錄音：The Great Gatsby (continued)

Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the frontvista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden--請教這句如何理解？ 特別是後半句，謝謝！

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His speaking voice, a gruff 粗啞的粗啞的husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness脾氣不好的  he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal

 contempt in it, even toward people he liked — and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.

“Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters is final,” he seemed to say, “just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are.” We were in the same senior society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.

We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.

“I’ve got a nice place here,” he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.

Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed  motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore.

“It belonged to Demaine, the oil man.” He turned me around again, politely and abruptly. “We’ll go inside.”

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• 請教：including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden怎樣理解？謝了 -sportwoman- ♀ (291 bytes) () 09/10/2012 postreply 02:59:13

• 嚐試理解 -sportwoman- ♀ (1236 bytes) () 09/10/2012 postreply 03:29:25

• 很好！但sunken不是破落的意思，是凹陷的意思。 -NewVoice- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2012 postreply 03:33:21

• Thank you sis Newvoice for your prompt advice! -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2012 postreply 06:19:00

• pungent adj.刺鼻的；辛辣的；尖銳的；刻薄的 -EnLearner- ♂ (1552 bytes) () 09/10/2012 postreply 20:55:15

• 散發濃鬱香味的玫瑰園嗎？謝謝Elearner！ -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/11/2012 postreply 03:02:17

• 謝謝小蔓提出這麽多探討的題目，讓大家都受益。 -yingyudidida- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2012 postreply 05:59:52

• I've learned a lot from you and other big shots here -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/10/2012 postreply 06:18:01