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mindy

hirondelle: What about "在这个世上，存在着这样一些拥有圣洁灵魂的人：他们在悲伤时依然带给他人快乐；他们自己的现世愿望，就如种子一般，与眼泪一起被深深埋入墓穴，但却开出了

Wonderful! Thank you!

mindy

Alice666: Where is this sentence from, sounds so familiar, mind telling me? Tks!

I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin.The sentence comes from Chapter 9. I don't know what "spring up into" mean here. And I don't understand the structure of "are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed" and what the word "which" refer to. What's your opinion?

mindy

hirondelle: "spring up"means "跳跃出来，窜出来""spring"名词做动词用可以显示出事物的一种生命力和活泼感，for example:Fishes spring up from

You' re so great! Thank you!

mindy

Alice666: Hehe~~ I'm sorry, actually I never read this book, but I personlly think it's  absoulutely a good book, worth reading! Since I don't know the context,

Nice guess! The background is, in general, about a mother Mrs Bird (whose child is dead) helps another mother Eliza (who is a slave) to escape from some guy (who is going to buy the slave mother's child). This sentence is written after Mrs Bird gives her child's toys to Eliza's son. Hehe, are you confused?