【正文】 thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. Some new thoughts came to my mind, thoughts that I deliberately wanted to be disobedient, or to be more exact, thoughts that I would say lots of “I won’t …” to my mother.3. The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way. 4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. While saying these, I was scared as if some very unpleasant, horrible things had got out of my chest。 but at the same time, I felt a bit delighted for I was finally able to make this awful part of me known to my mother.5. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point, I wanted to see it spill over.And I could feel that her anger was ing to the point where her endurance and selfcontrol would collapse, but I wanted to see what exactly she would do when that happened. 6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it not only shut out the dust but also put an end to my misery and my mother’s dreams as well.Translation: A. Phrases 1. with almost no money down (Para. 1) 幾乎不用首付現(xiàn)款 2. the raised hopes and failed expectations (Para. 18) 過高的希望和達不到的期盼3. shorting out (Para. 21) 短路4. the showpiece of our living room (Para. 47) 我家起居室的唯一擺設（陳列品） 5. stifflipped smile (Para. 51) 不自然的微笑6. frighteningly strong (Para. 70) 力氣大得嚇人 7. follow their own mind (Para. 72) 自行其事B. Sentences 1. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.(Para. 6) 我的頭發(fā)沒有做出我要的大卷花，而是 給我弄成一頭亂蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。 2. She checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronounce Helsinki before showing me the answer. (Para. 15) 在她告訴我答案前，她對了對手中的雜志，看看赫爾辛基是否能這樣發(fā)音。 3. She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts. (Para. 22) 她似乎被這音樂吸引住了。這鋼琴曲不 長，但有點狂亂，有著迷人的特點，樂曲一開始是快節(jié)奏的接著是歡快跳動的 節(jié)拍，然后又回到嬉戲的部分。 4. If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be famous now. (Para. 33) 如果她的才氣和脾氣一樣大的話，她早 就出名了。 5. The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, left leg bends, look up and smile.(Para. 49) 我最喜歡練習的部分是花哨的謝幕行禮 動作：先出右腳，腳尖點在地毯上的玫 瑰圖案上，身子側擺，左腿彎曲，抬頭， 微笑。 6. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track. (Para. 52) 一股涼氣從頭頂開始，然后一點點傳到全身。但我卻不能停止演奏，雙手好像 著了魔似的。我不停地想，我的手指會調整好，就像火車會被扳到正確的軌道 上。 7. ... and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless. (Para. 76) 她的臉部失去了表情，嘴巴緊閉，雙臂 無力地垂下。她退出了房間，神色驚異， 好像一小片枯黃的樹葉被風吹走那樣單 薄、脆弱、毫無生氣。 8. And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the righthand side. It was called Perfectly Contented. I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. Pleading Child was shorter but slower。 Perfectly Contented was longer, but faster. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song. (Para. 93)我第一次，或好像感覺是第一次，注意 到右邊的樂曲。它的名稱是“心滿意足”。我也試著彈這首曲子。它的曲調比較輕 松，但節(jié)奏同樣流暢，不是很難?！捌?求的孩子”較短、較慢，而“心滿意足” 更長、更快一些。在我彈了幾遍后，我 意識到，原來這兩個曲子是同一首歌的 兩個組成部分。 Lesson threeVocabulary1. inthethroesof: intheactofstrugglingwith2. Dynamic: aforceproducingmotionorchange3. Agenda: programofthingstobedone4. (be) Shotthrough: havealotof, asiffullofholesafterashotgunblast5. Criticalmass: alargenumberofyoungpeoplewhoaredecisive6. Tohangout:tospendmuchofone39。stimefrequent7. Totake(sb) inhand: tocontrolsomeone, astoshowhimhowtobehaveoract8. Pocket: anisolatedareaofaspecifiedtype9. Tocatch: tobeepopular10. Plunging: extendingfardowninarevealingwayParaphrase1. Yet globalization…“is a reality, not a choice”. (Para. 2)However, as one report said, globalization “is now an ordinary fact of life, not something one can choose to have or not.” 2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. (Para. 5)Political groups favored by the general public have appeared in large numbers to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault.” 3. …where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand. (Para. 5)...where the two trends — the dislike and fear of things foreign and the desire to build China into one of a powerful, industrialized economy — have often contended with each other for dominance. 4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers hat work. (Para. 6)Those people in countries like China should continue to live a backward life while we ourselves will enjoy a fortable life with all modern facilities. 5. Westernization… is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows. (Para. 7)Westernization is a concept full of selfcontradictions and held by people of very different backgrounds and views. 6. You don’t have to be cool to do it。 you just have to have the eye. (Para. 10)You don’t have to look fashionable or attractive in order to find out what will be the future trend。 you only need to be observant and able to make judgments about it. 7. He…was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones. (Para. 19)He was playing the game on the Internet with people living in different p