专八阅读磕cp | 心是孤独的猎手
听说，今天考了专八和大英赛。
听说，专八就像一场远行，是一场离正确答案，离专八证书，越来越远的远行。
听说，LR不小心命中了专八其中一篇改错题；还有，大英赛考到了前几天的出现的offset一词，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。
听说，今天专八第二篇阅读大家都在嗑CP。那就借此机会，我们一起来嗑一嗑，看看节选自卡森·麦卡勒斯（Carson McCullers）的小说《心是孤独的猎手》（The Heart is a Lonely Hunter）的阅读题有多甜。
无注释原文：
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Part One
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. Early every morning they would come out from the house where they lived and walk arm in arm down the street to work. The two friends were very different. The one who always steered the way was an obese and dreamy Greek. In the summer he would come out wearing a yellow or green polo shirt stuffed sloppily into his trousers in front and hanging loose behind. When it was colder he wore over this a shapeless grey sweater. His face was round and oily, with half-closed eyelids and lips that curved in a gentle, stupid smile. The other mute was tall. His eyes had a quick, intelligent expression. He was always immaculate and very soberly dressed.
Every morning the two friends walked silently together until they reached the main street of the town. Then when they came to a certain fruit and candy store they paused for a moment on the sidewalk outside. The Greek, Spiros Antonapoulos, worked for his cousin, who owned this fruit store. His job was to make candies and sweets, uncrate the fruits, and to keep the place clean. The thin mute, John Singer, nearly always put his hand on his friend’s arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him. Then after this good-bye Singer crossed the street and walked on alone to the jewellery store where he worked as a silverware engraver.
In the late afternoon the friends would meet again. Singer came back to the fruit store and waited until Antonapoulos was ready to go home. The Greek would be lazily unpacking a case of peaches or melons, or perhaps looking at the funny paper in the kitchen behind the store where he cooked. Before their departure Antonapoulos always opened a paper sack he kept hidden during the day on one of the kitchen shelves. Inside were stored various bits of food he had collected – a piece of fruit, samples of candy, or the butt-end of a liverwurst. Usually before leaving Antonapoulos waddled gently to the glassed case in the front of the store where some meats and cheeses were kept. He glided open the back of the case and his fat hand groped lovingly for some particular dainty inside which he had wanted. Sometimes his cousin who owned the place did not see him. But if he noticed he stared at his cousin with a warning in his tight, pale face. Sadly Antonapoulos would shuffle the morsel from one corner of the case to the other. During these times Singer stood very straight with his hands in his pockets and looked in another direction. He did not like to watch this little scene between the two Greeks. For, excepting drinking and a certain solitary secret pleasure, Antonapoulos loved to eat more than anything else in the world.
In the dusk the two mutes walked slowly home together. At home Singer was always talking to Antonapoulos. His hands shaped the words in a swift series of designs. His face was eager and his grey-green eyes sparkled brightly. With his thin, strong hands he told Antonapoulos all that had happened during the day.
Antonapoulos sat back lazily and looked at Singer. It was seldom that he ever moved his hands to speak at all --- and then it was to say that he wanted to eat or to sleep or to drink. These three things he always said with the same vague, fumbling signs. At night, if he were not too drunk, he would kneel down before his bed and pray awhile. Then his plump hands shaped the words ‘Holy Jesus,' or ‘God,' or ‘Darling Mary.' These were the only words Antonapoulos ever said. Singer never knew just how much his friend understood of all the things he told him. But it did not matter.
They shared the upstairs of a small house near the business section of the town. There were two rooms. On the oil stove in the kitchen Antonapoulos cooked all of their meals. There were straight, plain kitchen chairs for Singer and an over-stuffed sofa for Antonapoulos. The bedroom was furnished mainly with a large double bed covered with an eiderdown comfort for the big Greek and a narrow iron cot for Singer.
Dinner always took a long time, because Antonapoulos loved food and he was very slow. After they had eaten, the big Greek would lie back on his sofa and slowly lick over each one of his teeth with his tongue, either from a certain delicacy or because he did not wish to lose the savour of the meal – while Singer washed the dishes.
Sometimes in the evening the mutes would play chess. Singer had always greatly enjoyed this game, and years before he had tried to teach it to Antonapoulos. At first his friend could not be interested in the reasons for moving the various pieces about on the board. Then Singer began to keep a bottle of something good under the table to be taken out after each lesson. The Greek never got on to the erratic movements of the knights and the sweeping mobility of the queens, but he learned to make a few set, opening moves. He preferred the white pieces and would not play if the black men were given him. After the first moves Singer worked out the game by himself while his friend looked on drowsily. If Singer made brilliant attacks on his own men so that in the end the black king was killed, Antonapoulos was always very proud and pleased.
The two mutes had no other friends, and except when they worked they were alone together. Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them. Once a week they would go to the library for Singer to withdraw a mystery book and on Friday night they attended a movie. Then on payday they always went to the ten-cent photograph shop above the Army and Navy Store so that Antonapoulos could have his picture taken. These were the only places where they made customary visits. There were many parts in the town that they had never even seen.
The town was in the middle of the deep South. The summers were long and the months of winter cold were very few. Nearly always the sky was a glassy, brilliant azure and the sun burned down riotously bright. Then the light, chill rains of November would come, and perhaps later there would be frost and some short months of cold. The winters were changeable, but the summers always were burning hot. The town was a fairly large one. On the main street there were several blocks of two- and three-storey shops and business offices. But the largest buildings in the town were the factories, which employed a large percentage of the population. These cotton mills were big and flourishing and most of the workers in the town were very poor. Often in the faces along the streets there was the desperate look of hunger and of loneliness.
But the two mutes were not lonely at all. At home they were content to eat and drink, and Singer would talk with his hands eagerly to his friend about all that was in his mind. So the years passed in this quiet way until Singer reached the age of thirty-two and had been in the town with Antonapoulos for ten years.
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注：下文选自中文译本，仅供参考
含注释全文：
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
《心是孤独的猎手》
Carson McCullers
卡森·麦卡勒斯
Part One
第一章
In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. Early every morning they would come out from the house where they lived and walk arm in arm down the street to work. The two friends were very different. The one who always steered the way was an obese and dreamy Greek. In the summer he would come out wearing a yellow or green polo shirt stuffed sloppily into his trousers in front and hanging loose behind. When it was colder he wore over this a shapeless grey sweater. His face was round and oily, with half-closed eyelids and lips that curved in a gentle, stupid smile. The other mute was tall. His eyes had a quick, intelligent expression. He was always immaculate and very soberly dressed.
镇上有两个哑巴，他们总在一起。每天清晨，他们从住所出来，手挽手走路上班。这两个朋友很不同。带路的向来是那个希腊人，形貌痴肥，神情恍惚。夏天出门时，他穿件黄色或绿色的马球衫，前襟胡乱掖进裤腰，后摆随意耷拉着。天冷些，他便在外面套上一件松垮垮的灰毛衣。他的脸滚圆、油腻，眼皮半开半闭，嘴唇弯成一个温和的傻笑。另一个哑巴个头高，眼神透着敏捷聪慧，衣着十分朴素，向来一尘不染。
mute
此处作名词，表示“哑巴”，英文解释为“a person who is not able to speak”；作动词，表示“消音；减音；减弱（尤指乐器）的声音”，英文解释为“to make the sound of sth, especially a musical instrument, quieter or softer, sometimes using a mute”，举个🌰：
They begin to mute their voices, not be as assertive.
他们开始放低嗓门，不再那么肯定了。
作动词，也可以引申为“减弱，缓解（行动力度）；抑制（感情等）”，英文解释为“to make sth weaker or less severe”，举个🌰：
She thought it better to mute her criticism.
她觉得还是婉转地提出批评比较好。
区分：
📍听说有人把mute看成了mule；mule /mjuːl/表示“骡子”（an animal that has a horse and a donkey as parents, used especially for carrying loads）。
steer
1）表示“引导，带领”，英文解释为“to take someone or something or make someone or something go in the direction in which you want him, her, or it”举个🌰：
She steered her guests into the dining room.
她把客人们领到餐厅。
2）表示“驾驶”，英文解释为“When you steer a car, boat, or plane, you control it so that it goes in the direction that you want.”举个🌰：
He steered the boat into the harbour.
他把船开进港。
stuff
作动词，表示“装满，填满，塞满”，英文解释为“to completely fill a container with something”举个🌰：
Under her bed, they found a bag stuffed with money.
他们在她床下找到了一个装满钞票的袋子。
immaculate
表示“一尘不染的；特别整洁的”，英文解释为“If you describe something as immaculate, you mean that it is extremely clean, tidy, or neat.”
Every morning the two friends walked silently together until they reached the main street of the town. Then when they came to a certain fruit and candy store they paused for a moment on the sidewalk outside. The Greek, Spiros Antonapoulos, worked for his cousin, who owned this fruit store. His job was to make candies and sweets, uncrate the fruits, and to keep the place clean. The thin mute, John Singer, nearly always put his hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him. Then after this good-bye Singer crossed the street and walked on alone to the jewellery store where he worked as a silverware engraver.
每天早上，两个朋友默默地一起走到镇上的主街。来到一家果品店前，他们在外面的人行道上逗留片刻。那个希腊人，斯皮诺斯·安东尼帕罗斯（Spiros Antonapoulos），给他的表兄打工，他的表兄是这家果品店的老板。他的工作是制作糖果和甜品，从箱子里取出水果，还有保洁。那个瘦哑巴约翰·辛格（John Singer），在告别前，总是把手放在朋友的胳膊上，凝视他的脸一秒钟。道别后，辛格穿过马路，独自走到珠宝店，他在那儿上班，是个银器雕刻工。
uncrate
crate作动词，表示“把…装箱”，英文解释为“If something is crated or crated up, it is packed in a crate so that it can be transported or stored somewhere safely.”举个🌰：
Equipment and office supplies were crated and shipped.
设备及办公用品被装箱运走了。
📍显然，uncrate反过来，指的是打开...包装，从...箱中取出，下文用了unpack一词替换。
In the late afternoon the friends would meet again. Singer came back to the fruit store and waited until Antonapoulos was ready to go home. The Greek would be lazily unpacking a case of peaches or melons, or perhaps looking at the funny paper in the kitchen behind the store where he cooked. Before their departure Antonapoulos always opened a paper sack he kept hidden during the day on one of the kitchen shelves. Inside were stored various bits of food he had collected – a piece of fruit, samples of candy, or the butt-end of a liverwurst.
快到傍晚时，两个朋友再次见面。辛格回到果品店，一直等到安东尼帕罗斯准备下班回家。希腊人懒洋洋地打开一箱桃子或甜瓜，要么就在店后的厨房里翻看报纸上的滑稽漫画。出发前，安东尼帕罗斯总是打开他白天藏在厨房架子上的一个纸袋，里面存着他攒的各种食物：一个水果、几个糖果样品，或者一小截猪肝肠。
Usually before leaving Antonapoulos waddled gently to the glassed case in the front of the store where some meats and cheeses were kept. He glided open the back of the case and his fat hand groped lovingly for some particular dainty inside which he had wanted. Sometimes his cousin who owned the place did not see him. But if he noticed he stared at his cousin with a warning in his tight, pale face. Sadly Antonapoulos would shuffle the morsel from one corner of the case to the other. During these times Singer stood very straight with his hands in his pockets and looked in another direction. He did not like to watch this little scene between the two Greeks. For, excepting drinking and a certain solitary secret pleasure, Antonapoulos loved to eat more than anything else in the world.
通常，离开前，安东尼帕罗斯会大摇大摆不慌不忙地走到店前的玻璃柜旁，那里放着肉和奶酪。他滑开柜子的后门，一只胖手深情地摸索他渴望的某种特别的美味。有时候，他的表兄老板看不见，倘若被他发现，他会盯着表弟，紧绷着那张苍白的脸警告他，可怜的安东尼帕罗斯只好把美味从柜子的一角挪到另一角。每到这种时候，辛格总是站得笔直，手揣在口袋里，眼睛看着别处。他不喜欢看两个希腊人之间的小风波。因为，除了喝酒和某种孤独且秘密的消遣外，对安东尼帕罗斯来说，吃是他在这个世界上最大的爱好。
waddle
表示“（鸭子似地）蹒跚行走，摇摆地行走”，英文解释为“to walk with short steps, swinging from side to side, like a duck”举个🌰：
He pushed himself laboriously out of the chair and waddled to the window.
他吃力地从椅子上站起来，蹒跚走到了窗前。
glide
表示“滑行，滑动”，英文解释为“to move smoothly and quietly, as if without effort”举个🌰：
Waiters glide between tightly packed tables bearing trays of pasta.
侍者们托着一盘盘的意大利面食在拥挤的餐桌间自如穿行。
grope
表示“摸索；（尤指）摸寻，探寻，摸索着前进”，英文解释为“to feel with your hands, especially in order to find or move towards something when you cannot see easily”；
morsel
morsel /ˈmɔːsəl/ 表示“少量，一块（食物）”，英文解释为“a small amount or a piece of sth, especially food”如：a delicious little morsel of meat 一丁点儿好吃的肉。
In the dusk the two mutes walked slowly home together. At home Singer was always talking to Antonapoulos. His hands shaped the words in a swift series of designs. His face was eager and his grey-green eyes sparkled brightly. With his thin, strong hands he told Antonapoulos all that had happened during the day.
暮色中，两个哑巴慢悠悠地一起走回家。在家里，辛格总是对安东尼帕罗斯说话，飞快地打出一连串手语，表情急切，灰绿色的眼睛熠熠闪光。他用瘦削有力的双手告诉安东尼帕罗斯白天发生的一切。
Antonapoulos sat back lazily and looked at Singer. It was seldom that he ever moved his hands to speak at all --- and then it was to say that he wanted to eat or to sleep or to drink. These three things he always said with the same vague, fumbling signs. At night, if he were not too drunk, he would kneel down before his bed and pray awhile. Then his plump hands shaped the words ‘Holy Jesus,' or ‘God,' or ‘Darling Mary.' These were the only words Antonapoulos ever said. Singer never knew just how much his friend understood of all the things he told him. But it did not matter.
安东尼帕罗斯则懒洋洋地坐在那儿，注视着辛格。他很少动手说话，动手的时候也是说他想吃饭、想睡觉，或者想喝酒。他总是用同样含糊笨拙的手势说这三件事。晚上，如果喝得不太醉，他会跪在床前祷告一会儿。然后，用他圆乎乎的手打出“神圣的耶稣”“上帝”或“亲爱的马利亚”等词语。安东尼帕罗斯只说这些话。辛格从来不知道，他告诉他的那些话，朋友到底能听懂多少。不过，这并不重要。
fumbling
表示“笨拙的；迟疑的”，英文解释为“awkward, uncertain or hesitating”如：a fumbling schoolboy 笨拙的男生。
plump
表示“丰腴的；微胖的”，英文解释为“having a soft, round body; slightly fat”如：a short, plump man 一个矮胖的男子。
They shared the upstairs of a small house near the business section of the town. There were two rooms. On the oil stove in the kitchen Antonapoulos cooked all of their meals. There were straight, plain kitchen chairs for Singer and an over-stuffed sofa for Antonapoulos. The bedroom was furnished mainly with a large double bed covered with an eiderdown comfort for the big Greek and a narrow iron cot for Singer.
他们在镇上的商业区附近合租了一栋小房子的二楼，有两个房间。所有饭菜都是安东尼帕罗斯在厨房的油炉上做的。厨房里有几把简单的直背椅是辛格的，还有一张又厚又软的沙发属于安东尼帕罗斯。卧室里没什么家具，那张铺着鸭绒被（eiderdown）的大双人床属于胖大的希腊人，辛格睡在那张很窄的小铁床上。
furnish
表示“装潢；布置（房间、建筑物）”，英文解释为“If you furnish a room or building, you put furniture and furnishings into it.”举个🌰：
The room was furnished with antiques.
房间里摆放了古董。
Dinner always took a long time, because Antonapoulos loved food and he was very slow. After they had eaten, the big Greek would lie back on his sofa and slowly lick over each one of his teeth with his tongue, either from a certain delicacy or because he did not wish to lose the savour of the meal – while Singer washed the dishes.
吃晚饭总要花很长时间，因为安东尼帕罗斯喜欢食物，而且吃得很慢。吃完饭，辛格洗碗，胖大的希腊人则靠在沙发上，慢慢地用舌头舔每一颗牙，要么是他对味道敏感，要么就是对饭味恋恋不舍。
lick
lick表示“舔，舐”，英文解释为“to move the tongue across the surface of something”举个🌰：
He licked the chocolate off his fingers.
他把手指上的巧克力舔干净了。
delicacy
delicacy /ˈdelɪkəsi/ 表示“美味佳肴”，英文解释为“A delicacy is a rare or expensive food that is considered especially nice to eat.”
savor /ˈseɪvə/
savor/savour 作名词，表示“风味，滋味”；作动词，表示“细品，享用”，英文解释为“to enjoy food or an experience slowly, in order to enjoy it as much as possible”举个🌰：
It was the first chocolate he'd tasted for over a year, so he savored every mouthful.
这是他一年多来吃到的第一块巧克力，因此他每一口都细细品尝。
📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述特朗普作为商人一面的文章中提到：It was a high point of their relationship that the Brit still savours. 这是二人交情的一个高潮，他到今天还在回味。
Sometimes in the evening the mutes would play chess. Singer had always greatly enjoyed this game, and years before he had tried to teach it to Antonapoulos. At first his friend could not be interested in the reasons for moving the various pieces about on the board. Then Singer began to keep a bottle of something good under the table to be taken out after each lesson. The Greek never got on to the erratic movements of the knights and the sweeping mobility of the queens, but he learned to make a few set, opening moves. He preferred the white pieces and would not play if the black men were given him. After the first moves Singer worked out the game by himself while his friend looked on drowsily. If Singer made brilliant attacks on his own men so that in the end the black king was killed, Antonapoulos was always very proud and pleased.
有时候，两个哑巴在晚上会下象棋。辛格一直酷爱这种游戏，很多年前，他曾试图教安东尼帕罗斯下象棋。一开始，他的朋友不感兴趣，他不喜欢把这么多棋子在棋盘上移来移去。后来，辛格在桌子底下放了一瓶好酒，每堂课后拿出来。希腊人一直没领会“马”古怪的走法和“后”横冲直撞的机动性，不过，他学会了几种开局方法。他更喜欢白子，给他黑子，他就不玩了。走完最初几步，辛格就自己琢磨棋局，朋友在一旁昏昏沉沉地看他下棋。如果辛格发起漂亮的攻击，吃了自己的子，最后黑方的“王”被将死了，安东尼帕罗斯会非常骄傲得意。
erratic
表示“不规则的；不确定的；不稳定的；不可靠的”，英文解释为“not happening at regular times; not following any plan or regular pattern; that you cannot rely on”举个🌰：
The electricity supply here is quite erratic.
这里的电力供应相当不稳定。
📺美剧《犯罪心理》（Criminal minds）第六季中的台词提到：He'll change his M.O., and that'll make him erratic. 他会改变作案方式 情绪会因此而不稳定。
类似的：
📍unpredictable：someone who is unpredictable tends to change their behaviour or ideas suddenly, so that you never know what they are going to do or think 反复无常的，捉摸不透的
The two mutes had no other friends, and except when they worked they were alone together. Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them. Once a week they would go to the library for Singer to withdraw a mystery book and on Friday night they attended a movie. Then on payday they always went to the ten-cent photograph shop above the Army and Navy Store so that Antonapoulos could have his picture taken. These were the only places where they made customary visits. There were many parts in the town that they had never even seen.
两个哑巴没有别的朋友，除了上班时间，他们总单独在一起。他们就这样日复一日地生活着，由于他们过于离群索居，没有什么能打扰到他们。他们每个星期去一次图书馆，辛格借一本推理小说；星期五晚上，他们去看场电影。发薪水那天，他们总是去军需品商店楼上那家便宜的照相馆，安东尼帕罗斯在那儿拍张照片。他们经常光顾这几个地方。镇上有很多地方，他们从来没去过。
The town was in the middle of the deep South. The summers were long and the months of winter cold were very few. Nearly always the sky was a glassy, brilliant azure and the sun burned down riotously bright. Then the light, chill rains of November would come, and perhaps later there would be frost and some short months of cold. The winters were changeable, but the summers always were burning hot. The town was a fairly large one. On the main street there were several blocks of two- and three-storey shops and business offices. But the largest buildings in the town were the factories, which employed a large percentage of the population. These cotton mills were big and flourishing and most of the workers in the town were very poor. Often in the faces along the streets there was the desperate look of hunger and of loneliness.
这个镇子位于南方腹地。夏日漫长，寒冬短暂。天空几乎永远是一片光亮透明的蔚蓝，灿烂的阳光狂暴地照射大地。到了十一月，丝丝冷雨落下，此后，可能还会有霜冻，冷上几个月，时间不长。冬天变化无常，但夏天总是热辣辣的。这个镇子相当大。主街上有几个街区，都是两三层的商店和办公楼。但镇上最大的建筑是工厂，雇用了大部分人口。棉纺厂（cotton mills）都很大，生意兴隆，镇里的大部分人很穷。街上时常能看见一张张面带饥色、孤独绝望的脸。
azure
azure /ˈæʒə(r); ˈæzjʊə(r)/ 表示“蔚蓝色”，英文解释为“Azure is used to describe things that are bright blue.”如：an azure sky 蔚蓝色的天空。
mill
表示“工厂；制造厂”，英文解释为“a factory that produces a particular type of material”如：a cotton/cloth/steel/paper mill 纱/纺织/钢/造纸厂。
But the two mutes were not lonely at all. At home they were content to eat and drink, and Singer would talk with his hands eagerly to his friend about all that was in his mind. So the years passed in this quiet way until Singer reached the age of thirty-two and had been in the town with Antonapoulos for ten years.
然而，这两个哑巴一点都不孤独。在家里，他们只要吃吃喝喝就很满足，辛格无论脑子里想什么，都会用手急切地告诉他的朋友。岁月就这样静静地流逝，直到辛格到了三十二岁，他和安东尼帕罗斯在这个镇上已经生活了十年。
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