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Detailed study of text A

1. Childrren, struggling to establish...says one researcher: Children, who are trying hard to establish separate identities, and be troubled with a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure. Wind up with here means to annoy or upset someone.
2. Five years ago Ellen Rancilio... her marriage broke up: Five years ago, Ellen Rancilio divorced her husband and returned to the Detroit area to live with her father. Break up means the coming to an end of a business or personal relationship caused by the separation of these involved.

 

 

注：以上资料选自张鑫友编《新编英语泛读教程学习指南》（第三册），武汉：华中师范大学出版社，2003。