Tuesdays with Morrie Contort

英语原版书阅读学单词 Paragraph He was a short, handsome man with a thick mustache, and I was with him for the last year of his life, living in an apartment just below his. I watched his strong body wither, then bloat, saw him suffer, night after night, doubled over at the dinner table, pressing on his stomach, his eyes shut, his mouth contorted in pain. "Ahhhh, God," he woud moan. "Ahhhhhhhh, Jesus!" The rest of us--my aunt, his two young sons, me--stood there, silently, cleaning the plates, averting out eyes. Words double over: double 'over to suddenly bend over at the waist because you are laughing so much or are in pain contort /kənˈtɔːrt/ if something contorts, it twists out of its normal shape and looks strange or unattractive avert /əˈvɜːrt/ to look away from something so that you do not see it 目的： 熟悉单词 熟悉语流 熟悉阅读 同系列最近三篇： classifieds strut rousing 点击阅读原文，查看本栏目介绍。