Could some tell the difference of "prize\ award\ trophy \spoil",please? “”奖“”

I'm unable to understand what it is all about..thank you very much.please do me a favor, "How odd. You really mean it." His dark eyes assessed me with interest. "I will give your strange coven this much, you humans can bequite interesting. I guess I can see the draw of observing you. It'samazing — some of you seem to have no sense of your own self-interest atall."He was standing a few feet away from me, arms folded, looking at mecuriously. I cannot understand the meaning of 【I will give your strange coven this much】,why put “your” before "coven"?the coven absolutely is not Bella's. and what is "this much" mean? I'm unable to understand what it is all about.

could you do me a fovor?what's the meaning of the word "promising"of the follow sentence？ And then I could hear a car passing on the street, and I was free, Charlie's lawn stretched out in front of me, the house beckoning me, promising warmth and dry socks. what's the meaning of the word "promising"?promising在句话中是什么意思呢？请问。多谢啦。

May I ask a question?why it is "flip" rather than" trun"?what's the differernts? Edward pulled out through the traffic, apparently without a glance,flipping around to head toward the freeway. 为什么不用turning around而用flipping around呢？why it is" flipping around "rather than" truning around",what is the difference?

May I ask a simple question about the meaning of "the silence was piercing" in the follow sentence. Now that there was no longer the sound of my soggy footsteps, the silence was piercing.The birds were quiet, too, the drops increasing in frequency, so it must be raining above. 因为不在有我沉闷的脚步声了，所以沉默是piercing的，请问，这个单词，piercing是什么意思呢？ because there was no sound ,so the silence was piercing?what is the meaning of piercing?

may i ask a question?what's the meaning of the last sentence?thank you very much. Aggravated, I snapped off the computer's main power switch, not waiting to shut things down properly. Through my irritation, I felt overwhelming embarrassment. It was all so stupid. I was sitting in my room, researching vampires. What was wrong with me? I decided that most of the blame belonged on the doorstep of the town of Forks — and the entire sodden Olympic Peninsula, for that matter. why bella blame to the doorstep?(what's the meaning of doorstep of Forks?)why does she blame to the Peninsula?

May I ask a question?what's the meaning of "steel harbor waters"and"every shade a stone"?Thank you. It was still breathtaking. Islands rose out of the steel harbor waters with sheer cliff sides, reaching to uneven summits, and crowned with austere, soaring firs. The beach had only a thin border of actual sand at the water's edge, after which it grew into millions of large, smooth stones that looked uniformly gray from a distance, but close up were every shade a stone could be: terra-cotta, sea green, lavender, blue gray, dull gold. 多谢！

May I ask if the word “pulsing” in this sentence follow is a verb or noun?Thanks. I couldn't believe the rush of emotion pulsing through me — just because he'd happened to look at me for the first time in a half-dozen weeks. 请问，这句话中，的pulsing是动词还是名词呢？the rush of emotion/ pulsing though me还是the rush of emotion pulsing /though me

May I ask if “make it down ” is a phrase in this sentence.what's the meaning of "make it down"? 请问，在这句话中，make it down是一个词组么？这个词组是什么意思呢？ 这句话是什么意思呢？ 【It took every ounce of my concentration to make it down the icy brick driveway alive.】