21世纪大学英语读写教程(第一册)Unit4.docVIP

Unit 4 Text A = 2 \* ROMAN II. The washwoman was already past seventy when she started washing for the narrator’s was a small woman, old. Wrinkled and thin. This washwoman possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant usually put the bundle of laundry on her narrow shoulders and carried it the long way most Jewish women of her age were sickly and had bent backs and leaned on sticks when they walked. The sentence means that the narrator’s mother was very much pleased with the wash the old woman washwoman was considered a real find because she did the wash better than other wa