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THE FORGIVER
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Religion, said the mining man, sometimes puts me in mind of one of those new blasting powders; there’s no just telling when it’ll go off or whom it’ll blow up.

I was thinking then of Radway and Billsky: “Bad” Radway, him that beat up Ellis at Borromeo and shot Fargue O’Leary.  You will have heard of him.  Every one was hearing of him at one time, and then all the talk kind of faded out.  By and by Radway himself faded out.  It was Billsky that faded him.

Billsky was a little, serious, hairy fellow, not much higher than Radway’s elbow; a good little fellow, that never gave any trouble to any one.  He always seemed, in a meek1 sort of way, puzzled over existence in general and his own share in it in particular.  Men liked him.  He was awful kindhearted, but he’d the same sense of humor as an Apache.  Primitive2, that’s what he was.  He was part Russian, and he’d a primitive sort of name that no one ever tried to pronounce.  Billsky came near enough.

He scarcely ever came in Rad’s way, though he moved with the same crowd.  Rad was in the center, you see, Billsky just wanderin’ on the outskirts3.  They got mixed up pretty close, though, later.

It began with a girl, of course, a girl at p. 88Borromeo.  No need for names.  She was a nice girl, and a nice-lookin’ girl, just one of many, thank God.  No one so much as guessed Billsky was sweet on her till she went away suddenly and was seen no more, and her folks moved away.  It was put down to Rad, and he didn’t deny it; sort o’ smiled and looked knowin’.  You know the kind.  Then Billsky heard of it.  He was working up at the Joyeux then, for that was before the irrigation was put through, and it was all cattle.  He sent a message through to Radway.  “I’m coming down to kill you,” said the message, “soon as I can get my time.  Don’t go away.”

Well, that was Billsky all over, and most men thought it was a great joke.  Radway did.  “What does the little rat take me for?” he said.  “I guess he’s in no hurry.  I’ll have some time to wait.”  Most men thought so, too, but not all.

Meanwhile, Billsky stuck to his job till he could quit without giving inconvenience.  Then he got his time.  He sunk every dollar of his pay in a fine pony5, a quick goer.  And down he came the eighty miles to Borromeo, like a fire in grass.

The betting was all on Rad, of course.  It was said he thought Billsky too good a joke to shoot; he’d just beat him up a bit if he was troublesome, and let him go.

Twenty miles out of Borromeo, Billsky had to stop at a preacher’s.  And there he got religion.

Yes, it’s a fact; he got it overnight.  What he told the preacher, or the preacher said to him, I don’t know.  I don’t begin to know.  But Billsky went off afoot into the desert, five miles maybe; and it is pretty much of a desert round there.  He had nothing with him but the gun he was going to p. 89shoot Radway with, and a Bible.  He laid them both under a sagebush, and all night he knelt in front of them, and waited for the Lord to begin on him.  There isn’t much in the desert at night, you know, but stars; and a sky back of ’em that makes even the planets look cheap.  The Lord must have had His way with Billsky, without fear or favor, for at dawn he came staggering back to the preacher, drenched6 with sweat and dew.  He had only the Bible with him.

“I believe,” he said to the preacher, “and as I hope for forgiveness, so I forgive the man it was in my heart to kill.  Tell him so from me,” he said; “but it’s laid on me,” said Billsky, “that I’ll never save my soul till I tell him so myself.  So tell him, too, to wait for me, for I’m a-coming to forgive him.”  Then he went down in a heap at the preacher’s feet.

That old man was a real Christian7, and he put Billsky to bed and looked after him like a father.  He’d never had an out-and-out hot-on-the-spot convert like that before, and he was so worked up and excited over it that he saddled his old horse and rode into Borromeo himself to give Radway the message of forgiveness.

I was in Duluth’s, with some of the other fellows, looking at some new saddles he had in; and Rad was there, too, and there was a good deal of talk going on of one kind and another.  Some one must have told the old preacher where Rad was, for he pulled up his old white nag8 outside Duluth’s, and “Mr. Radway!” he called, in a high voice, “Mr. Radway!  I have a message for you.”

“Hello!” said Rad, winking9 at his cronies,—I wasn’t one,—“Is Billsky coming with his gun?  I must get ready to hide.”  And there was laughing.

p. 90Sitting his old horse straight as an Indian, the old preacher raised his head and took his hat off.  His white hair shone in the sun.  There seemed to be more than sun shining on his face.  “Mr. Radway,” says he, “the message I bring is one of forgiveness.  You have nothing to fear from Billsky.  He forgives you.  And I was to tell you that he will never rest until he himself can assure you of that forgiveness.  And may the Lord have mercy on you,” said the old man, and put on his hat and rode away.  I give you my word, I never heard Duluth’s so quiet!  There wasn’t a sound till Radway caught his breath and began to curse.

Funny what’ll get a man’s nerve, eh?  It sent Rad quite wild to think Billsky wanted to forgive him!

Billsky was sick at the preacher’s some time.  He came into Borromeo looking queerer and hairier than ever, and simply eaten alive with the longin’ to forgive Rad.  “’Tisn’t him I’m thinking of,” he explained in his careful way, “he’ll get what’s coming to him, anyway; it’s me,” he said.  “How’m I to save my soul if I don’t forgive him?”

“Well, you can’t forgive him just yet,” said the man he was talking to, sort of soothing10.  “He ain’t here.  He’s on a new job: foreman at the Llindura, and went out last week.”

“Oh!” said Billsky.  He looked all around him, kind of taken aback and hurt.  “Oh!  Why’d he do that?”

“He didn’t do it because he was afraid of you, old sport,” said the other man, laughing fit to hurt himself, “if that’s what you’re thinking.”

Billsky looked more hurt than ever.  He’d big collie-dog eyes in his furry11 face, and now they p. 91fairly filled with tears.  “Why should I think that?” he said earnestly.  “I only want to forgive him.  I only want to tell him I forgive him.”  And he went away, all puzzled at the contrariety of things in general.

He kept pretty small and quiet about Borromeo for a few days; and then I saw him looking awful pleased with himself.  “Gray Thomas,” he told me, “he’s going out to the Llindura with some mules12, and he’ll take me along.  So now I’ll be able to forgive Radway,” he said, “and get it off my mind.”

He went out to the Llindura with the mules.  When he got there, he found Rad had been sent to Sageville with a bunch of calves14 the day before.

He stayed a week at the Llindura, almost too worried to earn his keep, waiting for Radway.  Radway didn’t come.  At the end of the week, he lit out for Sageville.  Halfway15 there, he met the rest of Rad’s outfit16, coming back.  “Rad’s been bit with the mining fever,” they told Billsky, “and he’s off into the Altanero country with a man he met in Sageville.  The boss’ll be mad with him.”  Billsky looked more grieved than ever.

“Did he know I was waiting for him?” said he.

“No,” said they, “how should he?”

Well, how should he?  But I believe he did.  You see, Billsky’s forgiveness had got on his nerves.

It was a close call in Sageville that Radway’d get forgiven in spite of himself.  He actually rode out one end of the town with his new partner as Billsky came in at the other.

The fellows laughed at Billsky; but they liked him; and maybe they began to wonder.  Anyway, Billsky stayed in Sageville a week, selling his pony p. 92and getting an outfit together.  When they asked him what he wanted a prospectin’ outfit for, he just looked at them in a surprised, hurt sort of way, and said, “Why, to go after Rad and forgive him, of course.  What’d you think?”  Pretty soon, they stopped laughing.  It was the look on Billsky’s face stopped them.  You know how queer brown and yellow faces look to us?  That’s because the expression never changes.  Billsky began to look queer, like a Chink or an Indian; he’d just one expression in those days, stamped on his hairy face as if he’d been branded with it.

He got two burros and an outfit of sorts, and off he went at the end of the week, trailing Radway into the Altanero.  Three days before he went, a mule13 wagon18 pulled out for Seear; it overtook Radway and his partner, and the driver told him his forgiver was following on.  So, you see, Rad knew.

Have you ever seen the opening of the Altanero: the Gates of the Altanero?  There’s desert, and there’s hills, and there’s ca?ons; and there’s the Altanero.  This side the Gates, you’re still somebody, with work to do, and money to get, and girls to kiss: anything, if you go find it.  Other side the Gates, you’re nobody, nothing.  You just go out.  Yes, you just go out.  It’s like dying while you’re alive.  You don’t count at all; and quite often you die dead.

Have you ever seen the Gates?  You go on and on in the heat, away from Sageville, and Seear, and everything you know.  They lie flat behind you, lost in the heat.  You don’t see ’em if you turn and look.  You don’t see anything.  Even the sage4 thins out and goes.  It’s all dust.  Then ahead, ever so far, you see something gold.  It rises higher, little p. 93by little,—oh so slow! and you see it’s rocks, great golden rocks.  They lift, and lift, and lift.  One day you find they’re behind you as well as in front: nothing but golden rocks; unless it’s red rocks or green rocks or rocks like clear black glass.  I’ve known some queer moments, but there’s nothing so queer as when it first comes home to you that, for miles and miles in every direction, there’s just nothing but the rocks—like a world rough-cut from precious stones and left to die.

There’s few wells in the Altanero: few that are known.  You travel by, and accordin’ to, the wells.  Radway struck off into the hills from the Seaar trail, making for the first well.  A week later, there was Billsky following over the same ground.  Each night he’d camp by one of Radway’s cold fires; and, each night, he’d kneel in the ashes and pray.  Sometimes he’d pray an hour, or two hours, or three, under the tremendous stars; but it was always that he might catch up with Rad quick, and forgive him, and get it off his mind.  He wasn’t worrying.  He was just eager.  He knew he was bound to come across Rad sooner or later in the Altanero.  Then he’d sleep, and eat, and off he’d go, singing hymns19 to the burros: “Greenland’s Icy Mountains,” most likely.

Once, in the dead ashes, he found a broke-off saucepan handle.  He was so pleased he carted it along with him, like a mascot20.  It seemed to put him in touch with Radway: to bring the happy moment o’ forgiveness nearer.

And Radway?  Well, there you have me.

The Altanero’s a bad country to travel in if you’ve anything on your nerves.  I passed through a few miles of it once when I had something on p. 94mine: a sick child two hundred miles away; and I tell you, by the third day I was seein’ the kid everywhere.  But Radway—I can’t just explain Radway.  I wonder if he was seein’ the girl that started it.

Billsky made the first water-hole six days behind Rad; he’d gained a day.

Rad and company had used considerable of the water in that hole.  It had shrunk, and there in the margin21, baked hard and white like clay, were footprints of men and burros.  Billsky picked out Rad’s footprints and patted ’em, he was so pleased.  He rested by the water a few hours, and freshened up his burros.  Then he went on.

Between the first water-hole and the second the country opens up.  It isn’t just a huddle22 of rocks.  It’s mesas rising from a dead level of dust like the worn foundations of towers and cathedrals and cities, banded in rose and violet and gold.  You could no more climb most of ’em than you could climb the outside of a skyscraper23.  But Billsky found one he could climb, and up he went.  He’d seen some sort of dry, grassy24 stuff at the top, and he wanted it for Sarah, one of the burros that was ailing17.  He found more than the grass on top.  He found a grave.  Didn’t know whose, of course; nobody knows, nor ever will.  He gave the grass to Sarah; but next day she died.  Billsky was terrible hurt and grieved, he was always so careful of beasts.  He never realized that Sarah was just beat out: couldn’t stand the pace.

At the second water-hole he was only four days behind Rad.

He rested up a bit, being worried over his burro; and took out the lost time in prayer.  Then p. 95on he went, at that terrible pace, overhauling25 Rad by the mile, achin’ to forgive him.  It’s a long stretch to the third hole.  Billsky gained two days on it.  I can’t guess how.  He told me he took short cuts through the ca?ons, and that they always turned out all right; and that he sang “Hold the Fort, for I Am Coming,” right along.

He found the third hole fouled26 and shrunk.  In a stretch of mud, Rad had written with a stick, “If you follow me any further, I will shoot you on sight.”  How did he know Billsky was so near?  Maybe he’d seen his fire the night before.  Billsky read the writing, and was dreadful hurt and grieved.  “He doesn’t understand,” he said, “that I’m going to forgive him.  It’s what I’m follerin’ him for.”  He prayed half the night, and went on quicker than ever next day.

Few have ever been so far into the Altanero as the fourth hole.  It’s hard to find.  Long before Billsky made it, he saw a speck27 in the sky; it was a great bird, sailing round in little, slow circles.  Under it was the fourth water-hole.

It was quite a pool when Billsky came to it.  There were bushes round it, and fibrous grass.  There were three burros feeding on the bushes, and a small tent pitched.  A man came out of the tent, and when he saw Billsky he held up his hands.

“Don’t shoot,” he said, “I’m not Radway.  You’ve no quarrel with me.”

“Nor with him,” said Billsky.  “I’ve come to forgive him.  Where is he?”

“Gone,” said the man, “gone mad, I guess.  He’s pushed on alone.  Day before yesterday I took sick.  We was to rest up here, and then cast round careful, always within reach o’ this water.  p. 96This morning he went out and climbed them rocks there.  Then he came back, and said he must go on, he couldn’t wait.  I went to stop him, and he laid me out.  See here.”  The man was most cryin’; he turned his face, and Billsky saw a great black swelling28 on his jaw29.  “He went on,” he said, “as if the devil was after him.  And the devil’s you!”

Billsky was the meekest30 little hairy man; and now he too was fit to cry.  “He don’t know me,” he said, very sad, “but it’ll be all right. . .  .  What’s on there?” he said, pointing beyond.

“God knows, who made it,” said the man, “out of hell’s leftovers31.  But no one else does, for no one’s ever been there.”

“It’ll be all right,” said Billsky again.  “I’ll go on after him, and forgive him, and bring him back.”

He started out to do it, taking one of Rad’s burros, which were fresher than his; and bound he’d come up with Rad this time.

I don’t rightly know what happened there, beyond the last water.  One thing, I never been there.  I gather Billsky just pushed on as usual, following Rad’s tracks.  He followed ’em easy: the only footsteps within a hundred miles or so!  As he went he sang “Glory for Me,” because he was going to be able to forgive Rad at last.

The big bird in the sky, he swung off from the water-hole and followed Billsky.  There was just them two moving things for him to see: Radway on ahead, mad to get away from Billsky, and old Billsky, mad to forgive him, and singing the glory song.

Billsky couldn’t tell me much about this part of it.  He just went on, and on, and on.  p. 97Sometimes, he said, there were stars.  The place was so still he began to think he could hear ’em shine: a sort of fizzing, like an arc-light, which, of course, he knew to be foolishness.  Sometimes there was just the sun, a great fire, like as if it were fastened to the earth and burning all the life out of it.  There were the rocks, of course, but he didn’t remember them much: only one great black cleft32, and a glimmer33 in the walls of it.  The glimmer was gold-veined turquoise34, just sticking out o’ that cliff so you could have pried35 it loose with a toothpick.  Billsky couldn’t tell you where it was if you paid him.  He wasn’t thinking of anything but forgiving Rad.

Then, with a noise, he says, like a roll of rifle-fire, that big bird dropped out of heaven like a stone, and shot past him, and settled just ahead.  There was a dead burro there, and an empty water can.  But Radway, he’d gone on.  Billsky went after him, singing powerful; but his voice didn’t make much noise.

Then there was a little crack ahead.  Something sang past Billsky, and flipped36 a tiny flake37 off of the side of the ca?on.  Billsky stopped and looked at the flake lying at his feet, just as pretty as a pink rose-leaf.  He knew a bullet had chipped it off, and that he’d come within shooting length of Radway.  He let out a yell of joy.  “It’s me, Rad!” he yelled.  “I’m comin’ to forgive you!”  But Radway didn’t stop.  He went on, as if he was mad; and behind him came the man that was killin’ him: the man that only wanted to forgive him.

There were more shots.  Billsky said Rad fired at him all that afternoon, but owing to the refraction, he wasn’t hit once.  Besides, Rad was p. 98breaking up.  Once your nerve goes, you break up quick in the Altanero.

It was evening when Billsky came up with him.

You know evening on the Altanero?  The sun’s down on the edge of things, as big as a burning house.  All the rocks turn clear as glass for a minute.  It’s as if the light went clean through them, and came out colored with their colors: rose, violet, gold.  The air you breathe glows.  The rosy-red ca?on Billsky was in ended sudden in a wall that hit the sky.  The sunset touched it, and it became like a veil, says Billsky, a blood-red curtain hung from earth to heaven.  At the foot of it lay Bad Radway.

Billsky ran at him, trying to yell.  He had his water flask38 ready.  All day he’d been saving water to give to Radway, but he was too late.  Rad just looked at him; and all that had been inside him: all the remorse39, the guilt40, the black fear, the unknown damage of the soul that first drove him to be scared of Billsky, came out in that look.

It struck Billsky to the heart.  “Rad, Rad,” he said, “don’t you be scared o’ me!  I forgive you, Rad!” he said.

But Bad Radway didn’t hear.  He was dead.

Billsky had done his part, but he was all broke up.  He got back to the water-hole somehow, after burying Rad at the foot of the cliff.  He and the other man that had been Rad’s partner lit out for home right away.  They’d had enough of the Altanero.

When I last saw Billsky, he was terrible hurt and grieved because the other man held him to blame for what had happened to Radway.  “He seems to think,” said Billsky to me, “that I done p. 99something to him!  Me that follered him all that way just to forgive him!  He seems to think, that guy does, that I done something!”

Then, in a puzzled, exasperated41 kind of way, he laughed.  “But come to think of it,” said Billsky, “it was funny.”

Well, as I said before, religion’s a queer thing to handle; but I don’t see anything funny in it.

Marjorie L. C. Pickthall.

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1 meek x7qz9     
adj.温顺的,逆来顺受的
参考例句:
  • He expects his wife to be meek and submissive.他期望妻子温顺而且听他摆布。
  • The little girl is as meek as a lamb.那个小姑娘像羔羊一般温顺。
2 primitive vSwz0     
adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物
参考例句:
  • It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
  • His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。
3 outskirts gmDz7W     
n.郊外,郊区
参考例句:
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
4 sage sCUz2     
n.圣人,哲人;adj.贤明的,明智的
参考例句:
  • I was grateful for the old man's sage advice.我很感激那位老人贤明的忠告。
  • The sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.这位哲人是百代之师。
5 pony Au5yJ     
adj.小型的;n.小马
参考例句:
  • His father gave him a pony as a Christmas present.他父亲给了他一匹小马驹作为圣诞礼物。
  • They made him pony up the money he owed.他们逼他还债。
6 drenched cu0zJp     
adj.湿透的;充满的v.使湿透( drench的过去式和过去分词 );在某人(某物)上大量使用(某液体)
参考例句:
  • We were caught in the storm and got drenched to the skin. 我们遇上了暴雨,淋得浑身透湿。
  • The rain drenched us. 雨把我们淋得湿透。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 Christian KVByl     
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
参考例句:
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
8 nag i63zW     
v.(对…)不停地唠叨;n.爱唠叨的人
参考例句:
  • Nobody likes to work with a nag.谁也不愿与好唠叨的人一起共事。
  • Don't nag me like an old woman.别像个老太婆似的唠唠叨叨烦我。
9 winking b599b2f7a74d5974507152324c7b8979     
n.瞬眼,目语v.使眼色( wink的现在分词 );递眼色(表示友好或高兴等);(指光)闪烁;闪亮
参考例句:
  • Anyone can do it; it's as easy as winking. 这谁都办得到,简直易如反掌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The stars were winking in the clear sky. 星星在明亮的天空中闪烁。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 soothing soothing     
adj.慰藉的;使人宽心的;镇静的
参考例句:
  • Put on some nice soothing music.播放一些柔和舒缓的音乐。
  • His casual, relaxed manner was very soothing.他随意而放松的举动让人很快便平静下来。
11 furry Rssz2D     
adj.毛皮的;似毛皮的;毛皮制的
参考例句:
  • This furry material will make a warm coat for the winter.这件毛皮料在冬天会是一件保暖的大衣。
  • Mugsy is a big furry brown dog,who wiggles when she is happy.马格斯是一只棕色大长毛狗,当她高兴得时候她会摇尾巴。
12 mules be18bf53ebe6a97854771cdc8bfe67e6     
骡( mule的名词复数 ); 拖鞋; 顽固的人; 越境运毒者
参考例句:
  • The cart was pulled by two mules. 两匹骡子拉这辆大车。
  • She wore tight trousers and high-heeled mules. 她穿紧身裤和拖鞋式高跟鞋。
13 mule G6RzI     
n.骡子,杂种,执拗的人
参考例句:
  • A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.骡子是母马和公驴的杂交后代。
  • He is an old mule.他是个老顽固。
14 calves bb808da8ca944ebdbd9f1d2688237b0b     
n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子,腓;腿肚子( calf的名词复数 );牛犊;腓;小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 );(冰川)崩解;生(小牛等),产(犊);使(冰川)崩解
参考例句:
  • a cow suckling her calves 给小牛吃奶的母牛
  • The calves are grazed intensively during their first season. 小牛在生长的第一季里集中喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
15 halfway Xrvzdq     
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
参考例句:
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
16 outfit YJTxC     
n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装
参考例句:
  • Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
  • His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。
17 ailing XzzzbA     
v.生病
参考例句:
  • They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
  • She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。
18 wagon XhUwP     
n.四轮马车,手推车,面包车;无盖运货列车
参考例句:
  • We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
  • The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。
19 hymns b7dc017139f285ccbcf6a69b748a6f93     
n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌( hymn的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • At first, they played the hymns and marches familiar to them. 起初他们只吹奏自己熟悉的赞美诗和进行曲。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
  • I like singing hymns. 我喜欢唱圣歌。 来自辞典例句
20 mascot E7xzm     
n.福神,吉祥的东西
参考例句:
  • The football team's mascot is a goat.足球队的吉祥物是山羊。
  • We had a panda as our mascot.我们把熊猫作为吉详物。
21 margin 67Mzp     
n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘
参考例句:
  • We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
22 huddle s5UyT     
vi.挤作一团;蜷缩;vt.聚集;n.挤在一起的人
参考例句:
  • They like living in a huddle.他们喜欢杂居在一起。
  • The cold wind made the boy huddle inside his coat.寒风使这个男孩卷缩在他的外衣里。
23 skyscraper vxzwd     
n.摩天大楼
参考例句:
  • The skyscraper towers into the clouds.那幢摩天大楼高耸入云。
  • The skyscraper was wrapped in fog.摩天楼为雾所笼罩。
24 grassy DfBxH     
adj.盖满草的;长满草的
参考例句:
  • They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
  • Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。
25 overhauling c335839deaeda81ce0dd680301931584     
n.大修;拆修;卸修;翻修v.彻底检查( overhaul的现在分词 );大修;赶上;超越
参考例句:
  • I had no chance of overhauling him. 我没有赶上他的可能。 来自辞典例句
  • Some sites need little alterations but some need total overhauling. 有些网站需要做出细微修改,而有些网站就需要整体改版。 来自互联网
26 fouled e3aea4b0e24d5219b3ee13ab76c137ae     
v.使污秽( foul的过去式和过去分词 );弄脏;击球出界;(通常用废物)弄脏
参考例句:
  • Blue suit and reddish-brown socks!He had fouled up again. 蓝衣服和红褐色短袜!他又搞错了。
  • The whole river has been fouled up with filthy waste from factories. 整条河都被工厂的污秽废物污染了。
27 speck sFqzM     
n.微粒,小污点,小斑点
参考例句:
  • I have not a speck of interest in it.我对它没有任何兴趣。
  • The sky is clear and bright without a speck of cloud.天空晴朗,一星星云彩也没有。
28 swelling OUzzd     
n.肿胀
参考例句:
  • Use ice to reduce the swelling. 用冰敷消肿。
  • There is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes. 淋巴结处有明显的肿块。
29 jaw 5xgy9     
n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训
参考例句:
  • He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
  • A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。
30 meekest 2a5107c1de829b1e3b48c24061ffc730     
adj.温顺的,驯服的( meek的最高级 )
参考例句:
  • Even the meekest little lamb can turn into a tigress. 多温柔的女人结婚后都会变成母老虎。 来自互联网
31 leftovers AprzGJ     
n.剩余物,残留物,剩菜
参考例句:
  • He can do miracles with a few kitchen leftovers.他能用厨房里几样剩饭做出一顿美餐。
  • She made supper from leftovers she had thrown together.她用吃剩的食物拼凑成一顿晚饭。
32 cleft awEzGG     
n.裂缝;adj.裂开的
参考例句:
  • I hid the message in a cleft in the rock.我把情报藏在石块的裂缝里。
  • He was cleft from his brother during the war.在战争期间,他与他的哥哥分离。
33 glimmer 5gTxU     
v.发出闪烁的微光;n.微光,微弱的闪光
参考例句:
  • I looked at her and felt a glimmer of hope.我注视她,感到了一线希望。
  • A glimmer of amusement showed in her eyes.她的眼中露出一丝笑意。
34 turquoise Uldwx     
n.绿宝石;adj.蓝绿色的
参考例句:
  • She wore a string of turquoise round her neck.她脖子上戴着一串绿宝石。
  • The women have elaborate necklaces of turquoise.那些女人戴着由绿松石制成的精美项链。
35 pried 4844fa322f3d4b970a4e0727867b0b7f     
v.打听,刺探(他人的私事)( pry的过去式和过去分词 );撬开
参考例句:
  • We pried open the locked door with an iron bar. 我们用铁棍把锁着的门撬开。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • So Tom pried his mouth open and poured down the Pain-killer. 因此汤姆撬开它的嘴,把止痛药灌下去。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
36 flipped 5bef9da31993fe26a832c7d4b9630147     
轻弹( flip的过去式和过去分词 ); 按(开关); 快速翻转; 急挥
参考例句:
  • The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转,撞毁了。
  • The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。
37 flake JgTzc     
v.使成薄片;雪片般落下;n.薄片
参考例句:
  • Drain the salmon,discard the skin,crush the bones and flake the salmon with a fork.将鲑鱼沥干,去表皮,粉碎鱼骨并用餐叉子将鱼肉切成小薄片状。
  • The paint's beginning to flake.油漆开始剥落了。
38 flask Egxz8     
n.瓶,火药筒,砂箱
参考例句:
  • There is some deposit in the bottom of the flask.这只烧杯的底部有些沉淀物。
  • He took out a metal flask from a canvas bag.他从帆布包里拿出一个金属瓶子。
39 remorse lBrzo     
n.痛恨,悔恨,自责
参考例句:
  • She had no remorse about what she had said.她对所说的话不后悔。
  • He has shown no remorse for his actions.他对自己的行为没有任何悔恨之意。
40 guilt 9e6xr     
n.犯罪;内疚;过失,罪责
参考例句:
  • She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
  • Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。
41 exasperated ltAz6H     
adj.恼怒的
参考例句:
  • We were exasperated at his ill behaviour. 我们对他的恶劣行为感到非常恼怒。
  • Constant interruption of his work exasperated him. 对他工作不断的干扰使他恼怒。


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