女儿教我读小说 - 小狐狸惊悚故事集 51#大结局撒花！

cynthiabill

sally00dai 发表于 2020-11-20 13:29
有个小老师真好啊!羡慕啊!可惜我儿子小的时候我自己忙着专业学习考试，错过了大好的机会。

看楼主的笔记， ...

这本书太新，2019出版的，图书馆都还没有。我买了纸书给女儿看，自己从taobao买了便宜的电子版，发给你好了。要pdf还是epub？

smokyeyes

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-20 12:57
又看了一下这一段，谢谢你的提示，我现在认为是说不喜欢故事的走向，因为storyteller上面一句话是“someo ...

赞。从你贴的那段结尾来看，是暗含未完待续的意思。

另外我对昆虫那句话也很好奇，就那个buzzy explosion。但这样看我会理解称为虫子们都一下子迸发出来嗡嗡嗡的吵闹声。你能想象本来万籁俱静的，但一下子一群虫子大叫起来的感觉？但这又是没有上下文的乱猜了。看来我得把这本书买起来满足一下我的好奇心了

另外 as dry as dust也有说人或者某个东西干巴巴毫无生趣的意思，看看能不能放进去？

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-11-20 14:04
赞。从你贴的那段结尾来看，是暗含未完待续的意思。

另外我对昆虫那句话也很好奇，就那个buzzy explosio ...

不介意的话，我可以发给你电子版

smokyeyes

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-20 13:06
不介意的话，我可以发给你电子版

私你了。我家大娃正好也三年级，放kindle里给他看看去   

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-11-20 14:04
赞。从你贴的那段结尾来看，是暗含未完待续的意思。

另外我对昆虫那句话也很好奇，就那个buzzy explosio ...

“In their first few weeks outside the den, Miss Vix had taught the kits how to swish their tails through the reeds to stir up a buzzy explosion of insects, which they could snap out of the air. She taught them how to point their muzzles northward when hunting, waiting for the claw of the Sky Fox to draw a hazy ring of purple around their prey.”

摘录来自: Christian McKay Heidicker. “Scary Stories for Young Foxes。” Apple Books.

通读下来是说用尾巴把虫子们一窝蜂赶出草丛，然后小狐狸们就能逮住它们吃了。只是不明白snap out of the air这里的语法，还有snap在句子里的具体释义。娃也是含含糊糊说就是抓虫子嘛。

smokyeyes

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-20 13:25
“In their first few weeks outside the den, Miss Vix had taught the kits how to swish their tails ...

那这就是了，教他们用尾巴扫过草丛，把虫子赶出来在空中飞，然后他们就可以在空中逮虫子吃啦。snap有咬东西的意思，比如有些儿歌里会唱crocodile snaps之类的

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-11-20 14:37
那这就是了，教他们用尾巴扫过草丛，把虫子赶出来在空中飞，然后他们就可以在空中逮虫子吃啦。snap有咬东 ...

ok, 想起来那本crocodile snap的童书了，女儿小时候还给她读过呢，她还会用小手一开一合地比划，哈哈。谢谢

sally00dai

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-20 14:25
“In their first few weeks outside the den, Miss Vix had taught the kits how to swish their tails ...

snap out of something： to become suddenly freed from a condition.

sally00dai

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-20 14:03
这本书太新，2019出版的，图书馆都还没有。我买了纸书给女儿看，自己从taobao买了便宜的电子版，发给你好 ...

已经私信你了。谢谢！

cynthiabill

sally00dai 发表于 2020-11-20 14:48
snap out of something： to become suddenly freed from a condition.

在这个上下文里，我还是觉得，which是insects，they是狐狸们。所以还是狐狸snap虫子。

cynthiabill

-----------  第四波学习记录：第三个故事 House of Trix

“Her mom slipped through the wind-woven vines, and Mia followed, nosing through the tangle until the leaves came to an abrupt end and the world opened like a gasp. ”
藤蔓被吹过的风编织起来

“Bizy said babies grow on a blackberry bush in winter,” Mia continued. “And you have to pick them verrry carefully or else they’ll pop and get milk all in your mouth.”
小狐狸宝宝就会被捏爆，汁液喷你一嘴！——这太惊悚了吧

“Every so often, her mother stopped and lifted a paw, sniffing back the way they’d come. ”
为什么用这个词组，不用from time to time? 不都是一个意思吗？老师说显得语言丰富。

“It felt strange, traveling away from the Eavey Wood—away from the kindly sights and scents, the soil and leaves that crunched familiar underpaw. ”
拟人修辞，泥土和落叶很熟悉小狐狸Mia的爪子垫，小狐狸踩过去发出咔擦咔擦的声音，像被落叶咔咔在嚼。

“Her mom’s voice caught, like it had hooked on a thorn.”
声音戛然而止

“Yes, yes. You’ve talked me into it.”
我被你说服了。直接用persuaded不好吗？

“Mia blinked. Branches swayed against a starry sky. The ground was littered with silver roots.”
根据后文，这是捕兽夹一类的东西。

“Watt treeks awake bee Trigses, hmm?”
火星文，这时候Mia还听不懂Miss Potter说的话。

“Good.” Tears streamed down her mom’s cheeks. “Now run! Run as fast as your paws can carry you!”
Mia bounded out of the bush. But then she felt a tug on her heartstrings. She nuzzled under a large leaf and peeked out from under it. If she left, then the creature who smelled of nothing would get her mom. Mia couldn’t let that happen. She couldn’t leave someone in her family behind again.”
心弦。亲情的牵扯，Mia不能把妈妈留在危险里。

“The human didn’t so much as wince, only clucked its tongue. ”
弹了一下舌头的声音

“The foot’s skin was as tough as bark. But if she could just bite hard enough, rip hard enough, she was confident she could kill it.
“Mia!” her mom shouted. “Let go! Run!”
Mia tried to let go of the human’s foot, but her fangs caught on something stringy”
这是靴子上的鞋带吗？

“The human kicked her in the teeth, but her mom shook off the blow and bit down again.”
甩掉了human kick。

“The woman drew close and bared her teeth through the silver sticks. “Hello there.” She tapped the air a whisker from Mia’s muzzle. “I’d reach into your cage and pet you, but I’m afraid you’d nip my finger, you’re shaking so.”
在空中点了点Mia的muzzle，并没有碰到。

“You’re a … vixen, I believe.” She wrinkled her nose. “Though I won’t do either of us the indignity of checking.”
意思明白，我不做那么丢人的检查。语法看不懂

“She set down the stone and gave the sharp end of the claw a prick with her nail. ”
stone是用来磨笔尖的什么工具，prick这里就是弹了一下

“It was only then that Mia was able to take in her surroundings. ”
意识到，aware of

“Mia searched the den’s other walls and found that they were impaled with forest things: mushrooms and feathers and leaves of different shapes; a hairy vine coiled in a circle. There were creatures too: a yellow beetle no longer marching, a butterfly that did not flutter, as well as a bat, a frog, and a lizard, all shriveled and still. The creatures were as scentless as dust, and Mia’s stomach did not rumble at the sniff of them.”
是挂满了的意思？

“She turned her nose upward to see if the den had a top exit, and her heart turned over. There, standing on a flat perch high in the den was a large male fox.”
失望的心情，upset

“He didn’t respond—only stood proudly, sandy whiskers alert.”
sandy是胡须的颜色，

“Just me,” a pinched voice said.”
尖声说到

“These pages were populated with creatures—a bullfrog, a bunny, a squirrel—as flat as the worlds that held them.”
纸上有这些东西。populated挺有意思，小狐狸Mia还不懂画画，只看到纸上有这些动物形象。

“He wore a green skin around his chest and forelegs, and rested a forepaw on the shoulder of a dim-witted-looking duck.”
看上去智力微弱，所以就是傻的意思——要分析语法才能看懂，所以读得好慢啊。小老师眼睛一扫就知道是傻子的意思。

“Dawn shined through the speckles of the window, glinting off the silver sticks of her cage.”
反光

“An angry grunt made her sit upright. Miss Potter was crouched over the rabbit’s cage.
“There, there, now,” the woman said, slipping on her hand skins. “No use in fussing.”
兔子的挣扎是没有意义的。

“Mia looked away just as his stomach opened wetly. ”
鲜血淋漓地

“The room thickened with a steamy red scent, making her teeth clack.”
血腥味

“The bunny’s innards disposed of, Miss Potter summoned a small waterfall and cleaned the blood from her hands. ”
召唤神龙

“Miss Potter wiped the sweat from her forehead. “Oh, Beatrix,” she said, laughing. “You really can be such a goose sometimes! You’re meant to cook the rabbit, not yourself!”
呆头鹅

“The rabbit eaten, Miss Potter cleaned the grease from her hands in the small waterfall and then impaled a new page above the rabbit’s empty cage.”
又是这个词impaled，贴上去？放上去？戳上去？

“Mia stared at the new drawing above the empty cage. The rabbit with the floppy ears fled through the flat world in terror, forever running from some unseen danger. Whatever it was had stolen his tail and whiskers.
Mia could have sworn she saw the drawing’s nose twitch.”
为什么不写成His tail and whiskers were stolen by something? 这多好懂啊。
我问老师为什么画里的兔子鼻子会动？老师说是小狐狸Mia felt uneasy, restless, nervous。

“The silver sticks cut her muzzle”
老师说是stopped的意思

“Mia looked at the window. Maybe the rabbit hadn’t been right about everything. The window was as invisible as a fly’s wing. Wings could be crunched. ”
苍蝇都插翅难飞？我猜的。老师也不懂。

“She recovered and crouched in the shadows of the skin tree, muzzle aching, ears alert. Miss Potter snored in her room.”
大衣架吧？

“After the water howled in pain, she would throw open the window to let the weather in. Mia would smell her mom outside, patiently waiting for the night to come.”
外面的空气，因为狐狸不懂空气是什么意思？

“Miss Potter would use the silver claw to sharpen her pencils and then sit before Mia’s cage, skritching shapes onto her pages.”
写写画画

“This is only a rough draft, mind. I’m still working out the details.” She studied the pages. “And I didn’t quite get your eyes right, I’m afraid. You always look so dour.”
老师说是个typo，doesn't make sense. 应该不会吧？

“After the brothers snuck onto a farm to hassle some chickens, the angry old farmer swore to shoot off their tails.”
前两天检查老师的作业，发现她不懂hassle这个词，这里标出来给她学习一下。

“Mia’s whiskers ticked up.”
老师画了只小狐狸脸，在脸两侧画了几个对勾，说就是像这样子。

“In the shadows, Mia caught her breath. She’d been so close. But now Miss Potter was between her and the door. If she tried to escape, the woman would swing the silver claw, and that would be that for Mia.”
第一个that是指the woman would swing the silver claw，第二个that是指Mia would dead。

“The little one shifted her paws, making sure her skin was still on tight.
No such thing as stealing eyes, she told herself. No such thing as tree-tall things with no fur. No such thing as watercolor nightmares.”
皮还在，没有被剥掉。

cynthiabill

-----------  第五波学习记录：第四个故事 Creeeaaak Thump

“But then a hooting turned him left. A bone snap spun him right. ”
呼啸过来的石头让他转到右边

“The branches of the forest pointed every direction, making him feel cross-eyed. Everything was shadows and more shadows.”
漫画书上眼睛叉叉的那种样子，dull and lost

“He tumbled out of the hairy roots with a yelp, certain he was about to be plucked up by a branchy claw and devoured by the tree with many faces. ”
老师说是picked up的意思，不要多问了。

“A scent caught him by the nostrils.
Snff snff snfffff.
It was so strong and succulent that it rolled him up onto his stomach. This was not the smell of just-born bodies, furless and helpless and ready for eating. It was warmer.”
老师表演了一个趴着的动作，我还是不理解。。。

“Soon the scent was all around him, so thick it was almost filling. The air became hazy, and he saw coils of smoke twine through a clearing. ”
树枝间隙

“Only that this fox had lost her mom. He was about to tell her he’d lost his mom too when he caught himself. ”
自己把自己困在树林里的时候

“How do we know you aren’t lying?”
“I can’t prove to you that I’m not dead other than by talking to you!” the fox said. “Besides, you’re the one who’s lying!”
“Wh-what do you mean?” Uly asked. “Y-yeah, what do you mean?”
The fox snorted. “Hiccups aren’t contagious!”
A stone turned over in Uly’s stomach when he realized how he’d given away that he was just one fox instead of two. “Hic! Um, uh, I gotta— hic—go,” he said, hobbling away. “Um, I mean we’ve gotta go. Yeah, good luck with—hic— with everything—hic!”
这句话是MIa讽刺Uly的，Uly曾经假装自己还有一个小伙伴，伪装有别的狐狸说话，但是也是打着嗝说的。所以Mia揭穿了他说打嗝又不传染，她知道是Uly说谎骗她。

“The fox stared at him with her blue-swirl eyes. “I’m not gonna hurt you.”
Uly still didn’t move. He wasn’t so worried about that anymore. Just of making a fool of himself.
“You have your friend to keep you safe, right?” the girl fox said. She roughened her voice. “The one who sounds like this?”
老师说是being silly的意思，但是我不懂哪件事silly了。

“She darted into the wood, leaving Uly with the rope. He dropped it with a thunk.”
不懂

“The fox’s head snapped up, and she came at him in a flash. He squeezed his eyes shut, waiting for her teeth to sink into his throat. When he felt nothing, he cracked an eyelid and found her face pressed close to his.”
是这个意思吗：quickly raised up

“Uly sat and waited. He’d grown very good at it. ”
老师说是good at waiting。哦，好心疼

“What … is it?” he said, trying not to wrinkle his muzzle.
“I don’t know! It has gills, but it walks around! Ha ha.” She snorted. “The forest is squipping crazy.”
Uly’s eyes went wide. A word like that would get his sisters’ lips bitten. But Mia hadn’t even batted an eyelash.”
这是个啥？有鳃还能走路。老师说她也不知道是什么动物。
squipping又是个made up word，这里就是very的意思

“His stomach gurgled again. He bit into the creature, and a gush of slime squirted down his throat. At first, he fought not to gag, but then his teeth ripped “through the flesh, and hunger roared up inside him. After that, he couldn’t devour the legs quickly enough.
“This tastes amazing!” Mia said, gulping down an eyeball. “I’ve been eating hot mud for weeks!”
后来Uly吃的不够快，古怪食物的腿被Mia吃掉了。

“And Mia set off in one direction while Uly set off in the same direction, and they did not part ways again … for a time.”
没有分开。

smokyeyes

“The branches of the forest pointed every direction, making him feel cross-eyed. Everything was shadows and more shadows.”
漫画书上眼睛叉叉的那种样子，dull and lost
cros-eyed是斗鸡眼

“He tumbled out of the hairy roots with a yelp, certain he was about to be plucked up by a branchy claw and devoured by the tree with many faces. ”
老师说是picked up的意思，不要多问了。
pluck是拔毛的意思，硬生生的拔下来那种，看上下文就是一下子把他拽起来。

“It was so strong and succulent that it rolled him up onto his stomach. This was not the smell of just-born bodies, furless and helpless and ready for eating. It was warmer.”
老师表演了一个趴着的动作，我还是不理解。。。
Lay on one’s stomach就是趴着躺

kyang

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-24 18:19
-----------  第四波学习记录：第三个故事 House of Trix

“Her mom slipped through the wind-woven vine ...

学习了，谢谢分享

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-11-25 18:32
“The branches of the forest pointed every direction, making him feel cross-eyed. Everything was sha ...

前面两个不错，明白了。

下面这个，我不明白这个因果关系。怎么食物的香味就馋得小狐狸趴着了呢？趴着是馋了？
“It was so strong and succulent that it rolled him up onto his stomach. This was not the smell of just-born bodies, furless and helpless and ready for eating. It was warmer.”
老师表演了一个趴着的动作，我还是不理解。。。
Lay on one’s stomach就是趴着躺

smokyeyes

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-25 18:39
前面两个不错，明白了。

下面这个，我不明白这个因果关系。怎么食物的香味就馋得小狐狸趴着了呢？趴着是 ...

特地去搜索了这一段。前面是说他躺着，感觉是仰卧，然后闻到味道之后，转身，就是翻转过来肚子朝下贴地，人叫趴着，动物叫匍匐比较贴切，再接着你看下去书里是说 Uly got to his paws and followed the scent 就是站起来循着味道的方向走

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-11-25 20:40
特地去搜索了这一段。前面是说他躺着，感觉是仰卧，然后闻到味道之后，转身，就是翻转过来肚子朝下贴地， ...

嗯，makes sense。谢谢

smokyeyes

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-11-25 19:46
嗯，makes sense。谢谢

也看了前面那句有that jumper was as dry as dust，应该是Mia在笑话Marley掉到水塘里，说跳过水塘应该易如反掌。

cynthiabill

————————第六波学习记录 第五个故事 “THE SLITHER OUT OF DARKNESS”


“He was still trying to figure this Mia kit out. He didn’t understand why she insisted on hunting for him and cleaning him one moment, and then the next, nipping his ears or telling him a story so terrifying it made his eyes water. Was Mia more like his mom … or his sisters?”
眼睛湿润了，想哭的感觉。

“Uly saw unsettling shapes in the darkness—spidery blossoms, green-crusted mushrooms, and moss that hung like long gray foxtails. He saw an insect dissolve crisply in the petals of a flower and a frog try to catch a wriggling worm hiding under a stone, only for the stone to snap shut, slicing the frog in two.”
青蛙去捕食石头下的虫子，却被石头压成两半。

“The humps soon came to an end, and the ground grew soppier still. With each step, Uly had to yank his forepaw out of the marsh and lunge forward, only for it to plunge deep again.”
字典里没有查到soppy这个词，老师说是socked with water的意思。

“He sniffed. All he could smell was drowned insects and fish leavings. “Smell what?”
鱼骸

“Mia scowled at him. “Why are you being so stubborn?”
He scowled back. Because, he wanted to tell her, if I don’t get dissolved by a flower or chomped by a rock, then my foreleg is gonna get yanked right out of its socket. Because if I try and take one more step through this water, I’m gonna pass out and drown. Because I don’t know if you’re more like my mom or my sisters …
Uly’s whiskers perked. He had an idea.”
这里socket是指腿跟关节，身体的一部分。一开始我不懂socket的意思，所以看不懂这句话的逻辑。词汇量很重要啊。
Uly的意思是说这是一条充满危险的路途，要么被花肢解掉，要么被大石头压死，要么又损失掉一条腿。。。

“Uly watched, scowling, until her tail faded to gray and then vanished. He waited for relief to flood through him, like it did whenever his mom snapped at his sisters to stop bullying him.”
flood through就是充满全身的感觉。

“He leaned out from the muddy island and peered into the water, trying to see how deep it went. Skeeters skated across his reflection, sending ripples across the red star and the patches of moonlight peeking through the canopy. He couldn’t see a bottom. He was about to test the water’s depth when a spider scrabbled across the surface, one tail from his island.”
词典里为什么查不到这个词呢？老师说是lines and cracks of ice

“Uly’s eyes snapped upward. ”
就是looked up quickly的意思


“And then the water exploded in an upward rush of roaring white. There was a snap and a crunch and a bone-chilling grawk as a toothy mouth dragged the bird underwater.”
老师迅速地嚎叫了一声，吓了我一跳，老师说这样解说最有效率

“The other birds cawed toward the red star as the waves sloshed with bloody feathers. Several raccoons padded onto the shore and dug through the muck.”
形容水咣当咣当的晃

“Again, the birds craned back their necks and cawed. ”
老师又学鸟叫了一声，我觉得不大对，这里应该是个动作吧。不求甚解了

“Uly was shocked. If he’d been in Mia’s position, he would have fled the second the water exploded and never looked back. Just having her stick around filled his whiskers with confidence.”
每个毛孔都充满了信心

“Someone was forcing him to do something he knew in his paws he could not do.”
完全明白

“Mia’s tone made her sound cruel, like his sisters. But the words she used felt comforting, like something his mom would say. It put his whiskers in a tangle.”
老师说是tangle of love。

“Uly stared at the water, eyebrows shaking. “What do I do again?”
意思是 Can you tell me what I need to do again?

“He locked his eyes on the blue swirl of hers, trying not to sink, trying not to think about the water opening behind him, sharp with teeth.”
水里的怪兽。这里说是water，目的是渲染恐怖气氛

“Uly kicked his paws, but he didn’t seem to be getting any closer to her. He felt like he was running in place.”
意思是in the same place，但是用in place会更有惊悚感。我只能明白原地不动这个意思，但是惊悚感真的体会不出来

“Mia’s silhouette grew faint and watery above as the Golgathursh dragged him into the pool’s black depths.”
又读了一遍就读懂了。watery above是Mia's silhouette。可能当时自己的大脑已经不转了，无法流畅地读下来。

“He landed on the bank with a splat and scrambled across the muck as the great mouth rattled and then sank back into the pool, empty.”
怪兽没有抓住Uly，mouth is empty

They continued out of the swamp and back into the forest, steering clear of even the smallest of puddles.
前进中各种转向完美避开障碍物。

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————————第七波学习记录 第六个故事 THE LILAC KINGDOM， 第七个故事 The Paw

“THE MOMENT THE trees cleared, Mia took off across bronze hills, leaves trailing in her wake. The ground moved swiftly beneath her paws. The weeds that would have tripped her up a few weeks ago now only brushed her underbelly. ”
在这里学了wake的一个新用法，足迹。

“ Her nose searched the grasses for her mom’s apple-scented fur. But all she could smell was the tart scent of blushing leaves.”
“Chill breezes loosed them from the branches, whirling and tumbling them into great rustling piles of yellow and orange.”
泛红的树叶，后面的them也是指上面提到的树叶

“Autumn was even more beautiful than she’d hoped. It filled Mia’s senses with more smells and colors than she’d dreamed possible. But her heart couldn’t quite feel it. There was a bite in the air. The sun no longer warmed her fur. Her Golden-Eyed Day was only weeks away—the day she would have left the Eavey Wood to start a life of her own.”
结合上下文的引申含义吧，something bad

“He’d shed his second coat, and his fur was growing bright red. ”
换毛

“What’s your mom smell like?” Uly asked, nibbling a burr from one of his hind paws.”
老师从词典释义里挑出了一条释义：毛刺

“Her mom had told her to travel to the far side of the forest. But her mom wasn’t there. Had she been captured by another trap? Mia swallowed. Had she gone to the baby-bush to find a new kit? She shook the thought away, reminding herself that baby-bushes weren’t real.”
字面上的意思，描述nervours and scared的情绪

“As the sky faded from gray to rumbling black, they continued along the cliff’s base as it gradually shrank into the ground, opening onto a scraggly hill. At the top of the hill, great violet clouds billowed, silhouetting black stones that towered toward the sky.”
老师说是可怕的黑夜，我觉得是黑暗中各种窸窸窣窣轰轰隆隆的声音

“Mia ran along the hill’s crest until she was right over them. She leapt. The hill fell away beneath her paws as she soared down, rain hissing past her ears. She struck the mud and then rolled, whipping through branches. On her final roll, she managed to get her paws underneath her and then bounded toward her friend.”
纯欣赏，这段描写很有画面感，如身临其境。

“A roar echoed from the top of the hill. Mia peered around the cave’s overhang. The fight was almost won. The fox struck at the badger, driving it down the hill.
“It’s blood and parts!” the badger spat. “Meat and fur and nothing else!”
The fox stood strong until the badger faded into the “graying rain, west toward where the humans dwelled. ”
Badger溃败逃走之前对争夺物表达了一下不屑，意思是老子看不上这些零七八碎的东西，便宜你了。

“Wynn was always watching from his roost that overlooked the vixens’ quarters.”
我不明白为什么用quarter表示住处，问老师human能不能说 this is my quarter，她说可以啊，比如headquarters。啊哈，醍醐灌顶！这个不是天天见的词吗。

“She had spent the days napping and cleaning her wounds, and feasting on squirrels and serpents. But she was starting to feel restless.”
抹抹刷刷的样子

“Right,” Mia said, looking away from the vixen’s glazed eyes. “Right.”
没有焦距的双眼，是dull的意思

“Wynn only stared at her, and Mia felt a chill. She could’ve sworn she’d seen his shadow padding down the hill. But it must have been a trick of the moonlight. Or the sleepy lilac scent.”
固定表达，be very sure

“I must go and rescent the border,” he said, padding along the chasm’s edge.”
scent做动词，再去用气味标记一遍领地

“Wynn laughed outright. “What, and have a litter of wall-eyed, wobbling kits with crooked ears and dangling tongues?”
老师说就是眼睛是flat，不是round。

“She continued east, past the cliffs and up the scramble, to the hills where the humans dwelled. Keeping Wynn close on her tail, she pricked her ears and sniffed the air. She listened for the wet grinding of teeth, sniffed for the gray breath and the putrid black scent. If she could lead Wynn to the badger, it would fight Wynn for her.”
危险的

“Her eyes refocused, and she saw the silver root. Its jaws had crunched her back toes, grinding her nerves together. She tried to shake it off, but her tendons rolled and grated, and she nearly passed out.”
我问老师这是去世了吗？又遭到了无情的嘲笑。
pass away: die
pass out: faint

“Mia lunged at him, but her teeth missed his nose by a hairsbreadth. White pain shot through her leg, and Mia dropped to the ground, breath shuddering.”
老师说是剧痛的意思。为什么呢？

cynthiabill

——————第八波学习记录 完结篇 第八个故事  The Snow Ghost  

读到最后一个故事的时候，终于赶上了作者讲故事的节奏，精彩的场面描写也能有点画面感了。欲罢不能，于是熬夜到1点看完了结局。

“Snowflakes wove a chill through the air and covered the valley in white. The trees lost their points, and the rocks, their edges. Ice blossoms cracked their petals across puddles and streams. And the world grew soft and sparkling against a pink horizon.”
冰花碎裂随流水而消逝。

“Their guard hair, thick and red and newly grown, was the only thing keeping their tails, not to mention the rest of their bodies, from freezing to icicles.”
贴身绒毛

“Mia was silent a few steps. “It’s just … families can up and die. Just like that.”
这里是immediately die的意思

“After a long, limping journey, they came to a dip in the land. A river ran at the bottom, rushing under a field of snow. They followed the river to a grove of pines, whose limbs hung heavy with white. They wriggled under the weighted branches and stepped onto a soft bed of dead needles. The river ran free here, save a section in the middle, which froze around the broken branches of a toppled pine, creating a snow-covered bridge.
我发现dip是这本小说的常用词，各种词意出现了很多次。这里是lower land的意思

“They followed the earthen scent to an opening in one of the mounds. Its lip curled with an old root that hung with icicle teeth, piercing toward the ground.”
Its lip指的是opening's edge

“He kicked his hind paws until the snow packed beneath them and he was able to press up against it. With the last of his strength, he made a great push, and—
The snow gave out beneath him.
Uly fell through darkness before his three paws landed on something solid. He gasped with fogged relief. He was under the bridge, on top of the frozen river.”
散开

“Mr. Scratch raged across the bridge, and as Uly had hoped, the snow gave out beneath him, devouring his hind legs. Uly’s dad snarled and snapped before the snow shifted again and he was swallowed in white.”
老师说是quickly moved的意思。我是在想这个先后顺序和逻辑关系，老狐狸在脚下的雪再次变化之前snapped了，但是还是掉了下去。

“Before Mia’s brother could attack, Mr. Scratch lunged and clamped onto one of Roa’s bone-thin legs, ripping it out from under him. Roa thudded onto the ice, his fangs snapping at Mr. Scratch’s throat. Mr. Scratch continued to hold Roa’s leg, pinning him down, keeping away from his biting muzzle. But as foam and spit flecked upward, Mr. Scratch leaned back, trying to keep it from entering his wounds. His teeth loosened around Roa’s leg, and Roa lashed out, catching Mr. Scratch’s eye with his teeth.
Mr. Scratch screeched. He sank his teeth into Roa’s throat and shook until Mia’s brother’s breath came gurgled and whimpering. Mr. Scratch released him, and Roa rounded to his paws and shuffled out from under the pine bridge, his white fur vanishing into the snows.”
foam and spit是指yellow，老狐狸在躲闪yellow。
然后Roa是咬伤了老狐狸的眼睛吗？老师说是的

“THE ICE BLOCK rocked and tipped, spraying mist and sloshing water over their paws.”
这里的tipped是侧翻的意思。。。。老师渐渐开始不耐烦了

“Well, well,” Mr. Scratch said. “Look who isn’t running away anymore.” He smiled his slashed lips. “If you aren’t careful, you might just impress me.”
这句话完全不懂。老师说impress me是listen to me的意思。为什么呢？然后她对于我不能理解表示极度不满

“She sniffed at it. “Mm! This smells delicious!”
His little nose wrinkled. “Aren’t you gonna eat it?”
“I…,” Mia said, “am going to save it. For when you and your brothers aren’t looking. A hunt this special has to be relished.”
“Okay!” Roa Junior said, romping back toward his brothers. “You’re welcome!”
Mia quickly pawed some dirt over the bark. Then she sighed, contented, and sniffed at their new home. The open sky. The warming grasses. The cool air whirling off an unseen creek.”
aren't looking就是are eating。老师已经不耐烦地做垂死挣扎的表情，拒绝继续讲解。

“It was a few hairs shy of the Eavey Wood, but it would do.”
比Eavey Wood的树要少很多，但是以后会多起来的。天哪，居然是这个意思？老师为什么一看就明白了？

“MIA! HOME THIS INSTANT OR I’LL HAVE YOUR HIDE!”
“Okay!” the little one howled back. Then, to the cavern, “Guess I gotta go for real this time or else my mom’s gonna stuff me. I don’t want to end up like Mr.Tod.”
仔细你的皮！

“Mia had sniffed and said nothing, but she’d carried Uly’s words with her ever since.”
记住Uly的话

cynthiabill

看书之前，我问女儿这本书和她爱看的treehouse，wimpy kids，ella diary, dog man, amulet, the world's worst series畅销书系列有什么不一样？她想了想说，not much humor. 读书的感受是complicated, mix of sadness and happiness, fear and hope. The book touches deep in the heart. Overall a great book for everyone.
自己看完后，我对女儿说这本书主要是关于bravery and courage，老师点点头，I agree。

cynthiabill

逐字逐句读完这本小说，大约花了一周的空闲时间，不刷小红书，不追群消息，朋友圈每天统一看一次，足迹只刷10分钟，不追总统竞选花边，做饭只煮个pasta，居然也跌跌撞撞地坚持下来了。
开始三个故事还是读得挺艰辛的，生词，idiom，读着读着就走神了。
读完之后发现提高了点阅读速度。小狐狸的lexile是690，在这之前读一本570的童书总觉得读不下去，读完小狐狸，花了很短时间就顺畅地读完了之前的570。

cynthiabill

终于更完了。撒花！

smokyeyes

刚读到Mia被抓以后的情节。以后再也不敢直视Beatrix Potter的书，包括 Peter Rabbit。特意找到了一段作者的访谈，他说对Beatrix Potter的描述都是真的！

smokyeyes

”Mia looked at the window. Maybe the rabbit hadn’t been right about everything. The window was as invisible as a fly’s wing. Wings could be crunched. ”
苍蝇都插翅难飞？我猜的。老师也不懂。

这一段说Mia想逃跑，看到透明的玻璃窗，以为是像苍蝇翅膀一样，如果是苍蝇翅膀那就很容易弄碎。

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-12-2 21:38
刚读到Mia被抓以后的情节。以后再也不敢直视Beatrix Potter的书，包括 Peter Rabbit。特意找到了一段作者的 ...

我孤陋寡闻了，原来是彼得兔的作者！就是那只兔子！

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-12-2 21:43
”Mia looked at the window. Maybe the rabbit hadn’t been right about everything. The window was as  ...

啊哈！解释得通了。
谢谢

smokyeyes

cynthiabill 发表于 2020-12-2 20:49
我孤陋寡闻了，原来是彼得兔的作者！就是那只兔子！

对！我念故事时候两个小的都听出来了，还认出了Mr Tod！从小狐狸的眼睛看出来的Miss Potter真的很可怕，抓了动物做她故事里的角色，灵感用掉后又把它们杀掉做标本。我看到有些书评说这段是整本书里最阴暗的一段。我心想没证据作者不能乱编派Miss Potter吧，所以去找了作者的访谈验证了。作者说很抱歉她是第一个让大家知道Miss Potter另一个角度的一面的人。

cynthiabill

smokyeyes 发表于 2020-12-2 21:55
对！我念故事时候两个小的都听出来了，还认出了Mr Tod！从小狐狸的眼睛看出来的Miss Potter真的很可怕， ...

原来如此。
我女儿说她是读treehouse时知道Beatrix Potter这个作家的，但是因为她不喜欢彼得兔的形象所以从来没读过Beatrix Potter的书。