Summary & Reflection
This chapter is about Su Tongpo's experience of the? imperial examination.
From what the author narrates, we can actually feel how the brothers were faced with the fatal turning piont. And that is very familiar to us with imaginable occasions and frames. Therefore the reading is accompanied with much cultural and personal understanding. All in all, the great genius shows extraordinary courage and talent in the exam. Besides that,? I am also moved by the father's love to his wife who inspired him when she was alive but missed the last meeting with him.
Word and Expression
be spoken for
a) if someone is spoken for, they are married or already have a serious relationship with someone
b) if something is spoken for, you cannot buy it because it is being kept for someone else
依我之見厨剪，按照第一種意思柬祠，譯成“被……提親”好像不太匹配钦铺。雖然中文應(yīng)該是提親的意思暂吉，但第一種“結(jié)婚或已經(jīng)有對象”的意思與之有些出入。
con?ster?na?tion
n. [U] / ?k?nst?'ne?? ? n ; ?kɑnst?ˋne??n /
a feeling of worry, shock, or fear 驚愕贞言；震驚杨何；驚惶失措
SYN? alarm
The government’s plans have caused considerable consternation among many Americans.
政府的計劃在許多美國人中間引起了相當(dāng)大的恐慌。
re?cluse
n. [C] / r?'klu?s ; ˋr?klus /
someone who chooses to live alone, and does not like seeing or talking to other people 隱居者绳矩，隱士，遁世者
She became a recluse after her two sons were murdered.
兩個兒子被殺后玖翅，她就一直離群索居翼馆。
An air of mystery and romance and legends hung over the region.
The city was the metropolis of China, kept in imperial grandeur, where the wealth and talent and beauty of the nation gathered about court.
The genial-mannered Ouyang Shiu had usually white long ears and a short lip which revealed his gums when he laughed.
