基础段-猴爪（原著版串讲第7集）

一，原文词汇知识：

1. tightly：紧紧地

2. hoarsely：嘶哑地

3. struggle：斗争；挣扎

4. mechanically：机械地，文中引申为生硬地

5. wrench：猛烈扭动

6. bolt：门闩

7. grope：摸索

8. creaking：吱吱作响

9. frantically：疯狂地

10. cease：停止

11. echo：回响

12. wail：哀嚎

13. misery：痛苦

14. lamp：灯

15. flickering：闪烁的

16. opposite：对面的

17. shone：照亮

18. deserted：荒芜的；空无一人的

二，原文句型知识：

1. for God's sake 看在上帝的份儿上

2. Let me go. 放开我

3. break free 挣脱开

4. hands and knees 四肢着地

三，英文书评原文文章：
1. 雅各布斯简介：
As a boy, Jacobs absorbed the tales of strange, distant landstold by passing sailors. As a young man, Jacobs worked at a bank-ajob that he heated-and wrote stories in his spare time. He eventually became a popular writer of humor. His best-known-work, "The Monkey'sPaw", became a classic of the horror genre.

2. 美国中学语文教材节选：
(1)Peril and risk both refer to a danger, but a peril is something moreserious.
(2)Both fate and outcome refer to a future event, but fatesuggests an event is determined by an outside power.

3. Stephen King评价：
In "The Monkey's Paw", the imagination alone is stimulated. The old man in "The Monkey'sPaw" is able to wish the dreadful apparition away before his wife can get the dooropen.

四，英文书评词汇知识：
1. absorb：专注
2. sailor：水手
3. eventually：最终
4. humor：幽默
5. classic：经典的
6. genre：体裁
7. outcome：结局、成果
8. determine：决定
9. imagination：想象
10. stimulated：刺激的
11. dreadful：可怕的
12. apparition：幽灵