Ron: I know what that is! But Hagrid, how did you get one?
Hagrid: I won it! Off a stranger I met in the pub. Seemed quite glad to be rid of it, as a matter of fact.
Hermione: Is that a dragon?
Ron: That's not just a dragon! That's a Norwegian Ridgeback! My brother Charlie works with these in Romania.
Hagrid: Isn't he beautiful? Oh bless him, look, he knows his mummy! Hello, Norbert!
Harry: Norbert?
Hagrid: Yeah. Why he's gotta have a name, got he? Don't you, Norbert? Te de de de de! Oh! Woah! Woah! He'll have to be trained up a bit of course. Who's that?
Harry: Malfoy.
Hagrid: Oh, dear.
Harry: Hagrid always wanted a dragon. He told me so the first time I ever met him.
Ron: It's crazy! And worse Malfoy knows.
Hermione: I don't understand. Is that bad?
Ron: It's bad.
McGonagall: Good evening. Nothing, I repeat, nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Therefore as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken.
Harry: 50!
McGonagall: Each. And to ensure it doesn't happen again, all four of you will receive detention.
Malfoy: Excuse me, Professor. Perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said the four of us.
McGonagall: No you heard me correctly, Mr. Malfoy. You see, honorable as your intentions were, you, too, were out of bedafter hours. You will join your classmates in detention.
Filch: A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention was found you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God, I'll miss the screaming. You'll be serving detention with Hagrid tonight. He's got a little job to do inside the Dark Forest. A sorry lot, this, Hagrid. Oh good God, man,you're not still onabout that bloody dragon, are you?
Hagrid: Norbert's gone. Dumbledore sent him off to Romania to live in a colony.
Hermione: Well, that's good, isn't it? He'll be with his own kind.
Hagrid: Yeah, but what if he don't like Romania? What if the other dragons are mean to him? He's only a baby after all.
Filch: Oh, for God's sake,pull yourself together, man. You're going into the Forest after all. Got tohave your wits about you.
Malfoy: The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can't go in there. Students aren't allowed. And there are... werewolves!
Filch: Ah, there's more than werewolves in those trees, lad. You can be sure of that. Nighty- night.
Hagrid: Right, let's go.
妙語佳句,活學(xué)活用
1. After hours
意思是"After normal working hours, after closing time",也表示"after legal or established opening hours",例如:I haven't time while the shop is open, but I can see you after hours.
像那種after-hours club 指的就是a drinking club that remained open later than similar establishments.
2. Be on
Be on 有幾個(gè)常用的意思,我們來看一下:
1) Be taking medication or an illegal drug,例如:Are you on some antibiotic?
2)Be in favor of something or willing to participate,例如:We're going dancing after the play--are you on?
3)Appear in a show, on T.V. or radio,例如:The news won't be on tonight.
在這里,這個(gè)be on 和about 連用,表示"反復(fù)地/不停地談?wù)?,例如:You mean, the kind of thing Carol is always on about.