Chapter eight
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One overcast morning, as I was pushing the boiled egg around my plate, Ali walked in cradling a pile of chopped wood. I asked him where Hassan was.
1.cradling
elated topics: Babies, Telephone, telegraph
cra‧dle1 /ˈkreɪdl/ noun
1 [countable] a small bed for a baby, especially one that moves gently from side to side → cot
She rocked the cradle to quieten the child.
2 → the cradle of something
3 → from (the) cradle to (the) grave
4 [singular] the beginning of something
Like most Catholic children, he had heard stories of Ireland from the cradle.
5 [countable] a structure that is used to lift something heavy up or down
a window-cleaner’s cradle
6 [countable] the part of a telephone where you put the receiver when you are not using it
She replaced the receiver on the cradle.
→ cat's cradle, → rob the cradle at rob(5)
Examples from the Corpus
cradle
• The baby rested peacefully in his cradle.
• Out of nowhere came a gold incense cradle.
• Jane put Chantal down in her makeshift cradle in the corner and hastily tidied herself up.
• When the telephone rang, it was like a rude interruption into a special cradle of time.
• In it was a single bed and also the cradle in which she and Jessie had lain many years ago.
• Ancient Athens is generally thought of as the cradle of democracy.
• Baghdad, the cradle of civilization
• He put the phone down on the cradle and stared at it.
• When we hear Frau Braun coming, I hastily drop the gauze over the cradle and hide behind the partition.
• Yearning made a warm cradle in her stomach.
• I curse myself for not strangling you in your cradle.
rocked ... cradle
• If she cried he rocked the cradle and sang to her tunelessly.
from the cradle
• They are electrically powered and operate from supports built on rails with vertical and horizontal movement controlled from the cradle.
• Her life, comparative ease from the cradle up; she had to thank her father.
• Because you've been crackers about Christopher, in love with him from the cradle.
• He had heard stories of Ireland from the cradle, as most Catholic children had.
• Practices which have characterised the details of your daily living from the cradle upwards are dealt a swift and final blow.
• The state now provided something of a protective safety net from the cradle to the grave.
cradle2 verb [transitive]
1 to hold something gently, as if to protect it
John cradled the baby in his arms.
see thesaurus at hug
2 to hold a telephone receiver by putting it between your ear and your shoulder
She hunched over the desk, telephone cradled at her neck.
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
cradle
• Inside, John lay cradling a pillow in the dark.
I asked him what had happened and he said it was nothing, that he’d gotten into a little scuffle with some kids over the kite.”
2.scuf‧fle1 /ˈskʌfəl/ noun [countable]
a short fight that is not very violent SYN tussle
Scuffles broke out between rival supporters during the match.
scuffle with/between
scuffles with police
He was rocking on the leather swivel chair behind his desk, reading a newspaper.
3.swiv‧el1 /ˈswɪvəl/ (also swivel around/round) verb (swivelled, swivelling British English, swiveled, swiveling American English)
[intransitive, transitive] to turn around quickly and face a different direction, or to make something do this → spin
Anna swivelled round to face him.
She swivelled her head round to watch what was happening.
Danny swiveled his chair away from me.
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
swivel
• Kovitsky swiveled around to look at her.
• These cover a wide field of view without having to swivel as human eyes do.
• These swivel freely and act as weathervanes.
• As Agnes looked down Granny's eyes sprang open and swivelled from side to side.
• Ralph swivelled in his chair and looked directly at Meg.
• His eyes seemed to be trying to imitate a lizard and swivel in opposite directions.
• When there was nowhere to go in that infernally small space, one could always swivel in the other direction.
• The satellite has difficulty swiveling its antenna toward Earth.
• Mr Tench swivelled round in astonishment as the men burst through his office door.
• He swivelled the camera on the tripod to follow her as she crossed the yard.
• She swivelled the computer screen around so that I could see it too.
Related topics: Daily life, Technology
swivel2 noun [countable]
an object that joins two parts of something and helps it to turn around
Examples from the Corpus
swivel
• Affixed to the wall at a considerable height is a small television on a swivel, facing the bed.
• She looks around her with a swivel of her huge head.
The road to Jalalabad is a two-hour trek through mountain roads winding along a steep drop, and my stomach lurched with each hairpin turn.
4.lurch1 /lɜːtʃ $ lɜːrtʃ/ verb [intransitive]
1 to walk or move suddenly in an uncontrolled or unsteady way
lurch forward/to/towards/into etc
Sam hit the gas and the car lurched forward.
He lurched to his feet.
2 → your heart/stomach lurches
3 → lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
lurch
• With an angry clang the machine lurched and rocked out even more.
• Certainly his career has lurched chaotically, Gilliam says.
• The truck smashed into the barrier, broke through it, lurched down an embankment.
• The chassis lurched forward and then back sharply, knocking the four passengers off balance.
• Paul lurched sideways as the boat rolled suddenly.
• By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
• As the developer lurched toward bankruptcy, Prudential tried to renege on the deal.
• Then, hunching his shoulders against the pounding rain, he lurched towards the barn.
• Harriet lurched towards the bathroom, clutching her stomach in pain.
• The Ship lurched up the hillside, straining at the indignity of restraint.
lurch forward/to/towards/into etc
• His foot shot to the brake and the car lurched to a stop before he could turn.
• Sinaloa state, at least, has lurched into action.
• The chassis lurched forward and then back sharply, knocking the four passengers off balance.
• And then, with the sun on her, she lurched forward as a shot rang out from below.
• Is that what we really want, before we irreversibly lurch into it?
• He could see their pale faces watching Jekub lurch towards them.
• It was a bright day and the official Zil lurched towards them.
• Just as I was about to jump, the driver hit the gas and lurched forward, throwing me off.
lurch2 noun [countable]
1 a sudden movement
The train gave a violent lurch.
2 → leave somebody in the lurch
Examples from the Corpus
lurch
• "I felt a lurch and then a big bump, " one resident said of the earthquake.
• He was slew-footed and walked with an energetic lurch.
• My stomach gave an involuntary lurch.
• But they adopted it in the first place because Labour's lurch to the left drove them away from their old allegiance.
• I waited for the lurch of dismounting troopers as the skids neared the ground.
• The non-commissioned officers of the garrison on learning that they had been left in the lurch seized four of the remaining leaders.
• How can we leave them in the lurch, in their teens, like that?
5.hair‧pin /ˈheəˌpɪn $ ˈher-/ noun [countable]
a pin made of wire bent into a U-shape to hold long hair in position
Examples from the Corpus
hairpin
• The taxi banked into a hairpin turn that squeezed them together, the pressure from her increasing by her own will.
• It is a hairpin turn along a treacherous route.
• Much jewellery, especially gemstones and hairpins, was itself used as a vehicle for portraiture.
• Both feature hairpin curves and one-lane tunnels.
• She dealt with a stray wisp of grey hair and pushed her hairpins firmly into place.
• From that jumping-off point, the plot hits hairpin turns, sudden cliff drops and delirious loops of logic and technology.
• As the riders struggle up through the hairpins, you can hear the screams of encouragement from below.
• The relationship to the hairpin vortices described above is not wholly clear.
Except now that I had it, I felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
6.un‧kempt /ˌʌnˈkempt/ adjective
unkempt hair or plants have not been cut and kept neat
Examples from the Corpus
unkempt
• Hoskins beard was tangled and unkempt.
• She used to dress so neatly, but now her hair and clothes had become unkempt and dirty.
• an unkempt beard
• An unkempt coat will provide a refuge for parasites, and if soiled with faecal matter is likely to attract flies.
• Did her unkempt condition preclude making a quest out of her?
• Willie closed it carefully behind them and they walked into a wild and unkempt garden.
• With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner.
• Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken.
• Now some of them look unkempt, neglected, despite the fine new houses and gardens which are springing up.
• In the open doorway stood an unkempt though not unattractive young man who was dark of hair and eye.
A wedge of moonlight streamed in through the window.
7.wedge1 /wedʒ/ noun [countable]
1 a piece of wood, metal etc that has one thick edge and one pointed edge and is used especially for keeping a door open or for splitting wood
2 a piece of food shaped like a wedge
Garnish with lemon wedges.
wedge of
a wedge of cheese
3 → wedges
→ drive a wedge between somebody at drive1(13), the thin end of the wedge at thin1(11)
Examples from the Corpus
wedge
• The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
• Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.
• While sauce is cooking, in another large saute pan, saute apple wedges in butter until lightly browned.
• He pulled out his wedge, sailed the ball over the knoll and it rolled into the cup.
• lemon wedges
• Her hair was stiff and phosphorous, a dome-like wedge.
• Ultimately such thinking becomes a psychological, relational and spiritual wedge between men and women.
• Carefully cut a thin wedge out of the cake.
wedge2 verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition]
1 to force something firmly into a narrow space
The phone was wedged under his chin.
Victoria wedged herself into the passenger seat.
2 → wedge something open/shut
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Examples from the Corpus
wedge
• Not since Clarenceaux wedged a beer-mat between the bell and the clapper.
• Groves wedged a muslin snake bag behind his belt.
• Rusted dairy cases had been wedged in along its sides and four corners to keep it balanced.
• We sometimes carried in our pockets assorted stones to wedge in cracks.
• The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in.
• Magma can wedge open and penetrate cracks cutting across the layering of the surrounding rock, forming tabular intrusions called dikes.
To my dismay, Hassan kept trying to rekindle things between us.
8.re‧kin‧dle /riːˈkɪndl/ verb [transitive]
to make someone have a particular feeling, thought etc again SYN reawaken
The trial has rekindled painful memories of the war.
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Examples from the Corpus
rekindle
• Many topics may arise from such conversations, many happy and formative memories can be rekindled.
• As a result, interest in non-destructive fieldwork was rekindled and continues today alongside excavation.
• Financial responsibility for giving support would be delegated to a local level in order to rekindle civic responsibility.
• He has rekindled his taste for tabbouleh, shish kebab and pilaf in Fresno.
• His recent move to Utah rekindled Jack's interest in skiing.
• He held her tightly, and the strength of his arms rekindled long-dormant memories.
• Hoping to rekindle the fire Sally accepted, but it was no use.
• Countless pop artists have gone to Nashville to rekindle their songwriting skills in recent years.
Hassan milled about the periphery of my life after that.
9.pe‧riph‧e‧ry /pəˈrɪfəri/ noun (plural peripheries) formal
1 [countable usually singular] the edge of an area
periphery of
the periphery of the crowd
on/at the periphery
a residential area on the periphery of the city
→ outskirts
2 → on/at the periphery (of something)
Examples from the Corpus
periphery
• As the wave reaches the cell periphery, enough calcium may diffuse across to activate the neighbouring cell.
• Nor was this simply on the eastern periphery.
• Rural development in the Western Isles periphery depends heavily on finance from the mainland centre.
• Moss moved on the broken trees at the periphery of the golf grass.
• There would be clashes on the periphery but none between the major powers.
• That's always a very easy thing to do on the periphery.
• The Ministry of Economic Warfare hung on the periphery and stirred the witches' brew.
• This would argue for considerable community organization and official control of the division and leasing of land on the urban periphery.
periphery of
• stores on the periphery of downtown
To Hassan’s brown corduroy pants lying on the bricks.
10.cor‧du‧roy /ˈkɔːdʒərɔɪ, -djə- $ ˈkɔːrdə-/ noun [uncountable]
a thick strong cotton cloth with thin raised lines on it, used for making clothes
a corduroy jacket
Examples from the Corpus
corduroy
• The land around was crumpled with shadow valleys, a corduroy of fields.
• A corduroy suit is a contradiction: suits are dressy; corduroy is not.
• In corduroy velvet, denim or linen, the look was relaxed, verging on scruffy.
• One advantage of corduroy, aside from its warmth and comfort, is the richness it gives colours.
• Considerable skill was required in the making of corduroy, working-class fabric or not.
• One pair of shoes, one corduroy skirt, one blouse.
• Another is upholstered in blood-red corduroy.
• The child was a girl, wearing corduroy jeans and a red jersey.
In another month or two, crops of scorched yellow weeds would blanket the hillside, but that year the spring showers had lasted longer than usual, nudging their way into early summer, and the grass was still green, peppered with tangles of wildflowers. Below us, Wazir Akbar Khan’s white- walled, flat-topped houses gleamed in the sunshine, the laundry hanging on clotheslines in their yards stirred by the breeze to dance like butterflies.
1*.comment
景物描写
imitate:
In another century or two, green grasses would blanket the hillside, but that year the spring showers had lasted longer than usual, nudging their way into early summer, and the roses were still pink and blossomed, peppered with tangles of wildflowers. Not for away, Sleep beauty's white-walled, blue bricks castle gleamed in the sunshine.The flags hanging on the wall stirred by the breeze to dance like butterflies. Will the prince come this time come out alive?
I regretted saying it—I really did—but I think even if I hadn’t, our happy little interlude would have come to an end. Maybe not quite so soon, but it would have.
2*comment:
心理描写
imitate:
Jane regretted saying it—she really did—but she think even if she hadn’t, their happy little interlude would have come to an end. Maybe not quite so soon, but it would have.
He elbowed Assef’s father, almost knocked the little fellow down. Mahmood’s laughter was about as convincing as Tanya’s smile, and suddenly I wondered if maybe, on some level, their son frightened them.
3*comment
虎父无犬子。
like the mother like the daughter.
perhaps Assef's father is as cruel as him, so much so their son afraid of them.
In one of those brief bursts of light, I saw something I’ll never forget: Hassan serving drinks to Assef and Wali from a silver platter. The light winked out, a hiss and a crackle, then another flicker of orange light: Assef grinning, kneading Hassan in the chest with a knuckle.
4*comment
1.gay情无阶级和国界。
2.After spotting what happened in that alley, Amir feel guilty and being tortured night after night, he just can't let it go, even Hassan forgave him, nothing can relieve his sin. While at his birthday party, when these two people showed together, he witnessed them , say nothing.
Then, mercifully, darkness.
5*comment
简洁。
Summary:
看完这一章我是愤愤不平的，简直不知道要怎么去总结概括，写哈森的超乎常人对阿米儿的爱呢，还是写被统治阶级的无力反击。如果越想越偏激，不如换个角度好了。如果爱一个人到这种地步，我认为是病态的，我只能哀其不幸。(当然其实很感动。)，有时候，如果哈森稍稍地反击一下下，不需要太大的力气，那么阿米儿也会稍稍释怀了吧，文中说过，哈森如果反击他也不会再夜夜失眠。只能愿这两个人都有美好的结局吧。
Summary:
After that, Amir and Hassan merely talked to each other. When Amir got up, Hassan was no where to be found. Amir shared more time with father, they went to Jalalabad, zoo, and etc. However, even on the trip, Amir still haunted by his sin. Then Amir became an insomniac. And Hassan asked Amir to hike up the hill. For the second time, he agreed relunctantly. Their relationship went better.
In the deep heart, Amir still felt guilty, thus he ask Baba whether can get new servant and Baba refuse and told him he cannot throw Hassan out. And Amir asked Hassan to go up the hill with him, hoped to attack Hassan to get beat and relieved his sin. While Hassan love him so much and didn't fight back.
With his birthday is coming, Amir met Assef and so does Hassan, unfortunately, Hassan had to serve Assef even he was a victim and supposed not to see him.
The darkness covered everything.