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 In which things are not so amusing

 I

 The party had begun late, with a core of only a dozen Sick. Evening was hot  and not likely to get any cooler. They all sweated. The loft1 itself was part  of an old warehouse2 and not a legal residence; buildings in this area of the  city had been condemned3 years ago. Someday there would be cranes, dump  trucks, payloaders, bulldozers to come and level the neighborhood; but in  the meantime, nobody - city or landlords - saw any objection in turning a  minor4 profit.

There hung therefore about Raoul, Slab5 and Melvin's pad a climate of  impermanence, as if the sand-sculptures, unfinished canvases, thousands of  paperback6 books suspended in tiers of cement blocks and warped7 planks8, even  the great marble toilet stolen from a mansion9 in the east 70's (since  replaced by a glass and aluminum11 apartment building) were all part of the  set to an experimental play which its cabal12 of faceless angels could cause  to be struck at any moment without having to give their reasons.

People would arrive, come the late hours. Raoul, Slab and Melvin's  refrigerator was already half filled with a ruby13 construction of wine  bottles; gallon of Vino Paisano slightly above center, left, off-balancing  two 25-cent bottles of Gallo Grenache Rose, and one of Chilean Riesling,  lower right, and so on. The icebox door was left open so people could admire, could dig. Why not? Accidental art had great vogue15 that year.

 

Winsome16 wasn't there when the party began and didn't show up at all that  night. Nor any night after that. He'd had another fight with Mafia in the  afternoon, over playing tapes of McClintic Sphere's group in the parlor17  while she was trying to create in the bedroom.

"If you ever tried to create," she yelled, "instead of live off what other  people create, you'd understand."

"Who creates," Winsome said. "Your editor, publisher? Without them, girl,  you would be nowhere."

"Anywhere you are, old sweet, is nowhere." Winsome gave it up and left her  to scream at Fang18. He had to step over three sleeping bodies on the way out.  Which one was Pig Bodine? They were all covered by blankets. Like the old  pea-and-nutshell dodge20. Did it make any difference? She'd have company.

He headed downtown and after a while had wandered by the V-Note. Inside were  stacked tables and the bartender watching a ball game on TV. Two fat Siamese  kittens played on the piano, one outside chasing up and down the keyboard,  one inside, clawing at the strings21. It didn't sound like much.

"Roon."

"Man, I need a change of luck, no racial slur22 intended."

"Get a divorce." McClintic appeared in a foul23 mood. "Roon, let's go to  Lenox. I can't last the weekend. Don't tell me any woman trouble. I got  enough for both of us."

"Why not. Out to the boondocks. Green hills. Well people."

"Come on. There is a little girl I have to get out of this town before she  flips24 from the heat. Or whatever it is."

It took them a while. They drank beer till sunset and then headed up to  Winsome's where they swapped25 the Triumph for a black Buick. "It looks like a  staff car for the Mafia," said McClintic. "Whoops26."

"Ha, ha," replied Winsome. They continued uptown along the nighttime Hudson,  veering27 finally right into Harlem. And there began working their way in to  Matilda Winthrop's, bar by bar.

Not long after they were arguing like undergraduates over who was the most  juiced, gathering28 hostile stares which had less to do with color than with  an inherent quality of conservatism which neighborhood bars possess and bars  where how much you can drink is a test of manhood do not.

They arrived at Matilda's well past midnight. The old lady, hearing  Winsome's rebel accent, talked only to McClintic. Ruby came downstairs and  McClintic introduced them.

Crash, shrieks29, deep-chested laughter from topside. Matilda ran out of the  room screaming.

"Sylvia, Ruby's friend, is busy tonight," McClintic said.

Winsome was charming. "You young folks just take it easy," he said. "Old  Uncle Roony will drive you anywhere you want, won't look in the rear view  mirror, won't be anything but the kindly31 old chauffeur32 he is."

Which cheered McClintic up. There being a certain strained politeness in the  way Ruby held his arm. Winsome could see how McClintic was daft to get out  in the country.

More noise from upstairs, louder this time. "McClintic," Matilda yelled.

"I must go play bouncer," he told Roony. "Back in five."

Which left only Roony and Ruby in the parlor.

"I know a girl I can take along, said he, "I suppose, her name is Rachel  Owlglass, who lives on 112th."

Ruby fiddled33 with the catches on her overnight bag. "Your wife wouldn't like  that too much. Why don't McClintic and I just go up in the Triumph. You  shouldn't go to that trouble."

"My wife," angry all at once, "is a fucking Fascist34, I think you should know  that."

"But if you brought along -"

"All I want to do is go now somewhere out of town, away from New York, away  to where things you expect to happen do happen. Didn't they ever use to?  You're still young enough. It's still that way for kids, isn't it?"

"I'm not that young," she whispered. "Please Roony, be easy."

"Girl, if it isn't Lenox it will be someplace. Further east, Walden Pond, ha  ha. No. No, that's public beach now where slobs from Boston who'd be at  Revere35 Beach except for too many other slobs like themselves already there  crowding them out, these slobs sit on the rocks around Walden Pond belching,  drinking beer they've cleverly smuggled36 in past the guards, checking the  young stuff, hating their wives, their evil-smelling kids who urinate in the  water on the sly . . . Where? Where in Massachusetts. Where in the country."

"Stay home."

"No. If only to see how bad Lenox is."

"Baby, baby," she sang soft, absent: "Have you heard,/ Did you know/ There  ain't no dope in Lenox."

"How did you do it."

"Burnt cork37, she told him. "Like a minstrel show."

"No," he started across the room away from her. "You didn't use anything.  Didn't have to. No makeup38. Mafia, you know, thinks you're German. I thought  you were Puerto Rican before Rachel told me. Is that what you are, something  we can look at and see whatever we want? Protective coloration?"

"I have read books," said Paola, "and listen, Roony, nobody knows what a  Maltese is. The Maltese think they're a pure race and the Europeans think  they're Semitic, Hamitic, crossbred with North Africans, Turks and God knows  what all. But for McClintic, for anybody else round here I am a Negro girl  named Ruby -" he snorted - "and don't tell them, him, please man."

"I'll never tell, Paola." Then McClintic was back. "You two wait till I find  a friend."

"Rach," beamed McClintic. "Good show." Paola looked upset.

"I think us four, out in the country -" his words were for Paola, he was  drunk, he was messing it up - "we could make it, it would be a fresh thing,  clean, a beginning."

"Maybe I should drive," McClintic said. It would give him something to  concentrate on till things got easier, out of the city. And Roony looked  drunk. More than that, maybe.

"You drive," Winsome agreed, weary. God, let her be there. All the way down  to 112th (and McClintic gunned it) he wondered what he'd do if she wasn't  there.

She wasn't there. The door was open, noteless. She usually left some word.  She usually locked doors. Winsome went inside. Two or three lights were on.  Nobody was there.

Only her slip tossed awry39 on the bed. He picked it up, black and slippery.  Slippery slip, he thought and kissed it by the left breast. The phone rang.  He let it ring. Finally:

"Where is Esther?" She sounded out of breath.

"You wear nice lingerie," Winsome said.

"Thank you. She hasn't come in?"

"Beware of girls with black underwear."

"Roony, not now. She has really gone and got her ass10 in a sling14. Could you  look and see if there's a note."

"Come with me to Lenox, Massachusetts."

Patient sigh.

"There's no note. No nothing."

"Would you look anyway. I'm in the subway."

 Come with me to Lenox [Roony sang],  It's August in Nueva York Ciudad;  You've told so many good men nix;  Please don't put me down with a dark, "see you Dad" . . .

Refrain [beguine tempo]:

   Come out where the wind is cool and the streets are colonial lanes.

   Though the ghosts of a million Puritans pace in our phony old brains,

   I still get an erection when I hear the reed section of the Boston Pops,

   Come and leave this Bohemia, life's really dreamy away from the JDs and cops.

   Lenox is grand, are you digging me, Rachel,

   Broadening a's by the width of an h'll

   Be something we've never tried . . .

   Up in the country of Alden and Walden,

   Country to glow sentimental41 and bald in

   With you by my side,

   How can it go wrong?

   Hey, Rachel [snap, snap-on one and three]: you coming along . . .

She'd hung up halfway42 through. Winsome sat by the phone, holding the slip.  Just sat.

 

II

 Esther had indeed got her ass in a sling. Her emotional ass, anyway. Rachel  had found her earlier that afternoon crying down in the laundry room.

"Wha," Rachel said. Esther only bawled43 louder.

"Girl," gently. "Tell Rach."

"Get off my back." So they chased each other around the washers and  centrifuges and in and out of the flapping sheets, rag rugs and brassieres  of the drying room.

"Look, I want to help you, is all." Esther had got tangled44 in a sheet.  Rachel stood helpless in the dark laundry room, yelling at her. Washing  machine in the next room ran all at once amok; a cascade45 of soapy water came  funneling46 through the doorway47, bearing down on them. Rachel with a foul  expression kicked off her Capezios, hiked her skirt up and headed for a mop.

She hadn't been swabbing five minutes when Pig Bodine stuck his head around  the door. "You are doing that wrong. Where did you ever learn to handle a  swab."

"Here," she said. "You want a swab? I got your swab." She ran at him,  spinning the mop. Pig retreated.

"What's wrong with Esther. I wrapped into her on the way down." Rachel  wished she knew. By the time she'd dried the floor and run up the fire  escape and in the window to their apartment Esther was, of course, gone.

"Slab," Rachel figured. Slab was on the phone after half a ring.

"I'll let you know if she shows."

"But Slab -"

"Wha," said Slab.

Wha. Oh, well. She hung up.

Pig was sitting in the transom. Automatically she turned on the radio for  him. Little Willie John came on singing Fever.

"What's wrong with Esther," she said, for something to say.

"I asked you that," said Pig. "I bet she's knocked up."

"You would." Rachel had a headache. She headed for the bathroom to meditate48.

Fever was touching49 them all.

 

Pig, evil-minded Pig, inferred right for once. Esther showed up at Slab's  looking like any traditional mill hand, seamstress or shop girl Done Wrong:  dull hair, puffy face, looking heavier already in the breasts and abdomen50.

Five minutes and she had Slab railing. He stood before Cheese Danish # 56, a  cockeyed specimen51 covering an entire wall, dwarfing52 him in his shadowy  clothes as he waved arms, tossed his forelock.

"Don't tell me. Schoenmaker won't give you a dime53. I know that already. You  want to put a small bet on this? I say it'll come out with a big hook nose."

That shut her up. Kindly Slab was of the shock-treatment school.

"Look," he grabbed a pencil. "It is no time of year to go to Cuba. Hotter  than Nueva York, no doubt, off season. But for all his Fascist tendencies,  Battista has one golden virtue54: abortion55 he maintains is legal. Which means  you get an M.D. who knows what he's about, not some fumbling56 amateur. It's  clean, it's safe, it's legal, above all, it's cheap."

"It's murder."

"You've turned R. C. Good show. For some reason it always becomes  fashionable during a Decadence57."

"You know what I am," she whispered.

"We'll leave that go. I wish I did." He stopped a minute because he felt  himself going sentimental. He finagled around with figures on a scrap58 of  vellum. "For 300," he said, "we can get you there and back. Including meals  if you feel like eating."

"We."

"The Whole Sick Crew. You can do it inside a week, down to Havana and back.  You'll be yo-yo champion."

"No."

So they talked metaphysics while the afternoon waned59. Neither felt he was  defending or trying to prove anything important. It was like playing one-up  at a party, or Botticelli. They quoted to each other from Liguorian tracts,  Galen, Aristotle, David Riesman, T. S. Eliot.

"How can you say there's a soul there. How can you tell when the soul enters  the flesh. Or whether you even have a soul?"

"It's murdering your own child, is what it is."

"Child, schmild. A complex protein molecule60, is all."

"I guess on the rare occasions you bathe you wouldn't mind using Nazi61 soap  made from one of those six million Jews."

"All right -" he was mad - "show me the difference."

After that it ceased being logical and phony and became emotional and phony.  They were like a drunk with dry heaves: having brought up and expelled all  manner of old words which had always, somehow, sat wrong, they then  proceeded to fill the loft with futile62 yelling trying to heave up their own  living tissue, organs which had no business anywhere but where they were.

As the sun went dawn she broke out of a point-by-point condemnation63 of  Slab's moral code to assault Cheese Danish # 56, charging at it with  windmilling nails.

"Go ahead," Slab said, "it will help the texture64." He was on the phone.  "Winsome's not home." He jittered65 the receiver, dialed information. "Where  can I get 300 bills," he said. "No, the banks are closed . . . I am against  usury66." He quoted to the phone operator from Ezra Pound's Cantos.

"How come," he wondered, "all you phone operators talk through your nose."  Laughter. "Fine, we'll try it sometime." Esther yelped67, having just broken a  fingernail. Slab hung up. "It fights back," he said. "Baby, we need 300.  Somebody must have it." He decided68 to call all his friends who had savings  accounts. A minute later this list was exhausted69 and he was no closer to  financing Esther's trip south. Esther was tramping around looking for a  bandage. She finally had to settle for a wad of toilet paper and a rubber  band.

"I'll think of something," he said. "Stick by Slab, babe. Who is a  humanitarian70." They both knew she would. To whom else? She was the sticking  sort.

So Slab sat thinking and Esther waved the paper ball at the end of her  finger to a private tune71, maybe an old love song. Though neither would admit  it they also waited for Raoul and Melvin and the Crew to arrive for the  party; while all the time the colors in the wall-size painting were  shifting, reflecting new wavelengths72 to compensate73 for the wasting sun.

 

Rachel, out looking for Esther, didn't arrive at the party till late. Coming  up the seven flights to the loft she passed at each landing, like frontier  guards, nuzzling couples, hopelessly drunken boys, brooding types who read  out of and scrawled74 cryptic75 notes in paper books stolen from Raoul, Slab and  Melvin's library; all of whom informed her how she had missed all the fun.  What this fun was she found out before she'd fairly wedged her way into the  kitchen where all the Good People were.

Melvin was holding forth76 on his guitar, in an improvised77 folk song, about  how humanitarian a cove19 his roommate Slab was; crediting him with being (a)  a neo-Wobbly and reincarnation of Joe Hill, (b) the world's leading  pacifist, (c) a rebel with taproots in the American Tradition, (d) in  militant78 opposition79 to Fascism, private capital, the Republican  administration and Westbrook Pegler.

While Melvin sang Raoul provided Rachel with a kind of marginal gloss80 on the  sources of Melvin's present adulation.

It seemed earlier Slab had waited till the room was jammed to capacity, then  mounted the marble toilet and called for silence.

"Esther here is pregnant," he announced, "and needs 300 bucks81 to go to Cuba  and have an abortion." Cheering, warmhearted, grinning ear to ear, juiced,  the Whole Sick Crew dug deep into their pockets and the wellsprings of a  common humanity to come up with loose change, worn bills, and a few subway  tokens, all of which Slab collected in an old pith helmet with Greek letters  on it, left over from somebody's fraternity weekend years ago.

Surprisingly it came to $295 and some change. Slab with a flourish produced  a ten he'd borrowed fifteen minutes before his speech from Fergus  Mixolydian, who had just received a Ford82 Foundation grant and was having  more than wistful thoughts about Buenos Aires, from which there is no  extradition83.

If Esther objected verbally to the proceedings84, no record of it exists,  there being too much noise in the room, for one thing. After the collection  Slab banded her the pith helmet and she was helped up on the toilet, where  she made a brief but moving acceptance speech. Amid the ensuing applause  Slab roared "Off to Idlewild," or something, and they were both lifted  bodily and carried out of the loft and down the stairs. The only gauche85 note  to the evening was struck by one of their bearers, an undergraduate and  recent arrival on the Sick Scene, who suggested they could save all the  trouble of a trip to Cuba and use the money for another party if they  induced a miscarriage86 by dropping Esther down the stairwell. He was quickly  silenced.

"Dear God," said Rachel. She had never seen so many red faces, the linoleum  wet with so much spilled alcohol, vomit87, wine.

"I need a car," she told Raoul.

"Wheels," Raoul screamed. "Four wheels for Rach." But the Crew's generosity  had been exhausted. Nobody listened. Maybe from her lack of enthusiasm  they'd deduced she was about to roar off to Idlewild and try to stop Esther.  They weren't having any.

It was only at that point, early in the morning, that Rachel thought of  Profane88. He would be off shift now. Dear Profane. An adjective which hung  unvoiced in the party's shivaree, hung in her most secret cortex to bloom -  she helpless against it - only far enough to surround her 4' 10" with an  envelope of peace. Knowing all the time Profane too was wheelless.

"So," she said. All it was was no wheels on Profane, the boy a born  pedestrian. Under his own power which was also power over her. Then what was  she doing: declaring herself a dependent? As if here were the heart's  authentic89 income-tax form, tortuous90 enough, mucked up with enough  polysyllabic words to take her all of twenty-two years to figure out. At  least that long: for surely it was complicated, being a duty you could  rightfully avoid with none of fancy's Feds ever to worry about tracking you  down on it, but. That "but." If you did take the trouble, even any first  step, it meant stacking income against output; and who knew what  embarrassments91, exposes of self that might drag you into?

Strange the places these things can happen in. Stranger that they ever do  happen. She headed for the phone. It was in use. But she could wait.

 

III

 Profane arrived at Winsome's to find Mafia wearing only the inflatable  brassiere and playing a game of her own invention called Musical Blankets  with three beaux who were new to Profane. The record being stopped at random92  was Hank Snow singing It Don't Hurt Any More. Profane went to the icebox and  got beer; was thinking of calling Paola when the phone rang.

"Idlewild?" he said. "Maybe we can borrow Roony's car. The Buick. Only I  can't drive."

"I can," Rachel said, "stand by."

Profane with a rueful look back at the buoyant Mafia and her friends,  moseyed down the fire stairs to the garage. No Buick. Only McClintic  Sphere's Triumph, locked, keys gone. Profane sat on the Triumph's hood,  surrounded by his inanimate buddies93 from Detroit. Rachel was there in  fifteen minutes.

"No car," he said, "we're screwed."

"Oh dear." She told him why they had to get to Idlewild.

"I don't see why you're so excited. She wants to get her uterus scraped, let  her."

What Rachel should have said then was "You callous94 son of a bitch," slugged  him and sought transportation elsewhere. But having come to him with a  certain fondness - perhaps only satisfied with this new, maybe temporary,  definition of peace - she tried to reason.

"I don't know if it's murder or not," she said. "Nor care. How close is  close? I'm against it because of what it does to the abortionee. Ask the  girl who's had one."

For a second Profane thought she was talking about herself. There came this  impulse to get away. She was acting95 weird96 tonight.

Because Esther is weak, Esther is a victim. She will come out of the ether  hating men, believing they're all liars97 and still knowing she'll take what  she can get whether he's careful or not. She'll get to where she can take on  anybody: neighborhood racketeers, college boys, arty types, daft and  delinquent98, because it's something she can't get along without."

"Don't, Rachel. Esther, wha. Are you in love with her, you sweat it so  much."

"I am."

"Close your mouth," she told him. "What is your name, Pig Bodine? You know  what I'm saying. How many times have you told me about under the street, and  on the street, and in the subway."

"Them," chopfallen. "Sure, but."

"I mean I love Esther like you love the dispossessed, the wayward. What else  can I feel? For somebody who guilt's such an aphrodisiac for. Up to now  she's been selective. But when she's felt it, feeling always this own breed  of half-assed love for Slab, and the pig Schoenmaker. Going for these  exhausted, ulcerous99, lonely rejects."

"Slab and you were -" kicking a tire - "horizontal once."

"OK." Quiet. "It is myself, what I could slide back into, maybe a  girl-victim underneath100 this red mop -" she had one little hand pushed up  from under into her hair and was slowly lifting the thick mane of it, while  Profane watched and began to grow erect40 - "part of me that I can see in her.  Just as it is Profane the Depression Kid, that lump that wasn't aborted,  that became an awareness101 on the floor of one old Hooverville shack102 in '32,  it's him you see in every no-name drifter, mooch, square's tenant103, him you  love."

Who was she talking about? Profane'd had all night to rehearse but never  expected this. He hung his head and kicked inanimate tires, knowing they'd  take revenge when he was looking for it least. He was afraid now to say  anything.

She held her hair up, eyes gone all rainy; came off the fender she'd been  leaning back on and stood spraddle-legged, hips105 poised106 in a bow, his  direction.

"Slab and I rotated our 90 degrees because we were incompatible107. The Crew  lost all glamour108 for me, I grew up, I don't know what happened. But he will  never leave it, though his eyes are open and he sees as much as I do. I  didn't want to be sucked in, was all. But then you . . ."

Thus the maverick109 daughter of Stuyvesant Owlglass perched like any pinup  beauty. Ready at the slightest pressure surge in the blood lines, endocrine  imbalance, quickening of nerves at the lovebreeding zones to pivot110 into some  covenant111 with Profane the schlemihl. Her breasts seemed to expand toward  him, but he stood fast; unwilling112 to retreat from pleasure, unwilling to  convict himself of love for bums113, himself, her, unwilling to see her proved  inanimate as the rest.

Why that last? Only a general desire to find somebody for once on the right  or real side of the TV screen? What made her hold any promise of being any  more human?

You ask too many questions, he told himself. Stop asking, take. Give.  Whatever she wants to call it. Whether the bulge114 is in your skivvies or your  brain do something. She doesn't know, you don't know.

Only that the nipples which came to make a warm diamond with his navel and  the padded cusp of his ribcage, the girl's ass one hand moved to automatic,  the recently fluffed hairs tickling115 his nostrils116 had nothing, for once, at  all to do with this black garage or the car-shadows which did accidentally  include the two of them.

Rachel now only wanted to hold him, feel the top of his beer belly  flattening117 her bra-less breasts, already evolving schemes to make him lose  weight, exercise more.

McClintic came in and found them like that, holding together until now and  again one or the other lost balance and made tiny staggers to compensate.  Underground garage for a dancing-floor. So they dance all over the cities.

Rachel grasped Everything outside as Paola climbed from the Buick. The two  girls confronted, smiled, passed; their histories would go different from  here on, said the shy twin looks they swapped. All McClintic said was,  "Roony is asleep on your bed. Somebody ought to look after him."

"Profane, Profane," she laughed while the Buick growled118 to her touch, "dear;  we've got so many of them to take care of now."

 

IV

 Winsome came awake from a dream of defenestration, wondering why he hadn't  thought of it before. From Rachel's bedroom window it was seven stories to a  courtyard used for mean purposes only: drunk's evacuation, a dump for old  beer cans and mop-dust, the pleasures of nighttime cats. How his cadaver  could glorify119 that!

He moved to the window, opened, straddled, listened. Girls being tailed  somewhere along Broadway, giggling120. Musician out of work practicing  trombone. Rock 'n' roll across the way:

   Little teen-age goddess

   Don't tell me no,

   into the park tonight

   We're going to go,

   Let me be

   Your teen-age Romeo . . .

Dedicated121 to the duck's-ass heads and bursting straight skirts of the  Street. That gave cops ulcers122 and the Youth Board gainful employment.

Why not go down there? Heat rises. On the areaway's jagged floor there'd be  no August.

"Listen friends," Winsome said, "there is a word for all our crew and it is  sick. Some of us cannot keep our flies zipped, others remain faithful to one  mate till menopause or the Grand Climacteric steps in. But randy or  monogamous, on one side of the night or the other, on or off the Street,  there is no one of us you can point to and call well.

"Fergus Mixolydian the Irish Armenian Jew takes money from a Foundation  named after a man who spent millions trying to prove thirteen rabbis rule  the world. Fergus sees nothing wrong there.

"Esther Harvitz pays to get the body she was born with altered and then  falls deeply in love with the man who mutilated her. Esther sees nothing  wrong either.

"Raoul the television writer can produce drama devious123 enough to slip by any  sponsor's roadblock and still tell the staring fans what's wrong with them  and what they're watching. But he's happy with westerns and detective  stories.

"Slab the painter, whose eyes are open, has technical skill and if you will  'soul.' But is committed to cheese Danishes.

"Melvin the folk-singer has no talent. Ironically he does more social  commenting than the rest of the Crew put together. He accomplishes nothing.

"Mafia Winsome is smart enough to create a world but too stupid not to live  in it. Finding the real world never jibing124 with her fancy she spends all  kinds of energy - sexual, emotional - trying to make it conform, never  succeeding.

"And on it goes. Anybody who continues to live in a subculture so  demonstrably sick has no right to call himself well. The only well thing to  do is what I am going to do now, namely, jump out this window."

So speaking Winsome straightened his tie and prepared to defenestrate.

"I say," said Pig Bodine, who'd been out in the kitchen listening. "Don't  you know life is the most precious possession you have?"

"I have heard that one before," said Winsome, and jumped. He had forgotten  about the fire escape three feet below the window. By the time he'd picked  himself up and swung a leg over, Pig was out the window. Pig grabbed  Winsome's belt just as he went over the second time.

"Now look," said Pig. A drunk, urinating below in the courtyard, glanced up  and started yelling for everybody to come watch the suicide. Lights came on,  windows opened and pretty soon Pig and Winsome had an audience. Winsome hung  jackknifed, looking placidly125 down at the drunk and calling him obscene  names.

"How about letting go," Winsome said after a while. "Aren't your arms  getting tired?"

Pig admitted they were. "Did I ever tell you," Pig said, "the story about  the coke sacker, the cork soaker and the sock tucker."

Winsome started to laugh and with a mighty126 heave, Pig brought him back over  the low rail of the fire escape.

"No fair," said Winsome who had knocked the wind out of Pig. He tore away  and went running down the steps. Pig, sounding like an espresso machine with  faulty valves, joined the pursuit a second later. He caught Winsome two  stories down, standing127 on the rail holding his nose. This time he slung  Winsome over a shoulder and started grimly up the fire escape. Winsome  slithered away and ran down another floor. "Ah, good," he said. "Still four  stories. High enough."

The rock 'n' roll enthusiast128 across the court had turned his radio up. Elvis  Presley, singing Don't Be Cruel, gave them background music. Pig could hear  cop sirens arriving out in front.

So they chased each other up down and around the fire escapes. After a while  they got dizzy and started to giggle129.  The audience cheered them on. So  little happens in New York. Police came charging into the areaway with nets,  spotlights130, ladders.

Finally Pig had chased Winsome down to the first landing, half a story above  the ground. By this time the cops had spread out a net.

"You still want to jump," Pig said.

"Yes," said Winsome.

"Go ahead," said Pig.

Winsome went down in a swan dive, trying to land on his head. The net, of  course, was there. He bounced once and lay all flabby while they wrapped him  in a strait jacket and carted him off to Bellevue.

Pig, suddenly realizing that he had been AWOL for eight months today, and  that "cop" may be defined as "civilian131 Shore Patrolman," turned and raced  fleetly up the fire escape for Rachel's window, leaving the solid citizens  to turn their lights off and go back to Elvis Presley. Once inside, he  reckoned he could put on an old dress of Esther's and a babushka and talk  in falsetto, should the cops decide to come up and inquire. They were so  stupid they'd never know the difference.

 

V

 At Idlewild was a fat three-year-old who waited to bounce over the tarmac to  a waiting plane - Miami, Havana, San Juan - looking blase132 and heavy-lidded  over the dandruffed shoulder of her father's black suit at the claque of  relatives assembled to see her off. "Cucarachita," they cried, "adios,  adios."

For such wee hours the airport was mobbed. After having Esther paged, Rachel  went weaving in and out of the crowd in a random search-pattern for her  strayed roommate. At last she joined Profane at the rail.

"Some guardian133 angels we are."

"I checked on Pan American and all of them," Profane said. "The big ones.  They were full up days ago. This Anglo Airlines here is the only one going  out this morning."

Loudspeaker announced the flight, DC-3 waited across the strip, dilapidated  and hardly gleaming under the lights. The gate opened, waiting passengers  began to move. The Puerto Rican baby's friends had come armed with maracas,  claves, timbales. They all moved in like a bodyguard134 to escort her out to  the plane. A few cops tried to break it up. Somebody started to sing, pretty  soon everybody was singing.

"There she is," Rachel yelled. Esther came scooting around from behind a row  of lockers135, with Slab running interference. Eyes and mouth bawling,  overnight case leaking a trail of cologne which would dry quickly on the  pavement, she charged in among the Puerto Ricans. Rachel, running after her,  sidestepped a cop only to run head on into Slab.

"Oof," said Slab.

"What the hell's the idea, lout136." He had hold of one arm.

"Let her go," Slab said. "She wants to."

"You've slammed her around," yelled Rachel. "You trying to total her? It  didn't work with me so you had to pick on somebody as weak as you are. Why  couldn't you confine your mistakes to paint and canvas."

One way or another the Whole Sick Crew was giving the cops a busy night.  Whistles started blowing. The area between the rail and the DC-3 was  swelling137 into a small-scale riot.

Why not? It was August and cops do not like Puerto Ricans. The  multimetronome clatter138 from Cucarachita's rhythm section turned angry like a  swarm139 of locusts140 turning for the approach on some rich field. Slab began  shouting unkind reminiscences of the days he and Rachel had been horizontal.

Profane meanwhile was trying to keep from being clobbered141. He'd lost Esther  who was naturally using the riot for a screen. Somebody started blinking all  the lights in that part of Idlewild which made things even worse.

He finally broke clear of a small knot of wellwishers and spotted142 Esther  running across the airstrip. She'd lost one shoe. He was about to go after  her when a body fell across his path. He tripped, went down, opened his eyes  to a pair of girl's legs he knew.

"Benito." The sad pout143, sexy as ever.

"God, what else."

She was going back to San Juan. Of the months between the gang bang and now  she'd say nothing.

"Fina, Fina, don't go." Like photographs in your wallet, what good is an old love - however ill-defined - down in San Juan?

"Angel and Geronimo are here." She looked around vaguely144.

 

"They want me to go," she told him, on her way again. He followed,  haranguing145. He'd forgotten about Esther. Cucarachita and father came running  past. Profane and Fina passed Esther's shoe, lying on its side with a broken  heel.

Finally Fina turned, dry-eyed. "Remember the night in the bathtub?" spat,  spun146, dashed off for the plane.

"Your ass," he said, "they would have got you sooner or later." But stood  there anyway, still as any object.

"I did it," he said after a while. "It was me." Schlemihls being, as he  believed, passive, he could not remember ever having admitted anything like  this. "Oh, man." Plus letting Esther get away, plus having Rachel now for a  dependent, plus whatever would happen with Paola. For a boy not getting any  he had more woman problems than anybody he knew.

He started back for Rachel. The riot was breaking up. Behind him propellers  spun; the plane taxied, slewed147, became airborne, was gone. He didn't turn to  watch it.

 

VI

 Patrolman Jones and Officer Ten Eyck, disdaining148 the elevator, marched in  perfect unison149 up two flights of palatial150 stairway, down the hall toward  Winsome's apartment. A few tabloid151 reporters who had taken the elevator  intercepted152 them halfway there. Noise from Winsome's apartment could be  heard down on Riverside Drive.

"Never know what Bellevue is going to turn up," said Jones.

He and his sidekick were faithful viewers of the TV program Dragnet. They'd  cultivated deadpan153 expressions, unsyncopated speech rhythms, monotone  voices. One was tall and skinny, the other was short and fat. They walked in  step.

"Talked to a doctor there," said Ten Eyck. "Young fella named Gottschalk.  Winsome had a lot to say."

"We'll see, Al."

Before the door, Jones and Ten Eyck waited politely for the one cameraman in  the group to check his flash attachment154. A girl was heard to shriek30 happily  inside.

"Oboy, oboy," said a reporter.

The cops knocked. "Come in, come in," called many juiced voices.

"It's the police, ma'am."

"I hate fuzz," somebody snarled155. Ten Eyck kicked in the door, which had been  open. Bodies inside fell back to provide the cameraman a line-of-sight to  Mafia, Charisma156, Fu and friends, playing Musical Blankets. Zap, went the  camera.

"Too bad," the photographer said, "we can't print that one. " Ten Eyck  shouldered his way over to Mafia.

"All right, ma'am."

"Would you like to play," hysterical157.

The cop smiled, tolerantly. "We've talked to your husband."

"We'd better go," said the other cop.

"Guess Al is right, ma'am." Flash attachment lit up the room from time to  time, like a spell of heat lightning.

Ten Eyck flapped a warrant. "All you folks are under arrest," he said. To  Jones: "Call the Lieutenant158, Steve."

"What charge," people started yelling.

Ten Eyck's timing159 was good. He waited a few heartbeats. "Disturbing the  peace will do," he said.

 

Maybe the only peace undisturbed that night was McClintic's and Paola's. The  little Triumph forged along up the Hudson, their own wind was cool, taking  away whatever of Nueva York had clogged160 ears, nostrils, mouths.

She talked to him straight and McClintic kept cool. While she told him about  who she was, about Stencil161 and Fausto - even a homesick travelogue162 of  Malta - there came to McClintic something it was time he got around to  seeing: that the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously  slow, frustrating164 and hard work. Love with your mouth shut, help without  breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. He might have  known, if he'd used any common sense. It didn't come as a revelation, only  something he'd as soon not've admitted.

"Sure," he said later, as they headed into the Berkshires. "Paola, did you  know I have been blowing a silly line all this time. Mister Flab the  original, is me. Lazy and taking for granted some wonder drug someplace to  cure that town, to cure me. Now there isn't and never will be. Nobody is  going to step down from heaven and square away Roony and his woman, or  Alabama, or South Africa or us and Russia. There's no magic words. Not even  I love you is magic enough. Can you see Eisenhower telling Malenkov or  Khrushchev that? Ho-ho."

"Keep cool but care," he said. Somebody had run over a skunk165 a ways back.  The smell had followed them for miles. "If my mother was alive I would have  her make a sampler with that on it."

"You know, don't you," she began, "that I have to -"

"Go back home, sure. But the week's not over yet. Be easy, girl."

"I can't. Can I ever?"

"We'll stay away from musicians," was all he said. Did he know of anything  she could be, ever?

"Flop163, flip," he sang to the trees of Massachusetts. "Once I was hip104 . . ."


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1 loft VkhyQ     
n.阁楼,顶楼
参考例句:
  • We could see up into the loft from bottom of the stairs.我们能从楼梯脚边望到阁楼的内部。
  • By converting the loft,they were able to have two extra bedrooms.把阁楼改造一下,他们就可以多出两间卧室。
2 warehouse 6h7wZ     
n.仓库;vt.存入仓库
参考例句:
  • We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
3 condemned condemned     
adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
  • The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。
4 minor e7fzR     
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
参考例句:
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
5 slab BTKz3     
n.平板,厚的切片;v.切成厚板,以平板盖上
参考例句:
  • This heavy slab of oak now stood between the bomb and Hitler.这时笨重的橡木厚板就横在炸弹和希特勒之间了。
  • The monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab.这座纪念碑由两根垂直的柱体构成,它们共同支撑着一块平板。
6 paperback WmEzIh     
n.平装本,简装本
参考例句:
  • A paperback edition is now available at bookshops.平装本现在在书店可以买到。
  • Many books that are out of print are reissued in paperback form.许多绝版的书籍又以平装本形式重新出现。
7 warped f1a38e3bf30c41ab80f0dce53b0da015     
adj.反常的;乖戾的;(变)弯曲的;变形的v.弄弯,变歪( warp的过去式和过去分词 );使(行为等)不合情理,使乖戾,
参考例句:
  • a warped sense of humour 畸形的幽默感
  • The board has warped. 木板翘了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
8 planks 534a8a63823ed0880db6e2c2bc03ee4a     
(厚)木板( plank的名词复数 ); 政纲条目,政策要点
参考例句:
  • The house was built solidly of rough wooden planks. 这房子是用粗木板牢固地建造的。
  • We sawed the log into planks. 我们把木头锯成了木板。
9 mansion 8BYxn     
n.大厦,大楼;宅第
参考例句:
  • The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
  • The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
10 ass qvyzK     
n.驴;傻瓜,蠢笨的人
参考例句:
  • He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
  • An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。
11 aluminum 9xhzP     
n.(aluminium)铝
参考例句:
  • The aluminum sheets cannot be too much thicker than 0.04 inches.铝板厚度不能超过0.04英寸。
  • During the launch phase,it would ride in a protective aluminum shell.在发射阶段,它盛在一只保护的铝壳里。
12 cabal ucFyl     
n.政治阴谋小集团
参考例句:
  • He had been chosen by a secret government cabal.他已被一个秘密的政府阴谋集团选中。
  • The illegal aspects of the cabal's governance are glaring and ubiquitous.黑暗势力的非法统治是显而易见的并无处不在。
13 ruby iXixS     
n.红宝石,红宝石色
参考例句:
  • She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
  • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
14 sling fEMzL     
vt.扔;悬挂;n.挂带;吊索,吊兜;弹弓
参考例句:
  • The boy discharged a stone from a sling.这个男孩用弹弓射石头。
  • By using a hoist the movers were able to sling the piano to the third floor.搬运工人用吊车才把钢琴吊到3楼。
15 Vogue 6hMwC     
n.时髦,时尚;adj.流行的
参考例句:
  • Flowery carpets became the vogue.花卉地毯变成了时髦货。
  • Short hair came back into vogue about ten years ago.大约十年前短发又开始流行起来了。
16 winsome HfTwx     
n.迷人的,漂亮的
参考例句:
  • She gave him her best winsome smile.她给了他一个最为迷人的微笑。
  • She was a winsome creature.她十分可爱。
17 parlor v4MzU     
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅
参考例句:
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店?
18 fang WlGxD     
n.尖牙,犬牙
参考例句:
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
19 cove 9Y8zA     
n.小海湾,小峡谷
参考例句:
  • The shore line is wooded,olive-green,a pristine cove.岸边一带林木蓊郁,嫩绿一片,好一个山外的小海湾。
  • I saw two children were playing in a cove.我看到两个小孩正在一个小海湾里玩耍。
20 dodge q83yo     
v.闪开,躲开,避开;n.妙计,诡计
参考例句:
  • A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪,才没被车从身上辗过。
  • The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。
21 strings nh0zBe     
n.弦
参考例句:
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
22 slur WE2zU     
v.含糊地说;诋毁;连唱;n.诋毁;含糊的发音
参考例句:
  • He took the remarks as a slur on his reputation.他把这些话当作是对他的名誉的中伤。
  • The drug made her speak with a slur.药物使她口齿不清。
23 foul Sfnzy     
adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规
参考例句:
  • Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
  • What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气!
24 flips 7337c22810735b9942f519ddc7d4e919     
轻弹( flip的第三人称单数 ); 按(开关); 快速翻转; 急挥
参考例句:
  • Larry flips on the TV while he is on vacation in Budapest. 赖瑞在布达佩斯渡假时,打开电视收看节目。
  • He flips through a book before making a decision. 他在决定买下一本书前总要先草草翻阅一下。
25 swapped 3982604ac592befc46570aef4e827102     
交换(工作)( swap的过去式和过去分词 ); 用…替换,把…换成,掉换(过来)
参考例句:
  • I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套,她喜欢我的外套,于是我们就交换了。
  • At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。
26 whoops JITyt     
int.呼喊声
参考例句:
  • Whoops! Careful, you almost spilt coffee everywhere. 哎哟!小心点,你差点把咖啡洒得到处都是。
  • We were awakened by the whoops of the sick baby. 生病婴儿的喘息声把我们弄醒了。
27 veering 7f532fbe9455c2b9628ab61aa01fbced     
n.改变的;犹豫的;顺时针方向转向;特指使船尾转向上风来改变航向v.(尤指交通工具)改变方向或路线( veer的现在分词 );(指谈话内容、人的行为或观点)突然改变;(指风) (在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向)逐渐转向;风向顺时针转
参考例句:
  • Anyone veering too close to the convoys risks being shot. 任何人改变方向,过于接近车队就有遭枪击的风险。 来自互联网
  • The little boat kept veering from its course in such a turbulent river. 小船在这湍急的河中总是改变方向。 来自互联网
28 gathering ChmxZ     
n.集会,聚会,聚集
参考例句:
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
29 shrieks e693aa502222a9efbbd76f900b6f5114     
n.尖叫声( shriek的名词复数 )v.尖叫( shriek的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • shrieks of fiendish laughter 恶魔般的尖笑声
  • For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings, we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears. 多少年来, 报纸上, 广播里, 舞台上, 会场上的声嘶力竭,装腔做态的高调搞得我们震耳欲聋。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
30 shriek fEgya     
v./n.尖叫,叫喊
参考例句:
  • Suddenly he began to shriek loudly.突然他开始大声尖叫起来。
  • People sometimes shriek because of terror,anger,or pain.人们有时会因为恐惧,气愤或疼痛而尖叫。
31 kindly tpUzhQ     
adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
参考例句:
  • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
  • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
32 chauffeur HrGzL     
n.(受雇于私人或公司的)司机;v.为…开车
参考例句:
  • The chauffeur handed the old lady from the car.这个司机搀扶这个老太太下汽车。
  • She went out herself and spoke to the chauffeur.她亲自走出去跟汽车司机说话。
33 fiddled 3b8aadb28aaea237f1028f5d7f64c9ea     
v.伪造( fiddle的过去式和过去分词 );篡改;骗取;修理或稍作改动
参考例句:
  • He fiddled the company's accounts. 他篡改了公司的账目。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He began with Palestrina, and fiddled all the way through Bartok. 他从帕勒斯春纳的作品一直演奏到巴塔克的作品。 来自辞典例句
34 fascist ttGzJZ     
adj.法西斯主义的;法西斯党的;n.法西斯主义者,法西斯分子
参考例句:
  • The strikers were roughed up by the fascist cops.罢工工人遭到法西斯警察的殴打。
  • They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship.他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。
35 revere qBVzT     
vt.尊崇,崇敬,敬畏
参考例句:
  • Students revere the old professors.学生们十分尊敬那些老教授。
  • The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven.中国人将谷物奉为上天的恩赐。
36 smuggled 3cb7c6ce5d6ead3b1e56eeccdabf595b     
水货
参考例句:
  • The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网
37 cork VoPzp     
n.软木,软木塞
参考例句:
  • We heard the pop of a cork.我们听见瓶塞砰的一声打开。
  • Cork is a very buoyant material.软木是极易浮起的材料。
38 makeup 4AXxO     
n.组织;性格;化装品
参考例句:
  • Those who failed the exam take a makeup exam.这次考试不及格的人必须参加补考。
  • Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?你认为她的美丽能弥补她的愚蠢吗?
39 awry Mu0ze     
adj.扭曲的,错的
参考例句:
  • She was in a fury over a plan that had gone awry. 计划出了问题,她很愤怒。
  • Something has gone awry in our plans.我们的计划出差错了。
40 erect 4iLzm     
n./v.树立,建立,使竖立;adj.直立的,垂直的
参考例句:
  • She held her head erect and her back straight.她昂着头,把背挺得笔直。
  • Soldiers are trained to stand erect.士兵们训练站得笔直。
41 sentimental dDuzS     
adj.多愁善感的,感伤的
参考例句:
  • She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.她是多愁善感的人,她相信姻缘命中注定。
  • We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。
42 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。
43 bawled 38ced6399af307ad97598acc94294d08     
v.大叫,大喊( bawl的过去式和过去分词 );放声大哭;大声叫出;叫卖(货物)
参考例句:
  • She bawled at him in front of everyone. 她当着大家的面冲他大喊大叫。
  • My boss bawled me out for being late. 我迟到,给老板训斥了一顿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
44 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。
45 cascade Erazm     
n.小瀑布,喷流;层叠;vi.成瀑布落下
参考例句:
  • She watched the magnificent waterfall cascade down the mountainside.她看着壮观的瀑布从山坡上倾泻而下。
  • Her hair fell over her shoulders in a cascade of curls.她的卷发像瀑布一样垂在肩上。
46 funneling 4981893eeab4f6f028cac7643d0a7d98     
[医]成漏斗形:描述膀胱底及膀胱尿道交接区
参考例句:
47 doorway 2s0xK     
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
参考例句:
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
48 meditate 4jOys     
v.想,考虑,(尤指宗教上的)沉思,冥想
参考例句:
  • It is important to meditate on the meaning of life.思考人生的意义很重要。
  • I was meditating,and reached a higher state of consciousness.我在冥想,并进入了一个更高的意识境界。
49 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
50 abdomen MfXym     
n.腹,下腹(胸部到腿部的部分)
参考例句:
  • How to know to there is ascarid inside abdomen?怎样知道肚子里面有蛔虫?
  • He was anxious about an off-and-on pain the abdomen.他因时隐时现的腹痛而焦虑。
51 specimen Xvtwm     
n.样本,标本
参考例句:
  • You'll need tweezers to hold up the specimen.你要用镊子来夹这标本。
  • This specimen is richly variegated in colour.这件标本上有很多颜色。
52 dwarfing 90bd3f773566822ceb199ebc5ff623f4     
n.矮化病
参考例句:
  • In the Northwest, they are being planted by hedgerow on seedling roots, clonal and dwarfing stocks. 在西北部地区用灌木树篱把它接在实生砧、无性砧及矮化砧上。 来自辞典例句
  • In the Northwest, they are being planted by hedgrow on seedling roots, clonal and dwarfing stocks. 在西北部地区把它接在实生砧、无性砧及矮化砧上。 来自辞典例句
53 dime SuQxv     
n.(指美国、加拿大的钱币)一角
参考例句:
  • A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
  • The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。
54 virtue BpqyH     
n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力
参考例句:
  • He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
  • You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。
55 abortion ZzjzxH     
n.流产,堕胎
参考例句:
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
56 fumbling fumbling     
n. 摸索,漏接 v. 摸索,摸弄,笨拙的处理
参考例句:
  • If he actually managed to the ball instead of fumbling it with an off-balance shot. 如果他实际上设法拿好球而不是fumbling它。50-balance射击笨拙地和迅速地会开始他的岗位移动,经常这样结束。
  • If he actually managed to secure the ball instead of fumbling it awkwardly an off-balance shot. 如果他实际上设法拿好球而不是fumbling它。50-50提议有时。他从off-balance射击笨拙地和迅速地会开始他的岗位移动,经常这样结束。
57 decadence taLyZ     
n.衰落,颓废
参考例句:
  • The decadence of morals is bad for a nation.道德的堕落对国家是不利的。
  • His article has the power to turn decadence into legend.他的文章具有化破朽为神奇的力量。
58 scrap JDFzf     
n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
参考例句:
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
59 waned 8caaa77f3543242d84956fa53609f27c     
v.衰落( wane的过去式和过去分词 );(月)亏;变小;变暗淡
参考例句:
  • However,my enthusiasm waned.The time I spent at exercises gradually diminished. 然而,我的热情减退了。我在做操上花的时间逐渐减少了。 来自《用法词典》
  • The bicycle craze has waned. 自行车热已冷下去了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
60 molecule Y6Tzn     
n.分子,克分子
参考例句:
  • A molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hygrogen and one atom of oxygen.一个水分子是由P妈̬f婘̬ 妈̬成的。
  • This gives us the structural formula of the molecule.这种方式给出了分子的结构式。
61 Nazi BjXyF     
n.纳粹分子,adj.纳粹党的,纳粹的
参考例句:
  • They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻,并出面求和。
  • Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
62 futile vfTz2     
adj.无效的,无用的,无希望的
参考例句:
  • They were killed,to the last man,in a futile attack.因为进攻失败,他们全部被杀,无一幸免。
  • Their efforts to revive him were futile.他们对他抢救无效。
63 condemnation 2pSzp     
n.谴责; 定罪
参考例句:
  • There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。
  • The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。
64 texture kpmwQ     
n.(织物)质地;(材料)构造;结构;肌理
参考例句:
  • We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
  • Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。
65 jittered e1b6aabff9c8d310a23d874f0cfb96ba     
v.紧张不安,战战兢兢( jitter的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • I jittered when the headmaster came in. 当校长进来的时候,我一阵紧张。 来自辞典例句
66 usury UjXwZ     
n.高利贷
参考例句:
  • The interest of usury is unfairly high.高利贷的利息惊人得高。
  • He used to practise usury frequently.他过去经常放高利贷。
67 yelped 66cb778134d73b13ec6957fdf1b24074     
v.发出短而尖的叫声( yelp的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He yelped in pain when the horse stepped on his foot. 马踩了他的脚痛得他喊叫起来。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • A hound yelped briefly as a whip cracked. 鞭子一响,猎狗发出一阵嗥叫。 来自《简明英汉词典》
68 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
69 exhausted 7taz4r     
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的
参考例句:
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长,到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
70 humanitarian kcoxQ     
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
参考例句:
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
71 tune NmnwW     
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
参考例句:
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
72 wavelengths 55c7c1db2849f4af018e7824d42c3ff2     
n.波长( wavelength的名词复数 );具有相同的/不同的思路;合拍;不合拍
参考例句:
  • I find him difficult to talk to—we're on completely different wavelengths. 我没法和他谈话,因为我们俩完全不对路。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Sunlight consists of different wavelengths of radiation. 阳光由几种不同波长的射线组成。 来自辞典例句
73 compensate AXky7     
vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消
参考例句:
  • She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。
  • Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。
74 scrawled ace4673c0afd4a6c301d0b51c37c7c86     
乱涂,潦草地写( scrawl的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • I tried to read his directions, scrawled on a piece of paper. 我尽量弄明白他草草写在一片纸上的指示。
  • Tom scrawled on his slate, "Please take it -- I got more." 汤姆在他的写字板上写了几个字:“请你收下吧,我多得是哩。”
75 cryptic yyDxu     
adj.秘密的,神秘的,含义模糊的
参考例句:
  • She made a cryptic comment about how the film mirrored her life.她隐晦地表示说这部电影是她人生的写照。
  • The new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms.新的保险单在编写时没有隐秘条款或秘密条款。
76 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前;向外,往外
参考例句:
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
77 improvised tqczb9     
a.即席而作的,即兴的
参考例句:
  • He improvised a song about the football team's victory. 他即席创作了一首足球队胜利之歌。
  • We improvised a tent out of two blankets and some long poles. 我们用两条毛毯和几根长竿搭成一个临时帐蓬。
78 militant 8DZxh     
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
参考例句:
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
79 opposition eIUxU     
n.反对,敌对
参考例句:
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
80 gloss gloss     
n.光泽,光滑;虚饰;注释;vt.加光泽于;掩饰
参考例句:
  • John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.约翰极力想掩饰自己的缺点,但是没有用。
  • She rubbed up the silver plates to a high gloss.她把银盘擦得很亮。
81 bucks a391832ce78ebbcfc3ed483cc6d17634     
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
参考例句:
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
82 Ford KiIxx     
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
参考例句:
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
83 extradition R7Eyc     
n.引渡(逃犯)
参考例句:
  • The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱,等待引渡到英国。
  • He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。
84 proceedings Wk2zvX     
n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报
参考例句:
  • He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
  • to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
85 gauche u6Sy6     
adj.笨拙的,粗鲁的
参考例句:
  • He now seems gauche and uninteresting.他显得又笨拙又古板。
  • She was a rather gauche,provincial creature.她是个非常不善交际、偏狭守旧的人。
86 miscarriage Onvzz3     
n.失败,未达到预期的结果;流产
参考例句:
  • The miscarriage of our plans was a great blow.计划的失败给我们以巨大的打击。
  • Women who smoke are more to have a miscarriage.女性吸烟者更容易流产。
87 vomit TL9zV     
v.呕吐,作呕;n.呕吐物,吐出物
参考例句:
  • They gave her salty water to make her vomit.他们给她喝盐水好让她吐出来。
  • She was stricken by pain and began to vomit.她感到一阵疼痛,开始呕吐起来。
88 profane l1NzQ     
adj.亵神的,亵渎的;vt.亵渎,玷污
参考例句:
  • He doesn't dare to profane the name of God.他不敢亵渎上帝之名。
  • His profane language annoyed us.他亵渎的言语激怒了我们。
89 authentic ZuZzs     
a.真的,真正的;可靠的,可信的,有根据的
参考例句:
  • This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
  • Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。
90 tortuous 7J2za     
adj.弯弯曲曲的,蜿蜒的
参考例句:
  • We have travelled a tortuous road.我们走过了曲折的道路。
  • They walked through the tortuous streets of the old city.他们步行穿过老城区中心弯弯曲曲的街道。
91 embarrassments 5f3d5ecce4738cceef5dce99a8a6434a     
n.尴尬( embarrassment的名词复数 );难堪;局促不安;令人难堪或耻辱的事
参考例句:
  • But there have been many embarrassments along the way. 但是一路走来已经是窘境不断。 来自互联网
  • The embarrassments don't stop there. 让人难受的事情还没完。 来自互联网
92 random HT9xd     
adj.随机的;任意的;n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
参考例句:
  • The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
93 buddies ea4cd9ed8ce2973de7d893f64efe0596     
n.密友( buddy的名词复数 );同伴;弟兄;(用于称呼男子,常带怒气)家伙v.(如密友、战友、伙伴、弟兄般)交往( buddy的第三人称单数 );做朋友;亲近(…);伴护艾滋病人
参考例句:
  • We became great buddies. 我们成了非常好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
  • The two of them have become great buddies. 他们俩成了要好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
94 callous Yn9yl     
adj.无情的,冷淡的,硬结的,起老茧的
参考例句:
  • He is callous about the safety of his workers.他对他工人的安全毫不关心。
  • She was selfish,arrogant and often callous.她自私傲慢,而且往往冷酷无情。
95 acting czRzoc     
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
参考例句:
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
96 weird bghw8     
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
参考例句:
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
97 liars ba6a2311efe2dc9a6d844c9711cd0fff     
说谎者( liar的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The greatest liars talk most of themselves. 最爱自吹自擂的人是最大的说谎者。
  • Honest boys despise lies and liars. 诚实的孩子鄙视谎言和说谎者。
98 delinquent BmLzk     
adj.犯法的,有过失的;n.违法者
参考例句:
  • Most delinquent children have deprived backgrounds.多数少年犯都有未受教育的背景。
  • He is delinquent in paying his rent.他拖欠房租。
99 ulcerous 65b0787f57870b74559d529bdcee01a7     
adj.溃疡性的,患溃疡的
参考例句:
  • Cankerous marked by or infected with canker; ulcerous. 具有溃疡特征的或感染上溃汤的;溃烂的。 来自互联网
100 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
参考例句:
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
101 awareness 4yWzdW     
n.意识,觉悟,懂事,明智
参考例句:
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
102 shack aE3zq     
adj.简陋的小屋,窝棚
参考例句:
  • He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前,他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
  • The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。
103 tenant 0pbwd     
n.承租人;房客;佃户;v.租借,租用
参考例句:
  • The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.那名房客因未付房租而被赶走。
  • The tenant is responsible for all repairs to the building.租户负责对房屋的所有修理。
104 hip 1dOxX     
n.臀部,髋;屋脊
参考例句:
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
105 hips f8c80f9a170ee6ab52ed1e87054f32d4     
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的
参考例句:
  • She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
  • They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》
106 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。
107 incompatible y8oxu     
adj.不相容的,不协调的,不相配的
参考例句:
  • His plan is incompatible with my intent.他的计划与我的意图不相符。
  • Speed and safety are not necessarily incompatible.速度和安全未必不相容。
108 glamour Keizv     
n.魔力,魅力;vt.迷住
参考例句:
  • Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
  • The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。
109 maverick 47Ozg     
adj.特立独行的;不遵守传统的;n.持异议者,自行其是者
参考例句:
  • He's a maverick.He has his own way of thinking about things.他是个特异独行的人。对事情有自己的看法。
  • You're a maverick and you'll try anything.你是个爱自行其是的人,样样事情都要尝试一下。
110 pivot E2rz6     
v.在枢轴上转动;装枢轴,枢轴;adj.枢轴的
参考例句:
  • She is the central pivot of creation and represents the feminine aspect in all things.她是创造的中心枢轴,表现出万物的女性面貌。
  • If a spring is present,the hand wheel will pivot on the spring.如果有弹簧,手轮的枢轴会装在弹簧上。
111 covenant CoWz1     
n.盟约,契约;v.订盟约
参考例句:
  • They refused to covenant with my father for the property.他们不愿与我父亲订立财产契约。
  • The money was given to us by deed of covenant.这笔钱是根据契约书付给我们的。
112 unwilling CjpwB     
adj.不情愿的
参考例句:
  • The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
  • His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
113 bums bums     
n. 游荡者,流浪汉,懒鬼,闹饮,屁股 adj. 没有价值的,不灵光的,不合理的 vt. 令人失望,乞讨 vi. 混日子,以乞讨为生
参考例句:
  • The other guys are considered'sick" or "bums". 其他的人则被看成是“病态”或“废物”。
  • You'll never amount to anything, you good-for-nothing bums! 这班没出息的东西,一辈子也不会成器。
114 bulge Ns3ze     
n.突出,膨胀,激增;vt.突出,膨胀
参考例句:
  • The apple made a bulge in his pocket.苹果把他口袋塞得鼓了起来。
  • What's that awkward bulge in your pocket?你口袋里那块鼓鼓囊囊的东西是什么?
115 tickling 8e56dcc9f1e9847a8eeb18aa2a8e7098     
反馈,回授,自旋挠痒法
参考例句:
  • Was It'spring tickling her senses? 是不是春意撩人呢?
  • Its origin is in tickling and rough-and-tumble play, he says. 他说,笑的起源来自于挠痒痒以及杂乱无章的游戏。
116 nostrils 23a65b62ec4d8a35d85125cdb1b4410e     
鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Her nostrils flared with anger. 她气得两个鼻孔都鼓了起来。
  • The horse dilated its nostrils. 马张大鼻孔。
117 flattening flattening     
n. 修平 动词flatten的现在分词
参考例句:
  • Flattening of the right atrial border is also seen in constrictive pericarditis. 右心房缘变平亦见于缩窄性心包炎。
  • He busied his fingers with flattening the leaves of the book. 他手指忙着抚平书页。
118 growled 65a0c9cac661e85023a63631d6dab8a3     
v.(动物)发狺狺声, (雷)作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 );低声咆哮着说
参考例句:
  • \"They ought to be birched, \" growled the old man. 老人咆哮道:“他们应受到鞭打。” 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He growled out an answer. 他低声威胁着回答。 来自《简明英汉词典》
119 glorify MeNzm     
vt.颂扬,赞美,使增光,美化
参考例句:
  • Politicians have complained that the media glorify drugs.政治家们抱怨媒体美化毒品。
  • We are all committed to serving the Lord and glorifying His name in the best way we know.我们全心全意敬奉上帝,竭尽所能颂扬他的美名。
120 giggling 2712674ae81ec7e853724ef7e8c53df1     
v.咯咯地笑( giggle的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • We just sat there giggling like naughty schoolchildren. 我们只是坐在那儿像调皮的小学生一样的咯咯地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I can't stand her giggling, she's so silly. 她吃吃地笑,叫我真受不了,那样子傻透了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
121 dedicated duHzy2     
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
参考例句:
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
122 ulcers CfBzhM     
n.溃疡( ulcer的名词复数 );腐烂物;道德败坏;腐败
参考例句:
  • Detachment of the dead cells produces erosions and ulcers. 死亡细胞的脱落,产生糜烂和溃疡。 来自辞典例句
  • 75% of postbulbar ulcers occur proximal to the duodenal papilla. 75%的球后溃疡发生在十二指肠乳头近侧。 来自辞典例句
123 devious 2Pdzv     
adj.不坦率的,狡猾的;迂回的,曲折的
参考例句:
  • Susan is a devious person and we can't depend on her.苏姗是个狡猾的人,我们不能依赖她。
  • He is a man who achieves success by devious means.他这个人通过不正当手段获取成功。
124 jibing b301d13de57ddc8a07356514721312df     
v.与…一致( jibe的现在分词 );(与…)相符;相匹配
参考例句:
125 placidly c0c28951cb36e0d70b9b64b1d177906e     
adv.平稳地,平静地
参考例句:
  • Hurstwood stood placidly by, while the car rolled back into the yard. 当车子开回场地时,赫斯渥沉着地站在一边。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • The water chestnut floated placidly there, where it would grow. 那棵菱角就又安安稳稳浮在水面上生长去了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
126 mighty YDWxl     
adj.强有力的;巨大的
参考例句:
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
127 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
128 enthusiast pj7zR     
n.热心人,热衷者
参考例句:
  • He is an enthusiast about politics.他是个热衷于政治的人。
  • He was an enthusiast and loved to evoke enthusiasm in others.他是一个激情昂扬的人,也热中于唤起他人心中的激情。
129 giggle 4eNzz     
n.痴笑,咯咯地笑;v.咯咯地笑着说
参考例句:
  • Both girls began to giggle.两个女孩都咯咯地笑了起来。
  • All that giggle and whisper is too much for me.我受不了那些咯咯的笑声和交头接耳的样子。
130 spotlights c4053b79301cdb37721ff8e9049b61ef     
n.聚光灯(的光)( spotlight的名词复数 );公众注意的中心v.聚光照明( spotlight的第三人称单数 );使公众注意,使突出醒目
参考例句:
  • The room was lit by spotlights. 房间被聚光灯照亮。
  • The dazzle of the spotlights made him ill at ease. 聚光灯的耀眼强光使他局促不安。 来自辞典例句
131 civilian uqbzl     
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
参考例句:
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
132 blase 6xszu1     
adj.厌烦于享乐的
参考例句:
  • She's very blase about parties.她非常腻烦聚会。
  • The film star is blase about endless flattery now.那位电影明星现在对无休无止的吹捧已经厌烦了。
133 guardian 8ekxv     
n.监护人;守卫者,保护者
参考例句:
  • The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
  • The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。
134 bodyguard 0Rfy2     
n.护卫,保镖
参考例句:
  • She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.她不管到哪儿都得有带武器的保镖跟从。
  • The big guy standing at his side may be his bodyguard.站在他身旁的那个大个子可能是他的保镖。
135 lockers ae9a7637cc6cf1061eb77c2c9199ae73     
n.寄物柜( locker的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • I care about more lockers for the teachers. 我关心教师要有更多的储物柜。 来自辞典例句
  • Passengers are requested to stow their hand-baggage in the lockers above the seats. 旅客须将随身携带的行李放入座位上方的贮藏柜里。 来自辞典例句
136 lout 83eyW     
n.粗鄙的人;举止粗鲁的人
参考例句:
  • He's just an ill-bred lout.他是个缺乏教养的乡巴佬。
  • He had no training, no skills and he was just a big, bungling,useless lout!什么也不行,什么也不会,自己只是个傻大黑粗的废物!
137 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。
138 clatter 3bay7     
v./n.(使)发出连续而清脆的撞击声
参考例句:
  • The dishes and bowls slid together with a clatter.碟子碗碰得丁丁当当的。
  • Don't clatter your knives and forks.别把刀叉碰得咔哒响。
139 swarm dqlyj     
n.(昆虫)等一大群;vi.成群飞舞;蜂拥而入
参考例句:
  • There is a swarm of bees in the tree.这树上有一窝蜜蜂。
  • A swarm of ants are moving busily.一群蚂蚁正在忙碌地搬家。
140 locusts 0fe5a4959a3a774517196dcd411abf1e     
n.蝗虫( locust的名词复数 );贪吃的人;破坏者;槐树
参考例句:
  • a swarm of locusts 一大群蝗虫
  • In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything. 很快蝗虫就飞落下来开始吃东西,什么都吃。 来自《简明英汉词典》
141 clobbered 937eab62b45d34231c7600ac11be8f7b     
v.狠揍, (不停)猛打( clobber的过去式和过去分词 );彻底击败
参考例句:
  • The paper got clobbered with libel damages of half a million pounds. 这家报纸被罚以五十万英镑的诽谤损害赔偿金。
  • The robbers clobbered the shopkeeper to make him open the safe. 强盗们殴打店主迫使他打开保险箱。 来自辞典例句
142 spotted 7FEyj     
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
参考例句:
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
143 pout YP8xg     
v.撅嘴;绷脸;n.撅嘴;生气,不高兴
参考例句:
  • She looked at her lover with a pretentious pout.她看着恋人,故作不悦地撅着嘴。
  • He whined and pouted when he did not get what he wanted.他要是没得到想要的东西就会发牢骚、撅嘴。
144 vaguely BfuzOy     
adv.含糊地,暖昧地
参考例句:
  • He had talked vaguely of going to work abroad.他含糊其词地说了到国外工作的事。
  • He looked vaguely before him with unseeing eyes.他迷迷糊糊的望着前面,对一切都视而不见。
145 haranguing b574472f7a86789d4fb85291dfd6eb5b     
v.高谈阔论( harangue的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • He continued in his customary, haranguing style. 他继续以他一贯的夸夸其谈的手法讲下去。 来自辞典例句
  • That lady was still haranguing the girl. 那位女士仍然对那女孩喋喋不休地训斥。 来自互联网
146 spun kvjwT     
v.纺,杜撰,急转身
参考例句:
  • His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
  • Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。
147 slewed 4a82060491116ad4de24f9823e1c5a19     
adj.喝醉的v.杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去式 )( slew的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The car skidded and slewed sideways. 汽车打滑,向一侧偏去。
  • The bus slewed sideways. 公共汽车滑到了一边。 来自辞典例句
148 disdaining 6cad752817013a6cc1ba1ac416b9f91b     
鄙视( disdain的现在分词 ); 不屑于做,不愿意做
参考例句:
149 unison gKCzB     
n.步调一致,行动一致
参考例句:
  • The governments acted in unison to combat terrorism.这些国家的政府一致行动对付恐怖主义。
  • My feelings are in unison with yours.我的感情与你的感情是一致的。
150 palatial gKhx0     
adj.宫殿般的,宏伟的
参考例句:
  • Palatial office buildings are being constructed in the city.那个城市正在兴建一些宫殿式办公大楼。
  • He bought a palatial house.他买了套富丽堂皇的大房子。
151 tabloid wIDzy     
adj.轰动性的,庸俗的;n.小报,文摘
参考例句:
  • He launched into a verbal assault on tabloid journalism.他口头对小报新闻进行了抨击。
  • He believes that the tabloid press has behaved disgracefully.他认为小报媒体的行为不太光彩。
152 intercepted 970326ac9f606b6dc4c2550a417e081e     
拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 ); 截住; 截击; 拦阻
参考例句:
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆,记者们把他拦截住了。
  • Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance. 他想从后门溜走,记者把他截住了。
153 deadpan 6yExR     
n. 无表情的
参考例句:
  • Some people don't catch his deadpan humor,that makes it even funnier.有些人不能了解他那种无表情的幽默,因此更有趣。
  • She put the letter on the desk in front of me,her face deadpan,not a flicker of a smile.她把那封信放在我面前的桌子上,故意一 脸严肃,没有一丝的笑容。
154 attachment POpy1     
n.附属物,附件;依恋;依附
参考例句:
  • She has a great attachment to her sister.她十分依恋她的姐姐。
  • She's on attachment to the Ministry of Defense.她现在隶属于国防部。
155 snarled ti3zMA     
v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的过去式和过去分词 );咆哮着说,厉声地说
参考例句:
  • The dog snarled at us. 狗朝我们低声吼叫。
  • As I advanced towards the dog, It'snarled and struck at me. 我朝那条狗走去时,它狂吠着向我扑来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
156 charisma uX3ze     
n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质,魅力
参考例句:
  • He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力,是个伟人。
  • I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力,能吸引这么多人。
157 hysterical 7qUzmE     
adj.情绪异常激动的,歇斯底里般的
参考例句:
  • He is hysterical at the sight of the photo.他一看到那张照片就异常激动。
  • His hysterical laughter made everybody stunned.他那歇斯底里的笑声使所有的人不知所措。
158 lieutenant X3GyG     
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
参考例句:
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
159 timing rgUzGC     
n.时间安排,时间选择
参考例句:
  • The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
  • The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。
160 clogged 0927b23da82f60cf3d3f2864c1fbc146     
(使)阻碍( clog的过去式和过去分词 ); 淤滞
参考例句:
  • The narrow streets were clogged with traffic. 狭窄的街道上交通堵塞。
  • The intake of gasoline was stopped by a clogged fuel line. 汽油的注入由于管道阻塞而停止了。
161 stencil 1riyO     
v.用模版印刷;n.模版;复写纸,蜡纸
参考例句:
  • He then stencilled the ceiling with a moon and stars motif.他随后用模版在天花板上印上了月亮和繁星图案。
  • Serveral of commonly used methods are photoprinting,photoengraving,mechnical engraving,and stencil.通常所采用的几种储存方法是:影印法、照相蚀刻、机械雕刻和模板。
162 travelogue BmNwo     
n.游记;旅行见闻
参考例句:
  • Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache.马可·波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
  • The book adds up to a readable,sociopolitical travelogue of America.总的看,这是一部尚可一读的描述美国社会和政治的游记。
163 flop sjsx2     
n.失败(者),扑通一声;vi.笨重地行动,沉重地落下
参考例句:
  • The fish gave a flop and landed back in the water.鱼扑通一声又跳回水里。
  • The marketing campaign was a flop.The product didn't sell.市场宣传彻底失败,产品卖不出去。
164 frustrating is9z54     
adj.产生挫折的,使人沮丧的,令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
参考例句:
  • It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间,真令人懊恼。
  • It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》
165 skunk xERzE     
n.臭鼬,黄鼠狼;v.使惨败,使得零分;烂醉如泥
参考例句:
  • That was a rotten thing to do, you skunk!那种事做得太缺德了,你这卑鄙的家伙!
  • The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.受到攻击时臭鼬会发出一种难闻的气味。


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