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● 这里用了好几个抽象字眼。在本段之前，全文所记都是具体事实。作者用了很经济的手法，记录了很多件小事，不评不议，一切留待读者自寻结论。但是这里母亲要用两三句话把她对这位家庭教师讨厌的态度，概括地讲出来，那就非藉抽象名词之助不可。
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● 就作文一般原则而言，如作者目的为求生动，求含蓄，自宜多具体描写；如为求扼要，求明辨，则非用抽象名词不可。初学作文者，大抵喜具体，而不惯抽象；但抽象名词如不能熟用，则散漫之印象，难以统一，思想之精微处，更无由表达。凡善文者，必定具体抽象，左右逢源，得心应手者也。
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Then one morning, father and mother took us up a mountain. We left very early, while it was dark still. When we got to the hotel it was six o’clock and Miss Henley was giving Francis his bath. There was a look of something else in her face, and whatever she said to us she couldn’t keep from smiling.
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● 父亲母亲带我们去爬山——“我们”是“我”同妹妹，老师和小弟弟没有去。我们回来的时候，她正在替小弟弟洗澡。她的脸上有一种特别的表情，随便讲什么，都忍不住要笑。笑容刚好和上段所说的愁容成对比。
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“Did we get any mail?” said mother.
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“Oh, all the mail was for me for a change today,” said Miss Henley.
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“Oh, how nice,” said mother.
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“It was quite a joke,” said Miss Henley, her face squeezed up with laughter. “The porter came staggering up—three telegrams and seven letters! They’d never heard of such a thing here! You can imagine!”
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● for a change：来信一向都是你们的，今天换过来了，都是我的了。
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● staggering：踉跄。手里的信多得路都不会走了！夸张正显其得意。
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● such a thing：一个人一天有这么多信。imagine：想象（他们的诧异情形）。
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“I hope your young man’s well?” said father.
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“Oh, he’s awfully well, thank you,” said Miss Henley. “He’d put the wrong address on all the letters and they were all returned to him. So that explains how it was, you see. He’s awfully excited about the Lindberghs being in England. He’s working on a newspaper now and he’s been trying to find out where they are so as to get a peep at them and perhaps a word or two for a story.”
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● awfully=very。
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● He’d put=he had put。前面她不是说故意不让人家把信往这儿寄吗？怎么现在又说是人家写错了地址（address）呢？作者虽未加按语，但亨利小姐的话显然自相矛盾。
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● how it was：为什么老没有信。
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● Lindberghs：林白夫妇。Charles Lindbergh：美国飞行家，为不着陆飞渡大西洋第一人（时在1927年）。
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● get a peep at them：看到他们一眼，a peep和下面的a word在修辞学上都是“弱说法”（understatement），事实上当然不止希望看到一眼或听到一两句话而已。a story：新闻特稿，这里不作“小说”解。
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“Well, we’ll get a good bottle of wine tonight,” said father, “and we’ll all drink to Rudolpho!”
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“Oh, that’s so nice of you,” said Miss Henley, “but you know how little I drink.”
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● drink to Rudolpho：为他干杯。
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● how little I drink：我多么的不会喝酒。亨利小姐得意之余，犹不失其小姐架子。但是她是真的得意吗？
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It wasn’t until after the bottle of wine had been drunk and Miss Henley had taken Francis up to bed that father said anything about it. Then he said to mother at the table:
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“There wasn’t any mail at all today. The bus broke down on the road and nothing ever came through. The porter told me when we came back this evening. The mailbag was still hanging there waiting in the hall.”
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“I think the girls had better go up to bed,” said mother. “They’ve been up a mountain and they’re awfully tired.”
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