1 abash 使尴尬
2 affidavit 宣誓书/ 宣誓后的法庭陈词
3 anthology 诗歌选集
4 attenuate 变细变薄
5 bewilder 使迷惑
6 calamity 大灾难
7 chromatic 有颜色的
8 complacency 自满
9 contest 竞赛/争辩
10 cumbersome 沉重累赘/ 缓慢
11 dent 凹陷/ 损害
12 disfigure 使畸形
13 dynamo 发电机
14 entrust 委托
15 expiate 赎罪/ 为罪行受罚
Little Tommy was once an unbelievably clever boy.Even at 3 he could read the (anthology) of Tagore and recite those poems in it,making the whole family (bewildered) but exicted.Naturally he was spoiled and given the greatest care and therefore increasingly (complacent),which in the end led to the family (calamity):he,along with a band of wild children companion,bombed the city (dynamo) in an adventure.Luckily,the accident only (disfigured) his thumb.But the crunch was he was therefore sent to the trail.Although his family was (abashed) by that,they tried their best to save him.They stumbled to make (cumbersome) (contest) that he was not the major plotter,that he was still yound.But the (affidavit) from his companion belied all of their impotent protest and the judge pronounced that he be sent into prison to (expiate).
The incident greatly attenuated the family reputation so finally,after the failure to save him from being sent into prison,they decided to leave him alone.
After the trail he was thrown to his cell.In it he found a (dent) in one corner and decided to do something just for fun.He asked the jailor for some sheets of paper and a pen,for which he paid him all the money he had.Then he wrote the poems he learned during his infant years on one piece of paper and tucked the paper inside the corner.Dramatically,he received a reply letter the next day!On it was a girl's handwriting expressing how incredible it was to see a piece of paper with amorous poems poking outside the corner of the room when she passed by and that he was the most romantic prisoner she had ever seen.He did the same thing the next day and recieved another reply.
After one year in jail,they became the most intimate pen-friends there had ever been.Enclosed with the last letter was a straw ring he made and in the letter he pledge to her that he was a man worthy of being (entrusted) to .After he put the letter slowly into the corner for the last time,he began to dream of the (chromatic) life he was going to lead.
