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13.Plum
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Plum
A plum, Ba says tenderly as he studies Sam’s face. Though the bruise1 on Sam’s cheek, swelling2 from the cut that just missed Sam’s eye, bears little resemblance to the fruit Sam loves.
Lucy, sickened, turns away. Ba grabs her chin. Forces her to look.
“Didn’t I say?” Ba asks. “Stick by your family. I didn’t raise you this way. Not as a coward. Not as a girl who—”
Ma puts herself between them. Her belly3, against Ba’s stomach, saying: The baby. Today Ba won’t be silenced.
“I told you,” he says, glaring now at Ma. “School’s no place for Sam.”
“Bu hui happen twice,” Ma says. “Sam will be a good girl now, won’t you? I’ll speak to the teacher. There’s value to be had from schooling4. Kan kan Lucy. How well she’s doing.”
Ba pays Lucy no mind. He’s looking at Ma. A deadly hush6 falls once more in the room. It seems to seep7 from a place older and deeper than Lucy and Sam. From out of that place, Ba says in a peculiar8, cold voice, “Didn’t you learn your lesson?” As if Ma isn’t Ma but a little girl like Lucy. “I figured the two hundred would rememory you against thinking you know best.”
The words mean nothing to Lucy, or to Sam, who returns her confused gaze. Two hundred is a nonsense number. Yet Ma clutches the table. For all her regained9 weight, she looks sick once more.
“Wo ji de,” Ma says, pressing her hands to her face. Hard, as if she means to push through to bone. “Dang ran.”
Though Ba’s won this argument, he looks even worse than Ma. The juice has left him. His bad leg wobbles. Sam rushes to him, and Lucy to Ma, and once more the house is split.
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bruise
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n.青肿,挫伤;伤痕;vt.打青;挫伤 | |
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belly
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schooling
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peculiar
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wading
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unripe
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shack
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lone
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gravel
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guise
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swoops
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whoosh
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whoop
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n.大叫,呐喊,喘息声;v.叫喊,喘息 | |
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dignified
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monograph
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tableau
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savagery
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instigated
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desperately
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twitching
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mule
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parlor
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oozing
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v.(浓液等)慢慢地冒出,渗出( ooze的现在分词 );使(液体)缓缓流出;(浓液)渗出,慢慢流出 | |
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wagon
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miserably
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illuminating
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crease
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vanquished
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decency
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cultivation
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scatter
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porcelain
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tinkling
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glaze
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ruffles
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褶裥花边( ruffle的名词复数 ) | |
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abstains
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whine
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v.哀号,号哭;n.哀鸣 | |
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receding
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yelps
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n.(因痛苦、气愤、兴奋等的)短而尖的叫声( yelp的名词复数 )v.发出短而尖的叫声( yelp的第三人称单数 ) | |
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locusts
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n.蝗虫( locust的名词复数 );贪吃的人;破坏者;槐树 | |
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hitches
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暂时的困难或问题( hitch的名词复数 ); 意外障碍; 急拉; 绳套 | |
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calf
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n.小牛,犊,幼仔,小牛皮 | |
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thigh
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n.大腿;股骨 | |
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creek
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n.小溪,小河,小湾 | |
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shacks
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soothing
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soot
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moths
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waft
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v.飘浮,飘荡;n.一股;一阵微风;飘荡 | |
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filthy
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wary
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whining
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hisses
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嘶嘶声( hiss的名词复数 ) | |
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eerie
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wrangled
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pebble
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prospecting
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singed
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wails
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痛哭,哭声( wail的名词复数 ) | |
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slumping
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prospector
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rumor
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forth
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sullenness
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gambling
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blusters
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n.大声的威吓( bluster的名词复数 );狂风声,巨浪声v.外强中干的威吓( bluster的第三人称单数 );咆哮;(风)呼啸;狂吹 | |
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rumors
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n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷 | |
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plied
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prospectors
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unearthed
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出土的(考古) | |
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