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Her uncle and the children hung on and were in the courtyard with her. Snow had had enough of them. She threw off the rope and the children flew in all directions like shooting stars. Not very heavy, thought Snow. They really are starving.

Auntie flung down the knife and wailed: ' We want to live too,girl!'

Snow's uncle and the children let go of her, and scattered like black birds.

The children cried too. A black shadow knelt before Snow. It was uncle.

Uncle burst into torrents of tears.

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舅舅和娃儿们没有松手，就都到院里了。雪羽儿很厌恶他们，使个手法，手中的绳子和坠物就成了流星锤。她觉得那流星锤很轻，就想，他们真饿坏了.

舅母扔下切刀，大哭。丫头呀，我们也想活呀！

她一哭，舅舅和蛙儿们都松了手。他们黑鸟般四下里飞去。

娃儿们也哭了。一个黑影滚了来，跪在雪羽儿面前，是舅舅。

舅舅嗷嗷大哭.

（摘自《西夏咒》162页）

~Xuemo, translated by Nicky Harman.

【Words】

shooting star

1.

N-COUNT A shooting star is a piece of rock or metal that burns very brightly when it enters the Earth's atmosphere from space, and is seen from earth as a bright star travelling very fast across the sky. 流星

fling /flɪŋ/  CET4 TEM4 flinging,flung,flings

1.

V-T If you fling something somewhere, you throw it there using a lot of force. 猛掷

例：

The woman flung the cup at him.

那女人使劲把杯子朝他扔过去。

flung /flʌŋ/

1.

Flung is the past tense and past participle of . (fling)的过去式和过去分词

wail /weɪl/  CET6+ TEM8 wailing,wailed,wails

1.

V-I If someone wails, they make long, loud, high-pitched cries which express sorrow or pain. 哀号

例：

The women began to wail in mourning.

女人们开始大放悲声。

knelt /nɛlt/

1.

Knelt is a past tense and past participle of . kneel过去式和过去分词

kneel /niːl/  CET4 TEM4 kneeling,knelt,kneels

1.

V-I When you kneel, you bend your legs so that your knees are touching the ground. 跪下

例：

She knelt by the bed and prayed.

她跪在床边祷告。