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The thing you want By Jack Trammell words blade 草叶 walnut 胡桃木 clump （土、泥等）团块 hiatus 间歇、中断 monotonous 无变化的、单调乏味的 reveille 列队 straggler 掉队的士兵 lieutenant 陆军中尉 wilt 使（花草）枯萎 Withered 干瘪的 languorous 衰弱的 threshold 门槛 cellar 地下室 poise 预备姿势 unbridled 不受控制的 cusp 尖端 evaporate 消失，不复存在 surge 汹涌的情绪 insane 疯狂的 Redeem 补偿 inevitable 不可避免的 brusquely 粗鲁地，莽撞地 demurely 拘谨地 Avert 转移 spark 火花 Flicker 闪烁、摇曳 Important sentences An invisible icy hand had peeled paint away and wilted flowers, leaving a dead flavor to it, as if it were somehow like one of the thousands of soldier corpses left on the battlefield unburied to slowly rot away. 似有一只无形冰冷之手剥落了墙上的油漆，使花朵凋谢，留下腐朽死寂的气息，仿佛战场上来不及掩埋的成千具士兵尸体中的一具，留在那里慢慢腐烂。 The war was so insane. There was nothing good about it; no redeeming ethic or cause worthy of so much suffering. Beyond a certain impossibleness, right and wrong didnt matter anymore, and behavior was strictly a manifestation of the chaos around it. 战争是如此的疯狂。没有丝毫的良知；没有任何道德原则或事业值得人去忍受如此巨大的痛苦。在某种极限之后，是非都已经无关紧要，一个人的行为完完全全地印证了周围环境的混乱。 Overview The short fiction tells a story that happens during the American Civil War in city Atlanta located in north Georgia. In the story, a Private soldier named Cabe along with his team happens to discover a house which isn’t destructed in the war. Cabe breaks into the house for food and he finds a beautiful girl there. Lust burns in his chest at that moment. Just as he is about to get much closer to the girl, a lieutenant [lut?n?nt] comes and stops him from breaking the rule.  Questions Where was the house? Why did the soldiers assume that it was abandoned? Why did the soldiers feel that the house was like “an alternative world of silence and loneliness”? What was the other world like? What do you think “an invisible icy hand” referred to here that had peeled paint away and wilte