St Buryan Church.
Of such none was more famous than the little Jack28 of Bartinney, whose life history was typical of that of his race. His first home was amidst a clump29 of rushes bordering a lonely pool on the high ground between two of the Cornish heights. Even when maternal30 instinct is strongest, fear of detection kept doe and leveret apart during the day; but she never failed to suckle him at nightfall and before sunrise, on her way back from the feeding-ground on the lowland. From dawn to dusk the leveret lay in the snuggest31 of couches in the trough between the hills, and when not asleep would watch the reeds waving over the shallows, or the moor-hen, whose nest was on the opposite bank, swim on the open water. One morning he saw her issue from the reed-bed with four fluffy32 little red-billed creatures following in her wake. This novel sight aroused his curiosity, and when the moor-hen and her brood skirted the little bay near him, he jumped out of the nest and ran to the edge of the water. At that instant a raven33 flying overhead, on the look-out for food for its young in Bosigran Cliffs, espied34 him, and the next minute the ominous35 shadow of the marauder darkened the bright grassy36 margin37, scaring the leveret and making him flee for his life. Quick as the moor-hen and her chicks had dived, before the depredator could transfix him with its powerful beak38, he made for the thickest of the rushes, squatted39 and, though the raven made careful search, escaped. This was the one fright of the happy days spent by the side of the pool. There he got to know the varied40 voices of nature—the carol of the lark41, the scream of the gull42, the hum of the insects, the murmur43 of the wind, and the music of the ripple44 in the reed-bed; the chief sounds that broke the silence of the upland. From below came faintly at times the bark of the dog, the crowing of the cock, and at night the yelp45 of the fox, the snarl46 of the badger, the whurring of the night-jar, and the song of the sedge-warbler. Once he heard, from the direction of the Land’s End cliffs, that mysterious roaring of the sea, which when the farmers hear they say “G’envor is callin’.” His growth was very rapid, and when a month old, a spirit of restlessness and a desire to roam possessed47 him, and thrice he accompanied the doe in her night rounds and got a knowledge of the lay of the country.
One day at dusk he left the nest and the narrow grassy green amidst the rushes where he had gambolled48, and made his way down to the tableland alone. He soon learnt that the country over which he roamed was full of enemies, finding to his surprise that even the rabbits were unfriendly to him. His first form was on a pile of earth in the middle of a field from which the hay had recently been carried. Wild growth luxuriated there, and before he abandoned the heap it was gay with the golden corymbs of the harvest-flower. Thence he could hear the voices of the hoers in the turnip-fields, the rumble49 of wheels in the near lane, and morning and evening Shep’s bark as he drove the cows to the milking-shed. Lying there all day, his long black-tipped ears flat on his back, and his dark, hazel-rimmed eyes that never wholly closed watchful50 of every movement in the life around him, the hare was a timorous51 spy on the ongoings of the farm where he was an unknown guest. For nearly two months he occupied the form undisturbed, but when the clover had grown again bullocks were turned into the pasture to graze, and one morning a lurcher dog that accompanied the farmer on his round, found him in his seat and pursued him so closely across three fields that he would not have escaped its jaws52 but for the wiles53 he instinctively54 used. He did not return to the seat for some days and then, detecting that the stale scent of a dog tainted55 the ragwort, he abandoned the field altogether, and resorted to another form he had but rarely used in the valley below Sancreed Beacon56. It was made amongst withering57 bracken on a mound58 skirting a small stream, and dawn always found him sitting in it. To baffle any enemy that might follow his trail, he would run past his form, keeping some twenty feet wide of it, and then double on his foil. When opposite his seat he made a sidelong spring, and then another which took him across the stream to the mound. His eyes, ears, and nostrils59 satisfying him that no enemy shadowed him, he crept under the arch formed by the drooping60 fronds61 and lay concealed62 until evening. He never failed to take these precautions, and he soon had proof of their necessity. Once, shortly after he was esconced, he heard a slight rustling63 in some brambles on the opposite bank a little way down stream. Presently a long-bodied creature with dark fur emerged from it. Though short of leg its agility64 was remarkable, and with its nose to the ground it was evidently in quest of some victim’s trail. It was a polecat, which, on hitting the scent of the hare at the spot whence he had taken his second spring, became terribly excited. As if familiar with the wiles of its favourite prey, the blood-thirsty creature began at once to quarter the ground in its attempt to discover the track. At length in making a wide cast it hit the line, but followed it in a direction contrary to that of the hare and, running heel, disappeared with long bounds through the gap where the Jack had passed less than half an hour before. Soon afterwards the light crept down the hillside, and the hare knew that the chattering65, archbacked fiend would not return, that the danger was past. During the time he watched his enemy he never stirred, and had the polecat discovered him he could not have escaped, so helpless were his limbs from a strange terror that possessed them—one which he had not experienced when found by the lurcher. Fortunately for the Jack, his greatest trials did not overtake him until he came to his full strength and had a perfect knowledge of the hills, where in order to avoid his enemies he now made his forms. These he never left—not even during the breeding season—before sundown, when he stole down to the tableland.
Stone Circle at Boscawen-un.
One dark night he was cropping clover in a field at Boscawen-un, near a circle of stones belonging to a grey past of which no man knows the history. Whilst browsing66, he stopped now and again to listen, as was his wont67, and anon he heard a cry that made his blood run cold. At first he thought that two stoats were fighting on the other side of the stone wall that bounded the field, but as the horrid68 noise drew near the gap through which he had come not long before, he stood up on his hind69 legs and looked towards it. Then he saw not two but five stoats come between the stone pillars where a gate had once hung, and knew at a glance it was his trail they were following. The dread70 of the weasel is so paralysing that some hares—for, like men, all hares have not the same courage—would have crouched71 on the ground, or dragged their limbs in lessening72 circles until their fate overtook them; but not so this little Jack. He was away at once at full speed, and the pack of fiends, sighting him as he passed the rubbing-post near the middle of the field, extended themselves at full gallop74 and, as they seldom fail, when hunting together, to run down their prey, reckoned they would soon be sucking his blood. If the hare had had only the danger behind to fear, his greater speed would soon have enabled him to out-distance his pursuers, astoundingly fleet of foot though they are for their size. It was far otherwise; for at every gap, at every gate, he paused and snuffed the air for tainted snare20 or lurking75 fox, and this allowed the stoats to lessen73 the space that would else have separated them. So that it gladdened the Jack’s eyes, when he had left the hamlets of Brahan and Crowz-an-Wra behind, to see at last the murky76 cone77 of Chapel78 Cairn Brea rising before him against the scarcely less black sky. Once free of the cultivated land he breasted the hill at his best pace, but on reaching the summit paused near a ruined chantry, to listen. His long ears were pricked79 to catch the slightest sound that should break the unusual silence.
The night was still as death, as if nature held its breath at witnessing this tragic80 chase of its own ordering, and before very long the hare heard the weasel-cry coming from the direction where his ascending81 track lay. At first it fascinated him as it does all his tribe, and he felt inclined to stay and await his fate; but the love of life was too strong within him, and shaking off the paralysing feeling that was numbing82 his limbs, he set his head in the direction of Bartinney. With his back to the danger, terror seemed to add wings to his feet, and like the wind he went down the eastern slope of Chapel Cairn Brea until he reached the margin of the Lidden’s Pool. Instantly he dashed through the shallows and, losing foothold where the water deepened, swam across it in a slanting83 direction as he had more than once seen the doe, his mother, do. Having landed, he repeated his usual ruse84, and then squatted in a seat in some sedgy growth not a stone’s throw from the clump of rushes where he was born. With the sheet of water, which is some fifty yards wide, between him and his pursuers, he believed he was safe. Indeed, it did not much disturb him to hear them coming down the hill, but when he saw them take to the water, on the black surface of which their glowing eyes showed like green beads85, he was filled with dismay. They landed near him, for they had swum straight across the pool, and at once, without staying to shake their wet fur, strove to pick up the lost line, two working the margin one way, and three the other. Presently one succeeded, at the spot where the hare had landed, near the extremity86 of a finger-like creek87, and making a cry, called the rest of the pack, which flew to it. Then together they followed the scent through the belt of rushes and over the sable27 face of the heather, and coming to the end, spread out like a fan, the while making a chattering noise, and displaying an activity more fiendish than hound-like in their ineffectual attempts to recover it beyond. A stoat which seemed to be the leader, for he it was that came first through the gap and afterwards led the others across the pool, returned on the trail, making short casts on each side of it, and only just failed to find where the hare had landed from his first spring. Wearying at last of his efforts, or fearful of being discovered at daybreak on such a bare expanse of moorland, he uttered a strange cry which summoned the well-disciplined band around him. Less than a minute later the terror-stricken hare, who had watched their every movement, saw the baulked marauders steal away over the shoulder of the hill by a path slightly barer than the ground about it, where a much-used bridle-track had been in the days of pack-mules, before wheels rumbled88 over the roads that now “ribbon” the countryside.
After this horrible experience it was long before the hare ventured down to the lowlands. Save for an occasional raid on a labourer’s garden at the foot of the hill, he contented89 himself with the less succulent fare of a farm on the barren upland between Bartinney and Caer Bran. The harder life was not without its compensations. By journeying over the hills in search of food—for at times he would wander far to browse90 on wild thyme and other tender herbage in sheltered spots of the waste—he got to know his beats as well as the Earthstopper knew every step of the rough ways between the fox-holts. To this knowledge, and to his powers of endurance thus strengthened, he owed his many escapes from greyhounds, which he led by paths that gave him the advantage.
His favourite seat at this time, when persecution had driven him from his old ones, was amongst the sere91 grasses that grew on an ancient earthwork or “gurgoe” near the summit of Bartinney. In winter-time few bleaker92 spots can be found than the crest93 of this Cornish height, to which the scanty94 herbage clings close like a skull-cap, and on which stonecrop and lichen95 make nearly as hard a struggle for existence as the hare. Yet for one thing the spot is favoured, inasmuch as it catches the earliest rays of the sun when the slopes are yet grey and the lowlands lie in gloom. This advantage the hare did not fail to utilise. Returning wet from the dew-drenched grasses in the troughs of the hills, he would, before entering his form, stand on the boulder96 crowning the crest, and dry his fur as a cormorant97 dries his wings after fishing.
During the great frost before the blizzard98 he clung to the hilltop, and lay there under the snow, with just a breathing-hole in the side of his white hut. For three days he fed on the shoots of the furze, but at last, hunger dispelling99 his fears, he ventured down to a mowhay and had his fill of clover from a stack near a dog-kennel. Fortunately, snow fell that night and hid his tracks, so that he was not followed next morning by poachers, as he had been once before despite the long round he took and the various shifts he resorted to for the purpose of throwing them off his track.
“The many musets through the which he goes,
?Are like a labyrinth100 to amaze his foes101.”
In snow, storm, and sunshine, the hare clung to the summit of the upland, and but rarely used the form near the pool. Its solitude102 and the great silence that brooded over it were almost as sweet to him as life itself. Rarely did anything move across the broad slopes he overlooked save the fleeting103 shadows of the clouds. All the summer through but one man came up the hill—an aged104 botanist105 he was, of world-wide fame—who more than once toiled106 to the top, and the hare got accustomed to the gleam of his big spectacles and the flapping of his long coat-tails, and somehow knew that he was harmless, though his eyes, like those of the men who had sought him with dogs, were always on the ground.
On the dry bank, with the thick grasses to screen him from the hot rays and the sea breezes to fan him, he would sleep through the noontide heat when the lizard107 left the sparse108 brake to bask109 in the sun, and “king-crowner” butterflies flitted above the crest, or settled on the outcropping rocks to open and close their gorgeous wings though there was no eye to admire their beauty. In these neighbours the hare had nothing to fear, nor in the kestrel that hovered110 over the hill, nor now, in the raven that winged its way high overhead as it crossed from the northern to the southern cliffs.
This happy time lasted until the splendour of the dwarf111 furze faded, and chill October stripped the storm-bent thorns of foliage112; with the advent17 of the black month (as the ancient Cornish styled November) it came to an end, and the hare was called upon to bear the greatest trial of his life.
点击
收听单词发音
收听单词发音 |
1
persecution
|
|
| n. 迫害,烦扰 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
2
carrion
|
|
| n.腐肉 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
3
magpie
|
|
| n.喜欢收藏物品的人，喜鹊，饶舌者 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
4
prey
|
|
| n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
5
esteemed
|
|
| adj.受人尊敬的v.尊敬( esteem的过去式和过去分词 )；敬重；认为；以为 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
6
lavished
|
|
| v.过分给予，滥施( lavish的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
7
attest
|
|
| vt.证明，证实；表明 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
8
otter
|
|
| n.水獭 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
9
badger
|
|
| v.一再烦扰，一再要求，纠缠 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
10
formerly
|
|
| adv.从前，以前 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
11
gentry
|
|
| n.绅士阶级，上层阶级 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
12
squire
|
|
| n.护卫, 侍从, 乡绅 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
13
arduous
|
|
| adj.艰苦的，费力的，陡峭的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
14
scent
|
|
| n.气味，香味，香水，线索，嗅觉；v.嗅，发觉 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
15
quarry
|
|
| n.采石场；v.采石；费力地找 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
16
astonishment
|
|
| n.惊奇，惊异 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
17
advent
|
|
| n.(重要事件等的)到来，来临 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
18
resounded
|
|
| v.（指声音等）回荡于某处( resound的过去式和过去分词 )；产生回响；（指某处）回荡着声音 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
19
snares
|
|
| n.陷阱( snare的名词复数 )；圈套；诱人遭受失败（丢脸、损失等）的东西；诱惑物v.用罗网捕捉，诱陷，陷害( snare的第三人称单数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
20
snare
|
|
| n.陷阱，诱惑，圈套；（去除息肉或者肿瘤的）勒除器；响弦，小军鼓；vt.以陷阱捕获，诱惑 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
21
apprehension
|
|
| n.理解，领悟；逮捕，拘捕；忧虑 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
22
lone
|
|
| adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
23
immunity
|
|
| n.优惠；免除；豁免，豁免权 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
24
bleak
|
|
| adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
25
remarkable
|
|
| adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
26
stamina
|
|
| n.体力；精力；耐力 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
27
sable
|
|
| n.黑貂；adj.黑色的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
28
jack
|
|
| n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
29
clump
|
|
| n.树丛，草丛；vi.用沉重的脚步行走 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
30
maternal
|
|
| adj.母亲的，母亲般的，母系的，母方的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
31
snuggest
|
|
| adj.整洁的( snug的最高级 )；温暖而舒适的；非常舒适的；紧身的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
|
32
fluffy
|
|
| adj.有绒毛的，空洞的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
33
raven
|
|
| n.渡鸟，乌鸦；adj.乌亮的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
34
espied
|
|
| v.看到( espy的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
35
ominous
|
|
| adj.不祥的，不吉的，预兆的，预示的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
36
grassy
|
|
| adj.盖满草的；长满草的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
37
margin
|
|
| n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
38
beak
|
|
| n.鸟嘴，茶壶嘴，钩形鼻 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
39
squatted
|
|
| v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的过去式和过去分词 )；非法擅自占用（土地或房屋）；为获得其所有权；而占用某片公共用地。 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
40
varied
|
|
| adj.多样的，多变化的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
41
lark
|
|
| n.云雀，百灵鸟；n.嬉戏，玩笑；vi.嬉戏 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
42
gull
|
|
| n.鸥；受骗的人；v.欺诈 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
43
murmur
|
|
| n.低语，低声的怨言；v.低语，低声而言 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
44
ripple
|
|
| n.涟波，涟漪，波纹，粗钢梳；vt.使...起涟漪，使起波纹； vi.呈波浪状，起伏前进 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
45
yelp
|
|
| vi.狗吠 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
46
snarl
|
|
| v.吼叫，怒骂，纠缠，混乱；n.混乱，缠结，咆哮 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
47
possessed
|
|
| adj.疯狂的；拥有的，占有的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
48
gambolled
|
|
| v.蹦跳，跳跃，嬉戏( gambol的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
|
49
rumble
|
|
| n.隆隆声；吵嚷；v.隆隆响；低沉地说 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
50
watchful
|
|
| adj.注意的，警惕的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
51
timorous
|
|
| adj.胆怯的，胆小的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
52
jaws
|
|
| n.口部；嘴 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
53
wiles
|
|
| n.（旨在欺骗或吸引人的）诡计，花招；欺骗，欺诈( wile的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
54
instinctively
|
|
| adv.本能地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
55
tainted
|
|
| adj.腐坏的；污染的；沾污的；感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 )；使污染；败坏；被污染，腐坏，败坏 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
56
beacon
|
|
| n.烽火，（警告用的）闪火灯，灯塔 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
57
withering
|
|
| 使人畏缩的，使人害羞的，使人难堪的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
58
mound
|
|
| n.土墩，堤，小山；v.筑堤，用土堆防卫 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
59
nostrils
|
|
| 鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
60
drooping
|
|
| adj. 下垂的，无力的 动词droop的现在分词 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
61
fronds
|
|
| n.蕨类或棕榈类植物的叶子( frond的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
62
concealed
|
|
| a.隐藏的，隐蔽的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
63
rustling
|
|
| n. 瑟瑟声，沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
64
agility
|
|
| n.敏捷，活泼 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
65
chattering
|
|
| n. （机器振动发出的）咔嗒声，(鸟等)鸣，啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的，啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
66
browsing
|
|
| v.吃草( browse的现在分词 )；随意翻阅；（在商店里）随便看看；（在计算机上）浏览信息 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
67
wont
|
|
| adj.习惯于；v.习惯；n.习惯 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
68
horrid
|
|
| adj.可怕的；令人惊恐的；恐怖的；极讨厌的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
69
hind
|
|
| adj.后面的，后部的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
70
dread
|
|
| vt.担忧，忧虑；惧怕，不敢；n.担忧，畏惧 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
71
crouched
|
|
| v.屈膝，蹲伏( crouch的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
72
lessening
|
|
| 减轻，减少，变小 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
73
lessen
|
|
| vt.减少，减轻；缩小 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
74
gallop
|
|
| v./n.(马或骑马等)飞奔；飞速发展 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
75
lurking
|
|
| 潜在 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
76
murky
|
|
| adj.黑暗的，朦胧的；adv.阴暗地，混浊地；n.阴暗；昏暗 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
77
cone
|
|
| n.圆锥体，圆锥形东西，球果 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
78
chapel
|
|
| n.小教堂，殡仪馆 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
79
pricked
|
|
| 刺，扎，戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 )； 刺伤； 刺痛； 使剧痛 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
80
tragic
|
|
| adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
81
ascending
|
|
| adj.上升的，向上的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
82
numbing
|
|
| adj.使麻木的，使失去感觉的v.使麻木，使麻痹( numb的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
83
slanting
|
|
| 倾斜的，歪斜的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
84
ruse
|
|
| n.诡计，计策；诡计 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
85
beads
|
|
| n.（空心）小珠子( bead的名词复数 )；水珠；珠子项链 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
86
extremity
|
|
| n.末端，尽头；尽力；终极；极度 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
87
creek
|
|
| n.小溪，小河，小湾 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
88
rumbled
|
|
| 发出隆隆声，发出辘辘声( rumble的过去式和过去分词 )； 轰鸣着缓慢行进； 发现…的真相； 看穿（阴谋） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
89
contented
|
|
| adj.满意的，安心的，知足的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
90
browse
|
|
| vi.随意翻阅，浏览；(牛、羊等)吃草 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
91
sere
|
|
| adj.干枯的；n.演替系列 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
92
bleaker
|
|
| 阴冷的( bleak的比较级 )； （状况）无望的； 没有希望的； 光秃的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
93
crest
|
|
| n.顶点；饰章；羽冠；vt.达到顶点；vi.形成浪尖 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
94
scanty
|
|
| adj.缺乏的，仅有的，节省的，狭小的，不够的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
95
lichen
|
|
| n.地衣, 青苔 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
96
boulder
|
|
| n.巨砾；卵石，圆石 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
97
cormorant
|
|
| n.鸬鹚，贪婪的人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
98
blizzard
|
|
| n.暴风雪 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
99
dispelling
|
|
| v.驱散，赶跑( dispel的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
100
labyrinth
|
|
| n.迷宫；难解的事物；迷路 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
101
foes
|
|
| 敌人，仇敌( foe的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
102
solitude
|
|
| n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
103
fleeting
|
|
| adj.短暂的，飞逝的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
104
aged
|
|
| adj.年老的，陈年的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
105
botanist
|
|
| n.植物学家 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
106
toiled
|
|
| 长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 )； 艰难缓慢地移动，跋涉 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
107
lizard
|
|
| n.蜥蜴，壁虎 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
108
sparse
|
|
| adj.稀疏的，稀稀落落的，薄的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
109
bask
|
|
| vt.取暖，晒太阳，沐浴于 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
110
hovered
|
|
| 鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 犹豫 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
111
dwarf
|
|
| n.矮子，侏儒，矮小的动植物；vt.使…矮小 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
112
foliage
|
|
| n.叶子，树叶，簇叶 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
| 欢迎访问英文小说网 |