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• Ding Feifei

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• (3) 01 02 03 04 (4) 07 (5) 08 09 10 11 (6) 13 14
  15 16 (7) 16 17 18 (8) 19 20 21 (9) 21 22 23 24
  25 26 (10) 28 29 30 31 32 (11) 33 34 35 (12)36 37
  38 (13) 38 39 (14) 40 41 42 43 44 45 (15) 47 (16)
  48 49 (17) 49 50 51 52 (18) 52 53 (19) 56 57 58
  59 (20) 61 62 63 64 (21) 67 68 69 (22) 70 71 72
  (23) 73 74 (24) 75 76 77 78 79 (25) 80 81 82 83
  84 (26) 85 86 87 88 89 (27) 89 90 91 92 (28) 92
  93 94 (29) 95 96 (30) 96 97 (31) 98 99 (32) 101
  102 103 104 105 (33) 106 107 108 (34) 110 111

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• 1 coastguardsman a member of a coast guard
• 2 under way (esp of a ship) mover through the
  water
• 3 hold the space in a ship in which goods are
  carried
• 4 be loaded with be carried by a vehicle

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• 7 quite the same as for folk ashore just like
  people on the land
• Thanksgiving celebrated in the US on the
  fourth Thursday in November, it is the most
  important holiday apart from Christmas for many
  Americans. Thanksgiving is associated with the
  time when Europeans first came to North America.
  It is observed as a legal holiday in the United
  States to honor the feast held at Plymouth in
  1621 by the Pilgrims and local Indians and marked
  by the giving of thanks to God for harvest and
  health. Today people celebrated Thanksgiving to
  remember those early days. The most important
  part of the celebration is a traditional dinner
  with foods that come from North America. The meal
  includes turkey, sweet potatoes and cranberries.
  On Thanksgiving there are special television
  programmes and sports events.

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• 8-9 Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily
  preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast
  turkey On Thanksgiving morning, we were busily
  preparing a traditional dinner with roast turkey
  as the main dish
• 9 feature have sth as an important part
• 11 clean up remove the dirt from sth or
  somewhere

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• 13 afterdeck the part of a ship's deck past
  amidships toward the stern
• 14 made my way out there went out there
• draught a current of unpleasantly cold air
  blowing through a room
• 16 get to sth/ doing sth begin to give serious
  attention to or deal with

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• 16-17 the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys,
  pumpkins, corn on the cob The Pilgrims refer to
  the English colonists who settled in America in
  1620. Indians refer to the Native American
  peoples. Wild turkeys, pumpkins and corn on the
  cob are typical of the food eaten on Thanksgiving
  Day.
• 17 and the rest and so on
• 18 in quest of seeking

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• 19 personally as far as oneself is concerned
• 20 to sense to realize
• to result from to happen or exist because of
  something else. If something results from an
  event or activity, it is caused by that event or
  activity. If something results in a particular
  situation, it causes that situation to happen.
• 21 reverse turn around to the opposite direction

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• 21-22 at least that suggested a verbal direction
  at least by reading the word from the opposition
  direction, we could better understand it in the
  form of word.
• 23 to pray to utter or address a prayer or
  prayers to God, a god, or another object of
  worship
• 25 to turn over to think about, consider
• 26 after a while shortly, soon

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• 28 repay pay back, reward
• embarrassing feeling anxious or uncomfortable
• 29 take for granted to take a fact for granted
  is to believe it to be the truth without even
  thinking about it
• 30 bother take trouble to do
• sincere not pretending, honest
• 32 particularly to a great degree especially
• lastingly for a long time without any stop

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• 33 swallowing hard To swallow is to use the
  muscles of your throat, as if moving something
  from your mouth into your stomach, because you
  are nervous or frightened, or are about to say
  something. Here the author tried to control his
  sad emotions by doing it.
• 33-34 so they were forever beyond any possible
  expression of gratitude from me so they could no
  longer accept my expression of gratitude
• 34 gratitude being thankful, thankfulness
• 35 ashamed feeling shame or guilt
• pictured thought of

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• 36 cabin a room in a ship used as living
  quarters by an officer or a passenger
• 38-39 I tried composing genuine statements of
  heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to my dad I
  tried to write to my dad, by using honest words,
  to express my sincere gratitude and thankfulness.

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• 38 compose create or produce (a literary or
  musical piece)
• genuine true sincere honestly felt
• statement something that is said, esp.
  formally and officially
• heartfelt deeply or sincerely felt earnest
• appreciation an expression of gratitude
• 39 agricultural of or relating to agriculture

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• 40 mechanical of or relating to machines or
  mechanics
• 41 Rev. Reverend Used as a title and form of
  address for certain clerics in many Christian
  churches. In formal usage, preceded by the the
  Reverend Jane Doe Reverend John Jones.
• 42 principal one who holds a position of
  presiding rank, especially the head of an
  elementary school or high school
• 45 at sea during a ships voyage on the sea
• I find my thoughts upon I think of

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• 47 briefly in a simple way
• And briefly I recalled for each of them
  specific acts performed on my behalf And in a
  simple way, I recollected some particular acts
  that they had done in the interest of me
• to recall to remember recollect
• specific relating to one thing and not others
  particular
• on ones behalf/ on the behalf of sb for the
  benefit of in the interest of
• to perform to begin and carry through to
  completion do

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• 48 uppermost most important
• 49 impressed upon me made me understand or be
  aware of the importance of value of something
• boyhood the period of being a boy

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• 49-51 this graduated into a family habit of
  after-dinner quizzes at the table our family
  gradually formed a habit of doing some short oral
  or written test after dinner at the table
• to graduate to change gradually or by degrees
• quiz a short oral or written test
• 51 recently lately
• 51-52 diminish make smaller or less

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• 52-55 So many times I have felt a sadness when
  exposed to modern children so immersed in the
  electronic media that they have little or no
  awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered
  in books I often fell sad when I see modern
  children so absorbed deeply in the electronic
  media that they do not or little know what a
  wonderful world one can find in a book.
• to expose to leave uncovered make accessible
  to
• immerse absorb deeply
• media a means of mass communication, such as
  newspapers, magazines, radio, or television
• awareness knowledge
• marvelous causing wonder, excellent

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• 56 remind cause to remember
• 57 prayer a reverent petition made to God, a
  god, or another object of worship
• assemble bring or call together into a group or
  whole
• 58 positive hopeful and confident, or giving
  cause for hope and confidence
• 59 influence produce an effect on by
  imperceptible or intangible means
• in part partly

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• 61 to forgive to excuse for a fault or an
  offense pardon
• 62 considerate (of) thoughtful of the rights and
  feelings of others
• 63 equal one that is equal to another
• 64 sprinkled my life with stardust given me many
  pleasant dreams and romantic feelings in my life
• sprinkle scatter (drops or particles of sth) on
  (sth) scatter in small drops
• stardust a pleasant dream or romantic feeling

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• 67 unload remove (the load or cargo) from a
  ship, car, etc.
• cargo the freight carried by a ship, an
  aircraft, or another vehicle
• reload put the load or cargo again on a ship,
  car, etc.
• 67-68 put to sea leave (the shore)
• 68 routine a habitual or fixed way of doing
  things
• familiar to common
• 69 recede become fainter move back or away from
  a point

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• 70 rendezvous assemble at a prearranged time and
  place
• 70-71 we accorded topmost priority we took it as
  the most important thing
• accord grant
• topmost highest, uppermost
• priority something that must be dealt with as
  soon as possible and before other less important
  things
• 72 rasp make a harsh, grating sound

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• 73-74 hundred-odd shipmates came pounding up the
  deck and clustered about the two seamen somewhat
  more than a hundred sailors serving on the same
  ship as another moved along noisily up to the
  deck and grouped around the two sailors on the
  mail ship
• pound move along heavily and noisily
• cluster form a close group around
• 74 bulge to (cause to) curve outward

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• 75 alternately in a way that happens or follows
  in turns
• fistfuls the amount that a fist can hold
• bark utter in a loud, hard voice
• successive following one after the other
• 76 in turn one after the other in an agreed
  order
• amid in the middle of, among
• 77 response a reply or an answer
• 79 humble to cause to be modest in spirit

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• 80 rather than instead of
• previously existing or occurring before
  something else in time or order
• 81 for Petes sake for Gods sake
• 82 exceptional well above average extraordinary
• 84 sentimental affectedly emotional. If you are
  sentimental, you are strongly influenced by
  emotional feelings, esp. about happy memories of
  past events or relations with other people,
  rather than by careful thought and judgement
  based on facts.

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• 85 educate stimulate or develop the mental or
  moral growth of
• 87 decade a period of ten years
• 88 undergo go through, experience
• swift rapid, prompt
• 89 self-doubt a lack of trust about oneself

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• 89-90 I heard more of what I had done wrong than
  what I did right I heard more people say what I
  did was wrong than they say what I did was right
• 90 welcome giving pleasure or satisfaction
  agreeable or gratifying
• 91 reassurance things said to comfort somebody
• appreciate to recognize the quality,
  significance, or magnitude of
• 92 bring back cause to return to the mind

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• 92 in a flash instantly in an instant
• 93 alongside by the side of
• 93-94 settin down setting settin down here
  means writing
• 94 character one of a set of symbols, such as
  letters or numbers, that are arranged to express
  information
• character by character one letter after the
  other

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• 95 accomplish succeed in doing complete
• 95-96 a finished page would consume hours she
  would spent hours to finish writing one page
• 96 consume to expend

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• 96-97 I wept over the page representing my
  Grandmas recent hours invested in expressing her
  loving gratefulness to me When I read the letter
  my Grandma had recently taken time to writing to
  express her loving thanks to me, I cried.
• weep shed (tears), cry because of
• represent stand for symbolize
• invest to spend time or energy doing sth
• loving affectionate

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• 98 diaper to put a diaper on
• 99 the United States Coast Guard the US military
  service that is controlled by the US Department
  of Transportation but becomes part of the US Navy
  during a war. It was established in 1915. the
  Coast Guard stops ships suspected of carrying
  drugs and other illegal goods, and can make
  arrests. It also keeps watch to see that other
  laws of the sea are obeyed, rescues ships in
  danger and has a weather service.

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• 101 insight (the ability to have) a clear, deep
  and sometimes sudden understanding of a
  complicated problem or situation
• go about move around behave in society
• long for thirst for
• in secret secretly, privately
• 103 approach to come near or nearer, as in space
  or time
• 105 quote to repeat or copy the words of
  (another), usually with acknowledgment of the
  source

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• 106 mightily to a great degree, very much
• merely and nothing else or more only
• 107 achieve to attain with effort or despite
  difficulty
• 107-108 that being paramount for the very
  survival of our kind for the realization of
  world peace is very important for the survival of
  our human being
• paramount of chief concern or importance
• survival the act or process of surviving

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• 110 stationery writing paper and envelopes,
  writing materials and office supplies
• good something that is good goodness virtue
• 111 praise to honour, worship and express
  admiration for