无人生还8

时间：2026-03-19 02:54:06

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VII

Tony Marston, roaring down into Mere¹, thought to himself:

‘The amount of cars crawling about the roads is frightful². Always some-

thing blocking your way. And they will drive in the middle of the road!

Pretty hopeless driving in England, anyway…Not like France where you

really could let out…’

Should he stop here for a drink, or push on? Heaps of time! Only an-

other hundred miles and a bit to go. He’d have a gin and ginger³ beer. Fizz-

ing hot day!

This island place ought to be rather good fun—if the weather lasted.

Who were these Owens, he wondered? Rich and stinking⁴, probably. Badger⁵

was rather good at nosing people like that out. Of course, he had to, poor

old chap, with no money of his own…

Hope they’d do one well in drinks. Never knew with these fellows who’d

made their money and weren’t born to it. Pity that story about Gabrielle

Turl having bought Soldier Island wasn’t true. He’d like to have been in

with that film star crowd.

Oh, well, he supposed there’d be a few girls there…

Coming out of the hotel, he stretched himself, yawned, looked up at the

blue sky and climbed into the Dalmain.

Several young women looked at him admiringly—his six feet of well-

proportioned body, his crisp hair, tanned face, and intensely blue eyes.

He let in the clutch with a roar and leapt up the narrow street. Old men

and errand boys jumped for safety. The latter looked after the car admir-

ingly.

Anthony Marston proceeded on his triumphal progress.

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1 mere
adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过
参考例句：
That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。 It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。

2 frightful
adj.可怕的；讨厌的
参考例句：
How frightful to have a husband who snores!有一个发鼾声的丈夫多讨厌啊！ We're having frightful weather these days.这几天天气坏极了。

3 ginger
n.姜，精力，淡赤黄色；adj.淡赤黄色的；vt.使活泼，使有生气
参考例句：
There is no ginger in the young man.这个年轻人没有精神。 Ginger shall be hot in the mouth.生姜吃到嘴里总是辣的。

4 stinking
adj.臭的，烂醉的，讨厌的v.散发出恶臭( stink的现在分词 )；发臭味；名声臭；糟透
参考例句：
I was pushed into a filthy, stinking room. 我被推进一间又脏又臭的屋子里。 Those lousy, stinking ships. It was them that destroyed us. 是的！就是那些该死的蠢猪似的臭飞船！是它们毁了我们。来自英汉非文学 - 科幻

5 badger
v.一再烦扰，一再要求，纠缠
参考例句：
Now that our debts are squared.Don't badger me with them any more.我们的债务两清了。从此以后不要再纠缠我了。 If you badger him long enough,I'm sure he'll agree.只要你天天纠缠他，我相信他会同意。