راسم الخرائط الذي محا البحر

مفتاح الإجابات

1. The old cartographer had spent so many decades charting coastlines that he had come to distrust anything he could not measure.استمع إلى الأشكال الضعيفة في “had come to”. العبارة “so many decades that” تربط السبب بنتيجته.
2. Only when a storm swallowed his final survey did he admit that the sea had never once consented to being drawn.“Only when” في البداية تفرض انقلابًا: “did he admit” وليس “he admitted”.
3. His apprentice, far from consoling him, simply handed him a blank sheet and a pencil worn down to a stub.“Far from consoling him” تعني عكس المواساة. الفواصل تدل على وقفة حولها.
4. Not a single line did he commit to the page for an entire week, though his hand hovered more than once.انقلاب آخر بعد “not a single line”. “Commit to the page” تعني أن يكتب أو يرسم فعلًا.
5. On the eighth morning he sketched a wave, smudged it with his thumb, and, for the first time in years, laughed.“Eighth” تنتهي بـ t متبوعة بـ th، وهو تتابع صعب قبل “morning”. استمع إلى الأفعال الثلاثة: sketched وsmudged وlaughed.

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