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CHAPTER XLI
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McClellan fell before the genius of Lee, and Pope was put in his place.
They met at Second Manassas. The new general ended his brief campaign ina disaster so complete, so appalling1 that it struck terror to the heartof the Nation. Lee had crushed him with an ease so amazing that Lincolnwas compelled to recall McClellan to supreme2 command. When the toll3 ofthe Blood Feud4 was again reckoned twenty-five thousand more of our braveboys lay dead or wounded beneath the blazing sun of the South.
The Confederate Government now believed its army invincible5, led by Lee.
In spite of poor equipment, with the men half clad and half barefooted,Lee was ordered to invade Maryland. It was a political move, undertakenwithout the approval of the Commander.
As the gray lines swept Northward6 to cross the Potomac into Maryland,Lincoln was jubilant. To Hay, his young secretary, he whispered:
"We've got them now, boy. We've got them! The war must speedily end. Leecan never get into Maryland with fifty thousand effective men. The riverwill be behind them. I'll have McClellan on him with a hundred thousandwell-shod, well-fed, well-armed soldiers and the finest equipment ofartillery that ever thundered into battle.
"McClellan's on his mettle8. His army will fight like tigers to show theirfaith in him. They were all against me when I removed him. Now they'llshow me something. Mark my words."Luck was with McClellan. By an accident Lee's plan of campaign hadfallen into his hands. Yet it was too late to forestall9 his first masterstroke. In the face of a hostile army of twice his numbers Lee dividedhis forces, threw Jackson's corps10 on Harper's Ferry, captured the town,Arsenal and Rifle Works, twelve thousand five hundred prisoners and vaststores of war material. Among the booty taken were new blue uniformswith which Jackson promptly11 clothed his men.
Lee met McClellan at Antietam and waited for Jackson to arrive fromHarper's Ferry.
When McClellan's artillery7 opened in the gray dawn, more than sixteenthousand of Lee's footsore men had fallen along the line of march unableto reach the battlefield. The union Commander was massing eighty-seventhousand men behind his flaming batteries. Lee could count on butthirty-seven thousand. He gave McClellan battle with his little armyhemmed in on one side by Antietam Creek12 and on the other by the sweepingPotomac.
The President in Washington received the news of the positions of thearmies and their chances of success with exultation13. As the sun rosea glowing dull red ball of fire breaking through the smoke of theartillery, Hooker's division swept into action and drove the first lineof Lee's men into the woods. Here they rallied and began to mow14 down thecharging masses with deadly aim. For two hours the sullen15 fight raged inthe woods without yielding an inch on either side. Hooker fell wounded.
He called for aid. Mansfield answered and fell dead as he deployed16 hismen. Sedgwick's Corps charged and were caught in a trap between twoConfederate brigades concealed17 and massed to meet them. Sedgwick waswounded and his command barely saved from annihilation.
While this struggle raged on the union right, the center saw a bloodiertragedy. French and Richardson charged the Confederate position. Asunken road crossed the field over which they marched. For four tragichours the men in gray held this sunken road until it was piled withtheir bodies. When the final charge of massed blue took it, they foundto their amazement18 that but three hundred living men had been holding itfor an hour against the assaults of five thousand. So perfect was thefaith of those gray soldiers in Robert E. Lee they died as if it werethe order of the day. It was simply fate. Their Commander could make nomistake.
Burnsides swung his reinforced division around the woods and pushed upthe heights against Sharpsburg to cut Lee's only line of retreat. Heforced the thin, gray lines before him through the streets of thevillage. On its outer edge he suddenly confronted a mass of men clad intheir own blue uniform.
How had these men gotten here?
He was not long in doubt. The blue line suddenly flashed a red wavesquarely in their faces. It was Jackson's Corps from Harper's Ferry intheir new uniforms. The shock threw the union men into confusion, adesperate charge drove them out of Sharpsburg, and Lee's army camped onthe field with the dead.
For fourteen hours five hundred guns and a hundred thousand musketsthundered and hissed19 their message of blood. When night fell more thantwenty thousand of our noblest men lay dead and wounded on the field.
Lee skillfully withdrew his army across the Potomac. Safe in Virginia herallied his shattered forces while he sent Stuart once more in a daringride around McClellan's army.
Again McClellan fell before the genius of Lee. Burnsides was put in hisplace.
They met at Fredericksburg. Burnsides, the courtly, polished gentleman,crossed the Rappahannock River and charged the hills on which Lee'sgrim, gray men had entrenched20. His magnificent army marched into a deathtrap. Lee's batteries had been trained to rake the field from threedirections.
Five times the union hosts charged these crescent hills and five timesthey were rolled back in waves of blood. A fierce freezing wind sprangup from the North. The desperate union Commander thought still to turndefeat into victory and ordered the sixth charge.
The men in blue pulled down their caps and charged once more into thejaws of death. The lines as they advanced snatched up the frozen bodiesof their comrades, carried them to the front, stacked the corpses21 intolong piles for bulwarks22, dropped low and fought behind them. In vain.
The gray hills roared and blazed, roared and blazed with increasingfury. Darkness came at last and drew a mantle23 of mercy over the scene.
The men in blue planted the frozen bodies of their dead along the outerline as dummy24 sentinels and crept through the shadows across the rivershattered, broken, crushed. They left their wounded. Through the longhours of the freezing night the pitiful cries came to the boys in grayon the wings of the fierce North winds. They crawled out into thedarkness here and there and held a canteen to the lips of a dying foe25.
At dawn they looked and saw the piles of the slain26 wrapped in whiteshrouds of snow. The shivering, ragged27, gray figures, thinly clad, sweptdown the hill, stripped the dead and shook the frost from the warmclothes.
Burnsides fell before the genius of Lee and Hooker was put in his place.
Fighting Joe Hooker they called him. At Chancellorsville a few monthslater he led his reorganized army across the same river and threw iton Lee with supreme confidence in the results. He led an army of onehundred and thirty thousand men in seven grand divisions backed by fourhundred and forty-eight great guns.
Lee, still on the hills behind Fredericksburg, had sixty-two thousandmen and one hundred and seventy guns. He had sent Longstreet's corpsinto Tennessee.
Hooker threw the flower of his army across the river seven miles aboveFredericksburg to flank Lee and strike him from the rear while theremainder of his army crossed in front and between the two he wouldcrush the Confederate army as an eggshell.
But the unexpected happened. Lee was not only a stark28 fighter. He was asupreme master of the art of war. He understood Hooker's move from themoment it began. His gray army had already slipped out of his trenchesand were feeling their way through the tangled30 vines and underbrush withsure, ominous31 tread. In this wilderness32 Hooker's four hundred guns wouldbe as useless as his own hundred and seventy. It would be a hand-to-handfight in the tangled brush. The gray veteran was a dead shot and he wascreeping through his own native woods. On this beautiful May morning,Lee, Jackson, and Stuart met in conference before the battle opened.
The plan was chosen. Lee would open the battle and hold Hooker at closerange. Jackson would "retreat." Out of sight, he would turn, marchswiftly ten miles around their right wing and smash it before sundown.
At five o'clock in the afternoon while Lee held Hooker's front,Jackson's corps crept into position in Hooker's rear. The shrill33 note ofa bugle34 rang from the woods and the yelling gray lines of death sweptdown on their unsuspecting foe. Without support the shattered right wingwas crushed, crumpled35 and rolled back in confusion.
At eight o'clock Jackson, pressing forward in the twilight37, was mortallywounded by his own men and Stuart took his command. The gay, youngcavalier placed himself at the head of Jackson's corps and chargedHooker's disorganized army. Waving his black plumed38 hat above hishandsome, bearded face, he chanted with boyish gaiety an improvisedbattle song:
  "Old Joe Hooker,  Won't you come out o' the Wilderness?"His men swept the field and as Hooker's army retreated Lee rode tothe front to congratulate Stuart. At sight of his magnificent figurewreathed in smoke his soldiers went wild. Above the roar of battle rangtheir cheers:
"Lee! Lee! Lee!"From line to line, division to division, the word leaped until thewounded and the dying joined its chorus.
The picket39 lines were so close that night in the woods they could talkto one another. The Southerners were chaffing the Yanks over their manydefeats, when a Yankee voice called through the night his defense40 of thewar to date:
"Ah, Johnnie, shut up--you make me tired. You're not such fighters as yethink ye are. Swap41 generals with us and we'll come over and lick hellout of you!"There was silence for a while and then a Confederate chuckled42 to hismate:
"I'm damned if they mightn't, too!"The morning dawned at last after the battle and they began to bury thedead and care for the wounded. Their agonies had been horrible. Somehad fallen on Friday, thousands on Saturday. It was now Monday. Throughmiles of dark, tangled woods in the pouring rain they still lay groaningand dying.
And over all the wings of buzzards hovered43.
The keen eyes of the vultures had watched them fall, poised44 high as thebattle raged. The woods had been swept again and again by fire. Many ofthe bodies were black and charred45. Some of the wounded had been burnedto death. Their twisted bodies and distorted features told the story.
The sickening odor of roasted human flesh yet filled the air.
It was late at night on the day after, before the wounded had all beenmoved. The surgeons with sleeves rolled high, their arms red, theirshirts soaked, bent46 over their task through every hour of the blacknight until legs and arms were piled in heaps ten feet high beside eachoperating table.
Thirty thousand magnificent men had been killed and mangled47.
The report from Chancellorsville drifted slowly and ominously48 northward.
The White House was still. The dead were walking beside the lonely, tallfigure who paced the floor in dumb anguish49, pausing now and then at thewindow to look toward the hills of Virginia.
Lee's fame now filled the world and the North shivered at the sound ofit.
Volunteering had ceased. But the cannon50 were still calling for fodder51.
The draft was applied52. And when it was resisted in fierce riots, thesoldiers trained their guns on their own people. The draft wheel wasturned by bayonets and the ranks of the army filled with fresh youngbodies to be mangled.
Hooker fell before Lee's genius and Meade took his place.
The Confederate Government, flushed with its costly53 victories, once moresought a political sensation by the invasion of the North. Lee marchedhis army of veterans into Pennsylvania.
At Gettysburg he met Meade.
The first day the Confederates won. They drove the blue army backthrough the streets of the village and their gallant54 General, John F.
Reynolds, was killed.
The second day was one of frightful55 slaughter56. The union army at itsclose had lost twenty thousand men, the Confederate fifteen thousand.
The moon rose and flooded the rocky field of blood and death with silentglory. From every shadow and from every open space through the hotbreath of the night came the moans of thousands and high above theirchorus rang the cries for water.
No succor57 could be given. The Confederates were massing their artilleryon Seminary Ridge58. The union legions were burrowing59 and planting newbatteries.
Fifteen thousand helpless, wounded men lay on the field through the longhours of the night.
At ten o'clock a wounded man began to sing one of the old hymns60 of Zionwhose words had come down the ages wet with tears and winged with humanhopes. In five minutes ten thousand voices, from blue and gray, hadjoined. Some of them quivered with agony. Some of them trembled with adying breath. For two hours the hills echoed with the unearthly music.
At a council of war Longstreet begged Lee to withdraw from Gettysburgand pick more favorable ground. Reinforced by the arrival of Pickett'sdivision of fifteen thousand fresh men and Stuart's Cavalry61, he decidedto renew the battle at dawn.
The guns opened at the crack of day. For seven hours the waves of bloodebbed and flowed.
At noon there was a lull63.
At one o'clock a puff64 of white smoke flashed from Seminary Ridge. Thesignal of the men in gray had pealed65 its death call. Along two miles onthis crest66 they had planted a hundred and fifty guns. Suddenly two milesof flame burst from the hills in a single fiery67 wreath. The Federal gunsanswered until the heavens were a hell of bursting, screaming, roaringshells.
At three o'clock the storm died away and the smoke lifted.
Pickett's men were deploying68 in the plain to charge the heights ofCemetery Ridge. Fifteen thousand heroic men were forming their line torush a hill on whose crest lay seventy-five thousand entrenched soldiersbacked by four hundred guns.
Pickett's bands played as on parade. The gray ranks dressed on theircolors. And then across the plain, with banners flying, they swept andclimbed the hill. The ranks closed as men fell in wide gaps. Not a manfaltered. They fell and lay when they fell. Those who stood moved on andon. A handful reached the union lines on the heights. Armistead with ahundred men broke through, lifted his red battle flag and fell mortallywounded. The gray wave in sprays of blood ebbed62 down the hill, and thebattle ended. Meade had lost twenty-three thousand men and seventeengenerals. Lee had lost twenty thousand men and fourteen generals.
The swollen69 Potomac was behind Lee and his defeated army. So sure wasStanton of the end that he declared to the President:
"If a single regiment70 of Lee's army ever gets back into Virginia inan organized condition it will prove that I am totally unfit to beSecretary of War."The impossible happened.
Lee got back into Virginia with every regiment marching to quick stepand undaunted spirit. He crossed the swollen Potomac, his army infighting trim, every gun intact, carrying thousands of fat Pennsylvaniacattle and four thousand prisoners of war taken on the bloody71 hills ofGettysburg.
The rejoicing in Washington was brief. Meade fell before the genius ofLee, and Grant, the stark fighter of the West, took his place.
The new Commander was granted full authority over all the armies of theunion. He placed Sherman at Chattanooga in command of a hundred thousandmen and ordered him to invade Georgia. He sent Butler with an armyof fifty thousand up the Peninsula against Richmond on the line ofMcClellan's old march. He raised the army of the Potomac to a hundredand forty thousand effective fighting soldiers, placed Phil Sheridan incommand of his cavalry, put himself at the head of this magnificent armyand faced Lee on the banks of the Rapidan. He was but a few miles fromChancellorsville where Hooker's men had baptized the earth in blood theyear before.
A new draft of five hundred thousand had given Grant unlimited72 men forthe coming whirlwind. His army was the flower of Northern manhood. Hecommanded the best-equipped body of soldiers ever assembled under theflag of the union. His baggage train was sixty miles long and wouldhave stretched the entire distance from his crossing at the Rapidan toRichmond.
Lee's army had been recruited to its normal strength of sixty-twothousand. Again the wily Southerner anticipated the march of his foeand crept into the tangled wilderness to meet him where his superioritywould be of no avail.
Confident of his resistless power Grant threw his army across theRapidan and plunged73 into the wilderness. From the dawn of the first dayuntil far into the night the conflict raged. As darkness fell Lee hadpushed the blue lines back a hundred yards, captured four guns anda number of prisoners. At daylight they were at it again. As theConfederate right wing crumpled and rolled back, Long-street arrived onthe scene and threw his corps into the breach74.
Lee himself rode forward to lead the charge and restore his line. Atsight of him, from thousands of parched75 throats rose the cries:
"Lee to the rear!""Go back, General Lee!""We'll settle this!"They refused to move until their leader had withdrawn76. And then with asavage yell they charged and took the field.
Lee sent Longstreet to turn Grant's left as Jackson had done atChancellorsville. The movement was executed with brilliant success.
Hancock's line was smashed and driven back on his second defenses.
Wardsworth at the head of his division was mortally wounded and fellinto Longstreet's hands. At the height of his triumph in a movement thatmust crumple36 Grant's army back on the banks of the river, Longstreetfell, shot by his own men. In the change of commanders the stratagemfailed in its big purpose.
In two days Grant lost sixteen thousand six hundred men, a greater tollthan Hooker paid when he retreated in despair.
Grant merely chewed the end of his big cigar, turned to his lieutenantand said:
"It's all right, Wilson. We'll fight again."The two armies lay in their trenches29 watching each other in grimsilence.

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1 appalling iNwz9     
adj.骇人听闻的,令人震惊的,可怕的
参考例句:
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions.恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • Nothing can extenuate such appalling behaviour.这种骇人听闻的行径罪无可恕。
2 supreme PHqzc     
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
参考例句:
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
3 toll LJpzo     
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
参考例句:
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
4 feud UgMzr     
n.长期不和;世仇;v.长期争斗;世代结仇
参考例句:
  • How did he start his feud with his neighbor?他是怎样和邻居开始争吵起来的?
  • The two tribes were long at feud with each other.这两个部族长期不和。
5 invincible 9xMyc     
adj.不可征服的,难以制服的
参考例句:
  • This football team was once reputed to be invincible.这支足球队曾被誉为无敌的劲旅。
  • The workers are invincible as long as they hold together.只要工人团结一致,他们就是不可战胜的。
6 northward YHexe     
adv.向北;n.北方的地区
参考例句:
  • He pointed his boat northward.他将船驶向北方。
  • I would have a chance to head northward quickly.我就很快有机会去北方了。
7 artillery 5vmzA     
n.(军)火炮,大炮;炮兵(部队)
参考例句:
  • This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
  • The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。
8 mettle F1Jyv     
n.勇气,精神
参考例句:
  • When the seas are in turmoil,heroes are on their mettle.沧海横流,方显出英雄本色。
  • Each and every one of these soldiers has proved his mettle.这些战士个个都是好样的。
9 forestall X6Qyv     
vt.抢在…之前采取行动;预先阻止
参考例句:
  • I left the room to forestall involvements.我抢先离开了这房间以免受牵累。
  • He followed this rule in order to forestall rumors.他遵守这条规矩是为了杜绝流言蜚语。
10 corps pzzxv     
n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组
参考例句:
  • The medical corps were cited for bravery in combat.医疗队由于在战场上的英勇表现而受嘉奖。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
11 promptly LRMxm     
adv.及时地,敏捷地
参考例句:
  • He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
  • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
12 creek 3orzL     
n.小溪,小河,小湾
参考例句:
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
13 exultation wzeyn     
n.狂喜,得意
参考例句:
  • It made him catch his breath, it lit his face with exultation. 听了这个名字,他屏住呼吸,乐得脸上放光。
  • He could get up no exultation that was really worthy the name. 他一点都激动不起来。
14 mow c6SzC     
v.割(草、麦等),扫射,皱眉;n.草堆,谷物堆
参考例句:
  • He hired a man to mow the lawn.他雇人割草。
  • We shall have to mow down the tall grass in the big field.我们得把大田里的高草割掉。
15 sullen kHGzl     
adj.愠怒的,闷闷不乐的,(天气等)阴沉的
参考例句:
  • He looked up at the sullen sky.他抬头看了一眼阴沉的天空。
  • Susan was sullen in the morning because she hadn't slept well.苏珊今天早上郁闷不乐,因为昨晚没睡好。
16 deployed 4ceaf19fb3d0a70e329fcd3777bb05ea     
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
参考例句:
  • Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
  • The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
17 concealed 0v3zxG     
a.隐藏的,隐蔽的
参考例句:
  • The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster. 那些画被隐藏在厚厚的灰泥层下面。
  • I think he had a gun concealed about his person. 我认为他当时身上藏有一支枪。
18 amazement 7zlzBK     
n.惊奇,惊讶
参考例句:
  • All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
  • He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。
19 hissed 2299e1729bbc7f56fc2559e409d6e8a7     
发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 ); 发嘘声表示反对
参考例句:
  • Have you ever been hissed at in the middle of a speech? 你在演讲中有没有被嘘过?
  • The iron hissed as it pressed the wet cloth. 熨斗压在湿布上时发出了嘶嘶声。
20 entrenched MtGzk8     
adj.确立的,不容易改的(风俗习惯)
参考例句:
  • Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.电视看来要在全国广告媒介中牢固地占据头等位置。
  • If the enemy dares to attack us in these entrenched positions,we will make short work of them.如果敌人胆敢进攻我们固守的阵地,我们就消灭他们。
21 corpses 2e7a6f2b001045a825912208632941b2     
n.死尸,尸体( corpse的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云,同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
22 bulwarks 68b5dc8545fffb0102460d332814eb3d     
n.堡垒( bulwark的名词复数 );保障;支柱;舷墙
参考例句:
  • The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty. 新闻自由是自由最大的保障之一。 来自辞典例句
  • Surgery and X-irradiation nevertheless remain the bulwarks of cancer treatment throughout the world. 外科手术和X射线疗法依然是全世界治疗癌症的主要方法。 来自辞典例句
23 mantle Y7tzs     
n.斗篷,覆罩之物,罩子;v.罩住,覆盖,脸红
参考例句:
  • The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green.大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
  • The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow.山上覆盖着一层雪。
24 dummy Jrgx7     
n.假的东西;(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头
参考例句:
  • The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹,只是一个假货。
  • The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。
25 foe ygczK     
n.敌人,仇敌
参考例句:
  • He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe.他明白卡尔可能会成为他的死敌。
  • A friend is a friend;a foe is a foe;one must be clearly distinguished from the other.敌是敌,友是友,必须分清界限。
26 slain slain     
杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词)
参考例句:
  • The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
  • His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。
27 ragged KC0y8     
adj.衣衫褴褛的,粗糙的,刺耳的
参考例句:
  • A ragged shout went up from the small crowd.这一小群人发出了刺耳的喊叫。
  • Ragged clothing infers poverty.破衣烂衫意味着贫穷。
28 stark lGszd     
adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地
参考例句:
  • The young man is faced with a stark choice.这位年轻人面临严峻的抉择。
  • He gave a stark denial to the rumor.他对谣言加以完全的否认。
29 trenches ed0fcecda36d9eed25f5db569f03502d     
深沟,地沟( trench的名词复数 ); 战壕
参考例句:
  • life in the trenches 第一次世界大战期间的战壕生活
  • The troops stormed the enemy's trenches and fanned out across the fields. 部队猛攻敌人的战壕,并在田野上呈扇形散开。
30 tangled e487ee1bc1477d6c2828d91e94c01c6e     
adj. 纠缠的,紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • Your hair's so tangled that I can't comb it. 你的头发太乱了,我梳不动。
  • A movement caught his eye in the tangled undergrowth. 乱灌木丛里的晃动引起了他的注意。
31 ominous Xv6y5     
adj.不祥的,不吉的,预兆的,预示的
参考例句:
  • Those black clouds look ominous for our picnic.那些乌云对我们的野餐来说是个不祥之兆。
  • There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.电话那头出现了不祥的沉默。
32 wilderness SgrwS     
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠
参考例句:
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
33 shrill EEize     
adj.尖声的;刺耳的;v尖叫
参考例句:
  • Whistles began to shrill outside the barn.哨声开始在谷仓外面尖叫。
  • The shrill ringing of a bell broke up the card game on the cutter.刺耳的铃声打散了小汽艇的牌局。
34 bugle RSFy3     
n.军号,号角,喇叭;v.吹号,吹号召集
参考例句:
  • When he heard the bugle call, he caught up his gun and dashed out.他一听到军号声就抓起枪冲了出去。
  • As the bugle sounded we ran to the sports ground and fell in.军号一响,我们就跑到运动场集合站队。
35 crumpled crumpled     
adj. 弯扭的, 变皱的 动词crumple的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire. 她把那封信揉成一团扔进了火里。
  • She flattened out the crumpled letter on the desk. 她在写字台上把皱巴巴的信展平。
36 crumple DYIzK     
v.把...弄皱,满是皱痕,压碎,崩溃
参考例句:
  • Take care not to crumple your dress by packing it carelessly.当心不要因收放粗心压纵你的衣服。
  • The wall was likely to crumple up at any time.墙随时可能坍掉。
37 twilight gKizf     
n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期
参考例句:
  • Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
  • Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。
38 plumed 160f544b3765f7a5765fdd45504f15fb     
饰有羽毛的
参考例句:
  • The knight plumed his helmet with brilliant red feathers. 骑士用鲜红的羽毛装饰他的头盔。
  • The eagle plumed its wing. 这只鹰整理它的翅膀。
39 picket B2kzl     
n.纠察队;警戒哨;v.设置纠察线;布置警卫
参考例句:
  • They marched to the factory and formed a picket.他们向工厂前进,并组成了纠察队。
  • Some of the union members did not want to picket.工会的一些会员不想担任罢工纠察员。
40 defense AxbxB     
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
参考例句:
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
41 swap crnwE     
n.交换;vt.交换,用...作交易
参考例句:
  • I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
  • This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。
42 chuckled 8ce1383c838073977a08258a1f3e30f8     
轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She chuckled at the memory. 想起这件事她就暗自发笑。
  • She chuckled softly to herself as she remembered his astonished look. 想起他那惊讶的表情,她就轻轻地暗自发笑。
43 hovered d194b7e43467f867f4b4380809ba6b19     
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:
  • A hawk hovered over the hill. 一只鹰在小山的上空翱翔。
  • A hawk hovered in the blue sky. 一只老鹰在蓝色的天空中翱翔。
44 poised SlhzBU     
a.摆好姿势不动的
参考例句:
  • The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋,准备俯冲。
  • Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张,手悬在电话机上。
45 charred 2d03ad55412d225c25ff6ea41516c90b     
v.把…烧成炭( char的过去式);烧焦
参考例句:
  • the charred remains of a burnt-out car 被烧焦的轿车残骸
  • The intensity of the explosion is recorded on the charred tree trunks. 那些烧焦的树干表明爆炸的强烈。 来自《简明英汉词典》
46 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
47 mangled c6ddad2d2b989a3ee0c19033d9ef021b     
vt.乱砍(mangle的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • His hand was mangled in the machine. 他的手卷到机器里轧烂了。
  • He was off work because he'd mangled his hand in a machine. 他没上班,因为他的手给机器严重压伤了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
48 ominously Gm6znd     
adv.恶兆地,不吉利地;预示地
参考例句:
  • The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car. 车轮搅起的石块,在车身下发出不吉祥的锤击声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mammy shook her head ominously. 嬷嬷不祥地摇着头。 来自飘(部分)
49 anguish awZz0     
n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦,烦恼
参考例句:
  • She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时,她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
  • The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。
50 cannon 3T8yc     
n.大炮,火炮;飞机上的机关炮
参考例句:
  • The soldiers fired the cannon.士兵们开炮。
  • The cannon thundered in the hills.大炮在山间轰鸣。
51 fodder fodder     
n.草料;炮灰
参考例句:
  • Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.割下来晒干用作饲料的草。
  • Guaranteed salt intake, no matter which normal fodder.不管是那一种正常的草料,保证盐的摄取。
52 applied Tz2zXA     
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
参考例句:
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
53 costly 7zXxh     
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
参考例句:
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
54 gallant 66Myb     
adj.英勇的,豪侠的;(向女人)献殷勤的
参考例句:
  • Huang Jiguang's gallant deed is known by all men. 黄继光的英勇事迹尽人皆知。
  • These gallant soldiers will protect our country.这些勇敢的士兵会保卫我们的国家的。
55 frightful Ghmxw     
adj.可怕的;讨厌的
参考例句:
  • How frightful to have a husband who snores!有一个发鼾声的丈夫多讨厌啊!
  • We're having frightful weather these days.这几天天气坏极了。
56 slaughter 8Tpz1     
n.屠杀,屠宰;vt.屠杀,宰杀
参考例句:
  • I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
  • Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
57 succor rFLyJ     
n.援助,帮助;v.给予帮助
参考例句:
  • In two short hours we may look for succor from Webb.在短短的两小时内,韦布将军的救兵就可望到达。
  • He was so much in need of succor,so totally alone.他当时孑然一身,形影相吊,特别需要援助。
58 ridge KDvyh     
n.山脊;鼻梁;分水岭
参考例句:
  • We clambered up the hillside to the ridge above.我们沿着山坡费力地爬上了山脊。
  • The infantry were advancing to attack the ridge.步兵部队正在向前挺进攻打山脊。
59 burrowing 703e0bb726fc82be49c5feac787c7ae5     
v.挖掘(洞穴),挖洞( burrow的现在分词 );翻寻
参考例句:
  • What are you burrowing around in my drawer for? 你在我抽屉里乱翻什么? 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The forepaws are also used for burrowing and for dragging heavier logs. 它们的前爪还可以用来打洞和拖拽较重的树干。 来自辞典例句
60 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
61 cavalry Yr3zb     
n.骑兵;轻装甲部队
参考例句:
  • We were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 我们翼侧受到一队骑兵的袭击。
  • The enemy cavalry rode our men down. 敌人的骑兵撞倒了我们的人。
62 ebbed d477fde4638480e786d6ea4ac2341679     
(指潮水)退( ebb的过去式和过去分词 ); 落; 减少; 衰落
参考例句:
  • But the pain had ebbed away and the trembling had stopped. 不过这次痛已减退,寒战也停止了。
  • But gradually his interest in good causes ebbed away. 不过后来他对这类事业兴趣也逐渐淡薄了。
63 lull E8hz7     
v.使安静,使入睡,缓和,哄骗;n.暂停,间歇
参考例句:
  • The drug put Simpson in a lull for thirty minutes.药物使辛普森安静了30分钟。
  • Ground fighting flared up again after a two-week lull.经过两个星期的平静之后,地面战又突然爆发了。
64 puff y0cz8     
n.一口(气);一阵(风);v.喷气,喘气
参考例句:
  • He took a puff at his cigarette.他吸了一口香烟。
  • They tried their best to puff the book they published.他们尽力吹捧他们出版的书。
65 pealed 1bd081fa79390325677a3bf15662270a     
v.(使)(钟等)鸣响,(雷等)发出隆隆声( peal的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The bells pealed (out) over the countryside. 钟声响彻郊野。 来自辞典例句
  • A gun shot suddenly pealed forth and shot its flames into the air. 突然一声炮响,一道火光升上天空。 来自辞典例句
66 crest raqyA     
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖
参考例句:
  • The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
  • He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。
67 fiery ElEye     
adj.燃烧着的,火红的;暴躁的;激烈的
参考例句:
  • She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
  • His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。
68 deploying 79c9e662a7f3c3d49ecc43f559de9424     
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的现在分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
参考例句:
  • Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
  • Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。
69 swollen DrcwL     
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
参考例句:
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
70 regiment JATzZ     
n.团,多数,管理;v.组织,编成团,统制
参考例句:
  • As he hated army life,he decide to desert his regiment.因为他嫌恶军队生活,所以他决心背弃自己所在的那个团。
  • They reformed a division into a regiment.他们将一个师整编成为一个团。
71 bloody kWHza     
adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染
参考例句:
  • He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
  • He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
72 unlimited MKbzB     
adj.无限的,不受控制的,无条件的
参考例句:
  • They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
  • There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
73 plunged 06a599a54b33c9d941718dccc7739582     
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
参考例句:
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
74 breach 2sgzw     
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
参考例句:
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
75 parched 2mbzMK     
adj.焦干的;极渴的;v.(使)焦干
参考例句:
  • Hot winds parched the crops.热风使庄稼干透了。
  • The land in this region is rather dry and parched.这片土地十分干燥。
76 withdrawn eeczDJ     
vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出
参考例句:
  • Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
  • All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。


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