寫作積累:
Day 1
1. dip: …where the main road dipped down into a little hollow ?指引讀者的視線，有空間沉降的感覺
The sun dipped below the horizon. 太陽落到地平線下了。
2. breath: The air was sweet with the breath of many orchards 很形象
breath of sth. 微量，跡象
a breath of suspicion/scandal 一絲懷疑；丑聞的嫌疑
3. slope: the meadows sloped away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple
v. 傾斜，有角度
sloping shoulders 斜肩
4. arch: …a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over with huge widespreading apple-trees
v. 1）呈拱形覆蓋，呈弧形橫跨
2）（使）成弓形 The cat arched its back and hissed.
5. bridge: Small branches still manage to stem out all over from the bark of the big horizontal tree that nearly bridges the valley.
Day 2&3
1. frill n.(衣服，窗簾的)飾邊，褶邊，荷葉邊
a white blouse with frills at the cuffs/ the window with an icy white muslin frill over it
2. shower&sprinkle
One of apple-trees and one of cherry-trees also showered over with blossoms; and their grass was all sprinkled with dandelions.
shower ?v.灑落，紛紛降落 Volcanic ash showered down on the town after the eruption.
sprinkle v. 撒，灑 sprinkle sugar over the strawberries
3. hoist: The attic is so low that you can only hoist yourself from the waist up and crawl in.
v. 吊起，提升 He hoisted himself onto a high stool. 他抬身坐上了一張高凳子。
4. strike a note: The boxy exterior indeed strikes a 90s’ note.
His speech struck a note of despair
Day 4&5
1. lump: Adults tend to lump cheetahs and tigers into one kind.
v. lump A and B together/lump A in(with)B 把……歸并一起（或合起來考慮）
You can’t lump all Asian languages together. 你不能把所有的亞洲語言混為一談
2. nestle: The barn-converted house nestles among a quarter-oval panel of firs at the foot of a mountain..
v. 位處，坐落（于安全，隱蔽之處）
The little town nestles snugly at the foot of the hill. 這個小鎮偎依在山腳下。
v. 依偎，舒適地坐（或臥）
He hugged her and she nestled against his chest.
3. fence: the second-floor balcony fenced in the front with horizontal rails braced between three posts
v. （用柵欄，或籬笆）圍住，隔開
His property is fenced with barbed wire.
Day 6
1. vantage: It gives him a post of vantage. 優勢地位
2. She has the fascinating tyranny of youth and the astonishing courage of innocence.
3. 形容發髻：her dark hair was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.
4. garb v.（常用被動態或~oneself）給……穿上（特種）服裝，打扮
A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.
5. obey: My hair never obeys barrettes or bands.
6. pin: pin one’s hair in pincurls
