长难句释义

1. “Monsieur Verne,” he said reverently, “pray be seated.” (para. 1)

2. He had voyaged 60,000 miles under the sea, whizzed around the moon, hitchhiked on comets, explored the center of the earth, chatted with cannibals in Africa and Bushmen in Australia. (para. 2)

3. There was very little of the world’s geography that Jules Verne, the writer, had not visited. (para. 2)

4. For forty years, he sat in a small room of the red brick tower of his home, in Amiens, turning out, year in, year out, one book every six months—more than 100 altogether. (para. 3)

5. He wrote about the marvels of tomorrow with such precise, indisputable detail that he was taken seriously. (para. 7)

6. Verne, who lived to see many of his fancies come true, was matter-of-fact about it all. “What one man can imagine,” he said, “another man can do.” (para. 8)

7. At the bottom he slipped off and landed squarely on a stout gentleman about to ascend the stairs. (para. 11)

8. You could have knocked Jules over with a breadstick. (para. 17)

9. Jules, urged on by the older man, made up his mind he would do for geography what Dumas had done for history. (para. 18)

10. “My stockings,” he told a friend, “are like a spider-web in which a hippopotamus has been sleeping.” (para. 19)

11. … he was attacked by Red Indians, and arrived in New York to see the ship that was to take him to England only a small speck on the horizon. (para. 28)

12. The Russians claimed him as a Slav, a Pole and former espionage agent who had taken to letters. (para. 32)

13. To his colleagues he wired: “There is no Jules Verne and Company—there is only Jules.” (para. 32)

14. It is like the passing of Santa Claus. (para. 34)