Words and Expressions
1.in unison 一致
造句: The employees in this company are ready to work in unison to against the employer for his defying payment of the wages .
2.Even the neighbors , as they file in , feel like strangers .
file : to march in a line or file , one after another 排纵列前进
造句：The scene that the troops file in with the tidy pace is pretty spectacular .
3.crane 伸着脖子看
造句:During the examination , severals students crane their necks to peep answers.
4.Nath weaves his way over , cornering him against the tree trunk .
翻译:Nath走到坟墓的另一边把Jack堵在了一棵树下。
weave :move from side to side
造句: In the book Me Before You , the herion Will gets an accidents while weaving his way through traffic .
5.clamber to his feet and turn away
他爬起来，走了。
the nature of your relationship with sb.
和某人的真实关系
dig his fingernail into his palm
a fine layer of dust has already begun to coat everything .
家里的东西在悄无声息中被覆盖上了一层浅浅的灰尘。
Summary
This chapter focused to portray people's reaction towards Lydia's death .
Her mother is desperately sad . She dare not to see the lake on their wat home , she do not prepare dinner for their family ,she can not sleep ,the only thing she can do is go to Lydia's room , even a deep ache suffuses her , it feels good ,too .She reminds how hardworking her daughter was ,yet she also finds all of the daries are blank , she knows nothing about her .
Her father , tries his best to control his feelings , lets his son to cool down , drives his families home . But after he read the autopsy ,he was crushed to his chair . He needs comfort .So he had a crazy sex with his secretary which his wife cannot give him .
Nath , her brother , firmly believes Lydia's death relates to Jack , so he corners him against a tree to demand an answer and goes to his house listen the talk between him and police . He wants to find out the evidence .
Poor Hannah , all she can do is be slient and observes everything.The neighbors , out of curiosity , come to Lydia's funeral .
And with the stories goes on , the author makes us feel that Jack seems not a good man . He has bad grades and deflowers virgines .Is he really the one killed Lydia ?
Summary (CH 1-3 )
Lydia is dead . Her absent for breakfast made her families worried about her safety .So they called the police and was suggested to all her friends , they followed , yet they got nothing useful but found an amazing fact -Lydia has no real friends . Her brother Nath had already noticed that but he kept slience about it .
Lydia died because her monther wants to be different and her father wants to blend in. So they gave Lydia much pressure and that lead her to commit suicide .
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