chapter 21

chapter 21，December 23，2016 by Joe

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1，The building was still standing, but its doors were padlocked, the windowsshattered, and thelettersKandRmissing from its name

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padlockedv.用挂锁锁上;关闭

shatteredv.打碎,粉碎,使散开;

2，A young mandangledfrom the end of a rope tied to abeam, his facepuffy and blue, the clothes he’d worn on the last day of hislife shredded, bloody. Hardly anyone seemed to notice him.

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dangledfromv.摇晃地悬挂着,追求;使摇晃地悬挂

beamn.梁;横梁;

puffyadj.胀大的,喘气的,肥满的

3，Everywhere I looked, a haze of dust covered the city and its sun-dried brick buildings.

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n.霾,薄雾;模糊

n.灰尘,粉末,尘埃

4，One of them was hobbling on one leg, his other leg amputated below the knee. He cradled an artificial leg in his arms. “You knowwhat they’re doing?Haggling over the leg.”

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hobbling onv.蹒跚,跛行;

amputatedv.切断;截;锯掉;

cradledv.放在摇篮内,抚育;刈割

Haggling over 讨价还价

5，Trees still peeked over the walls, and the streets weren’t nearly as rubble-strewn as the ones in Karteh-Seh. Faded streets signs, some twisted and bullet-pocked, still pointed the way

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peek over the fence 向篱笆那边瞥一眼

rubble-strewn ：There are trees and wood and rubblestrewn everywhere.树木，垃圾和板条到处都是

There were incinerated vehicles and torn-up road side shade trees and bullet-pocked buildings.随处可见焚烧的车辆，碎裂的行道树和弹痕累累的建筑。

6，“This isn’t so bad,” I remarked

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‘That is quite possible,' remarked Heathcliff, forcing himself to seem calm: `quite possible that your master should have nothing but common humanity and a sense of duty to fall back upon.“那倒是挺可能的，”希刺克厉夫说，勉强使自己显得平静，“你主人除了出于世俗的仁爱观念和一种责任感之外就没有什么可依仗的了，这是很可能的。