CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

The Man with Two Faces

Harry couldn't take it in.

哈利无法相信这一切。

She broke my eye contact with you.

Quirrell snapped his fingers. Ropes sprang out of thin air and wrapped themselves tightly around Harry.

奇洛啪地打了个响指。说时迟那时快，只见凭空蹿过来几条绳索，把哈利捆了个结结实实。

out of thin air

from nothing

凭空

You're too nosy to live...

nosy

too interested in what other people are doing and wanting to discover too much about them

好管闲事的；爱打听的

I have a special gift with trolls...

head off

to prevent something from happening

'This mirror is the key to finding the Stone,' Quirrell murmured, tapping his way around the frame.

“这面镜子是找到魔法石的钥匙，”奇洛喃喃地说，用手沿着四周的镜框敲了一遍。

Trust Dumbledore to come up with something like this...

trust sb (to do sth)

used to say that it is typical of someone to do something stupid

He was on to me by that time, trying to find out how far I'd got.

他那时候已经盯上我了，想要知道我究竟进行到了什么地步。

be on to someone

be close to discovering the truth about an illegal or undesirable activity that someone is engaging in

Harry struggled against the ropes binding him, but they didn't give.

哈利拼命想挣脱束缚他的那些绳索，却被越缠越紧。

give verb 

if something gives, it stretches, bends, or breaks, or becomes less firm or tight, under pressure

For the first time, a spasm of fear flitted across Quirrell's face.

flit

to appear or exist suddenly and for a short time in someone's mind or on their face

（在脑海或脸上）闪现，闪过

He has had to be very hard on me.

他对我一直非常严厉。

...decided he would have to keep a closer watch on me...

Quirrell's voice tailed away.

Quirrell cursed under his breath.

under your breath

quietly so that other people cannot hear exactly what you are saying

低声地，轻声地

Harry's mind was racing.

Quirrell rounded on Harry.

奇洛转向哈利。

Harry screwed up his courage.

哈利鼓起勇气。

Dare he make a break for it?

他敢不敢现在就带着它逃走？

make a break (for it)

run to escape from something

Harry felt as if Devil's Snare was rooting him to the spot. He couldn't move a muscle.

Where there should have been a back to Quirrell's head, there was a face...

might

power, strength, or force

力量；威力；能力

blister UK/ˈblɪs.tər/ 

to get blisters or cause blisters

（使…）起泡；起疱

...the pain in Harry's head was building...

He felt Quirrell's arm wrenched from his grasp, knew all was lost, and fell into blackness, down... down... down...

The smiling face of Albus Dumbledore swam into view above him.

...you are a little behind the times...

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows.

【这句话太有趣了】

...will be most relieved you have come round...

come round

to become conscious again after an accident or operation

（事故或手术后）苏醒，恢复知觉

After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.

...because he felt that would make him and your father quits. Then he could go back to hating your father's memory in peace...

quits adjective

be quits

to not owe money to someone or to each other now

不欠钱；互不相欠，互相抵销

...and since then I'm afraid I've rather lost my liking for them - but I think I'll be safe with a nice toffee, don't you?

I'm resting, look, lying down and everything. Oh, go on, Madam Pomfrey...

我不是正在休息嘛，您看，躺在床上，什么也不做。哦，求求您了，庞弗雷夫人……

Oh, Harry, we were sure you were going to...

Ron and Hermione were a very good audience; they gasped in all the right places...

I always said he was off his rocker...

off one's rocker

mad

D'you think he meant you to do it?

'Yeah, Dumbledore's barking, all right,' said Ron proudly.

“是啊，这就是邓布利多不同凡响的地方。”罗恩骄傲地说。

barking adjective 

(also barking mad )

crazy or extremely silly

疯狂的；愚蠢的

deck out

to dress someone in special clothes, or decorate something for a special occasion

And I must trouble you with an old man's wheezing waffle before we sink our teeth into our delicious feast. What a year it has been! Hopefully you heads are all a little fuller than they were...

It was a sickening sight.

sickening adjective

annoying

令人厌烦的；令人厌恶的

I have a few last-minute points to dish out.

dish out 

distribute it among a number of people

Ron went purple in the face; he looked like a radish with bad sunburn.

The din was deafening.

din noun

a loud, unpleasant confused noise that lasts for a long time

喧嚣，嘈杂声

He had never won so much as a point for Gryffindor before.

...Snape's feelings towards him hadn't changed one jot.

not a/one jot

not at all or not even a small amount

一点儿也没有，丝毫没有

A wizened old guard was up by the ticket barrier, letting them go through the gate in twos and threes so they didn't attract attention by all bursting out of a solid wall at once and alarming the Muggles.

Hurry up, boy, we haven't got all day.

See you over the summer, then.