Phrases
an assortment of
各种各样的
Words
contagious & germ
contagious 蔓延的，有传染性的
germ 病菌
Rumours were flying from student to student like highly contagious germs.
cactus
仙人掌
… Professor McGonagall barked at the end of one particularly difficult lesson, during which Neville had accidentally transplanted his own ears onto a cactus.
bummer
扫兴，失望
What a bummer!
It’s a bummer all right, but if he won’t talk to us in person, we’ll have to send him the letter after all. Or we’ll stuff it into his hand, he can’t avoid us for ever.
raccoon
浣熊
‘I asked McGonagall how the champions are chosen but she wasn’t telling,’ said George bitterly.’She just told me to shut up and get on with Transfiguring my raccoon.’
collude
勾结，串通
‘House-elves!’ said Hermione loudly and proving Harry right. ‘Not once, in over a thousand pages, does Hogwarts: A History mention that we are all colluding in the oppression of a hundred slaves!’
oppression
压迫
gloss
n. 光彩，假象 v. 使光彩，掩盖
A Highly Biased and Selective History of Hogwarts, Which Glosses Over the Nastier Aspects of the School.
vociferous
吵闹的，叫嚣的
They seemed to have made Hermione more vociferous.
badger
n. 獾 v. 纠缠，烦扰
She had been badgering Harry and Ron ever since.
rind
（橘子等水果、干酪、熏肉等的）皮
Harry pulled off Sirius’s reply and offered Hedwig his bacon rinds.
plait
辫子
Parvati scowled and removed a large ornamental butterfly from the end of her plait.
satin
纺缎子
She was dressed from head to foot in black satin, and many magnificent opals gleamed at her throat and on her thick fingers.
opal
蛋白石
steed
骏马
My steeds require-er-forceful ‘andling.
mast
桅杆
‘It’s a mast!’ he said to Ron and Hermione.
resurrect
使复活，使再现
… as though it was resurrected wreck.
disembarking
着陆
People were disembarking; they could see their silhouettes passing the lights in the ship’s portholes.
sleek
油亮的
But the man who was leading them up to the castle was wearing furs of a different sort; sleek and silver, like his hair.
unctuous
油腻的，虚情假意的
Karkaroff had a fruity, unctuous voice.
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crane
crane one’s neck 伸长脖子
Like everyone else in the Hall, judging by the constantly craning necks, the impatient expressions on every face, …
imminent
迫近的，即将到来的
The imminent arrival at their house of an assortment of wizards was making the Dursleys uptight and irritable.
crest
（家族）饰章
They were all wearing the same uniform; a tea-towel stamped with the Hogwarts crest…
interrogate
审问，质问
His voice, which had been so calm throughout the interrogation of Barty Crouch, shook very slightly for the first time.
lousy
令人厌恶的，糟糕的
You lousy biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!
reverie
幻想，遐想
Mr Crouch seemed to come out of a deep reverie.
plastered
用灰泥抹
In Professor Lockhart’s day, the walls had been plastered with beaming, winking pictures of Professor Lockhart himself.
lethal
致命的
Hagrid simply loved monstrous creatures – the more lethal, the better.
antenna
触须
Look very closely, and you’ll notice the markings around her antennae are exactly like those foul glasses she wears.
harness
缰绳
Harry could see Hagrid helping Madame Maxime to back two of the giant horses into their harness.
enmity
敌意，仇恨
Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great.
paranoid
偏执的，多疑的
‘Talk about paranoid …’ Ron glanced nervously over his shoulder to check that Moody was definitely out of earshot, and went on, …
appal
使惊吓
They were mouthing soundlessly at Dumbledore, apparently too appalled to speak.
crude
粗糙的，天然的，未加工的
a cluster of crude stones
benign
善良的，温和的；良性的
benign tumour
There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore’s face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles.
secretion
分泌物
He could see some sort of thick, gluey secretion from the spider’s pincers on his tore robes.
riddle
谜语
Not unless you can answer my riddle.
foe
敌人
But the blood of a foe … Wormtail would have had me use any wizard, would you not, Wormtail?
prompt
迅速的，立刻的
I see you all, whole and healthy, with your powers intact - such prompt appearances! - and I ask myself … why did this band of wizards never come to (find me when I was faintest?)
intact
完整的
headstone
墓碑
It stopped beside a towering marble headstone only six feet from them.
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immortality
不朽
What I was, even I do not know … I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality.
affinity
喜爱
Wormtail has a curious affinity with rats, do you not, Wormtail?
wasp
黄蜂
‘Good training for when we’re all Aurors,’ said Ron excitedly, attempting the impedient Jinx on a wasp that had buzzed into the room.
sear
灼烧
Wormtail screamed, screamed as though every nerve in his body was on fire, the screaming filled Harry’s ears as the scar on his forehead seared with pain.