写作第一次作业 王玥1148313

As the ruins of the World Trade Towers smoldered at the southern end of Manhattan and the breeze stirred the ashes of thousands of human beings, a new age of anxiety was born.
smolder: burn without flame 余火未灭
The forest smoldered, which no one would ever suspects that once there was the most abundant land of the area.

We watch wistfully as the pre-9/11 world drifts away on its raft of memory, cast in Technicolor shades of nostalgia.
drift: happen or change without a particular plan or purpose 无意间的转变
Where did the time go? It just drifted away, with our careless cautious.

Among those who are sick of the present, some are so dissatisfied with everything of today that they become nostalgic about yesterday.
nostalgic: 怀旧的
I feel quite nostalgic for the place where I grew up.

His new book received accolades from the papers.
accolade: 赞扬，表扬，荣誉
We have overcome so many difficulties, and I am so proud of the accolades we have received.

People who are crazy about the present are generally apathetic and lack high aspirations. Such people abuse the present and stem the tide of the present.
abuse: to make bad use of 滥用
When time slipped though our fingers, we would sometimes suddenly realized how many days we have abused in our whole life.