Phrases
trestle table
台桌，在台架上铺板的桌子
… a long trestle table in front of her laden with twigs.
Words
nutcase
疯子
It’s just that before the truth could sink in, everyone went home for the summer, where they spent two months reading about how you’re a nutcase and Dumbledore’s going senile.
senile
年迈的
retaliate
反击
‘Don’t start arguing again,’ said Harry wearily, as Ron opened his mouth to retaliate.
mallet
木槌
One by one, as though hit over the head with an invisible mallet, the first-years were slumping unconscious in their seats.
edgy
急躁的，紧张不安的
Hermione stared down at her blank piece of parchment for a few seconds, then said edgily, ‘Oh, it’s no good, I can’t concentrate now. I’m going to bed.’
misshapen
畸形的
Hermione pulled out two misshapen woolly objects, placed them carefully on a table by the fireplace.
bladder
囊，囊状物
They didn’t look anything like hats to me, more like woolly bladders.
slur
诋毁
Still angry about Ron’s slur on her woolly hats, Hermione did not join them.
placate
安抚，抚慰
It is wise to have a gift of woodlice ready to distract or placate it.
gouge
戳，凿
If angered they will try to gouge at human eyes with their fingers.
repressive
抑制的，压抑的
‘Never you mind,’ said Professor Grubbly-Plank repressively, which had been her attitude last time Hagrid had failed to turn up for a class, too.
drift
大致的意思
Maybe he’s been messing with stuff that’s boo big for him, if you get my drift.
My German isn’t very good, but I got the drift of what she said.
moron
蠢人，笨蛋
So even if that overgrown moron does show up again, he’ll probably be sent packing straightaway.
swipe
猛击
Harry had gripped the Bowtruckle so hard that it had almost snapped, and it had just taken a great retaliatory swipe at his hand with its sharp fingers.
traipse
疲惫地走，拖着脚走
Together, they traipsed across the vegetable patch.
exemplary
模范的
‘Because she’ll never be as good as Hagrid,’ said Harry firmly, fully aware that he had just experienced an exemplary Care of Magic Creatures lesson and was thoroughly annoyed about it.
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unravel
解开
Centaurs have unravelled the mysteries of these movements over centuries.
astrology
占星术
Professor Trelawney did astrology with us!
blinkered & fettered
blinkered：戴上眼罩的，蒙蔽双眼的 fettered：带上脚拷，受束缚的
’- is a human,’ said Firenze simply. ‘And is therefore blinkered and fettered by the limitations of your kind.’
pungent
刺鼻的
… and Firenze told them to look for certain shapes and symbols in the pungent fumes.
foolproof
错不了的，不会出毛病的
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even centaurs’ knowlege, was foolproof.
impassive
面无表情的，平静的
Firenze looked at Harry impassively.
squally
有狂风的
lad
小伙子，老弟
Don’t worry ablout me, Harry, just get along now, there’s a good lad.
killjoy
扫兴的人
‘Oh, don’t be such a killjoy,’ said Cho brightly.
otter
水獭
gambol
蹦蹦跳跳，嬉戏
Hermione’s Patronus, a shining silver otter, was gambolling around her.
sham
假装
The portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses were not shamming sleep tonight.
callous
无感觉的，麻木的
There was an indecent excitement in her voice, the same callous pleasure Harry had heard as she watched professor Trelawney dissolving with misery in the Entrance Hall.
pustule
脓包
… a series of closeset purple pustules that had spread across her nose and cheeks to form the word ‘SNEAK’.
unimpaired
未受损害的，未减弱的
He was heavily bandaged, it is true, but his hearing was quite unimpaired.
blatant
公然的，露骨的
‘Blatant corruption!’ roared the portrait of the corpulent, red-nosed wizard on the wall.
corpulent
肥胖的
manhandle
粗暴地对待
I cannot allow you to manhandle my students, Dolores.
ogle
挑逗地看，抛媚眼
‘Yes, shut up, Potter!’ barked Fudge, who was still ogling Dumbledore with a kind of horrified delight.
snag
障碍
‘Ah,’ said Dumbledore gently,’yes, yes, I thought we might hit that little snag.’
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delusion
错觉
…, you seem to be labouring under the delusion that I am going to come quietly.
wobble
摇摆
Filch’s jowls wobbled with silent laughter.
pandemonium
大混乱
One floor down, pandemonium reigned.
soppy
多愁善感的
meadow
牧场，草地
/medow/
… a soppy-looking witch in the middle of a meadow.
quake
颤抖
… listening to Umbridge and Filch’s yells and quaking with suppressed mirth.
exhale
呼出，呼气
/eks’heil/
…(dragon) emitting loud bangs and exhaling flame.
lank
（头发）平直的
His hair was lank and greasy and was flopping on to the table.
angular
瘦骨嶙峋的
Round-shouldered yet angular, he walked in a twitchy manner that recalled a spider.
liaise
建立联络关系
You don’t seem to need many qualifications to liaise with Muggles.
frisk
v. 搜身
With Umbridge groping around in the fires and frisking all the owls?