Vocabulary

chap n. 男人;男孩；

"He's a good chap."

"Splendid chap," said Mike. "He is, you know."

buttonhole v. 强留某人停下来听；

He buttonholed a priest who was coming back with one of the returning streams of pilgrims.

incense n. (常用于宗教仪式的)香；

It was dim and dark and the pillars went high up, and there were people praying, and it smelt of incense, and there were some wonderful big windows.

lousy adj. 很难受的；非常不舒服的；

It was lousy to enjoy it, but I felt lousy.

alter v. 改变；变更；更改；

The fact that I took it as a matter of course did not alter that any.

Expression

The waiter who served us was soaked through.

大汗淋漓

We came into the town on the other side of the plateau, the road slanting up steeply and dustily with shade-trees on both sides, and then levelling out through the new part of town they are building up outside the old walls.

两边绿树成荫

Excerpt

In the morning it was bright, and they were sprinkling the streets of the town, and we all had breakfast in a café. Bayonne is a nice town. It is like a very clean Spanish town and it is on a big river. Already, so early in the morning, it was very hot on the bridge across the river. We walked out on the bridge and then took a walk through the town.

sprinkle指洒水

Already 用得很特别。

It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café. A breeze started to blow, and you could feel that the air came from the sea. There were pigeons out in the square, and the houses were a yellow, sun-baked color, and I did not want to leave the café.

景色描写（美好的景色令人向往）。

We climbed up and up and crossed another high Col and turned along it, and the road ran down to the right, and we saw a whole new range of mountains off to the south, all brown and baked-looking and furrowed in strange shapes.

全部呈褐色，像是被烤焦了一样，沟壑纵横，形态千奇百怪。