Words and expressions

1. When completely submerged, they formed a vortex even more dangerous for the sailors.

submerge: sink below the surface; cover completely

仿写: If sea levels rise, some parts of land will submerge under water.

2. The brothers were just over twenty ,and youth sometimes acted as a handicap for a genius.

handicap: disability or obstacle or disadvantage

仿写: Although he has a handicap, he still finished the task on time.

3. The falcon became a symbol of the emancipated human spirit.

emancipated: to give someone the political or legal rights that they did not have before

仿写: Slaves were emancipated in 1834.

Sentences

1. There were monkeys on the mountains, but as he went up to the great altitudes, the bird calls and the monkey cries stopped, and there was nothing but silence and the mountain wind.

2.  In the morning I discovered a vast expanse o£ white. And the cold wind was shaking the treetops. The green hills were like a youth transformed, Overnight covered with white hair and whiskers. The atmosphere of warmth had descended to the river, And the gurgle of the stream had been, silenced on the bank.