I knew I’d never spend the money or listen to the radio, and the electric train would never trundle down its tracks in my room.
1.trun‧dle /ˈtrʌndl/ verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive]
to move slowly along on wheels, or to make something do this by pushing or pulling it
Two large wagons trundled by.
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Examples from the Corpus
trundle
• Only four were over a hundred miles in diameter; the vast majority were merely giant boulders, trundling aimlessly through space.
• The porters were trundling barrows loaded with vegetables into the market.
• This will be easily demonstrated by watching one of these lorries trundling down the Ormeau Road and through the centre of town.
• A steady stream of shoppers trundled from store to store.
• Soon after he spoke, army trucks began to trundle into Jerusalem and numerous soldiers appeared on the streets.
• It's been a long day of trundling past an infinity of fir trees, and photographer Ridgers has hardly survived it.
• The soldiers trundled the massive gun carriage along the road.
• Mothers trundled their children down the sidewalk in strollers.
• They passed two little girls trundling their iron hoops over the pavement.
Any other kid would have hopped on the bike immediately and taken it for a full block skid. I might have done the same a few months ago.
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It is good to be a kid to have something you like.
Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.
2.slate
slate1 /sleɪt/ noun
1 ROCK [uncountable] a dark grey rock that can easily be split into flat thin pieces
2 ON A ROOF [countable] especially British English a small piece of slate or similar material that is used for covering roofs SYN tile
There were several slates missing from the roof.
3 → slate blue/grey
4 POLITICS [countable] a list of people that voters can choose in an election, or who are being considered for an important job
5 FOR WRITING ON [countable] a small black board or a flat piece of slate in a wooden frame, used for writing on in the past
6 → put something on the slate
→ a clean slate at clean1(9)
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slate
• In a spirit of community service, books and slates appeared.
• Many academics really do believe that all of us are now beginning once again with a clean slate.
• A third candidate, radio talk show host Alan Keyes, filed a partial slate.
• Best Director nominees usually parallel the Best Picture slate with one exception.
• The falls of the flowers are a delicate yellowish green veined with slate blue.
slate2 verb [transitive]
1 British English informal to criticize a book, film etc severely, especially in a newspaper SYN slam
Doherty’s most recent novel has been slated by the critics.
2 → be slated to do something/be slated for something
Grammar
Slate is usually passive.
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slate
• They were slated as Wedding Present imitators and never escaped the suffocating connection with the band.
• The project is slated for completion in 1999.
• He was slated for his tactics when they went wrong, but how often did that happen?
• Council deliberations on the budget are slated for June 25,26,27 and 30.
• The flight is slated for launching between Dec. 2 and Dec. 27 from Cape Canaveral.
• Fratney had been slated to be closed and reopened as what was to be called an Exemplary Teaching Center.
• Old Navy flagship sites in Chicago and Seattle also are slated to open in 1998
Forgive? But theft was the one unforgivable sin, the common denominator of all sins.
Related topics: Numbers
3.de‧nom‧i‧na‧tor /dɪˈnɒməneɪtə $ dɪˈnɑːməneɪtər/ noun [countable] technical
the number below the line in a fraction → numerator
→ lowest common denominator at common denominator(2)
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denominator
• AD534 used as a divider, providing differential operation on both numerator and denominator Fig. 6.
• Using the condition, the denominator may be shown to be proportional to, which in steady state is strictly positive for.
• The total body water content, the denominator in that overall concentration term, is altered to achieve homeostasis.
• Such splitting is feasible if the polynomial on the numerator is of lower degree than that on the denominator.
• Numerator data are based on registration returns about child deaths, whereas denominator data are obtained from the 1981 census.
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Baba grumbled something under his breath. I wanted to tell him I was sorry, but suddenly I was salivating, the back of my throat tasting bile.
4.Contemporary English
grum‧ble /ˈɡrʌmbəl/ verb
1 [intransitive, transitive] to keep complaining in an unhappy way SYN moan
grumble about/at
Farmers are always grumbling about the weather.
grumble that
A few passengers grumbled that their cabins were too small.
‘This is boring, ’ Kathleen grumbled.
see thesaurus at complain
2 [intransitive] to make a low continuous sound SYN rumble
Thunder grumbled overhead.
3 → mustn’t/can’t grumble
—grumble noun [countable]
the usual grumbles about pay
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grumble
• She grumbles a bit about me waking her up, but I don't think she minds all that much.
• She was grumbling about having to work so late.
• The people standing beside me were grumbling about not being able to find a place to park.
• Slaves mumble, workers grumble and students mutter.
• The old man turned away, grumbling as he went.
• I remember now Mrs Maybury grumbling because she'd had to do it all herself.
• Thunder grumbled in the distance.
• Although she grumbles that T.S. Eliot does so much, she is all game for it herself.
• That they exist is something of a miracle, so one should not grumble that the lines are often inaudible.
• Mrs Archer grumbled to Janey, the only witness of her slight lapses from perfect sweetness.
grumble that
• Company executives grumble that analysts are obsessed with short-term performance at the expense of long-term growth and profitability.
• The spectator wandered off grumbling that Jamie had dented his ladder.
• But there are still grumbles that much insider dealing goes unpunished.
• One morning he grumbled that she had told him the night before that he was the worst President since Jimmy Carter.
• His parishioners had grumbled that streetwalkers propositioned them after his sermons.
• Although she grumbles that T.S. Eliot does so much, she is all game for it herself.
• That they exist is something of a miracle, so one should not grumble that the lines are often inaudible.
• Class divisions have reappeared: private entrepreneurs grumble that ungrateful workers have forgotten how bad things were a year ago.
5.Related topics: Biology
sal‧i‧vate /ˈsælɪveɪt/ verb [intransitive]
1 to produce more saliva in your mouth than usual, especially because you see or smell food
2 to look at or show interest in something or someone in a way that shows you like or want them very much – used to show disapproval SYN drool
salivate at/over
The media are salivating over the story.
—salivation /ˌsæləˈveɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]
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salivate
• Control of those dollars has the governor and lawmakers salivating.
• Dunn's mouth was open so long that it dried inside and he could not swallow or salivate.
• When food is placed in your mouth, you can not choose not to salivate.
• He says when it was brought in it was salivating and aggressive.
• A lot of people on Wall Street are salivating at the prospect of having $ 150 billion a year rolling in.
• Investors are salivating at the thought of a vast new market.
• Clinton must salivate just thinking of how great it would be to be able to operate like that.
• More people bring more power, which is why Republicans are salivating over the 2000 census data.
• Just the sort of thing that tends to get desperate politicians and bureaucrats salivating over the prospect of annexation.
salivate at/over
• More people bring more power, which is why Republicans are salivating over the 2000 census data.
• Just the sort of thing that tends to get desperate politicians and bureaucrats salivating over the prospect of annexation.
• A lot of people on Wall Street are salivating at the prospect of having $ 150 billion a year rolling in.
6. Related topics: Human, Biology
bile /baɪl/ noun [uncountable]
1 a bitter green-brown liquid formed in the liver, which helps you to digest fats
2 literary anger and hatred
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bile
• This pattern will continue until the regurgitation of bile causes hepatocellular damage.
• Therefore, there is a back-up of bile into the sinusoids and an overflow into the blood.
• Daniel wanted to call out his shock, but the incoherent cry turned in his throat into a spurt of stomach bile.
• These findings suggested that bile and taurodeoxycholic acid directly inhibited ileal motor activity.
• Whole bile samples were collected anaerobically and into sterile tubes
My mouth filled with saliva, a sign of the retching that was yet to come. I stumbled to the edge of the cliff overlooking the deep valley that was shrouded in darkness.
7.Related topics: Illness & disability
retch /retʃ/ verb [intransitive]
to try to vomit SYN gag
The smell made her retch.
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retch
• The smell from the creek was enough to make you retch.
• Fourth Aunt listened with alarm to the sound of the middle-aged woman retching.
• I followed one up the motorway just yesterday and it was all I could do to not retch.
• I took off my jacket, laid it on the bed, walked to the bucket, and retched.
• He felt his stomach heave and he retched against the wall.
• Everyone saw him slide suddenly from his horse and bend, retching and whistling, into the grass.
• He wants to retch but he does not want to make a sound.
• Only fear kept him from retching when he had taken a long drink.
• Nausea of vomiting or retching with great anxiety.
The signs of our elopement were subtle: My parents’ wedding picture was gone, as was the grainy photograph of my grandfather and King Nader Shah standing over the dead deer.
9.e‧lope /ɪˈləʊp $ ɪˈloʊp/ verb [intransitive]
to leave your home secretly in order to get married
My parents didn’t approve of the marriage, so we eloped.
—elopement noun [countable, uncountable]
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elope
• If my father won't agree to the marriage, we'll just have to elope.
• A year later, on September 3,1946, they eloped.
• Even a year later, she could not accept the fact that her only daughter had eloped.
• Or were you going to elope?
• They were unable to marry because of their different stations in life, and so eloped and fled to western Ireland.
• Paris was mooted but when Henrietta could not find her passport they eloped to Edinburgh.
• But none, I assure you, of an age or inclination to elope with an adolescent foreigner!
• Mary fell in love with Shelley and eloped with him to the Continent in 1814.
• Just today one of the missionary school youth was about to elope with his new amour.
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战争面前无杂念。即使Baba再怎么爱母亲，逃亡的时候依旧没有带上他们的婚纱照。
The laughing man broke into song, a slurring, off-key rendition of an old Afghan wedding song, delivered with a thick Russian accent: Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro. Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.
10.ren‧di‧tion /renˈdɪʃən/ noun
1 [countable usually singular, uncountable] someone’s performance of a play, piece of music etc
He gave a moving rendition of Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.
2 [countable] a translation of a piece of writing
rendition of
an English rendition of a Greek poem
Examples from the Corpus
rendition
• But before we left, Jeff gave an amazingly loud and accurate rendition of the barred owl.
• He was a celebrity because of it, stopped often by people and asked for another rendition.
• Later, your teen-ager and her hunky guy practice a hip rendition of a cool new dance.
• My rendition of Parma climbing to Ambadji was to become a popular set-piece for evening entertainment.
• Vaughn's rendition of "Body and Soul" won the competition.
• Further, the Fugitive Slave Act specifically provided for the rendition of runaways in the northwestern and southwestern territories.
imitate:
The laughing girl broke into song, a slurring, off-key rendition of an old Chinese wedding song, delivered with a thick Northerner accent: you are my sunshine. Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly.
Summary:(I=Amir)
Chapter9
Amir finally set Hassan up and Hassan loved me so much that he amited what Amir framed him. Thus they decided no longer to stay with us, no matter how desperately Baba asked them not to leave. When they were away I didn't chase.
Chapter10
Baba was a hero even at the crucial moment, he was such a decent man that when he stood for the woman the officer rest his life.Life changes like clouds, you would never know what's the taste of chocolate until you give it a try.Therefore, when Amir went on exile, he felt it like a dream. We have to accept the fact, the truth.And have faith that we will be better after we get rid of it, just like the phoenix rising from the fire.
