Chapter 3 of The Martian is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter III
Chapter 3 of The Martian is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror. His entire body was wet. Water was falling on him. It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops. He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
Chapter 3 of The Martian is here in full — 170 sentences across 34 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
From this reading “He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.”
stopped up; clogged up
From this reading “He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.”
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
From this reading “In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror.”
slightly wet
From this reading “He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.”
plural of “drop” — a shape that is spherical and small
From this reading “It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.”
plural of “million” — the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
From this reading “It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.”
being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
From this reading “He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.”
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
From this reading “In Confinement He awakened in shivering 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.
In this reading “His entire body was wet.”
In this reading “It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
surrounding, or on every side of, something
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
aroused or activated
From this reading In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror.
the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
From this reading His entire body was wet.
draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
stopped up; clogged up
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
From this reading In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror.
slightly wet
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
plural of “drop” — a shape that is spherical and small
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
From this reading His entire body was wet.
decreasing in amount or degree
From this reading Water was falling on him.
the solid part of the earth's surface
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Water was falling on him.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading His entire body was wet.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
plural of “million” — the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading Water was falling on him.
being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
From this reading In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror.
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
From this reading In Confinement He awakened in shivering terror.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
plural of “thousand” — the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading It was falling on the ground all around and on the trees--thousands, millions of drops.
tested and proved useful or correct
From this reading He choked, as he tried to breathe the damp, saturated air.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading His entire body was wet.
binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
From this reading Water was falling on him.
covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
From this reading His entire body was wet.
Chapter 3 of The Martian by A. R. (Alec Rowley) Hilliard holds 170 sentences, grouped into 34 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 3 holds 170 sentences of The Martian, unabridged, divided into 34 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of The Martian by A. R. (Alec Rowley) Hilliard exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 170 sentences, grouped into 34 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.
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