《哈利波特与魔法石》第2章-消失的玻璃（6）

Harry lay in his dark cupboard much later, wishing he had a watch. He didn't know what time it was and he couldn't be sure the Dursleys were asleep yet. Until they were, he couldn't risk sneaking to the kitchen for some food.

He'd lived with the Dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could remember, ever since he'd been a baby and his parents had died in that car crash. He couldn't remember being in the car when his parents had died. Sometimes, when he strained his memory during long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision: a blinding flash of green light and a burn- ing pain on his forehead. This, he supposed, was the crash, though he couldn't imagine where all the green light came from. He couldn't remember his parents at all. His aunt and uncle never spoke about them, and of course he was forbidden to ask questions. There were no photographs of them in the house.

Yet sometimes he thought (or maybe hoped) that strangers in the street seemed to know him. Very strange strangers they were, too. A tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia and Dudley.

A wild-looking old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at him once on a bus. A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word. The weirdest thing about all these people was the way they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look.

At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang.

一，一词多义：

disagree：争执

二，熟记词根：

1. vis（看）：

（1）vision(vis+ion)；图像

（2）visible(vis+ible)；看得见的

（3）invisible(in+vis+ible)；无法看见的

2.spect（看）：

（1）respect(re+spect)；尊敬

（2）respectable(re+spect+able)；受人尊敬的

（3）respectful(re+spect+ful)；充满敬意的

3. photo（光）：

（1）photograph（photo+graph）；照片

（2）photochrome（photo+chrom+e）；彩色照片

4. graph（写；记录）：

geography（geo+graph+y）；地理学

5. 后缀-y

（1）表形容词，如.....一般：baggy；watery；homey

（2）表名词，人或物：lefty；oldy

（3）表名词，小东西：doggy；piggy

（4）表学科：geography

三，识记生词：

1. sneak：鬼鬼祟祟

2. miserable：痛苦的

3. strain：尽力

4. blinding：炫目的

5. bow：鞠躬

6. merrily：愉快的

7. weird：奇怪的