central question: What was Su Tungpo's life like during his banishment in Hainan island?
今天读了苏东坡流放海南的生活，感觉堂堂的一名大诗人晚年生活竟然如此凄苦，居无定所，食不果腹，心里不免也为他感到难过。好在苏东坡是一个豁达之人，面对如此困境，依然可以笑对生活，闲暇之余还不忘读书写故事，真的很让人敬佩！
words and expressions:
Su Tungpo was there exiled beyond the pale of the Chinese civilized world.
beyond the pale :在...范围之外
eg: His behavior is really beyond the pale!
他的行为确实越轨了！
熟词生义:
After they arrive,half of them are used for tilling the fields and half of them for slaughter.
till: work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation 耕种
eg: till the soil
