A Senator fell to musing1 as follows: “With the money which I shall get for my vote in favour of the bill to subsidise cat-ranches, I can buy a kit2 of burglar’s tools and open a bank. The profit of that enterprise will enable me to obtain a long, low, black schooner3, raise a death’s~head flag and engage in commerce on the high seas. From my gains in that business I can pay for the Presidency4, which at $50,000 a year will give me in four years —” but it took him so long to make the calculation that the bill to subsidise cat-ranches passed without his vote, and he was compelled to return to his constituents5 an honest man, tormented6 with a clean conscience.
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1 musing | |
n. 沉思,冥想 adj. 沉思的, 冥想的 动词muse的现在分词形式 | |
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n.用具包,成套工具;随身携带物 | |
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n.纵帆船 | |
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n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期) | |
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n.选民( constituent的名词复数 );成分;构成部分;要素 | |
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6 tormented | |
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