Friday, April 8, 2011

English Period Reading 3

A Posthumous Son
Author: Ye Shaojun (1926)

Translate By: Bonnie S. Msdougall

1. Vocabulary

Vocabulary
Chinese Meaning
Posthumous
死后的
Variety
品种
Presence
存在
Deliberate
故意的
Flesh
Envy
羡慕
Stoke
斯托克
Cosy
舒适
Venerable
可敬
Mild
温和
Irritating
刺激性
Spittle
唾沫
Scrutinized
审议
Abdomen
腹部
Indulgently
放任的
Duly
填妥
Declared
申报
Gaily
快活

Idiometic Sentences
Within  few days, her chubby little face had become very thin until there seemed to be nothing left but a layer of yellow wrinkled skin.

My Comment
About this book, It's a story which happened in China. The character, Mr. Wenqing, who hopes that he could get a son, but he gets five daughters!! For asking one more chance by her wife, he trusts her wife again or else he will find another woman. Unlucky, the sixth child is also a daughter!! Oh, her husband really angry this time. The following year, she entered her seventh pregnency again. Finally, she got a son!! But the son is died.
After reading this story, I feel that I am quite sympathy to the wife. I hope that we can't like the character Mr.Wenqing, because he's always force her wife to do this and that.

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