單詞
- wallpaper: Wallpaper is thick coloured or patterned paper that is used for covering and decorating the walls of rooms. 墻紙
- boomtown: 新興城市
- dread: If you dread something which may happen, you feel very anxious and unhappy about it because you think it will be unpleasant or upsetting.
句子
- Young people like her were flocking to cities all across the nation——more than one hundred million Chinese had migrated, mostly to the factory boomtowns of the southern coast.
flock:If people flock to a particular place or event, a very large number of them go there, usually because it is pleasant or interesting.
The anger deepened as the evening wore on.
Overnight, red national flags had sprouted above restaurants and shops, and groups of student protestors marched through Nanjing all day long.
sprout:When leaves, shoots, or plants sprout somewhere, they grow there.
中文總結:何偉剛來中國的時候是做報紙剪貼和整理的工作,將關于中國的外文事件按照字母編序排好,因此他得以了解到很多中國當下的事情。他親歷了南斯拉夫大使館被炸后,南京大學生上街游行,許多人向他拋出疑問或者質問,還要他傳話給美方,但其實他自己無法給出答案或者傳遞信息,他后來因為擔心恐懼連忙回到了北京。
在北京,他認識了新疆人,我也因此得以知道原來新疆是18世紀被中原侵占的。
寫作借鑒:明線-何偉的足跡,暗線-何偉做的編輯工作。