《甲骨文》第一章

单词

1. wallpaper: Wallpaper is thick coloured or patterned paper that is used for covering and decorating the walls of rooms. 墙纸
2. boomtown: 新兴城市
3. dread: If you dread something which may happen, you feel very anxious and unhappy about it because you think it will be unpleasant or upsetting.

句子

1. Young people like her were flocking to cities all across the nation——more than one hundred million Chinese had migrated, mostly to the factory boomtowns of the southern coast.
   flock：If people flock to a particular place or event, a very large number of them go there, usually because it is pleasant or interesting.

• The anger deepened as the evening wore on.

• Overnight, red national flags had sprouted above restaurants and shops, and groups of student protestors marched through Nanjing all day long.
  sprout:When leaves, shoots, or plants sprout somewhere, they grow there.

中文总结：何伟刚来中国的时候是做报纸剪贴和整理的工作，将关于中国的外文事件按照字母编序排好，因此他得以了解到很多中国当下的事情。他亲历了南斯拉夫大使馆被炸后，南京大学生上街游行，许多人向他抛出疑问或者质问，还要他传话给美方，但其实他自己无法给出答案或者传递信息，他后来因为担心恐惧连忙回到了北京。
在北京，他认识了新疆人，我也因此得以知道原来新疆是18世纪被中原侵占的。

写作借鉴：明线－何伟的足迹，暗线－何伟做的编辑工作。