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今日选段：
原文：Just then, the doorbell rang -- "Oh, good Lord, they're here!" said Aunt Petunia frantically -- and a moment later, Dudley's best friend, Piers Polkiss, walked in with his mother. Piers was a scrawny boy with a face like a rat.
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Another time, Aunt Petunia had been trying to force him into a revolting old sweater of Dudley's (brown with orange puff balls) -- The harder she tried to pull it over his head, the smaller it seemed to become, until finally it might have fitted a hand puppet, but certainly wouldn't fit Harry.
译文: 正在这时，门铃响了—— “哎呀，天哪，他们来了!”佩妮姨妈慌慌张张地说。过了一会儿，达力最要好的朋友皮尔波奇斯和他的母亲一起进来了。皮尔瘦骨嶙峋，脸像老鼠脸。
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还有一次，佩妮姨妈硬要哈利穿一件旧的套头毛衣(这件毛衣很难看，是棕色的，缀有橙色的小毛球)。她越是往哈利头上套，毛衣就缩得越小，最后缩得只能给掌上木偶穿，哈利穿当然是不合适了。
思考下列单词和词组在文中的释义
Just then
Frantically
Scrawny
Revolting
Puff
Pull over
Puppet
精读笔记
第一部分：Just then, the doorbell rang -- "Oh, good Lord, they're here!" said Aunt Petunia frantically -- and a moment later, Dudley's best friend, Piers Polkiss, walked in with his mother. Piers was a scrawny boy with a face like a rat.
写作分析：
1. Just then 在原文中意为：就在那时，正当那时；正在那时。（用于过去式）
例：Just then, the dog jumped at a lightning speed.
正在那时，狗儿以闪电般的速度跳起来。
拓展：just now 刚才；眼下（刚刚发生过的）
例：Someone called you just now.
刚才有人给你打过电话。
2. frantically原意为： 疯狂似地；狂暴地。这里是说佩妮姨妈听到有人来了慌慌张张地样子。
例：To the east, Iran is frantically advancing its nuclear project, which most Israelis and most of the world’s intelligence agencies believe is designed to produce nuclear weapons.
东部，伊朗正在疯狂地推进其核项目，绝大多数以色列人和世界上大多数情报机构都认为，其目的是为了制造核武器。
拓展：疯狂的 英文表达
Maniac
Crazy
Mad
Raving
3.scrawny在原文中意为：If you describe a person or animal as scrawny, you mean that they look unattractive because they are so thin. 瘦骨嶙峋的 [表不满]
例：
...a scrawny woman with dyed black hair.
…一个留着染成黑色的头发、瘦骨嶙峋的女人。
拓展：瘦的表达
Thin: (普通意义上的)瘦的
Skinny: 瘦得皮包骨（中性）
Scrawny：瘦骨嶙峋的（贬义）
Slim: 苗条的（多修饰女子）
Slender: 苗条的（褒义）
第二部分：Another time, Aunt Petunia had been trying to force him into a revolting old sweater of Dudley's (brown with orange puff balls) -- The harder she tried to pull it over his head, the smaller it seemed to become, until finally it might have fitted a hand puppet, but certainly wouldn't fit Harry.
写作分析：
1.revolting在原文中意为： If you say that something or someone is revolting, you mean you think they are horrible and disgusting. 令人厌恶的
例：The smell in the cell was revolting.
这间牢房里的味道令人作呕。
拓展：近义词：horrible disgusting
2.puff在原文中意为“蓬松”但它的用法不止如此，请看：
拓展：If someone puffs on or at a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, they smoke it. 抽 (香烟、雪茄、烟斗等)
例：He lit a cigar and puffed on it twice.
他点上一支雪茄，抽了两口。
3. pull over在原文中意为：穿上。其实正式语言中，pull over 没有穿衣服的意思；put on才是穿上。但由于原文中哈利并不能穿上这件“缩水的”毛衣，所以不能说是on(穿着)而是over(在。。。上面)所以罗琳阿姨化用了这个词。妙啊~
注：pullover 也有套头衫的意思，大家自行领悟
拓展：关于pull 的词组
pull apart 把....拉开或拆开
pull away开走 使离开
pull down拆毁
pull in 车停下，进站靠岸
pull off成功的完成 扯下脱去
pull on 穿戴
pull through渡过难关 使恢复健康
pull up使停下
pull out 离开，撤离；拔出；渡过难关；恢复健康；折叠的大张插页；飞机进场重新飞起
pull something on someone 在…方面欺骗某人
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