CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1

NORBERT THE?

NORWEGIAN

?

RIDGEBACK

norwegian /n?r?wid??n/ adj.?挪威人的

ridgeback n.?脊龍

2

Quirrell, however, must have been braver than they’d thought. In the weeks that followed he did seem to be getting?

paler

?and thinner, but it didn’t look as though he’d?

cracked

?yet.

pale /pe?l/ adj.?蒼白的

crack /kr?k/ v.?崩潰

3

Every time they passed the third-floor corridor, Harry, Ron, and Hermione would press their ears to the door to check that Fluffy was still growling inside.

4

Snape was?

sweeping

?

about

?in his usual bad temper, which surely meant that the Stone was still safe.

sweep /swi?p/ v.?大模大樣地走

about /??ba?t/ adv.?到處

5

Whenever Harry passed Quirrell these days he gave him an?

encouraging

?sort of smile, and Ron had started telling people off for laughing at Quirrell’s?

stutter

.

encouraging /?n?k??r?d???/ adj.?鼓勵(lì)的

stutter /?st?t?r/ n.?結(jié)巴

6

Hermione, however, had more on her mind than the Philosopher’s Stone. She had started?

drawing up

?

revisiontimetables

?and?

colour-coding

?all her notes.

draw up?起草

revision /r??v??n/ n.?復(fù)習(xí)

timetable /'ta?m'tebl/ n.?時(shí)間表

colour-coding?彩色編碼

7

Harry and Ron wouldn’t have minded, but she kept?

nagging

?them to do the same.

nag /n?ɡ/ vi.?不斷嘮叨

8

“Hermione, the exams are ages away.”

9

“Ten weeks,” Hermione snapped. “That’s not ages, that’s like a second to Nicolas Flamel.”

10

“But we’re not six hundred years old,” Ron reminded her. “Anyway, what are you?

revising

?for, you already know it all”

revise /r??va?z/ v. [英]?復(fù)習(xí)

11

“What am I revising for? Are you mad? You realise we need to pass these exams to get into the second year?

12

They’re very important, I should have started studying a month ago, I don’t know what’s gotten into me. . . .”

13

Unfortunately, the teachers seemed to be thinking along the same?

lines

?as Hermione.?

line /la?n/ n.?看法

14

They piled so much homework on them that the?

Easter

?holidays weren’t nearly as much fun as the Christmas ones.

Easter /?i?st?r/ n. [宗]?復(fù)活節(jié)

15

It was hard to relax with Hermione next to you?

reciting

?the twelve uses of dragon’s blood or practicing wand movements.

recite /r??sa?t/ vt.?背誦

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Moaning and yawning, Harry and Ron spent most of their free time in the library with her, trying to?

get through

?all their extra work.

get through?做完

17

“I’ll never remember this,” Ron burst out one afternoon, throwing down his quill and looking?

longingly

?out of the library window.

longingly /?l ??????l?/ adj.?渴望地

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It was the first really fine day they’d had in months. The sky was a clear,?

forget-me-not

?blue, and there was a feeling in the air of summer coming.

forget-me-not /f??ɡ?tmi?nɑt/ n.?勿忘草

19

Harry, who was looking up “

Dittany

” in One Thousand Magical?

Herbs

?and?

Fungi

, didn’t look up until he heard Ron say, “Hagrid! What are you doing in the library?”

dittany /?d?tni/ n.?白蘚屬的植物

herb /??rb/ n.?藥草

fungi /?f??ɡi?，?f??ɡa?，?f?nd?a?/ n.?真菌

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Hagrid?

shuffled

?into view, hiding something behind his back. He looked very?

out of place

?in his?

moleskin

?

overcoat

.

shuffle /???fl/ vi.?拖著腳走

out of place adj.?不合適的

moleskin /'molsk?n/ n.?鼴鼠毛皮

overcoat /?o?v?rko?t/ n.?大衣

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“Jus’ lookin’,” he said, in a shifty voice that got their interest at once. “An’ what’re you lot up ter?” He looked suddenly?

suspicious

. “Yer not still lookin’ fer Nicolas Flamel, are yeh?”

suspicious /s??sp???s/ adj.?疑心的

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Oh, we found out who he is ages ago,’ said Ron?

impressively

. ‘And we know what that dog’s guarding, it’s a Philosopher’s St–’’

impressively /im'presivli/ adv.?令人難忘地

23

“Shhhh!” Hagrid looked around quickly to see if anyone was listening. “Don’ go shoutin’ about it, what’s the matter with yeh?”

24

“There are a few things we wanted to ask you, as a matter of fact,” said Harry, “about what’s guarding the Stone apart from Fluffy –”

25

“SHHHH!” said Hagrid again.?

26

“Listen — come an’ see me later, I’m not promisin’ I’ll tell yeh anythin’, mind, but don’ go rabbitin’ about it in here, students aren’ s’pposed ter know. They’ll think I’ve told yeh —”

27

“See you later, then,” said Harry.

28

Hagrid shuffled off.

29

“What was he hiding behind his back?” said Hermione?

thoughtfully

. “Do you think it had anything to do with the Stone?”

thoughtfully /? θ ?tf?l?/ adv.?沉思地

30

“I’m going to see what section he was in,” said Ron, who’d had enough of working. He came back a minute later with a pile of books in his arms and slammed them down on the table.

31

“Dragons!” he whispered. “Hagrid was looking up stuff about dragons! Look at these: Dragon Species of Great Britain and Ireland; From Egg to?

Inferno

, A Dragon Keeper’s Guide.”

inferno /?n?f?..no/ n.?地獄

32

“Hagrid’s always wanted a dragon, he told me so the first time I ever met him,” said Harry.

33

“But it’s against our laws,” said Ron.

34

“Dragon?

breeding

?was?

outlawed

?by the Warlocks’?

Convention

?of 1709, everyone knows that.

breed /bri?d/ vi.?飼養(yǎng)

outlaw /?a?tl??/ vt.?宣布…為不合法

convention /k?n?ven?n/ n.?大會(huì)

35

It’s hard to stop Muggles from noticing us if we’re keeping dragons in the back garden — anyway, you can’t?

tame

dragons, it’s dangerous. You should see the?

burns

?Charlie’s got off?

wild

?ones in Romania.”

tame /te?m/ v.?馴服

burn /b?n/ n.?燒傷

wild /wa?ld/ adv.?未馴化的

36

“But there aren’t wild dragons in Britain?” said Harry.

37

“Of course there are,” said Ron.

38

“Common Welsh Green and Hebridean Blacks. The Ministry of Magic has a job?

hushing them up

, I can tell you. Our lot have to keep putting spells on Muggles who’ve spotted them, to make them forget.”

hush up?防止......張揚(yáng)出去

39

“So what on earth’s Hagrid?

up

?to?” said Hermione.

up /?p/ v.?突然行動(dòng)

40

When they knocked on the door of the gamekeeper’s hut an hour later, they were surprised to see that all the curtains were closed.

41

Hagrid called “Who is it?” before he let them in, and then shut the door quickly behind them.

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It was?

stifling

?hot inside. Even though it was such a warm day, there was a blazing fire in the?

grate

. Hagrid made them tea and offered them?

stoat

?sandwiches, which they refused.

stifling /'sta?fl??/ adj.?沉悶的

grate /ɡre?t/ n.?壁爐

stoat /stot/ n.?白鼬

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“So — yeh wanted to ask me somethin’?”

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“Yes,” said Harry. There was?

no point

?

beating about the bush

. “We were wondering if you could tell us what’s guarding the Philosopher’s Stone apart from Fluffy.”

no point?沒(méi)理由

beat about the bush?旁敲側(cè)擊

45

Hagrid?

frowned

?at him.

frown /fra?n/ v.?皺眉（表示非難、不滿、憤怒或輕蔑）

46

“O’ course I can’t,” he said.

47

“Number one, I don’ know meself. Number two, yeh know too much already, so I wouldn’ tell yeh if I could.

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That Stone’s here fer a good reason. It was almost stolen outta Gringotts — I s’ppose yeh’ve?

worked that out

?an’ all??

Beats me

?how yeh even know abou’ Fluffy.”

work out?弄懂

beats me?我不知道

49

“Oh, come on, Hagrid, you might not want to tell us, but you do know, you know everything that goes on round here,” said Hermione in a warm,?

flattering

?voice.

flattering /'fl?t?ri?/ adj.?討好的

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Hagrid’s beard twitched and they could tell he was smiling.

51

“We only wondered who had done the guarding,?

really

.” Hermione went on. “We wondered who Dumbledore had?

trusted

?enough to help him, apart from you.”

really /'rili/ adv.?實(shí)際上

trust /tr?st/ v.?信任

52

Hagrid’s?

chest

?

swelled

?at these last words. Harry and Ron beamed at Hermione.

chest /t?est/ n.?胸膛

swell /swel/ v. (使)鼓起

53

“Well, I don’ s’pose it could hurt ter tell yeh that . . . let’s see . . . he borrowed Fluffy from me . . .?

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then some o’ the teachers did?

enchantments

?. . . Professor Sprout — Professor Flitwick — Professor McGonagall —”

enchantment / ?n?t??ntm?nt/ n.?施魔法

55

he?

ticked them off

?on his fingers, “Professor Quirrell — an’ Dumbledore himself did somethin’, o’ course. Hang on, I’ve forgotten someone. Oh yeah, Professor Snape.”

tick off?列舉

56

“Snape?”

57

“Yeah — yer not still on abou’ that, are yeh? Look, Snape helped protect the Stone, he’s not about ter steal it.”

58

Harry knew Ron and Hermione were thinking the same as he was. If Snape had been in on protecting the Stone, it must have been easy to find out how the other teachers had guarded it.

59

He probably knew everything — except, it seemed, Quirrell’s spell and how to get past Fluffy.

60

“You’re the only one who knows how to get past Fluffy, aren’t you, Hagrid?” said Harry anxiously. “And you wouldn’t tell anyone, would you? Not even one of the teachers?”

61

“Not a?

soul

?knows except me an’ Dumbledore,” said Hagrid proudly.

soul /so?l/ n.?（用于否定句中）一個(gè)人（也沒(méi)有）

62

“Well, that’s something,” Harry muttered to the others. “Hagrid, can we have a window open? I’m boiling.”

63

“Can’t, Harry, sorry,” said Hagrid. Harry noticed him glance at the fire. Harry looked at it, too.

64

“Hagrid — what’s that?”

65

But he already knew what it was. In the very?

heart

?of the fire, underneath the kettle, was a huge, black egg.

heart /hɑrt/ n.?中心

66

“Ah,” said Hagrid,?

fiddling

?nervously with his beard, “That’s — er . . .”

fiddle /'f?dl/ v.?（尤指厭煩或緊張地）不停擺弄

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“Where did you get it, Hagrid?” said Ron,?

crouching

?over the fire to get a closer look at the egg. “It must’ve cost you a?

fortune

.”

crouch /kra?t?/ v.?蹲下

fortune /?f??rt??n/ n.?財(cái)富

68

“Won it,” said Hagrid. “Las’ night. I was down in the village havin’ a few drinks an’ got into a game o’ cards with a stranger. Think he was quite glad ter get rid of it, ter be honest.”

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“But what are you going to do with it when it’s hatched?” said Hermione.

70

“Well, I’ve bin doin’ some readin’,” said Hagrid, pulling a large book from under his pillow.

71

“Got this outta the library — Dragon Breeding for?

Pleasure

?and?

Profit

?— it’s a bit outta date, o’ course, but it’s all in here.

pleasure /?pl???r/ n.?娛樂(lè)

profit /?prɑ?f?t/ n.?利益

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Keep the egg in the fire, ’cause their mothers breathe on ’em, see, an’ when it hatches, feed it on a bucket o’ brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour.

73

An’ see here — how ter recognize diff’rent eggs — what I got there’s a Norwegian Ridgeback. They’re?

rare

, them.”

rare /rer/ adj.?稀有的

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He looked very pleased with himself, but Hermione didn’t. “Hagrid, you live in a wooden house,” she said.

75

But Hagrid wasn’t listening. He was?

humming

?

merrily

?as he?

stoked

?the fire.

hum /h?m/ vi.?發(fā)低哼聲

merrily /'m?r?li/ adv.?愉快地

stoke /sto?k/ vi.?燒火

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So now they had something else to worry about: what might happen to Hagrid if anyone found out he was hiding an?

illegal

?dragon in his hut.

illegal /??li?ɡl/ adj.?非法的

77

“Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled?

through

?all the extra homework they were getting.

through /θru/ adv.?勝利完成

78

Hermione had now started making?

revision

?timetables for Harry and Ron, too. It was driving them mad.

revision /r??v??n/ n.?復(fù)習(xí)

79

Then, one breakfast time, Hedwig brought Harry another note from Hagrid. He had written only two words: It’s?

hatching

.

hatch /h?t?/ v.?孵出

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Ron wanted to skip?

Herbology

?and go straight down to the hut. Hermione?

wouldn’t hear of

?it.

herbology /h?:'b?l?d?i/?草藥學(xué)

wouldn’t hear of?不贊同

81

“Hermione, how many times in our lives are we going to see a dragon hatching?”

82

“We’ve got lessons, we’ll get into trouble, and that’s nothing to what Hagrid’s going to be in when someone finds out what he’s doing —”

83

“Shut up!” Harry whispered.

84

Malfoy was only a few feet away and he had stopped?

dead

?to listen. How much had he heard? Harry didn’t like the look on Malfoy’s face at all.

dead /d?d/ adv. [英，非正式]?突然

85

Ron and Hermione argued all the way to Herbology and in the end, Hermione agreed to run down to Hagrid’s with the other two during morning break.

86

When the bell sounded from the castle at the end of their lesson, the three of them dropped their?

trowels

?at once and hurried through the grounds to the edge of the forest.

trowel /'tra??l/ n.（園藝用的）泥鏟

87

Hagrid?

greeted

?them, looking?

flushed

?and excited.

greet /ɡri?t/ vt.?迎接

flushed /fl ??t/ adj.?激動(dòng)的

88

“It’s nearly out.” He?

ushered

?them inside.

usher /????r/ v.?引領(lǐng)

89

The egg was lying on the table. There were deep cracks in it. Something was moving inside; a funny clicking noise was coming from it.

90

They all?

drew

?their chairs up to the table and watched with?

bated

?breath.

draw /dr??/ vt. & vi.?拖

bated /'bet?d/ adj.?焦慮地

91

All at once there was a?

scraping

?noise and the egg?

split

?open.

scraping /?skrep??/ adj.?刮擦的

split /spl?t/ v. (使)撕裂

92

The baby dragon flopped onto the table.?

93

It wasn’t exactly pretty; Harry thought it looked like a?

crumpled

, black umbrella.

crumpled /'kr?mpld/ adj.?弄皺的

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Its?

spiny

?wings were huge compared to its?

skinny

?

jet

?body, it had a long snout with wide?

nostrils

,?

spiny /?spa?ni/ adj.?帶刺的

skinny /?sk?ni/ adj.?極瘦的

jet /d?et/ adj.?墨黑的

nostril /'n?stril/ [拉]?鼻孔

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the?

stubs

?of?

horns

?and?

bulging

, orange eyes.

stub /st?b/ n.?殘端

horn /h??rn/ n.?觸角

bulge /b?ld?/ v.?鼓起

96

It?

sneezed

. A couple of sparks flew out of its snout.

sneeze /sniz/ vi.?打噴嚏

97

“Isn’t he beautiful?” Hagrid?

murmured

. He reached out a hand to?

stroke

?the dragon’s head. It?

snapped

?at his fingers, showing pointed?

fangs

.

murmur /?m??rm?r/ vt. & vi.?小聲說(shuō)

stroke /stro?k/ vt.?輕撫

snap /sn?p/ vi.?咬

fang /f??/ n. (尤指狗和狼的)長(zhǎng)而尖的牙

98

“

Bless

?him, look, he knows his mummy!” said Hagrid.

bless /bles/ int. [英]?哎呀

99

“Hagrid,” said Hermione, “how fast do Norwegian Ridgebacks grow, exactly?”

100

Hagrid was about to answer when the color suddenly?

drained

?from his face — he leapt to his feet and ran to the window.

drain /dre?n/ v.?（通常指因驚嚇或疾病而臉色）變蒼白

101

“What’s the matter?”

102

“Someone was lookin’ through the gap in the curtains — it’s a kid — he’s runnin’ back up ter the school.”

103

Harry?

bolted

?to the door and looked out. Even?

at a distance

?there was no?

mistaking

?him.

bolt /bo?lt/ v.?突然快速移動(dòng)

at a distance?在遠(yuǎn)處

mistake /m?'stek/ vt.?認(rèn)不出

104

Malfoy had seen the dragon.

105

Something about the smile?

lurking

?on Malfoy’s face during the next week made Harry, Ron, and Hermione very nervous.

lurk /l??rk/ vi.?潛藏

106

They spent most of their free time in Hagrid’s?

darkened

?hut, trying to?

reason

?with him.

darkened /'da:k?nd/ adj.?沒(méi)有燈光的

reason /?riz?n/ v.?對(duì)（某人）以理相勸

107

“Just let him go,” Harry?

urged

. “Set him free.”

urge /??rd?/ vt.?力勸

108

“I can’t,” said Hagrid. “He’s too little. He’d die.”

109

They looked at the dragon. It had grown three times in length in just a week. Smoke kept?

furling

?out of its nostrils.

furl /f?l/ v.?卷起

110

Hagrid hadn’t been doing his gamekeeping duties because the dragon was keeping him so busy. There were empty brandy bottles and chicken feathers all over the floor.

111

“I’ve decided to call him Norbert,” said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with?

misty

?eyes. “He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where’s Mummy?”

misty /?m?sti/ adj.?淚眼模糊的

112

“He’s lost his?

marbles

,” Ron muttered in Harry’s ear.

marble /?mɑ?rbl/ n. [非正式]?理智

113

“Hagrid,” said Harry loudly, “give it a?

fortnight

?and Norbert’s going to be as long as your house. Malfoy could go to Dumbledore at any moment.”

fortnight /?f??rtna?t/ n.?兩星期

114

Hagrid bit his lip.

115

“I — I know I can’t keep him forever, but I can’t jus’?

dump

?him, I can’t.”

dump /d?mp/ v.?丟棄

116

Harry suddenly turned to Ron.

117

“Charlie,” he said.

118

“You’re losing it, too,” said Ron. “I’m Ron, remember?”

119

“No — Charlie — your brother, Charlie. In Romania. Studying dragons. We could send Norbert to him. Charlie can take care of him and then put him back in the wild!”

120

“Brilliant!” said Ron. “How about it, Hagrid?”

121

And in the end, Hagrid agreed that they could send an owl to Charlie to ask him.

122

The following week?

dragged by

.

drag by?緩慢度過(guò)

123

Wednesday night found Hermione and Harry sitting alone in the common room, long after everyone else had gone to bed.

124

The clock on the wall had just?

chimed

?midnight when the portrait hole?

burst

?open.

chime /t?a?m/ v.?（鈴或鐘）鳴響

burst /b??rst/ vt. & vi.?突然打開

125

Ron appeared out of nowhere as he pulled off Harry’s Invisibility Cloak. He had been down at Hagrid’s hut, helping him feed Norbert, who was now eating dead rats by the crate.

126

“It bit me!” he said, showing them his hand, which was wrapped in a bloody handkerchief.

127

“I’m not going to be able to hold a quill for a week. I tell you, that dragon’s the most horrible animal I’ve ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you’d think it was a?

fluffy

?little?

bunny rabbit

.

fluffy /?fl?fi/ adj.?毛茸茸的

bunny rabbit?小兔子(非正式)

128

When it bit me he?

told me off

?for frightening it. And when I left, he was singing it a?

lullaby

.”

tell sb off?責(zé)罵

lullaby /'l?l?'bai/ n.?搖籃曲

129

There was a?

tap

?on the dark window.

tap /t?p/ n.?輕敲（聲）

130

“It’s Hedwig!” said Harry, hurrying to let her in. “She’ll have Charlie’s answer!”

131

The three of them put their heads together to read the note.

132

Dear Ron, How are you? Thanks for the letter — I’d be glad to take the Norwegian Ridgeback, but it won’t be easy getting him here.

133

I think the best thing will be to send him over with some friends of mine who are coming to visit me next week. Trouble is, they mustn’t be seen carrying an?

illegal

?dragon.

illegal /??li?ɡl/ adj.?非法的

134

Could you get the Ridgeback up the tallest tower at midnight on Saturday? They can meet you there and take him away while it’s still dark.

135

Send me an answer as soon as possible.

136

Love,

137

Charlie

138

They looked at each other.

139

“We’ve got the Invisibility Cloak,” said Harry. “It shouldn’t be too difficult — I think the cloak’s big enough to cover two of us and Norbert.”

140

It was a?

mark

?of how bad the last week had been that the other two agreed with him. Anything to get rid of Norbert — and Malfoy.

mark /mɑ?rk/ n.?標(biāo)志

141

There was a?

hitch

. By the next morning, Ron’s bitten hand had?

swollen

?to twice its usual size. He didn’t know whether it was safe to go to Madam Pomfrey — would she recognize a dragon bite?

hitch /h?t?/ n.?小問(wèn)題

swell /swel/ vi.[病理]腫脹

142

By the afternoon, though, he had no choice. The?

cut

?had turned a?

nasty

?

shade

?of green. It looked as if Norbert’s fangs were?

poisonous

.

cut /k?t/ n.?傷口

nasty /?n?sti/ adj. (外表)?丑陋的

shade /?e?d/ n.?略微

poisonous /?p??z?n?s/ adj.?有毒的

143

Harry and Hermione rushed up to the hospital wing at the end of the day to find Ron in a terrible state in bed.

144

“It’s not just my hand,” he whispered, “although that feels like it’s about to fall off. Malfoy told Madam Pomfrey he wanted to borrow one of my books so he could come and have a good laugh at me.

145

He kept?

threatening

?to tell her what really bit me — I’ve told her it was a dog, but I don’t think she believes me — I shouldn’t have hit him at the Quidditch match, that’s why he’s doing this.”

threaten /?θretn/ vi.?威脅

146

Harry and Hermione tried to calm Ron down.

147

“It’ll all be over at midnight on Saturday,” said Hermione, but this didn’t?

soothe

?Ron at all. On the?

contrary

, he sat?

bolt

?

upright

?and broke into a sweat.

soothe /su?e/ vt.?使平靜

contrary /?kɑ?ntreri/ n.?相反

bolt /bo?lt/ vi.?沖出

upright /??pra?t/ adv.?直立地

148

“Midnight on Saturday!” he said in a?

hoarse

?voice. “Oh no — oh no — I’ve just remembered — Charlie’s letter was in that book Malfoy took, he’s going to know we’re getting rid of Norbert.”

hoarse /h??rs/ adj. (指聲音)粗啞的

149

Harry and Hermione didn’t get a chance to answer. Madam Pomfrey came over at that moment and made them leave, saying Ron needed sleep.

150

“It’s too late to change the plan now,” Harry told Hermione.

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“We haven’t got time to send Charlie another owl, and this could be our only chance to get rid of Norbert. We’ll have to risk it. And we have got the Invisibility Cloak, Malfoy doesn’t know about that.”

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They found Fang the?

boarhound

?sitting outside with a bandaged tail when they went to tell Hagrid, who opened a window to talk to them.

boarhound /'b?r,ha?nd/ n.?用以獵野豬的大獵狗

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“I won’t let you in,” he?

puffed

. “Norbert’s at a?

tricky

?stage — nothin’ I can’t handle.”

puff /p?f/ v.?喘息

tricky /?tr?ki/ adj.?難對(duì)付的

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When they told him about Charlie’s letter, his eyes filled with tears, although that might have been because Norbert had just bitten him on the leg.

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“Aargh! It’s all right, he only got my boot — jus’ playin’— he’s only a baby, after all.”

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The baby?

banged

?its tail on the wall, making the windows?

rattle

. Harry and Hermione walked back to the castle feeling Saturday couldn’t come quickly enough.

bang v.?猛撞

rattle /?r?tl/ v.?（使）咯咯作響

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They would have felt sorry for Hagrid when the time came for him to say good-bye to Norbert if they hadn’t been so worried about what they had to do.

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It was a very dark, cloudy night, and they were a bit late arriving at Hagrid’s hut

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because they’d had to wait for Peeves to get out of their way in the entrance hall, where he’d been playing tennis against the wall.

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Hagrid had Norbert packed and ready in a large crate.

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“He’s got lots o’ rats an’ some brandy fer the journey,” said Hagrid in a?

muffled

?voice. “An’ I’ve packed his?

teddy bear

in case he gets lonely.”

muffled / ?m?fl..d/ adj.?壓抑的

teddy bear /?ted? be?(r)/ n.?玩具熊

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From inside the crate came?

ripping

?noises that sounded to Harry as though the teddy was having his head torn off.

ripping /'r?p??/ adj.?撕的

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“Bye-bye, Norbert!” Hagrid sobbed, as Harry and Hermione covered the crate with the Invisibility Cloak and stepped underneath it themselves. “Mummy will never forget you!”

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How they managed to get the crate back up to the castle, they never knew.?

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Midnight ticked nearer as they?

heaved

?Norbert up the marble staircase in the entrance hall and along the dark?

corridors

.

heave /hi?v/ vt.?舉

corridor /?k??r?d??r/ n.?走廊

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Up another staircase, then another — even one of Harry’s shortcuts didn’t make the work much easier.

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“Nearly there!” Harry panted as they reached the corridor beneath the tallest tower.

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Then a sudden movement ahead of them made them almost drop the crate.

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Forgetting that they were already invisible, they?

shrank

?into the shadows, staring at the dark?

outlines

?of two people?

grappling

?with each other ten feet away.

shrank /?r??k/ vt. & vi.?退縮(shrink的過(guò)去式)

outline /?a?tla?n/ n.?輪廓

grapple /?ɡr?p?l/ vi.?格斗

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A lamp?

flared

.

flare /fler/ vi.?閃光

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Professor McGonagall, in a?

tartan

?bathrobe and a?

hair net

,?

had

?Malfoy by the ear.

tartan /'tɑrtn/ adj.?格子呢的

hair net n.?發(fā)網(wǎng)

have /h?v/ v.?抓住

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“

Detention

!” she shouted. “And twenty points from Slytherin! Wandering around in the middle of the night, how dare you —”

detention /d??ten?n/ n.?（作為懲罰的）課后留校

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“You don’t understand, Professor. Harry Potter’s coming — he’s got a dragon!”

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“What?

utter

?

rubbish

! How dare you tell such lies! Come on — I shall see Professor Snape about you, Malfoy!”

utter /??t?r/ adj.?完全的

rubbish /'r?b??/ n.?瞎說(shuō)

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The?

steep

?

spiral

?

staircase

?up to the top of the tower seemed the easiest thing in the world after that.

steep /sti?p/ adj.?陡峭的

spiral /?spa?r?l/ adj.?螺旋形的

staircase /?sterke?s/ n.?樓梯

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Not until they’d stepped out into the cold night air did they throw off the Cloak, glad to be able to breathe properly again. Hermione did a sort of?

jig

.

jig /d??ɡ/ n.?快步舞(曲)

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“Malfoy’s got detention! I could sing!”

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“Don’t,” Harry advised her.

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Chuckling about Malfoy, they waited, Norbert?

thrashing

?about in his crate.

thrash /θr??/ vi.?亂竄[跳]

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About ten minutes later, four broomsticks came?

swooping

?down out of the darkness.

swoop /swu?p/ vi.?俯沖

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Charlie’s friends were a?

cheery

?lot. They showed Harry and Hermione the?

harness

?they’d?

rigged

?up, so they could?

suspend

?Norbert between them.

cheery /'t??ri/ adj.?愉快的

harness /?hɑ?rn?s/ n.?系帶

rig /r?ɡ/ v.?裝配

suspend /s??spend/ v.?懸

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They all helped?

buckle

?Norbert safely into it and then Harry and Hermione shook hands with the others and thanked them very much.

buckle /?b?kl/ vt.?扣住

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At last, Norbert was going . . . going . . . gone.

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They slipped back down the spiral staircase, their hearts as light as their hands, now that Norbert was off them. No more dragon — Malfoy in detention — what could?

spoil

?their happiness?

spoil /sp??l/ vt.?毀掉

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The answer to that was waiting at the foot of the stairs. As they stepped into the?

corridor

, Filch’s face?

loomed

suddenly out of the darkness.

corridor /?k??r?d??r/ n.?走廊

loom /lu?m/ vi.?可怕地出現(xiàn)

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“Well, well, well,” he whispered, “we are in trouble.”

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They’d left the Invisibility Cloak on top of the tower.

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