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● agitation：（心理上的）激动。注意：这里的sent的意义和平常不同。her memories…：请参阅上文。
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● huddled：蜷缩，过去分词，形容主语。petticoat：衬裙，不连上身的。
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● holding，现在分词，仍是形容主语。onto=on to，手捏牢这根绕腰而过的带子（string）。
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● temples：太阳穴。a child’s=a child’s hair。party：宴会。小（女）孩子参加宴会时，有时把头发解松了，披在肩上，算是一种打扮。
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● numb：麻木的。pendulant：下垂的。
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At last every bit of the wood was gone. Now the cherry log was burned to ashes.
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And all of a sudden Jason was on his feet again. Of all things, he was bringing the split-bottomed chair over to the hearth. He knocked it to pieces…. It burned well and brightly. Sara never said a word. She did not move….
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Then the kitchen table. To think that a solid, steady four-legged table like that, that had stood thirty years in one place, should be consumed in such a little while! Sara stared almost greedily at the waving flames.
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● on his feet：站起来。of all things：有“什么都不搬，偏把椅子搬来”之意。bottom：椅子之座位部。split：裂开的。over（副词）：解作“从那边搬来”之意。
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● To think=it is hard to think。下面的noun clause的动词should be consumed是虚拟式：“竟然会这样快就烧掉！”
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● a table like that之that是指示代名词，“像那一张一样的桌子”。第二个that是关系代名词，引起一个adjective clause，也是形容table。
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● greedily：贪婪地，想占有这个火。用中文说是“想把这个火吃下去”。
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Then when that was over, Jason and Sara sat in darkness where their bed had been, and it was colder than ever. The fire the kitchen table had made seemed wonderful to them…. But Sara trembled, again pressing her hard knees against her breast. All at once, without turning her head, she spoke.
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● that was over：那张厨房桌子也烧完了。
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● where their bed had been：一度是他们铺床的地方。他们的床是铺在火炉旁的地上的，现在被褥已经都搬了出去盖番茄秧了，床已不再存在。
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● the kitchen table had made：adjective clause形容fire，关系代名词省略。had made的时态，也是表示“不再存在”。
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“Jason…”
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A silence. But only for a moment.
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“Listen,” said her husband’s uncertain voice.
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They held very still, as before, with bent heads.
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Outside, as though it would exact something further from their lives, the whistle continued to blow.
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● 老夫妻俩从来没有开过口，现在忽然交谈起来了。是什么东西打破他们沉默的习惯的呢？Sara在一阵寒战之后，有什么话非说不可的呢？
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● They held very still之held是linking verb，相当于continued。still（安静）是predicate adjective。exact：问（他们）要。汽笛声已经把他们的衣服家具都要了去，现在又在吹了，好像再要向他们要什么似的。汽笛在吹，天气还要冷下去。番茄秧或者可以救活了，但是人呢？寒夜笛声，境界至为明净，然人世痛苦，似亦尽在几声长鸣之中。小说家之剪裁，至此已告结束。然文虽终局，意似尚有未尽焉。
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