Chapter 2 of The atom curtain is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter II
Chapter 2 of The atom curtain is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
"But not terror. I want to emphasize that it was not terror. The boy simply cracked. Excitement. But a shocking excitement to me, jubilation.
Chapter 2 of The atom curtain is here in full — 413 sentences across 83 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/82 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
a youthful male person
From this reading “The boy simply cracked.”
used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
From this reading “The boy simply cracked.”
to stress, single out as important
From this reading “I want to emphasize that it was not terror.”
the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
From this reading “Excitement.”
a feeling of extreme joy
From this reading “But a shocking excitement to me, jubilation.”
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
From this reading “But a shocking excitement to me, jubilation.”
and nothing more
From this reading “The boy simply cracked.”
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
From this reading “"But not terror.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading But a shocking excitement to me, jubilation.
a youthful male person
From this reading The boy simply cracked.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading "But not terror.
used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure
From this reading The boy simply cracked.
to stress, single out as important
From this reading I want to emphasize that it was not terror.
the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
From this reading Excitement.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I want to emphasize that it was not terror.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading I want to emphasize that it was not terror.
a feeling of extreme joy
From this reading But a shocking excitement to me, jubilation.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading But a shocking excitement to me, jubilation.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading "But not terror.
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
From this reading But a shocking excitement to me, jubilation.
and nothing more
From this reading The boy simply cracked.
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
From this reading "But not terror.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading I want to emphasize that it was not terror.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The boy simply cracked.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I want to emphasize that it was not terror.
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
From this reading I want to emphasize that it was not terror.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I want to emphasize that it was not terror.
Chapter 2 of The atom curtain by Nick B. (Nick Boddie) Williams holds 413 sentences, grouped into 83 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 2 holds 413 sentences of The atom curtain, unabridged, divided into 83 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 2 of The atom curtain by Nick B. (Nick Boddie) Williams exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 413 sentences, grouped into 83 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 83 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 83 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 2 can be played aloud in United States English.
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