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谢 谢！ After a fashion: If you do sth atter a fashion, you can do it but not very well. Three weeks passed, the little apprentice was making iron wares after a fashion. As an amateur golfer, he plays the game after a fashion. The night crawled slowly like a wounded snake, and sleep did not visit Rainsford although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle. Night fell slowly. Rainsford was still wide awake although it iwas very quiet in the jungle. Notice the use of simile here. The night is compared to a crawling snake, slow but dangerous Toward morning when a dingy gray was vanishing the sky, the cry of some startled bird focused Rainsford’s attention in that direction.Something was coming through the bush, slowly, carefully. By the same winding way Rainsford had come. He flattened himself down on the limb, and through a screen of leaves, saw it was a man. Notice how the author skillfully builds up the tension. First, the cry of a startled bird, then something moving by the same winding way, then the sight of a man, finally the realization of who the man is. Rainsford’s impulse was to hurl himself down like a panther, but he saw that the gerneral’s right hand held something metallic--- a small automatic pistol. Rainsford’s first reaction is to jump upon General Zaroff and take his chances, but then he is checked by the sight of the postol in the general’s right hand. The general’s eyes were now travelling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring. But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his face. Why do the general’s eyes move so slowly up the tree? And why do his sharp eyes suddenly stop before they reaches the limb where Rainsford is lying?Perhaps his eyes are not so sharp after? Then why does he smile if he has failed? Every musle: “muscle” is used here as a xountable noun. to tense for a spring: