CHAPTER TWELVE

1

The Polyjuice Potion

2

They stepped off the stone staircase at the top and Professor McGonagall?

rapped

?on the door. It opened silently and they entered.

rap /r?p/ vi.?敲擊

3

Professor McGonagall told Harry to wait, and left him there, alone.

4

Harry looked around. One thing was certain: of all the teachers’ offices Harry had visited so far this year, Dumbledore’s was?

by far

?the most interesting.

by far?到目前為止

5

If he hadn’t been scared?

out of his wits

?that he was about to be thrown out of school, he would have been very pleased to have a chance to look around it.

out of wits?驚慌失措

6

It was a large and beautiful?

circular

?room, full of funny little noises.?

circular /?s??kj?l?(r)/ adj.?圓形的

7

A number of curious silver?

instruments

?stood on?

spindle

-legged tables,?

whirring

?and?

emitting

?little puffs of smoke.

instrument /??nstr?m?nt/ n.?器具

spindle /'sp?nd(?)l/ adj.?細(xì)長的

whir /w??/ vi.?作呼呼聲

emit /i?m?t/ v.?散發(fā)（尤指氣體、輻射物）

8

The walls were covered with portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses, all of whom were snoozing gently in their frames.

9

There was also an enormous, claw-footed desk, and, sitting on a shelf behind it, a?

shabby

,?

tattered

?wizard’s hat – the Sorting Hat.

shabby /???bi/ adj.?破舊的

tattered /'t?t?d/ adj.?破爛的

10

Harry hesitated. He cast a?

wary

?eye around the sleeping witches and wizards on the walls.

wary /?we?ri/ adj.?謹(jǐn)慎的

11

Surely

?it couldn’t?

hurt

?if he took the Hat down and tried it on again? Just to see … just to make sure it had put him in the right house.

surely /'???l?/ adv.?想必

hurt /h??t/ vi. [口]有壞處

12

He walked quietly around the desk, lifted the Hat from its shelf, and lowered it slowly onto his head. It was much too large and slipped down over his eyes, just as it had done the last time he’d put it on.

13

Harry stared at the black inside of the Hat, waiting. Then a small voice said in his ear, ‘

Bee in your bonnet

, Harry Potter?’

bee in your bonnet?沒完沒了地想某件事

14

‘Er, yes,’ Harry muttered. ‘Er – sorry to?

bother

?you – I wanted to ask –’

bother /?b?e?(r)/ vt.?打擾

15

‘You’ve been wondering whether I put you in the right house,’ said the Hat?

smartly

.

smartly /'sma:tli/ adv.?機(jī)敏地

16

‘Yes … you were particularly difficult to place. But I stand by what I said before –’ Harry’s heart leapt ‘– you would have done well in Slytherin.’

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Harry’s stomach?

plummeted

. He grabbed the?

point

?of the Hat and pulled it off. It hung?

limply

?in his hand,?

grubby

and faded. Harry pushed it back onto its shelf, feeling sick.

plummet /?pl?m?t/ vi.?垂直落下

point /p??nt/ n.?尖端

limply /'limpli/ adv.?軟綿綿地

grubby /'gr?b?/ adj.?骯臟的

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‘You’re wrong,’ he said aloud to the still and silent Hat. It didn’t move. Harry backed away, watching it. Then a strange,

gagging

?noise behind him made him wheel around.

gag /g?g/ vt.?使窒息

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He wasn’t alone after all. Standing on a golden?

perch

?behind the door was a?

decrepit

-looking bird which?

resembled

a half-

plucked

?turkey.

perch /p??t?/ n.?棲枝，棲木

decrepit /d??krep?t/ adj.?老朽的

resemble /r??zembl/ vt.?像…

pluck /pl?k/ v.?拔去（雞或鳥的毛）

20

Harry stared at it and the bird looked?

balefully

?back, making its gagging noise again. Harry thought it looked very ill. Its eyes were dull and, even as Harry watched, a couple more feathers fell out of its tail.

balefully /'beilfuli/ adv.?災(zāi)難地

21

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore’s pet bird to die while he was alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

22

Harry yelled in shock and backed away into the desk. He looked?

feverishly

?around?

in case

?there was a glass of water somewhere, but couldn’t see one.

feverishly /'fi:v?ri?li/ adv.?緊張忙亂地

in case?如果

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The bird, meanwhile, had become a fireball; it gave one loud shriek and next second there was nothing but a?

smouldering

?pile of ash on the floor.

smoulder /'sm??ld?/ v. (無明火地)陰燃

24

The office door opened. Dumbledore came in, looking very?

sombre

.

sombre /'s?mb?/ adj.?嚴(yán)峻的

25

‘Professor,’ Harry gasped, ‘your bird – I couldn’t do anything – he just?

caught

?fire –’

catch /k?t?/ v.?著火

26

To Harry’s astonishment, Dumbledore smiled.

27

‘

About time

, too,’ he said. ‘He’s been looking?

dreadful

?for days, I’ve been telling him to?

get a move on

.’

about time?該……的時候了

dreadful /?dredfl/ adj.?可怕的

get a move on?趕快

28

He?

chuckled

?at the?

stunned

?look on Harry’s face.

chuckle /?t??kl/ vi.?咯咯的笑

stunned /st?nd/ adj.?受驚的

29

‘Fawkes is a?

phoenix

, Harry. Phoenixes?

burst into flame

?when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. Watch him …’

phoenix /?fi?n?ks/ n.?鳳凰

burst into flame?突然燒起來

30

Harry looked down in time to see a tiny,?

wrinkled

, new-born bird poke its head out of the ashes. It was quite as ugly as the old one.

wrinkled /?r??kld/ adj.?有皺紋的

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‘It’s a?

shame

?you had to see him on a?

Burning

?Day,’ said Dumbledore, seating himself behind his desk.

shame /?e?m/ n.?羞恥

burning /?b??n??/ n.?燃燒

32

‘He’s really very?

handsome

?most of the time: wonderful red and gold?

plumage

.

handsome /'h?ns(?)m/ adj.?（男子）英俊的

plumage /'plu?m?d?/ n.?鳥類羽毛

33

Fascinating creatures, phoenixes. They can carry?

immensely

?heavy loads, their tears have?

healing

?

powers

?and they make highly?

faithful

?pets.’

immensely /??mensli/ adv.?非常

heal /hi?l/ vt.?治愈

power /?pa??(r)/ n.?能力

faithful /?fe?θfl/ adj.?忠誠的

34

In the shock of Fawkes catching fire, Harry had forgotten what he was there for,

35

but it all came back to him as Dumbledore settled himself in the?

high-backed chai

r behind the desk and fixed Harry with his?

penetrating

, light-blue stare.

high-backed chair?高背椅

penetrating /?pen?tre?t??/ adj.?敏銳的

36

Before Dumbledore could speak another word, however,

37

the door of the office flew open with an?

almighty

?bang and Hagrid burst in, a?

wild

?look in his eyes, his?

balaclava

perched on top of his?

shaggy

?black head and the dead rooster still swinging from his hand.

almighty /??l?ma?ti/ adj.?有強(qiáng)大力量的

wild /wa?ld/ adj.?野蠻的

balaclava /?b?l??klɑ:v?/ n.?巴拉克拉法帽

shaggy /'??g?/ adj.?毛發(fā)粗濃雜亂的

38

‘It wasn’ Harry, Professor Dumbledore!’ said Hagrid urgently. ‘I was talkin’ ter him seconds before that kid was found, he never had time, sir …’

39

Dumbledore tried to say something, but Hagrid went?

ranting on

, waving the rooster around in his?

agitation

, sending feathers everywhere.

rant on?喋喋不休

agitation /??d???te??n/ n.?激動

40

‘… It can’t’ve bin him, I’ll swear it in front o’ the Ministry o’ Magic if I have to …’

41

‘Hagrid, I –’

42

‘… Yeh’ve got the wrong boy, sir, I know Harry never –’

43

‘Hagrid!’ said Dumbledore loudly. ‘I do not think that Harry attacked those people.’

44

‘Oh,’ said Hagrid, the rooster?

falling

?limply at his side. ‘Right. I’ll wait outside then, Headmaster.’

fall /f??l/ vi.?落下

45

And he?

stomped

?out looking embarrassed.

stomp /st?mp/ vt.?重踩

46

‘You don’t think it was me, Professor?’ Harry repeated hopefully, as Dumbledore?

brushed

?rooster feathers off his desk.

brush /br??/ v.?拂去

47

‘No, Harry, I don’t,’ said Dumbledore, though his face was?

sombre

?again. ‘But I still want to talk to you.’

sombre /'s?mb?/ adj.?嚴(yán)峻的

48

Harry waited nervously while Dumbledore considered him, the tips of his long fingers together.

49

‘I must ask you, Harry, whether there is anything you’d like to tell me,’ he said gently. ‘Anything at all.’

50

Harry didn’t know what to say. He thought of Malfoy shouting, ‘You’ll be next, Mudbloods!’ and of the Polyjuice Potion,?

simmering

?away in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom.

simmer /?s?m?(r)/ vi.?燉

51

Then he thought of the?

disembodied

?voice he had heard twice and remembered what Ron had said: ‘Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.’

disembodied /?d?s?m?b?did/ adj.?無實(shí)體的

52

He thought, too, about what everyone was saying about him, and his growing?

dread

?that he was somehow connected with Salazar Slytherin …

dread /dred/ vi.?擔(dān)心

53

‘No,’ said Harry, ‘there isn’t anything, Professor.’

54

The double attack on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick turned what had?

hitherto

?been nervousness into real panic. Curiously, it was Nearly Headless Nick’s fate that seemed to worry people most.

hitherto /?h?e??tu?/ adv.?到目前為止

55

What could possibly do that to a ghost, people asked each other; what terrible power could harm someone who was already dead?

56

There was almost a?

stampede

?to book seats on the Hogwarts Express so that students could go home for Christmas.

stampede /st?m?pi?d/ n.?人群的蜂擁

57

‘

At this rate

, we’ll be the only ones left,’ Ron told Harry and Hermione. ‘Us, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. What a?

jolly

holiday it’s going to be.’

at this rate?照這樣下去

jolly /?d??li/ adj.?愉快的

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Crabbe and Goyle, who always did whatever Malfoy did, had signed up to stay over the holidays too.

59

But Harry was glad that most people were leaving.

60

He was?

tired of

?people?

skirting

?around him in the corridors, as though he was about to?

sprout

?fangs or?

spit

?poison; tired of all the muttering, pointing and hissing as he passed.

tired of?厭煩

skirt /sk??t/ vi.?繞開

sprout /spra?t/ v.?從表面凸出

spit /sp?t/ vt. & vi.?吐出

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Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, ‘

Make way for

?the heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through …’

make way for?為……讓路

62

Percy was deeply?

disapproving

?of this behaviour.

disapproving /?dis?'pru:vi?/ adj.?不滿的

63

‘It is not a laughing matter,’ he said coldly.

64

‘Oh, get out of the way, Percy,’ said Fred. ‘Harry’s in a?

hurry

.’

hurry /'h?r?/ n.?急忙

65

‘Yeah, he’s?

nipping

?off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged?

servant

,’ said George,?

chortling

.

nip /n?p/ v. <英，非正式>快走

servant /?s??v?nt/ n.?仆人

chortle /?t???tl/ vi.?咯咯笑

66

Ginny didn’t find it?

amusing

?either.

amusing /??mju?z??/ adj.?逗人笑的

67

‘Oh, don’t,’ she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he was planning to attack next, or George pretended to?

ward Harry off

?with?

a large clove of garlic

?when they met.

ward off v.?擋住

a clove of garlic?一瓣蒜頭

68

Harry didn’t mind; it made him feel better that Fred and George, at least, thought the idea of his being Slytherin’s heir was quite?

ludicrous

.

ludicrous /'lu?d?kr?s/ adj.?荒唐可笑的

69

But their?

antics

?seemed to be?

aggravating

?Draco Malfoy, who looked?

increasingly

?

sour

?each time he saw them at it.

antics /??ntiks/ n.?滑稽動作

aggravate /??ɡr?ve?t/ vt.?使惱火

increasingly /?n?kri?s??li/ adv.?日益

sour /?sa??(r)/ adj.?壞脾氣的

70

‘It’s because he’s?

bursting

?to say it’s really him,’ said Ron?

knowingly

. ‘You know how he hates anyone beating him at anything, and you’re getting all the?

credit

?for his dirty work.’

bursting /?b??(r)st??/ adj.?渴望的

knowingly /?n????l?/ adv.?會意地

credit /?kred?t/ n.?榮譽(yù)

71

‘Not for long,’ said Hermione in a satisfied tone. ‘The Polyjuice Potion’s nearly ready. We’ll be getting the truth out of him any day now.’

72

At last the term ended, and a silence deep as the snow on the grounds?

descended

?on the castle.

descend /d??send/ vi. (情緒、氣氛等)籠罩

73

Harry found it peaceful, rather than gloomy, and enjoyed the fact that he, Hermione and the Weasleys?

had the run of

Gryffindor Tower,

had the run of?在……自由活動

74

which meant they could play Exploding Snap loudly without bothering anyone, and practise duelling in private.

75

Fred, George and Ginny had chosen to stay at school rather than visit Bill in?

Egypt

?with Mr and Mrs Weasley.

Egypt /?i:d??pt/ n.?埃及

76

Percy, who disapproved of what he?

termed

?their childish behaviour, didn’t spend much time in the Gryffindor common room.

term /t??m/ v.?把……叫做

77

He had already told them?

pompously

?that he was only staying over Christmas because it was his duty as a Prefect to support the teachers during this troubled time.

pompously /'p?mp?sli/ adv.?傲慢地

78

Christmas morning?

dawned

, cold and white. Harry and Ron, the only ones left in their dormitory, were woken very early by Hermione, who?

burst in

, fully dressed and carrying presents for them both.

dawn /d??n/ v.?黎明

burst in?突然出現(xiàn)

79

‘Wake up,’ she said loudly, pulling back the curtains at the window.

80

‘Hermione – you’re not supposed to be in here,’ said Ron,?

shielding

?his eyes against the light.

shield /?i?ld/ vt.?遮擋

81

‘Merry Christmas to you, too,’ said Hermione, throwing him his present. ‘I’ve been up for nearly an hour, adding more?

lacewings

?to the Potion. It’s ready.’

lacewing /'le?sw??/ n.?草蜻蛉

82

Harry sat up, suddenly wide awake.

83

‘Are you sure?’

84

‘Positive,’ said Hermione, shifting Scabbers the rat so that she could sit down on the end of his four-poster. ‘If we’re going to do it, I say it should be tonight.’

85

At that moment, Hedwig swooped into the room, carrying a very small package in her beak.

86

‘Hello,’ said Harry happily, as she landed on his bed, ‘a(chǎn)re you speaking to me again?’

87

She nibbled his ear in an?

affectionate

?sort of way, which was a far better present than the one which she had brought him, which turned out to be from the Dursleys.

affectionate /??fek??n?t/ adj.?溫柔親切的

88

They had sent Harry a?

toothpick

?and a note telling him to find out whether he’d be able to stay at Hogwarts for the summer holidays, too.

toothpick /'tu?θp?k/ n.?牙簽

89

The rest of Harry’s Christmas presents were far more?

satisfactory

.

satisfactory /?s?t?s?f?kt?ri/ adj.?令人滿意的

90

Hagrid had sent him a large tin of?

treacle

?

fudge

, which Harry decided to?

soften

?by the fire before eating;

treacle /'tri?k(?)l/ n.?糖蜜

fudge /f?d?/ n.?乳脂(巧克力)軟糖

soften /?s?fn/ vt.?使變?nèi)彳?/p>

91

Ron had given him a book called Flying with the Cannons, a book of interesting facts about his favourite Quidditch team; and Hermione had bought him a?

luxury

?eagle-feather quill.

luxury /?l?k??ri/ n.?奢侈

92

Harry opened the last present to find a new, hand-

knitted

?jumper from Mrs Weasley, and a large?

plum cake

.

knitted /'nitid/ adj.?編織的

plum cake [食品]葡萄干蛋糕

93

He put up her card with a fresh?

surge

?of guilt, thinking about Mr Weasley’s car, which hadn’t been seen since its crash with the Whomping Willow,?

surge /s??d?/ n.?（情感的）涌起

94

and the?

bout

?of rule-breaking he and Ron were planning next.

bout /ba?t/ n.?一場

95

No one, not even someone?

dreading

?taking Polyjuice Potion later, could fail to enjoy Christmas dinner at Hogwarts.

dread /dred/ v.?擔(dān)心

96

The Great Hall looked?

magnificent

.

magnificent /m?ɡ?n?f?snt/ adj.?宏偉的

97

Not only were there a dozen?

frost

-covered Christmas trees and?

frost /fr?st/ n.?霜凍

98

thick?

streamers

?of?

holly

?and?

mistletoe

?

criss-crossing

?the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling.

streamer /'stri?m?/ n. (作裝飾用的)彩色紙帶

holly /'h?l?/ n.?冬青樹（等于holm oak）

mistletoe /'m?s(?)lt??/ n.?槲寄生

criss-crossing?交叉雜交

99

Dumbledore led them in a few of his favourite?

carols

, Hagrid?

booming

?more and more loudly with every goblet of?

eggnog

?he?

consumed

.

carol /'k?r(?)l/ n.?圣誕之歌

boom /bu?m/ v.?轟鳴

eggnog /'eɡn?ɡ/ n.?蛋酒

consume /k?n?sju?m/ vt.?大喝

100

Percy, who hadn’t noticed that Fred had bewitched his prefect badge so that it now read ‘

Pinhead

’, kept asking them all what they were?

sniggering

?at.

pinhead /'p?nhed/ n.?傻瓜

snigger /'sn?g?/ vi.?暗笑

101

Harry didn’t even care that Draco Malfoy was making loud,?

snide

?remarks about his new jumper from the Slytherin table. With a bit of luck, Malfoy would be getting his?

come-uppance

?in a few hours’ time.

snide /sna?d/ adj.?暗諷的

come-uppance /k?m??p?ns/ n.?應(yīng)得的懲罰

102

Harry and Ron had barely finished their third?

helpings

?of Christmas pudding when Hermione?

ushered

?them out of the Hall to?

finalise

?their plans for the evening.

helping /?help??/ n.?（進(jìn)餐時的）一份食物

usher /????(r)/ v.?引領(lǐng)

finalise /'fain?laiz/ vt.?使…結(jié)束

103

‘We still need a bit of the people you’re changing into,’ said Hermione?

matter-of-factly

, as though she was sending them to the supermarket for?

washing-powder

.

matter-of-factly /?m?t?r?f'f?ktli/ adv.?實(shí)事求是地

washing-powder n.?洗衣粉

104

‘And obviously, it’ll be best if you can get something of Crabbe and Goyle’s; they’re Malfoy’s best friends, he’ll tell them anything.

105

And we also need to make sure the real Crabbe and Goyle can’t burst in on us while we’re?

interrogating

?him.

interrogate /?n?ter?ɡe?t/ vt.?詢問

106

‘I’ve got it all worked out,’ she went on?

smoothly

, ignoring Harry and Ron’s?

stupefied

?faces. She held up two?

plump

chocolate cakes.

smoothly /smu: el?/ adv.?流暢地

stupefy /?stju?p?fa?/ vt.?使驚呆

plump /pl?mp/ adj.?又大又圓的

107

‘I’ve filled these with a simple Sleeping?

Draught

. All you have to do is make sure Crabbe and Goyle find them. You know how?

greedy

?they are, they’re bound to eat them.

draught /drɑ?ft/ n.?飲劑

greedy /?ɡri?di/ adj.?貪吃的

108

Once they’re asleep, pull out a few of their hairs and hide them in a broom?

cupboard

.’

cupboard /?k?b?d/ n.?小儲藏室

109

Harry and Ron looked?

incredulously

?at each other.

incredulously /in'kredjul?sli/ adv.?不相信地

110

‘Hermione, I don’t think –’

111

‘That could go seriously wrong –’

112

But Hermione had a?

steely

?

glint

?in her eye not unlike the one Professor McGonagall sometimes had.

steely /'sti?l?/ adj.?鋼鐵般的

glint /gl?nt/ n.?閃光

113

‘The Potion will be?

useless

?without Crabbe and Goyle’s hair,’ she said sternly. ‘You do want to?

investigate

?Malfoy, don’t you?’

useless /?ju?sl?s/ adj.?無用的

investigate /?n?vest?ɡe?t/ vt.?審查

114

‘Oh, all right, all right,’ said Harry. ‘But what about you? Whose hair are you?

ripping

?out?’

rip /r?p/ v.?猛地扯開

115

‘I’ve already got mine!’ said Hermione brightly, pulling a tiny bottle out of her pocket and showing them the single hair inside it.

116

‘Remember Millicent Bulstrode?

wrestling

?with me at the Duelling Club? She left this on my robes when she was trying to?

strangle

?me!

wrestle /?resl/ v. (與某人)摔跤

strangle /?str??ɡl/ vt.?扼死

117

And she’s gone home for Christmas – so I’ll just have to tell the Slytherins I’ve decided to come back.’

118

When Hermione had bustled off to check on the Polyjuice Potion again, Ron turned to Harry with a?

doom-laden

expression.

doom-laden adj.?導(dǎo)致毀滅的

119

‘Have you ever heard of a plan where so many things could go wrong?’

120

But to Harry and Ron’s?

utter

?amazement,?

stage

?one of the?

operation

?went just as?

smoothly

?as Hermione had said.?

utter /??t?(r)/ adj.?完全的

stage /ste?d?/ n.?階段

smoothly /smu: el?/ adv.?順利地

operation /??p??re??n/ n. (軍事)行動

121

They lurked in the deserted Entrance Hall after Christmas tea, waiting for Crabbe and Goyle, who had remained alone at the Slytherin table,?

shovelling

?down fourth helpings of?

trifle

.

shovel /'??v(?)l/ vt.?把…胡亂塞入

trifle /?tra?fl/ n.?蛋糕

122

Harry had perched the chocolate cakes on the end of the?

banisters

.?

banister /'b?n?st?/ n. (樓梯的)欄桿

123

When they spotted Crabbe and Goyle coming out of the Great Hall, Harry and Ron hid quickly behind a suit of armour next to the front door.

124

‘How thick can you get?’ Ron whispered?

ecstatically

, as Crabbe?

gleefully

?pointed out the cakes to Goyle and grabbed them.

ecstatically /ik'st?tik?li/ adv.?狂喜地

gleefully /'gli:f?li/ adv.?極快樂地

125

Grinning stupidly, they stuffed the cakes?

whole

?into their large mouths.

whole /h??l/ adv.?完全地

126

For a moment, both of them chewed?

greedily

, looks of?

triumph

?on their faces. Then, without the smallest change of expression, they both?

keeled

?over backwards onto the floor.

greedily /'gri:dili/ adv.?貪婪地

triumph /?tra??mf/ n. (巨大成功或勝利的)心滿意足

keel /ki?l/ v. (使)翻倒

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Much the most difficult bit was hiding them in the cupboard across the hall.

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Once they were safely?

stowed

?

amongst

?the buckets and?

mops

, Harry yanked out a couple of the?

bristles

?that covered Goyle’s forehead and Ron pulled out several of Crabbe’s hairs.

stow /st??/ vt.?使暫留

amongst /??m??st/ prep.?在…之中

mop /m?p/ n.?拖把

bristle /'brisl/ n.?短而硬的毛發(fā)

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They also?

stole

?their shoes, because their own were far too small for Crabbe- and Goyle-sized feet. Then, still?

stunned

?at what they had just done, they sprinted up to Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom.

stole /st??l/ vt,?偷竊(steal的過去式)

stun /st?n/ v.?震驚

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They could hardly see for the thick black smoke?

issuing

?from the?

cubicle

?in which Hermione was stirring the cauldron.?

issue /???u?/ v.?由……產(chǎn)生

cubicle /'kju?b?k(?)l/ n.?小隔間

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Pulling their robes up over their faces, Harry and Ron knocked softly on the door.

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‘Hermione?’

133

They heard the?

scrape

?of the lock and Hermione emerged, shiny-faced and looking anxious.

scrape /skre?p/ n.?摩擦使發(fā)出刺耳聲

134

Behind her they heard the?

gloop

?gloop of the?

bubbling

,?

treacle

-thick Potion. Three?

glass tumblers

?stood ready on the toilet seat.

gloop /ɡlu?p/ n.?粘稠物

bubble /?b?bl/ vi.?冒泡

treacle /'tri?k(?)l/ n.?糖蜜

glass tumbler?大玻璃杯

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‘Did you get them?’ Hermione asked?

breathlessly

.

breathlessly /'breθlisli/ adv.?屏息地

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Harry showed her Goyle’s hair.

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‘Good. And I sneaked these?

spare

?robes out of the?

laundry

,’ Hermione said, holding up a small?

sack

. ‘You’ll need bigger sizes once you’re Crabbe and Goyle.’

spare /spe?/ adj.?備用的

laundry /?l??ndri/ n.?洗衣房

sack /s?k/ n.?麻袋

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The three of them stared into the cauldron. Close up, the Potion looked like thick, dark mud, bubbling?

sluggishly

.

sluggish /?sl?ɡ??/ adj.?緩慢的

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‘I’m sure I’ve done everything right,’ said Hermione, nervously re-reading the?

splotched

?page of Moste?

Potente

Potions.

splotch /spl?t?/ n.?斑點(diǎn)

potent /?p??tnt/ adj.?強(qiáng)有力的

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‘It looks like the book says it should … Once we’ve drunk it, we’ll have exactly an hour before we change back into ourselves.’

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‘Now what?’ Ron whispered.

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‘We separate it into three glasses and add the hairs.’

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Hermione?

ladled

?large?

dollops

?of the Potion into each of the glasses. Then, her hand trembling, she shook Millicent Bulstrode’s hair out of its bottle into the first glass.

ladle /'le?d(?)l/ vt.?以杓舀取

dollop /'d?l?p/ n.?團(tuán)

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The Potion hissed loudly like a boiling kettle and?

frothed

?madly. A second later, it had turned a?

sick

?sort of yellow.

froth /fr?θ/ vi.?起泡沫

sick /s?k/ adj.?不舒服的

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‘Urgh –?

essence

?of Millicent Bulstrode,’ said Ron, eyeing it with?

loathing

. ‘Bet it tastes?

disgusting

.’

essence /?esns/ n.?精華

loathing /'l??e??/ n.?嫌惡

disgusting /d?s?ɡ?st??/ adj.?令人作嘔的

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‘Add yours, then,’ said Hermione.

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Harry dropped Goyle’s hair into the middle glass and Ron put Crabbe’s into the last one.?

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Both glasses hissed and frothed: Goyle’s turned the?

khaki

?colour of a?

bogey

, Crabbe’s a dark,?

murky

?brown.

khaki /'kɑ?k?/ adj.?土黃色的

bogey /'b??g?/ n.?〈英，非正式〉干鼻屎

murky /?m??ki/ adj.?昏暗的

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‘Hang on,’ said Harry, as Ron and Hermione reached for their glasses.?

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‘We’d better not all drink them in here: once we turn into Crabbe and Goyle we won’t fit. And Millicent Bulstrode’s no?

pixie

.’

pixie /'p?ks?/ n.?小仙子

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‘Good thinking,’ said Ron, unlocking the door. ‘We’ll take?

separate

?cubicles.’

separate /?sepr?t/ adj.?單獨(dú)的

152

Careful not to spill a drop of his Polyjuice Potion, Harry slipped into the?

middle

?cubicle.

middle /'m?d(?)l/ adj.?中間的

153

‘Ready?’ he called.

154

‘Ready,’ came Ron and Hermione’s voices.

155

‘One … two … three …’

156

Pinching his nose, Harry drank the Potion down in two large gulps. It tasted like?

overcooked

?cabbage.

overcooked /???v?'k?kt/ adj.?煮得過久的

157

Immediately, his insides started?

writhing

?as though he’d just swallowed live snakes – doubled up,

writhe /ra?e/ vi.?翻滾

158

he wondered whether he was going to be sick – then a?

burning

?sensation spread?

rapidly

?from his stomach to the very ends of his fingers and toes.

burning /?b??n??/ adj.?火辣辣的

rapidly /'r?pidli/ adv.?迅速地

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Next, bringing him gasping to?

all fours

, came a horrible melting feeling, as the skin all over his body bubbled like hot?

wax

,

all fours n. (動物的)四足

wax /w?ks/ n.?蠟

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and before his eyes, his hands began to grow, the fingers?

thickened

, the nails?

broadened

?and the knuckles were?

bulging

?like?

bolts

.

thicken /'θ?k(?)n/ vi.?變粗

broaden /?br??dn/ vi.?變寬

bulge /b?ld?/ vi.?膨脹

bolt /b??lt/ n.?螺栓

161

His shoulders stretched painfully and a?

prickling

?on his forehead told him that hair was?

creeping

?down towards his eyebrows;

prickle /'pr?k(?)l/ vi.?感到刺痛

creep /kri?p/ vi.?蔓延

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his robes ripped as his chest expanded like a?

barrel

?bursting its hoops; his feet were?

agony

?in shoes four sizes too small …

barrel /?b?r?l/ n.?桶

agony /??ɡ?ni/ n.?極大的痛苦

163

As suddenly as it had started, everything stopped.

164

Harry lay face down on the cold stone floor, listening to Myrtle?

gurgling

?

morosely

?in the end toilet. With difficulty, he kicked off his shoes and stood up. So this was what it felt like, being Goyle.

gurgle /'g??g(?)l/ vi.?作汩汩聲

morosely /m?'r?usli/ adv.?憂郁地

165

His large hands trembling, he pulled off his old robes, which were hanging a foot above his ankles,

166

pulled on the spare ones and?

laced

?up Goyle’s boat-like shoes.

lace /le?s/ vt. & vi.?系緊

167

He reached up to brush his hair out of his eyes and met only the short growth of?

wiry

?

bristles

, low on his forehead.

wiry /?wa??ri/ adj.?鐵絲似的

bristle /'brisl/ n.?剛毛

168

Then he realised that his glasses were?

clouding

?his eyes, because Goyle obviously didn’t need them.

cloud /kla?d/ v.?模糊不清

169

He took them off and called, ‘Are you two OK?’ Goyle’s low?

rasp

?of a voice issued from his mouth.

rasp /rɑ?sp/ n.?刺耳聲

170

‘Yeah,’ came the?

deep

?

grunt

?of Crabbe from his right.

grunt /gr?nt/ n.?咕噥聲

deep /di:p/ adj.?聲音低沉的

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Harry unlocked his door and stepped in front of the cracked mirror. Goyle stared back at him out of dull,?

deep-set

eyes. Harry?

scratched

?his ear. So did Goyle.

deep-set /'di:pset/ adj. (眼睛等)深陷的

scratch /skr?t?/ vt.?（用指甲）撓

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Ron’s door opened. They stared at each other. Except that he looked pale and shocked, Ron was?

indistinguishable

from Crabbe, from the?

pudding-basin

?haircut to the long,?

gorilla

?arms.

indistinguishable /??nd??st??ɡw???bl/ adj.?難區(qū)分的

pudding-basin?倒碗狀發(fā)型

gorilla /g?'r?l?/ n.?大猩猩

173

‘This is unbelievable,’ said Ron, approaching the mirror and prodding Crabbe’s?

flat nose

. ‘Unbelievable.’

flat nose?扁鼻子

174

‘We’d better get going,’ said Harry,?

loosening

?the watch that was cutting into Goyle’s thick wrist.?

loosen /?lu?sn/ vt. & vi. (使)松開

175

‘We’ve still got to find out where the Slytherin common room is, I only hope we can find someone to follow …’

176

Ron, who had been gazing at Harry, said, ‘You don’t know how?

bizarre

?it is to see Goyle thinking.’?

bizarre /b??zɑ?(r)/ adj.?古怪的

177

He banged on Hermione’s door. ‘C’mon, we need to go …’

178

A?

high-pitched

?voice answered him. ‘I – I don’t think I’m going to come after all. You go on without me.’

high-pitched /'hai'pit?t/ adj.?聲音尖銳的

179

‘Hermione, we know Millicent Bulstrode’s ugly, no one’s going to know it’s you.’

180

‘No – really – I don’t think I’ll come. You two hurry up, you’re wasting time.’

181

Harry looked at Ron,?

bewildered

.

bewilder /b??w?ld?(r)/ vt.?使迷惑

182

‘That looks more like Goyle,’ said Ron. ‘That’s how he looks every time a teacher asks him a question.’

183

‘Hermione, are you OK?’ said Harry through the door.

184

‘Fine – I’m fine … Go on –’

185

Harry looked at his watch. Five of their?

precious

?sixty minutes had already passed.

precious /?pre??s/ adj.?寶貴的

186

‘We’ll meet you back here, all right?’ he said.

187

Harry and Ron opened the door of the bathroom carefully, checked that the coast was clear and set off.

188

‘Don’t?

swing

?your arms like that,’ Harry muttered to Ron.

swing /sw??/ vi.?搖擺

189

‘Eh?’

190

‘Crabbe holds them sort of stiff …’

191

‘How’s this?’

192

‘Yeah, that’s better.’

193

They went down the marble staircase. All they needed now was a Slytherin whom they could follow to the Slytherin common room, but there was nobody around.

194

‘Any ideas?’ muttered Harry.

195

‘The Slytherins always come up to breakfast from over there,’ said Ron, nodding at the entrance to the dungeons. The words had barely left his mouth when a girl with long curly hair emerged from the entrance.

196

‘Excuse me,’ said Ron, hurrying up to her, ‘we’ve forgotten the way to our common room.’

197

‘I?

beg your pardon

?’ said the girl stiffly. ‘Our common room? I’m a Ravenclaw.’

beg your pardon?請?jiān)?/p>

198

She walked away, looking suspiciously back at them.

199

Harry and Ron hurried down the stone steps into the darkness, their footsteps echoing particularly loudly as Crabbe and Goyle’s huge feet hit the floor,

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