Everyday_Use_for_your_grandmama_3

1、 Group members胡津津胡津津双瑜彤双瑜彤薛惠丽薛惠丽Everyday Use for your grandmamaText AnalysisPart 1 (1-2): General introductionPreparation made to receive Dee hints the relationship between Mother and Dee is alienated; the relationship between the two sisters is unfriendly and tense.Part 2 (3-12): description of Mot

2、her and two sisterswhat Mother was expected to be (3-4) what Mother actually was (5-6) description of the two sisters (7-12) Part 3 (13-16): more about Mother and DeePart 4 (17-81) Dees visit(17-23) Dee and her boyfriends arrival (24-41) Dees new name (42-44) about Dees boyfriend (45-54) during the

3、dinner: Dee wanted churn top and dasher(55-81) After dinner: Dee wanted the quilts.Part 5 (the last para): Mother and Maggie felt relieved to see Dee leaveThe fourteenth paragraphThe fourteenth paragraphKey wordsDeliberately: with intension 故意地，蓄意地故意地，蓄意地Tin: a soft whitish mental 锡锡Shingle: a thin

4、oblong piece of material, such as wood or slate 木瓦木瓦Porthole：n. a small window along the side of a ship or aircraft 舷窗舷窗Rawhide : untanned hide 生牛皮生牛皮Shutter: n. one of a pair of wooden or metal covers that can be closed in front of the out side of a window 百叶窗百叶窗Pasture：n. a piece of grassy land wh

5、ere cattle feed 牧场牧场No doubt when Dee sees it she will want to tear it down.(para14) What this sentence suggest us?It suggest that mom knows Dee is ashamed of her family, she even wants to destroy it .When did Dee ever have any friends? (para14)What information do you get from this sentence?A rhetor

6、ical question , 设问句设问句meaning Dee was not an easy person to get along with, and she never really had any true friends.From fifteenth to nineteenth paragraphKey wordsFurtive: secret and not direct, as expressing guilty feeling, trying or hoping to escape notice 鬼鬼祟祟的鬼鬼祟祟的Scalding: harshly critical or

7、 denunciatory 尖刻的尖刻的Erupt: to explode and pour out 喷发，爆发喷发，爆发Bubble：a hollow ball of liquid containing air or gas 气泡，水泡气泡，水泡Lye: the liquid obtained by leaching wood ashes 碱液碱液Faultfinding: disposed to find faultFlashy: over-decorated , unpleasantly big bright 俗丽的，浮华的俗丽的，浮华的Recompose: to restore to

8、composure ; calm 恢复镇定恢复镇定Shuffle: to walk slowly without lifting ones feet 拖着脚步走拖着脚步走Stocky： thick，short and strong in body 矮胖的，粗壮的矮胖的，粗壮的Kinky: twisting in hair ,a rope, chain, pipe 扭结的，卷曲的扭结的，卷曲的Wriggle: to twist (a part of the body) from side to side 蠕动，扭动蠕动，扭动Hang about: to wait or stay near a p

9、lace without purpose or activity.闲逛Well-turned: (of a phrase) carefully formed and pleasantly expressedA well-turned phrase：恰当的词语Suck in ones breath：inhale ones breath 倒吸一口气 Important phraseFurtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school:(para15)washday: a day, often the same day e

10、very week, when the clothes, linens, etc. of a household are washed.Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding尖刻的尖刻的 humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. (para15)What kind of rhetoric does the writer use in this sentence?This sentence use a commonly use

11、d rhetoric named simile明喻，直明喻，直喻喻. It compares scalding humor to the bubbles.I stay her with my hand .(para18)Paraphrase :I stop her from rushing off with my hand.Stay: to stop, halt. Note that the simple present tense is used in this paragraph and the following five paragraphs in describing actions

12、 that took place in the past. The purpose is to make the story telling more vivid.Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the road.(para19）An elliptical省略省略 sentences. Its the kind of disgusted response you have when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in f

13、ront of your foot on the road. II. Detailed study of the text: loud: attracting attention by being unpleasantly colorful (para.20) rope拧成绳状: (of two or more mountain climbers) to be fastened together with the same rope(para.20) The word here means the plaits or the pigtails are fastened together par

14、aphrase: The dress is loose and flows: the dress is loose and moves gently and smoothly. (para.20) It is her sisters hair: this is her sisters hair that makes Maggie utter an exclamation of dislike and disapproval.(para.20)II. Detailed study of the text: para(21) gliding: to move noiselessly in a sm

15、ooth, continuous manner, which seems easy and without effort glider: a plane without an engine : stout: rather fat and heavyII. Detailed study of the text: something of a push : rather a(n), a fairly good（para22) If you say that a person or thing has something of a particular quality, feeling, etc.,

16、 you mean that they have it to some extent.II. Detailed study of the text: make sth. of oneself: be successfulexample: He is a clever boy- I hope hell make sth. of himself. stoop弯腰: to bend the head and shoulders forwards and down cower退缩，蜷缩: to bend low and draw back as from fear, pain, shame, cold

17、 etc. nibble细咬: to take small bites out of somethingII. Detailed study of the text: peek ,peep and peer:(22)peek: 偷看(infml) to look at sth. quickly, esp. when one should notThey caught him peeking through the hole at what was going on in the roompeep: to look at sth. quickly and secretlyHe took a pe

18、ep at the back of the book to find out the answers to the questions.peer: to look very carefully or hard, esp. as if not able to see wellShe peered through the mist, trying to find the right path.Paraphrase:Since I am stout it takes something of a push. You can see me trying to move a second or two

19、before I make it: since I am fat, I have to push myself up with some efforts. And I have to try several times so that I can stand up.(para.22)paraphrase:she never takes a shot without making sure the house is included: every time she takes a picture she makes sure that the house is in it. It shows h

20、ow important she thinks the house is. We are reminded how she used to hate the house.(para.22)II. Detailed study of the text: (para 23)give up on: if you give up on sth, you abandon all hope of doing it or of understanding it、 do it fancy以时髦花哨的方式握手: to shake hands in an ornamental, elaborate wayII.

21、Detailed study of the text: limp柔软的: lacking strength or stiffness n. a way of walking with one foot dragging unevenly v. to walk with an uneven step, one foot or leg moving less well than the otherII. Detailed study of the text: Paraphrase: going through motions with Maggies hand: trying to shake h

22、ands with Maggie in an elaborate way.(para.23) example I can go through the motions of putting imaginary food into my mouth. Maggies hand is as limp as a fishsweat: Maggies hand lacks firmness and is cold though she is sweating.(para.23)Paraphrase:Though , in fact , I probably could have carried it

23、back beyong the Civil War through the branches.(para 32)As I see Dee is getting tired of this ,I do not want go on either .In fact ,I could have traced it back before the Civil War through the family branches. Detailed study of the text: crop up突然出现: arise, happen or appear, unexpectedly 突然出现(para35

24、) Some difficulties have cropped up at work so Ill be late coming home tonight.Paraphrase:1.There you are.(para 33)Dees boyfriend meansThat is what I excepted .I knew you could not trace it fuither back.2,.There I was not ,.(para 35)Not such expression.Here the mother is playing on there you are meaning you arw not raight ,Actually ,I could have trace it further back if I wanted.ParaphraseEveryone once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head.(para 36)Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way.soon we got the name out