Hotel
By Arthur Hailey
Published by Foreign Press 1998
Dictionary =YOUDAO app
39 days to read.
376 pages
Glossary has about 300 words in total, showing at the end of the article.
Actually, I am not sure how much progress I got when I read original works. But, what I sure is that I can read faster than before. Even only 3 books I have read, progress is true. HOTEL has many new words, I can’t remember all of them. The most important issue I am going to deal with is how to use the new things. I can’t remember it well, so can’t use it well. Review frequently is a good solution.
Local in New Orleans, there is a hotel,was named ST. Gregory. HOTEL shows the challenge and hotel business which ST. Gregory was meeting. Novel telling way give readers some new sense. It is not show us by a long term, but concentrated some different class people’s stories in a week. They are hotel managers, the duke and duchess, young rich girl, sick rich investor, hotel thief, and a merchant who want to acquiring St.Gregory and rebuilt it as hotel chain. All of them live in St. Gregory, that’s the most interesting thing.
As most of girls, the romantic plot always attracted to me, romance between Peter McDermott and Christine Francis is such subtle, for they were colleague, both of them work in St.Gregory. Love will come in time, that words describe this relationship well. Nevertheless, the way of love always bumpy. Another little girl Marsha loved Peter, the middle-aged men always attractive. I felt a little anger about Peter when he attend Marsha’s invitation. THAT IS MEN. How could they give a girl huge while he loving another one? Arthur Hailey, our author, is so kind to give us a happy ending, Peter and Chris get together because Marsha has psychiatric disorders!!! It’s so funny!!! And I bet that if Marsha were normal person the romance would be continued.
The two persons fall in love with each other step by step:
He draped his arm along the back of the driver’s seat, not quite touching Christine’s shoulder.
She found herself wondering what it would be like to be carried in his arms.
I like following words so much, and post it in my Wechat moment:
You never know how much you share with someone until the sharing ends. So you and your young man grab on to every minute there is. Don’t waste a lot of time, you never get it back.
你无法知道，你们之间能够共度多少时光，直到那一天到来。所以，你们要学会把握在一起的每分每秒。珍惜岁月，时不再来。
Maybe it’s that some people raise a great big barrier, all the while wishing you’d tear it down, and if you don’t you never really know them.
有些人筑起高高的心墙，一直在期待你能够推倒它，如果没能做到，就永远无法深切地理解他。
I like the terse style of this work. Such as these sentences:
1.I could cry.
2.Middle-aged, well-dressed women
3.The respect is another empty gesture.
4.For years you’ve been trying to get a foot in the hotel business.
5.There is a further bill, for damage to the suite, of one hundred and ten dollars.
6.The gap between seemed wide.
7.We were here by chance.
8.His thoughs is far away.
9.That’s settled.
10.Their eyes met directly.
11.He left it for me to handle.
12.Her mind working busily.
13.Dodo showed them out.
14.You came here to blackmail us?
15.Peter felt some of his earlier anger return.
16.Maybe there is some chemistry between us doesn’t mix.
Glossary
Proper noun
1.Uranium
1.MAC(measurement and control)
2.New Orleans
2.Monsieur
3.Goa
4.Thy(pron.)
5.Bronchitis
6.Rationalizing
7.Your grace
8.Rye whiskey
1.Stride
3.Tray
4.Master
5.Duchess / duke
6.Sympathy
7.Incinerator
8.Domestic
9.Ain’t
10.Cackle
11.Dew
12.Empathy
13.Daiquiri
14.Recoil
15.Garbage
16.Distasteful
17.Automatically
18.Inconceivable
19.Fascinated
20.Eland
21.Mischievously
22.Buy out
23.Figured
24.Claim
25.Arrest
26.Ambassador
27.Initiative
28.Persistent
29.Priest
30.Sexton
31.Seep
32.Squeeze
33.Written authority
34.Authority
35.Shooter
36.Noted
37.Parliamentary
38.Flimsy
39.Ajar
40.By no means
41.Impolite
42.Obvious
43.Irk
44.Proprietor
45.Inked a deal for
46.Overhaul
47.Hesitate
48.Rear
49.Trifle
50.Cease
51.Nimbly
52.Race riot
53.Be responsible for
54.Snow job
55.Out of my mind
56.Trick out
57.Hotel chain
58.Apt to
59.Break loose
Noun
1.Assumption
2.Instruction
3.Cigarette
4.Headlight
5.Disaster
6.Intelligence
7.Aftermath
8.Instinct (adj.)
9.Glider
10.Minor(a./vi.)
11.Precaution(vt.)
12.Azalea
13.Dealer
14.Showcases
15.Bundle(vt./vi.)
16.Brass
17.Chrome
18.Odor
19.Apprehension
20.Wheeler
21.Tranquility
22.Antagonist
23.Bravery
24.Petroleum
25.Push-up
26.Species(adj.)
27.Negro(adj.)
28.Pillar(vt.)
29.Linen(a.)
30.Impulse(vt.)
31.indiscretion
32.Fluctuation
33.Desk clerk
34.Disappointment
35.Rapport
36.Escalator
37.Palate
38.Oyster
39.Twig
40.Dud(adj.)
41.Solicitousness
42.Sake
43.Plaque
44.Grinning(v.)
45.Timer
46.Prestige
47.Glassware
48.Operator
49.Lobby(vt/vi.)
50.Tuxedo
51.Circumstance
52.Omelet
53.Fist(vt.)
54.Lecher(vi.)
55.Miner
56.Beige(adj.)
57.Symphony
58.Grunt(v.)
59.Bulging
60.Thrill(v.)
61.Orgy
62.Moan(v.)
63.Jiggle(vt.)
64.Phraseology
Adj.
1.Buoyant
2.Lithostatic
3.Dogged(vt.)
4.Desolate
5.Wheeled
6.Melancholy
7.Fleshly
8.Miserable
9.Hectic(n.)
10.Unperturbed
11.Oafish
12.Scattered
13.Stubby
14.Churlish
15.Terminal
16.Entire(n.)
17.Inevitably
18.Disproportionate
19.Amiss(adv.)
20.Mercurial(n.)
21.Fortyish
22.Contrived
23.Lousy
24.Nasal(n.)
25.Authoritative
26.Savage(n./v.)
27.Passionate
28.Statuesque
29.Flushed(v.)
30.Unworthy
verb
1.Retrieve
2.Intrude
3.Liquor(n.)
4.Sequence(n.)
5.Ditch(n.)
6.Swell(n.)
7.Noose(n.)
8.Placate
9.Promenade(n./a.)
10.Mold(n.)
11.Damage(n.)
12.Rebuke(n.)
13.Wink(n.)
14.Admit
15.Wharf(n.)
16.Grumble(n./adv.)
17.Strain(n.)
18.Flush(n/adj.)
19.Booze(n.)
20.Whiz(n.)
21.Pitch(n.)
22.Heightening
23.Snap(n./adj.)
24.Enchant
25.Investigate
Adv.
1.Reluctantly
2.Misterably
3.Grimly
4.Presumably
5.Fervently
6.Curtly
7.Vigorously
ps:Correction about grammer, spelling are welcomed.
