1 为着房屋租金的事情
解读：由于发生房屋租金的争执
a dispute over sth
2 by force强行
e.g. An impasse cannot be resolved by force of arms alone. 无法单凭武力解决这种僵局。
3 take away拿走，回顾take相关短语
4 马车 horse-drawn /carriage
5 drive it home 赶了过来，drive有驱赶之意
6 dropping to their knees跪下来
7 哭着诉说tearfully related their troubles
8 relate 讲述，叙述；
eg he relates his sorrowful childhood experience in his book
my mother tearfully related her grievance on the phone.
9 unharness.v 解下(马等的)马具；解下…的铠甲
harnessn.马具；挽具；（用于人，起固定或保护作用的）背带
v.控制；给（马等）上挽具；用挽具把…套到…上网络利用；治理；线束
10 chestnut 破产姐妹里Catherine的马就叫这个名字，翻译过来是小栗驹，就是棕色。chestnut= brown
11 touch off 激起，引起
同义短语arouse;evoke;set fire to；provoke; setoff; stirup
12 Father, however, refused to listen.
避免重复用quarrel
13 终夜 a night-long
终日all day long
14 From then on father went from bad to
worse. 变本加厉
15英语物做主语
Even a mere cup accidentally broken by someone would send him into such a violent rage that we all shivered with fear.
a violent rage 盛怒
16 shiver v 颤抖，哆嗦 n 颤抖，哆嗦（因寒冷，恐惧或激动）
i keep feeling shivery and i've got a bad cough.
我一直感到发冷并且咳嗽得厉害
发冷的shivery
17 have his eyes directed sideways斜着眼瞪；direct把。。。对准；sideways，往一侧，向一侧
18“就像自己的身上生了针剌一样”译为 feel like being pricked all over on thorns，其中 feel like 是短语动词，作“如同”解，又介词 on 常用来指人体受到伤害的原因，
Listening to his brags is to sit on thorns.
听他自诩是坐在如坐针毡。
19 all over 浑身
20 a thorn in one's side/flesh眼中钉，肉中刺
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