2024高中课外名著精读 哈利波特与魔法石 第一章 大难不死的男孩 D01

—CHAPTER ONE—The Boy Who Lived(1) 大难不死的男孩 Mr and Mrs Dursley,of number four,Privet Drive,were proud to say that they were per-fectly normal,thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious,because they just didn't hold with such nonsense. 家住女贞路4号的德思礼夫妇总是得意地说他们是非常规矩的人家。拜-托,拜托了。他们从来跟神秘古怪的事不沾边,因为他们根本不相信那些邪门歪道。 Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings,which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck,although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck,which came in very use-ful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences,spying on the neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. 弗农德思礼先生在一家名叫格朗宁的公司做主管,公司生产钻机。他高大魁梧,胖得几乎连脖子都没有,却蓄着一脸大胡子。德思礼太太是一个瘦削的金发女人。她的脖子几乎比正常人长一倍。这样每当她花许多时间隔着篱墙引颈而望、窥探左邻右舍时,她的长脖子可就派上了大用场。德思礼夫妇有一个小儿子,名叫达力。在他们看来,人世间没有比达力更好的孩子了。 The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they hadn't met for several years; in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn't want Dudley mixing with a child like that. 德思一家什么都不缺,但他们拥有一个秘密,他们最害怕的就是这秘密会被人发现。他们想,一旦有人发现波特一家的事,他们会承受不住的。波特太太是德思礼太太的妹妹,不过她们已经有好几年不见面了。实际上,德思礼太太佯装自己根本没有这么个妹妹,因为她妹妹和她那一无是处的妹夫与德思礼一家的为人处世完全不一样。一想到邻居们会说波特夫妇来到了,德思礼夫妇会吓得胆战心惊。他们知道波特也有个儿子,只是他们从来没有见过。这孩子也是他们不与波特夫妇来往的一个很好的借口,他们不愿让达力跟这种孩子厮混。 When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley