CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

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The Heir of Slytherin

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He was standing at the end of a very long, dimly lit chamber.

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Towering stone?

pillars

?

entwined

?with more carved serpents rose to support a ceiling lost in darkness, casting long black shadows through the odd, greenish?

gloom

?that filled the place.

pillar /?p?l?(r)/ n.?柱子

entwine /?n?twa?n/ vt.?纏繞

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His heart beating very fast, Harry stood listening to the?

chill

?silence. Could the?

basilisk

?be?

lurking

?in a shadowy corner, behind a pillar? And where was Ginny?

chill /t??l/ n.?寒意

gloom /ɡlu?m/ n.?幽暗

lurk /l??k/ vi.?潛伏

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He pulled out his wand and moved forward between the?

serpentine

?

columns

. Every careful footstep echoed loudly off the shadowy walls.

serpentine /?s??p?nta?n/ adj.?像蛇般蜷曲的

column /?k?l?m/ n.?圓柱

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He kept his eyes narrowed, ready to?

clamp

?them shut at the smallest sign of movement.

clamp /kl?mp/ vt.?夾緊

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The hollow eye?

sockets

?of the stone snakes seemed to be following him. More than once, with a?

jolt

?of the stomach, he thought he saw one?

stir

.

socket /?s?k?t/ n.?（人體的）窩

jolt /d???lt/ vt. & vi. (使)搖動(dòng)

stir /st??(r)/ n.?微動(dòng)

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Then, as he drew?

level

?with the last pair of pillars, a statue high as the Chamber itself?

loomed

?into view, standing against the back wall.

level /?levl/ n.?水平線

loom /lu?m/ vi.?可怕地出現(xiàn)

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Harry had to crane his neck to look up into the giant face above:

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it was ancient and monkey-like, with a long thin beard that fell almost to the bottom of the wizard’s sweeping stone robes,

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where two enormous grey feet stood on the?

smooth

?chamber floor.

smooth /smu?e/ adj.?光滑的

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And between the feet, face down, lay a small, black-robed figure with?

flaming

?red hair.

flaming /'fle?m??/ adj.?明亮的

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‘Ginny!’ Harry muttered, sprinting to her and dropping to his knees. ‘Ginny! don’t be dead! please don’t be dead!’

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He flung his wand aside, grabbed Ginny’s shoulders and turned her over.?

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Her face was white as marble, and as cold, yet her eyes were closed, so she wasn’t Petrified. But then she must be …

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‘Ginny, please wake up,’ Harry muttered desperately, shaking her. Ginny’s head?

lolled

?hopelessly?

from side to side

.

loll /l?l/ vi.?尤指頭或舌）耷拉

from side to side?左右(搖擺)

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‘She won’t wake,’ said a soft voice.

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Harry jumped and spun around on his knees.

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A tall, black-haired boy was leaning against the nearest pillar, watching.?

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He was strangely blurred around the edges, as though Harry was looking at him through a?

misted

?window. But there was no mistaking him.

mist /m?st/ vt. & vi. (使)蒙上薄霧

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‘Tom – Tom Riddle?’

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Riddle nodded, not taking his eyes off Harry’s face.

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‘What d’you mean, she won’t wake?’ Harry said desperately. ‘She’s not – she’s not –?’

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‘She’s still alive,’ said Riddle. ‘But only just.’

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Harry stared at him. Tom Riddle had been at Hogwarts fifty years ago, yet here he stood, a weird, misty light shining about him, not a day older than sixteen.

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‘Are you a ghost?’ Harry said uncertainly.

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‘A memory,’ said Riddle quietly. ‘

Preserved

?in a diary for fifty years.’

preserve /pr??z??v/ vt.?保存

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He pointed towards the floor near the statue’s giant toes.

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Lying open there was the little black diary Harry had found in Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom.

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For a second, Harry wondered how it had got there – but there were more?

pressing

?matters to deal with.

pressing /?pres??/ adj.?緊迫的

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‘You’ve got to help me, Tom,’ Harry said, raising Ginny’s head again. ‘We’ve got to get her out of here. There’s a Basilisk … I don’t know where it is, but it could be?

along

?any moment. please, help me …’

along /?'l??/ adv. (前)來(lái)

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Riddle didn’t move. Harry, sweating, managed to?

hoist

?Ginny half off the floor, and bent to pick up his wand again.

hoist /h??st/ vt.?升起

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But his wand had gone.

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‘Did you see –?’

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He looked up. Riddle was still watching him –?

twirling

?Harry’s wand between his long fingers.

twirl /tw??l/ vt. & vi. (使)快速轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)

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‘Thanks,’ said Harry, stretching out his hand for it.

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A smile curled the corners of Riddle’s mouth. He continued to stare at Harry, twirling the wand?

idly

.

idly /?a?dli/ adv.?漫不經(jīng)心地

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‘Listen,’ said Harry urgently, his knees?

sagging

?with Ginny’s dead weight, ‘we’ve got to go! If the?

Basilisk

?comes …’

sag /s?ɡ/ v.?（尤指由于承重或受壓）中間下垂

basilisk /'b?z?l?sk/ n.?蛇怪

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‘It won’t come until it is?

called

,’ said Riddle calmly.

call /k??l/ v.?召喚

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Harry lowered Ginny back onto the floor, unable to hold her up any longer.

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‘What d’you mean?’ he said. ‘Look, give me my wand, I might need it.’

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Riddle’s smile?

broadened

.

broaden /?br??dn/ vi.?變寬

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‘You won’t be needing it,’ he said.

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Harry stared at him.

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‘What d’you mean, I won’t be –?’

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‘I’ve waited a long time for this, Harry Potter,’ said Riddle. ‘For the chance to see you. To speak to you.’

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‘Look,’ said Harry, losing patience, ‘I don’t think you get it. We’re in the Chamber of Secrets. We can talk later.’

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‘We’re going to talk now,’ said Riddle, still smiling broadly, and he pocketed Harry’s wand.

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Harry stared at him. There was something very funny going on here.

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‘How did Ginny get like this?’ he asked slowly.

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‘Well, that’s an interesting question,’ said Riddle pleasantly.

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‘And quite a long story. I suppose the real reason Ginny Weasley’s like this is because she opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger.’

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‘What are you talking about?’ said Harry.

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‘The diary,’ said Riddle.

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‘My diary. Little Ginny’s been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her?

pitiful

?worries and?

woes

:

pitiful /?p?t?fl/ adj.?可憐的

woe /w??/ n.?悲痛

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how her brothers tease her, how she had to come to school with second-hand robes and books, how –’

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Riddle’s eyes glinted ‘– how she didn’t think famous, good, great Harry Potter would ever like her …’

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All the time he spoke, Riddle’s eyes never left Harry’s face. There was an almost?

hungry

?look in them.

hungry /'h??gr?/ adj.?渴望的

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‘It’s very boring, having to listen to the?

silly

?little troubles of an eleven-year-old girl,’ he went on.

silly /'s?l?/ adj.?可笑的

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‘But I was patient. I wrote back, I was?

sympathetic

, I was kind. Ginny simply loved me.

sympathetic /?s?mp??θet?k/ adj.?表示同情的

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No one’s ever understood me like you, Tom … I’m so glad I’ve got this diary to?

confide

?in … It’s like having a friend I can carry round in my pocket …’

confide /k?n?fa?d/ vi.?吐露秘密

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Riddle laughed, a high, cold laugh that didn’t?

suit

?him. It made the hairs stand up on the back of Harry’s neck.

suit /su?t/ vt.?相配

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‘If I say it myself, Harry, I’ve always been able to?

charm

?the people I needed.

charm /t?ɑ?m/ v.?迷住

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So Ginny poured out her soul to me, and her soul happened to be exactly what I wanted. I grew stronger and stronger?

on a diet of

?her deepest fears, her darkest secrets.

on a diet of?以……為主食

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I grew powerful, far more powerful than little Miss Weasley. Powerful enough to start?

feeding

?Miss Weasley a few of my secrets, to start?

pouring

?a little of my soul back into her …’

feed /fi?d/ v.?提供(意見(jiàn)或信息等）

pour /p??(r)/ v.?傾訴

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‘What d’you mean?’ said Harry, whose mouth had gone very dry.

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‘Haven’t you guessed yet, Harry Potter?’ said Riddle softly.

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‘Ginny Weasley opened the Chamber of Secrets.?

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She?

strangled

?the school roosters and?

daubed

?threatening messages on the walls. She set the?

serpent

?of Slytherin on four Mudbloods, and the?

Squib’s

?cat.’

strangle /?str??ɡl/ vt.?扼死

daub /d??b/ vt.?涂抹

serpent /'s??p(?)nt/ n.?蛇（尤指大蛇或毒蛇）

squib /skw?b/ n.?啞炮

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‘No,’ Harry whispered.

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‘Yes,’ said Riddle, calmly.

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‘Of course, she didn’t know what she was doing at first. It was very amusing. I wish you could have seen her new diary?

entries

?… far more interesting, they became … Dear Tom,’

entry /?entri/ n.?條目

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he?

recited

, watching Harry’s horrified face,

recite /r??sa?t/ vi.?背誦

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‘I think I’m losing my memory. There are rooster feathers all over my robes and I don’t know how they got there.

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Dear Tom, I can’t remember what I did on the night of Hallowe’en, but a cat was attacked and I’ve got paint all down my?

front

.

front /fr?nt/ n. (衣服的)前胸部分

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Dear Tom, Percy keeps telling me I’m pale and I’m not myself. I think he suspects me … there was another attack today and I don’t know where I was.

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Tom, what am I going to do? I think I’m going mad … I think I’m the one attacking everyone, Tom!’

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Harry’s fists were clenched, the nails digging deep into his?

palms

.

palm /pɑ?m/ n.?手掌

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‘It took a very long time for stupid little Ginny to stop trusting her diary,’ said Riddle.

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‘But she finally became suspicious and tried to?

dispose

?of it.

dispose /d??sp??z/ v.?丟掉

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And that’s where you came in, Harry. You found it, and I couldn’t have been more delighted. Of all the people who could have picked it up, it was you, the very person I was most?

anxious

?to meet …’

anxious /???k??s/ adj.?渴望的

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‘And why did you want to meet me?’ said Harry. Anger was?

coursing

?through him and it was an effort to keep his voice steady.

course /k??s/ v.?（感情、思想）涌動(dòng)

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‘Well, you see, Ginny told me all about you, Harry,’ said Riddle.

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‘Your whole?

fascinating

?history.’ His eyes?

roved

?over the lightning scar on Harry’s forehead, and his expression grew hungrier.

fascinating /?f?s?ne?t??/ adj.?迷人的

rove /r??v/ v.?（眼睛)掃掠

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‘I knew I must find out more about you, talk to you, meet you if I could. So I decided to show you my famous?

capture

of that great?

oaf

, Hagrid, to gain your trust.’

capture /?k?pt??(r)/ n.?捕獲

oaf /??f/ n.?白癡

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‘Hagrid’s my friend,’ said Harry, his voice now shaking. ‘And you?

framed

?him, didn’t you? I thought you made a mistake, but –’

frame /fre?m/ vt.?陷害

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Riddle laughed his high laugh again.

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‘It was my word?

against

?Hagrid’s, Harry. Well, you can imagine how it looked to old Armando Dippet.

against /?'genst/ prep.?對(duì)……造成傷害（威脅，不利）

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On the one hand, Tom Riddle, poor but brilliant, parentless but so brave, school Prefect,?

model

?student;

model /?m?dl/ adj.?模范的

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on the other hand, big,?

blundering

?Hagrid, in trouble every other week, trying to raise werewolf?

cubs

?under his bed, sneaking off to the Forbidden Forest to?

wrestle

?trolls.

blundering /'bl?nd?r??/ adj.?笨拙的

cub /k?b/ n.?幼獸

wrestle /?resl/ vt.?與…搏斗

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But I admit, even I was surprised how well the plan worked. I thought someone must realise that Hagrid couldn’t possibly be the heir of Slytherin.

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It had taken me five whole years to find out everything I could about the Chamber of Secrets and discover the secret entrance … as though Hagrid had the brains, or the power!

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‘Only the Transfiguration teacher, Dumbledore, seemed to think Hagrid was?

innocent

. He persuaded Dippet to keep Hagrid and?

train

?him as gamekeeper.

innocent /??n?snt/ adj.?無(wú)罪的

train /tre?n/ v.?訓(xùn)練

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Yes, I think Dumbledore might have guessed. Dumbledore never seemed to like me as much as the other teachers did …’

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‘I bet Dumbledore?

saw right through

?you,’ said Harry, his teeth?

gritted

.

see through?看穿

grit /ɡr?t/ v.?咬緊牙關(guān)

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‘Well, he certainly kept an?

annoyingly

?close watch on me after Hagrid was expelled,’ said Riddle?

carelessly

.

annoyingly /?'n?ii?li/ adv.?煩人地

carelessly /'k??lisli/ adv.?漫不經(jīng)心地

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‘I knew it wouldn’t be safe to open the Chamber again while I was still at school. But I wasn’t going to waste those long years I’d spent searching for it.

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I decided to leave behind a diary, preserving my sixteen-year-old self in its pages, so that one day, with luck, I would be able to lead another in my footsteps, and finish Salazar Slytherin’s noble work.’

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‘Well, you haven’t finished it,’ said Harry?

triumphantly

. ‘No one’s died this time, not even the cat. In a few hours the Mandrake Draught will be ready and everyone who was Petrified will be all right again.’

triumphantly /trai'?mf?ntli/ adv.?得意揚(yáng)揚(yáng)地

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‘Haven’t I already told you,’ said Riddle quietly, ‘that killing Mudbloods doesn’t matter to me any more? For many months now, my new target has been – you.’

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Harry stared at him.

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‘Imagine how angry I was when the next time my diary was opened, it was Ginny who was writing to me, not you. She saw you with the diary, you see, and?

panicked

.

panic /?p?n?k/ vi.?十分驚慌

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What if you found out how to work it, and I?

repeated

?all her secrets to you?

repeat /r?'pi?t/ v.?轉(zhuǎn)告

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What if, even worse, I told you who’d been strangling roosters? So the foolish little?

brat

?waited until your dormitory was deserted and stole it back.

brat /br?t/ n.?乳臭未干的小孩

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But I knew what I must do. It was clear to me that you were?

on the trail of

?Slytherin’s heir.

on the trail of?跟蹤追趕

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From everything Ginny had told me about you, I knew you would?

go to any lengths

?to solve the mystery – particularly if one of your best friends was attacked.

go to any lengths?竭盡全力

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And Ginny had told me the whole school was?

buzzing

?because you could speak Parseltongue …

buzz /b?z/ v.?充滿嘈雜聲

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‘So I made Ginny write her own?

farewell

?on the wall and come down here to wait. She struggled and cried and became very boring.

farewell /?fe??wel/ n.?告別

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But there isn’t much life left in her: she put too much into the diary, into me. Enough to let me leave its pages at last.

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I have been waiting for you to appear since we arrived here. I knew you’d come. I have many questions for you, Harry Potter.’

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‘Like what?’ Harry?

spat

, fists still clenched.

spit /sp?t/ v.?怒斥

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‘Well,’ said Riddle, smiling pleasantly,

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‘how is it that a baby with no?

extraordinary

?magical talent managed to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort’s powers were destroyed?’

extraordinary /?k?str??dnri/ adj.?特別的

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There was an odd red gleam in his hungry eyes now.

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‘Why do you care how I escaped?’ said Harry slowly. ‘Voldemort was after your time.’

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‘Voldemort,’ said Riddle softly, ‘is my past, present and future, Harry Potter …’

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He pulled Harry’s wand from his pocket and began to?

trace

?it through the air, writing three?

shimmering

?words:

trace /tre?s/ v.?（尤指用手指、腳趾）畫(huà)（圖，線）

shimmer /'??m?/ vi.?閃閃發(fā)光

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TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE

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Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name re-arranged themselves:

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I AM LORD VOLDEMORT

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‘You see?’ he whispered.

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‘It was a name I was already using at Hogwarts, to my most intimate friends only, of course.

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You think I was going to use my?

filthy

?Muggle father’s name for ever? I, in whose?

veins

?runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself, through my mother’s side?

filthy /'f?lθ?/ adj.?骯臟的

vein /ve?n/ n.?血管

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I, keep the name of a foul, common Muggle, who abandoned me even before I was born, just because he found out his wife was a witch?

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No, Harry. I?

fashioned

?myself a new name, a name I knew wizards everdywhere would one day fear to speak, when I had become the greatest sorcerer in the world!’

fashion /?f??n/ v.?塑造

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Harry’s brain seemed to have?

jammed

. He stared?

numbly

?at Riddle, at the?

orphaned

?boy who had grown up to murder Harry’s own parents, and so many others … At last he forced himself to speak.

jam /d??m/ v.?卡住

numbly /'n?mli/ adv.?麻木地

orphan /???fn/ adj.?孤兒的

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‘You’re not,’ he said, his quiet voice full of?

hatred

.

hatred /?he?tr?d/ n.?怨恨

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‘Not what?’ snapped Riddle.

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‘Not the greatest sorcerer in the world,’ said Harry, breathing fast.

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‘Sorry to?

disappoint

?you, and all that, but the greatest wizard in the world is Albus Dumbledore. Everyone says so.

disappoint /?d?s??p??nt/ vt.?使(人)失望

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Even when you were strong, you didn’t dare try and take over at Hogwarts. Dumbledore saw through you when you were at school and he still frightens you now, wherever you’re hiding these days.’

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The smile had gone from Riddle’s face, to be replaced by a very ugly look.

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‘Dumbledore’s been?

driven out

?of this castle by the?

mere

?memory of me!’ he hissed.

drive out?驅(qū)趕

mere /m??(r)/ adj.?僅僅

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‘He’s not as gone as you might think!’ Harry?

retorted

. He was speaking?

at random

, wanting to?

scare

?Riddle, wishing rather than believing it to be true.

retort /r??t??t/ vt.?反駁

at random?隨意地

scare /ske?(r)/ vt.?驚嚇

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Riddle opened his mouth, but froze.

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Music was coming from somewhere. Riddle?

whirled

?around to stare down the empty chamber.

whirl /w??l/ v.?猛地轉(zhuǎn)動(dòng)

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The music was growing louder. It was?

eerie

,?

spine-tingling

,?

unearthly

; it lifted the hair on Harry’s?

scalp

?and made his heart feel as though it was swelling to twice its normal size.

eerie /???ri/ adj. (因陰森怪誕而)引起恐懼的

spine-tingling adj.?扣人心弦的

unearthly /?n???θli/ adj.?超自然的

scalp /sk?lp/ n.?頭皮

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Then, as the music reached such a?

pitch

?that Harry felt it?

vibrating

?inside his own ribs, flames erupted at the top of the nearest pillar.

pitch /p?t?/ n.?音高

vibrate /va??bre?t/ vi.?振動(dòng)

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A?

crimson

?bird the size of a?

swan

?had appeared,?

piping

?its weird music to the?

vaulted

?ceiling.?

crimson /?kr?mzn/ adj.?深紅的

swan /sw?n/ n.?天鵝

pipe /pa?p/ v.?播送（音樂(lè)、錄音

vaulted /?v??lt?d/ adj.?拱形的

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It had a glittering golden tail as long as a?

peacock’s

?and gleaming golden?

talons

, which were gripping a ragged?

bundle

.

peacock /'pi?k?k/ n. (雄)孔雀

talon /'t?l?n/ n. (尤指猛禽的)爪

bundle /?b?ndl/ n.?包

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A second later, the bird was flying straight at Harry. It dropped the ragged thing it was carrying at his feet, then landed heavily on his shoulder.

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As it?

folded

?its great wings, Harry looked up and saw it had a long, sharp golden beak and beady black eyes.

fold /f??ld/ vt.?合攏

143

The bird stopped singing. It sat still and warm next to Harry’s cheek, gazing steadily at Riddle.

144

‘That’s a phoenix …’ said Riddle, staring?

shrewdly

?back at it.

shrewdly /'?ru:dli/ adv.?精明干練地

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‘Fawkes?’ Harry breathed, and he felt the bird’s golden claws?

squeeze

?his shoulder gently.

squeeze /skwi?z/ vt. & vi.?捏

146

‘And that –’ said Riddle, now eyeing the ragged thing that Fawkes had dropped, ‘that’s the old school Sorting Hat.’

147

So it was. Patched,?

frayed

?and dirty, the Hat lay?

motionless

?at Harry’s feet.

fray /fre?/ vi.?被磨損

motionless /?m????nl?s/ adj.?靜止的

148

Riddle began to laugh again. He laughed so hard that the dark chamber?

rang with

?it, as though ten Riddles were laughing at once.

ring with?回蕩著

149

‘This is what Dumbledore sends his?

defender

! A songbird and an old hat! Do you feel brave, Harry Potter? Do you feel safe now?’

defender /d??fend?(r)/ n.?保護(hù)者

150

Harry didn’t answer. He might not see what use Fawkes or the Sorting Hat were, but he was no longer alone, and he waited with?

mounting

?courage for Riddle to stop laughing.

mounting /?ma?nt??/ adj.?逐漸增加的

151

‘To business, Harry,’ said Riddle, still smiling?

broadly

.

broadly /?br ?:dl?/ adv. (笑容)開(kāi)懷地

152

‘Twice – in your past, in my future – we have met. And twice I failed to kill you. How did you survive? Tell me everything. The longer you talk,’ he added softly, ‘the longer you stay alive.’

153

Harry was thinking fast, weighing his chances.?

154

Riddle had the wand. He, Harry, had Fawkes and the Sorting Hat, neither of which would be much good in a duel. It looked bad, all right.

155

But the longer Riddle stood there, the more life was?

dwindling

?out of Ginny … and in the meantime, Harry noticed suddenly, Riddle’s outline was becoming clearer, more solid.

dwindle /?dw?ndl/ vi.?逐漸變少或變小

156

If it had to be a fight between him and Riddle, better sooner than later.

157

‘No one knows why you lost your powers when you attacked me,’ said Harry abruptly.

158

‘I don’t know myself. But I know why you couldn’t kill me. Because my mother died to save me. My?

common

?Muggle-born mother,’ he added, shaking with suppressed rage.

common /'k?m?n/ adj.?普通的

159

‘She stopped you killing me. And I’ve seen the real you, I saw you last year. You’re a wreck. You’re barely alive.?

160

That’s where all your power got you. You’re in hiding. You’re ugly, you’re foul!’

161

Riddle’s face?

contorted

. Then he forced it into an awful smile.

contort /k?n?t??t/ vt. & vi.?扭曲

162

‘So. Your mother died to save you. Yes, that’s a powerful counter-charm. I can see now – there is nothing special about you, after all. I wondered, you see.

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Because there are strange?

likenesses

?between us, Harry Potter. Even you must have noticed.

likeness /'la?kn?s/ n.?相象

164

Both half-bloods,?

orphans

, raised by Muggles. Probably the only two Parselmouths to come to Hogwarts since the great Slytherin himself. We even look something alike …

orphan /???fn/ n.?孤兒

165

But after all, it was merely a lucky chance that saved you from me. That’s all I wanted to know.’

166

Harry stood, tense, waiting for Riddle to raise his wand. But Riddle’s twisted smile was?

widening

?again.

widen /?wa?dn/ vt. & vi.?程度加深

167

‘Now, Harry, I’m going to teach you a little lesson. Let’s match the powers of Lord Voldemort, heir of Salazar Slytherin, against famous Harry Potter, and the best weapons Dumbledore can give him.’

168

He cast an amused eye over Fawkes and the Sorting Hat, then walked away.

169

Harry, fear spreading up his numb legs, watched Riddle stop between the high pillars and look up into the stone face of Slytherin, high above him in the half-darkness.

170

Riddle opened his mouth wide and hissed – but Harry understood what he was saying.

171

‘Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four.’

172

Harry wheeled around to look up at the statue, Fawkes?

swaying

?on his shoulder.

sway v.?搖晃

173

Slytherin’s gigantic stone face was moving. Horror-struck, Harry saw his mouth opening, wider and wider, to make a huge black hole.

174

And something was stirring inside the statue’s mouth. Something was?

slithering

?up from its depths.

slither /'sl?e?/ v.?滑行

175

Harry backed away until he hit the dark Chamber wall, and as he shut his eyes tight he felt Fawkes’s wing sweep his cheek as he took flight.

176

Harry wanted to shout, ‘Don’t leave me!’ but what chance did a phoenix have against the king of serpents?

177

Something huge hit the stone floor of the chamber, Harry felt it shudder. He knew what was happening, he could sense it, could almost see the giant serpent?

uncoiling

?itself from Slytherin’s mouth.

uncoil /?n'k??l/ vi.?展開(kāi)

178

Then he heard Riddle’s hissing voice: ‘Kill him.’

179

The basilisk was moving towards Harry, he could hear its heavy body?

slithering

?

ponderously

?across the dusty floor.

slither /'sl?e?/ v.?滑行

ponderous /?p?nd?r?s/ adj.?笨重的

180

Eyes still tightly shut, Harry began to run?

blindly

?sideways, his hands?

outstretched

,?

feeling his way

.

blindly /?bla?ndl?/ adv.?盲目地

outstretch /a?t'stret?/ v.?伸出

feel one's way v.?摸索著走

181

Riddle was laughing …

182

Harry tripped. He fell hard onto the stone and tasted blood.?

183

The serpent was barely feet from him, he could hear it coming.

184

There was a loud,?

explosive

?

spitting

?sound right above him and then something heavy hit Harry so hard that he was smashed against the wall.

explosive /?k?spl??s?v/ adj.?爆炸的

spit /sp?t/ v.?發(fā)出噼啪聲

185

Waiting for fangs to sink through his body he heard more mad hissing, something?

thrashing

?wildly off the pillars.

thrash /θr??/ v.?鞭打

186

He couldn’t help it. He opened his eyes wide enough to squint at what was going on.

187

The enormous serpent, bright,?

poisonous

?green, thick as an oak trunk, had raised itself high in the air and its great?

blunt

?head was?

weaving

?

drunkenly

?between the pillars.

poisonous /?p??z?n?s/ adj.?有毒的

blunt /bl?nt/ adj.?鈍的

weave /wi?v/ v.?穿行（以避開(kāi)障礙）

drunken /?dr??k?n/ adv.?酒醉地

188

As Harry trembled, ready to close his eyes if it turned, he saw what had distracted the snake.

189

Fawkes was?

soaring

?around its head, and the Basilisk was snapping furiously at him with fangs long and thin as?

sabres

.

soar /s??(r)/ vi.?翱翔

sabre /'se?b?/ n.?軍刀

190

Fawkes dived. His long golden beak sank out of sight and a sudden shower of dark blood spattered the floor.?

191

The snake’s tail thrashed,?

narrowly missing

?Harry, and before Harry could shut his eyes, it turned.

narrowly miss?勉強(qiáng)躲過(guò)

192

Harry looked straight into its face, and saw that its eyes, both its great?

bulbous

?yellow eyes, had been?

punctured

?by the phoenix; blood was streaming to the floor and the snake was?

spitting

?in?

agony

.

bulbous /'b?lb?s/ adj.?球棍狀地

puncture /?p??kt??(r)/ vt.?刺穿(某物)

spit /sp?t/ vt. & vi.?發(fā)出呼嚕呼嚕聲

agony /??ɡ?ni/ n.?極大的痛苦

193

‘No!’ Harry heard Riddle screaming. ‘Leave the bird! Leave the bird! The boy is behind you! You can still smell him! Kill him!’

194

The blinded serpent?

swayed

, confused, still deadly. Fawkes was?

circling

?its head,?

piping

?his?

eerie

?song,?

sway /swe?/ vi.?搖擺

circle /'s??k(?)l/ vt.?圍繞

pipe /pa?p/ v.?播送（音樂(lè)、錄音）

eerie /???ri/ adj. (因陰森怪誕而)引起恐懼的

195

jabbing

?here and there at the Basilisk’s?

scaly

?nose as the blood poured from its?

ruined

?eyes.

jab /d??b/ vt. (用尖物)戳

scaly /'ske?l?/ adj. (動(dòng)物)多鱗的

ruined /'ru?nd/ adj.?毀壞的

196

‘Help me, help me,’ Harry muttered wildly, ‘someone, anyone!’

197

The snake’s tail?

whipped

?across the floor again. Harry ducked. Something soft hit his face.

whip /w?p/ vt.?抽打

198

The Basilisk had swept the Sorting Hat into Harry’s arms.

199

Harry seized it. It was all he had left, his only chance. He?

rammed

?it onto his head and threw himself flat onto the floor as the Basilisk’s tail swung over him again.

ram /r?m/ v.?硬塞

200

‘Help me … help me …’ Harry thought, his eyes?

screwed

?tight under the Hat. ‘Please help me!’

screw /skru?/ v.?瞇起(眼睛)

201

There was no answering voice. Instead, the Hat?

contracted

, as though an invisible hand was squeezing it very tightly.

contract /?k?ntr?kt/ v.?縮小

202

Something very hard and heavy thudded onto the top of Harry’s head, almost?

knocking him out

.

knock out?使不省人事

203

Stars winking in front of his eyes, he grabbed the top of the Hat to pull it off and felt something long and hard beneath it.

204

A gleaming silver sword had appeared inside the Hat, its?

handle

?glittering with?

rubies

?the size of eggs.

handle /?h?ndl/ n.?柄

ruby /'ru?b?/ n.?紅寶石

205

‘Kill the boy! Leave the bird! The boy is behind you! Sniff – smell him!’

206

Harry was on his feet, ready. The basilisk’s head was falling, its body?

coiling

?around, hitting pillars as it twisted to face him.

coil /k??l/ vt.?盤(pán)繞

207

He could see the?

vast

, bloody eye sockets, see the mouth stretching wide, wide enough to swallow him whole, lined with fangs long as his sword,?

thin

, glittering,?

venomous

?…

vast /vɑ?st/ adj.?巨大的

thin /θ?n/ adj.?薄的

venomous /?ven?m?s/ adj.?有毒的

208

It?

lunged

?blindly. Harry dodged and it hit the Chamber wall. It lunged again, and its?

forked

?tongue?

lashed

?Harry’s side. He raised the sword in both his hands.

lunge /l?nd?/ v.?猛沖

forked /f??kt/ adj.?有叉的

lash /l??/ vt.?鞭打

209

The Basilisk?

lunged

?again, and this time its aim was true. Harry threw his whole weight behind the sword and drove it to the?

hilt

?into the?

roof

?of the serpent’s mouth.

lunge /l?nd?/ v.?猛沖

hilt /h?lt/ n.?刀把

roof /ru?f/ n.?頂部

210

But as warm blood?

drenched

?Harry’s arms, he felt a?

searing

?pain just above his elbow.

drench /drent?/ vt.?使?jié)裢?/p>

searing /'s??r??/ adj.?灼熱的

211

One long, poisonous fang was sinking deeper and deeper into his arm and it?

splintered

?as the basilisk?

keeled

?over sideways and fell, twitching, to the floor.

splinter /'spl?nt?/ vi.?分裂

keel /ki?l/ vi.?翻倒

212

Harry slid down the wall. He gripped the fang that was spreading?

poison

?through his body and wrenched it out of his arm.

poison /?p??zn/ n.?毒物

213

But he knew it was too late.?

White-hot

?pain was spreading slowly and?

steadily

?from the?

wound

.

white-hot /'hwait'h?t/ adj.?狂熱的

steadily /?sted?li/ adv.?逐漸地

wound /wu?nd/ n.?傷口

214

Even as he dropped the fang and watched his own blood?

soaking

?his robes, his vision went?

foggy

. The Chamber was dissolving in a whirl of dull colour.

soak /s??k/ vi.?滲透

foggy /?f?ɡi/ adj.?模糊的

215

A patch of

?scarlet?

swam

?past and Harry heard a soft?

clatter

?of claws beside him.

a patch of?一片

swim /sw?m/ vi.?使渡過(guò)

clatter /'kl?t?/ n.?咔嗒聲

216

‘Fawkes,’ said Harry?

thickly

. ‘You were brilliant, Fawkes …’ He felt the bird lay its beautiful head on the spot where the serpent’s fang had?

pierced

?him.

thickly /'θikli/ adv.?聲音沙啞地

pierce /p??s/ vt. & vi.?刺入

217

He could hear echoing footsteps and then a dark shadow moved in front of him.

218

‘You’re dead, Harry Potter,’ said Riddle’s voice above him. ‘Dead. Even Dumbledore’s bird knows it. Do you see what he’s doing, Potter? He’s crying.’

219

Harry blinked. Fawkes’s head slid in and out of focus. Thick,?

pearly

?tears were?

trickling

?down the?

glossy

?feathers.

pearly /'p??l?/ adj.?珍珠似的

trickle /?tr?kl/ vi.?滴

glossy /?ɡl?si/ adj.?光潔的

220

‘I’m going to sit here and watch you die, Harry Potter.?

Take your time

. I’m in no hurry.’

take one’s time?不急不忙

221

Harry felt?

drowsy

. Everything around him seemed to be?

spinning

.

drowsy /?dra?zi/ adj.?使人昏昏欲睡的

spin /sp?n/ vi.?旋轉(zhuǎn)

222

‘So ends the famous Harry Potter,’ said Riddle’s distant voice.

223

‘Alone in the Chamber of Secrets,?

forsaken

?by his friends, defeated at last by the Dark Lord he so?

unwisely

challenged.

forsake /f??se?k/ v.?拋棄

unwisely /'?n'waizli/ adv.?不明智地

224

You’ll be back with your dear Mudblood mother soon, Harry … She bought you twelve years of?

borrowed

?time … but Lord Voldemort got you in the end, as you knew he must.’

borrowed /'bɑro/ adj.?借來(lái)的

225

If this is dying, thought Harry, it’s not so bad. Even the pain was leaving him …

226

But was this dying? Instead of?

going black

, the Chamber seemed to be coming back into focus.

go black?變得一片黑暗

227

Harry gave his head a little shake and there was Fawkes, still resting his head on Harry’s arm. A pearly patch of tears was shining all around the wound – except that there was no wound.

228

‘Get away, bird,’ said Riddle’s voice suddenly. ‘Get away from him. I said, get away!’

229

Harry raised his head. Riddle was pointing Harry’s wand at Fawkes; there was a bang like a gun and Fawkes took flight again in a whirl of gold and scarlet.

230

‘Phoenix tears …’ said Riddle quietly, staring at Harry’s arm. ‘Of course …?

healing

?powers … I forgot …’

healing /'hi?l??/ adj.?能治愈的

231

He looked into Harry’s face. ‘But it makes no difference. In fact, I prefer it this way. Just you and me, Harry Potter … you and me …’

232

He raised the wand.

233

Then, in a?

rush

?of wings, Fawkes?

soared

?back overhead and something fell into Harry’s lap – the diary.

rush /r??/ n.?匆促

soar /s??(r)/ vi.?翱翔

234

For a split second, both Harry and Riddle, wand still raised, stared at it.

235

Then, without thinking, without considering, as though he had meant to do it all along, Harry seized the Basilisk fang on the floor next to him and?

plunged

?it straight into the?

heart

?of the book.

plunge /pl?nd?/ v.?猛插

heart /hɑ?t/ n.?中心

236

There was a long, dreadful, piercing scream. Ink?

spurted

?out of the diary in?

torrents

, streaming over Harry’s hands, flooding the floor.?

spurt /sp??t/ vi.?噴出

torrent /?t?r?nt/ n.?奔流

237

Riddle was?

writhing

?and twisting, screaming and?

flailing

?and then …

writhe /ra?e/ vi.?翻滾

flail /fle?l/ vt.&vi.?（尤指手臂和雙腿）亂動(dòng)

238

He had gone. Harry’s wand fell to the floor with a?

clatter

?and there was silence.?

clatter /'kl?t?/ n.?咔噠聲

239

Silence except for the steady drip drip of ink still?

oozing

?from the diary. The Basilisk?

venom

?had burned a?

sizzling

hole right through it.

ooze /u?z/ vi. (濃液等)慢慢地冒出

venom /?ven?m/ n. (某些蛇、蝎子等分泌的)毒液

sizzling /'sizli?/ adj.?極熱的

240

Shaking all over, Harry pulled himself up. His head was spinning as though he’d just travelled miles by?

Floo powder

.

Floo powder?飛路粉

241

Slowly, he gathered together his wand and the Sorting Hat, and, with a huge tug,?

retrieved

?the glittering sword from the roof of the Basilisk’s mouth.

retrieve /r??tri?v/ vt.?收回

242

Then came a faint?

moan

?from the end of the Chamber. Ginny was?

stirring

.

moan /m??n/ n.?呻吟聲

fstir /st??(r)/ v. (使)微動(dòng)

243

As Harry hurried towards her, she sat up.?

244

Her?

bemused

?eyes?

travelled

?from the huge?

form

?of the dead basilisk, over Harry, in his blood-

soaked

?robes, then to the diary in his hand.

bemused /b??mju?zd/ adj.?茫然的

travel /'tr?v(?)l/ vi. (目光)掃視

form /f??m/ n.?外形

soaked /s??kt/ adj.?濕透的

245

She drew a great,?

shuddering

?gasp and tears began to pour down her face.

shuddering /'?ud?ri?/?發(fā)抖的

246

‘Harry – oh, Harry – I tried to tell you at b-breakfast, but I c-couldn’t say it in front of Percy.

247

It was me, Harry – but I – I s-swear I d-didn’t mean to – R-Riddle made me, he?

t-took me over

?– and – how did you kill that – that thing? W-where’s Riddle?

take over?控制

248

The last thing I r-remember is him coming out of the diary –’

249

‘It’s all right,’ said Harry, holding up the diary, and showing Ginny the fang hole, ‘Riddle’s finished. Look! Him and the Basilisk. C’mon, Ginny, let’s get out of here –’

250

‘I’m going to be expelled!’ Ginny?

wept

, as Harry helped her?

awkwardly

?to her feet.

wept /wept/ v.?哭泣（weep的過(guò)去式）

awkwardly /'?:kw?:dli/ adv.?笨拙地

251

‘I’ve looked forward to coming to Hogwarts ever since B-Bill came and n-now I’ll have to leave and – w-what’ll Mum and Dad say?’

252

Fawkes was waiting for them,?

hovering

?in the Chamber entrance.

hover /?h?v?(r)/ vi. (鳥(niǎo)等)盤(pán)旋

253

Harry urged Ginny forward; they stepped over the?

motionless

?

coils

?of the dead?

basilisk

, through the echoing?

gloom

and back into the tunnel.

motionless /?m????nl?s/ adj.?不動(dòng)的

coil /k??l/ n.?卷

basilisk /'b?z?l?sk/ n.?蛇怪

gloom /ɡlu?m/ n.?昏暗

254

Harry heard the stone doors close behind them with a soft?

hiss

.

hiss /h?s/ n.?嘶嘶聲

255

After a few minutes’?

progress

?up the dark tunnel, a distant sound of slowly shifting rock reached Harry’s ears.

progress /'pr??gres/ n.?前進(jìn)

256

‘Ron!’ Harry yelled, speeding up. ‘Ginny’s OK! I’ve got her!’

257

He heard Ron give a?

strangled

?cheer and they turned the next bend to see his eager face staring through the?

sizeable

?gap he had managed to make in the rock fall.

strangle /?str??ɡl/ v.?壓制(沖動(dòng)，行動(dòng)，聲音)

sizeable /?saiz?bl/ adj.?相當(dāng)大的

258

‘Ginny!’ Ron?

thrust

?an arm through the gap in the rock to pull her through first. ‘You’re alive! I don’t believe it! What happened?’

thrust /θr?st/ v.?伸出

259

He tried to hug her but Ginny?

held him off

, sobbing.

hold off?不使……接近

260

‘But you’re okay, Ginny,’ said Ron, beaming at her. ‘It’s over now, it’s – where did that bird come from?’

261

Fawkes had?

swooped

?through the gap after Ginny.

swoop /swu?p/ vi.?猛沖

262

‘He’s Dumbledore’s,’ said Harry, squeezing through himself.

263

‘And how come you’ve got a sword?’ said Ron,?

gaping

?at the glittering weapon in Harry’s hand.

gape /ɡe?p/ vi.?張口結(jié)舌地看

264

‘I’ll explain when we get out of here,’ said Harry, with a?

sideways

?glance at Ginny.

sideways /?sa?dwe?z/ adv.?向一旁

265

‘But –’

266

‘Later,’ Harry said quickly. He didn’t think it was a good idea to tell Ron yet who’d been opening the Chamber, not in front of Ginny, anyway. ‘Where’s Lockhart?’

267

‘Back there,’ said Ron, grinning and jerking his head up the tunnel towards the pipe. ‘He’s in a bad way. Come and see.’

268

Led by Fawkes, whose wide scarlet wings?

emitted

?a soft golden glow in the darkness, they walked all the way back to the?

mouth

?of the pipe.?

emit /i?m?t/ vt.?放射

mouth /ma?θ/ n.?入口

269

Gilderoy Lockhart was sitting there, humming?

placidly

?to himself.

placidly /'pl?sidli/ adv.?滿足地

270

‘His memory’s gone,’ said Ron. ‘The Memory Charm backfired. Hit him instead of us. Hasn’t got a?

clue

?who he is, or where he is, or who we are. I told him to come and wait here. He’s a danger to himself.’

clue /klu?/ n.?想法

271

Lockhart?

peered

?

good-naturedly

?up at them all.

peer /p??(r)/ vi.?盯著看

good-naturedly?和藹地

272

‘Hello,’ he said. ‘Odd sort of place, this, isn’t it? Do you live here?’

273

‘No,’ said Ron, raising his eyebrows at Harry.

274

Harry bent down and looked up the long, dark pipe.

275

‘Have you thought how we’re going to get back up this?’ he said to Ron.

276

Ron shook his head, but Fawkes the phoenix had swooped past Harry and was now fluttering in front of him, his?

beady

?eyes bright in the dark. He was waving his long golden tail feathers.

beady /'bi?d?/ adj.?小圓珠般而亮晶晶的

277

Harry looked uncertainly at him.

278

‘He looks like he wants you to grab hold …’ said Ron, looking?

perplexed

. ‘But you’re much too heavy for a bird to pull up there.’

perplexed /p??plekst/ adj.?困惑的

279

‘Fawkes,’ said Harry, ‘isn’t an ordinary bird.’ He turned quickly to the others. ‘We’ve got to hold on to each other. Ginny, grab Ron’s hand. Professor Lockhart –’

280

‘He means you,’ said Ron sharply to Lockhart.

281

‘You hold Ginny’s other hand.’

282

Harry tucked the sword and the Sorting Hat into his belt, Ron took hold of the back of Harry’s robes, and Harry reached out and took hold of Fawkes’s strangely hot tail feathers.

283

An?

extraordinary

?

lightness

?seemed to spread through his whole body, and next second, with a?

whoosh

, they were flying upwards through the pipe.

extraordinary /?k?str??dnri/ adj.?非同尋常的

lightness /?la?tn?s/ n.?輕松

whoosh /w??/ n.?（風(fēng)吹）呼呼

284

Harry could hear Lockhart dangling below him, saying, ‘Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic!’

285

The?

chill

?air was?

whipping

?through Harry’s hair, and before he’d stopped enjoying the ride, it was over –

chill /t??l/ n.?寒冷

whip /w?p/ v.?（柔韌性的物體、雨、風(fēng)等）拍打

286

all four of them were?

hitting

?the wet floor of Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom, and as Lockhart?

straightened

?his hat, the sink that hid the pipe was sliding back into place.

hit /h?t/ v.?碰撞

straighten /'stre?t(?)n/ vt. & vi.?（使）變正

287

Myrtle?

goggled

?at them.

goggle /?ɡ?ɡl/ vi.?瞪眼看

288

‘You’re alive,’ she said?

blankly

?to Harry.

blankly /'bl??kli/ adv.?茫然地

289

‘There’s no need to sound so?

disappointed

,’ he said?

grimly

, wiping?

flecks

?of blood and slime off his glasses.

disappointed /d?s?'p??nt?d/ adj.?失望的

grimly /'grimli/ adv.?冷酷地

fleck /flek/ n.?斑點(diǎn)

290

‘Oh, well … I’d just been thinking. If you had died, you’d have been welcome to share my toilet,’ said Myrtle,?

blushing

silver.

blush /bl??/ vi.?臉紅

291

‘Urgh!’ said Ron, as they left the bathroom for the dark, deserted corridor outside. ‘Harry! I think Myrtle’s got?

fond of

you! You’ve got?

competition

, Ginny!’

fond of?喜歡

competition /?k?mp??t??n/ n.?對(duì)手

292

But tears were still?

flooding

?silently down Ginny’s face.

flood /fl?d/ vt.?溢出

293

‘Where now?’ said Ron, with an anxious look at Ginny. Harry pointed.

294

Fawkes was leading the way, glowing gold along the corridor. They strode after him, and moments later, found themselves outside Professor McGonagall’s office.

295

Harry knocked and pushed the door open.

296