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Lesson Two: Two Kinds Paraphrase I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way. 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. When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself. 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 shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Phrases With almost no money down 几乎用不着交首付，几乎可以全部用贷款来买房 The raised hopes and failed expectations 那些过高的希望和达不到的期盼 Shorting out 短路 The showpiece of our living room 我们起居室里的一件摆设 Stiff-lipped smile 尴尬不自然的笑容 Frighteningly strong 惊人地强大 Follow their own mind 我行我素 Sentence Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. 我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。 Sh