CHAPTER 2 第二章-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《简·爱Jane Eyre》

CHAPTER 2 The red-room was a spare chamber,very seldom slept in:I might say never. Mr Reed had been dead nine years:it was in this chamber he breathed his last;here he lay in state;hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker's men;and,since that day,a sense of dreary consecration5 had guarded it from frequent intrusion. ·008· 第二章 ①chamber/tfermba/n室， 房间 红房子是间空闲的卧房，很少有人在里面 ②co压im/kofin/n.棺材 3undertaker Andoteika/n. 过夜。也许我可以说，从来没有。 承办殡葬者 4。 ④dreary/drior/a.沉闷的 5 consecration 里德先生已经死了九年：他就是在这间房 konsikreifon/n.献祭 6 intrusion /intru:san/n. 子里咽气的，遗体也放在这里，他的棺材由殡 入，侵扰 葬工人从这里抬走。从此这里便弥漫着一种阴 森优伤的气氛，叫人们不愿来此 4。 ·009·