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When I was 9, we packed up our home in Los Angeles and arrived at Heathrow , London on a gray January morning. Everyone in the family settled quickly into the city except me. Without my beloved beaches and endless blue-sky days, I felt at a loss and out of place[1]. Until 
I made a discovery.
Southbank[2], at an eastern bend in the Thames, is the center of British skateboarding[3],where[4] the continuous crashing of skateboards left your head ringing. I loved it. I soon made friends with[5] the local skaters. We spoke our own language.And my favorite:Safe. Safe meant cool. It meant hello.
It meant don't worry about[6] it.Once,when [7]trying a certain trick on the beam(横杆), I fell onto the stones,damaging a nerve in my hand,and Toby came over,helping me up:Safe,man.Safe.A few[8] minutes later,when I landed the trick[9],my friends beat their boards loud, shouting:“Safe! Safe! Safe!”And that's what mattered - landing tricks, being a good skater.
When I was 15,my family moved to Washington.I tried skateboarding there, but the locals were far less[10] welcoming.Within a couple of years, I'd given it up.
When 
I returned to London in 2004, I found myself wandering down to Southbank,spending hours there.I've traveled back several times since,most recently this past spring.The day was
cold but clear；tourists and Londoners stopped to watch the skaters. Weaving(穿梭）among the kids who[11] rushed by on their boards, I found my way to the beam[12]. Then a rail-thin[13] teenager, in a baggy[14] white T-shirt,skidded(滑）up to the beam.He sat next to me. He seemed not to notice the man next to him[15
].But soon I caught a few of his glances.“I was a local here 20 years ago,”I told him.Then, slowly,he began to nod his head.“Safe,man. Safe.”
“Yeah.”I said.“Safe.”
[1] out of place 扞格难入
[2] Southbank 南岸
[3] Skateboarding 滑板活动
[4] Where 指导定语从句,润饰center
[5] Make friend with 交朋侪
[6] Worry about 担心
[7] When 指导的时候状语从句,注重省略了主语
[8] A few =some ,few =not too much,这就是语法上说的a few 表必定,few 表否认的原因
[9] Land the trick 专业术语
[10] Far 副词,less 比力级
[11] Who 指导定语从句,润饰kid
[12] Beam 横梁
[13] rail-thin 复合形容词,像雕栏那末瘦的
[14] Baggy 宽松的
[15] the man (who is )next to him, next to him 后置定语
