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“Natives don’t cry,” said Miss Henley. “They don’t feel things the way other people do.”
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● 小弟弟问道：“你给了他们些什么东西，他们才不哭的呢？”小弟弟以为，天下的人同他自己一样，哭的时候，只要有一块糖来骗骗他们，就会不哭的。小弟弟话里的“他们”，不一定指什么人，可能就是那些遭雷击的人，可能是他们的亲属。
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● 亨利小姐的答复：“土人是不哭的。”他们对于一件事情，觉得是喜还是怒，或者是哀还是乐，都同别人不一样（他们的感觉方式同别人的感觉方式不一样）。the way在这里当relative adverb用，引起下面一状语从句：other people do。说完全了应该是in the same way as，但普通口语用the way两个字已够。
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● 雷击土人一段穿插，似和主要故事无关，可是“土人是不哭的”一句话，作者竟用作全文标题，其意隐晦，颇难索解。可能只是因为这句话在小孩子脑筋里所留下的印象特别深？可能这一句话表示人和人之间的感觉方式不都一样，不哭之人也许正有可哭之由？可能这三个字只是代表一种刚毅坚忍的精神，恰如亨利小姐的为人？也许这几种意思只有这三个字才能充分表达，不说明反而比说明好？
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It was cold climbing and father stopped the car for a glass of wine in a country tavern. We all went in and sat down by the stove, and mother and father and Miss Henley drank a pitcher of red, hot wine.
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“How do you like Austria, Miss Henley?” mother said. “This is Austria, isn’t it?”
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● 母亲常常弄不清楚欧洲那些国家（见前文），这里问了人家喜欢不喜欢奥地利之后，再添问一句：“这是奥地利不是？”
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“Oh, it’s very like the country in Burma, you know,” said Miss Henley. “I was telling the children. I’ve a friend who has a little car of his own. He drives it all over England. I told him we would be driving around Salzburg. It would be a joke, wouldn’t it, if he suddenly turned up on the road?”
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● the country in Burma：缅甸的乡村。
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● I was telling the children：我刚才还在对孩子们说呢。这里用过去进行式，接着三个动词都是现在式，讲三件并不限定在某一个时间的事情：我有一个朋友，他有一辆汽车，他常在英国各处开来开去——她又讲起她的男朋友来了。
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● we would be driving是we will be driving的过去式。这里的will只表示将来，不表示意愿；第一人称用will代替shall以表示将来，在口语里面是很普通的。
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● turned up：出现（虚拟式）。假如忽然他驾了汽车在我们的公路上出现了，你说这是不是一个很大的玩笑喔？
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“Perhaps he’s going to surprise you by coming right over,“said father. Miss Henley’s face squeezed up with laughter.
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“It would be just like him to!” she said. “I’ll never forget the time we were asked to a fancy-dress party. He dressed up the same as two friends of his did, and I never knew until the party was over and everybody unmasked that I’d been dancing with somebody else all evening. He had got tired,” said Miss Henley, “and gone home early.”
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● surprise you：吓你一跳。coming right over：从英国径自赶来。
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● squeezed up：皱缩。
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● It…like him to：他就是这样子的（爱弄玄虚）。to之后省略surprise me等字样。
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● fancy-dress party：化装舞会。as two of his friends did之did=dressed up：他的服装打扮跟他的两个朋友一模一样的。
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● unmasked：除去面具。她发现她一晚上一直是跟别人在跳舞。发现在后，用过去式，跳舞在先，当用过去完成式，可是又是一直地在跳，故用过去完成进行式。
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● 她的男朋友爱作弄人，化装舞会上把她交给别人伴陪着跳舞，自己因为疲倦，早回去了。
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“That was a good joke,” said mother.
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Father said: “Have a little more wine.”
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“Oh, I never take much,” said Miss Henley, watching him fill her glass up. “If this friend I was speaking of did happen along the children would have a wonderful time with him. He’s like a child himself,” she said, and she began to gasp with laughter. “He’d be down on his hands and knees all the time playing with Francis if he were here.”
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● I never take much：我酒喝得不多。fill her glass up：把她的杯子斟满。
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