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CHAPTER VIII BIG MOSQUITOES.
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 “I told you that fellow was the boss of the gang,” Bob declared after the little man had disappeared from his sight.
 
“Well, didn’t say he wasn’t did I?”
 
“No. But I think you thought I was wrong.”
 
“But he seemed to have so little to say.”
 
“Oh, he’s a deep one all right if he is the leader.”
 
“I’ll say he is.”
 
“What do you think we’d better do now?”
 
“You say. Your the head of this expedition.”
 
“There’s no head to it,” Bob retorted. “You have just as much say as I do.”
 
“I know it, dear boy, but I know that your judgment1 is better than mine.”
 
“Thanks, old man,” and Bob gave his brother’s hand a hearty2 squeeze. “Now I’d like mighty3 well to know where that fellow is going and who he’s going to meet but it’ll be terribly risky4 to follow him. I tell you he’s a keen one and if either or both of us ever get into his hands again it’ll go hard with us and we won’t get away so easily.”
 
“Mebby you call the last time easy but I thought it was pretty strenuous5 myself.”
 
“I mean comparatively. It was hard enough while it lasted.”
 
“I’ll say it was.”
 
“Well, what do you say? Shall we take the risk and follow him?”
 
“Why of course,” Jack6 replied quickly as though there were no other course. “That’s what we are here for, isn’t it?”
 
“Good boy. I thought you’d say that. Now, Jack, I really think that this is the most serious thing we’ve ever been up against and we’ve simply got to be careful and take no unnecessary chances. We must not get caught. But we’d better get started or he’ll get so far away that we’ll lose him. We’ve got to skirt the top here and keep in the woods. It would never do to show ourselves on that open space.”
 
“Think we’ll be able to trail him?”
 
“I hope so but it’ll be no cinch. I wish Kemertok was here. He could do it easily but I reckon it’ll take all our knowledge of woodcraft.”
 
“But you managed to follow us the other day all right.”
 
“I know but four leave more of a trail than one and those branches you broke off helped a lot.”
 
“Only trouble was Tiny caught me at it and gave me a cuff8 side the head that made me see stars and I didn’t dare try it again.”
 
While they were talking they had been going rapidly through the woods and now were on the other side of the peak where the man had disappeared.
 
“He went down just about here,” Bob said. “I noticed that he went just to the right of this spruce.”
 
“But he was mighty careful to leave no trail so far as I can see,” Jack declared.
 
“I expected that. This ground doesn’t leave much of an impression and we’ll have to do some hunting.” For some time they searched and at last Jack found a foot mark a short distance down the mountain.
 
“That shows that he probably went straight down,” Bob declared as he examined the mark.
 
But search as they might they could find no other trace.
 
“Guess we’ll have to go it blind for a while at least and trust to luck,” Bob said. “If we wait much longer he’ll have so long a start that we’ll never find him. We’ll go straight on down and keep our eyes peeled for clues.”
 
But it was not until they reached the foot of the range that they found another clue. Then Jack called his brother’s attention to a broken twig9 on a small bush.
 
“It’s a sure thing that that was broken not much over an hour ago. See, it is still wet with sap,” he said as he felt of the broken place.
 
“You’re right,” Bob agreed. “It sure was careless in him but a lucky thing for us. We’re on the right track so far at least. Now where do we go from here?”
 
“It’s six to one and half a dozen to the other, I guess, unless we can find another mark.”
 
“Which we’ve simply got to do. It was a fairly sure thing that he came directly down the mountain but where he went from here is another thing.” Luckily, a few minutes later Jack found another broken twig and Bob was emphatic10 in his praise.
 
“That gives us a pretty good idea of the direction he took and it’s fair to believe that he’ll keep in a straight line. Now the question is whether or not we can do the same.”
 
To keep a straight course through the trackless forest requires a degree of skill which few men possess. But the boys had learned the art from long training under their Indian tutor who was an adept11. So it was with considerable confidence that they struck off. To their great satisfaction they found signs from time to time which showed them that they were on the right track. A broken twig here and the faint print of a foot there where a damp spot had retained the impression, were clues which were unmistakable to the trained eyes of the boys.
 
“He stopped here to get a drink,” Bob declared about three o’clock as he pointed13 to a small spring at the foot of a big pine. “See, here’s where he kneeled down.”
 
“Can you tell anything about how long ago he was here?”
 
Bob knelt down and examined the marks closely.
 
“It’s pretty hard for me to judge, but from the way the leaves are pressed together, I should say that it wasn’t much over an hour ago. It’s not very damp right here and they ought to loosen up in a little more than that length of time. That’s according to Kemertok and you know what he says about such things is usually correct.”
 
“I’ll say it is. Then, if that’s right, we must be gaining on him a little.”
 
“I think we are and we want to keep our eyes peeled because he may be nearer than we think. And believe me we want to see him first.”
 
By five o’clock Bob calculated that they had made nearly fifteen miles since they had been trailing the little man.
 
“I’d sure like to know whether or not he’s going to reach where he’s going to to-night,” Bob said as he leaned against a tree and wiped his face.
 
“That last statement was a trifle involved but I think I get your meaning. Sorry I can’t give you the answer.”
 
“So am I. Are you tired?”
 
“Well, I’m not exactly what you’d call rested but I guess I can keep going awhile longer.”
 
“Well we’ll camp as soon as we come to a brook14 or spring.”
 
It was about a half hour later when Jack, who was some feet in the lead, held up his hand in warning. Bob stopped and in a moment Jack had come back to where he was waiting.
 
“What did you see?” Bob asked anxiously.
 
“Another one of those vanishing cabins, that is, it looked just like the others.”
 
“See any body?”
 
“Not a soul, but there’s smoke coming out of the chimney.”
 
“Then there’s some one there of course.”
 
“That was what I meant to imply.”
 
“Well, I guess it means that we’ve got to the end of our journey for to-night and it also means that we’ll have to eat a cold supper.”
 
“That’s it. Say something cheerful and then spoil it all. But I say, Bob, I’m going to keep an eye glued to that cabin and if it vanishes I’m going to see it go.”
 
“All right. Hope you succeed. But let’s look around and find a good place to camp. We don’t want to be too near and then again we don’t want to get so far away that you won’t be able to see it when it goes up.”
 
“So you think it goes up, eh?”
 
“Up or down, take your choice. I guess one’s about as likely as the other.”
 
They had been talking in subdued15 tones and now they adopted Bob’s suggestion and began to look for a good place to spend the night. They found it after a search of a few minutes. About two hundred feet back in the woods from where Jack had seen the cabin was a thick clump16 of bushes nearly round and some twenty feet in diameter. Bob forced his way into them and in the center was an open space small to be sure but plenty large enough for them to stretch out at full length.
 
“I’ll bet we could stay there a month and never be seen,” he told Jack as he emerged.
 
It was, as Jack said, rather a dry supper they had that night but both agreed that it would not be safe to build a fire.
 
“I say, Bob, do you suppose they raise any bigger mosquitoes anywhere in the world than these are?” and Jack gave his face a slap.
 
Bob laughed.
 
“They’re pretty good sized but a fellow was telling me a few weeks ago about some that he saw up at Moxie Lake. He said that the proprietor17 of a camp there had six of them trained to ring the dinner bell. It seems that the bell was worked by a rope and at exactly meal time they would all light on the rope and their weight would pull it down. Then when it was down they would fly off and let it swing back again.”
 
“Some mosquitoes,” Jack laughed, “but I’ll bet it wouldn’t take more than three of these fellows to ring that bell. Lucky we brought along some citronella. And here goes for an application.”
 
“How about standing18 guard to-night, Bob?” he asked a few minutes later.
 
“How about that eye you were going to keep on the cabin?”
 
“That’s so. But there’s no need of both of us watching at the same time, and to-night I’m going to take first trick.”
 
“Yes and then when I come to look for you you’ll be gone.”
 
“Well, I reckon I’ve got a pair of lungs, and judging from past experience, I’m safer awake than asleep.”
 
“There may be something in that,” Bob agreed slowly as though he had something on his mind. “All right, you take the first watch and call me at twelve, or sooner if you get sleepy.”
 
“Wouldn’t wonder if we had rain before morning,” Jack declared a few minutes later as he glanced up at the sky which had become overcast19.
 
“Looks like it. If it does rain before twelve you’d better crawl in and let the old cabin disappear by its lonesome.”
 
It was nearly eight o’clock when Jack, having located a position where he could command a fair view of the cabin without danger of being seen, settled down to his long vigil. Soon it was so dark in the forest that he could see little more than the outline of the cabin and by the time an hour had passed even that had faded. Then soon after it began to rain, gently at first and then harder until it had settled to a steady downpour.
 
“Guess I might as well give it up,” he thought. “I can’t see a thing and it’s a cinch that if there’s anyone in that cabin they’ll stay there and not be prowling about the woods.”
 
He had seen no light in the cabin but he knew that that was no indication that there was no one there. Men go to bed early in the big woods unless they have business to keep them up and it would be nothing unusual for them to go before it was dark enough for a light. It took considerable groping about before he was able to locate the place where Bob was sleeping. He had a flashlight with him but did not dare use it for fear that the light might be seen by some one in the cabin.
 
“We’re taking no chances this time,” he muttered as he searched.
 
He was pretty wet by the time he had located the clump of bushes, but fortunately the night was warm and he did not mind it. Bob was curled up beneath a thin rubber blanket which was large enough to cover them both, and in another minute he was sharing it with him without having disturbed him.
 
Bob awoke promptly20 at twelve o’clock, having set his mental alarm clock, as Jack called it, for that time.
 
“Hope Jack had sense enough to come in,” he thought as he heard the rain. “Good boy,” he added as he heard his deep breathing.
 
The rain was still falling when they awoke the next morning and there was no indication that it would clear soon.
 
“Cheerful, isn’t it?” Bob grinned.
 
“Oh, well, it might be worse,” Jack replied struggling to pull on a soggy shoe. “Think we dare risk a bit of a fire for breakfast?”
 
“Hardly, and I doubt if we could find anything dry enough even if we did dare.”
 
“All right. You’re the doctor, but some hot coffee sure would hit the right spot about now.” Breakfast was, as Jack put it, a rank failure so far as any enjoyment21 of the meal was concerned.
 
The rain had settled into a slight drizzle22, just enough to keep them damp without being actually wet. “I’m going to take a squint23 at the cabin,” Jack announced as soon as he had finished eating.
 
“Bet it’s gone,” Bob ventured.
 
“I’d want too big odds24 to take that bet.”
 
“Well, hurry back and make your report.”
 
He was back in less than five minutes.
 
“You lose,” he announced.
 
“You mean the cabin’s still there?”
 
“Right the first time.”
 
“Looks like it don’t vanish in rainy weather.”
 
“It didn’t this time, anyhow.”
 
“See anybody?”
 
“Not a soul and there was no smoke.”
 
“Kinder looks as though they left in the night.”
 
“Or else there was no one there when we got here.”
 
“But we saw their smoke last night.”
 
“I know, but they might have gone off and left a fire in the stove.”
 
“Possible, but unlikely.”
 
“Well, I suppose the only thing to do is to watch until we’re sure.”
 
“I guess.”
 
They took up their position behind the bush which sheltered them from the rain to a slight extent and waited.
 
“‘Rain before seven, clear off before eleven,’” Jack whispered. “But it don’t look much like it,” he added glancing up at the sky.
 
“The wind’s changing though. It was in the east till a few minutes ago and now it’s nearly south. If it keeps on till it gets into the northwest it’ll probably break.”
 
“Here’s hoping.”
 
An hour passed. No sign of life in or about the cabin was visible. The rain had, however, stopped and the wind was blowing strongly from the west.
 
“Sun’ll be out in less than an hour,” Bob promised.
 
“Can’t come too soon to suit me.”
 
Another half hour went by.
 
Bob was about to propose that they creep up and risk a peep in at the window when suddenly the door of the cabin opened and a man stepped out. He stood for a moment looking up at the sky as though speculating on the weather. He was a short thick set; man, evidently a half-breed, and so far as Bob could remember, a man whom he had never seen.
 
“Take a peep and see if you can place that fellow,” he whispered to Jack as he drew back his head.
 
“Never saw him before,” Jack declared after he had studied the face.
 
“Evidently a new actor on the scene, at least so far as we’re concerned,” Bob whispered.
 
“And the plot thickens.”
 
“It’s so thick now that it won’t run,” Bob smiled.
 
When he looked again the man had disappeared and the door of the cabin was closed.
 
“Well, one thing’s settled. There’s someone there all right, and there’s no knowing how many others,” he whispered.
 
“And there comes the old sun,” Jack exulted25 as the rays broke through the clouds.
 
Two more hours, which seemed as Jack declared, like so many weeks, passed without any other sign of life about the cabin. Then came from far off in the deep forest the call of the whip-poor-will.
 
“That’s their signal,” Jack whispered. “Wait a minute and you’ll hear the answer.”
 
Almost at once the door opened and this time the little man whom they had trailed the day before stepped out followed by the thick set stranger. The former gave the hoot26 of an owl7 and a moment later the signal was answered by the whip-poor-will.
 
“He’s getting that bird down a bit better. Guess he’s had his whistle tuned27. If I hadn’t heard it before I’d let it pass for the real thing,” Jack declared after the men had returned to the cabin.
 
“I wonder why they seem so scared of showing themselves.”
 
“I was thinking that very thing myself,” Bob replied. “I doubt if there is a human being except us and their crowd within twenty miles of here. Still they may know a lot that we don’t.”
 
“We’d better be getting back to our den12. Whoever it was that signaled is probably coming here, and judging from the sound, we’ll be just about in his path.”
 
They had been back in the midst of the clump of bushes where they had passed the night only a little more than a half hour when they heard voices off to their left and a few minutes later three men passed so close to them that they could almost have touched them.
 
“Wonder if we’d know any of the newcomers,” Jack whispered as soon as they had passed.
 
“I didn’t dare to take a peep, they were so close.”
 
“Well mebby we’ll see them later.”
 
They waited another half hour and then crept up to their spying place. Bob parted the bushes carefully and the next moment drew back with an exclamation28 of surprise.
 
“Gone, eh?”
 
“Clean’s a whistle.”
 
“Can you beat it?”
 
For a moment neither spoke29 again then Jack said: “I never believed in spooks but if this thing isn’t spooky then I’ll eat my hat.”
 
“It does seem spooky that’s a fact,” Bob returned soberly. “But you know there’s no such thing, not in the twentieth century, and there’s an explanation to it if we can only find the key.”
 
“But for a full grown log cabin to vanish into thin air right before your eyes so to speak. Don’t tell me it isn’t spooky. Why, they used to hang folks for less than that.”
 
“Hold on there, son. You’re getting your figures of speech mixed. They never used to hang log cabins.”
 
“Mebby not. But log cabins didn’t used to vanish like that either,” and Jack passed his hand over his eyes as though he were dazed.
 
“We shouldn’t have let it out of our sight for a minute,” Bob mused30. “But always before it has gone in the night.”
 
“Night or day doesn’t seem to make much difference to that bird,” Jack declared.
 
“Well we might as well go and view the remains31, that is provided there are any to view.”
 
“Better wait a bit. They haven’t had time to get very far away yet and there’s a chance of one of them coming back for something. A few minutes more or less won’t make any difference to us and it might save us from getting caught.”
 
So, for another half hour they waited but nothing happened and at last Bob declared that he thought it safe to investigate. But, as he more than half expected there was absolutely nothing to investigate.
 
“You said a mouth full when you said clean as a whistle,” Jack declared as they stood on the very spot where the cabin had been. “They don’t leave as much as a toe nail behind them.”
 
Jack was quite correct in his assertion for there was not a particle of evidence to show that a cabin or any other sort of a house had ever occupied the place.
 
“Well, what’s the answer?”
 
For several moments Bob made no reply. He was thinking and Jack was wise enough not to interrupt him.
 
“One thing seems fairly certain,” he volunteered finally.
 
“That’s better than nothing. What is it?”
 
“Why, it must be that we are somewhere near where they do business, else there wouldn’t be so many of them round.”
 
“Sounds reasonable. And then what?”
 
“I guess dinner’s about the next thing. How does it strike you?”
 
“Right where I live.”
 
After a short search they found a spring a short distance away and for the first time in over twenty-four hours they ventured to build a small fire using such bits of wood as would make the least smoke.
 
“Jack, I hardly like to do it but I’m going to ask you to stay right here and let me do a bit of scouting32 by my lonesome,” Bob said as soon as they had eaten.
 
“Why alone?”
 
“Simply because one stands less risk of getting caught than two.”
 
“Well I can’t say I like the idea much but what you say goes.”
 
“I’ll be back before dark if nothing happens,” Bob promised as he started off.
 
Beyond the place where the cabin had stood the trees grew far apart and there was no underbrush, making traveling easy but leaving no traces. Thus he was unable to find any signs of anyone having passed. This did not discourage him as he hardly expected it. He made rapid time relying on his keen hearing to tell him should he overtake the men he was trailing. He was not sure by any means that he was going in the right direction but he was taking a chance on keeping near the border line. He calculated that he had made nearly ten miles when the forest began to be more dense33. Tall spruces and straight pines grew closely together and there was now considerable underbrush making it necessary for him to slow up.
 
This, however, did not worry him as he reasoned that, if he had to go slowly, so would the men in front of him, that is, if they were in front.
 
“I ought to be pretty near up to them by this time,” he told himself as he stopped to listen a little later, “that is provided I’m on the right track.”
 
Several times during the last half hour he had seen marks which told him that someone had passed that way not long before but he could not be sure that it was his party. But the signs had encouraged him to keep on and suddenly he heard the sound of voices just a short distance ahead. He stopped to listen. From the sound several men were talking although he was not near enough to catch any words.
 
“Sounds as though they were having a dispute about something,” he thought as he softly crept nearer.
 
It was evident that the party ahead had stopped, perhaps for the night, and he hoped to get near enough to be able to hear what they were talking about. He had taken about ten steps when he heard a loud snap and something gripped him firmly by the leg. He knew only too well what it was. He was caught in a bear trap, probably set by some trapper and either lost or forgotten.
 
Fortunately his stout34 legging furnished considerable protection and he was quite certain that it had not broken the bone. But it hurt so that for a moment he nearly fainted. But he resisted the giddiness with all his strength and soon the pain became less.
 
“I’m in a pretty pickle,” he thought, “unless I can spring it open.”
 
Before trying, however, he listened a moment. He could still hear the men talking but now their voices were growing fainter and he judged that they had started on again. For a moment he hesitated whether or not to call and take his chances of getting away from the latter. But his knowledge of their character quickly decided35 him. “Better take a chance with the trap than with them,” he thought.
 
He waited until he could no longer hear them and then reaching down he seized the jaws36 of the trap, one in each hand and, exerting all his strength, tried to force them apart. But to his dismay he was unable to so much as move them. A bear trap is made to hold once it has caught its prey37, and his heart sank as he realized his inability to extricate38 himself.
 
“If I had only taken Jack with me,” he moaned as he sank down on the ground.
 
For a few minutes he rested. The leg did not pain so much now, only a dull ache. He knew that the jaws were shutting off the flow of blood. After a bit he felt stronger and renewed his efforts but they were in vain. Then he looked about to see if the trap was fastened and found that it was locked by a strong chain to a nearby tree.
 
“No chance of dragging it,” he thought. Again he rested and thought. Miles away from anyone except his enemies and even they were doubtless out of hearing by this time, and night coming on, he realized that his position was most serious. Glancing down at the jaws he saw that blood was beginning to soak through the legging. It was, however, not bleeding fast enough to cause him any anxiety on that score.
 
“Guess I’d better keep as still as I can, though,” he thought. “The more I wiggle round the deeper those jaws will bite and first thing I know I’ll be bleeding to death.”
 
Dusk was beginning to fall and he knew that in a short time darkness would be upon him. He thought of Jack back there anxiously awaiting his return and wondered what he would do when he failed to show up.

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1 judgment e3xxC     
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
参考例句:
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
2 hearty Od1zn     
adj.热情友好的;衷心的;尽情的,纵情的
参考例句:
  • After work they made a hearty meal in the worker's canteen.工作完了,他们在工人食堂饱餐了一顿。
  • We accorded him a hearty welcome.我们给他热忱的欢迎。
3 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。
4 risky IXVxe     
adj.有风险的,冒险的
参考例句:
  • It may be risky but we will chance it anyhow.这可能有危险,但我们无论如何要冒一冒险。
  • He is well aware how risky this investment is.他心里对这项投资的风险十分清楚。
5 strenuous 8GvzN     
adj.奋发的,使劲的;紧张的;热烈的,狂热的
参考例句:
  • He made strenuous efforts to improve his reading. 他奋发努力提高阅读能力。
  • You may run yourself down in this strenuous week.你可能会在这紧张的一周透支掉自己。
6 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
7 owl 7KFxk     
n.猫头鹰,枭
参考例句:
  • Her new glasses make her look like an owl.她的新眼镜让她看上去像只猫头鹰。
  • I'm a night owl and seldom go to bed until after midnight.我睡得很晚,经常半夜后才睡觉。
8 cuff 4YUzL     
n.袖口;手铐;护腕;vt.用手铐铐;上袖口
参考例句:
  • She hoped they wouldn't cuff her hands behind her back.她希望他们不要把她反铐起来。
  • Would you please draw together the snag in my cuff?请你把我袖口上的裂口缝上好吗?
9 twig VK1zg     
n.小树枝,嫩枝;v.理解
参考例句:
  • He heard the sharp crack of a twig.他听到树枝清脆的断裂声。
  • The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.细枝突然折断的刺耳声把獾惊跑了。
10 emphatic 0P1zA     
adj.强调的,着重的;无可置疑的,明显的
参考例句:
  • Their reply was too emphatic for anyone to doubt them.他们的回答很坚决,不容有任何人怀疑。
  • He was emphatic about the importance of being punctual.他强调严守时间的重要性。
11 adept EJIyO     
adj.老练的,精通的
参考例句:
  • When it comes to photography,I'm not an adept.要说照相,我不是内行。
  • He was highly adept at avoiding trouble.他十分善于避开麻烦。
12 den 5w9xk     
n.兽穴;秘密地方;安静的小房间,私室
参考例句:
  • There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
  • The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。
13 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的,直截了当的
参考例句:
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
14 brook PSIyg     
n.小河,溪;v.忍受,容让
参考例句:
  • In our room we could hear the murmur of a distant brook.在我们房间能听到远处小溪汩汩的流水声。
  • The brook trickled through the valley.小溪涓涓流过峡谷。
15 subdued 76419335ce506a486af8913f13b8981d     
adj. 屈服的,柔和的,减弱的 动词subdue的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • He seemed a bit subdued to me. 我觉得他当时有点闷闷不乐。
  • I felt strangely subdued when it was all over. 一切都结束的时候,我却有一种奇怪的压抑感。
16 clump xXfzH     
n.树丛,草丛;vi.用沉重的脚步行走
参考例句:
  • A stream meandered gently through a clump of trees.一条小溪从树丛中蜿蜒穿过。
  • It was as if he had hacked with his thick boots at a clump of bluebells.仿佛他用自己的厚靴子无情地践踏了一丛野风信子。
17 proprietor zR2x5     
n.所有人;业主;经营者
参考例句:
  • The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his.业主是他的一位旧相识。
  • The proprietor of the corner grocery was a strange thing in my life.拐角杂货店店主是我生活中的一个怪物。
18 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。
19 overcast cJ2xV     
adj.阴天的,阴暗的,愁闷的;v.遮盖,(使)变暗,包边缝;n.覆盖,阴天
参考例句:
  • The overcast and rainy weather found out his arthritis.阴雨天使他的关节炎发作了。
  • The sky is overcast with dark clouds.乌云满天。
20 promptly LRMxm     
adv.及时地,敏捷地
参考例句:
  • He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
  • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
21 enjoyment opaxV     
n.乐趣;享有;享用
参考例句:
  • Your company adds to the enjoyment of our visit. 有您的陪同,我们这次访问更加愉快了。
  • After each joke the old man cackled his enjoyment.每逢讲完一个笑话,这老人就呵呵笑着表示他的高兴。
22 drizzle Mrdxn     
v.下毛毛雨;n.毛毛雨,蒙蒙细雨
参考例句:
  • The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小,最后变成了毛毛雨。
  • Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨,今天果然下起来了。
23 squint oUFzz     
v. 使变斜视眼, 斜视, 眯眼看, 偏移, 窥视; n. 斜视, 斜孔小窗; adj. 斜视的, 斜的
参考例句:
  • A squint can sometimes be corrected by an eyepatch. 斜视有时候可以通过戴眼罩来纠正。
  • The sun was shinning straight in her eyes which made her squint. 太阳直射着她的眼睛,使她眯起了眼睛。
24 odds n5czT     
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
参考例句:
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
25 exulted 4b9c48640b5878856e35478d2f1f2046     
狂喜,欢跃( exult的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The people exulted at the victory. 人们因胜利而欢腾。
  • The people all over the country exulted in the success in launching a new satellite. 全国人民为成功地发射了一颗新的人造卫星而欢欣鼓舞。
26 hoot HdzzK     
n.鸟叫声,汽车的喇叭声; v.使汽车鸣喇叭
参考例句:
  • The sudden hoot of a whistle broke into my thoughts.突然响起的汽笛声打断了我的思路。
  • In a string of shrill hoot of the horn sound,he quickly ran to her.在一串尖声鸣叫的喇叭声中,他快速地跑向她。
27 tuned b40b43fd5af2db4fbfeb4e83856e4876     
adj.调谐的,已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
参考例句:
  • The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
  • The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
28 exclamation onBxZ     
n.感叹号,惊呼,惊叹词
参考例句:
  • He could not restrain an exclamation of approval.他禁不住喝一声采。
  • The author used three exclamation marks at the end of the last sentence to wake up the readers.作者在文章的最后一句连用了三个惊叹号,以引起读者的注意。
29 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。
30 mused 0affe9d5c3a243690cca6d4248d41a85     
v.沉思,冥想( muse的过去式和过去分词 );沉思自语说(某事)
参考例句:
  • \"I wonder if I shall ever see them again, \"he mused. “我不知道是否还可以再见到他们,”他沉思自问。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • \"Where are we going from here?\" mused one of Rutherford's guests. 卢瑟福的一位客人忍不住说道:‘我们这是在干什么?” 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
31 remains 1kMzTy     
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
参考例句:
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
32 scouting 8b7324e25eaaa6b714e9a16b4d65d5e8     
守候活动,童子军的活动
参考例句:
  • I have people scouting the hills already. 我已经让人搜过那些山了。
  • Perhaps also from the Gospel it passed into the tradition of scouting. 也许又从《福音书》传入守望的传统。 来自演讲部分
33 dense aONzX     
a.密集的,稠密的,浓密的;密度大的
参考例句:
  • The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
  • The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
35 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。
36 jaws cq9zZq     
n.口部;嘴
参考例句:
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
  • The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。
37 prey g1czH     
n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨
参考例句:
  • Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
  • The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
38 extricate rlCxp     
v.拯救,救出;解脱
参考例句:
  • How can we extricate the firm from this trouble?我们该如何承救公司脱离困境呢?
  • She found it impossible to extricate herself from the relationship.她发现不可能把自己从这种关系中解脱出来。


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