Postscript

:

￥￥postscript /'p?ustskript/ n. (正文后的)補(bǔ)充說明￥￥

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The Tacoma?

Nighthawk

￥￥nighthawk /'na?t,h?k/ n.?夜鷹￥￥

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As I wrote the story of Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson, I became more and more?

intrigued

?with Kincaid and how little any of us knew about him and his life.

￥￥intrigued /?n'triɡd/ adj.?好奇的￥￥

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Only a few weeks before the book went to the?

printer’s

, I flew to Seattle and tried again to?

uncover

?

additional

information about him.

￥￥printer /?pr?nt?r/ n.?印刷工￥￥

￥￥uncover /?n?k?v?r/ v.?發(fā)掘￥￥

￥￥additional /??d???nl/ adj.?額外的￥￥

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I had an idea that since he liked music, and was an artist himself, there might have been someone in the music and art culture of the Puget Sound area who knew him.

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The arts editor of the Seattle Times was?

helpful

.

￥￥helpful /'h?lpfl/ adj.?給予幫助的￥￥

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Though he did not know of Kincaid, he provided me?

access

?to?

pertinent

?sections of the newspaper from 1975 through 1982, the?

period

?in which I was most interested.

￥￥access /??kses/ n.?使用權(quán)￥￥

￥￥pertinent /?p??rtn?nt/ adj.?有關(guān)的￥￥

￥￥period /'p?r??d/ n.?時(shí)期￥￥

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Working through the 1980 editions, I came across a photo of a black jazz musician, a?

tenor

?saxophone player named John “Nighthawk” Cummings. And beside the photo was the?

credit line

?Robert Kincaid.

￥￥tenor /'t?n?/ n.?男高音￥￥

￥￥credit line?新聞的出處以及來源￥￥

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The local musician’s?

union

?provided me with Cummings’s address, advising me that he had not played?

actively

?for some years.

￥￥union /?ju?ni?n/ n.?協(xié)會￥￥

￥￥actively /'?ktivli/ adv.?活躍地￥￥

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The address was on a side street near an?

industrial

?section of Tacoma, just off Highway 5 running down from Seattle.

￥￥industrial /?n?d?stri?l/ adj.?工業(yè)的￥￥

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It took several visits to his apartment before I found him at home.?

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He was?

wary

,?

initially

, of my?

inquiries

.

￥￥wary /?weri/ adj.?謹(jǐn)慎的￥￥

￥￥initially /??n???li/ adv.?最初￥￥

￥￥inquiry /?n?kwa?r?/ n.?調(diào)查￥￥

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But I convinced him I had a serious and?

benign

?interest in Kincaid, and he became?

cordial

?and open after that.

￥￥benign /b??na?n/ adj.?無害的￥￥

￥￥cordial /?k??rd??l/ adj.?誠懇的￥￥

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What follows is a slightly edited?

transcript

?of my interview with Cummings, who was seventy at the time I talked with him. I simply turned on my?

tape recorder

?and let him tell me about Robert Kincaid.

￥￥transcript /?tr?nskr?pt/ n.?問自己路￥￥

￥￥tape recorder?磁帶錄音機(jī)￥￥

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