CHAPTER 2

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The red-room was a spare chamber ^[1] , very seldom slept in: I might say never.

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Mr. Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin ^[2] was borne by the undertaker's ^[3] men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary ^[4] consecration ^[5] had guarded it from frequent intrusion ^[6] .

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[1] chamber / tʃeɪmbə/ n． 室，房间

[2] coffin/kɒfɪn/ n． 棺材

[3] undertaker/ʌndəteɪkə/ n. 承办殡葬者

[4] dreary/drɪərɪ/ a． 沉闷的

[5] consecration/ˈkɒnsɪkreɪʃən/ n． 献祭

[6] intrusion /ɪntruːʒən/ n． 闯入，侵扰