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PART 2 CHAPTER 28
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PART 2 CHAPTER
28
I N THE SUMMER OF 1918, I FINALLY YIELDED TO TISH’S AND ELLEN’S entreaties1 to have a device
called a telephone installed in the house. Ellen had witnessed the machine’s remarkable2 benefits
when she had stopped into the Bethel General Store to buy coffee beans. Mr. Jones, the
proprietor3, was speaking into his new telephone. People could now dial him up to inquire about
produce in stock rather than arriving to find none. They’d even been placing orders for delivery.
Ellen became convinced that such an invention was essential to our well-being5 as elderly people.
If we had owned one when Mary was fading two years earlier, we could have summoned the
not to disturb our patient, but the silence only made space for our grief to grow.
This bright summer afternoon, Tish and I gathered around to watch the telephone man in his
gray striped uniform give the last turn of his screwdriver9 to the oak box on the kitchen wall. He
inserted his finger in the hole of the black dial, spun10 it around once, and then held out the flower-
shaped receiver with the wire dangling11
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well-being
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wagon
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n.螺丝起子;伏特加橙汁鸡尾酒 | |
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inferno
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guilt
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moldy
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vomit
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filthy
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berths
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withered
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innocence
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drawn
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hibernating
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aggravate
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tug
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miserable
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protruding
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turmoil
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infantry
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exhausted
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snarled
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aisle
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gasped
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v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要 | |
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shuffled
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v.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的过去式和过去分词 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼 | |
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ad.不停地 | |
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perimeter
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shrieking
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chunk
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chunks
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厚厚的一块( chunk的名词复数 ); (某物)相当大的数量或部分 | |
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randomly
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adv.随便地,未加计划地 | |
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calves
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n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子,腓;腿肚子( calf的名词复数 );牛犊;腓;小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 );(冰川)崩解;生(小牛等),产(犊);使(冰川)崩解 | |
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purported
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greasy
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meager
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flyspecked
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grit
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hulls
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emaciated
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sergeant
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rations
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plundered
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jewelry
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scrap
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promising
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sip
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gathering
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salvaged
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scrambled
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rascals
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