Nothing that you remenber has survived.
Best to forget.
The building was still standing, but its door were padlocked, the windows shattered, and the letters K and R missing from its name.
1.imitate:
The girl was still standing, but her hair was wet, the trousers mutty, and the bag she carried the letters K and R missing from its name.
But I was reminded of how unofficial even official matters still were in Afghanistan.
2.question:
was it a Afghanistan tradiction?
Faded streets signs, some twisted and bulletpocked, still pointed the way.
3.comment:
the building and surrounding had become a trash.
Three little girls dressed in identical black dresses and white scrarves clung to the slight, bespectacled man behind the counter.
4.comment:
desciption of details.
A scrawny boy in a tweed jacket grabbed my elbow and spoke into my ear. Asked me if I wanted to buy some "sexy pitures."
comment:
the war makes a little innocent boy poor in deed and mind.
vocabulary:
1.shattered
shat‧tered /ˈʃætəd $ -ərd/ adjective [not before noun]
1 very shocked and upset
I wasn’t just disappointed, I was absolutely shattered.
2 British English informal very tired SYN exhausted
By the time we got home we were both shattered.
see thesaurus at tired
Examples from the Corpus
shattered
• I've had a terrible day at the office and I'm absolutely shattered.
• When he came out of the exam he felt shattered.
• My dream of the religious life is shattered.
• The china money jar on the kitchen mantelpiece that contained their emergency funds lay shattered and empty on the floor.
• In that broken place, rocks and shattered boulders lay in a half-circle, ruinous pines growing among them.
• The instruments were shattered, but the controls and engine were functioning except the latter was spewing coolant vapour.
• A black van reversed through the shattered remains of the main gate and the back doors were thrown open.
• Houses where families have lived for generations are left as blackened, shattered skeletons.
• The Collector's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill.
• The earth cracked like a shattered windscreen.
2.animatedly
an‧i‧ma‧ted /ˈænɪmeɪtɪd/ adjective
1 showing a lot of interest and energy
animated discussion/conversation
The performance was followed by an animated discussion.
2 → animated cartoon/film/feature etc
—animatedly adverb
Examples from the Corpus
animated
• As he talked about her, his face became animated.
• Yet in the 1870s, Batty Green was the centre of animated activity.
• Hilda seemed to be getting more animated as her own bafflement and distress increased.
• Peter was engaged in an animated conversation at the bar.
• The two Americans were having an animated discussion about basketball.
• Stephan's animated eyes widened at the mention of Patricia.
• Mike tends to be more animated in the presence of women.
• Broadly speaking, constructing an animated movie, such as Tom and Jerry, can be broken into three main procedures.
• Although the music was animated, only the arms moved.
• Warner Brothers has bought the rights to the animated Oscar winner.
• As the evening went on she became quite animated, talking and laughing with the other girls.
animated discussion/conversation
• One tapestry, for instance, shows an Elf and a Dwarf in animated discussion.
• They were all running, each in its own characteristic way, like a gathering of old friends in animated conversation.
• And when that didn't work, he had an animated discussion with team manager Maurizio Mancini before stamping off.
3.amputated
am‧pu‧tate /ˈæmpjəteɪt/ verb [intransitive, transitive]
to cut off someone’s arm, leg, finger etc during a medical operation
Two of her toes were amputated because of frostbite.
—amputation /ˌæmpjəˈteɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable]
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
amputate
• He damaged his leg so badly that it had to be amputated.
• Eventually, both of Larivee's legs were amputated.
• Some are so tormented by the disorder they have demanded that limbs are amputated.
• The judge said, when gangrene sets in, the doctor has no choice but to amputate.
• Two toes had to be amputated because of frostbite.
• Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg, but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism.
• Having an arm amputated is not the same as being born with an arm missing.
• People in wheelchairs, people with arms amputated or whatever, you know.
• Still, there is a way that science has helped to amputate our understanding of the world as a sacred place.
• We are having to amputate the arms and legs of three, four and five year olds - without anaesthetic.
4.asphalt
as‧phalt /ˈæsfælt $ ˈæsfɒːlt/ noun [uncountable]
a black sticky substance that becomes hard when it dries, used for making the surface of roads
—asphalt verb [transitive]
Examples from the Corpus
asphalt
• Q.. Can I plant grass in earth over an asphalt driveway?
• However, with experience of rather higher levels of use an asphalt surface has now been added to reduce annual maintenance costs.
• He has a rival in every direction, each vigilantly vying for the business that speeds by on six lanes of asphalt.
• I took the steps in big bounds and pelted across the asphalt to the school gates.
• I fell hard against the asphalt playground and I felt the pain that had not been visible on film.
• It was locked and empty, and its tires were flat and fused into the asphalt driveway.
• The heat shimmering over the asphalt had no snap to it; time drifted by.
5.sizzling
sizzling
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
siz‧zling /ˈsɪzəlɪŋ/ adjective especially American English
1 very hot SYN boiling
a sizzling afternoon
2 very exciting, especially in a sexual way
a sizzling scandalous affair
Examples from the Corpus
sizzling
• She preferred the sizzling animosity between them to this ... this awkwardness.
• Thirty-One Pascoe watched a globe as it glowed in the darkness, then rose and fell in a sizzling arc.
• The searchlights from the guards' boxes competed feebly with the storm still sizzling blue in the distance.
• He sprawls across it and shudders like his back's broken, and there's a crackling noise like sizzling fat.
• Ideal conditions are when there has been no appreciable rain for some months, followed by a sizzling hot June and July.
• After dark we followed the smell of sizzling meat down to the fair-ground.
• sizzling sex scenes
• She liked the sizzling sound of the water as it hit the stones when some one threw it from the bucket.
• a sizzling summer day
6.tweed
tweed /twiːd/ noun
1 [uncountable] rough woollen cloth woven from threads of different colours, used mostly to make jackets, suits, and coats
a thick tweed suit
2 → tweeds
Examples from the Corpus
tweed
• I was expecting a trim man in a tweed coat, but my expectations were wrong.
• As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
• He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side.
• She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
• He placed his Harris tweed on his lap, over folded hands.
• He was dressed for an Edwardian shooting party in a full suit of tweed plus fours.
• She wearing tweed only because she was selling tweed.
7.enunciating
e‧nun‧ci‧ate /ɪˈnʌnsieɪt/ verb
1 [intransitive, transitive] to pronounce words clearly and carefully
2 [transitive] formal to express an idea clearly and exactly
ideas that he was to enunciate decades later
—enunciation /ɪˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
enunciate
• Are we to conclude both that Papinian wrote this text and that it enunciates a general rule?
• The I in enunciating a signifying chain signifies the self by taking up a position in the signifying chains enunciated.
• But it did not at all rule out the possibility of these laws being enunciated by an enlightened monarch.
• I enunciated carefully, hoping that Barney Lewis's admonition about clear speaking would now have some magical effect.
• Here, Paul utilizes the principle he enunciated in Chapter 3.
• But he enunciated principles toward which the world is still working.
• Smith knew nothing of the idea of organic evolution that Charles Darwin was to enunciate some decades later.
• The report of the committee enunciated that whereas tribunals were not courts of law, neither were they appendages of government departments.
• He went on to enunciate the principles for review of the supplementary benefits system.
• Be sure to enunciate when you speak into the microphone.
8.cleric
cler‧ic /ˈklerɪk/ noun [countable]
a member of the clergy
Examples from the Corpus
cleric
• The average age in the new chamber will be 15 years younger than in the outgoing body, with many fewer clerics.
• Also patron of clerics, diplomats, messengers, postal workers, radio workers, telecommunications workers, and television workers.
• They say senior clerics conspired with high-ranking intelligence officials to carry out the murders.
• But her smile died as the cleric went on.
• As for the clerics, they get five minutes every morning on the radio while most people are asleep.
• Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen.
• The two clerics brightened up, and accepted a whisky each.
summary:
Amir went for looking for the boy, buildings were ruin and people were forced to sell leg for food. Everything prosper was no longer existed. Recalling of Hassan when he was the familiar house, at the hotel Amir was happy to hear local jokes. Then Amir finally got the place and witnessed the crucial deed they done.
