非常野蛮的生长方式:…athick hedge that sprouted and flourished between his nose and his upper lip andran clear across his face from the middle of one cheek to the middle of theother.
超出旧有经验的认知,一般的男孩子,对胡子大概有两种印象,要么很短很直很硬,很有精神,要么垂下来,像海象一样无精打采。可惜,这把胡子不是这样的。Butthis was not one of those nailbrush moustaches, all short and clipped andbristly. No was it long and droopy in the walrus style.
这把胡子是卷的!卷有什么好怕的?这个男孩子和所有怕他的男孩子一样,自动填充了可怕的想象情节。Instead,it was curled most splendidly upwards all the way along as though it had had apermanent wave put into it or possibly curling tongs heated in the morningsover a tiny flame of methylated spirits. The only other way we could haveachieved this curling effect, we boys decided, was by prolonged upward brushingwith a hard toothbrush in front of the looking-glass every morning.
罗尔德·达尔写可怕是相当有经验了。这不,在BFG中,“ Sophie opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came out.Her throat, like her whole body, was frozen with fright” (4)与此文有异曲同工之妙啊,