Her uncle and the children hung on and were in the courtyard with her. Snow had had enough of them. She threw off the rope and the children flew in all directions like shooting stars. Not very heavy, thought Snow. They really are starving.
Auntie flung down the knife and wailed: ' We want to live too,girl!'
Snow's uncle and the children let go of her, and scattered like black birds.
The children cried too. A black shadow knelt before Snow. It was uncle.
Uncle burst into torrents of tears.
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舅舅和娃兒們沒有松手袍祖，就都到院里了。雪羽兒很厭惡他們桐磁，使個(gè)手法捺宗，手中的繩子和墜物就成了流星錘抱虐。她覺得那流星錘很輕，就想，他們真餓壞了.
舅母扔下切刀初家，大哭寝受。丫頭呀坷牛，我們也想活呀！
她一哭很澄，舅舅和蛙兒們都松了手京闰。他們黑鳥般四下里飛去颜及。
娃兒們也哭了。一個(gè)黑影滾了來蹂楣，跪在雪羽兒面前俏站，是舅舅。
舅舅嗷嗷大哭.
（摘自《西夏咒》162頁）
~Xuemo, translated by Nicky Harman.
【W(wǎng)ords】
shooting star
1.
N-COUNT A shooting star is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the Earth's atmosphere from space, and is seen from earth as a bright star travelling very fast across the sky. 流星
fling /fl??/? CET4 TEM4 flinging,flung,flings
1.
V-T If you fling something somewhere, you throw it there using a lot of force. 猛擲
例：
The woman flung the cup at him.
那女人使勁把杯子朝他扔過去痊土。
flung /fl??/
1.
Flung is the past tense and past participle of . (fling)的過去式和過去分詞
wail /we?l/? CET6+ TEM8 wailing,wailed,wails
1.
V-I If someone wails, they make long, loud, high-pitched cries which express sorrow or pain. 哀號
例：
The women began to wail in mourning.
女人們開始大放悲聲肄扎。
knelt /n?lt/
1.
Knelt is a past tense and past participle of . kneel過去式和過去分詞
kneel /ni?l/? CET4 TEM4 kneeling,knelt,kneels
1.
V-I When you kneel, you bend your legs so that your knees are touching the ground. 跪下
例：
She knelt by the bed and prayed.
她跪在床邊禱告。
