--------今天的词汇比较简单------
scold n. 责骂；爱责骂的人(译文是“长舌妇”十分贴切啊)
我们常用的是动词形式“责骂”
He scolded them for arriving late.他嫌他们迟到，一顿数落。
原句：Crawford, a neighborhood scold, who said she knew the whole thing.
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high-strung adj.高度紧张的,容易兴奋的（Mr Bradley 认为自己的儿子不是神经病，只是有时候神经过敏）
nebulous adj. 模糊不清的
bounty
[U,C] 慷慨之举；大量给予之物；奖金，赏金
还记得我们的Rachel 演的“赏金猎人”吗？（the Bounty Hunter）
cannas n.美人蕉(下图)
原句：…pour water on her cannas
leathery adj.似皮革的（这里指Mr. Bradley的皮肤粗糙）
ramrod （旧时用以将火药推进枪支的）推弹杆，通条
有一个固定表达是 ramrod straight / as straight as a ramrod 腰杆笔直的，挺立的
原句：He was a thin leathery man with colorless eyes, so colorless they did not reflect light.…Mr Bradley's posture was ramrod straight.
-------------Day 7 的内容很容易理解-----------
接下来介绍以下这本书的作者
哈珀·李（HarperLee)，1926年出生于美国南方阿拉巴马州的一个小镇
父亲是位律师，曾任州立法委员。哈珀·李在当地的公立学校毕业后，进入阿拉巴马大学学习法律，并曾作为交换学生到英国牛津大学学习一年。在还有六个月就要毕业的时候，她离开了学校，搬到纽约去追求自己的写作梦想。她在纽约一边做航空公司的订票员，一边写作。后来受朋友和编辑的鼓励，她返回阿拉巴马的家乡小镇，以自己的童年生活片断为基础创作小说。代表作是1960年发行的《杀死一只知更鸟》。这本书直到现在都仍然很畅销。40年来，她从来没有接受过访问，一直都是单身，也没有子女。
Nelle Harper Lee(April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016), better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capotein his research for the book In Cold Blood(1966).
The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. The novel was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown ofMonroeville, Alabama.
（来源百度和wikipedia）
