Tuesdays with Morrie tenement

On the morning of the funeral, Morrie's relatives came down the steps of his tenement building on the poor Lower East Side of Manhattan. The men wore dark suits, the women wore veils. The kids in the neighborhood were going off to school, and as they passed, Morrie looked down, ashamed that his classmates would see him this way. One of his aunts, a heavyset woman, grabbed Morrie and began to wail:" What will you do without your mother? What will become of you?" tenement /ˈtenəmənt/ a large building divided into apartments, especially in the poorer areas of a city Lower 'East Side the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City, which is one of the poorer parts of the city heavyset /ˈhevi set/ someone who is heavy-set is large and looks strong or fat grab /ɡræb/ to snatch, to take hold of someone with a sudden or violent movement wail /weɪl/ to say something in a loud, sad, and complaining way 目的： 熟悉单词 熟悉语流 熟悉阅读 同系列最近三篇： locomotive bazaar egotistical 点击阅读原文，查看本栏目介绍