写作积累:
Day 1
1. dip: …where the main road dipped down into a little hollow 指引读者的视线，有空间沉降的感觉
The sun dipped below the horizon. 太阳落到地平线下了。
2. breath: The air was sweet with the breath of many orchards 很形象
breath of sth. 微量，迹象
a breath of suspicion/scandal 一丝怀疑；丑闻的嫌疑
3. slope: the meadows sloped away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple
v. 倾斜，有角度
sloping shoulders 斜肩
4. arch: …a stretch of road four or five hundred yards long, completely arched over with huge widespreading apple-trees
v. 1）呈拱形覆盖，呈弧形横跨
2）（使）成弓形 The cat arched its back and hissed.
5. bridge: Small branches still manage to stem out all over from the bark of the big horizontal tree that nearly bridges the valley.
Day 2&3
1. frill n.(衣服，窗帘的)饰边，褶边，荷叶边
a white blouse with frills at the cuffs/ the window with an icy white muslin frill over it
2. shower&sprinkle
One of apple-trees and one of cherry-trees also showered over with blossoms; and their grass was all sprinkled with dandelions.
shower v.洒落，纷纷降落 Volcanic ash showered down on the town after the eruption.
sprinkle v. 撒，洒 sprinkle sugar over the strawberries
3. hoist: The attic is so low that you can only hoist yourself from the waist up and crawl in.
v. 吊起，提升 He hoisted himself onto a high stool. 他抬身坐上了一张高凳子。
4. strike a note: The boxy exterior indeed strikes a 90s’ note.
His speech struck a note of despair
Day 4&5
1. lump: Adults tend to lump cheetahs and tigers into one kind.
v. lump A and B together/lump A in(with)B 把……归并一起（或合起来考虑）
You can’t lump all Asian languages together. 你不能把所有的亚洲语言混为一谈
2. nestle: The barn-converted house nestles among a quarter-oval panel of firs at the foot of a mountain..
v. 位处，坐落（于安全，隐蔽之处）
The little town nestles snugly at the foot of the hill. 这个小镇偎依在山脚下。
v. 依偎，舒适地坐（或卧）
He hugged her and she nestled against his chest.
3. fence: the second-floor balcony fenced in the front with horizontal rails braced between three posts
v. （用栅栏，或篱笆）围住，隔开
His property is fenced with barbed wire.
Day 6
1. vantage: It gives him a post of vantage. 优势地位
2. She has the fascinating tyranny of youth and the astonishing courage of innocence.
3. 形容发髻：her dark hair was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.
4. garb v.（常用被动态或~oneself）给……穿上（特种）服装，打扮
A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey.
5. obey: My hair never obeys barrettes or bands.
6. pin: pin one’s hair in pincurls
