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Chapter 21 A Scare
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"Brother Alec, you surely don't mean to allow that child to go outsuch a bitter cold day as this," said Mrs. Myra, looking into thestudy, where the Doctor sat reading his paper, one Februarymorning.

  "Why not? If a delicate invalid1 like yourself can bear it, surely myhearty girl can, especially as she is dressed for cold weather,"answered Dr. Alec with provoking confidence.

  "But you have no idea how sharp the wind is. I am chilled to thevery marrow2 of my bones," answered Aunt Myra, chafing3 the endof her purple nose with her sombre glove.

  "I don't doubt it, ma'am, if you will wear crape and silk instead offur and flannel4. Rosy5 goes out in all weathers, and will be none theworse for an hour's brisk skating.""Well, I warn you that you are trifling6 with the child's health, anddepending too much on the seeming improvement she has madethis year. She is a delicate creature for all that, and will drop awaysuddenly at the first serious attack, as her poor mother did,"croaked Aunt Myra, with a despondent7 wag of the big bonnet8.

  "I'll risk it," answered Dr. Alec, knitting his brows, as he alwaysdid when any allusion9 was made to that other Rose.

  "Mark my words, you will repent10 it," and with that awful prophecy,Aunt Myra departed like a black shadow.

  Now it must be confessed that among the Doctor's failings and hehad his share was a very masculine dislike of advice which wasthrust upon him unasked. He always listened with respect to thegreat-aunts, and often consulted Mrs. Jessie; but the other threeladies tried his patience sorely, by constant warnings, complaintsand counsels. Aunt Myra was an especial trial, and he alwaysturned contrary the moment she began to talk. He could not help it,and often laughed about it with comic frankness. Here now was asample of it, for he had just been thinking that Rose had betterdefer her run till the wind went down and the sun was warmer. ButAunt Myra spoke12, and he could not resist the temptation to makelight of her advice, and let Rose brave the cold. He had no fear ofits harming her, for she went out every day, and it was a greatsatisfaction to him to see her run down the avenue a minuteafterward, with her skates on her arm, looking like a rosy-facedEsquimaux in her seal-skin suit, as she smiled at Aunt Myrastalking along as solemnly as a crow.

  "I hope the child won't stay out long, for this wind is enough tochill the marrow in younger bones than Myra's," thought Dr. Alec,half an hour later, as he drove toward the city to see the fewpatients he had consented to take for old acquaintance' sake.

  The thought returned several times that morning, for it was truly abitter day, and, in spite of his bear-skin coat, the Doctor shivered.

  But he had great faith in Rose's good sense, and it never occurredto him that she was making a little Casabianca of herself, with thedifference of freezing instead of burning at her post.

  You see, Mac had made an appointment to meet her at a certainspot, and have a grand skating bout11 as soon as the few lessons hewas allowed were over. She had promised to wait for him, and didso with a faithfulness that cost her dear, because Mac forgot hisappointment when the lessons were done, and became absorbed ina chemical experiment, till a general combustion13 of gases drovehim out of his laboratory. Then he suddenly remembered Rose,and would gladly have hurried away to her, but his mother forbadehis going out, for the sharp wind would hurt his eyes.

  "She will wait and wait, mother, for she always keeps her word,and I told her to hold on till I came," explained Mac, with visionsof a shivering little figure watching on the windy hill-top.

  "Of course, your uncle won't let her go out such a day as this. If hedoes, she will have the sense to come here for you, or to go homeagain when you don't appear," said Aunt Jane, returning to her"Watts on the Mind.""I wish Steve would just cut up and see if she's there, since I can'tgo," began Mac, anxiously.

  "Steve won't stir a peg14, thank you. He's got his own toes to thawout, and wants his dinner," answered Dandy, just in from school,and wrestling impatiently with his boots.

  So Mac resigned himself, and Rose waited dutifully tilldinner-time assured her that her waiting was in vain. She had doneher best to keep warm, had skated till she was tired and hot, thenstood watching others till she was chilled; tried to get up a glowagain by trotting16 up and down the road, but failed to do so, andfinally cuddled disconsolately17 under a pine-tree to wait and watch.

  When she at length started for home, she was benumbed with cold,and could hardly make her way against the wind that buffeted18 thefrost-bitten rose most unmercifully.

  Dr. Alec was basking19 in the warmth of the study fire, after hisdrive, when the sound of a stifled20 sob21 made him hurry to the doorand look anxiously into the hall. Rose lay in a shivering bunchnear the register, with her things half off, wringing22 her hands, andtrying not to cry with the pain returning warmth brought to herhalf-frozen fingers.

  "My darling, what is it?" and Uncle Alec had her in his arms in aminute.

  "Mac didn't come I can't get warm the fire makes me ache!" andwith a long shiver Rose burst out crying, while her teeth chattered,and her poor little nose was so blue, it made one's heart ache to seeit.

  In less time than it takes to tell it, Dr. Alec had her on the sofarolled up in the bear-skin coat, with Phebe rubbing her cold feetwhile he rubbed the aching hands, and Aunt Plenty made acomfortable hot drink, and Aunt Peace sent down her ownfoot-warmer and embroidered23 blanket "for the dear."Full of remorseful25 tenderness, Uncle Alec worked over his newpatient till she declared she was all right again. He would not lether get up to dinner, but fed her himself, and then forgot his ownwhile he sat watching her fall into a drowse, for Aunt Plenty'scordial made her sleepy.

  She lay so several hours for the drowse deepened into a heavysleep, and Uncle Alec, still at his post, saw with growing anxietythat a feverish26 colour began to burn in her cheeks, that herbreathing was quick and uneven27, and now and then she gave alittle moan, as if in pain. Suddenly she woke up with a start, andseeing Aunt Plenty bending over her, put out her arms like a sickchild, saying wearily"Please, could I go to bed?""The best place for you, deary. Take her right up, Alec; I've got thehot water ready, and after a nice bath, she shall have a cup of mysage tea, and be rolled up in blankets to sleep off her cold,"answered the old lady, cheerily, as she bustled29 away to give orders.

  "Are you in pain, darling?" asked Uncle Alec, as he carried her up.

  "My side aches when I breathe, and I feel stiff and queer; but itisn't bad, so don't be troubled, uncle," whispered Rose, with a littlehot hand against his cheek.

  But the poor doctor did look troubled, and had cause to do so, forjust then Rose tried to laugh at Dolly charging into the room with awarming-pan, but could not, for the sharp pain took her breathaway and made her cry out.

  "Pleurisy," sighed Aunt Plenty, from the depths of the bath-tub.

  "Pewmonia!" groaned30 Dolly, burrowing31 among the bedclothes withthe long-handled pan, as if bent32 on fishing up that treacherousdisease.

  "Oh, is it bad?" asked Phebe, nearly dropping a pail of hot water inher dismay, for she knew nothing of sickness, and Dolly'ssuggestion had a peculiarly dreadful sound to her.

  "Hush!" ordered the Doctor, in a tone that silenced all furtherpredictions, and made everyone work with a will.

  "Make her as comfortable as you can, and when she is in her littlebed I'll come and say good-night," he added, when the bath wasready and the blankets browning nicely before the fire.

  Then he went away to talk quite cheerfully to Aunt Peace about itsbeing "only a chill"; after which he tramped up and down the hall,pulling his beard and knitting his brows, sure signs of great inwardperturbation.

  "I thought it would be too good luck to get through the yearwithout a downfall. Confound my perversity33! Why couldn't I takeMyra's advice and keep Rose at home. It's not fair that the poorchild should suffer for my sinful over-confidence. She shall notsuffer for it! Pneumonia34, indeed! I defy it," and he shook his fist inthe ugly face of an Indian idol35 that happened to be before him, asif that particularly hideous36 god had some spite against his ownlittle goddess.

  In spite of his defiance37 his heart sunk when he saw Rose again, forthe pain was worse, and the bath and blankets, the warming-panand piping-hot sage28 tea, were all in vain. For several hours therewas no rest for the poor child, and all manner of gloomyforebodings haunted the minds of those who hovered38 about herwith faces full of the tenderest anxiety.

  In the midst of the worst paroxysm Charlie came to leave amessage from his mother, and was met by Phebe comingdespondently downstairs with a mustard plaster that had broughtno relief.

  "What the dickens is the matter? You look as dismal39 as atombstone," he said, as she held up her hand to stop his livelywhistling.

  "Miss Rose is dreadful sick.""The deuce she is!""Don't swear, Mr. Charlie; she really is, and it's Mr. Mac's fault,"and Phebe told the sad tale in a few sharp words, for she felt at warwith the entire race of boys at that moment.

  "I'll give it to him, make your mind easy about that," said Charlie,with an ominous40 doubling up of his fist. "But Rose isn'tdangerously ill, is she?" he added anxiously, as Aunt Plenty wasseen to trot15 across the upper hall, shaking a bottle violently as shewent.

  "Oh, but she is though. The Doctor don't say much, but he don'tcall it a 'chill' any more. It's 'pleurisy' now, and I'm so afraid it willbe pewmonia to-morrow," answered Phebe, with a despairingglance at the plaster.

  Charlie exploded into a stifled laugh at the new pronunciation ofpneumonia, to Phebe's great indignation.

  "How can you have the heart to do it, and she in such horrid41 pain?

  Hark to that, and then laugh if you darst," she said with a tragicgesture, and her black eyes full of fire.

  Charlie listened and heard little moans that went to his heart andmade his face as sober as Phebe's. "O uncle, please stop the pain,and let me rest a minute! Don't tell the boys I wasn't brave. I try tobear it, but it's so sharp I can't help crying."Neither could Charlie, when he heard the broken voice say that;but, boy-like, he wouldn't own it, and said pettishly42, as he rubbedhis sleeve across his eyes"Don't hold that confounded thing right under my nose; themustard makes my eyes smart.""Don't see how it can, when it hasn't any more strength in it thanmeal. The Doctor said so, and I'm going to get some better," beganPhebe, not a bit ashamed of the great tears that were bedewing thecondemned plaster.

  "I'll go!" and Charlie was off like a shot, glad of an excuse to getout of sight for a few minutes.

  When he came back all inconvenient43 emotion had been disposedof, and, having delivered a box of the hottest mustard procurablefor money, he departed to "blow up" Mac, that being his next dutyin his opinion. He did it so energetically and thoroughly44 that thepoor Worm was cast into the depths of remorseful despair, andwent to bed that evening feeling that he was an outcast fromamong men, and bore the mark of Cain upon his brow.

  Thanks to the skill of the Doctor, and the devotion of his helpers,Rose grew easier about midnight, and all hoped that the worst wasover. Phebe was making tea by the study fire, for the Doctor hadforgotten to eat and drink since Rose was ill, and Aunt Plentyinsisted on his having a "good cordial dish of tea" after hisexertions. A tap on the window startled Phebe, and, looking up,she saw a face peering in. She was not afraid, for a second lookshowed her that it was neither ghost nor burglar, but Mac, lookingpale and wild in the wintry moonlight.

  "Come and let a fellow in," he said in a low tone, and when hestood in the hall he clutched Phebe's arm, whispering gruffly,"How is Rose?""Thanks be to goodness, she's better," answered Phebe, with asmile that was like broad sunshine to the poor lad's anxious heart.

  "And she will be all right again to-morrow?""Oh, dear no! Dolly says she's sure to have rheumatic fever, if shedon't have noo-monia!" answered Phebe, careful to pronounce theword rightly this time.

  Down went Mac's face, and remorse24 began to gnaw45 at him again ashe gave a great sigh and said doubtfully"I suppose I couldn't see her?""Of course not at this time of night, when we want her to go tosleep!"Mac opened his mouth to say something more, when a sneezecame upon him unawares, and a loud "Ah rash hoo!" awoke theechoes of the quiet house.

  "Why didn't you stop it?" said Phebe reproachfully. "I dare sayyou've waked her up.""Didn't know it was coming. Just my luck!" groaned Mac, turningto go before his unfortunate presence did more harm.

  But a voice from the stair-head called softly, "Mac, come up; Rosewants to see you."Up he went, and found his uncle waiting for him.

  "What brings you here at this hour, my boy?" asked the Doctor in awhisper.

  "Charlie said it was all my fault, and if she died I'd killed her. Icouldn't sleep, so I came to see how she was, and no one knows itbut Steve," he said with such a troubled face and voice that theDoctor had not the heart to blame him.

  Before he could say anything more a feeble voice called "Mac!"and with a hasty "Stay a minute just to please her, and then slipaway, for I want her to sleep," the Doctor led him into the room.

  The face on the pillow looked very pale and childish, and the smilethat welcomed Mac was very faint, for Rose was spent with pain,yet could not rest till she had said a word of comfort to her cousin.

  "I knew your funny sneeze, and I guessed that you came to see howI did, though it is very late. Don't be worried, I'm better now, and itis my fault I was ill, not yours; for I needn't have been so silly as towait in the cold just because I said I would."Mac hastened to explain, to load himself with reproaches, and tobeg her not to die on any account, for Charlie's lecture had made adeep impression on the poor boy's mind.

  "I didn't know there was any danger of my dying," and Rose lookedup at him with a solemn expression in her great eyes.

  "Oh, I hope not; but people do sometimes go suddenly, you know,and I couldn't rest till I'd asked you to forgive me," faltered46 Mac,thinking that Rose looked very like an angel already, with thegolden hair loose on the pillow, and the meekness47 of suffering onher little white face.

  "I don't think I shall die; uncle won't let me; but if I do, remember Iforgave you."She looked at him with a tender light in her eyes, and, seeing howpathetic his dumb grief was, she added softly, drawing his headdown, "I wouldn't kiss you under the mistletoe, but I will now, for Iwant you to be sure I do forgive and love you just the same."That quite upset poor Mac; he could only murmur48 his thanks andget out of the room as fast as possible, to grope his way to thecouch at the far end of the hall, and lie there till he fell asleep,worn out with trying not to "make a baby" of himself.


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1 invalid V4Oxh     
n.病人,伤残人;adj.有病的,伤残的;无效的
参考例句:
  • He will visit an invalid.他将要去看望一个病人。
  • A passport that is out of date is invalid.护照过期是无效的。
2 marrow M2myE     
n.骨髓;精华;活力
参考例句:
  • It was so cold that he felt frozen to the marrow. 天气太冷了,他感到寒冷刺骨。
  • He was tired to the marrow of his bones.他真是累得筋疲力尽了。
3 chafing 2078d37ab4faf318d3e2bbd9f603afdd     
n.皮肤发炎v.擦热(尤指皮肤)( chafe的现在分词 );擦痛;发怒;惹怒
参考例句:
  • My shorts were chafing my thighs. 我的短裤把大腿磨得生疼。 来自辞典例句
  • We made coffee in a chafing dish. 我们用暖锅烧咖啡。 来自辞典例句
4 flannel S7dyQ     
n.法兰绒;法兰绒衣服
参考例句:
  • She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
  • She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子,看上去楚楚动人。
5 rosy kDAy9     
adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的
参考例句:
  • She got a new job and her life looks rosy.她找到一份新工作,生活看上去很美好。
  • She always takes a rosy view of life.她总是对生活持乐观态度。
6 trifling SJwzX     
adj.微不足道的;没什么价值的
参考例句:
  • They quarreled over a trifling matter.他们为这种微不足道的事情争吵。
  • So far Europe has no doubt, gained a real conveniency,though surely a very trifling one.直到现在为止,欧洲无疑地已经获得了实在的便利,不过那确是一种微不足道的便利。
7 despondent 4Pwzw     
adj.失望的,沮丧的,泄气的
参考例句:
  • He was up for a time and then,without warning,despondent again.他一度兴高采烈,但忽然又情绪低落下来。
  • I feel despondent when my work is rejected.作品被拒后我感到很沮丧。
8 bonnet AtSzQ     
n.无边女帽;童帽
参考例句:
  • The baby's bonnet keeps the sun out of her eyes.婴孩的帽子遮住阳光,使之不刺眼。
  • She wore a faded black bonnet garnished with faded artificial flowers.她戴着一顶褪了色的黑色无边帽,帽上缀着褪了色的假花。
9 allusion CfnyW     
n.暗示,间接提示
参考例句:
  • He made an allusion to a secret plan in his speech.在讲话中他暗示有一项秘密计划。
  • She made no allusion to the incident.她没有提及那个事件。
10 repent 1CIyT     
v.悔悟,悔改,忏悔,后悔
参考例句:
  • He has nothing to repent of.他没有什么要懊悔的。
  • Remission of sins is promised to those who repent.悔罪者可得到赦免。
11 bout Asbzz     
n.侵袭,发作;一次(阵,回);拳击等比赛
参考例句:
  • I was suffering with a bout of nerves.我感到一阵紧张。
  • That bout of pneumonia enfeebled her.那次肺炎的发作使她虚弱了。
12 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
13 combustion 4qKzS     
n.燃烧;氧化;骚动
参考例句:
  • We might be tempted to think of combustion.我们也许会联想到氧化。
  • The smoke formed by their combustion is negligible.由它燃烧所生成的烟是可忽略的。
14 peg p3Fzi     
n.木栓,木钉;vt.用木钉钉,用短桩固定
参考例句:
  • Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
  • He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
15 trot aKBzt     
n.疾走,慢跑;n.老太婆;现成译本;(复数)trots:腹泻(与the 连用);v.小跑,快步走,赶紧
参考例句:
  • They passed me at a trot.他们从我身边快步走过。
  • The horse broke into a brisk trot.马突然快步小跑起来。
16 trotting cbfe4f2086fbf0d567ffdf135320f26a     
小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
参考例句:
  • The riders came trotting down the lane. 这骑手骑着马在小路上慢跑。
  • Alan took the reins and the small horse started trotting. 艾伦抓住缰绳,小马开始慢跑起来。
17 disconsolately f041141d86c7fb7a4a4b4c23954d68d8     
adv.悲伤地,愁闷地;哭丧着脸
参考例句:
  • A dilapidated house stands disconsolately amid the rubbles. 一栋破旧的房子凄凉地耸立在断垣残壁中。 来自辞典例句
  • \"I suppose you have to have some friends before you can get in,'she added, disconsolately. “我看得先有些朋友才能进这一行,\"她闷闷不乐地加了一句。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
18 buffeted 2484040e69c5816c25c65e8310465688     
反复敲打( buffet的过去式和过去分词 ); 连续猛击; 打来打去; 推来搡去
参考例句:
  • to be buffeted by the wind 被风吹得左右摇摆
  • We were buffeted by the wind and the rain. 我们遭到风雨的袭击。
19 basking 7596d7e95e17619cf6e8285dc844d8be     
v.晒太阳,取暖( bask的现在分词 );对…感到乐趣;因他人的功绩而出名;仰仗…的余泽
参考例句:
  • We sat basking in the warm sunshine. 我们坐着享受温暖的阳光。
  • A colony of seals lay basking in the sun. 一群海豹躺着晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
20 stifled 20d6c5b702a525920b7425fe94ea26a5     
(使)窒息, (使)窒闷( stifle的过去式和过去分词 ); 镇压,遏制; 堵
参考例句:
  • The gas stifled them. 煤气使他们窒息。
  • The rebellion was stifled. 叛乱被镇压了。
21 sob HwMwx     
n.空间轨道的轰炸机;呜咽,哭泣
参考例句:
  • The child started to sob when he couldn't find his mother.孩子因找不到他妈妈哭了起来。
  • The girl didn't answer,but continued to sob with her head on the table.那个女孩不回答,也不抬起头来。她只顾低声哭着。
22 wringing 70c74d76c2d55027ff25f12f2ab350a9     
淋湿的,湿透的
参考例句:
  • He was wringing wet after working in the field in the hot sun. 烈日下在田里干活使他汗流满面。
  • He is wringing out the water from his swimming trunks. 他正在把游泳裤中的水绞出来。
23 embroidered StqztZ     
adj.绣花的
参考例句:
  • She embroidered flowers on the cushion covers. 她在这些靠垫套上绣了花。
  • She embroidered flowers on the front of the dress. 她在连衣裙的正面绣花。
24 remorse lBrzo     
n.痛恨,悔恨,自责
参考例句:
  • She had no remorse about what she had said.她对所说的话不后悔。
  • He has shown no remorse for his actions.他对自己的行为没有任何悔恨之意。
25 remorseful IBBzo     
adj.悔恨的
参考例句:
  • He represented to the court that the accused was very remorseful.他代被告向法庭陈情说被告十分懊悔。
  • The minister well knew--subtle,but remorseful hypocrite that he was!牧师深知这一切——他是一个多么难以捉摸又懊悔不迭的伪君子啊!
26 feverish gzsye     
adj.发烧的,狂热的,兴奋的
参考例句:
  • He is too feverish to rest.他兴奋得安静不下来。
  • They worked with feverish haste to finish the job.为了完成此事他们以狂热的速度工作着。
27 uneven akwwb     
adj.不平坦的,不规则的,不均匀的
参考例句:
  • The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.这人行道凹凸不平—走路时请小心。
  • The country was noted for its uneven distribution of land resources.这个国家以土地资源分布不均匀出名。
28 sage sCUz2     
n.圣人,哲人;adj.贤明的,明智的
参考例句:
  • I was grateful for the old man's sage advice.我很感激那位老人贤明的忠告。
  • The sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.这位哲人是百代之师。
29 bustled 9467abd9ace0cff070d56f0196327c70     
闹哄哄地忙乱,奔忙( bustle的过去式和过去分词 ); 催促
参考例句:
  • She bustled around in the kitchen. 她在厨房里忙得团团转。
  • The hostress bustled about with an assumption of authority. 女主人摆出一副权威的样子忙来忙去。
30 groaned 1a076da0ddbd778a674301b2b29dff71     
v.呻吟( groan的过去式和过去分词 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦
参考例句:
  • He groaned in anguish. 他痛苦地呻吟。
  • The cart groaned under the weight of the piano. 大车在钢琴的重压下嘎吱作响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
31 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
32 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。
33 perversity D3kzJ     
n.任性;刚愎自用
参考例句:
  • She's marrying him out of sheer perversity.她嫁给他纯粹是任性。
  • The best of us have a spice of perversity in us.在我们最出色的人身上都有任性的一面。
34 pneumonia s2HzQ     
n.肺炎
参考例句:
  • Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
  • Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。
35 idol Z4zyo     
n.偶像,红人,宠儿
参考例句:
  • As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子,他是父母的宠儿。
  • Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。
36 hideous 65KyC     
adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的
参考例句:
  • The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
  • They're not like dogs,they're hideous brutes.它们不像狗,是丑陋的畜牲。
37 defiance RmSzx     
n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗
参考例句:
  • He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
  • He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。
38 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。
39 dismal wtwxa     
adj.阴沉的,凄凉的,令人忧郁的,差劲的
参考例句:
  • That is a rather dismal melody.那是一支相当忧郁的歌曲。
  • My prospects of returning to a suitable job are dismal.我重新找到一个合适的工作岗位的希望很渺茫。
40 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。
41 horrid arozZj     
adj.可怕的;令人惊恐的;恐怖的;极讨厌的
参考例句:
  • I'm not going to the horrid dinner party.我不打算去参加这次讨厌的宴会。
  • The medicine is horrid and she couldn't get it down.这种药很难吃,她咽不下去。
42 pettishly 7ab4060fbb40eff9237e3fd1df204fb1     
参考例句:
  • \"Oh, no,'she said, almost pettishly, \"I just don't feel very good.\" “哦,不是,\"她说,几乎想发火了,\"我只是觉得不大好受。” 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • Then he tossed the marble away pettishly, and stood cogitating. 于是他一气之下扔掉那个弹子,站在那儿沉思。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
43 inconvenient m4hy5     
adj.不方便的,令人感到麻烦的
参考例句:
  • You have come at a very inconvenient time.你来得最不适时。
  • Will it be inconvenient for him to attend that meeting?他参加那次会议会不方便吗?
44 thoroughly sgmz0J     
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
参考例句:
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
45 gnaw E6kyH     
v.不断地啃、咬;使苦恼,折磨
参考例句:
  • Dogs like to gnaw on a bone.狗爱啃骨头。
  • A rat can gnaw a hole through wood.老鼠能啃穿木头。
46 faltered d034d50ce5a8004ff403ab402f79ec8d     
(嗓音)颤抖( falter的过去式和过去分词 ); 支吾其词; 蹒跚; 摇晃
参考例句:
  • He faltered out a few words. 他支吾地说出了几句。
  • "Er - but he has such a longhead!" the man faltered. 他不好意思似的嚅嗫着:“这孩子脑袋真长。”
47 meekness 90085f0fe4f98e6ba344e6fe6b2f4e0f     
n.温顺,柔和
参考例句:
  • Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk. 阿密阳奉阴违地一直缝到黄昏。 来自辞典例句
  • 'I am pretty well, I thank you,' answered Mr. Lorry, with meekness; 'how are you?' “很好,谢谢,”罗瑞先生回答,态度温驯,“你好么?” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
48 murmur EjtyD     
n.低语,低声的怨言;v.低语,低声而言
参考例句:
  • They paid the extra taxes without a murmur.他们毫无怨言地交了附加税。
  • There was a low murmur of conversation in the hall.大厅里有窃窃私语声。


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