加勒比海之谜4

时间：2025-11-25 09:50:21

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In the bar, Molly Kendal stretched her back, and slipped off her high-
heeled shoes. Tim came in from the terrace to join her. They had the bar
to themselves for the moment.
“Tired, darling?” he asked.
“Just a bit. I seem to be feeling my feet tonight.”
“Not too much for you, is it? All this? I know it’s hard work.” He looked
at her anxiously.
She laughed. “Oh, Tim, don’t be ridiculous. I love it here. It’s gorgeous.
The kind of dream I’ve always had, come true.”
“Yes, it would be all right—if one was just a guest. But running the show
—that’s work.”
“Well, you can’t have anything for nothing, can you?” said Molly Kendal
reasonably.
Tim Kendal frowned.
“You think it’s going all right? A success? We’re making a go of it?”
“Of course we are.”
“You don’t think people are saying, ‘It’s not the same as when the
Sandersons were here.’”
“Of course someone will be saying that—they always do! But only some
old stick-in-the-mud. I’m sure that we’re far better at the job than they
were. We’re more glamorous1. You charm the old pussies2 and manage to
look as though you’d like to make love to the desperate forties and fifties,
and I ogle3 the old gentlemen and make them feel sexy dogs—or play the
sweet little daughter the sentimental4 ones would love to have had. Oh,
we’ve got it all taped splendidly.”
Tim’s frown vanished.
“As long as you think so. I get scared. We’ve risked everything on mak-
ing a job of this. I chucked my job—”
“And quite right to do so,” Molly put in quickly. “It was soul-destroying.”
He laughed and kissed the tip of her nose.
“I tell you we’ve got it taped,” she repeated. “Why do you always
worry?”
“Made that way, I suppose. I’m always thinking—suppose something
should go wrong.”
“What sort of thing—”
“Oh, I don’t know. Somebody might get drowned.”
“Not they. It’s one of the safest of all the beaches. And we’ve got that
hulking Swede always on guard.”
“I’m a fool,” said Tim Kendal. He hesitated — and then said, “You —
haven’t had any more of those dreams, have you?”
“That was shellfish,” said Molly, and laughed.

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1 glamorous ezZyZ     
adj.富有魅力的；美丽动人的；令人向往的
参考例句：
  • The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊，但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
  • It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差，并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。
2 pussies 9c98ba30644d0cf18e1b64aa3bf72b06     
n.（粗俚） 女阴( pussy的名词复数 )；（总称）（作为性对象的）女人；（主要北美使用，非正式）软弱的；小猫咪
参考例句：
  • Not one of these pussies has been washed in weeks. 这帮娘儿们几个星期都没洗过澡了。 来自电影对白
  • See there's three kinds of people: dicks pussies and assholes. 哥们，世上有三种人：小弟弟、小妹妹，还有屁股眼。 来自互联网
3 ogle f0UyA     
v.看；送秋波；n.秋波，媚眼
参考例句：
  • He likes to ogle at the pretty girls.他爱盯着漂亮的女孩子。
  • All she did was hang around ogling the men in the factory.她所做的就只是在工厂里荡来荡去，朝男人抛媚眼。
4 sentimental dDuzS     
adj.多愁善感的，感伤的
参考例句：
  • She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.她是多愁善感的人，她相信姻缘命中注定。
  • We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。

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