英语专业精读课文中的精彩语句.ppt

Outside, cocks were crowing and a white streak was rising from the ground, as it were, and beginning to scatter the darkness. Spring Sowing Lights were glimmering in the windows of a few cabins. The sky had a big grey crack in it in the east, as if it were going to burst in order to give birth to the sun. Birds were singing somewhere at a distance. Spring Sowing He sat in front of the young people, his dusty face masking his age, dressed in a plain brown suit that did not fit him. His fingers were stained from cigarettes and he chewed the inside of his lip a lot. He sat in complete silence and seemed completely unaware of the existence of the others. Going Home Then suddenly all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and shouting and crying, doing small dances, shaking clenched fists in triumph and exaltation. Going Home Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. Disease, injuries, hardship and scarcity have always been part of my life. Message of the Land Its good to smell the scent of ripening rice in November. The soft cool breeze moves the sheaves, which ripple and shimmer like waves of gold. Message of the Land But at 55mph its difficult to see anything; the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror. Quick Fix Society The snow thickened fast. I could not locate the tall pine that stood on the north slope of Little Mountain. I circled to my right and stumbled into a snow-filled creek bed. By then the snow had made a blanket of white darkness, but I knew only too well there should have been no creek there. Maheegun My Brother Then came the clear dawn. A great white stillness had taken over and with it, biting cold. My supply of wood was almost gone. There must be more. Maheegun My Brother The sound of the dogs grew louder. Then the voices of men. Suddenly, as if by magic, the police dog te