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英语听书《海底两万里》第503期 第31章 章鱼(11)

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 I stared in my turn and couldn't keep back a movement of revulsion. 我上前一看，忍不住感到一阵恶心。

Before my eyes there quivered a horrible monster worthy1 of a place among the most farfetched teratological legends. 在我的眼前，游动着一头可怕的完全配得上载入那些离奇怪诞的传说中的怪物。
It was a squid of colossal2 dimensions, fully3 eight meters long. 这是一条8米长的巨大的章鱼。
It was traveling backward with tremendous speed in the same direction as the Nautilus. 它非常迅速地往“鹦鹉螺号”船只的同一方向倒退走。
It gazed with enormous, staring eyes that were tinted4 sea green. 它那巨大的海绿色眼睛盯着我们。
Its eight arms (or more accurately5, feet) were rooted in its head, which has earned these animals the name cephalopod; 那八只长在头上、使它被称为头足动物的爪子，或者说八只脚，
its arms stretched a distance twice the length of its body and were writhing6 like the serpentine7 hair of the Furies.  伸展时相当于身体的两倍，像复仇三女神的头发一样扭动着。
You could plainly see its 250 suckers, arranged over the inner sides of its tentacles8 and shaped like semispheric capsules.  我们清楚地看到它的两百五十个吸盘，呈半圆球状，排列在触脚的内侧。
Sometimes these suckers fastened onto the lounge window by creating vacuums against it. 有时，这些吸盘内形成真空紧紧地吸住客厅的玻璃。
The monster's mouth--a beak9 made of horn and shaped like that of a parrot--opened and closed vertically10. 这头怪物的嘴——像鹦鹉的喙一样是骨质的——垂直地一张一翕。
Its tongue, also of horn substance and armed with several rows of sharp teeth, would flicker11 out from between these genuine shears12. 它的骨质舌头上武装着好几排尖牙，颤动时活像一把真正的大铁剪。
What a freak of nature! 大自然是多离奇怪诞啊！
A bird's beak on a mollusk13! 一只软体动物竟然长着一只鸟喙！
Its body was spindle-shaped and swollen14 in the middle, a fleshy mass that must have weighed 20,000 to 25,000 kilograms.  它的身体成棱形，中间部位鼓起，形成一块重可达20000到25000公斤的肉。

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1 worthy vftwB     
adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的
参考例句：
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
2 colossal sbwyJ     
adj.异常的，庞大的
参考例句：
  • There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
  • Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。
3 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地
参考例句：
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 tinted tinted     
adj. 带色彩的 动词tint的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
  • a pair of glasses with tinted lenses 一副有色镜片眼镜
  • a rose-tinted vision of the world 对世界的理想化看法
5 accurately oJHyf     
adv.准确地，精确地
参考例句：
  • It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
  • Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
6 writhing 8e4d2653b7af038722d3f7503ad7849c     
（因极度痛苦而）扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • She was writhing around on the floor in agony. 她痛得在地板上直打滚。
  • He was writhing on the ground in agony. 他痛苦地在地上打滚。
7 serpentine MEgzx     
adj.蜿蜒的，弯曲的
参考例句：
  • One part of the Serpentine is kept for swimmers.蜿蜒河的一段划为游泳区。
  • Tremolite laths and serpentine minerals are present in places.有的地方出现透闪石板条及蛇纹石。
8 tentacles de6ad1cd521db1ee7397e4ed9f18a212     
n.触手( tentacle的名词复数 )；触角；触须；触毛
参考例句：
  • Tentacles of fear closed around her body. 恐惧的阴影笼罩着她。
  • Many molluscs have tentacles. 很多软体动物有触角。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 beak 8y1zGA     
n.鸟嘴，茶壶嘴，钩形鼻
参考例句：
  • The bird had a worm in its beak.鸟儿嘴里叼着一条虫。
  • This bird employs its beak as a weapon.这种鸟用嘴作武器。
10 vertically SfmzYG     
adv.垂直地
参考例句：
  • Line the pages for the graph both horizontally and vertically.在这几页上同时画上横线和竖线，以便制作图表。
  • The human brain is divided vertically down the middle into two hemispheres.人脑从中央垂直地分为两半球。
11 flicker Gjxxb     
vi./n.闪烁，摇曳，闪现
参考例句：
  • There was a flicker of lights coming from the abandoned house.这所废弃的房屋中有灯光闪烁。
  • At first,the flame may be a small flicker,barely shining.开始时，光辉可能是微弱地忽隐忽现，几乎并不灿烂。
12 shears Di7zh6     
n.大剪刀
参考例句：
  • These garden shears are lightweight and easy to use.这些园丁剪刀又轻又好用。
  • With a few quick snips of the shears he pruned the bush.他用大剪刀几下子就把灌木给修剪好了。
13 mollusk u6ozk     
n.软体动物
参考例句：
  • I swear I have never seen such a mollusk with thorns all over its body.我敢发誓我从来没有见过这种全身长满棘刺的软体动物。
  • The colour varies with the mollusk and its environment.颜色因母体及其环境的不同而异。
14 swollen DrcwL     
adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀
参考例句：
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。

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