But we have spoken all our discontent. Possibly his writings are open to harsher censure27; but we love the man from sympathy, as well as for reasons to be assigned; and have no wish, if we were able, to put an argument in the mouth of his critics. Now for twenty years we have still found the “Imaginary Conversations” a sure resource in solitude28, and it seems to us as original in its form as in its matter. Nay29, when we remember his rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find free and sustained thought, a keen and precise understanding, an affluent30 and ready memory familiar with all chosen books, an industrious31 observation in every department of life, an experience to which nothing has occurred in vain, honor for every just and generous sentiment, and a scourge32 like that of the Furies for every oppressor, whether public or private, we feel how dignified33 is this perpetual Censor34 in his curule chair, and we wish to thank a benefactor35 of the reading world.
Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth-century the claims of pure literature. In these busy days of avarice36 and ambition, when there is so little disposition37 to profound thought, or to any but the most superficial intellectual entertainments, a faithful scholar receiving from past ages the treasures of wit, and enlarging them by his own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind. When we pronounce the names of Homer and Aeschylus, — Horace, Ovid, and Plutarch, — Erasmus, Scaliger, and Montaigne, — Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton, — Dryden and Pope, — we pass at once out of trivial associations, and enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have quitted all beneath the moon, and entered that crystal sphere in which everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal38. Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. The existence of the poorest play-wright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen39. A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled40 in the registers of the House of Fame, even as porters and grooms41 in the courts, to Creech and Fenton, Theobald and Dennis, Aubrey and Spence. From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be citizens, creditors42, debtors43, housekeepers44, and men of care and fear. What boundless45 leisure! what original jurisdiction46! the old constellations47 have set, new and brighter have arisen; an elysian light tinges48 all objects.
“In the afternoon we came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.”
And this sweet asylum49 of an intellectual life must appear to have the sanction of nature, as long as so many men are born with so decided an aptitude50 for reading and writing. Let us thankfully allow every faculty51 and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours. There are vast spaces in a thought; a slave, to whom the religious sentiment is opened, has a freedom which makes his master’s freedom a slavery. Let us not be so illiberal52 with our schemes for the renovation53 of society and nature, as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit. Certainly there are heights in nature which command this; there are many more which this commands. It is vain to call it a luxury, and as saints and reformers are apt to do, decry54 it as a species of day-dreaming. What else are sanctities, and reforms, and all other things? Whatever can make for itself an element, means, organs, servants, and the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being. Its excellency is reason and vindication55 enough. If rhyme rejoices us, there should be rhyme, as much as if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals. Each kind of excellence56 takes place for its hour, and excludes everything else. Do not brag57 of your actions, as if they were better than Homer’s verses or Raphael’s pictures. Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments58. They could act too, if the stake was worthy59 of them; but now all that is good in the universe urges them to their task. Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty, and not with ulterior ends, belongs to this sacred class, and among these, few men of the present age, have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor. Wherever genius or taste has existed, wherever freedom and justice are threatened, which he values as the element in which genius may work, his interest is sure to be commanded. His love of beauty is passionate60, and betrays itself in all petulant61 and contemptuous expressions.
But beyond his delight in genius, and his love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the appreciation62 of character. This is the more remarkable63 considered with his intense nationality, to which we have already alluded64. He is buttoned in English broadcloth to the chin. He hates the Austrians, the Italians, the French, the Scotch65, and the Irish. He has the common prejudices of the English landholder; values his pedigree, his acres, and the syllables66 of his name; loves all his advantages, is not insensible to the beauty of his watchseal, or the Turk’s head on his umbrella; yet with all this miscellaneous pride, there is a noble nature within him, which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and, leaving to others the painting of circumstance, aspire67 to the office of delineating character. He draws his own portrait in the costume of a village schoolmaster, and a sailor, and serenely68 enjoys the victory of nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads prove this taste. He draws with evident pleasure the portrait of a man, who never said anything right, and never did anything wrong. But in the character of Pericles, he has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior, where the circumstances are in harmony with the man. These portraits, though mere69 sketches70, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative71, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any success, but very few competitors in the attempt. The word Character is in all mouths; it is a force which we all feel; yet who has analyzed72 it? What is the nature of that subtle, and majestic73 principle which attaches us to a few persons, not so much by personal as by the most spiritual ties? What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men, or literary men, or rich men, or active men, or (in the popular sense) religious men, have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life’s history, almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape? A moral force, yet wholly unmindful of creed74 and catechism, intellectual, but scornful of books, it works directly and without means, and though it may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience. It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element, evanescing before any but the most sympathetic vision, that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels. Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of it.
These merits make Mr. Landor’s position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity. He exercises with a grandeur75 of spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and unquestionable nobility. We do not recollect76 an example of more complete independence in literary history. He has no clanship, no friendships, that warp77 him. He was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age, yet he discriminates78 his faults with the greater freedom. He loves Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Virgil, yet with open eyes. His position is by no means the highest in literature; he is not a poet or a philosopher. He is a man full of thoughts, but not, like Coleridge, a man of ideas. Only from a mind conversant79 with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature. Mr. Landor’s definitions are only enumerations of particulars; the generic80 law is not seized. But as it is not from the highest Alps or Andes, but from less elevated summits, that the most attractive landscape is commanded, so is Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of critics. He has commented on a wide variety of writers, with a closeness and an extent of view, which has enhanced the value of those authors to his readers. His Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a theory of the genius of Epicurus. The Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the Essays of Bacon. His picture of Demosthenes in three several Dialogues is new and adequate. He has illustrated82 the genius of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides. Then he has examined before he expatiated83, and the minuteness of his verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity84, when he speaks the language of meditation85 or of passion. His acquaintance with the English tongue is unsurpassed. He “hates false words, and seeks with care, difficulty, and moroseness86, those that fit the thing.” He knows the value of his own words. “They are not,” he says, “written on slate87.” He never stoops to explanation, nor uses seven words where one will do. He is a master of condensation88 and suppression, and that in no vulgar way. He knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style. The dense89 writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase, and even a gamesome mood often between his valid90 words. There is no inadequacy91 or disagreeable contraction92 in his sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
Yet it is not as an artist, that Mr. Landor commends himself to us. He is not epic81 or dramatic, he has not the high, overpowering method, by which the master gives unity93 and integrity to a work of many parts. He is too wilful94, and never abandons himself to his genius. His books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology95, allegory, sentiment, and personal history, and what skill of transition he may possess is superficial, not spiritual. His merit must rest at last, not on the spirit of the dialogue, or the symmetry of any of his historical portraits, but on the value of his sentences. Many of these will secure their own immortality96 in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical97 atoms, of which both are composed. All our great debt to the oriental world is of this kind, not utensils98 and statues of the precious metal, but bullion99 and gold dust. Of many of Mr. Landor’s sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates, that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
We will enrich our pages with a few paragraphs, which we hastily select from such of Mr. Landor’s volumes as lie on our table.
“The great man is he who hath nothing to fear and nothing to hope from another. It is he, who while he demonstrates the iniquity100 of the laws, and is able to correct them, obeys them peaceably. It is he who looks on the ambitious, both as weak and fraudulent. It is he who hath no disposition or occasion for any kind of deceit, no reason for being or for appearing different from what he is. It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him. . . . Him I would call the powerful man who controls the storms of his mind, and turns to good account the worst accidents of his fortune. The great man, I was going on to show thee, is somewhat more. He must be able to do this, and he must have that intellect which puts into motion the intellect of others.”
“All titulars else must be produced by others; a knight101 by a knight, a peer by a King, while a gentleman is self-existent.”
“Critics talk most about the visible in sublimity102 . . the Jupiter, the Neptune103. Magnitude and power are sublime104, but in the second degree, managed as they may be. Where the heart is not shaken, the gods thunder and stride in vain. True sublimity is the perfection of the pathetic, which has other sources than pity; generosity105, for instance, and self-devotion. When the generous and self-devoted man suffers, there comes Pity; the basis of the sublime is then above the water, and the poet, with or without the gods, can elevate it above the skies. Terror is but the relic106 of a childish feeling; pity is not given to children. So said he; I know not whether rightly, for the wisest differ on poetry, the knowledge of which, like other most important truths, seems to be reserved for a purer state of sensation and existence.”
“O Cyrus, I have observed that the authors of good make men very bad as often as they talk much about them.”
“The habit of haranguing107 is in itself pernicious; I have known even the conscientious108 and pious109, the humane110 and liberal dried up by it into egoism and vanity, and have watched the mind, growing black and rancid in its own smoke.”
Glory.
“Glory is a light which shines from us on others, not from others on us.”
“If thou lovest Glory, thou must trust her truth. She followeth him who doth not turn and gaze after her.”
— RICHARD I.
“Let me now tell my story . . to confession111 another time. I sailed along the realms of my family; on the right was England, on the left was France; little else could I discover than sterile112 eminences113 and extensive shoals. They fled behind me; so pass away generations; so shift, and sink, and die away affections. In the wide ocean I was little of a monarch114; old men guided me, boys instructed me; these taught me the names of my towns and harbors, those showed me the extent of my dominions115; one cloud, that dissolved in one hour, half covered them.
“I debark116 in Sicily. I place my hand upon the throne of Tancred, and fix it. I sail again, and within a day or two I behold117, as the sun is setting, the solitary118 majesty119 of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Onward120, and many specks121 bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am. I leave them afar off . . . . and for whom? O, abbot, to join creatures of less import than the sea-mews on their cliffs; men praying to be heard, and fearing to be understood, ambitious of another’s power in the midst of penitence122, avaricious123 of another’s wealth under vows124 of poverty, and jealous of another’s glory in the service of their God. Is this Christianity? and is Saladin to be damned if he despises it?”
DEMOSTHENES.
“While I remember what I have been, I never can be less. External power can affect those only who have none intrinsically. I have seen the day, Eubulides, when the most august of cities had but one voice within her walls; and when the stranger, on entering them, stopped at the silence of the gateway125, and said, ‘Demosthenes is speaking in the assembly of the people.’”
“There are few who form their opinions of greatness from the individual. Ovid says, ‘the girl is the least part of herself.’ Of himself, certainly, the man is.”
“No men are so facetious126 as those whose minds are somewhat perverted127. Truth enjoys good air and clear light, but no playground.”
“I found that the principal means (of gratifying the universal desire of happiness) lay in the avoidance of those very things, which had hitherto been taken up as the instruments of enjoyment128 and content; such as military commands, political offices, clients, adventures in commerce, and extensive landed property.”
“Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or of obtaining the higher.”
“Praise keeps good men good.”
“The highest price we can pay for a thing is to ask for it.”
“There is a gloom in deep love as in deep water; there is a silence in it which suspends the foot; and the folded arms, and the dejected head are the images it reflects. No voice shakes its surface; the Muses129 themselves approach it with a tardy130 and a timid step, and with a low and tremulous and melancholy131 song.”
“Anaxagoras is the true, firm, constant friend of Pericles; the golden lamp that shines perpetually on the image I adore.”
[The Letter of Pericles to Aspasia in reply to her request to be permitted to visit Xeniades.]
“Do what your heart tells you; yes, Aspasia, do all it tells you. Remember how august it is. It contains the temple, not only of Love, but of Conscience; and a whisper is heard from the extremity132 of one to the extremity of the other.
“Bend in pensiveness133, even in sorrow, on the flowery bank of youth, whereunder runs the stream that passes irreversibly! let the garland drop into it, let the hand be refreshed by it — but — may the beautiful feet of Aspasia stand firm.”
E.
点击
收听单词发音
收听单词发音 |
1
erect
|
|
| n./v.树立，建立，使竖立；adj.直立的，垂直的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
2
complexion
|
|
| n.肤色；情况，局面；气质，性格 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
3
conceal
|
|
| v.隐藏，隐瞒，隐蔽 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
4
esteem
|
|
| n.尊敬，尊重；vt.尊重，敬重；把…看作 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
5
crammed
|
|
| adj.塞满的，挤满的；大口地吃；快速贪婪地吃v.把…塞满；填入；临时抱佛脚( cram的过去式) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
6
peculiarity
|
|
| n.独特性，特色；特殊的东西；怪癖 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
7
alleged
|
|
| a.被指控的，嫌疑的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
8
virtues
|
|
| 美德( virtue的名词复数 )； 德行； 优点； 长处 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
9
accomplished
|
|
| adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
10
savage
|
|
| adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
11
delicacy
|
|
| n.精致，细微，微妙，精良；美味，佳肴 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
12
prone
|
|
| adj.(to)易于…的，很可能…的；俯卧的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
13
ostentation
|
|
| n.夸耀，卖弄 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
14
admiration
|
|
| n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
15
bishop
|
|
| n.主教，（国际象棋）象 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
16
paradox
|
|
| n.似乎矛盾却正确的说法；自相矛盾的人(物) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
17
eccentricity
|
|
| n.古怪，反常，怪癖 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
18
gratuitous
|
|
| adj.无偿的，免费的；无缘无故的，不必要的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
19
obtrusion
|
|
| n.强制，莽撞 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
20
licentious
|
|
| adj.放纵的，淫乱的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
21
license
|
|
| n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
22
determined
|
|
| adj.坚定的；有决心的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
23
defiance
|
|
| n.挑战，挑衅，蔑视，违抗 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
24
plunges
|
|
| n.跳进，投入vt.使投入，使插入，使陷入vi.投入，跳进，陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 )；暴跌；骤降；突降 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
25
afterward
|
|
| adv.后来；以后 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
26
decided
|
|
| adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
27
censure
|
|
| v./n.责备；非难；责难 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
28
solitude
|
|
| n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
29
nay
|
|
| adv.不；n.反对票，投反对票者 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
30
affluent
|
|
| adj.富裕的，富有的，丰富的，富饶的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
31
industrious
|
|
| adj.勤劳的，刻苦的，奋发的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
32
scourge
|
|
| n.灾难，祸害；v.蹂躏 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
33
dignified
|
|
| a.可敬的，高贵的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
34
censor
|
|
| n./vt.审查，审查员；删改 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
35
benefactor
|
|
| n. 恩人，行善的人，捐助人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
36
avarice
|
|
| n.贪婪；贪心 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
37
disposition
|
|
| n.性情，性格；意向，倾向；排列，部署 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
38
immortal
|
|
| adj.不朽的；永生的，不死的；神的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
39
omen
|
|
| n.征兆，预兆；vt.预示 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
40
enrolled
|
|
| adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
41
grooms
|
|
| n.新郎( groom的名词复数 )；马夫v.照料或梳洗（马等）( groom的第三人称单数 )；使做好准备；训练；（给动物）擦洗 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
42
creditors
|
|
| n.债权人，债主( creditor的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
43
debtors
|
|
| n.债务人，借方( debtor的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
44
housekeepers
|
|
| n.（女）管家( housekeeper的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
45
boundless
|
|
| adj.无限的；无边无际的；巨大的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
46
jurisdiction
|
|
| n.司法权，审判权，管辖权，控制权 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
47
constellations
|
|
| n.星座( constellation的名词复数 )；一群杰出人物；一系列（相关的想法、事物）；一群（相关的人） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
48
tinges
|
|
| n.细微的色彩，一丝痕迹( tinge的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
49
asylum
|
|
| n.避难所，庇护所，避难 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
50
aptitude
|
|
| n.(学习方面的)才能，资质，天资 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
51
faculty
|
|
| n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
52
illiberal
|
|
| adj.气量狭小的，吝啬的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
53
renovation
|
|
| n.革新，整修 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
54
decry
|
|
| v.危难，谴责 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
55
vindication
|
|
| n.洗冤，证实 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
56
excellence
|
|
| n.优秀，杰出，(pl.)优点，美德 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
57
brag
|
|
| v./n.吹牛，自夸；adj.第一流的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
58
enchantments
|
|
| n.魅力( enchantment的名词复数 )；迷人之处；施魔法；着魔 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
59
worthy
|
|
| adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
60
passionate
|
|
| adj.热情的，热烈的，激昂的，易动情的，易怒的，性情暴躁的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
61
petulant
|
|
| adj.性急的，暴躁的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
62
appreciation
|
|
| n.评价；欣赏；感谢；领会，理解；价格上涨 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
63
remarkable
|
|
| adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
64
alluded
|
|
| 提及，暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
65
scotch
|
|
| n.伤口，刻痕；苏格兰威士忌酒；v.粉碎，消灭，阻止；adj.苏格兰(人)的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
66
syllables
|
|
| n.音节( syllable的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
67
aspire
|
|
| vi.(to，after)渴望，追求，有志于 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
68
serenely
|
|
| adv.安详地，宁静地，平静地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
69
mere
|
|
| adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
70
sketches
|
|
| n.草图( sketch的名词复数 )；素描；速写；梗概 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
71
narrative
|
|
| n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
72
analyzed
|
|
| v.分析( analyze的过去式和过去分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
73
majestic
|
|
| adj.雄伟的，壮丽的，庄严的，威严的，崇高的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
74
creed
|
|
| n.信条；信念，纲领 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
75
grandeur
|
|
| n.伟大，崇高，宏伟，庄严，豪华 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
76
recollect
|
|
| v.回忆，想起，记起，忆起，记得 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
77
warp
|
|
| vt.弄歪，使翘曲，使不正常，歪曲，使有偏见 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
78
discriminates
|
|
| 分别，辨别，区分( discriminate的第三人称单数 )； 歧视，有差别地对待 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
79
conversant
|
|
| adj.亲近的，有交情的，熟悉的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
80
generic
|
|
| adj.一般的，普通的，共有的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
81
epic
|
|
| n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
82
illustrated
|
|
| adj. 有插图的，列举的 动词illustrate的过去式和过去分词 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
83
expatiated
|
|
| v.详述，细说( expatiate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
84
fidelity
|
|
| n.忠诚，忠实；精确 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
85
meditation
|
|
| n.熟虑，（尤指宗教的）默想，沉思，（pl.）冥想录 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
86
moroseness
|
|
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
87
slate
|
|
| n.板岩，石板，石片，石板色，候选人名单；adj.暗蓝灰色的，含板岩的；vt.用石板覆盖，痛打，提名，预订 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
88
condensation
|
|
| n.压缩，浓缩；凝结的水珠 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
89
dense
|
|
| a.密集的，稠密的，浓密的；密度大的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
90
valid
|
|
| adj.有确实根据的；有效的；正当的，合法的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
91
inadequacy
|
|
| n.无法胜任，信心不足 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
92
contraction
|
|
| n.缩略词，缩写式，害病 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
93
unity
|
|
| n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
94
wilful
|
|
| adj.任性的，故意的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
95
etymology
|
|
| n.语源；字源学 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
96
immortality
|
|
| n.不死，不朽 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
97
genetical
|
|
| adj. 创始的(发生的, 遗传学的) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
98
utensils
|
|
| 器具，用具，器皿( utensil的名词复数 )； 器物 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
99
bullion
|
|
| n.金条，银条 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
100
iniquity
|
|
| n.邪恶；不公正 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
101
knight
|
|
| n.骑士，武士；爵士 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
102
sublimity
|
|
| 崇高，庄严，气质高尚 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
103
Neptune
|
|
| n.海王星 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
104
sublime
|
|
| adj.崇高的，伟大的；极度的，不顾后果的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
105
generosity
|
|
| n.大度，慷慨，慷慨的行为 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
106
relic
|
|
| n.神圣的遗物，遗迹，纪念物 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
107
haranguing
|
|
| v.高谈阔论( harangue的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
108
conscientious
|
|
| adj.审慎正直的，认真的，本着良心的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
109
pious
|
|
| adj.虔诚的；道貌岸然的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
110
humane
|
|
| adj.人道的，富有同情心的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
111
confession
|
|
| n.自白，供认，承认 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
112
sterile
|
|
| adj.不毛的，不孕的，无菌的，枯燥的，贫瘠的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
113
eminences
|
|
| 卓越( eminence的名词复数 )； 著名； 高地； 山丘 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
114
monarch
|
|
| n.帝王，君主，最高统治者 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
115
dominions
|
|
| 统治权( dominion的名词复数 )； 领土； 疆土； 版图 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
116
debark
|
|
| v.卸载；下船，下飞机，下车 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
117
behold
|
|
| v.看，注视，看到 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
118
solitary
|
|
| adj.孤独的，独立的，荒凉的；n.隐士 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
119
majesty
|
|
| n.雄伟，壮丽，庄严，威严；最高权威，王权 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
120
onward
|
|
| adj.向前的，前进的；adv.向前，前进，在先 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
121
specks
|
|
| n.眼镜；斑点，微粒，污点( speck的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
122
penitence
|
|
| n.忏悔，赎罪；悔过 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
123
avaricious
|
|
| adj.贪婪的，贪心的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
124
vows
|
|
| 誓言( vow的名词复数 )； 郑重宣布，许愿 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
125
gateway
|
|
| n.大门口，出入口，途径，方法 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
126
facetious
|
|
| adj.轻浮的，好开玩笑的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
127
perverted
|
|
| adj.不正当的v.滥用( pervert的过去式和过去分词 )；腐蚀；败坏；使堕落 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
128
enjoyment
|
|
| n.乐趣；享有；享用 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
129
muses
|
|
| v.沉思，冥想( muse的第三人称单数 )；沉思自语说（某事） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
130
tardy
|
|
| adj.缓慢的，迟缓的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
131
melancholy
|
|
| n.忧郁，愁思；adj.令人感伤（沮丧）的，忧郁的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
132
extremity
|
|
| n.末端，尽头；尽力；终极；极度 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
133
pensiveness
|
|
| n.pensive（沉思的）的变形 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
| 欢迎访问英文小说网 |