Chapter 52

 Damn, you can’t tell me they don’t. They’re out with Uncle—after fox, most like—but listen how they feel about it. Listen how they carry on after that fox an’ just Molly after that bear....” They all listened. Indeed, there did seem to be the unmistakable sound of shame hidden beneath their high, overhysterical barking, certainly a sound not in the barking of the lone¹ dog. “Where are Hank and Joe Ben?” Lee asked, and she feels the wrist move slightly. “Damned if I know. I figured they’d be here waiting. But, now...what I reckon is, the pack there sounds like it tried once, then headed off again.” He frowned, scratching the tip of his nose. “Yeah ...I reckon Molly took the pack right off to that bear—uh-oh, hear that? fox is turnin’—and soon as Uncle saw what he’d got into he says, ‘Let’s go, boys. Leave that fool Molly to get et by bear if she so wants. Let’s us go hunt some fox.’ Yeah—an’ that was that first big noise, at the bear tree when the pack was there. So what I figure is Hank and Joe headed off—listen—to get to the treein’, but when the pack left, Molly couldn’t hold the bear by herself . . . so when Hank an’ Joe got there . . .” He trailed off, mumbling² to himself, nodding, opening his mouth to continue, then pausing to listen, eyes half closed and glinting green in the dark as he lip-read the hunt to himself. The fire spat³ and sizzled, opening pitch-pockets in the wood. The dogs’ baying scrambled⁴ after shadows. And Viv sees those shadows flutter, black-plumed and black-beaked, just at the corners of her eyes. And hears their excited whisperings. And now feels the hand rotate tortuously⁵ until the tips of the fingers touch her throat. And does not move. “What’s happening now?” Lee asked with casual interest. “Oh? Well, the fox—I reckon it’s got to be a fox, the way they’re moving around—he’s cuttin’ back an’ forth⁶, trying to back trail so’s they won’t pin him between the river an’ the mouth of the slough⁷. If he gets hemmed⁸ that way he’ll have to tree or swim, an’ there ain’t any good holes or hollers down that direction an’ lord does he hate to swim. If it was a coon he’d of cut ’cross the slough a long time ago, but fox don’t want his bushy wet. An’, over yonder, Molly ...hm...she’s moved back around the end of the slough and is cuttin’ up to the high rocks. Hm. That ain’t so good. But, listen...” And she concentrates even harder on the sounds, already hearing far more than the old man. She hears the slough, the whistle and bell buoys⁹, the last of the hillside flowers dying in the breeze—the drip of bleeding heart, the rattle¹⁰ of firecracker weed, the hiss¹¹ of adder’s tongue. Far off a fever of lightning takes a flash picture of Mary’s Peak. She waits but hears no thunder. A curious breeze dashes out of the dark firs to rummage¹² for a moment through the fire, then snatches her hair away from Lee’s hand. A few strands¹³ blow into her mouth and she rolls them thoughtfully between her front teeth. Her wet boots begin to steam and she draws them back from the fire. She wraps her arms about her knees. The cold fingers against her neck move, growing hotter. “Ah . . . what’ll happen if he, if the fox, swims?” Lee asked his father. “He swims the slough ’stead the river he’ll be okay, but a lot of times they don’t. Lot of times they head right ’cross the river; and that ain’t so good for the dogs or fox neither one.” “Can’t they make it?” Viv asks. “Oh sure, honey. It ain’t that far across. But somehow they get out in that water...and it’s dark...and ’stead of going on across they swim with the current, swim and swim and never get to the other side, just keep right on agoin’. Listen... he’s tryin’ to make a run, cuttin’ back to the north. That means they got him away from the slough and headed toward the river. They’ll get him, ifn he don’t swim.” The barking of the pack had reached a pitch that seemed way out of proportion to the size of the animal they were chasing— when compared to that relentless¹⁴ tolling¹⁵ of the lone dog after the much larger game. “Keep right on agoin’ to where?” Lee asked. “To the ocean,” Henry answered, “to the sea. Dang! Listen at the way them boogers are makin’ over that pore little fox. Dirteaters!” She feels that she should move from that touch—tend the coffee or something—but doesn’t move. Henry listened to the pack’s trailing with a displeased¹⁶ frown; this wasn’t the way he liked to hear dogs work. They were making too big of some poor little runt of a fox. He leaned forward and spat his wad of tobacco into the coals as though it had turned suddenly bitter. He watched it sizzle and swell¹⁷. “Sometimes,” he mused¹⁸, staring at the coals, “the salmon¹⁹ trollers pick up animals miles out to sea; deer, dogs, cats, lots of fox—just swimmin’ around all by theirselves, miles and miles from shore.” He picked up a stick and poked²⁰ at the coals, deep in thought, seeming to have momentarily dismissed the hunt. “Once—oh, maybe thirty years ago, a good thirty years—I was workin’ half-days on a crab²¹ boat. Get up about three an’ go out an’ help this old fart of a Swede haul up his crab pots.” He held his hand out in the firelight. “Them scars there on my little finger? Them’s crab bites, where the sonsabitches pinched me. Don’t ever tell me crabs²² can’t pinch. Anyhow, we was always running across animals swimmin’ around out there. Foxes mainly, but some deer too. Generally the Swede would say leave ’em be, leave ’em be; ‘No time to fool round, no time to fool round b’golly.’ But this once we seen a great big buck²³ deer, a real beauty, eight-nine points. And he says let’s get that feller. So we get a line on him and haul him in. The Swede figures the buck’s worth foolin’ round b’golly because we can eat him, I suppose, so we get a line around his head and lug²⁴ him on board. An’ he just laid there. He was pretty nearly gone. Breathin’ hard, rollin’ his eyes scared to death the way deer do. But I don’t know—not just scared. I mean it weren’t like he was just scared of damn near drowning; or of bein’ caught on a boat with people neither. Not that kind of just scared, as near as I could make out, but pure scared.” He jabbed at the fire, sending another fountain of sparks into the dark. Viv and Lee watched, waiting for him to go on. Feeling those sparks in her breast. “Well, he looked so done in we didn’t bother to tie him down. He was just layin’ there sort of stunned²⁵ an’ so shot he didn’t look like he could bat an eye. He laid there, didn’t make a move till we got close to the beach on our way in; then, man alive, he was up and for a second there it was just hoofs²⁶ and horns in all directions, then over the side. I thought at first the booger had just been sullin’ till he got near enough to swim to shore. But that wasn’t it. He turned right around, right into a incom’ tide, and headed right straight back out, lookin’ scared as ever. It kinda got me, you know? I’d always heard tell that deer and such went into the surf to kill the ticks and lice with salt water, then got swept out, but after seein’ that buck I decided²⁷ different, I decided there was more to it than bugs²⁸.” “More what?” Lee asked earnestly. “Why? Do you think—” “Hell, boy I don’t know why.” He tossed the stick into the flames. “You got the education, I’m nothin’ but a dumbass logger. I just know that I decided it didn’t stand to reason a deer or bear—or say a fox, who’s supposed to be a pretty smart customer—would drown hisself just to get shut of a few fleas²⁹. That’s a purty stiff cure.” He stood up and walked a few paces from the fire, brushing the front of his pants. “Uh-oh, listen there...they cut him off. They got the sucker now if he don’t swim.” “What do you think, Viv?” The slight pressing of fingers against her throat resumes. “Think about what?” She continues to stare thoughtfully into the fire, acting³⁰ as though she is still drawn³¹ into the mood the old man has created. “About this lemming instinct in certain animals. Why would a fox want to try to drown himself?” “I didn’t say they wanted to drown theirselfs,” Henry remarked without turning around. He spoke³² in the direction of the barking dogs. “If it was just drownin’ they was after they coulda done that in any pee hole or puddle³³. But they wasn’t just drowning; they was swimming.” “Swimming to certain death,” Lee reminded him. “Might be. But that ain’t drownin’.” “What else could it be? Even a human being has the intelligence to know that when he sets out deliberately³⁴ swimming away—from the shore—that it is his obvious inten—” He stopped in midword. Viv feels the hand go bloodless and numb³⁵ against her neck; startled, she turns to look at his face. There is no expression at all. For a moment he is gone from his face, as though he had fallen somewhere inward, away from her and the old man and the fire, into a remote pool of himself (However, as the evening turned out, everything worked for the best, and I gleaned³⁶ from the experience a nice bagful of beneficial data which proved quite useful to me in experiences to come...) until Henry interrupted him. “It is his obvious what?” “What? His obvious intention to not return ...to the shore.” (. . . the first bit of data concerned myself . . .) “So he, whatever he is, fox, deer, or despondent³⁷ wino, must be intent on drowning himself.” “Might be, but look here: It’s okay for the wino, but what’s a old fox got to be so despondent about that he decides to cash it in?” “The same thing! the same thing! (. . . and the witless depth into which I had allowed myself to be lulled³⁸ since leaving the East . . .) “Don’t you think a poor dumb beast has the ability to recognize the same cruel world as the drunk? Don’t you think that fox down there has just as many demons³⁹ to escape as the wino? I mean listen to that fox’s demons. . . .” Henry looked down at his son, puzzled. “That don’t mean he’s gotta drown himself, though. He could turn an’ fight ’em.” “All of them? Isn’t that just as certain as drowning? And more painful?” “Might be,” Henry answered slowly, deciding that, in as he couldn’t figure the boy’s goofy ways anyhow, he might as leave be amused by them. “Yes, might be. Like I said, you got the education. You’re the sharpie, they tell me. But then too—” and with a nimble movement goosed Lee in the ribs⁴⁰ with the cane⁴¹— “that’s what they allus told me about the fox! Yee haw . . .” He folded back to his seat on the sack, bawling⁴² his pleasure with Lee’s violent reaction to the cane. “Yee haw haw haw! See him come outa his sull with a little prod⁴³ there, Viv honey? See him hump up? Oh me: ‘That’s what they tell me about the fox.’ Yee haw haw haw haw!” ...Alone, under a needlepoint sky held up by the massive pillars of pine and fir, the dog Molly splashed through a narrow wash beginning to ice at the edge with a lacy frill. She scrabbled up the bank and thrust her muzzle⁴⁴ into the fern and bushmonkey leaves, dashing frantically⁴⁵ to and fro after the lost scent⁴⁶; MOUSE MOUSE DEER COON? MOUSE then bay-OOR BAYOOHR ...! In his room Lee wonders how to include all the history that Peters will need to make any sense of the situation. So very much ...And I would apologize for my delay in writing were I not convinced you would enjoy, much more than an apology, my quaint⁴⁷ explanation for this letter and the events that led up to it. First, there was a great fox hunt during which I attempted to establish contact with my brother’s wife (you will understand why later, if you aren’t already guessing) and this chore left me somewhat unnerved. . . . And Viv, unnerved somewhat herself as she sits against her sack of decoys with Lee’s hand coming once more to life, wonders how to stop the secret caressing⁴⁸ without the old man’s noticing, wonders if she wants to stop it— “Say by golly, y’know?” Henry rolled his shoulders and watched the braiding flames between the slits⁴⁹ of his eyelids⁵⁰. “This brings to mind, talkin’ about fox hunts, a time some years back when Hank was about ten or eleven or thereabouts an’ Ben an’ me took him with us over to Lane County on a hunt that turned into a real doozer. Y’see, there was this ol’ boy over there we knowed that claimed he had one outstandin’ sharpie of a fox that he hadn’t been able to poison or trap or shoot, an’ he would pay us five dollars cash to get shut of the devil so’s his pore poultry⁵¹ could get some rest nights . . .” —now she feels the hand slide further around beneath her hair to cup her throat, fingers thin and soft beneath the new shell of calluses, and Lee leans forward so his whispering is near her cheek: “That first day I met you, you remember? you had been crying—” “Shhh!” “—and I still hear you cry at night sometimes . . .” Oh! he can feel that little vein⁵² there— “Now then, y’see, as I recollect⁵³ it, little Hank, he’d raised from a pup this young bluetick bitch—oh, about six or eight months old, a nice little dog—an’ Hank just thought the world of her. He’d took her huntin’ on his own a time ’r two, but never out with the whole pack to show what she could really do.

1 lone   

adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的

参考例句：

• A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
• She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。

2 mumbling   

含糊地说某事，叽咕，咕哝( mumble的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I could hear him mumbling to himself. 我听到他在喃喃自语。
• He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg. 宴会结束时，他仍在咕哝着医院里的事。说着说着，他在一块冰上滑倒，跌断了左腿。

3 spat   

n.口角，掌击；v.发出呼噜呼噜声

参考例句：

• Her parents always have spats.她的父母经常有些小的口角。
• There is only a spat between the brother and sister.那只是兄妹间的小吵小闹。

4 scrambled   

v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 tortuously   

参考例句：

6 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

7 slough   

v.蜕皮，脱落，抛弃

参考例句：

• He was not able to slough off the memories of the past.他无法忘记过去。
• A cicada throws its slough.蝉是要蜕皮的。

8 hemmed   

缝…的褶边( hem的过去式和过去分词 )； 包围

参考例句：

• He hemmed and hawed but wouldn't say anything definite. 他总是哼儿哈儿的，就是不说句痛快话。
• The soldiers were hemmed in on all sides. 士兵们被四面包围了。

9 buoys   

n.浮标( buoy的名词复数 )；航标；救生圈；救生衣v.使浮起( buoy的第三人称单数 )；支持；为…设浮标；振奋…的精神

参考例句：

• The channel is marked by buoys. 航道有浮标表示。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Often they mark the path with buoys. 他们常常用浮标作为航道的标志。 来自辞典例句

10 rattle   

v.飞奔，碰响；激怒；n.碰撞声；拨浪鼓

参考例句：

• The baby only shook the rattle and laughed and crowed.孩子只是摇着拨浪鼓，笑着叫着。
• She could hear the rattle of the teacups.她听见茶具叮当响。

11 hiss   

v.发出嘶嘶声；发嘘声表示不满

参考例句：

• We can hear the hiss of air escaping from a tire.我们能听到一只轮胎的嘶嘶漏气声。
• Don't hiss at the speaker.不要嘘演讲人。

12 rummage   

v./n.翻寻，仔细检查

参考例句：

• He had a good rummage inside the sofa.他把沙发内部彻底搜寻了一翻。
• The old lady began to rummage in her pocket for her spectacles.老太太开始在口袋里摸索，找她的眼镜。

13 strands   

n.（线、绳、金属线、毛发等的）股( strand的名词复数 )；缕；海洋、湖或河的)岸；（观点、计划、故事等的）部份v.使滞留，使搁浅( strand的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Twist a length of rope from strands of hemp. 用几股麻搓成了一段绳子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She laced strands into a braid. 她把几股线编织成一根穗带。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 relentless   

adj.残酷的，不留情的，无怜悯心的

参考例句：

• The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
• Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。

15 tolling   

[财]来料加工

参考例句：

• A remote bell is tolling. 远处的钟声响了。
• Indeed, the bells were tolling, the people were trooping into the handsome church. 真的，钟声响了，人们成群结队走进富丽堂皇的教堂。

16 displeased   

a.不快的

参考例句：

• The old man was displeased and darted an angry look at me. 老人不高兴了，瞪了我一眼。
• He was displeased about the whole affair. 他对整个事情感到很不高兴。

17 swell   

vi.膨胀，肿胀；增长，增强

参考例句：

• The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
• His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。

18 mused   

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

19 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

20 poked   

v.伸出( poke的过去式和过去分词 )；戳出；拨弄；与（某人）性交

参考例句：

• She poked him in the ribs with her elbow. 她用胳膊肘顶他的肋部。
• His elbow poked out through his torn shirt sleeve. 他的胳膊从衬衫的破袖子中露了出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

21 crab   

n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气

参考例句：

• I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
• The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。

22 crabs   

n.蟹( crab的名词复数 )；阴虱寄生病；蟹肉v.捕蟹( crab的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• As we walked along the seashore we saw lots of tiny crabs. 我们在海岸上散步时看到很多小蟹。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The fish and crabs scavenge for decaying tissue. 鱼和蟹搜寻腐烂的组织为食。 来自《简明英汉词典》

23 buck   

n.雄鹿，雄兔；v.马离地跳跃

参考例句：

• The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
• The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。

24 lug   

n.柄，突出部，螺帽；(英）耳朵；（俚）笨蛋；vt.拖，拉，用力拖动

参考例句：

• Nobody wants to lug around huge suitcases full of clothes.谁都不想拖着个装满衣服的大箱子到处走。
• Do I have to lug those suitcases all the way to the station?难道非要我把那些手提箱一直拉到车站去吗？

25 stunned   

adj. 震惊的，惊讶的 动词stun的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The fall stunned me for a moment. 那一下摔得我昏迷了片刻。
• The leaders of the Kopper Company were then stunned speechless. 科伯公司的领导们当时被惊得目瞪口呆。

26 hoofs   

n.（兽的）蹄，马蹄( hoof的名词复数 )v.（兽的）蹄，马蹄( hoof的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The stamp of the horse's hoofs on the wooden floor was loud. 马蹄踏在木头地板上的声音很响。 来自辞典例句
• The noise of hoofs called him back to the other window. 马蹄声把他又唤回那扇窗子口。 来自辞典例句

27 decided   

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。

28 bugs   

adj.疯狂的，发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 )；病菌；虫子；[计算机]（制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的）错误

参考例句：

• All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞，都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

29 fleas   

n.跳蚤( flea的名词复数 )；爱财如命；没好气地（拒绝某人的要求）

参考例句：

• The dog has fleas. 这条狗有跳蚤。
• Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas. 除非要捉跳蚤，做事不可匆忙。 来自《简明英汉词典》

30 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

31 drawn   

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。

32 spoke   

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。

33 puddle   

n.(雨)水坑，泥潭

参考例句：

• The boy hopped the mud puddle and ran down the walk.这个男孩跳过泥坑，沿着人行道跑了。
• She tripped over and landed in a puddle.她绊了一下，跌在水坑里。

34 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

35 numb   

adj.麻木的，失去感觉的；v.使麻木

参考例句：

• His fingers were numb with cold.他的手冻得发麻。
• Numb with cold,we urged the weary horses forward.我们冻得发僵，催着疲惫的马继续往前走。

36 gleaned   

v.一点点地收集（资料、事实）( glean的过去式和过去分词 )；（收割后）拾穗

参考例句：

• These figures have been gleaned from a number of studies. 这些数据是通过多次研究收集得来的。
• A valuable lesson may be gleaned from it by those who have eyes to see. 明眼人可从中记取宝贵的教训。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

37 despondent   

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。

38 lulled   

vt.使镇静，使安静（lull的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• They lulled her into a false sense of security. 他们哄骗她，使她产生一种虚假的安全感。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The movement of the train lulled me to sleep. 火车轻微的震动催我进入梦乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

39 demons   

n.恶人( demon的名词复数 )；恶魔；精力过人的人；邪念

参考例句：

• demons torturing the sinners in Hell 地狱里折磨罪人的魔鬼
• He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood. 他为心魔所困扰，那可追溯至他饱受创伤的童年。 来自《简明英汉词典》

40 ribs   

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。

41 cane   

n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的

参考例句：

• This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
• English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。

42 bawling   

v.大叫，大喊( bawl的现在分词 )；放声大哭；大声叫出；叫卖（货物）

参考例句：

• We heard the dulcet tones of the sergeant, bawling at us to get on parade. 我们听到中士用“悦耳”的声音向我们大喊，让我们跟上队伍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Why are you bawling at me? “你向我们吼啥子？ 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

43 prod   

vt.戳，刺；刺激，激励

参考例句：

• The crisis will prod them to act.那个危机将刺激他们行动。
• I shall have to prod him to pay me what he owes.我将不得不催促他把欠我的钱还给我。

44 muzzle   

n.鼻口部；口套；枪(炮)口；vt.使缄默

参考例句：

• He placed the muzzle of the pistol between his teeth.他把手枪的枪口放在牙齿中间。
• The President wanted to muzzle the press.总统企图遏制新闻自由。

45 frantically   

ad.发狂地, 发疯地

参考例句：

• He dashed frantically across the road. 他疯狂地跑过马路。
• She bid frantically for the old chair. 她发狂地喊出高价要买那把古老的椅子。

46 scent   

n.气味，香味，香水，线索，嗅觉；v.嗅，发觉

参考例句：

• The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
• The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。

47 quaint   

adj.古雅的，离奇有趣的，奇怪的

参考例句：

• There were many small lanes in the quaint village.在这古香古色的村庄里，有很多小巷。
• They still keep some quaint old customs.他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。

48 caressing   

爱抚的，表现爱情的，亲切的

参考例句：

• The spring wind is gentle and caressing. 春风和畅。
• He sat silent still caressing Tartar, who slobbered with exceeding affection. 他不声不响地坐在那里，不断抚摸着鞑靼，它由于获得超常的爱抚而不淌口水。

49 slits   

n.狭长的口子，裂缝( slit的名词复数 )v.切开，撕开( slit的第三人称单数 )；在…上开狭长口子

参考例句：

• He appears to have two slits for eyes. 他眯着两眼。
• "You go to--Halifax,'she said tensely, her green eyes slits of rage. "你给我滚----滚到远远的地方去！" 她恶狠狠地说，那双绿眼睛冒出了怒火。

50 eyelids   

n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 )；眼睛也不眨一下；不露声色；面不改色

参考例句：

• She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了，眼睑开始往下垂。
• Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

51 poultry   

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?

52 vein   

n.血管，静脉；叶脉，纹理；情绪；vt.使成脉络

参考例句：

• The girl is not in the vein for singing today.那女孩今天没有心情唱歌。
• The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein.医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。

53 recollect   

v.回忆，想起，记起，忆起，记得

参考例句：

• He tried to recollect things and drown himself in them.他极力回想过去的事情而沉浸于回忆之中。
• She could not recollect being there.她回想不起曾经到过那儿。