But I was a man, and all I had risked was a bruised ego. Bruises healed. Reputations did not.
坦诚相待，是一段爱恋的开始。
When I was older, I read in my poetry books that yelda was the starless night tormented lovers kept vigil, enduring the endless dark, waiting for the sun to rise and bring with it their loved one.
1.tor‧ment1 /ˈtɔːment $ ˈtɔːr-/ noun
1 [uncountable] severe mental or physical suffering
in torment
She lay awake all night in torment.
2 [countable] someone or something that makes you suffer a lot
The journey must have been a torment for them.
Examples from the Corpus
torment
• A similar turnabout occurs with the story of Pandora and her box of evils and torments.
• As she deals with mounting evidence that yet another boy may be in danger, we share her torment.
• After 10 years of torment, Kiranjit Ahluwalia, 36, threw petrol over sleeping husband Deepak and set him on fire.
• She suffered years of private torment over her decision to have her children adopted.
• The book's theme of incest and sexual torment was largely autobiographical.
• All the methods we tried to lessen the torment failed.
• She moved from one willow tree to the next, forcing them all to share the torment she endured.
• It's difficult for us to understand the torment the hostages are going through.
• He voiced their torment at knowing their children would be medically examined without consent and without any familiar face being present.
tor‧ment2 /tɔːˈment $ tɔːr-/ verb [transitive]
1 to make someone suffer a lot, especially mentally
Seth was tormented by feelings of guilt.
2 to deliberately treat someone cruelly by annoying them or hurting them SYN torture
The older boys would torment him whenever they had the chance.
—tormentor noun [countable]
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Examples from the Corpus
torment
• Sometimes, too, he was tormented by jealousy.
• Jealousy, fear, and suspicion tormented Harriet.
• He was either out and hadn't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone.
• They tormented him with a plan to bypass theaters and just show it on television.
• It might not be all that much, but it might be almost bearable if they didn't keep tormenting him.
• My older sister loved to torment me.
• Some years ago a thought like that began to torment me.
• This is the problem that torments me.
2.
I promised myself that I wvig‧il /ˈvɪdʒəl/ noun [countable, uncountable]
1 a period of time, especially during the night, when you stay awake in order to pray, remain with someone who is ill, or watch for danger
Eva and Paul kept a constant vigil by their daughter’s hospital bedside.
2 a silent political protest in which people wait outside a building, especially during the night
silent/candle-lit vigil
Two thousand demonstrators held a candle-lit vigil outside the embassy.
Examples from the Corpus
vigil
• For Hagerman and others in his family, it was the second time they have endured such a vigil.
• A blizzard kept demonstrators away, and a planned church vigil reportedly fizzled for lack of interest.
• At the weekend they held a silent vigil in Liverpool.
• All the McIlkenny grandchildren are holding candles in support of the vigil for their grandfather.
• They will share the vigil for tigers in every bush, and fire in every breath of wind.
kept ... vigil
• Each night, Brian kept his lonely vigil, doing homework and listening intensely to what was going on behind the door.
• As the family kept vigil, the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother.
• All that night again Kalchu kept his vigil.
• Miles kept vigil by the door but began to grow tired.
• He was always in the cheerful rooms upstairs, where the Sisters kept a constant vigil on premature and very sick children. ould talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the rains of winter swept in and wakened Baba’s joints, baby leaves sprouted once more, and I still hadn’t had the heart, the dil, to even look her in the eye.
Mariachi music played overhead, and I smelled pickles and grilled meat.
1*comment
多角度描写。
imitate:
Classic music played overhead, and I smelled pleasant perfume of flowers.
And no father, especially a Pashtun with nang and namoos, would discuss a mojarad with his daughter, not unless the fellow in question was a khastegar, a suitor, who had done the honorable thing and sent his father to knock on the door.(此段存在疑问)
Her red hair, coiffed like a helmet, glittered in the sunlight—I could see bits of her scalp where the hair had thinned. She had small green eyes buried in a cabbage-round face, capped teeth, and little fingers like sausages. A golden Allah rested on her chest, the chain burrowed under the skin tags and folds of her neck. “I am Jamila, Soraya jan’s mother.”
2*comment
girl profile, impressive.
3.coif‧fure /kwɑːˈfjʊə $ -ˈfjʊr/ noun [countable]
formal the way someone’s hair is arranged SYN hairstyle
—coiffured, coiffed /kwɑːft/ adjective
Examples from the Corpus
coiffure
• Passing by pedestrians in their Sunday best, I caught wafts of perfume and coiffure.
• She'd arrived in the sidecar of Miss Brahms's current beau and her coiffure had suffered terrible punishment as a result.
• Jasper had not called his hair his coiffure.
• Now Jezrael saw that Zulei had taken a short blade from the coiffure.
• Spectacular real furs and overworked multi-tone coiffures survive in profusion.
• This masculinity was emphasised by her uncompromising coiffure, her grey hair drawn tightly back and screwed into a straggling bun.
4.scalp1 /skælp/ noun [countable]
1 the skin on the top of your head
Massage the shampoo gently into your hair and scalp.
2 → somebody’s scalp
Examples from the Corpus
scalp
• Now he stood near the door with his hands clasping each other behind his back and his scalp itching furiously in the heat.
• I sat him up so I could take a look at his scalp under the light.
• A slight breeze rose to cool his scalp, which had been sun-baked, then doused with water until it tingled.
• His hair fled his scalp as if in flames.
• Barrow was on his hands and knees on the floor, blood oozing from a wound in his scalp.
• They had an impression of very red cheeks and moist yellow hair smeared over the scalp like egg yolk.
• Thomas Cunningham suffered a cut to the scalp which required hospital treatment.
• He took scalp treatments that he felt were doing some good although he doubted it.
scalp2 verb [transitive]
1 American English informal to buy tickets for an event and sell them again at a much higher price SYN tout British English
2 to cut the hair and skin off the head of a dead enemy as a sign of victory
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
scalp
• One man's head was scalped.
• The victim has been scalped and the priest wears the hair.
• The full flesh of his cheeks and chin had been scalped back to the bone.
• It was rutted deep by ore wagons, scalped of its timber.
• Any one of the Commerce Department tickets could have been scalped outside Sun Devil stadium for $ 1,000 or more.
• But when they are scalping, they are working in the public interest.
• That they will never kill or scalp white men, nor attempt to do them harm.
From Longman Business Dictionary
scalp /skælp/ verb [intransitive, transitive] informal
1American English to buy tickets for an event and sell them again at a much higher price
guys that scalp tickets outside the stadium
2 to buy and quickly sell small quantities of SECURITIES (=bonds, shares etc), in order to make small but fast profits
Traders try to scalp profits as contract prices rise and fall.
—scalper noun [countable]
Fans were willing to pay scalpers up to $1,500.
—scalping noun [uncountable]
Super Bowl ticket scalping
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5. bur‧row1 /ˈbʌrəʊ $ ˈbɜːroʊ/ verb
1 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] to make a hole or passage in the ground SYN dig down
burrow into/under/through etc
Mother turtles burrow into the sand to lay their eggs.
see thesaurus at dig
2 [intransitive, transitive always + adverb/preposition] to press your body close to someone or under something because you want to get warm or feel safe SYN nestle
burrow into/under/down etc
The child stirred and burrowed deeper into the bed.
burrow something into/against etc something
She burrowed her head into his shoulder.
3 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to search for something that is hidden in a container or under other things SYN rummage
burrow in/into/through etc
Helen burrowed in her bag for a handkerchief.
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Examples from the Corpus
burrow
• The rabbits had burrowed a hole under the fence.
• The gophers were busy burrowing holes.
• Toads burrow into the earth to hide from their enemies.
• It lays its eggs in your clothes while they are drying on the line and then they burrow into the skin.
• But still they tell them, suggesting how deeply the stories have burrowed into their psyches.
• Hundreds of parishioners were working with bare hands, shovels and harrows, extending the church by burrowing out a crypt.
• Orange flames burrowed through the grass.
• The small mammals alive at this time did not hibernate, but had insulating fur and could burrow underground.
• One group have lost their legs altogether and taken to burrowing underground.
• He threw everything out, clothes, shoes, old wellingtons, burrowing underneath all the mess like an overgrown mole.
• The footing corals start to anchor down on the loose rocks, and the subterranean sponges burrow underneath.
burrow into/under/through etc
• And at the same time I burrowed into that fabric.
• It tried to burrow into the earth.
• Orange flames burrowed through the grass.
• It lays its eggs in your clothes while they are drying on the line and then they burrow into the skin.
• She closed her eyes and let her fingers burrow through the tissue paper until she felt the lace of the collar.
• This results in a ball of cells, which then proceeds to burrow into the wall of the uterus.
• Western spadefoot toads burrow into the wash bottom, emerging to produce another batch of mosquito larvae-eating tadpoles during the summer rains.
burrow into/under/down etc
• And at the same time I burrowed into that fabric.
• It tried to burrow into the earth.
• In burrowing down, the fish made a tube through the mud an inch or so across.
• It lays its eggs in your clothes while they are drying on the line and then they burrow into the skin.
• This results in a ball of cells, which then proceeds to burrow into the wall of the uterus.
• Western spadefoot toads burrow into the wash bottom, emerging to produce another batch of mosquito larvae-eating tadpoles during the summer rains.
• But still they tell them, suggesting how deeply the stories have burrowed into their psyches.
burrow in/into/through etc
• He was burrowing in a briefcase while he waited.
• And at the same time I burrowed into that fabric.
• It tried to burrow into the earth.
• Orange flames burrowed through the grass.
• It lays its eggs in your clothes while they are drying on the line and then they burrow into the skin.
• This results in a ball of cells, which then proceeds to burrow into the wall of the uterus.
• But still they tell them, suggesting how deeply the stories have burrowed into their psyches.
Related topics: Animals
burrow2 noun [countable]
a passage in the ground made by an animal such as a rabbit or fox as a place to live
Examples from the Corpus
burrow
• Underfoot, a soggy tiger-trap of a burrow roof gives in like brown sugar.
• In 1951, some nesting burrows, occupied, were found on islets near Castle Roads.
• From the parental burrow Leadville was so far away it was only half real.
• During the day they retreat into shallow burrows a few centimetres below the ground.
• They are largely nocturnal, spending their days either down the burrows or out at sea gliding on stiff wings.
• You think it's bad here in the burrow?
• Then it stays in the burrow alone, visited only at feeding times, for nearly two months.
• The swallows dig their burrows here in the sand every year.
A whisper here, an insinuation there, and they fled like startled birds. So weddings had come and gone and no one had sung ahesta boro for Soraya, no one had painted her palms with henna, no one had held a Koran over her headdress, and it had been General Taheri who’d danced with her at every wedding.
2*comment
他们如惊弓之鸟一样逃离。语言很美，可以借鉴阅读背诵。
That night in bed, I thought of the way dappled sunlight had danced in Soraya’s eyes, and of the delicate hollows above her collarbone.
3.commet
to fall in love is like to lose in the magic voice of the siren, you miss it and think of it.
6.dap‧pled /ˈdæpəld/ adjective
marked with spots of colour, light, or shade
the dappled shade of the trees
Examples from the Corpus
dappled
• Blue-winged dragons o'er dappled Cam skimming, Forked tailed martins, dipping and winging.
• He put his head next to mine, as we looked up at the few small, dappled clouds.
• At first it appeared to be empty, but then, on the dappled ground, I saw a rock python.
• The dappled night shadows, the inky blue trees sway lightly in the breeze.
• But it does best in the dappled shade you get under shrubs or woodland trees.
• Plant soft-leaved species, susceptible to sun-scorch, in dappled shade.
• The golden, spotted coat mirrors the dappled sunlight of the forest.
• By and large, roses are for open situations and full sun, not dappled sunlight or shade.
“As you can see, the cancer’s metastasized,” he said.
4*comment
扩散了。
They discharged Baba two days later. They brought in a specialist called a radiation oncologist to talk Baba into getting radiation treatment.
7.on‧col‧o‧gy /ɒŋˈkɒlədʒi $ ɑːŋˈkɑː-/ noun [uncountable]
the part of medical science that deals with cancer and tumours
—oncologist noun [countable]
Examples from the Corpus
oncology
• She was paid far less than she had earned in oncology, but enjoyed it far more.
• Or you can do radiation oncology.
• For instance, members can now receive radiation oncology, eye surgery, and emergency cardiac care from Summit Medical Center.
• Search for alleviation and cure is a very basic human reaction, as shrines from Lourdes to high-tech oncology clinics testify.
I envied her. Her secret was out. Spoken. Dealt with. I opened my mouth and almost told her how I’d betrayed Hassan, lied, driven him out, and destroyed a forty-year relationship between Baba and Ali. But I didn’t. I suspected there were many ways in which Soraya Taheri was a better person than me. Courage was just one of them.
5*comment
details describe.
疑问:
英文在写作技巧上除了语言的技巧(讽刺，幽默等)，是不是也和中文一样有细节描写之类的呢?
Summary:
Amir finally communicated with Soraya, they talked about books, and shared opinion together, they were closer than ever. Unfortunately, Baba was sick, Amir worried about him and took him to the hospital. Baba had a cancer. To do the last thing for me, he asked the general for her daughter to accepted his son. Then they became a family.
Flash:
love is sweet when thought is deep, A man will never pass the block of a beauty. What's more, the love of parents is always selfless.