Friend: thoughtful, resolute, and easygoing
Me: imaginative, sentimental, and adventurous
1. Look forward to + Ving
2. Behalf of my (department)
3. curiosity: a strong desire to know about something
4. paternity: the fact of being the father of a child
5. potboiler: a book, a play, etc. that is produced only to earn money quickly
6. cricket: a small brown jumping insect that makes a loud high sound by rubbing its wings together
7. press: newspapers and magazines
8. the hare and the tortoise: The Tortoise and the Hare is a fable attributed to Aesop. The story concerns a hare who ridicules a slow-moving tortoise. In response, the tortoise challenges his swift mocker to a race. The hare soon leaves the tortoise far behind and, confident of winning, he decides to take a nap midway through the course. When he awakes, however, he finds that his competitor, crawling slowly but steadily, has already won the race.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare
9. Hare: an animal like a large rabbit with very strong back legs, that can run very fast
10. Tortoise :a reptile with a hard round shell, that lives on land and moves very slowly. It can pull its head and legs into its shell.
11. times table (九九乘法表)
12. puncture: to make a small hole in something; to get a small hole
13. 十萬: one hundred thousand
14. confidant: a person that you trust and who you talk to about private or secret things
-fid- : truth
15. Don’t patronize me. (別哄我了)
16. social climber
A social climber is someone who seeks social prominence, for example by obsequious behavior. The term is sometimes used as synonymous with parvenu, one who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained the social acceptance of others in that class. "Social climber" may be used as an insult, suggesting a poor work ethic or disloyalty to roots. Social climbers, for example Mr. Elton in Jane Austen's Emma, have been found in fiction for at least two centuries. The Franklin in the prologue of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer was also considered a social climber of his time.
17. vehemently: In a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude
18. magnify: to make something look bigger than it really is, for example by using a lens or microscope
19. everyday matter
20.extraordinay people
21.expecting = pregnant
22. make / keep / break + a promise
23. languish: to be forced to stay somewhere or suffer something unpleasant for a long time
24. childhood feast = a fantasy of the childhood
25. average: calculated by adding several amounts together, finding a total, and dividing the total by the number of amounts
26. terrific: excellent; wonderful
27. supreme: highest in rank or position
28. radiant: showing great happiness, love or health
29. humble: showing you do not think that you are as important as other people
30. scare-scrow
31. good gracious
32. Maine Maine: Maine ( i /ˈmeɪn/) (French: l’État du Maine[4]) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is the northernmost portion of New England and is the easternmost state in the contiguous United States. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, and its heavily forested interior—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.
Charlotte's Web: That's not what you are, that's who you are!
Charlotte-->Wilbur: some pigs, terrific, radiant, humble
Wilbur-->Charlotte: brilliant, beautiful, and logyal, she is my friend
留言列表
