【英語原著】哈利·波特與魔法石 (1)

— CHAPTER ONE —

The Boy Who Lived

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.
Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache. Mrs Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.


Rowling, J.K.. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Kindle Locations 42-48). Bloomsbury. Kindle Edition.


Characters played(出演人物)

Dudley, Mr Dursley, Mrs Dursley

Dursley全家福

Knowledge Point

They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.

the last person/thing
used to make a strong negative statement about someone or something
用于對某人或某事做出強烈的否定陳述续室。
例句:
She is the last person in the world you can depend on.
她是你最不可依靠的人液茎。

the last thing somebody wants/expects/needs etc
something that someone does not want, expect etc at all
某人不想要/期待/需要某事
例句:
Go home? That's the last thing I want to do!
回家与境?我絕不娃属?

hold with phrasal verb
be approve of 贊同

Physical Appearance

a big, beefy man with hardly any neck

beefy/?bi?fi/ adjective
A beefy person looks strong, heavy and powerful.

a beefy man 一個壯碩的男人

a very large moustache

moustache /m??stɑ?? $ ?m?st??/ noun

a very large moustache

thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck

blonde /bl?nd $ blɑ?nd/ adjective
with pale yellow or gold hair

a blonde lady 金發(fā)女郎

... which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbours.

come in useful
to be useful and help someone to do or achieve something

crane /kre?n/ noun
to stretch in order to look at something

spy on sb/sth
to watch someone or something secretly, often in order to discover information about him, her or it

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