Chapter 2 - 단어정리

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Chapter 2

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Gradually I drew nearer the world, and the world drew nearer to me.

ð      Being comfortable

By the time I was sixteen I wasn’t a puny little only child anymore.

ð      a puny person is small, thin, and weak

I mastered the crawl and went twice a week for lap swimming.

=>the crawl a way of swimming in which you lie on your stomach and move one arm, and then the other, over your head [↪ backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly]

My muscles grew strong and taut

ð      having firm muscles

I was no longer the kind of sickly kid who got a fever at the drop of a hat and took to his bed.

=> at the drop of a hat immediately and without pausing to think about what you are going to do: 《美구어》조그마한 자극[도발]에 곧, 즉시(at once), 기다렸다는 듯이, 지체 없이.

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‘naked in front of the bathroom mirror, scrutinizing every nook and cranny of my body

ð      scru‧ti‧nize also scrutinise British English to examine someone or something very carefully:

     He scrutinized the document. She scrutinized his face.

ð      every nook and cranny every part of a place:

 We searched every nook and cranny.

, and my interest in these had been fostered by my friendship with Shimamoto.

ð      fos‧ter1

1 [transitive] to help a skill, feeling, idea etc develop over a period of time [= encourage, promote]:

The bishop helped foster the sense of a community embracing all classes.

2 [intransitive and transitive] to take someone else's child into your family for a period of time but without becoming their legal parent [↪ adopt]:

 The couple wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering.

I started to go to the library, devouring every book I could lay my hands on.

ð      to read something quickly and eagerly, or watch something with great interest:  He devoured science fiction books.

In that sense I could be pegged a stuck-up loner. ????

I hated any kind of competition where you had to rack up points against someone else.

ð      rack something ↔ up phrasal verb

          to get a number or amount of something, especially a number of points in a        

 competition:    He racked up 41 points.

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I haven't finish yet. I'll update the rest of pages soon.

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꺄야약~ 아니 왜 이렇게 정리를 잘 해놓으신거에욧~

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ㅋㅋ 하다가 말았어여~ 저는 이 책 10번 이상 읽을랍니다!!!!!! 네이티브가 되는 날까지!!! 글구 chapter 7 까지 읽다보니, 문장이 회화체 처럼(숙어도 많이 있고요) , 독백처럼 되어 있어 좋아여~ 정말 10번 읽을 수 있을지는 미지수..