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(摩擦) the ground as she swung slowly back and forth.） ②（Her long hair hung black and straight around her shoulders, and her broad coarse(粗糙的)-featured face bore no expression -- it was blank, as though she no longer dwelt within her own skull(躯体), as though she had gone elsewhere.）
　　I approached her very hesitantly.
　　'Want to come and play?'
　　Piquette looked at me with a sudden flash of scorn.
　　'I ain't(am not/are not) a kid,' she said.
　　Wounded, I stamped angrily away, swearing I would not speak to her for the rest of the summer. In the days that followed, however, Piquette began to interest me, and l began to want to interest her. My reasons did not appear bizarre(奇怪的) to me. Unlikely as it may seem, I had only just realized that the Tonnerre family, whom I had always heard Called half breeds, were actually Indians, or as near as made no difference. My acquaintance with Indians was not expensive. I did not remember ever having seen a real Indian, and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from(来自) the people of Big Bear and Pound maker, of Tecumseh, of the Iroquois who had eaten Father Brébeuf's heart--all this gave her an instant attraction in my eyes. ③（I was devoted reader of Pauline Johnson at this age, and sometimes would orate(说出）aloud and in an exalted(提升) voice, West Wind, blow from your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west--and so on.） ④（It seemed to me that Piquette must be in some way a daughter of the forest, a kind of junior prophetess(女预言家) of the wilds, who might impart(告诉/传授) to me, if I took the right approach, some of the secrets which she undoubtedly knew --where the whippoorwill(夜鹰) made her nest, how the coyote(郊狼) reared her young, or whatever it was that it said in Hiawatha.）



一、生词：

【Stiff】：直直的，僵硬的

A stiff exam （difficult） a stiff penalty(harsh/severe)
A stiff price (excessively high)

【coarse】：粗糙的，粗俗的，not fine, rough or loose in texture
（vulgar, harsh, crude）
A coarse complexion/skin/laughter/manner/taste

【scuff】：
1. to walk without lifting the feet
He is a lazy man and he likes to scuff his feet like that.
2. to make a mark on the sleek surface of sth.
If it has a hard surface, it won’t be scuffed. 如果表面坚硬就不会被磨损

【bizarre】：a very strange or unusual
The old man is an extremely bizarre person.

【spring from】：arise or come from
He is sprung from royal family/blood. 他有皇室血统

【unlikely it may seem】：Although it may seem not usually
Strange it may seem, but it was so. 尽管不可能，但事实就是如此。

【exalt】：
1. raise or elevate in rank/position/dignity. Etc.
Blair was exalted to the position of general manager of our company.
2. to praise sb./sth. Very much
The teacher highly exalted his capacity/ability of dealing with difficulties. 老师高度赞扬了他的处事能力

【prophetess】：a female prophet

【impart】：
1. to tell or pass on information/news/secret
A teacher’s aim is to impart knowledge.
The prime minister imparted the news at the conference.
2. to give a particular quality to sth.(给…赋予)
She wanted to impart a gently domestic air to the class. 她想给教师增添点家庭的气氛

【Hiawatha】：海华沙之歌
It was written by Henry W. Longfellow, a long romantic poem/epic.



二、Paraphrase：

1. P:本句使用了两个独立主格结构，第一个是在her lame leg

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