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CHAPTER XIV
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 July 18th.
 
The day was Friday; Phœbe’s day to go to Buffington with eggs and chickens and rabbits; her day to solicit1 orders for ducklings and goslings.  The village cart was ready in the stable; Mr. and Mrs. Heaven were in Woodmucket; I was eating my breakfast (which I remember was an egg and a rasher) when Phœbe came in, a figure of woe2.
 
The Square Baby was ill, very ill, and would not permit her to leave him and go to market.  Would I look at him?  For he must have dowsed ’imself as well as the goslings yesterday; anyways he was strong of paraffin and tobacco, though he ’ad ’ad a good barth.
 
I prescribed for Albert Edward, who was as uncomfortable and feverish3 as any little sinner in the county of Sussex, and I then promptly4 proposed going to Buffington in Phœbe’s place.
 
She did not think it at all proper, and said that, notwithstanding my cotton gown and sailor hat, I looked quite, quite the lydy, and it would never do.
 
“I cannot get any new orders,” said I, “but I can certainly leave the rabbits and eggs at the customary places.  I know Argent’s Dining Parlours, and Songhurst’s Tea Rooms, and the Six Bells Inn, as well as you do.”
 
The Six Bells found the last poultry5 somewhat tough
 
So, donning a pair of Phœbe’s large white cotton gloves with open-work wrists (than which I always fancy there is no one article that so disguises the perfect lydy), I set out upon my travels, upborne by a lively sense of amusement that was at least equal to my feeling that I was doing Phœbe Heaven a good turn.
 
Prices in dressed poultry were fluctuating, but I had a copy of The Trade Review, issued that very day, and was able to get some idea of values and the state of the market as I jogged along.  The general movement, I learned, was moderate and of a “selective” character.  Choice large capons and ducks were in steady demand, but I blushed for my profession when I read that roasting chickens were running coarse, staggy, and of irregular value.  Old hens were held firmly at sixpence, and it is my experience that they always have to be, at whatever price.  Geese were plenty, dull, and weak.  Old cocks,—why don’t they say roosters?—declined to threepence ha’penny on Thursday in sympathy with fowls6,—and who shall say that chivalry7 is dead?  Turkeys were a trifle steadier, and there was a speculative8 movement in limed eggs.  All this was illuminating9, and I only wished I were quite certain whether the sympathetic old roosters were threepence ha’penny apiece, or a pound.
 
The gadabout hen
 
Everything happened as it should, on this first business journey of my life, which is equivalent to saying that nothing happened at all.  Songhurst’s Tea Rooms took five dozen eggs and told me to bring six dozen the next week.  Argent’s Dining Parlours purchased three pairs of chickens and four rabbits.  The Six Bells found the last poultry somewhat tough and tasteless; whereupon I said that our orders were more than we could possibly fill, still I hoped we could go on “selling them,” as we never liked to part with old customers, no matter how many new ones there were.  Privately10, I understood the complaint only too well, for I knew the fowls in question very intimately.  Two of them were the runaway11 rooster and the gadabout hen that never wanted to go to bed with the others.  The third was Cannibal Ann.  I should have expected them to be tough, but I cannot believe they were lacking in flavour.
 
The only troublesome feature of the trip was that Mrs. Sowerbutt’s lodgers12 had suddenly left for London and she was unable to take the four rabbits as she had hoped; but as an offset13 to that piece of ill-fortune the Coke and Coal Yard and the Bicycle Repairing Rooms came out into the street, and, stepping up to the trap, requested regular weekly deliveries of eggs and chickens, and hoped that I would be able to bring them myself.  And so, in a happy frame of mind, I turned out of the Buffington main street, and was jogging along homeward, when a very startling thing happened; namely, a whole verse of the Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington:—
 
    “And as she went along the high road,
    The weather being hot and dry,
    She sat her down upon a green bank,
    And her true love came riding by.”
 
That true lovers are given to riding by, in ballads14, I know very well, but I hardly supposed they did so in real life, especially when every precaution had been taken to avert15 such a catastrophe16.  I had told the Barbury Green postmistress, on the morning of my arrival, not to give the Thornycroft address to anybody whatsoever17, but finding, as the days passed, that no one was bold enough or sensible enough to ask for it, I haughtily18 withdrew my prohibition19.  About this time I began sending envelopes, carefully addressed in a feigned20 hand, to a certain person at the Oxenbridge Hydro.  These envelopes contained no word of writing, but held, on one day, only a bit of down from a hen’s breast, on another, a goose-quill, on another, a glossy21 tail-feather, on another, a grain of corn, and so on.  These trifles were regarded by me not as degrading or unmaidenly hints and suggestions, but simply as tests of intelligence.  Could a man receive tokens of this sort and fail to put two and two together?  I feel that I might possibly support life with a domineering and autocratic husband,—and there is every prospect22 that I shall be called upon to do so,—but not with a stupid one.  Suppose one were linked for ever to a man capable of asking,—“Did you send those feathers? . . . How was I to guess? . . . How was a fellow to know they came from you? . . . What on earth could I suppose they meant? . . . What clue did they offer me as to your whereabouts? . . . Am I a Sherlock Holmes?”—No, better eternal celibacy23 than marriage with such a being!
 
She was unable to take the four rabbits
 
These were the thoughts that had been coursing through my goose-girl mind while I had been selling dressed poultry, but in some way they had not prepared me for the appearance of the aforesaid true love.
 
To see the very person whom one has left civilisation24 to avoid is always more or less surprising, and to make the meeting less likely, Buffington is even farther from Oxenbridge than Barbury Green.  The creature was well mounted (ominous, when he came to override25 my caprice!) and he looked bigger, and, yes, handsomer, though that doesn’t signify, and still more determined26 than when I saw him last; although goodness knows that timidity and feebleness of purpose were not in striking evidence on that memorable27 occasion.  I had drawn28 up under the shade of a tree ostensibly to eat some cherries, thinking that if I turned my face away I might pass unrecognised.  It was a stupid plan, for if I had whipped up the mare29 and driven on, he of course, would have had to follow, and he has too much dignity and self-respect to shriek30 recriminations into a woman’s ear from a distance.
 
The creature was well mounted
 
He approached with deliberation, reined31 in his horse, and lifted his hat ceremoniously.  He has an extremely shapely head, but I did not show that the sight of it melted in the least the ice of my resolve; whereupon we talked, not very freely at first,—men are so stiff when they consider themselves injured.  However, silence is even more embarrassing than conversation, so at length I begin:—
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“It is a lovely day.”
 
True Love.—“Yes, but the drought is getting rather oppressive, don’t you think?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“The crops certainly need rain, and the feed is becoming scarce.”
 
True Love.—“Are you a farmer’s wife?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Oh no! that is a promotion32 to look forward to; I am now only a Goose Girl.”
 
True Love.—“Indeed!  If I wished to be severe I might remark: that I am sure you have found at last your true vocation33!”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“It was certainly through no desire to please you that I chose it.”
 
True Love.—“I am quite sure of that!  Are you staying in this part?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Oh no!  I live many miles distant, over an extremely rough road.  And you?”
 
True Love.—“I am still at the Hydropathic; or at least my luggage is there.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“It must be very pleasant to attract you so long.”
 
True Love.—“Not so pleasant as it was.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“No?  A new proprietor34, I suppose.”
 
True Love.—“No; same proprietor; but the house is empty.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (yawning purposely).—“That is strange; the hotels are usually so full at this season.  Why did so many leave?”
 
True Love.—“As a matter of fact, only one left.  ‘Full’ and ‘empty’ are purely35 relative terms.  I call a hotel full when it has you in it, empty when it hasn’t.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (dying to laugh, but concealing36 her feelings).—“I trust my bulk does not make the same impression on the general public!  Well, I won’t detain you longer; good afternoon; I must go home to my evening work.”
 
True Love.—“I will accompany you.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“If you are a gentleman you will remain where you are.”
 
True Love.—“In the road?  Perhaps; but if I am a man I shall follow you; they always do, I notice.  What are those foolish bundles in the back of that silly cart?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Feed for the pony37, please, sir; fish for dinner; randans and barley38 meal for the poultry; and four unsold rabbits.  Wouldn’t you like them?  Only one and sixpence apiece.  Shot at three o’clock this morning.”
 
True Love.—“Thanks; I don’t like mine shot so early.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Oh, well! doubtless I shall be able to dispose of them on my way home, though times is ’ard!”
 
True Love.—“Do you mean that you will “peddle” them along the road?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“You understand me better than usual,—in fact to perfection.”
 
He dismounts and strides to the back of the cart, lifts the covers, seizes the rabbits, flings some silver contemptuously into the basket, and looks about him for a place to bury his bargain.  A small boy approaching in the far distance will probably bag the game.
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (modestly).—“Thanks for your trade, sir, rather ungraciously bestowed39, and we ’opes for a continuance of your past fyvors.”
 
True Love (leaning on the wheel of the trap).—“Let us stop this nonsense.  What did you hope to gain by running away?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Distance and absence.”
 
True Love.—“You knew you couldn’t prevent my offering myself to you sometime or other.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Perhaps not; but I could at least defer40 it, couldn’t I?”
 
True Love.—“Why postpone41 the inevitable42?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Doubtless I shrank from giving you the pain of a refusal.”
 
True Love.—“Perhaps; but do you know what I suspect?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“I’m not a suspicious person, thank goodness!”
 
True Love.—“That, on the contrary, you are wilfully43 withholding44 from me the joy of acceptance.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“If I intended to accept you, why did I run away?”
 
True Love.—“To make yourself more desirable and precious, I suppose.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (with the most confident coquetry).—“Did I succeed?”
 
True Love.—“No; you failed utterly45.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (secretly piqued).—“Then I am glad I tried it.”
 
True Love.—“You couldn’t succeed because you were superlatively desirable and precious already; but you should never have experimented.  Don’t you know that Love is a high explosive?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Is it?  Then it ought always to be labelled ‘dangerous,’ oughtn’t it?  But who thought of suggesting matches?  I’m sure I didn’t!”
 
True Love.—“No such luck; I wish you would.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“According to your theory, if you apply a match to Love it is likely to ‘go off.’”
 
True Love.—“I wish you would try it on mine and await the result.  Come now, you’ll have to marry somebody, sometime.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“I confess I don’t see the necessity.”
 
True Love (morosely).—“You’re the sort of woman men won’t leave in undisturbed spinsterhood; they’ll keep on badgering you.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Oh, I don’t mind the badgering of a number of men; it’s rather nice.  It’s the one badger46 I find obnoxious47.”
 
True Love (impatiently).—“That’s just the perversity48 of things.  I could put a stop to the protestations of the many; I should like nothing better—but the pertinacity49 of the one!  Ah, well!  I can’t drop that without putting an end to my existence.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (politely).—“I shouldn’t think of suggesting anything so extreme.”
 
True Love (quoting).—“‘Mrs. Hauksbee proceeded to take the conceit50 out of Pluffles as you remove the ribs51 of an umbrella before re-covering.’  However, you couldn’t ask me anything seriously that I wouldn’t do, dear Mistress Perversity.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (yielding a point).—“I’ll put that boldly to the proof.  Say you don’t love me!”
 
True Love (seizing his advantage).—“I don’t!  It’s imbecile and besotted devotion!  Tell me, when may I come to take you away?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter (sighing).—“It’s like asking me to leave Heaven.”
 
Phœbe and Gladwish
 
True Love.—“I know it; she told me where to find you,—Thornycroft is the seventh poultry-farm I’ve visited,—but you could never leave Heaven, you can’t be happy without poultry, why that is a wish easily gratified.  I’ll get you a farm to-morrow; no, it’s Saturday, and the real estate offices close at noon, but on Monday, without fail.  Your ducks and geese, always carrying it along with you.  All you would have to do is to admit me; Heaven is full of twos.  If you shall swim on a crystal lake—Phœbe told me what a genius you have for getting them out of the muddy pond; she was sitting beside it when I called, her hand in that of a straw-coloured person named Gladwish, and the ground in her vicinity completely strewn with votive offerings.  You shall splash your silver sea with an ivory wand; your hens shall have suburban52 cottages, each with its garden; their perches53 shall be of satin-wood and their water dishes of mother-of-pearl.  You shall be the Goose Girl and I will be the Swan Herd—simply to be near you—for I hate live poultry.  Dost like the picture?  It’s a little like Claude Melnotte’s, I confess.  The fact is I am not quite sane54; talking with you after a fortnight of the tabbies at the Hydro is like quaffing55 inebriating56 vodka after Miffin’s Food!  May I come to-morrow?”
 
Bailiffs Daughter (hedging).—“I shall be rather busy; the Crossed Minorca hen comes off to-morrow.”
 
True Love.—“Oh, never mind!  I’ll take her off to-night when I escort you to the farm; then she’ll get a day’s advantage.”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“And rob fourteen prospective57 chicks of a mother; nay58, lose the chicks themselves?  Never!”
 
True Love.—“So long as you are a Goose Girl, does it make any difference whose you are?  Is it any more agreeable to be Mrs. Heaven’s Goose Girl than mine?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“Ah! but in one case the term of service is limited; in the other, permanent.”
 
True Love.—“But in the one case you are the slave of the employer, in the other the employer of the slave.  Why did you run away?”
 
Bailiff’s Daughter.—“A man’s mind is too dull an instrument to measure a woman’s reason; even my own fails sometimes to deal with all its delicate shades; but I think I must have run away chiefly to taste the pleasure of being pursued and brought back.  If it is necessary to your happiness that you should explore all the Bluebeard chambers59 of my being, I will confess further that it has taken you nearly three weeks to accomplish what I supposed you would do in three days!”
 
True Love (after a well-spent interval).—“To-morrow, then; shall we say before breakfast?  All, do!  Why not?  Well, then, immediately after breakfast, and I breakfast at seven nowadays, and sometimes earlier.  Do take off those ugly cotton gloves, dear; they are five sizes too large for you, and so rough and baggy60 to the touch!”

The End

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1 solicit AFrzc     
vi.勾引;乞求;vt.请求,乞求;招揽(生意)
参考例句:
  • Beggars are not allowed to solicit in public places.乞丐不得在公共场所乞讨。
  • We should often solicit opinions from the masses.我们应该经常征求群众意见。
2 woe OfGyu     
n.悲哀,苦痛,不幸,困难;int.用来表达悲伤或惊慌
参考例句:
  • Our two peoples are brothers sharing weal and woe.我们两国人民是患难与共的兄弟。
  • A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so.自认祸是祸,自认福是福。
3 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。
4 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。
5 poultry GPQxh     
n.家禽,禽肉
参考例句:
  • There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
  • What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?
6 fowls 4f8db97816f2d0cad386a79bb5c17ea4     
鸟( fowl的名词复数 ); 禽肉; 既不是这; 非驴非马
参考例句:
  • A great number of water fowls dwell on the island. 许多水鸟在岛上栖息。
  • We keep a few fowls and some goats. 我们养了几只鸡和一些山羊。
7 chivalry wXAz6     
n.骑士气概,侠义;(男人)对女人彬彬有礼,献殷勤
参考例句:
  • The Middle Ages were also the great age of chivalry.中世纪也是骑士制度盛行的时代。
  • He looked up at them with great chivalry.他非常有礼貌地抬头瞧她们。
8 speculative uvjwd     
adj.思索性的,暝想性的,推理的
参考例句:
  • Much of our information is speculative.我们的许多信息是带推测性的。
  • The report is highly speculative and should be ignored.那个报道推测的成分很大,不应理会。
9 illuminating IqWzgS     
a.富于启发性的,有助阐明的
参考例句:
  • We didn't find the examples he used particularly illuminating. 我们觉得他采用的那些例证启发性不是特别大。
  • I found his talk most illuminating. 我觉得他的话很有启发性。
10 privately IkpzwT     
adv.以私人的身份,悄悄地,私下地
参考例句:
  • Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
  • The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
11 runaway jD4y5     
n.逃走的人,逃亡,亡命者;adj.逃亡的,逃走的
参考例句:
  • The police have not found the runaway to date.警察迄今没抓到逃犯。
  • He was praised for bringing up the runaway horse.他勒住了脱缰之马受到了表扬。
12 lodgers 873866fb939d5ab097342b033a0e269d     
n.房客,租住者( lodger的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He takes in lodgers. 他招收房客。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • A good proportion of my lodgers is connected with the theaters. 住客里面有不少人是跟戏院子有往来的。 来自辞典例句
13 offset mIZx8     
n.分支,补偿;v.抵消,补偿
参考例句:
  • Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
  • He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。
14 ballads 95577d817acb2df7c85c48b13aa69676     
民歌,民谣,特别指叙述故事的歌( ballad的名词复数 ); 讴
参考例句:
  • She belted out ballads and hillbilly songs one after another all evening. 她整晚一个接一个地大唱民谣和乡村小调。
  • She taught him to read and even to sing two or three little ballads,accompanying him on her old piano. 她教他读书,还教他唱两三首民谣,弹着她的旧钢琴为他伴奏。
15 avert 7u4zj     
v.防止,避免;转移(目光、注意力等)
参考例句:
  • He managed to avert suspicion.他设法避嫌。
  • I would do what I could to avert it.我会尽力去避免发生这种情况。
16 catastrophe WXHzr     
n.大灾难,大祸
参考例句:
  • I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
  • This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。
17 whatsoever Beqz8i     
adv.(用于否定句中以加强语气)任何;pron.无论什么
参考例句:
  • There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
  • All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样,你就怎样对人。
18 haughtily haughtily     
adv. 傲慢地, 高傲地
参考例句:
  • She carries herself haughtily. 她举止傲慢。
  • Haughtily, he stalked out onto the second floor where I was standing. 他傲然跨出电梯,走到二楼,我刚好站在那儿。
19 prohibition 7Rqxw     
n.禁止;禁令,禁律
参考例句:
  • The prohibition against drunken driving will save many lives.禁止酒后开车将会减少许多死亡事故。
  • They voted in favour of the prohibition of smoking in public areas.他们投票赞成禁止在公共场所吸烟。
20 feigned Kt4zMZ     
a.假装的,不真诚的
参考例句:
  • He feigned indifference to criticism of his work. 他假装毫不在意别人批评他的作品。
  • He accepted the invitation with feigned enthusiasm. 他假装热情地接受了邀请。
21 glossy nfvxx     
adj.平滑的;有光泽的
参考例句:
  • I like these glossy spots.我喜欢这些闪闪发光的花点。
  • She had glossy black hair.她长着乌黑发亮的头发。
22 prospect P01zn     
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
参考例句:
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
23 celibacy ScpyR     
n.独身(主义)
参考例句:
  • People in some religious orders take a vow of celibacy. 有些宗教修会的人发誓不结婚。
  • The concept of celibacy carries connotations of asceticism and religious fervor. 修道者的独身观念含有禁欲与宗教热情之意。
24 civilisation civilisation     
n.文明,文化,开化,教化
参考例句:
  • Energy and ideas are the twin bases of our civilisation.能源和思想是我们文明的两大基石。
  • This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.这部歌剧是西方文明的文化标志物之一。
25 override sK4xu     
vt.不顾,不理睬,否决;压倒,优先于
参考例句:
  • The welfare of a child should always override the wishes of its parents.孩子的幸福安康应该永远比父母的愿望来得更重要。
  • I'm applying in advance for the authority to override him.我提前申请当局对他进行否决。
26 determined duszmP     
adj.坚定的;有决心的
参考例句:
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
27 memorable K2XyQ     
adj.值得回忆的,难忘的,特别的,显著的
参考例句:
  • This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
  • The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
28 drawn MuXzIi     
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
29 mare Y24y3     
n.母马,母驴
参考例句:
  • The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.那匹母马刚刚在马厩里产下了一只小马驹。
  • The mare foundered under the heavy load and collapsed in the road.那母马因负载过重而倒在路上。
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 reined 90bca18bd35d2cee2318d494d6abfa96     
勒缰绳使(马)停步( rein的过去式和过去分词 ); 驾驭; 严格控制; 加强管理
参考例句:
  • Then, all of a sudden, he reined up his tired horse. 这时,他突然把疲倦的马勒住了。
  • The officer reined in his horse at a crossroads. 军官在十字路口勒住了马。
32 promotion eRLxn     
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
参考例句:
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
33 vocation 8h6wB     
n.职业,行业
参考例句:
  • She struggled for years to find her true vocation.她多年来苦苦寻找真正适合自己的职业。
  • She felt it was her vocation to minister to the sick.她觉得照料病人是她的天职。
34 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。
35 purely 8Sqxf     
adv.纯粹地,完全地
参考例句:
  • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
  • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
36 concealing 0522a013e14e769c5852093b349fdc9d     
v.隐藏,隐瞒,遮住( conceal的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • Despite his outward display of friendliness, I sensed he was concealing something. 尽管他表现得友善,我还是感觉到他有所隐瞒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • SHE WAS BREAKING THE COMPACT, AND CONCEALING IT FROM HIM. 她违反了他们之间的约定,还把他蒙在鼓里。 来自英汉文学 - 三万元遗产
37 pony Au5yJ     
adj.小型的;n.小马
参考例句:
  • His father gave him a pony as a Christmas present.他父亲给了他一匹小马驹作为圣诞礼物。
  • They made him pony up the money he owed.他们逼他还债。
38 barley 2dQyq     
n.大麦,大麦粒
参考例句:
  • They looked out across the fields of waving barley.他们朝田里望去,只见大麦随风摇摆。
  • He cropped several acres with barley.他种了几英亩大麦。
39 bestowed 12e1d67c73811aa19bdfe3ae4a8c2c28     
赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • It was a title bestowed upon him by the king. 那是国王赐给他的头衔。
  • He considered himself unworthy of the honour they had bestowed on him. 他认为自己不配得到大家赋予他的荣誉。
40 defer KnYzZ     
vt.推迟,拖延;vi.(to)遵从,听从,服从
参考例句:
  • We wish to defer our decision until next week.我们希望推迟到下星期再作出决定。
  • We will defer to whatever the committee decides.我们遵从委员会作出的任何决定。
41 postpone rP0xq     
v.延期,推迟
参考例句:
  • I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
  • She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。
42 inevitable 5xcyq     
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
参考例句:
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
43 wilfully dc475b177a1ec0b8bb110b1cc04cad7f     
adv.任性固执地;蓄意地
参考例句:
  • Don't wilfully cling to your reckless course. 不要一意孤行。 来自辞典例句
  • These missionaries even wilfully extended the extraterritoriality to Chinese converts and interfered in Chinese judicial authority. 这些传教士还肆意将"治外法权"延伸至中国信徒,干涉司法。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
44 withholding 7eXzD6     
扣缴税款
参考例句:
  • She was accused of withholding information from the police. 她被指控对警方知情不报。
  • The judge suspected the witness was withholding information. 法官怀疑见证人在隐瞒情况。
45 utterly ZfpzM1     
adv.完全地,绝对地
参考例句:
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
46 badger PuNz6     
v.一再烦扰,一再要求,纠缠
参考例句:
  • Now that our debts are squared.Don't badger me with them any more.我们的债务两清了。从此以后不要再纠缠我了。
  • If you badger him long enough,I'm sure he'll agree.只要你天天纠缠他,我相信他会同意。
47 obnoxious t5dzG     
adj.极恼人的,讨人厌的,可憎的
参考例句:
  • These fires produce really obnoxious fumes and smoke.这些火炉冒出来的烟气确实很难闻。
  • He is the most obnoxious man I know.他是我认识的最可憎的人。
48 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。
49 pertinacity sMPxS     
n.执拗,顽固
参考例句:
50 conceit raVyy     
n.自负,自高自大
参考例句:
  • As conceit makes one lag behind,so modesty helps one make progress.骄傲使人落后,谦虚使人进步。
  • She seems to be eaten up with her own conceit.她仿佛已经被骄傲冲昏了头脑。
51 ribs 24fc137444401001077773555802b280     
n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 );(船或屋顶等的)肋拱;肋骨状的东西;(织物的)凸条花纹
参考例句:
  • He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
  • Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。
52 suburban Usywk     
adj.城郊的,在郊区的
参考例句:
  • Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
  • There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
53 perches a9e7f5ff4da2527810360c20ff65afca     
栖息处( perch的名词复数 ); 栖枝; 高处; 鲈鱼
参考例句:
  • Other protection can be obtained by providing wooden perches througout the orchards. 其它保护措施是可在种子园中到处设置木制的栖木。
  • The birds were hopping about on their perches and twittering. 鸟儿在栖木上跳来跳去,吱吱地叫着。
54 sane 9YZxB     
adj.心智健全的,神志清醒的,明智的,稳健的
参考例句:
  • He was sane at the time of the murder.在凶杀案发生时他的神志是清醒的。
  • He is a very sane person.他是一个很有头脑的人。
55 quaffing 116a60476f1a8594b3c961709d86819f     
v.痛饮( quaff的现在分词 );畅饮;大口大口将…喝干;一饮而尽
参考例句:
  • He is quaffing his beer by the pint. 他论品脱地大喝啤酒。 来自互联网
  • Its easy-quaffing quality makes it an aperitif wine. 此酒极易入口,所以一刻作为开胃酒单独饮用。 来自互联网
56 inebriating cc4abe812c0143245695fb11acf38a6b     
vt.使酒醉,灌醉(inebriate的现在分词形式)
参考例句:
57 prospective oR7xB     
adj.预期的,未来的,前瞻性的
参考例句:
  • The story should act as a warning to other prospective buyers.这篇报道应该对其他潜在的购买者起到警示作用。
  • They have all these great activities for prospective freshmen.这会举办各种各样的活动来招待未来的新人。
58 nay unjzAQ     
adv.不;n.反对票,投反对票者
参考例句:
  • He was grateful for and proud of his son's remarkable,nay,unique performance.他为儿子出色的,不,应该是独一无二的表演心怀感激和骄傲。
  • Long essays,nay,whole books have been written on this.许多长篇大论的文章,不,应该说是整部整部的书都是关于这件事的。
59 chambers c053984cd45eab1984d2c4776373c4fe     
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅
参考例句:
  • The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间:Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
60 baggy CuVz5     
adj.膨胀如袋的,宽松下垂的
参考例句:
  • My T-shirt went all baggy in the wash.我的T恤越洗越大了。
  • Baggy pants are meant to be stylish,not offensive.松松垮垮的裤子意味着时髦,而不是无礼。


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