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The train stopped at every station. As it did, all passengers got out to fulfil their bodily needs, to wash to cook their food, in th middle, of a teeming mass of vendors,cows, dogs and crows.”I looked around me and did as the others did.” Stephen Kovalski was to relate in a letter to his mother. After purchasing an oranger, however, he was to discover that he wasn’t quite as the others were. He paid for the fruit with a one-repee note but the vendor failed to give him any change. His request for it was ,ey woyj am expression of fury and disdain: “ How could a sahib be short of cash?” “ I peeled the orange amd hab broken off quarter of it when a little girl planted herself in front of me, her big eyes black with kohl. Of course I gave her the fruit and she scampered off. I followed her. She had taken it to share with her brothers and sisters,” A moment later, Stephen Kovalski had nothing but a smile to offer a young shoeshine boy who was circling around him, but a smile does not fill an empty stomach. Kovalski foraged in his knapsack and offered the boy the banana he had promised himself he woulf eat out of anybody’s sight.”At that rate I was condemned to die of starvation very rapidly” he would recall.

(a) What assumption did the orange vendor make about sahibs?
(b) Why do you thinh the little girl planted herseld in front of Kovalski
(c) Why do you think Kovalsi promised himself he would eat the banana out of anybody’s sight?
(d) ”At that rate I was condemned to die of starvation very rapidly” he would recall. Wht did Kovalski say this?

“Why don’t you find yourself in a nice girl to settle down with and have a family? Just look at your two brothers…”
Oh no, Jega groaned imwardly, there she goes again. And as his ageing mother prattled on and on about how he was depriving her of the opportunity ti spend her winter years with his children boucing happily on her lap, his mind wandered to his two brothers, Siva and Raju, both of whom had been married for eight years.
Siva was married to Shantini, a beautiful woman, who bore him a child every 15 months, and Raju to Nandini, a woman of shocking hideousness,who was, mercifully, barren.

(a) What do you think the author is suggesting when he uses the word “mercifully” in the last line?

Answer 1

火车每站都停。这时，所有乘客都下车解决身体的需要，去洗、煮食物，这中间充斥着大量的小商贩、牛、狗和乌鸦的声音。“我四处看了看，和其他人做的事情一样”Stephen Kovalski 正在给他母亲写信。买了个桔子之后，他发现他并不完全和其他的人一样。他给了小贩一张one-repee的纸币，可是对方没办法找零。他的要求是ey woyj am ,充满了愤怒和蔑视：“先生怎么能没有现金呢？”“我剥开了桔子，拿了四分之一瓣时，一个小女孩出现在我面前，她的大眼睛打了黑色的眼影。当然，我给了她水果，她蹦蹦跳跳地跑开了。我跟着她，看见她把桔子带给她的兄弟姐妹分享了。不久，Stephen Kovalski 什么也没了，只能给他身边围着他转的擦鞋男孩一个微笑，但是微笑不能填饱肚子。Kovalski 在他的背包里找了找，并给了小男孩一个香蕉。这个香蕉是他留着准备背着别人自己吃的。“当时在那种情况下我真的就快要饿死了。”他回忆说。
a）卖桔子的小贩对这个先生有什么假设呢？
b）那个瘦的小女孩为什么出现在Kovalski身前？
c）你认为为什么Kovalski要背着别人自己吃香蕉？
d）“当时在那种情况下我真的就快要饿死了。”他回忆说。为什么他这么说。

Answer 2

火车每站都停。这时，所有乘客都下车解决身体的需要，去洗、煮食物，这中间充斥着大量的小商贩、牛、狗和乌鸦的声音。“我四处看了看，和其他人做的事情一样”Stephen Kovalski 正在给他母亲写信。买了个桔子之后，他发现他并不完全和其他的人一样。他给了小贩一张one-repee的纸币，可是对方没办法找零。他的要求是ey woyj am ,充满了愤怒和蔑视：“先生怎么能没有现金呢？”“我剥开了桔子，拿了四分之一瓣时，一个小女孩出现在我面前，她的大眼睛打了黑色的眼影。当然，我给了她水果，她蹦蹦跳跳地跑开了。我跟着她，看见她把桔子带给她的兄弟姐妹分享了。不久，Stephen Kovalski 什么也没了，只能给他身边围着他转的擦鞋男孩一个微笑，但是微笑不能填饱肚子。Kovalski 在他的背包里找了找，并给了小男孩一个香蕉。这个香蕉是他留着准备背着别人自己吃的。“当时在那种情况下我真的就快要饿死了。”他回忆说。
a）卖桔子的小贩对这个先生有什么假设呢？
b）那个瘦的小女孩为什么出现在Kovalski身前？
c）你认为为什么Kovalski要背着别人自己吃香蕉？
d）“当时在那种情况下我真的就快要饿死了。”他回忆说。为什么他这么说。

Answer 3

做题还是翻译？机器翻译过来再做题，感觉怪怪的…