背新概念美文学写考研作文（4）

蓝色是考研重点词汇，要从课文句子中掌握其用法，不是很熟的最好查一下沪江小D；紫色字体是考研用短语和句型。划线的重点要熟练应用的句子，尽量应用到作文中去。

Lesson 24 A skeleton in the cupboard “家丑”

We often read in novels how aseemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has beenconcealed from strangers for years.（1）The English languagepossesses a vivid saying to describe this sort ofsituation. The terrible secret is called ‘a skeleton in the cupboard’.At some dramatic moment in the story, the terrible secret becomes known and areputation is ruined. The reader'shair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that theheroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth,poisoned every one of her five husbands.
（2）It is all very well for such things tooccur in fiction.To varying degrees, we all have secrets which we do not want even ourclosest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton, and he is veryproud of the fact. George studied medicine in his youth.（3）Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer ofdetective stories. I once spent anuncomfortable weekend which I shall never forget at his house. George showed me to the guest-room which, he said, was rarely used. He told me tounpack my things and then come down to dinner. After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in twoempty drawers, I decided to hang one of the two suits I had brought with me in the cupboard.（4）I opened the cupboard door and then stoodin front of itpetrified. A skeleton wasdangling before my eyes. The sudden movement of the door made it swayslightly and it gave me theimpression that it wasabout to leap out at me. Dropping my suit, Idashed downstairs to tell George. This was worse than ‘a terrible secret’; this was a real skeleton! But George wasunsympathetic. ‘Oh, that,’ he said with a smileas if he weretalking about an old friend. ‘That's Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical studentonce upon a time. ’

全文翻译：
在小说中，我们经常读到一个表面上受人尊重的人物或家族，却有着某种多年不为人所知的骇人听闻的秘密。（1）在小说的某个戏剧性时刻，可怕的秘密泄漏出来，接着便是某人的声誉扫地。当读者读到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。
（2）尽管我们人人都有各种大小秘密，连最亲密的朋友都不愿让他们知道，但我们当中极少有人有柜中骷髅。我所认识的唯一的在柜中藏骷髅的人便是乔治·卡尔顿，他甚至引以为自豪。乔治年轻时学过医，（3）。有一次，我在他家里度周末，过得很不愉快。这事我永远不会忘记。乔治把我领进客房，说这间房间很少使用。他让我打开行装后下楼吃饭。我将衬衫、内衣放进两个空抽屉里，然后我想把随身带来的两套西服中的一套挂到大衣柜里去。（4）一具骷髅悬挂在眼前，由于柜门突然打开，它也随之轻微摇晃起来，让我觉得它好像马上要跳出柜门朝我扑过来似的。我扔下西服冲下楼去告诉乔治。这是比"骇人听闻的秘密"更加惊人的东西，这是一具真正的骷髅啊！但乔治却无动于衷。"噢，是它呀！他笑着说道，俨然在谈论一位老朋友。"那是塞巴斯蒂安。你忘了我以前是学医的了。"

大家一定要背下来哦。无论是正着背，倒着背，横着背，竖着背，反正就是要滚花烂熟就对了哦~~

背完课文千万要记得去默写哦！！别小看默写，可以发现我们背的时候没发现的错误。同时还可以检查自己有没有写对单词拼写，句型。对大家的写作提高很有帮助呐。
全文默写大大滴奖哦~~~~对认真的同学，偶是不会吝啬偶的腰包的啦~~~~

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