lesson4everydayuseforyourgrandmama(编辑修改稿)

lesson4everydayuseforyourgrandmama(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

o make less angry, excited or anxious, fort or calm, to make less painful soothing words soothe one‟s feelings 34. shingle: a small thin piece of building material (such as wood) often with one end thicker than the other for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of building cf: tile。 a flat or curved piece of fired clay, stone, or concrete used esp. for roofs, floors, or walls and often for ornamental work 35. porthole: also port, a small usu. circular window or opening in a ship for light or air 36. shutter: a. one that shuts b. movable cover (wooden panel or iron plate, hinged, or separate and detachable) for a window or door, to keep out light or burglars. cf: Veian blinds The shop front is fitted with rolling shutters. c. device that opens to admit light through the lens of a camera 37. pasture: land where grass is grown and where cattle feed on it 38. furtive: stealthy, If sb. is furtive, he / she behaves as if he / she wants to keep sth. secret or hidden They suddenly looked furtive when I got into the room. I watched him furtively pencil a note and slip it between the pages. A woman with furtive look sidled up to me and asked furtively whether I had / wanted receipts. 39. hang about: to wait or stay near a place without purpose or activity 40. washday: also washing day, the day when clothes are washed 41. impressed with her: impressed by her manner, 42. wellturned: (of a phrase) carefully formed and pleasantly expressed a wellturned phrase: 恰当的词语 43. cute: delightfully pretty and often small If you describe sb. as cute you mean that you find them attractive, often in a sexual way 44. scald: to burn with hot liquid He scalded his tongue on / with the hot coffee scalding: boiling or as hot as boiling court: If a man courts a woman, he pays a lot of attention to her because he wants to marry her. 45. flashy: overornamented, unpleasantly big, bright, etc. and perhaps not of good quality Something that is flashy is so smart, bright and expensive that you find it unpleasant and perhaps vulgar a flashy sports car / cheap flashy clothes 46. repose: pose: to make (esp. oneself) calm, quiet, etc. Jean was nervous at first but soon posed herself. 47. kinky: (esp. of hair) having kinks kink: a backward turn or twist in hair, a rope, chain, pipe, etc. 48. wriggle: to twist from side to side 49. loud: attracting attention by being unpleasantly colourful 50. rope: (of 2 or more mountain climbers) to be fastened together with the same rope (I think the word here means the plaits or the pigtails are fastened together 51. gliding: to move noiselessly in a smooth, continuous manner, which seems easy and without effort glider: a plane without an engine 52. something of a(n)... : (infml) rather a(n), a fairly good You use the expression something of in the following ways. If you say that a person or thing has something of a particular quality, feeling, etc., you mean that they have it to some extent. If you say that a person is something of an actor, something of a poet, etc., you mean that the person can act, write poetry, etc. to some extent Dr. Mitra, a scholar and something of a philosopher If you say that a situation is something of a mystery / a surprise, etc., you mean that it is slightly mysterious, slightly surprising He is something of a book collector / a liar / a musician. I am something of a carpenter myself, you know. make sth. of oneself: be successful He is a clever boy I hope he39。 ll make sth. of himself. 53. peek: (infml) to look at sth. quickly, esp. when one should not They caught him peeking through the hole at what was going on in the room peep: to look at sth. quickly and secretly It‟s rude to peep at other people‟s work. He took a peep at the back of the book to find out the answer。