综合英语教程第四册 Unit4 课文分析4_开泰一家

abandon oneself (to): to give oneself up comp;etely to a feeling desire, etc.
She abandoned herself to grief.
The lost child abandoned himself to despair.
She abandoned herself to the seren landscape

parted: being or kept apart; separated
There is only a little breath from his parted lips.

2. She said it over and over under her breath: "Free, free, free!"

under one's breath: in a low voice or a whisper
He talked under his breath and didn't want others to hear him.

3. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

[paraphrase] Her heart beat fast, and the flowing blood became warm, which made her whole body relaxed.

course: to flow rapidly
Tears coursed down his cheeks.

4. She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her: A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.

[paraphrase] She didn't stop to ask whether she was controlled by a lot of joy. She suddenly realized the blessing of this, which meant freedom for her. This made her dismiss the question (i.e. whether or not her joy was monstrous) as not important.

[grammatical point] Stop + -ing = stop what one is doing, or does
I really must stop smoking.
Stop + infinitive = make a break or pause in order to do somethingelse
Every half hour I stop work to smoke a cigarette.

monstrous: of unnaturally large size, strange shape, etc.
There is a monstrous amount of work to do today.

exalted: 1) lofty; sublime; noble 2) exaggerated; inflated
He had an exalted dedication to liberty.
He has an exalted sense of his importance to the project.

perception: n. the process, act, or faculty of perceiving
This is a drug which alters one's perception of visual stimuli.

dismiss: vt. to stop considering; rid one's mind of; dispel
I have dismissed all thoughts of running for office.

trivial: adj. of little significance or value
These are trivial things and you don't need to spend so much time on them.

Para 7 She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

1. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.

[paraphrase] She knew very clearly that she would cry again when she saw her dead husband's hands and face which had always expressed love for her.

save: also saving, except (for)
She answered all the questions save one.

2. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.

procession: a line of people, vehicles, etc. moving slowly forward behind each other, esp. as part of a ceremony
Who is in the procession today?

a long procession of years: many years, in the future

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