"Someone he knew?"
"Yeah. Could be strategy. Maybe he fancies you."
"Fancies me? But he's old."
"Only old enough to be your father."
I grabbed1 my tray and left the table.
I didn't do much work that afternoon. I kept wishing Mark hadn't said what he had said. Old enough to be your father.
The following week I took along a book to read during lunchtime. When I got into the lift on my floor, he was already inside. He greeted me so I had to reply but I didn't smile. We were alone and that worried me. I wondered whether I should get out at the next floor and walk up the stairs to the canteen. Don't panic, I thought. Just because he's stared at you for ages doesn't mean he's going to do anything.
" Well, I suppose one of us should press the button or we'll be here all day, won't we?"
I'd been so busy wondering what he was going to do and expecting him to do something, that I'd completely forgotten to do anything myself. I felt like an idiot2 and this made me smile and I hadn't wanted to. He smiled back, his blue eyes crinkling right up to the grey hair at his ears and making him look ... nice. Then there was a slap. My book hit the floor. I bent3 down and so did he, and we bashed heads. At that moment, the lift shuddered4 to a stop and the doors seemed to fling5 themselves wide open. I was so embarrassed, I marched out of the lift, straight towards the queue at the counter. I ordered without looking at the menu and took my tray to a table where there was only one empty seat. I breathed a sigh of relief and began to eat. But the salad stuck in my throat when I noticed that everyone else at the table had already finished lunch and they were getting up to go. I glanced over at the counter. He was paying and in a second, his eyes would scan6 the room to find me. I ducked my head. Waited. Any minute now he'd sit down with his tray.
<a hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNifoRm.html>蘇州小學(xué)生作文培訓(xùn)</a>
Short Stories from Australasia. My book appeared in front of my eyes. His fingers were the longest I'd seen and his nails were manicured. I hadn't thought he'd bother.
1 grabbed
v.搶先，搶占( grab的過去式和過去分詞 )；（尤指匆忙地）?。痪鹑。唬ㄓ戎缸运?、貪婪地）撈取
參考例句：
He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被兩個男人緊抓雙臂押出大廳。 She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。
2 idiot
n.白癡，傻子，笨蛋
參考例句：
<a hReF=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>蘇州吳中作文輔導(dǎo)班</a>
Only an idiot would make such a thoughtless remark.只有草包才會說出這樣沒有頭腦的話來。 You are behaving like a perfect idiot.你表現(xiàn)得像個十足的白癡。
3 bent
n.愛好，癖好；adj.彎的；決心的，一心的
參考例句：
He was fully bent upon the project.他一心撲在這項計劃上。 We bent over backward to help them.我們盡了最大努力幫助他們。
4 shuddered
v.戰(zhàn)栗( shudder的過去式和過去分詞 )；發(fā)抖；（機器、車輛等）突然震動；顫動
參考例句：
He slammed on the brakes and the car shuddered to a halt. 他猛踩剎車，車顫抖著停住了。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》 I shuddered at the sight of the dead body. 我一看見那尸體就戰(zhàn)栗。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》
<a hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNifoRm.html>蘇州小學(xué)生作文培訓(xùn)</a>
5 fling
vt.用力扔，使投身；n.盡情歡樂的一陣
參考例句：
I really must fling out all these old newspapers.我真的該把這些舊報紙扔掉了。 It's good to fling off heavy clothing now that spring is here.春天到了，脫去笨重的冬裝真讓人高興。
6 scan
n.審視，瀏覽，掃描，押韻，細(xì)查；vt.細(xì)看，瀏覽，掃描，詳細(xì)調(diào)查，信件掃描（指BBS處理直遞郵件或會議郵件時，對所有或特定信區(qū)做檢查的動作）
參考例句：
The first scan was bad, so I had to do it again.第一次掃描不好，所以我得重做。 A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb.掃描可以確定胎兒在子宮中的位置。
《Staring Me In The Face 》添加時間：2024-12-14；更新時間：2025-03-09
