《夏洛的网》英文版第二章小结

勤喝水是好习惯

到目前为止，已经完成了《夏洛的网》英文版第二章的阅读。《夏洛的网》共有22章，现在完成了9%。当你看到这个数字的时候，希望不要为了还没有读的91%而着急，只要不停下来，总会完成整本书的。关键是好好享受这个过程。

《禅与摩托车维修艺术》一书中有一句话，我常常想起并默念给自己听：当你做某件事的时候，一旦想要求快，就表示你再也不关心它，而想去做别的事。我对这句话的理解是如果一个人全身心投入做某事时，也就是进入了“心流”状态，他不会有多余的心思用来着急。所以一旦感觉到急切，就说明不够专注了。

在继续阅读前，主动回顾一下是很有必要的：

She loved to s（        ） him, to feed him, to put him to bed.

Fern p（        ） through the door. Wilbur was p（        ） the straw with his snout. In a short time he had dug a tunnel in the straw. He c（        ） into the tunnel and disappeared from sight, completely covered with straw. Fern was e（        ）. It r（        ） to know that her baby would sleep covered up, and would stay warm.

Wilbur t（        ） at Fern’s heels. When she w（        ） the brook, Wilbur wades in with her. He found the water quite cold---too cold for his liking. So while the children swam and played and splashed water at each other, Wilbur a（        ） himself in the mud along the edge of the brook, where it was warm and moist and delightfully sticky and oozy.

动词列表：

1. stroke: to move your hand gently over something

2. fix： informal especially American English ， to prepare a meal or drinks

fix somebody something

3. gaze: to look at someone or something for a long time, giving it all your attention, often without realizing you are doing so 

4. peer: to look very carefully at something, especially because you are having difficulty seeing it

5. poke: if you poke one thing into another, you push the first thing into the second thing

6. crawl:

7. enchant:  formal if something that you see or hear enchants you, you like it very much

8. relieve： to free from a burden 

9. wheel: to push something that has wheels somewhere

10. tag along：to go somewhere with someone, especially when they have not asked you to go with them

11. wade：to walk through water that is not deep 

12. amuse:  to make time pass in an enjoyable way for someone, so that they do not get bored

13. break down: if someone breaks down, they lose control of themselves and start crying

14. provide for:  to give someone the things they need to live, such as money, food etc

15. holler for: to shout loudly

形容词列表：

1. adoring：liking and admiring someone very much

2. sticky:

3. oozy: soft and wet like mud

名词列表：

1. bib: a piece of cloth or plastic tied under a baby’s chin to protect its clothes when it is eating

2. apple-blossom time：

3. lash:

4. manure pile:

5. scraps of food

我有时会想当时作者一定是仔细观察过小猪的长睫毛，也仔细观察过小女孩推婴儿车的情形，要不然不会把文字写得那么生动传神。如此说来，如果想写出好文字，绝对离不开细腻观察生活的功夫。观察的对象，既可以外物，也可以是自己。

作者能想象出小猪睡在洋娃娃的毯子下面，真是超可爱的老先生呢。