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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 the 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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Then one day the Greek became ill. He sat up in bed with his hands on his fat stomach and big, oily tears rolled down his cheeks. Singer went to see his friend’s cousin who owned the fruit store, and also he arranged for leave from his own work. The doctor made out a diet for Antonapoulos and said that he could drink no more wine. Singer rapidly enforced the doctor’s orders. All day he sat by his friend’s bed and did what he could to make the time pass quickly, but Antonapoulos only looked at him angrily from the corners of his eyes and would not be amused.
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● 他们在那城里一共住了十年。忽然有一天那希腊人生病了。
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● big, oily tears：那胖子本来脸上有油汗（见第一段），眼泪滚下来也像油了。
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● arranged for leave：办请假手续。他要整天地陪伴病人。
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● diet：规定的食品和食量。enforced the doctor’s orders：强制执行医生的命令（他们同医生可以笔谈的）。
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● to make the time pass quickly：消磨光阴，解除病人的寂寞。
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The Greek was very fretful, and kept finding fault with the fruit drinks and food that Singer prepared for him. Constantly he made his friend help him out of bed so that he could pray. He fumbled with his hands to say ‘Darling Mary’ and then held to the small brass cross tied to his neck with a dirty string. His big eyes would wall up to the ceiling with a look of fear in them, and afterwards he was very sulky and would not let his friend speak to him.
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● fretful：容易发脾气的。finding fault with：找错，挑眼。kept是不及物动词，表示“继续地做”。finding是现在分词做subjective complement。
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● fruit drinks：果汁，用以代酒。
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● held to：紧握。
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● wall当不及物动词用，字典上恐怕没有这样一条。此字是从形容词walleyed（目光炯炯的或眼白露得很多的）转来，wall在这里的意思当是“炯炯而视或是把眼白翻上来看”。sulky：闹别扭的样子。
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Singer was patient and did all that he could. He drew little pictures, and once he made a sketch of his friend to amuse him. The picture hurt the big Greek’s feelings, and he refused to be reconciled until Singer had made his face very young and handsome and colored his hair bright yellow and his eyes china blue. And then he tried not to show his pleasure.
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● patient：有耐心的。sketch：速写。Singer可能把他画得很胖，因此他不高兴了。
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● reconciled：言归于好。“until”clause中有两动词：had made和(had) colored。china blue：青瓷色。young、handsome、bright yellow、china blue都是objective complements。
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● Singer把他的脸画漂亮了，那胖子该高兴了。可是他心里高兴，脸上还不肯表示出来。Singer想尽办法，无非要使朋友高兴，朋友偏不让他称心如愿。
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Singer nursed his friend so carefully that after a week Antonapoulos was able to return to his work. But from that time on there was a difference in their way of life. Trouble came to the two friends.
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● nurse作名词是“护士”，作动词便是“看护”。
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● 病是好了，却有别的麻烦来了。
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Antonapoulos was not ill any more, but a change had come in him. He was irritable and no longer content to spend the evenings quietly in their home. When he would wish to go out Singer followed along close behind him. Antonapoulos would go into a restaurant, and while they sat at the table he slyly put lumps of sugar, or a peppershaker, or pieces of silverware in his pocket. Singer always paid for what he took and there was no disturbance. At home he scolded Antonapoulos, but the Greek only looked at him with a bland smile.
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● irritable：容易发脾气的。close（副词）：贴近地。slyly：偷偷摸摸地，鬼鬼祟祟地。peppershaker：内盛胡椒，盖上有细孔的小瓶。
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● disturbance：纷扰。偷走的东西有人给付帐，不会有什么吵闹了。
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● bland：温文的（按：此字带一点“油腔滑调”的意思）。
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The months went on and these habits of Antonapoulos grew worse. One day at noon he walked calmly out of the fruit store of his cousin and urinated in public against the wall of the First National Bank Building across the street. At times he would meet people on the sidewalk whose faces did not please him, and he would bump into these persons and push at them with his elbows and stomach. He walked into a store one day and hauled out a floor lamp without paying for it, and another time he tried to take an electric train he had seen in a showcase.
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● in public：当众。urinated（动词）：小便；urine（名词）：尿。
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