I imagined what would happen when my family discovered I was missing. My brother Richard and I often spent whole days on the mountain, so it was likely no one would notice until sundown, when Richard came home for dinner and I didn’t. I pictured my brothers pushing out the door to se...
“I would never have believed it of any of you. Mr. Filch says you were up in the Astronomy Tower. It’s one o’clock in the morning. Explain yourselves.” 13 It was the first time Hermione had ever failed to answer a teacher’s question. She was staring at herslippers, as still ...
By 5 months, an infant may reach for an object; by 7 months, she may crawl, and by 12 months, the infant learns to walk. These milestones, however, do not equip an infant to feed or protect itself. However, the same infant, from its earliest days, possesses sophisticated object ...
In this life, people can only avoid being bullied and stand tall when their abilities are strong enough. While it is true that we all learn to walk, most people merely crawl through life instead of walking on the path of life. We, too, belong to this group of people who have yet to...
As they entered Lockhart’sdarkenedoffice there was aflurryof movement across the walls; Harry saw several of the Lockharts in the pictures dodging out of sight, their hair inrollers. darkened /'da:kənd/ adj. 没有灯光的 flurry n. 慌张 ...
"They're still in the cabin." Dad said. "They keep the lights off, and they crawl on the floor, away from the doors and windows. I don't know how much food they got. Might be they'll starve before the Feds give up.”No one spoke. Eventually Luke, who was twelve, asked if ...
I've now been trying to find it for several months and it was during one of my flights over the ocean that I met the whirlpool and became its victim."Trot and Cap'n Bill listened to this recital with much interest, and from the friendly tone and harmless appearance of the Ork they ...
It was about three years since I had left those hot precincts—and the temperature had not diminished. Western Australia had now passed through one of the gigantic gold booms of history and was in the bitter headache of the morning after. Three major causes had brought this sadness. First ...
Nowreadthefollowingsentencesandtrytounderstandtheitalicsineachone:5.1Theelusivenessofwordmeaning (1)a.Thiswillmeantheendofourrelationship.b.Youmeansomuchtome.c.Theydon’tmeanwhattheysaid.d.Hisbehaviormeansthatyoushouldstayabitlonger.e.Don’tSmokeHere!Thismeansyou.f.Hedoesn’tmeantohurtyou.(2)a.—...
2)When I was one ,I couldn’t skate. 当我一岁的时候,我不会溜冰。 When we were two, we could use a spoon. 当我们两岁的时候,我们会用勺子。 When we were two , we couldn’t count to 100. 当我们两岁的时候,我们不会数到100. When we were six, we could play the piano. 当我们六岁...