Personalities and feelings

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1. ’These girls are here for our ,’ Tan-chun said. ’They are like pets.

You can talk to them and play with them if you feel like it, or if you don’t, you can simply ignore

them.’ [The Story of the Stone]

2. But they are most like small dragons. They speak to us out of the fire. They are wonderfully clever

with their tongues: very and eloquent. [The Chronicles of Narnia]

3. Without knowing what he was doing, he started forward, but there was a sudden movement on

either side of him and two pairs of hands grabbed him and held him back ... ”No, Harry!” Hermione

gasped in a whisper; Ron, however, spoke to Black. ”If you want to

kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us too!” he said fiercely. [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]

4. Hermione was going skiing with her parents, something that greatly Ron,

who had never before heard of Muggles strapping narrow strips of wood to their feet to slide down

mountains [Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix]

5. Grandmother Jia had been waiting for him with some , and was naturally

delighted to see him come in apparently none the worse for his experience. [The Story of the Stone]

6. He and Cho were now too to look at each other, let alone talk

to each other. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]

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1. Knowing Lady Wang’s aversion to people of her type, she would normally have felt some

about having to appear before her. [The Story of the Stone]

2. Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft

and Wizardry, has never been afraid to make controversial staff appointments, writes Rita Skeeter,

Special Correspondent. [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]

3. The room simply did not want to open for him. and annoyed,

he set off for Defense Against the Dark Arts. [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]

4. I hoped that I was fainting, but, to my , I didn’t

lose consciousness. [New Moon]

5. Xue Pan knitted his brows with : ’But this water is really filthy. I couldn’t

get it down.’ [The Story of the Stone]

6. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the

best does. It has a of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how

the road beyond it goes–what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows–what

new landscapes–what new beauties–what curves and hills and valleys further on. [Anne of Green

Gables]

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1. He could even go wherever he pleased, as long as it was in Diagon Alley, and as this long cobbled

street was packed with the most wizarding shops in the

world, Harry felt no desire to break his word to Fudge and stray back into the Muggle world. [Harry

Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]

2. And I get so in an examination that I’m likely to make a mess of it. I

wish I had nerves like Jan Andrews. Nothing rattles her. [Anne of Green Gables]

3. But to the Hunanese, as I quickly discovered, their province is the centre of the universe, no

question. For the last two hundred years, it has produced a disproportionate number of movers and

shakers, from the Qing Dynasty General Zuo Zongtang (the General Tso of chicken fame) to Mao

Zedong and a whole host of communist luminaries. More recently, Hunanese television has gained

a reputation for being the most advanced and in the nation. [Shark’s

Fin and Sichuan Pepper]

4. So when I saw Tommy a few places ahead of me, I waved him over—the rule being that though

you couldn’t jump the queue going forwards it was fine to go back. He came over with a delighted

smile, and we stood together for a moment without saying much —- not out of

, but because we were waiting for any interest aroused by Tommy’s moving back

to fade. [Never Let Me Go]

5. “Bill told me ’ow Fred and George are very said Fleur, smiling serenely.

“Yes, I can hardly breathe for laughing,” snapped Hermione. [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood

Prince]

6. It would be too , all of them with dates and me by myself like a big dope.

[The Princess Diaries]

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1. My own enjoyment of eating in China has been clouded by growing about

what’s actually in the food on the table. [Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper]

2. Although Harry much preferred this new laughing, joking Ron to the , aggressive

model he had been enduring for the last few weeks, the improved Ron came at a heavy price. [Harry

Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]

3. Invariably the food that was given her was inedible. Patient was so

that she took to buy her things to eat with her own money, or, on the pretext of going for a

walk with her in the Garden, taking her to the Garden kitchen where she could be given nourishing

soups to eat under her supervision. [The Story of the Stone]

4. Oh Professor Flitwick, I’m so , I think I got question fourteen b wrong.

[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone]

5. All they feel now is , because we haven’t given them

everything possible. [Never Let Me Go]

6. As for Bao-yu, he was still only a child - a child, moreover, whom nature had endowed with the

obtuseness of a simpleton. Brothers, sisters, cousins, were all one to

him. [The Story of the Stone]

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1. “Horcruxes ... Horcruxes ... I’ve never even heard of them.” “You haven’t?” Harry was

; he had hoped that Hermione might have been able to give him a

clue as to what Horcruxes were. [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]

2. We talked for a while about imperial dining habits, and then, in an act of

kindness, he took me on a tour of the imperial collections in the museum. [Shark’s

Fin and Sichuan Pepper]

3. Mrs. Lynde says, ’Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be

.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

[Anne of Green Gables]

4. Suddenly the sickle slipped out of my exhausted hand, and a two-inch gash appeared on my leg.

Blood oozed out of the cut. I covered it with my muddy hand and cried with pain and

. [Red Scarf Girl]

5. I don’t smoke. I don’t do drugs. I haven’t given birth at any proms. I am completely

, and I do my homework most of the time. [The Princess Diaries]

6. Last night I dreamed we were kissing each other, but Peter’s cheeks were very

: they weren’t as soft as they looked. They were more like Father’s cheeks.

[Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl]

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1. Learning Chinese characters is a painful process anyway; it nearly breaks you. ... It’s a Sisyphean

labour, thankless and , which is why so many foreigners who

learn Chinese end up speaking it quite well, but largely unable to read or write. [Shark’s Fin and

Sichuan Pepper]

2. She refused to back away, but looked down at him as if he were something

she had found stuck to a lavatory seat. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]

3. So, it was an exciting and adventurous day but a first

date. I felt miserable because I’d failed to please him when I’d let myself hope for so much. [China

Dolls]

4. Her words touched Bao-yu and Dai-yu on a sensitive spot, and by the time she had finished, they

were both blushing hotly with . [The Story of the Stone]

5. I was not to be late for class on my first day. [Twilight]

6. While the Chinese often find it or difficult to discuss

emotional matters directly, they use food as a way to address them. At moments when an Italian

friend would have thrown her arms around me and encouraged me to talk, a Chinese friend would

thrust another bowlful of soup into my hands, urging me sternly to ‘Drink, drink!’ [Shark’s Fin

and Sichuan Pepper]

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1. It was always difficult to determine the age of a London building. Anything large and

, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having

been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to

some dim period called the Middle Ages. [1984]

2. Ever since Bao-chai’s first arrival, Grandmother Jia had been pleasurably

by her placid and dependable disposition, and now that she was about to spend her first

’big’ birthday in the Jia household, the old lady resolved to make it a memorable one. [The Story

of the Stone]

3. You are under too much strain as it is; don’t add to it with wholly unnecessary

. [Twilight]

4. Ron was by the fifty pence. ”Weird!” he said, ”What a shape!

This is money?” [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone]

5. But when I told Mother, she just called me and silly and wouldn’t take me

seriously. So I had to give up the idea. [The Story of the Stone]

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