6/8 Reading

Question 1

banging one’s head against a wall

Banging my head against a metaphorical wall

Answer 1

做某事徒勞無功、白費力氣

我感覺自己像是在做徒勞無功的事

Question 2

metaphorical

Answer 2

隱喻的；比喻的

Question 3

mundane

I’m too cool to abide by your mundane social expectations

Answer 3

平凡、世俗、無趣的

我太酷了，才不會遵循你那些無聊的社會期待。

Question 4

abide by

I’m tired of abiding by traditional Asian culture.

Answer 4

遵守

Question 5

flustered

I tried not to seem too flustered.

Answer 5

緊張、慌張、心煩意亂

Question 6

precarious

Our family would fall right off its precarious perch on the edge of a cliff called cancer

Answer 6

不穩定、危險的

我們的家庭會從那個名為「癌症」的懸崖邊、搖搖欲墜的位置上直接跌落下去。

Question 7

perch

This kind of bird’s usually perches on Blue Mountain.

Answer 7

棲息處（常用來形容高處的狹小地方）

Question 8

appoint

She appointed me as the representative of Taiwan.

Answer 8

任命、指派

Question 9

side-by-side

We’d rented side-by-side lake houses

Answer 9

並排的、相鄰的

我們租了兩間相鄰的湖邊小屋。

Question 10

cardigan

Her lightweight black cardigan was inside out

Answer 10

開襟毛衣或外套

Question 11

This news was a lot to take in.

Answer 11

這個消息一時難以消化。

Question 12

piped up

A part of me piped up.

Answer 12

突然出聲

我內心有一部分忍不住插話了。

Question 13

lining

This lining was firmly of the platinum variety

Answer 13

內襯（比喻也常指某種內在價值或好處）

Question 14

Not that I had a choice, did I?

Answer 14

又不是我有得選，是吧？

Question 15

grin

A clown was grinning and looking at me in my dream last night.

Answer 15

微笑

Question 16

may as well

We may as well do it with a grin

Answer 16

不如、乾脆