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● like you said应作as you said。屋主人还要追出来，问这么一句话。这个闷葫芦非打破不可，套一句金圣叹批《水浒》的笔法：“我亦欲问”。
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Ruth saw Ring sitting on the bench under the tree, and she was not going to answer the woman, but she could not keep from saying something.
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“The reason we started out walking like this was because my sister wrote and told me that our baby had died. When my husband first got sick, I sent the baby to my sister’s. Now we’re going to see the grave where she’s buried.”
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● not going to answer the woman：那个男的想必是不堪饥饿了，何况他们赶路要紧，那种唠唠叨叨的话何必置答，但是话到嘴边，不说又不能（could not keep from…）。
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● we started out walking like this为名词性从句，前面省掉一个连接词why。
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● to my sister’s=to my sister’s house。这种用法很常见，如“在王先生家里”，英文单说“at Mr. Wang’s”即可。
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● 这一男一女有这么一段悲惨的经历，可是作者描写时仍旧不带半点情感，文字简单之至，“赤裸裸”的事实就有感动人的力量，何必多说伤感的话呢？
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● where she’s buried：照一般习惯，baby的代名词可用it，但是那是不知婴孩是男是女时才用。身为父母者，一定知道自己的孩子是男是女的，所以这里仍用she。
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She ran down the steps and walked across the yard as rapidly as she could. When she reached the corner of the house, Ring got up and followed her to the road. Neither of them said anything, but she could not keep from looking back at the house, where the woman was watching them through the crack in the door.
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After they had gone a hundred feet or more, Ruth unfastened her blouse and pulled out the pieces of bread she had carried there. Ring took them from her without a word. When he had eaten all there was, she gave him the potato. He ate it hungrily, talking to her with his eyes while he chewed and swallowed.
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● through the crack in the door：从门板的裂缝里（张望）。
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● unfastened：解开，打开。走了一百多尺之后，屋中人应该看不见他们的行动了，她才把“私货”拿出来。
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● all there was的there was是定语从句，关系代名词that省掉：所有的东西，私藏面包的全部。potato：那是藏在裙子口袋里的。
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● talking to her with his eyes：用眼睛说话，嘴是忙不过来了。hungrily：很传神的副词，可解作“狼吞虎咽状地”。
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They had walked for nearly half an hour before either of them spoke again.
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“She was a mean old woman,” Ruth said. “If it hadn’t been for that food, I’d have got up and left before I ate what she gave me.”
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Ring did not say anything for a long time.
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Ruth choked back a sob.
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“How much farther is it, Ring?”
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“About thirty or forty miles.”
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“Will we get there tomorrow?”
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He shook his head.
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“The day after?”
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“I don’t know.”
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● mean原意为“卑鄙，小气”，这里可解作“可恶”。
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