Vocabulary
1. Marilyn closes her eyes. Maybe, when she opens them, Lydia will be there, covers pulled over her head as usual, wisps of hair trailing from beneath.
wisp: a handful or small bundle of straw, hay or the like.
仿寫：She turned away from the book, tiny wisps of hair escaping from her ponytail.
trail: to hang down loosely from something; to move or walk slowly; to be drawn or dragged along the ground or some other surface.
仿寫：A group of students trailed behind her.
2. She replaces the phone number on the board, her damp fingers smudging the ink so that the digits blur as if in a strong wind, or underwater.
smudge: to mark with dirty streaks or smears; to blur something in a messy way.
仿寫：He learnt to paint her nails, trying not to smudge her tiny toes.
3. Now Marilyn's mind begins to churn.
churn: to be changing rapidly or be in a confused state.
仿寫：He didn't reply, conflicted emotions churning beneath the surface.
Notes
四月和五月分別讀完Being Mortal 和A Thousand Splendid Suns女淑，六月就迫不及待得打開了這本好多booktuber傾心推薦過的治愈小說。雖然讀原著已經(jīng)不感到陌生了皆刺，但精讀的效果在對單詞的仔細(xì)學(xué)習(xí)過程中漸漸體現(xiàn)出來催首。每章不認(rèn)識的或者認(rèn)識但不知其多義的單詞要遠(yuǎn)多于三五個誓禁，但精挑細(xì)選出的這幾個更讓我有動力把學(xué)單詞這件看起來費力又繁瑣的事情堅持下去。
首先，辨別詞義憎夷。英英詞典里對一個單詞的解釋經(jīng)常包含多種詞性和詞義，我會大概瀏覽一遍躬柬，然后選出這個詞在文中句子對應(yīng)的含義拜轨，記錄下來，再仿造例句造句允青。這個過程看起來簡單橄碾，但這幾分鐘的學(xué)習(xí)時間比單純找到單詞中文并且抄寫三遍的記單詞方式要有效得多。
其次颠锉，品味法牲。很多時候，在閱讀文章的過程中琼掠，我從母語使用者對精準(zhǔn)用詞的把握獲得了很大的享受拒垃。也漸漸明白，對人和事物的生動描述很多時候不是靠形容詞來堆砌瓷蛙，打動人的語言很可能是最簡單而準(zhǔn)確的動詞和名詞悼瓮。比如對母親Marilyn表現(xiàn)出焦躁的心理描寫，作者用到on edge還不夠艰猬，又提到每次冰箱壓縮機(jī)啟動和結(jié)束發(fā)出的聲響都令她震驚谤牡。看到這里姥宝，我會立刻想起自己也有過這些時刻：
His mother is already on edge, startling every time the refrigerator motor kicks on or off.
