The boy couldn't believe what he was seeing: the oasis, rather than being just a well surrounded by a few palm trees—as he had seen once in a geography book—was much larger than many towns back in Spain. There were three hundred wells, fifty thousand
Read more…The times rush past, and so do the caravans, thought the alchemist, as he watched the hundreds of people and animals arriving at the oasis. People were shouting at the new arrivals, dust obscured the desert sun, and the children of the oasis were bur
Read more…Our Group should try to know more and more about the beauty of Iran. In addition to our developing English language skills, we can learn some FarsiThanksMunir
Read more…obscure verb/əbˈskjʊər//-ˈskjʊr/ v [T]•to prevent something from being seen or heardTwo new skyscrapers had sprung up, obscuring the view from her window.The sun was obscured by clouds.•to make something difficult to discover and understandManagers d
Read more…The boy awoke as the sun rose. There, in front of him, where the small stars had been the night before, was an endless row of date palms, stretching across the entire desert."We've done it!" said the Englishman, who had also awakened early.But the bo
Read more…Today {10th of ZilHaj(12th Month of Islamic Calendar)} is one of the biggest celebration in Islam.This was a message, you might give it too. But, please let me put it here. Maybe all of us know about the story behind it. But I think some of its expre
Read more…The boy awoke as the sun rose. There, in front of him, where the small stars had been the night before, was an endless row of date palms, stretching across the entire desert."We've done it!" said the Englishman, who had also awakened early.But the bo
Read more…Imagine that you are in a situation that you don’t like it at all and it’s so boring for you. For example think that you have to be in a class for 4 hours, but its master (or teacher) doesn’t have enough information and you think that you will waste
Read more…The caravan began to travel day and night. The hooded Bedouins reappeared more and more frequently, and the camel driver—who had become a good friend of the boy's—explained that the war between the tribes had already begun. The caravan would be very
Read more…hooded adjective ( CLOTHES )/ˈhʊd.ɪd/ adjhaving a hooda hooded jacketarmed and hooded intrudershooded adjective ( EYES )/ˈhʊd.ɪd/ adjdescribes eyes which are partly covered by the eyelids because the eyelids are bigHe watched her from under hooded ey
Read more…Part 9 Chapter 2"Why do they make things so complicated?" he asked the Englishman one night. The boy had noticed that the Englishman was irritable, and missed his books."So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand," he
Read more…manifestation noun/ˌmæn.ɪ.fesˈteɪ.ʃən/ n formal•[C] a sign of something existing or happeningShe claimed that the rise in unemployment was just a further manifestation of the government's incompetence.•[U] appearanceUnlike acid rain or deforestation,
Read more…Then one day the boy returned the books to the Englishman. "Did you learn anything?" the Englishman asked, eager to hear what it might be. He needed someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility of war."I learned that the world has
Read more…persistent adjective/pəˈsɪs.tənt/ /pɚ-/ adj•lasting for a long time or difficult to get rid ofa persistent smell/skin rashSymptoms of the illness include a high temperature and a persistent dry cough.There have been persistent rumours that the managi
Read more…wound up adjectiveadjvery worried, nervous or angryShe gets quite wound up before a match.contemplate verb/ˈkɒn.təm.pleɪt/ /ˈkɑːn.t ̬əm-/ v [I or T]to spend time considering a possible future action, or to consider one particular thing for a long tim
Read more…They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it. But there was one idea that seemed to repeat itself throughout all the books: all things are the manifestation of one thing only.In one o
Read more…capricious adjective/kəˈprɪʃ.əs/ adj literarychanging mood or behaviour suddenly and unexpectedlya capricious childHe was a cruel and capricious tyrant.capriciously adverb/kəˈprɪʃ.ə.sli/ advcapriciousness noun/kəˈprɪʃ.ə.snəs/ n [U]mule noun ( ANIMAL
Read more…dismount verb/dɪˈsmaʊnt/ v [I]to get off a horse, bicycle or motorcycletreacherous adjective ( DANGEROUS )/ˈtretʃ.ər.əs/ /-ɚ-/ adjIf the ground or sea is treacherous, it is extremely dangerous, especially because of bad weather conditionsSnow and ice
Read more…recurring adjective/rɪˈkɜː.rɪŋ/ /-ˈkɝː.ɪŋ/ adj (also recurrent)happening many times, or happening againThe father-daughter relationship is a recurring theme in her novels.For much of his life he suffered from recurring bouts of depression.LeFanu suff
Read more…I'm the leader of the caravan," said a dark-eyed, bearded man. "I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy."There were almost two hundred people gathered the
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