The Middle Eastern Bazaar 课文详解

The Middle Eastern Bazaar

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ba‧zaar [countable]

a market or area where there are a

lot of small shops, especially in

India or the Middle East

1. Middle East: Southeast Asia and Northeast Africa, including

the Near East and Iran and Afghanistan.

Near East: the Arabian Peninsula ( Saudi Arabia, Yemen,

Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrein, and Kuwait), Turkey, Iraq,

Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and Sudan.

Far East: China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and East Siberia

2. particular: special, single and different from others. When sth.

is particular, we mean it is the single or an example of the whole under

consideration. the term is clearly opposed to general and that it is a close

synonym of "single".

Particular is also often used in the sense of special.

I have sth. very particular (special) to say to Mr. Clinton.

She always took particular (special) notice of me.

On this particular (single) day we had to be at school early.

I don't like this particular (single) hat, but the others are quite nice.

3. Gothic-arched:

a type of architecture

Gothic Arched Entry Doors

Goth: one of the German tribes

Arch: a curved top sometimes with a central point resting on 2 supports as

above a door.

aged: a. [d d]

My son is aged 10. When he was aged 6, he went to school.

a middle aged couple

b. [d id] ancient

He is aged; her aged grandfather

medicare for the sick & aged

gate‧way

1 [countable] the opening in a fence, wall etc that can be closed by a

gate

2 gateway to something

a) a place, especially a city, that you can go through in order to reach

another much bigger place:

/St. Louis is the gateway to the West.

4. glare: shining intensely, harshly, uncomfortably, and too strong;

in a way unpleasant to the eyes

5. cavern: a large deep cave (hollow place in the side of a cliff

or hill, or underground), closed roofed place. Here in the text we can see that it

is a long, narrow, dark street or workshops and stores with some sort of roof

over them.

6. losing itself in the shadowy

distance: in the farthest distance everything becomes obscure,

unclear, or only dimly visible in the dark surroundings.

lose: come to be without

shadow: greater darkness where direct light, esp. sunlight, is blocked by sth.; a

dark shape

shadowy: hard to see or know about clearly, not distinct, dim

Here shadowy suggests the changing of having and not having light, the shifting

of lightness and darkness. There may be some spots of brightness in the dark.

7. harmonious:

harmony: musical notes combined together in a pleasant sounding way

tinkle: to make light metallic sound

cf:

jingle: light tinkling sound

The rain tinkled on the metal roof.

She laughed heartily, a sound as cool as ice tinkling in the glass.

to tinkle coins together 8. throng: large crowd of people or things, a crowd of people

busy doing sth. searching up and down, engaging in some kind of activity

cf: crowd: general term, large number of people together, but

without order or organization.

Crowd basically implies a close gathering and pressing together.

The boulevard was crammed with gay, laughing crowds.

Throng varies so little in meaning from crowd that the two words are often used

interchangeably without loss. Throng sometimes carries the stronger

implication of movement and of pushing and the weaker implication of density.

Throngs circulating through the streets.

The pre-Xmas sale attracted a throng of shoppers.

9. thread: make one's way carefully, implies zigzag, roundabouts

The river threads between the mountains.

10. roadway:

a. central part used by wheeled traffic, the middle part of a road where vehicles

drive

b. a strip of land over which a road passes

11. narrow:

In the bright sunlight she had to narrow her eyes.

The river narrows at this point.

They narrowed the search for the missing boy down to five streets near the

school.

She looked far into the shadowy distance, her eyes narrowed, a hand on the

eyebrows to prevent the glare.

The aircraft carrier was too big to pass through the narrows (narrow passage

between two large stretches of water).

12. stall: BrE. a table or small open-fronted shop in a public place,

sth. not permanent, often can be put together and taken away, on which wares

are set up for sale.

13. din: specific word of noise, loud, confused, continuous noise,

low roar which can not be distinguished exactly until you get close, often

suggests unpleasant. disordered mixture of confusing and disturbing sounds,

stress prolonged, deafening, ear-splitting metallic sounds

The children were making so much din that I could not make myself heard.