privet drive

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen.

微风拂动着女贞路两旁整洁的树篱，街道在漆黑的天空下寂静无声，一尘不染，谁也不会想到这里会发生骇人听闻的事情。

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JK Rowling replies-> Not all summer, no. In fact, he has the shortest stay in Privet Drive so far.

不是整个暑假。事实上，他留在水蜡树街的时间是至今最短的。

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All he did say was that Dumbledore was going to be in some place called Privet Drive at some point that day.

他所说的只是邓布利多在那天因为某个原因要去一个叫女贞路的地方。

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The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.

夏季最严热的日子逐渐走入尾声，小文金镇女贞路上硕大的方房子都笼罩在夏末的慵懒和宁静之中。

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He looked around, the landing of number four, Privet Drive, was deserted.

他看了看周围, 四号出口,女贞路, 没有人.

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They had had virtually no contact during this summer or last, as Harry had come back to Privet Drive so briefly and kept to his room so much.

事实上，他们在这个夏天或是上个夏天并没有什么接触，因为哈利回到女贞路的时间是那样的短暂，而且他一直呆在他的房间里。

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Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all.

自从德思礼夫妇一觉醒来在大门口台阶上发现他们的外甥以来，快十年过去了，女贞路却几乎没有变化。

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The car turned right at the end of Privet Drive, its windows burned scarlet for a moment in the now setting sun, and then it was gone.

汽车到了女贞路尽头往右一拐，车窗在西斜的太阳照耀下射出火一般的红光，然后就不见了。

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There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive, but there wasn't a map in sight.

只见一只花斑猫站在女贞路的路口，但是没有看见地图。

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Nothing like this man had ever been seen on Privet Drive.

女贞路上从来没有见过这个男人。

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When we first meet him he lives on Privet Drive, with its tidy front gardens, milk bottles outside front doors and spoilt children.

当我们第一次见到他时，他住在女贞路（Privet Drive）上，房前是整洁的前花园，门口放着牛奶瓶，娇生惯养的孩子跑来跑去。

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It was sitting as still as a statue, its eyes fixed unblinkingly on the far corner of Privet Drive.

它一动不动地坐在那里，眼睛一下也不眨地盯着普里怀特街的拐角处。

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So great was his discomfort that he almost forgot to take a last glimpse of number four, Privet Drive; by the time he looked over the edge of the sidecar he could no longer tell which one it was.

他太难受了，几乎忘了最后再看一眼女贞路四号。等他从挎斗边缘放眼望去，已经辨认不出是哪座房子了。

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The cat was still there. It was staring down Privet Drive as though it were waiting for something.

那只猫还在原地，正目不转睛地盯着女贞路路口，好像在等待什么。

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It was difficult not to feel jealous of Ron when he thought of the Dursleys and the sort of welcome he could expect next time he turned up on Privet Drive.

想到德思礼一家和他下次回女贞路时可能受到的待遇，他没法不嫉妒罗恩。

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Number four, Privet Drive, is described as large and square.

女贞路4号在书中被描述为一个宽阔的四方型的住所.

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Harry will spend some time in Privet Drive, but JKR has said that this will be his shortest stay yet.

哈利将在女贞路待一段时间，但是JK罗琳说过这会是他目前为止在那停留的时间最短的一次。

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He didn't think the Dursleys would like him any better in Majorca than they did on Privet Drive.

他不认为德思礼一家到了马乔卡就会比在女贞路多喜欢他一点儿。

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That brings us to Privet Drive.

这又把我们带回了女贞路.

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but Harry could hardly believe it when he realized that he'd already been at Hogwarts two months. The castle felt more like home than Privet Drive ever had.

所以，当哈利突然意识到自己在霍格沃茨已经整整待了两个月时，他简直感到难以置信。城堡一天比一天更像家了，而他在女贞路时从来没有这样的感觉。

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It was true that Harry wasn't going back to Privet Drive for Christmas.

确实，哈利不想回女贞路过圣诞节。

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Privet Drive is part of a co-ordinated development of quite opulent detached houses consisting of at least six streets.

女贞路是一组至少有六条小街组成的、当豪华的独立房屋群里的一部分。

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While filming has currently stopped on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix three new pictures reveal the Privet Drive set being built.

拍摄现在已经在三张新的照片显示被设定被建造的水腊树驾车的哈利波特和凤凰城的次序上停止。

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How safe is privet drive?

女贞路有多安全？

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Four minutes to go. Maybe the house in Privet Drive would be so full of letters when they got back that he'd be able to steal one somehow.

只有四分钟了，可能现在德思礼家的房子里现在堆满了信件，那么我们回去的时候我可能可以偷到一两封看呢。哈利痴痴地想着。

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He came to an abrupt halt at the end of Privet Drive.

他在女贞路的路口突然停住了脚步.

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Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.

这天，女贞路四号的早餐桌上又起了争执。

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This left a sizable stack of newspapers sitting on his desk beside his snowy owl, Hedwig: one for each of the days Harry had spent at Privet Drive this summer.

在他的书桌上还留着相当大的一堆报纸，旁边是他的猫头鹰，海德薇，唯一一个天天陪伴着哈利在女贞路度过这个夏季的生物。

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He rolled down the window, the night air whipping his hair, and looked back at the shrinking rooftops of Privet Drive.

他摇下车窗，晚风拍打着他的头发，女贞路的屋顶在下面渐渐缩小，

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We end the chapter with a view of Privet Drive and its hedges, this time clearly symbolizing the orderliness and even monotony of suburban Muggle life, the life which Harry will wake up to.

这章的结束时我们再次看到了女贞路和它的矮树墙，这次，它们更清楚地暗示了循规导矩、至是单调无味的麻瓜郊外生活，哈利将要醒来的面对的生活。

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