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When the brown girls pronounce the names of these places, they are full of affection and make other people associate these places with love.
3. They say “Aiken” and you see a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing.
Lifebuoy soap, Cashmere Bouquet talc, Jergens Lotion,
These are all toilet articles that cost more and represent prestige, and are used by the middle-class white people. These brown girls try to imitate the middle-class white people according the standards of beauty set by the dominant culture.
3)The implied meaning is that life in the Deep South seemed romantic and filled them with sentimental nostalgia, although life there was not easy.
but you love what happens to the air when they open their lips and let the names ease out.
Why?
(1)This perhaps because they only have places of birth, but not places they feel at home and which they identify themselves with.
(2)America is a moving society in which people tend to move around instead of staying in one place.
The setting of the novel is an industrial town, which is in the Midwest and different from the deep south.
2.And the sounds of these places in their mouths make you think of love.
Hollyhock
simile
They have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the color of the sky.
他们的眼睛可以根据天空的颜色判断是什 么时间了。
They have put in the window the cardboard sign that has a pound measure printed on each of three edges--10 1bs., 251bs., 50 1bs.---and No ICE on the fourth.
They are not fretful, nervous, or shrill; they do not have lovely black necks that stretch as though against an invisible collar; their eyes do not bite. These sugar-brown Mobile girls move through the streets without a stir.
(slang) power and influence
Soak up: 吸收，摄取
But these girls are strongly influenced by their hometown and the influence stays with them forever even they leave their hometown.
That means they say those names in a very gentle and tender manner. They were proud of their origin.
Perhaps because they don’t have home towns, just places where they were born.
China
hometown is one place of birth or one’s ancestral place with along with one’s family and culture root.
But these girls soak up the juice of their home towns, and it never leaves them. Juice: the essence of everything.
•Although voices are clear and steady, the brown girls in our story can only sing the second not the first soprano, not picked to perform a solo because the solo performer, who plays the leading role in the choir, should have not only a good voice, but also great passion. The brown girls may have the former but not the latter.
These particular brown girls from Mobile and Aiken are not like some of their sisters.
In a small town, the black people usually live close together within a few blocks in a neighborhood. They have a strong sense of the neighborhood, or the community. The women call one another “sister.” The brown girls from places like Mobile and Aiken are different from and feel superior to the other girls of their own race.
Cashmere Bouquet talc Dixie Peach pomaΒιβλιοθήκη Baidua(润发油)
They straighten their hair with Dixie Peach, and part it on the side.
Some black people try to alter their appearance and look more like white people because they are told that white is beautiful while black is ugly. So, they whiten the skin, or have surgery that makes the nose narrower and higher or straighten their hair and maybe dye it blond.
America
Hometown may not be a place where one is born,
It is a place of personal experience.
A place where one feels most at home and which one identifies with most.
In those days, when refrigerators were not available, icebox were used for keeping food cool. Every day, the iceman would come to sell or deliver ice.
They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex “nookey.”
Drinking, smoking and swearing are considered to be bad behavior. Therefore these brown girls don’t drink, smoke or swear. They still think sex is vulgar [ˈvʌlgə] a.粗野的，下流的；and indecent [inˈdi:sənt]a.不适当的；猥亵的. This is another example showing how the brown girls try to meet the conventional puritanical codes of moral conduct.
她们既不烦躁，也不焦虑；她们也没有 漂亮的黑脖子在无形的衣领里伸展；她 们的眼神并不咄咄逼人。这些红糖肤色 的女孩在街上行走时悄然无声。
They are as sweet and plain as a buttercake.
Irony, Comparison
batter cake: a plain cake made of flour,sugar and butter. The author compares these brown girls to a battercake, describing them as being sweet but plain and ordinary, lacking special qualities.
• Members:
• 华吉琰 • 陈冰静 • 吴海静 • 单玲红 • 莫颜琦 • 王玲玲
They come from Mobile, Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Meridian. And the sounds of these places in their mouth makes you think of love.
•They sing second soprano in the choir, and although their voices are clear and steady, they are never picked to solo.
A choir of a black church is quite different from a choir of a white church. The former is much more lively and sings with passion.
All the places the author mentioned have one thing in common: they are all towns in deep south, where slavery and plantation existed before the civil war.
1)glance off: to hit a surface at an angle and then move away from it in another direction 斜飞，擦过
2)a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing: Here the author uses a butterfly with a torn wing as a metaphor, meaning fragile beauty.
3. They say “Aiken” and you see a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing.
Lifebuoy soap, Cashmere Bouquet talc, Jergens Lotion,
These are all toilet articles that cost more and represent prestige, and are used by the middle-class white people. These brown girls try to imitate the middle-class white people according the standards of beauty set by the dominant culture.
3)The implied meaning is that life in the Deep South seemed romantic and filled them with sentimental nostalgia, although life there was not easy.
but you love what happens to the air when they open their lips and let the names ease out.
Why?
(1)This perhaps because they only have places of birth, but not places they feel at home and which they identify themselves with.
(2)America is a moving society in which people tend to move around instead of staying in one place.
The setting of the novel is an industrial town, which is in the Midwest and different from the deep south.
2.And the sounds of these places in their mouths make you think of love.
Hollyhock
simile
They have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the color of the sky.
他们的眼睛可以根据天空的颜色判断是什 么时间了。
They have put in the window the cardboard sign that has a pound measure printed on each of three edges--10 1bs., 251bs., 50 1bs.---and No ICE on the fourth.
They are not fretful, nervous, or shrill; they do not have lovely black necks that stretch as though against an invisible collar; their eyes do not bite. These sugar-brown Mobile girls move through the streets without a stir.
(slang) power and influence
Soak up: 吸收，摄取
But these girls are strongly influenced by their hometown and the influence stays with them forever even they leave their hometown.
That means they say those names in a very gentle and tender manner. They were proud of their origin.
Perhaps because they don’t have home towns, just places where they were born.
China
hometown is one place of birth or one’s ancestral place with along with one’s family and culture root.
But these girls soak up the juice of their home towns, and it never leaves them. Juice: the essence of everything.
•Although voices are clear and steady, the brown girls in our story can only sing the second not the first soprano, not picked to perform a solo because the solo performer, who plays the leading role in the choir, should have not only a good voice, but also great passion. The brown girls may have the former but not the latter.
These particular brown girls from Mobile and Aiken are not like some of their sisters.
In a small town, the black people usually live close together within a few blocks in a neighborhood. They have a strong sense of the neighborhood, or the community. The women call one another “sister.” The brown girls from places like Mobile and Aiken are different from and feel superior to the other girls of their own race.
Cashmere Bouquet talc Dixie Peach pomaΒιβλιοθήκη Baidua(润发油)
They straighten their hair with Dixie Peach, and part it on the side.
Some black people try to alter their appearance and look more like white people because they are told that white is beautiful while black is ugly. So, they whiten the skin, or have surgery that makes the nose narrower and higher or straighten their hair and maybe dye it blond.
America
Hometown may not be a place where one is born,
It is a place of personal experience.
A place where one feels most at home and which one identifies with most.
In those days, when refrigerators were not available, icebox were used for keeping food cool. Every day, the iceman would come to sell or deliver ice.
They do not drink, smoke, or swear, and they still call sex “nookey.”
Drinking, smoking and swearing are considered to be bad behavior. Therefore these brown girls don’t drink, smoke or swear. They still think sex is vulgar [ˈvʌlgə] a.粗野的，下流的；and indecent [inˈdi:sənt]a.不适当的；猥亵的. This is another example showing how the brown girls try to meet the conventional puritanical codes of moral conduct.
她们既不烦躁，也不焦虑；她们也没有 漂亮的黑脖子在无形的衣领里伸展；她 们的眼神并不咄咄逼人。这些红糖肤色 的女孩在街上行走时悄然无声。
They are as sweet and plain as a buttercake.
Irony, Comparison
batter cake: a plain cake made of flour,sugar and butter. The author compares these brown girls to a battercake, describing them as being sweet but plain and ordinary, lacking special qualities.
• Members:
• 华吉琰 • 陈冰静 • 吴海静 • 单玲红 • 莫颜琦 • 王玲玲
They come from Mobile, Aiken. From Newport News. From Marietta. From Meridian. And the sounds of these places in their mouth makes you think of love.
•They sing second soprano in the choir, and although their voices are clear and steady, they are never picked to solo.
A choir of a black church is quite different from a choir of a white church. The former is much more lively and sings with passion.
All the places the author mentioned have one thing in common: they are all towns in deep south, where slavery and plantation existed before the civil war.
1)glance off: to hit a surface at an angle and then move away from it in another direction 斜飞，擦过
2)a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing: Here the author uses a butterfly with a torn wing as a metaphor, meaning fragile beauty.