The Kite Runner-Summary08
VOCABULARY
tag along
PHRASAL VERB If someone goes somewhere and you tag along, you go with them, especially when they have not asked you to. (尤指未被邀请地) 跟随
例：I let him tag along because he had not been too well recently.
我让他跟着走，因为他最近一直感到不太舒服。
Feud [fju:d] n.[亦称作blood feud](尤指部落或家族间的)世仇，累世宿仇，夙怨
长期不和，争执，纠纷
vi.世代结仇，持续不和，长期争斗：
例：The two families have been feuding for generations.
那两家族彼此仇视已历数代。
短语：
at feud with 与…有仇，与…不和
deadly feud 世仇，不共戴天之仇
sink a feud 言归于好，抛弃旧怨
feud [fu:d] n. 采邑，封地，领地
hairpin turn 急转弯
on account of 为了…的缘故;因为,由于[亦作 on account, account of]
behind the wheel 在驾驶；掌舵；主管
pull over
把(车)开到(开向)路边；(车)开到旁边；把(船)开到一边；把(船)划到岸边：
例：We signalled him to pull over.
我们招呼他把车开过来。
拉过来盖在…上：
例：Pull the sheet over the child.
把床单拉来盖在这孩子身上。
从头上套下去：
例：The jersey has no buttons and has to be pulled over your head.
这件运动衫不是对襟的，你穿时要从头上套下去。
EXCERPT
I watched the cratered road rise and fall, whirl its tail around the mountainside, counted the multicolored trucks packed with squatting men lumbering past. I tried closing my eyes, letting the wind slap at my cheeks, opened my mouth to swallow the clean air. I still didn’t feel better.
我看见路面坑坑洼洼，高低起伏，盘旋着消失在山那边；数着从我们车边经过的货车，它们五颜六色，载满喧哗的乘客，蹒跚前进。我试图合上双眼，让风扑打我的脸颊；我张开嘴巴，大口大口吸着干净的空气，但仍没有觉得好一些。
I closed my eyes, turned my face to the sun. Little shapes formed behind my eyelids, like hands playing shadows on the wall. They twisted, merged, formed a single image: Hassan’s brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of old bricks in the alley.
我合上双眼，把脸对着太阳。眼睑后面出现一小片阴影，好像用手在墙上玩影子那样，它们扭曲着，混合着，变成一副画面：哈桑的棕色灯芯绒裤子，扔在那条小巷的一堆旧砖头上面。
SUMMARY
Amir rarely sees Hassan after the tournament. Hassan just prepares everything well, the clothes, breakfast, and so on, then goes back to sleep. Ali asks Amir about what happened to Hassan. Amir says that he does not know, and find some excuse to change the subject.
Amir and Baba go to Jalalabad on Friday. Baba invites another two dozen people travel with them. Amir cann’t help throwing up during the journey. That night, everybody eats lots of food in the traditional way. After that, Baba and his cousins play Poker for a few hours. Then everyone fall a sleep, while Amir thinking about Hassan, and going insomnic that night.
For the rest of the winter, Amir and Hassan hardly talk. Early that spring, a few days before the new school year started, while they are planting tulips in the garden, Amir asks Baba if they can get new servants . Baba is furious.
That summer, under their pomegranate tree, Amir picks an overripe pomegranate to pelt Hassan. He wants Hassan to fight back, but Hassan won't. Eventually, Hassan picks up a pomegranate and crushes it against his forehead.
The chapter ends with Amir's thirteenth birthday party. Assef shows up with a gift for Amir. Rahim Khan gives Amir a leather-bound writing journal as a gift.
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