Eventually I pieced together Angelo's story.
piece
create by putting components or members together
to join or unite the pieces of
repair by adding pieces
"In Sicily I could tell by the smell what time of the year it was," he said. "Orange season, oranges, persimmons, olives, and olive oil."
How beautiful the memory is! I wish we could recreate such a world again.
The next time I bumped into Angelo I asked him if I could tag along on his next foraging expedition.
tag along
go along with, often uninvited
It took me a couple of months to sort out the procedures for securing a hunter's license, which involved enrolling in a hunter education course and taking a test.
secure
get by special effort
If you secure something that you want or need, you obtain it, often after a lot of effort.
争取到 [正式]
It was almost as if I had donned a new pair of glasses that divided the natural world into the possibly good to eat and the probably not.
If you don clothing, you put it on. 穿上(衣服)[书面]