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What about pink-tipped buds ?
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in his day, in his lifetime; when he was full of vigor.
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at the height of their time, having reached the period of growth when these fruit trees should be bearing the most fruit.
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“the land lay there cracked and it lay there like clay only newly dried.”
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if he had, but he did not have them.
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He ached . He wanted very much to work, but he lacked the seeds and the implements.
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their store of grain, their stock or supply of grain.
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rafters, the sloping timbers of the roof of a house.
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Was there sense in stripping the coat off one’s back to feed one’s belly? If Farmer Liu did not feed his belly （stomach）, he would starve to death; if he stripped the coat off his back and sold the clothes for money to buy food for his belly, he would freeze to death from the cold. Farmer Liu thought that it was more sensible for him to keep his clothes on and try to get food by some other means, by killing his starving buffalo, for example. So he killed the animal.
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faces set, faces took on a hard expression, became motionless as in death.
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last, utmost; extreme; supreme; greatest.
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down the river . What river must this be that flows by great cities ?
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his own father, his neighbor’s own father.
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hard, hard-hearted; not easily influenced emotionally; unfeeling.
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cold. Two meanings: cold in the sense of low temperature, for in winter the ground is actually very cold; cold in the emotional sense, in that the earth was not sympathetic, was unfeeling, unmoved, apathetic.
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shrimps， 虾．
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dysentery， 赤痢—a disease of the bowels, with inflamed mucous membrane and intestinal glands, griping pains, and mucous and bloody evacuations.
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sprouting dandelions, dandelions which were beginning to put forth shoots, to grow. The dandelion is a yellow-flowered composite plant with widely toothed leaves. It grows wild, especially in well-kept lawns, where it is a pest. Sprouting dandelions show that spring was coming.
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heavily, sadly; despondently; dolefully; melancholicly.
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as a leaf tossed upon the flood . This is a mode of expressing abstract （not concrete） ideas by words which suggest pictures or images and is known as a figure of speech . This particular figure of speech that we give here is a simile , which is an imaginative comparison between objects essentially unlike, except in certain aspects, and declares that A is like B, or, “he felt helpless as a leaf tossed upon the flood.” A simile may be condensed into a metaphor , which imaginatively identifies one object with another, and ascribes to the one qualities of the other. A metaphor assumes that A is B, or, “he was a leaf tossed upon the flood.” A metaphor may usually be expanded into a simile.
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he could be grateful for nothing . Why could he be grateful for nothing? Why was he comforted by nothing? Why did tears come now when they had not even come when he buried his old mother?
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Questions
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1. How did Farmer Liu know that spring was coming? In other years what signs could he have pointed to?
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2. What had seemed to him “the last sacrifice”?
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3. What further sacrifices did he have to make?
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