THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET( short 27/50 )

Layton Age six. T.S. Age six. Patterns of cross talk and directional eyelines by T.S. Spivet. Frequency of father's eye contact to T.S: Nill Why? Is it the T.S. is more like me? He doesn't like what I am. He doesn't love me. He doesn't love me...

Of course he loves you! You love each other! If we make a baby, it means we love each other, right? And they had three babies.Ain't that right?

I still catch myself haunting to wake him up for school.

Sorry!.. Sorry. Stopped everything? What do you mean in a maternal sense or a scientific one? T.S. came to see me in my study, for the first time since the accident. I'm not really there for T.S. anymore... I'm like an empty house.

重点

frequency

Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.

a society with a high / low frequency (= happening often / not very often) of stable marriages

contact

contact with sb/contact between A and B/the act of communicating with sb, especially regularly

The organization put me in contact with other people in a similar position (= gave me their addresses or telephone numbers).

two people avoiding eye contact (= avoiding looking directly at each other)

maternal

maternal love

I'm not very maternal.

She didn't have any maternal instincts.

haunt

The memory of that day still haunts me.

For years she was haunted by guilt.

catch sb doing

I caught her smoking in the bathroom.

You wouldn't catch me working (= I would never work) on a Sunday!