How very wrong he was.

Mr. Dursley might have been drifting into an uneasy sleep, but the cat on the wall outside was showing no sign of sleepiness. It was sitting

as still as a statue, its eyes fixed unblinkingly on the far corner of Privet Drive. It didn’t so much as quiver when a car door sla妹妹ed on the next street, nor when two owls swooped overhead. In fact, it was nearly midnight before the cat moved at all.

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Mr. Dursley might have been drifting into an uneasy sleep, but the cat on the wall outside was showing no sign of sleepiness.

Mr. Durselty睡得很不塌实，而外面那只猫却没有一点要睡觉的意思。

might/may have done，暗示对曩昔事变的猜测，might与may意思不异，但前者的可能性要更小，多用于虚拟语气。

例：I don’t know what he might have done.我不晓得他会做出甚么来。

短语drift in/into，指“偶然间进入，不知不觉堕入” （to go from one situation or state to another without realizing in）。

例：Finally she drifted into sleep.最后，她不知不觉睡着了。

uneasy，形容词，指“担忧的，忧愁的，不安的”（causing or feeling anxiety; troubled or comfortable）。

其比力级与最高档变形和easy不异，即uneasier和uneasiest。

例：He felt uneasy at acute piercing

sound.他听见尖细难听的声音感觉欠好受。

drifted into an uneasy sleep的意思就是“七上八下地进入梦境”。

show no sign(s) of，指“显示/未显示……的迹象”（to have or show no indication that something else exists, is true, or will happen）。

例：The disease shows no signs of diminution.疾病没有减轻的迹象。

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

这只猫一动不动地盯着街角。

(stand/sit) as still as a statue的意思是“（站、坐）一动不动地，岿然不动地”（to stand or sit absolutely still）。

例：She was staring at her slippers, as still as a statue.她垂头盯着本身的拖鞋，像个雕塑同样一动不动。

It didn’t so much as quiver when a car door sla妹妹ed on the next street, nor when two owls swooped overhead.

不管是有人很高声地关车门，仍是两只猫头鹰重新顶飞过，都没能让这只猫动一下。

quiver（[kwvr]），不及物动词，指“轻细颤抖，发抖，抽动，颤抖”（to shake slightly; to make a slight movement）。

例：Bertha’s voice quivered with indignation. 伯莎气得声音颤动。

短语so much as有两种用法：

乃至（even）例：He didn’t so much as glance that way. 他乃至没有向何处看一眼。

几近，差未几（almost）例：By running away, he so much as admitted that he had taken the money. 他逃跑了，这无异于认可他拿了钱。