Alan was confounded when he caught a distracted Nick repeatedly glancing at his watch. Alan found this puzzling because mathematics was Nick's favorite subject, and he was usually very attentive in class. When the bell rang to signal lunchtime, Alan asked him if everything was fine. Nick replied in a low voice that he would reveal a secret to Alan later. He asked Alan to make an excuse if others noticed his absence and quietly slipped out of the class. Nick's furtive behavior mystified Alan, who wondered why his friend was being so secretive. Alan was lost in thought, trying to comprehend Nick's odd behavior, when a loud cheer startled him out of his reverie. Nick, along with a group of his classmates, stood in front of him holding up a sign that read "Vote for Alan." Alan, who was running for class president, was touched by their gesture. - What is the meaning of furtive, in this sentence?

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.