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Anna Christie

Chapter III

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ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?
CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.
All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.
Ay gat heave line to dat fallar.
[He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.
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LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Anna Christie

Chapter III

Reading 1/93 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?
Line 2
CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.
Line 3
All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.
Line 4
Ay gat heave line to dat fallar.
Line 5
[He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

Half noun US /half/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?”

Hands plural noun US /hændz/

members of a ship’s crew

From this reading “All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.”

Herself pronoun US /hərˈself/

used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object

From this reading “ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?”

Toward preposition US /təˈwɔːrd/

in the direction of

From this reading “[He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.”

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adeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

All

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From this reading All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

ANNA

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From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

asleep

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From this reading All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.

Ay

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From this reading CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.

belongs

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From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

bow

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From this reading CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.

cepting

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From this reading All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.

CHRIS

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From this reading CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.

coil

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From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

dat

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From this reading Ay gat heave line to dat fallar.

don't

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From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

fallar

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From this reading All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.

gat

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From this reading Ay gat heave line to dat fallar.

go

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From this reading CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.

guy

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From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

HalfnounUS /half/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

handsplural nounUS /hændz/

members of a ship’s crew

From this reading All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.

hepronounUS /hiː/

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

heave

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From this reading Ay gat heave line to dat fallar.

herselfpronounUS /hərˈself/

used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object

From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

Hurriedly

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From this reading CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.

hurries

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From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

line

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From this reading Ay gat heave line to dat fallar.

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

off

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From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

onprepositionUS /ɑːn/

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.

picks

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From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

resentfully

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From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

rope

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From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

stay

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From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

thedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

toparticleUS /tuː/

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

towardprepositionUS /təˈwɔːrd/

in the direction of

From this reading [He picks up a coil of rope and hurries off toward the bow.

up

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From this reading CHRIS--[Hurriedly.] Ay go up bow.

vatch

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From this reading All hands asleep 'cepting fallar on vatch.

whereconjunctionUS /wer/

in or at the place that

From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?

Why

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From this reading ANNA--[Half to herself--resentfully.] Why don't that guy stay where he belongs?