Vocabulary
Then suddenly, her toes find the water. Below the low thrum of a high-up airplane she hears it: a faint lapping against her ankles, soft as the sound of her own tongue in her mouth.
lap: the act or sound of lapping (n); when water laps against the shore or the side of a boat, it touches it gently and makes a soft sound (v).
仿句：He can hear nothing but the lapping of the waves.
這個(gè)詞非常有趣侨歉，最初對它的認(rèn)識只停留在名詞’大腿‘和’跑道的一圈‘棚品，精讀時(shí)才發(fā)現(xiàn)作為動(dòng)詞也非常形象混卵，lap作為動(dòng)詞可以表示‘波浪或水輕拍’和‘動(dòng)物舔食’织狐。在文中突然看到lapping轻黑，第一反應(yīng)是lap的動(dòng)詞ing形式搅轿，仔細(xì)分析了句子之后脊奋，這些提示詞‘hear, faint, as the sound'表明lapping在這里指的是一種微弱的聲響熬北。順便重新學(xué)習(xí)了faint這個(gè)詞除了最常見的’頭暈‘之意，還可以表示‘微弱’和‘勉強(qiáng)’诚隙。
When he came out of the bathroom, a faint scratching noise led him to the bottom of the stairs, where Marilyn was instaling the chain on the front door.
faint: a faint sound, color, mark, feeling, or quality has very little strength or intensity; a faint attempt at something is one that is made without proper effort and with little enthusiasm.
仿句：Through panes of dusk, he saw the shadow of women passing in the glow of faint candle light.
Five faces swivel toward Nath, and his cheeks go hot, 'Me?'
swivel: if something swivels or you swivel it, it turns around a central point so that it is facing in a different direction.
仿句：He likes to reply to emails in his comfortable swivel chair.
Sentence
He suddenly felt grimy, as if he were caked with mud. He turned the shower on hot, so hot he couldn't stand still beneath it and had to keep turning, like something on a spit, offering the steaming spray a new patch of flesh again and again.?
女兒葬禮的第二天讶隐，James回想起當(dāng)天夜里的所作所為，覺得自己骯臟無比久又。他想用滾燙的水洗掉自己的恥辱巫延，羞愧，也許還有沮喪地消，無力和絕望炉峰。類似的畫面多次出現(xiàn)在電影鏡頭里，不過人物通常是女性脉执。James這一舉動(dòng)暴露出了他內(nèi)心深處的軟弱疼阔，一種雖長在美國卻在中式家庭嚴(yán)厲教育下形成的低自尊，一種游離于雙重文化之間卻得不到任何一方認(rèn)可的自我否定半夷。
