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It was around 4.30 in the afternoon.

到了下午四点半左右

The door was open, frightened people who'd come for the service gathered round the body.

大门敞开着 前来做礼拜的人们都吓坏了 他们聚集在尸体旁

It was by no means a flock who thought Becket a saint.

当时绝不会有人把贝克特看作圣徒

"He wanted to be a king." said one. "Now let him be one."But then it all changed.

有人还说 "他想当国王 现在他如愿了" 但后来情况都变了

Becket's chamberlain reattached the bleeding scalp to his head with a strip of material torn from his own shirt

贝克特的内侍从自己衣服上扯下一块布条 把仍在流血的头皮重新连回贝克特的头上

and the monks began to prepare Becket's body for burial.

修道士们开始准备贝克特的葬礼

Then they discovered what no one, till that moment, had known the hair shirt, with lice crawling busily in it.

后来他们有了一项前所未有的发现 那就是贝克特爬满虱子的刚毛衬衣

Thomas the Immovable had been Thomas the Self-Mortifier,Thomas the Humble.

不可动摇的托马斯原来一直自我节制 是谦逊的托马斯

They let him lie, washed in his own blood,and over the clotting body laid the archiepiscopal garments.

他们把他放平 让他躺在血泊里 用大主教的华服盖住他凝固的身体

By chance there was a marble sarcophagus ready for someone else's burial here in the crypt,and a space to lower it into.

教堂地下室正好有一口 为别人葬礼准备的大理石棺 和一个放置石棺的墓穴

Down went Becket, arrayed in the full rig,the dalmatic, the pallium, the cope,the chasuble, the orb and the ring.

他们将贝克特穿戴整齐后安葬 法衣 大披肩祭服和斗篷式长袍 十字褡 法珠和法戒

He'd always thought kit mattered, had Thomas Becket.

托马斯·贝克特总是注重穿戴

词汇解析

1、frighten

使惊恐;使害怕;吓唬

He knew that Soli was trying to frighten him, so he smiled to hide his fear.

他知道索利是想吓唬他，所以他挤出笑容掩饰自己的恐惧。

Most children are frightened by the sight of blood.

大多数孩子见到血就害怕。

吓跑;吓走;把…吓得躲远

The fishermen said the company's seismic survey was frightening away fish.

渔民们说这家公司进行的地震勘测把鱼都吓跑了。

He fired into the air, hoping that the noise would frighten them off.

他向空中开枪，希望枪声能把它们吓走。

使吓得不敢打交道(或参与)

Building society repossessions have frightened buyers off.

建屋互助协会收回未偿清房贷的住房，这吓退了很多买家。

The government is convinced that the bombers want to frighten away foreign investors.

政府确信炸弹袭击者的目的是想吓跑外国投资者。

2、gather

(使）聚集；（使）集合

In the evenings, we gathered around the fireplace and talked.

晚上，我们聚在火炉边聊天。

The man signalled for me to gather the children together.

那人示意让我将孩子们召集起来。

收集，搜集（情报、证据等）

a private detective using a hidden tape recorder to gather information.

用暗藏的录音机搜集证据的私家侦探

This would help the prosecutor gather evidence against him which could be used in court.

这将有利于控方律师搜集对他不利的证据以在法庭上指控他。