胡敏读故事记单词托福词汇141

（单词翻译）

A spoilt daughter

"I used to tend livestock-pigs and sheep mostly---after I first managed to get out of Yugoslavia. It was loathsome¹ work, and the location wasn’t very nice, but what could I do! It provided me with a livelihood². After that, I used to load coal at a coal merchant’s, then drove a locomotive for a while. With the money I saved I was finally able to rent some decent living quarters in a decent locality for my family, and buy a litter of puppies, ” said Mirko Brankovic, reminiscing. “My son is at Harvard now, but my daughter goes to school locally, 16 she is. You should see her with her lithe³ and lethen body. She is a lively kid if there was one. What she likes most of all is going to the disco, where she does a dance called the locomotion⁴. The trouble is she is quite spoilt, like so many young kids nowadays, and the house is littered with her belongings⁵, not only that, she litters the school yard with her chewing gum wrappers and we’ve been called in to see the principal more than once. When she is not at the disco, she is hanging around the lobby at some hotel or rather, trying to be picked up by someone and invited for dinner. Sometimes we have trouble locating her. Her mom’s worried out of her mind about her.” Mirko sighed. “yeah her favorite food is lobster⁶ salad, while we may do with liver and onions at home. That young lady is a load of trouble and things can only get worse as far as I can see.”