Literature Level4 Passage4：
This passage is excerpted from Katherine Mansfield, The Voyage. Originally published in 1921.
Paragraph1:
The Picton boat was due to leave at half-past eleven. It was a beautiful night, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to walk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind blowing off the water
(Line5) ruffed under Fenella's hat, and she put up her hand to keep it on（长难句分析）. It was dark on the Old Wharf, very dark; the woolsheds, the cattle trucks, thecranes standing up so high, the little squat railway engine, all seemed carved out（比喻） of solid darkness. Here and there on a rounded wood-pile, that was (Line10) like the stalk of a huge black mushroom（比喻）, there hung a lantern, but it seemed afraid to unfurl its timid, quivering light（拟人） in all that blackness; it burned softly, as if for itself.
be due to 应该
mild[maɪld] adj. 温和的
cab [kæb] n. 出租车
wharf [wɔrf] n. 码头
harbour [hɑrbɚ]n. 海港
faint [fent] adj. 微弱的；模糊的
wool shed 羊毛场
crane[kren] n. 起重机；鹤
squat[skwɑt] adj. 矮胖的
carve[kɑrv]vt.雕刻
stalk [stɔk] n. 茎
mushroom ['mʌʃrʊm] n. 蘑菇
lantern ['læntən]提灯
unfurl [,ʌn'fə:l]n. 展开
timid ['timid] adj. 胆小的
quivering ['kwivəriŋ] adj. 颤抖的
知识点：
ruffed 形容风吹动的状态，不需要直译
第一段是场景描写，突出blackness，烘托一种忧郁的情感
比喻和拟人的修辞方法
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Fenella's father pushed on with quick, nervous strides. Beside him her grandma bustled along in her crackling（拟声词）black (Line 15)ulster; they went so fast that she had now and again to give an undignified little skip to keep up with them. As well as her luggagestrapped into a neat sausage（比喻）, Fenella carried clasped to her her grandma's umbrella, and the handle, which was a swan's head, kept giving her shoulder a sharp little peckas if (Line20) it too wanted her to hurry（拟人）. Men, their caps pulled down, their collars turned up, swung by; a few women all muffled scurried along; and one tiny boy, only his little black arms and legs showing out of a white woolly shawl, was jerked along angrily between his father and mother; he looked like a (Line25) baby fly（比喻） that had fallen into the cream.
1. push on 表示往前走
2. stride [straɪd] n. 大步
3. bustle ['bʌsl] vi. 匆忙地走
4. crackling ['kræklɪŋ] adj. 噼啪响的
5. ulster ['ʌlstɚ]n. 阿尔斯特大衣
6. undignified [ʌn'dɪgnə'faɪd] adj. 不庄重的尴尬的
7. skip [skɪp] v. 跳着走
8. luggage ['lʌɡɪdʒ] n. 行李
9. strap [stræp] vt. 捆绑
10. sausage ['sɔsɪdʒ]n. 香肠
11. clasp [klæsp] vt. 紧紧抱着
12. swan [swɑn] n. 天鹅
13. peck [pɛk] n. 啄
14. swing [swiŋ] v. 摇摆
15. muffle ['mʌfl] v. 包住
16. scurry ['skɝi] vi. 急忙赶路
17. shawl [ʃɔl] n. 披肩
18. jerk [dʒɝk] v. 颠簸的走
知识点：
1. 本段对行进中人们的状态进行了描述，展现了匆忙赶路的情景
2. 使用两处比喻和一处拟人形象化表现了人物的状态
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Then suddenly, so suddenly that Fenella and her grandma both leapt, there sounded from behind the largest wool shed, that had a trail of smoke hanging over it, "MiaooooOO!" "First whistle," said her father briefly, and at that moment (Line 30) they came in sight of the Picton boat. Lying beside the dark wharf, all strung, all beaded with round golden lights, the Picton boat looked as if she was more ready to sail among stars than out into the cold sea（比较；扩张）. People pressed along the gangway. First went her grandma, then her father, then (Line 35) Fenella. They stepped out of the way of the hurrying people, and standing under a little iron stairway that led to the upper deck they began to say goodbye.
1. leap [lip] v. 跳跃
2. a trail of 一片
3. whistle ['wɪsl] n. 汽笛
4. come in sight of 看见
5. string [strɪŋ] v. 系上
6. gangway ['ɡæŋwe] n. 舷梯
7. stairway ['stɛr'we] 楼梯
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"There, mother, there's your luggage!" said Fenella's father, giving grandma another strapped-up sausage.
(Line 40)"Thank you, Frank."
"And you've got your cabin tickets safe?"
"Yes, dear."
"And your other tickets?"
Grandma felt for them inside her glove and showed him
(45) the tips.
"That's right."
He sounded stern, but Fenella, eagerly watching him, saw that he looked tired and sad.
1. cabin ticket 船票
2. glove [ɡlʌv] n. 手套
3. stern [stɝn] adj. 严厉的
4. eagerly ['igɚli] 急切地
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"MiaooooOO!" The second whistle blared just above their (Line 50) heads, and a voice like a cry shouted（比喻）, "Any more for the gangway?"
1. blare [blɛr] vi. 发出嘟嘟声
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"You'll give my love to father," Fenella saw her father's lips say. And her grandma, very agitated, answered, "Of course I will, dear. Go now. You'll be left. Go now, Frank. Go(Line 55) now."
1. agitated ['ædʒɪtetɪd]adj. 激动的
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"It's all right, mother. I've got another three minutes." Toher surprise Fenella saw her father take off his hat. He clasped grandma in his arms and pressed her to him. "God bless you, mother!" she heard him say.
1. clasp [klæsp] vt. 抱紧
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(Line 60) And grandma put her hand, with the black thread glove that was worn throughon her ring finger, against his cheek, and she sobbed, "God bless you, my own brave son!"
1. thread [θrɛd] n. 线
2. wear through 磨破了
3. ring finger 无名指
4. cheek [tʃik] n. 脸颊
5. sob [sɑb] vi. 抽泣
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This was so awful that Fenella quickly turned her back on them, swallowed once, twice, and frowned terribly at a little(Line 65) green star on a mast head. But she had to turn round again; her father was going.
1. awful ['ɔfl] adj. 让人难受的
2. swallow ['swɑlo] vt. 吞咽
3. frown [fraʊn] vi. 皱眉
4. mast [mæst] 桅杆
5. turn round 转身
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"Goodbye, Fenella. Be a good girl." His cold, wet moustache brushed her cheek. But Fenella caught hold of the lapelsof his coat.
1. moustache ['mʌstæʃ] n. 上唇以上的胡须
2. brush [brʌʃ]vi. 擦过
3. catch hold of 抓住
4. lapel [lə'pɛl] n. 翻领
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(Line 70)"How long am I going to stay?" she whispered anxiously.
1. whisper ['wɪspɚ] v. 小声说
2. anxiously ['æŋkʃəsli] adv. 焦急地
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He wouldn't look at her. He shookheroffgently, and gently
said, "We'll see about that. Here! Where's your hand?" He pressed something into her palm. "Here's a shilling in case you should need it."
1. shake off 摆脱
2. palm [pɑm] n. 手掌
3. shilling ['ʃɪlɪŋ] n. 先令(英国和澳大利亚曾使用的银币或铜镍合金硬币，价值二十分之一磅，自1970年起不再铸造)
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(Line 75) A shilling! She must be going away for ever! "Father!" cried Fenella. But he was gone. He was the last off the ship. The sailors put their shoulders to the gangway（拉起舷梯）. A huge coil of dark rope went flying through the air and fell "thump" on the wharf. A bell rang; a whistle shrilled. Silently the dark wharf(Line 80)began to slip, to slide, to edge away from them（拟人）. Now there was a rush of water between. Fenella strained to see with all her might. Was that father turning round? Or waving? Or standing alone? Or walking off by himself ? The strip of water grew broader, darker. Now the Picton boat began to(Line 85)swing round steady, pointing out to sea. It was no good looking any longer.
1. coil [kɔɪl] n. 卷
2. thump [θʌmp] n. 扑通一声
3. shrill [ʃrɪl] v. 尖声鸣叫
4. strain [stren] v. 尽力
5. strip [strɪp] n. 一片；条带