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● gate：园门，和屋子不相联属的。kitchen door：厨房门，后门。
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● Someone：本文的第三个人物，可是此人的态度是猜疑的、不友善的、慢客的，此人只是在窗帘后面窥望。那一男一女看见这种举动，怎么会不觉得自己是a stranger in a strange country呢？
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“Knock,” Ring said.
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She placed the knuckles of her right hand against the side of the house and rapped on the clapboards until her hand began to hurt.
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She turned around and glanced quickly at Ring, and he nodded his head.
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● knuckles：手指骨节。rapped：拍击。clapboards：木屋墙上的横条木板。（此字的p不发音，第一音节重读，第二音节的母音轻音。）hurt：觉得痛。
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● She turned around：他们两人一起赶路，互相关切，女的打门的时候还要转过头来看男的，男的颔首赞可。作者对于这种小地方不肯错过。
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Presently the kitchen door opened a few inches and a woman’s head could be seen through the crack. She was middle-aged and brown-faced and had a scar on her forehead.
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“Go away,” she told them.
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● Presently：不久。crack：缝。scar：疤痕。
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● Go away：疲乏的旅人受到逐客令。作者尽量避免情感的描写，可是读者自然而然地对于小说中一男一女的命运发生关切之感。屋中人的态度想必很不客气，这里短短两个字，不借任何描写，已使读者如闻其声，如见其人了。
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“We won’t bother you,” Ruth said as quickly as she could. “All we wanted was to ask you if you could give us a little something to eat. Just a potato, if you have any, or bread, or something.”
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“I don’t know what you are doing here,” the woman said. “I don’t like to have strange people around my house.”
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She almost closed the door, but in a moment the crack widened, and her face could be seen once more.
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“I’ll feed the girl,” she said finally, “but I can’t let the man have anything. I don’t have enough for both of you, anyway.”
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● bother you：麻烦你。
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● All we wanted：我们所需要的（不过是）。这句话的动词都用过去式，表示她拍墙叫门时候所需要的是什么东西。
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● I can’t let the man have anything：单身男女清晨在山野间赶路，是惹人疑心的，屋中人不肯施舍给那男的，不是没有道理。又从I’ll feed the girl一句看来，那个女人年龄想必很轻。
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Ruth turned quickly around, her heels digging into the sandy earth. She looked at Ring. He nodded his head eagerly.
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He could see the word forming on her lips even though he could not hear it. She shook her head.
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Ring went several steps toward her.
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“We’ll try somewhere else,” she said.
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“No,” he said. “You go in and eat what she’ll give you. I’ll try the next house we come to.”
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She still did not wish to go into the house without him. The woman opened the door a foot or more, and waited for her to come up the steps.
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Ring sat down on a bench under a tree.
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