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FOUR Sorghum Funeral 4
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AT NOON, THE funeral master announced loudly, ‘Begin the procession,’ and mourners swept intothe fields like a human tide, followed by the Yu family bier, moving slowly towards them like afloating iceberg1. Large open tents in which sumptuous2 road offerings were displayed had beenplaced on both sides of the road every couple of hundred yards. Cavalry3 troops led by FiveTroubles formed a guard on either side of the road, galloping4 round and round.
A fat monk5 in a yellow robe, his left shoulder and arm exposed, led the procession with ahalberd from which chimes hung, twinkling as it spun6 around his body, sometimes flying up inthe air towards the onlookers7. At least half the onlookers recognised him as the pauper8 monkfrom the Tianqi Temple who never burned incense9 and never chanted the Buddha’s name,preferring to drink great bowlfuls of wine and boldly partake of meat and fish. He kept a skinnyyet uncommonly10 fertile little woman, who presented him with a whole brood of little monks11. Heopened a passage through the crowds by flinging his halberd at their heads, his face beaming.
An Iron Society soldier followed, holding a long pole with a spirit-calling banner woven fromthirty-two white strips of paper, one for each of Grandma’s years; it fluttered and snapped,though there wasn’t a breath of wind. Then came the banner of honour, held ten feet in the air bya
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iceberg
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n.冰山,流冰,冷冰冰的人 | |
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adj.豪华的,奢侈的,华丽的 | |
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adj. 飞驰的, 急性的 动词gallop的现在分词形式 | |
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n.和尚,僧侣,修道士 | |
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incense
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wailing
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moth
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embedded
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a.扎牢的 | |
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brutality
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brutal
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awesome
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bugle
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sorghum
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n.高粱属的植物,高粱糖浆,甜得发腻的东西 | |
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shrill
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brandishing
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cartridge
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cartridges
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