1. For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible.
2. She had the grace of control to appear warm in the coldest weather, and on the Arkansas summer days it seemed she had a private breeze which swirled around, cooling her.
3. She didn't encourage familiarity.
4. One summer afternoon, sweet-milk fresh in my memory, she stopped at the store to buy provisions.
5. I've been meaning to talk to her, anyway.
6.She walked in front swinging her arms and picking her way over the stones.
7. I hung back in the separate unasked unanswerable questions.
8. The wind ruffled the surface of the lake.
9. I couldn't have refused even if I wanted to.
10. It would be safe to say that she made me proud to be Negro, just by being herself.
11. She suggested that I try to make a sentence sound in as many different ways as possible.
12. The odors in the house surprised me.
13. The sweet scent of vanilla had met us as she opened the door.
14. She carried a platter covered with a tea towel.
15. "How do you like that?"
16. I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts.
17. Childhood's logic never asks to be proved.
Words:
aristacrat, aura, cascade, couch, crumpet, mead, odor, platter, plum, scone, vanillia
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2) inedible 不能吃的
3) grace 优雅，魅力
4) Arkansas 阿肯色州（美国东南7州的一个州）
5) breeze 微风
6) swiirl？？？
7) herr先生？？？
8) familiarity 熟悉；亲密
9) sweer-milk？？？
10) provisions 食物
11) swing 摇摆
12) hang back 犹豫；迟疑
13) ruffle 弄绉；荡起波纹
14) Negro 黑人；内格罗河
15) it woud be safe to say 可以肯定地说
16) scent 香气
17) vanilla 香草
18) platter 大托盘
19) tea tower 茶壶？？？
20) sophistication 世故
21) enchantment 魔力
aristocrat 贵族 aura 气氛；光环 cascade 小瀑布；层叠；级联
couch 长椅；沙发 crumpet 煎饼 mead [诗]草地，蜂蜜酒
odor 气味；名声 plum 李子；梅子 scone 小甜饼
...都是泡在家里，商店里，学校里或者教室里，像一块过期的饼干，脏兮兮的，无法食用。
6) swiirl？？？
打错了，是swirl
9) sweer-milk？？？
一个在我脑海中总是记忆犹新的夏天的下午，她在商店里停下来买食品。
19) tea tower 茶壶？？？
She carried a platter covered with a tea tower.
tea towel...
couch 长椅 v. 表达
o(∩_∩)o...
swirl 旋转
sweet-milk
tea towel 茶巾；擦拭杯、盘抹布