书友圈招人之后，很多人问怎么跟名著学英语，《To Kill a Mockingbird》会不会太难看不懂。今天开始，我每周不定期带大家一起学习这本书，你会发现看名著居然能学到那么多用法，居然能如此增加知识量。

原文：When he¹ was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken² at the elbow.

译文：我哥哥Jem快满十三岁的时侯，肘关节被扭断过。

知识点：

1 这里的He指的是后面的“my brother Jem”，也就是这句话的主语。

2 Get … badly broken: …严重受伤/受损

原文：When it healed, and Jem’s fears of³never being able to play football were assuaged⁴, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

译文：后来伤好了，他也不再担心今后玩不了橄榄球了，也就不怎么为自己的伤感到不自然了。

知识点：

3 Sb’s fear of doing sth对某事的恐惧

4 Assuage /əˈsweɪdʒ/ 缓和；减轻；平息

例：To assuage his wife's grief, he took her on a tour of Europe.

为了减轻妻子的悲痛，他带她去了欧洲旅游。

原文：His left arm was somewhat⁵shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to⁶ his body, his thumb parallel to⁷his thigh. He couldn’t have cared less⁸, so long as he could pass and punt.

译文：他的左臂比右臂稍短，站立或行走时，左手的手背与身体成直角，大拇指和大腿平行。这些，他一点儿也不在乎，只要能传球，能踢球就行了。

知识点：

5 Somewhat /ˈsʌm.wɑːt/: adv.稍微;有点;达到某种程度

例：He concluded that Oswald was somewhat abnormal

他断定奥斯瓦尔德有点不正常。

6 At right angles to：与……成直角；与……垂直

7 Parallel to：与……平行

8 Couldn’t have cared less：一点儿也不在乎

（先看字面意思，不能关心的更少了，意思就是一点儿也不在乎。）

原文：When enough years had gone by⁹to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to¹⁰ his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior¹¹, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

译文：多年以后，当我们回顾往事时，不时会谈起那次事故的起因。我始终认为事情是从Ewells家开始的，但是Jem (他比我大四岁)说起因还远在那之前。他说，Dill来到我们这里的那个夏天，事情就开始了。在那个夏天，他第一次怂恿我们设法把Boo Radley从他家里引出来。

知识点：

9 Go by: 经过;时光流逝;顺便走访;判断

（时光流逝，我们会说，with time going by）

10 Lead to: 导致;（道路）通向……

例：A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.

不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。

11 …years my senior:比我大……岁

（一般我们都说…years older than me，学会了这个说法立马洋气了很多吧）

原文：I said if he wanted to take a broad view of¹² the thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson. If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the creek, Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn’t? We were far too old to¹³ settle an argument with a fist-fight, so we consulted Atticus. Our father said we were both right.

译文：我说，如果他要看得远些，就真得从Andrew Jackson算起。假如Jackson将军没有把克里克人沿克里克河赶走的话，Simon Finch就不会划着小船沿着亚拉巴马河到这儿来。他没来的话，我们现在会在哪儿呢?当时，我们早已大到不该再用拳头来解决争吵了。于是，我们去问爸爸Atticus。爸爸说我们俩各有各的道理。

知识点：

12 Take a broad view of：看得长远；纵观

13 Far too … to…：太……以致于不能

（too…to…大家都知道什么意思，加一个far就加强了整体的程度）

14 Fist-fight 打架

（字面意思，拳头打架，就是打架的意思啦）

大家自己学习的时候也可以像我这样记录下生词和比较好的表达方法。但是最重要的是背诵！背诵！不背诵等于白看，当你背的足够多的时候，就会形成条件反射，不自觉就会蹦出很多“洋气”的表达法。

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