P1
1. saving grace: moral strength, virtue, merit, God’s
love
2. vexation: distress, trouble, worry, torment, harassness
3. depend upon: believe; trust
4.
The reproachfully blank paper: reproachful to the
writer for not able to write anything in it (personifying;
transferred)
5.
proceed half-heartedly: go on; continue, carry on,
keep moving (indifferently, unenthusiastically, spiritlessly,
reluctantly)
6. between the sheets: be in bed
7. chime: the sound of a harmonious clock
8. pell-mell: (rare) in disorderly haste (all kinds
of things and ideas rushed/crowded into my mind;)
9.
Nothing stands between me and half… and paper: If
I am provided with pens, ink, and paper, I am absolutely
sure I can write a number of outstanding writings.
P2
1. tangible: physical, touchable, material, solid,
palpable; real
2. the next world: next generation
3. the understatement of this: I am very good at thinking
and dreaming; I am extremely wakeful, not sleepy at
all.
4. be in the humour: in good humour (in bad humour)
5. symphonies: a musical work of large group of instruments
6. Shakespeare: (1564-1616) famous British playwright
7. Beethoven: Ludwig van: (1770-1827) German composer
8. Michaelangelo: (1475-1564) Italian artist and poet
