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Huang, Liangguang – English Language Teaching, 2010
Hemingway wrote a short story "A Day's Wait" in 1933, a nine-year old boy spent a whole day waiting for death because of misunderstanding the difference between Centigrade and Fahrenheit. "Glory under pressure", when facing the death, the little boy would rather stay calmly than do something uncontrollably. In his masterpiece…
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