Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 4

I did not know then that I would do the same for my own children, preferring nature's provision over those orange- and pink- and purple-colored medicines.

The drink's temperature was the only Chinese aspect of the commercial; iced drinks were considered unhealthful and believed to induce stomach disease.

Even the sturdy glass containers that the powder came in were coveted.

His resistance sent me into a long adolescent melancholy.

When he courted me, he once invited me to an expensive restaurant and ordered two fish for me. After we were married, he wouldn't even allow two fish for the whole family for one meal!

That was the end of my desire for a Tangy life. I realized that every dream ended with this bland, ordinary existence, where a prince would one day become a man who boiled orange peels for his family.

Listen to the production of this. Production’s like uh, “Abbey Road” or something.

“I try to keep myself occupied.”

Yeah, I think she’s about to get her master’s degree.

Yeah, you know, you just gotta separate yourself from the pack in some way. Excel at something, you know, and then you have your pick of the litter when them front-running hussies start sniffing around.