：

1. When I was a child, someone gave me a microscope. I spent hours looking through that microscope, exploring Nature's tiny secrets.

look through穿过…看
例句：The students were looking through a microscope at plant cells.
学生们正在通过显微镜观察植物细胞。

2. As I grew up, I became more interested in my microscope than in people.

grow up长大, 成熟
例句：I grow up in a slum.
我在一个贫民窟长大。
be interested in对…感兴趣
例句：I made John be interested in the puzzle.
我使约翰是对难题感兴趣。

3. By the time we had finished the first bottle, Simon was very drunk.

by the time到…时候为止
例句：He had left by the time we reached home.
当我们到家的时候他已经走了。

4. Simon was so busy looking at his diamond that I was able to put the drug in his glass quite easily.

look at看, 注视(某人或某物)
例句：He looked at me with scorn.
他轻蔑地看了看我。

5. He fell asleep in fifteen minutes.

fall asleep入睡,长眠
例句：The soft music caused us to to fall asleep.
催眠音乐使我们昏昏欲睡。

6. I picked up Simon's long thin knife and stared down at him.

pick up拾起, 捡起; 抬起
例句：I would have picked it up if I had noticed it.
我如果看见的话, 我早就把它拣起来了。
stare at盯, 凝视
例句：The little child stared at the toys in the shop-window.
那小孩盯着商店橱窗里的玩具。

7. One of the neighbors knocked at his door and when there was no answer, she called the police.

knock at打, 捶, 敲
例句：Opportunity knocks at the door only once.
机不可失, 时不再来。

8. I worked day and night on my diamond lens. At last the lens was done.

day and night夜以继日地; 日夜
例句：He carefully attended to the wounded soldiers day and night.
他日夜仔细照料伤员。

9. Carefully, I added some oil to the water to prevent it from drying.

prevent from阻止, 防止
例句：Cotton mittens will prevent the baby from scratching his own face.
棉的连指手套使婴儿不会抓伤自己的脸。

10. She went to the rainbow-colored trees and looked up at one of them.

look up向上看; 抬头看
例句：When he looked up, he saw the boss.
他抬起头时看到了老板。

11. Suddenly, I realized I had fallen in love with this tiny creature!

fall in love with 相爱
例句：They met and fell in love with each other during the second world war.
他们在第二次世界大战期间相遇并相爱。

12. One day, as usual, I went to my microscope, ready to watch my love.

as usual像往常一样
例句：I got up at six that morning as usual.
像往常一样那天早上我六点起床。

13. I had looked into it with the microscope, but not at it.

look into调查，观察
例句：John looked into the chronicles of the Middle Ages last week.
约翰在上周浏览了中世纪的编年史。