Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A novel by Harper Lee
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb
Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.
[VERB 动词] 遮挡;遮蔽;If something is screened by another thing, it is behind it and hidden by it.
parched
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词] 尤指地面或植物焦干的,焦枯的;If something, especially the ground or a plant, is parched, it is very dry, because there has been no rain.