unit-3-a-hanging-課文翻譯(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 like a prayer or a cry for help, but steady, rhythmical, almost like the tolling of a bell.11. The hangman climbed down and stood ready, holding the lever. Minutes seemed to pass. The steady crying from the prisoner went on and on, Ram! Ram! Ram! never faltering for an instant. The superintendent, his head on his chest, was slowly poking the ground with his stick。 perhaps he was counting the cries, allowing the prisoner a fixed number fifty, perhaps, or a hundred. Everyone had changed color. The Indians had gone gray like bad coffee, and one or two of the bayonets were wavering.12. Suddenly the superintendent made up his mind. Throwing up his head he made a swift motion with his stick. Chalo! he shouted almost fiercely.13. There was a clanking noise, and then dead silence. The prisoner had vanished, and the rope was twisting on itself. We went round the gallows to inspect the prisoner39。s body. He was dangling with his toes pointing straight downward. Very slowly revolving, as dead as a stone.14. The superintendent reached out with his stick and poked the bare brown body。 it oscillated slightly. He39。s all right, said the superintendent. He backed out from under the gallows, and blew out a deep breath. The moody look had gone out of his face quite suddenly. He glanced at his wrist watch. Eight minutes past eight. Well, that39。s all for this morning, thank God. 15. The warders unfixed bayonets and marched away. We walked out of the gallows yard, past the condemned cells with their waiting prisoners, into the big central yard of the prison. The convicts were already receiving their breakfast. They squatted in long rows, each man holding a tin pannikin, while two warders with buckets march round ladling out rice。 it seemed quite a homely, jolly scene, after the hanging. An enormous relief had e upon us now that the job was done. One felt an impulse to sing, to break into a run, to snigger. All at once everyone began chattering gaily.16. The Eurasian boy walking beside me nodded toward the way we had e, with a knowing smile, Do you know sir, our friend (he meant the dead man
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