Chapter 91

“Hank! Lord, man, you can’t touch the—” Orland grabbed my wrist and brought me out of it. “It was all that music and that crap,” I told him. “Made me sleepy as a dog.” “Let’s move on outside,” Viv whispered. I followed her out. My time with the tarp was justified¹; it had clouded over solid. I saw a little patter of rain hurrying up the street. It had been scheduled for the funeral but made it late; now it was hustling² to be sure it didn’t miss the burying. Men hunched³ their shoulders and women held the little flowery funeral programs over their hairdos and went to scurrying⁴ like chickens for shelter. It looked like it was going to open up all the time we were hustling to the jeep, but it never. It kept pittypatting during the funeral procession through the middle of town; just barely; holding back, like it was waiting....) 626 ken⁵ kesey Boney Stokes waits until the whole procession has passed. He wants to be sure the doctor is at the funeral grounds as well as Hank. It is a long walk from the Snag to the hospital for an old man—for a sick old man—and he doesn’t want to chance being turned away from his goal, after enduring the journey, by some young fool doctor with orders otherwise. A long walk. Through rain, too, he noticed as he buttoned his long black raincoat to his skinny neck, through rain and cold and me with these weak lungs.... Oh, what a man of Christian⁷ intent will not endure for an old friend! (At the graveside the rain got down to business and thinned the crowd down to only about a third what it was at the parlor⁸. We bunched up close around the hole. They were burying Joby beside his old man, or beside all of his old man that had been brought back down from that shack⁹ where he’d disappeared to. Enough insult right there to make both of them plow¹⁰ the ground with turning. It was almost funny. If this judgment¹¹ day Joe was always looking forward to ever comes round, I thought, and those two come up for air and find they been buried next to each other, then the fur is really gonna fly. Joe always wanted to be as far from his old man as possible, even got his face rearranged so he wouldn’t look like Ben Stamper; he couldn’t think of anything worse than growing up with what he called that handsome and hopeless face. I thought again about the way Lilienthal had fixed¹² Joe’s dead face—powdered over the scars, ironed out the grin—and I wanted to open that box and fix them for him. I wanted to so bad it made me clench¹³ up my fists till I could feel myself shake; it made me strain all over. Not to hold myself back from doing it, but because I knew I wasn’t going to do it. I just stood there. I watched them straddle the grave rails, and lower the coffin¹⁴, all the while clenching¹⁵ my fists and straining and wishing they’d get that mud thrown on that coffin and get it out of sight. And just stood there. As soon as Joe was buried I took Viv’s arm and started off. When we got to the jeep I heard somebody holler, “Hank! Hank boy!” It was Floyd Evenwrite; he was yelling and waving out of the window of his big Pontiac to me. “You an’ your woman jump in sometimes a great notion here with us. We got room to waste. You don’t need to drive all that way back down to town in that leaky old jeep. Let Andy take it an’ jump in here in a decent machine....” Evenwrite gave me a big old toothy grin and waited. It was an open invitation to bury the hatchet¹⁶, and everybody concerned damn well knew it. But I thought I saw what was almost a taunt¹⁷ behind that grin. Like he was grinning that, sure, just a week or so ago, Hank old boy, I was trying to sabotage¹⁸ your mill and stampede your whole summer’s work down the river. But let’s be buddies¹⁹.... “What you say, boy ...?” I looked at Viv, and at Andy standing²⁰ near the crowd around Big Lou’s car. They waited for me to decide; we all knew that Floyd and his bunch had a lot to do with putting that squeeze on us that helped to do in Joe. I tried to decide something, but all I could think was I’m tired, I’m tired of being the villain²¹. . . . “Be right with you, Floyd,” I hollered back at him and grabbed Viv by the hand. “Okeydoke with you, Andy? Just leave it on Main someplace, the jeep.” We scampered²² over to the door he held open for us. Nobody said anything during most of the ride. When we got down near town Evenwrite asked why I didn’t drop by the Snag for a beer or so. I told him that I thought Viv was wanting to get on over to Joe’s new house to be with Jan, and he said fine, we’d drop her by, but then what? I told him that I ought to go by the hospital and see how the old man was making out, but after that I’d think about it. “Good. You do that. I’ll drop Viv off and we can turn up Necanicum and take you right past the hospital. Then you think about it. Okay?” I said okay. I tried to catch Viv’s eye a time or two to see how she felt about my decision, but she kept to herself. And after we dropped her off I asked myself why should I care anyhow? I was glad to be in a good dry car. I was glad to be getting invitations for rides and beers. I was glad to have somebody stick out a hand to me. We turned from South Main to Sillits Street toward Necanicum. I sank back in the deep cushion of the big car and listened to the wipers and the heater and Evenwrite make small talk with his family. I didn’t care how Viv or Andy looked at 628 ken kesey me. I didn’t care if there was a little taunt in Evenwrite’s grin. I didn’t’ even care what Joby would’ve thought about it. Because as far as I was concerned the fight was finished, the hatchet buried ...for good.) The minute Hank was out of the car, Evenwrite’s kids, kept in sedate²³ behavior in the back seat for so long by the presence of two strange grown-ups and the solemnity of the occasion, begin to act up so that Floyd was forced to stop the car twice before he got home, to knock some ears down. He left his house in a fury, jumped back in the car, and screeched²⁴ away from his yard toward the Snag, with his kids crying and his wife threatening and his bowels²⁵ turning. When he reached Main he made two runs the length of the street, checking for Draeger’s car, before he stopped; he by god wasn’t about to go in there and have Draeger crow about the human heart to him! Not him! He was amazed that Hank could even consider dropping by, with “I told you so” on the tip of everybody’s tongue. Amazed and, he found, a little disappointed: he’d expected more of Hank. And he felt that Hank had betrayed him some way or other, though he couldn’t exactly say why....And why ain’t I satisfied how things worked out? Indian Jenny pulls on her boots and begins her trek²⁶ to the Snag. Sometimes direct action worked better than magic. Especially some night, in a bar. Be a lot of drunks there tonight. And who knows? Simone opens the package just delivered by the young matchstick-chewer from Stokes’s General. “No card from who?” “No, no card or nothin’,” he had told her. “Howie said be sure no card or nothin’...so’s you couldn’t send it back to somebody.” “Well you just take it right back to somebody—so pretty, though, how could he?—and you tell somebody I accept no gifts from strange men....But how could he know to pick one so pretty and the right size, I bet?” “His sister was with him to help, maybe?” “Then you take it back to his sister.” “I can’t do that,” the boy said, moving to try to peek²⁷ through the front of her housecoat. “I just deliver.” sometimes a great notion “Yes?” “Yeah.” He winked²⁸ and shifted the matchstick to the opposite corner of his mouth and was gone before she could stop him. Simone hustled²⁹ the gift into her bedroom before Mother Nielsen or her kids in the other half of the duplex heard and came snooping. She spread the frock on her bed and looked at....So pretty. But no. She had promised. She could not disappoint the Virgin³⁰ . . . She had returned the dress to the box and started folding the tissue paper back over it when through her bedroom window she saw Indian Jenny passing, thick and dumpy and rubber-booted, in the dimming rain. Simone stared, lightly trailing her fingers along the rustling³¹ tissue. That—she grimaced³² at Jenny— is what I did not wish to become. That is the thing I did not wish to become. I made the confession³⁴, I swore on the Book, I promised the Sweet Mother of God to sin never again ...but that woman there is what I do not wish to become. She suddenly remembered her image in the mirror, and the pity in the eyes of the women who saw her on the street. Her eyes closed ...I have had virtue³⁵. But it is almost that I have become through virtue what that heathen slut out there became through sin, a tramp, a shuffler³⁶ in dumpy dresses. It is so now that to the women of the town I look like the town whore. Because of my appearance. Because I can’t afford to look decent. Oh, oh, Sweet Mother! She pressed the tissue against her lips. Oh give me strength in my weakness . . . The sin that she now felt from looking sinful, Simone realized as she sobbed³⁷ into the tissue, was more painful than the sin she had once felt from sinning. “What has happened, Holy Mother, that I become so sinful?” she beseeched the wooden statue in her closet. “What has happened that I become so weak?” But another thought was already growing like yeast³⁸ in her mind: And you, Holy Mother, to let this happen...what has happened to you? Fluorescent³⁹ tubes fluttered and hissed⁴⁰. The air felt purified. The Amazon of a nurse had said, “Right this way, Mr. Stamper,” as soon as Hank approached her desk, before he had even 630 ken kesey asked to see his father. She picked up a clipboard and led him out of the newer part of the hospital, down a corridor so low he found himself ducking involuntarily to avoid the overhead lights, through hallways so old he thought they might have been carved out of the bygone centuries by Indians and whitewashed⁴¹ in honor of the white man’s coming. A section of the clinic that he had not seen before—wooden walls fossilized by endless scrubbings, linoleum⁴² floors worn bare by endless shufflings of white canvas shoes...and through open doors glimpses of old people propped⁴³ like cloth dolls against brass⁴⁴ bedsteads, hairless faces limp and wrinkled in the stony⁴⁵ blue flickering⁴⁶ of TV. The nurse noticed his interest and paused, smiling into one of the larger rooms. “Each room’s got one now. Used, of course, but still in excellent shape. The DAR ladies donated them.” She adjusted a strap⁴⁷ through the fabric⁴⁸ of her uniform. “Gives the old folks something to look at, y’know, while they wait.” The picture in the room they were looking into had begun to flip⁴⁹; yet no one called for an adjustment. “While they wait for what?” Hank couldn’t help wondering out loud. The nurse gave him a sharp look and started on down the corridor again toward the old man’s room. “We had to situate him where we had room,” she felt compelled to explain, speaking sharply. “Even though he might not be classified geriatric. The new wing is always so crowded . . . babies and young mamas and the like. Besides, he’s not exactly a spring chicken any more, now is he?” The place stank⁵⁰ of age, of all the accouterments of age, strong soap and wintergreen salve, alcohol and baby food, and, over everything, the keen reek⁵¹ of urine. Hank’s nose wrinkled with distaste. But, he reasoned, when you come down to it, why shouldn’t the old live in an old world and the bright new wing be reserved for babies and young mamas and the like? “No ...I guess he ain’t exactly a spring chicken any more.” The nurse stopped at the very last door. “We did give him a private room, you see. Mr. Stokes is in there with him now.” Her voice had dropped to a reedy whisper. “I know what you told us about nobody gettin’ in to see him for a while, but I figured . . . sometimes a great notion well, my lands, they’re such old friends I couldn’t see the harm.” She smiled quickly and opened the door, stepping in to announce, “Another visitor, Mr. Stamper.” The gaunt and white- maned head reared up out of the pillow with a bray⁵² of laughter. “By god now, I was beginning to think all my kin⁶ had give me up for dead. Find a chair, son. Sit. Wait. Here’s old Boney. He’s been here cheering me up, like a good soul.” “Afternoon, Hank. My condolences.” The cold hand touched Hank’s with a husking, parchment sound, then withdrew quickly to cover a practiced cough. Hank looked down at his father. “How you makin’ it, Papa?” “ ‘Middlin’, Hank, middlin’.” His brows lowered despondently⁵³ over defeated eyes—“The doc says it’ll be a piece before I can get back to loggin’, maybe a long piece . . .”—then lifted quickly to reveal a flash of ornery green. “But he says I’ll be playin’ the violin again before the week’s out. Oh yee haw, hee hee haw! Look out for me, Boney, they been shootin’ me fulla dope an’ I’m a caution.” “Henry.” Boney spoke⁵⁴ through his fingers, hiding the thin slot of mouth. “You had best take it easy now....” “Listen to him, son; don’t you know he brings me a lot of pleasure comin’ here? Here, sit down on the edge of the bed if you can’t run down a chair. Nursie, don’t I get but one chair? And what d’ya say you bring another scuttle⁵⁵ of mud for my boy?” “Coffee is provided for the patients, Mr. Stamper, not for the visitors.” “I’ll pay for it, goddangit!” He winked at Hank. “I tell ya . . . when they fust brought me in here the other night you just would not believe all the crap and paraphernalia⁵⁶ they wanted me to fill out. Seems as you neglected to, so I had to do it.” “That’s not true!” the nurse hoped in horror; but there was no telling about that night staff. “I don’t think it’s true.” “Yessir, fill all kinds of the stuff out. Even was after my fingerprints⁵⁷ by god till they seen I weren’t equipped for it.” The woman turned and huffed away down the corridor. Henry studied her departure with an expert’s eye. “Hogs fightin’ under a 632 ken kesey sheet...how’d I like to sink my long yellows in that an’ let it drag me to my death?” “If you was of an age,” Boney added on, “to have long yellows.” He wasn’t giving a thing. “Maybe you’d have to sink your gums into her, Boney. But I still got three my own teeth, if you’ll notice”—he opened his mouth to display the proof—“an’ two of ’em meet.” This seemed to tire him momentarily and his high spirits waned⁵⁸ while he lay for a few seconds with his eyes closed. When his head rolled on the pillow to look again at his somber⁵⁹ visitor his good humor seemed strained. “You know, that damned woman, she’s been waiting all the livelong day for this ol’ nigger to give up the ghost an’ get it over with so’s she can make the bed. Now I believe she’s peeved⁶⁰ that I haven’t.” “Maybe she’s just worried,” Boney observed solemnly. “She’s had a lot of reason to be worried about you, old fellow.” Henry rallied to meet the challenge. “Reason the bull. I weren’t even close, not even close, you goddam vulture. Listen at him, Hank, the old buzzard. Why I weren’t even in shoutin’ distance!” Hank smiled weakly. Boney looked down at the floor with a slight shaking of his head. “My, my, my.” It was his day, he felt, and he wasn’t about to let his toll⁶¹ of doom⁶² be drowned out by a few tinkles⁶³ of humor. Henry didn’t like that shake of the head. “You think no? I always said, didn’t I, that I could outlog any man this side of the Cascades⁶⁴, with one arm tied behind my back? All right, now I get a chance to prove it. An’ you by god wait an’ see if I—” A sudden thought occured to him; he turned back to Hank. “Say, what come of that arm, anyhow? Because, y’know...” He timed a little pause before he announced, “I was kinda attached to it!” His head fell back to the brass bars, mouth going wide in voiceless laughter. Hank knew the old man had probably been waiting for hours for the opportunity to make that announcement. He told Henry that he’d kept good track of the limb. “I had a notion you might want to keep it. I got it in the freezer with all the other meat.” sometimes a great notion “Well, you watch that Viv don’t fry it up for supper,” Henry warned. “For I was always mighty⁶⁵ attached to that arm.” When Henry tired of his joke he fumbled⁶⁶ for the buzzer⁶⁷ button that dangled⁶⁸ on a wire beside his head. “Where in hell that woman go to now? I ain’t been able to get anything out of her all day, and I don’t just mean coffee. Hank, I want you to bring me up on—here! damn it, ring this gizmo for me; she keep puttin’ it on the wrong side where I can’t get at it. On my wingless side. Hm. You be careful of that ol’ wing, now. Damn. Where is that old cow? A man could die in this place and people wouldn’t know it till the stink⁶⁹ got bad. Listen, I want to know what’s happenin’ with the show an’ if—Come on! don’t just fiddle⁷⁰ with it, buzz hell out of it. That’s what it’s here for. Boney, what’s the matter’th you? Sittin’ there like you lost your best friend...?” “It’s only that I’m worried for you, Henry. Just exactly that.” “Balls. You’re worryin’ I’ll outlive you is just exactly what. You been worryin’ that ever since I can remember. Son, Jesus Christ ohmighty, give me that outfit⁷¹!” Swinging it by the wire, he clanged the button loudly against the nightstand and called in a pained and angry voice, “Nurse! Nurse!” His eyes clenched⁷² with the effort. “Get me another shot o’ that dope, and where the hell’s that caw-fee!” “Easy, Papa . . .” “Yes, Henry . . .” Boney spread his web of fingers over the sheet covering Henry’s knee. “You better take it a little easier.” “Stokes”—Henry’s eyes, usually so wide that white could be seen all the way around pupils hot as Fourth of July flares⁷³, went narrow and cold—“git your fishy⁷⁴ old mitt⁷⁵ off ’n my leg. Just git it off.” He glared at Boney until the other’s eyes dropped; he felt a surge of delight at finally voicing a feeling long unvoiced. He continued to look straight at Boney and went on, speaking with unusual softness, “You’re just as bad as she is, Stokes; you know that. Except you been forty-five years at it. Hopin’ I’ll give up the ghost.” He drew back the button-on-wire threateningly. “Now git it off, I tell you. Off!” Boney withdrew his hand and held it at his chest, looking wronged. Henry dropped the button and began jerking about beneath the covers in a state of tense agitation⁷⁶. 634 ken kesey “That’s not true, old friend,” Boney said in a hurt voice. “ ’S true. ’S true as the day is long, an’ we both know it. Forty-five years, fifty years, sixty years. Nurse!” Boney sighed and half turned in his chair, presenting a face pained by the injustice⁷⁷ of the accusation⁷⁸. But there was something so false in his attitude of wronged friendship, something so vicious in the denying shake of his head, that Hank was certain that the whole act was a deliberate admission to all of Henry’s charges. Fascinated, he moved back to the foot of the bed and stood there, half hidden by the yellowed bed curtain. The two old men had forgotten him in their confrontation⁷⁹ of each other. Boney continued to shake his head sadly; Henry jerked about beneath the covers and glared sideways at the figure in the chair from time to time. After a minute of silence, he worked his mouth to express a feeling that had burned so long unworded that now it threatened to rage out of control. “A good sixty years. Ever since ...ever since ...goddam you, Stokes, I can’t even remember when it first started, it’s been there so long!” “Ah, Henry, Henry . . .” Boney chose to acknowledge the fire through his overdrawn⁸⁰ denial of it. “Can you truthfully now recall me ever giving you anything but what I considered the soundest advice, the very soundest, in all our years? Can you?” “Like which? Like the time you advised me and Ben and Aaron to bring Ma to go to Eugene for the Welfare, because we couldn’t endure a season alone in those woods? Somebody that ain’t used to it, you says, can’t endure a season in these woods. You recall that advice? Well, we endured it fine, as I look back....” “You lost your mother that winter from your stubbornness,” Boney reminded him. “Lost her? She died! The woods didn’t have beans to do with it. She just got sick and laid down and died!” “It mightn’t of happened in town.” “It’d of happened anywhere. She died that year cause she made up her mind that she was bound and determined⁸¹ to die.” “We all offered to help.” “I’ll say you did. You helped us right out of that feed store.” sometimes a great notion “We all unselfishly offered the necessities of life—” “And wanted what in payment? Our house an’ property? A mortgage on the next ten years?” “Henry, that’s unfair; the organization made no such demands.” “Not wrote down any place, maybe, but they was demands made just the same. I never seen your old man—or that goddam organization neither one—get hurt from any of these unselfish offerings. You did all right with your offerings.” “Be that as it may, there’s no one who can accuse us of havin’ anything but the interests of the community at heart.” Before Henry could answer, the door opened and the nurse entered with a small paper cup of coffee. She set it on the bed-stand, looked around at the silent men, and hurried back out without saying anything. Henry took up the cup and drank. He watched Boney through the rising steam. When he brought the cup from his lips, Hank saw that the rim³³ bore mark of those two teeth out of three that met. Henry placed the cup back on the nightstand, never taking his eyes from Boney’s bent⁸² head. With the sleeve of his white flannel⁸³ robe he wiped his mouth. Boney continued to shake his head, clucking pityingly over his old companion’s unbalanced state. “Boney,” Henry finally said in a flat voice, “you got any snoose on you?” Boney’s face brightened. “Surely, surely.” He drew a can from the pocket of his coat. “Here, let me—” “You give it here.” He blinked at Henry, then placed the can carefully on the sheet, unopened. Henry picked it up. He began turning it around and around in his pink hand as the thumb laboriously⁸⁴ pushed at the lid; a fraction of an inch, turn, another fraction, another turn ...Hank ached to take the can from his father, quickly screw the lid off, and end this thing, free both himself and his father from an obsession⁸⁵ that seemed more and more senseless. But he somehow did not dare move from his hiding place beside the curtain. Not yet. Not until it was finished of its own accord. The lid popped off. The coarse brown fuzz of tobacco boiled 636 ken kesey out over the sheet. Henry cursed, then, patiently, with Boney watching motionless, scooped⁸⁶ the bulk of the spill back into the tin, replaced the lid, popped it tight between thumb and finger, tossed it into Boney’s lap.... “Much obliged.” Then swept the remainder into a small heap on the sheet, rolled this into a ball, and placed the wad between his lower lip and his gums. He concentrated a second as he maneuvered⁸⁷ the charge into comfortable position, then flapped the grains from the sheet with a victorious⁸⁸ flourish. The stained lips broke into a broad grin. “Much obliged, old fellow, old friend...very much obliged.” Now it seemed it was Boney’s turn to fidget. Henry’s success with the snuff had shaken his complacency and placed the burden of the contest on his humped shoulders. “What do you plan on now, Henry,” he wanted to know, trying to sound matter-of-fact, “now that things have changed?” “Why, what do you mean, Boney? Just what I been doin’, I imagine.” The old daring confidence returned to Henry’s eyes. “Plan to get back out there with the boys, I imagine, back out in the woods. Lettin’ daylight in the swamp. Bullwhippin’ the brush.” He yawned and drew a long fingernail down the stubble of his neck. “Ah, I ain’t foolin’ myself. I ain’t a pup any more. When you get into your seventies you got to think about slowin’ up, lettin’ the boys do the muley work while you rely on your knowhow and experience. Maybe even get me a chair out there. But, I don’t know, when it comes right down to it—” “Henry.” Boney could stand it no longer. “You are a fool. Bullwhipping the brush...don’t yousee you’re the one gettin’ bullwhipped? You! Ever since...But I told you, all along I told you—” “Ever since what, Boney?” Henry asked pleasantly. “Since I told you that there is no mortal bein’ capable of—of enduring all alone this country! We are in this together! Man... man has got to—” “Ever since what, Boney?” Henry still wanted to know. “What? Ever since I . . . What?” sometimes a great notion Henry leaned forward intently. “Since Pa run off and I stuck? Since I survived that winter? Since I built up a business that you said nobody could?” “I never had anything against men developing the land.” “But one man doin’ it? One family? Heh? Heh? When you told us time an’ again we couldn’t. A ‘community effort’ is what you always said. God. I heard that pioneer-communityagainst-the-wilds shit so much the first years my belly⁸⁹ was run over with it.” “It was necessary. It was mortal man’s only hope against the untamed elements—” “Sounds just like your old daddy talkin’.” “—that we strive together to survive together.” “I don’t recollect⁹⁰ as how I did much strivin’ together, but I believe I did survive. Even gained a little bit on the side.” “Look what it’s got you! Loneliness an’ despair.” “Well, I don’t know about that.” “Bedridden!” Boney stood from his chair, twisting his hands in his shirtfront. “An arm lost! Dying!” “I don’t know about that. It maybe winged, nicked me a little bit, but you got to expect that.” Boney started to say more but was stopped by a fit of rage and coughing. When the coughing stopped he took his coat from the back of the chair and stabbed his skeleton arms into the sleeves. “Out of his head with pain.” He tried to dismiss Henry as he walked toward the door. The coughing had injured his throat so his voice squeaked⁹¹ comically. “That’s all. Crazy with pain. And dope. He can’t think reasonable.” He wiped his mouth and stood fingering the smooth buttons of the coat. “Leavin’, Boney?” Henry inquired amiably⁹². “Burnin’ up with fever, too, I’d bet.” But he couldn’t walk out the door. Not while out of the corner of his eye he could see that cursed imbecile grin, shellacked with tobacco, that face like the face of a heathen idol⁹³ shining out against everything he knew to be holy and right, those eyes that had so long needled and irritated and made uncomfortable an existence that would have otherwise been a peaceful stretch of pleasant pessimism⁹⁴. He feared that if he walked out through that door that face 638 ken kesey might solidify⁹⁵ itself in death; that way he would never escape it.... “Well, I’ll see you in the funny-papers, Boney Stokes, Bobby Stokes, sobby little Bobby Stokes ...you remember that?” That way not only would he be haunted by it for the rest of his days, but his whole past would be scooped out hollow, his whole life gutted⁹⁶.... “An’ listen, if you run across Hank or Joe Ben, tell ’em I said to get in here an’ bring me up to date on where we stand.” That way, if he let Henry get the last laugh, his entire world would—“What? Stand? Joe Ben?” Horrified⁹⁷, Hank watched the opening door stop, pull slowly closed. He saw the stiff, thoughtful pivot⁹⁸ of Boney’s turning, and his own realization⁹⁹ mirrored there in Boney’s yellowed eyes. “Henry . . . old man, don’t you know?” No wonder Henry had seemed in such phenomenal good spirits; he hadn’t been told. Of course, neither he nor Boney had mentioned it; it simply wasn’t the sort of thing you talked about when visiting a man recovering from a serious—“Old boy?” But that no one had told him! “What I mean, Henry ...hasn’t the doctor or the nurse or someone?” “What’s got hold of you now, Boney?” “Or about afterwards? What went on yesterday?” “I told you nobody has been up to tell me anything.” And now saw a second realization settle like a soft light over Boney’s whole face. Unconsciously, as Boney moved forward, Hank drifted farther back behind the curtain. Boney seated himself again, lighted up a large pipe, and began to speak in a pity-filled voice. He spoke quickly and confidently, without a hint of his usual cough.

1 justified   

a.正当的，有理的

参考例句：

• She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
• The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。

2 hustling   

催促（hustle的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Our quartet was out hustling and we knew we stood good to take in a lot of change before the night was over. 我们的四重奏是明显地卖座的， 而且我们知道在天亮以前，我们有把握收入一大笔钱。
• Men in motors were hustling to pass one another in the hustling traffic. 开汽车的人在繁忙的交通中急急忙忙地互相超车。

3 hunched   

（常指因寒冷、生病或愁苦）耸肩弓身的，伏首前倾的

参考例句：

• He sat with his shoulders hunched up. 他耸起双肩坐着。
• Stephen hunched down to light a cigarette. 斯蒂芬弓着身子点燃一支烟。

4 scurrying   

v.急匆匆地走( scurry的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• We could hear the mice scurrying about in the walls. 我们能听见老鼠在墙里乱跑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• We were scurrying about until the last minute before the party. 聚会开始前我们一直不停地忙忙碌碌。 来自辞典例句

5 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

6 kin   

n.家族，亲属，血缘关系；adj.亲属关系的，同类的

参考例句：

• He comes of good kin.他出身好。
• She has gone to live with her husband's kin.她住到丈夫的亲戚家里去了。

7 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

8 parlor   

n.店铺，营业室；会客室，客厅

参考例句：

• She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
• Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店？

9 shack   

adj.简陋的小屋，窝棚

参考例句：

• He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前，他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
• The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。

10 plow   

n.犁，耕地，犁过的地；v.犁，费力地前进[英]plough

参考例句：

• At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.每年这个时候农民们都在耕地。
• We will plow the field soon after the last frost.最后一场霜过后，我们将马上耕田。

11 judgment   

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。

12 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

13 clench   

vt.捏紧（拳头等），咬紧（牙齿等），紧紧握住

参考例句：

• I clenched the arms of my chair.我死死抓住椅子扶手。
• Slowly,he released his breath through clenched teeth.他从紧咬的牙缝间慢慢地舒了口气。

14 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

15 clenching   

v.紧握，抓紧，咬紧( clench的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I'll never get used to them, she thought, clenching her fists. 我永远也看不惯这些家伙，她握紧双拳，心里想。 来自飘（部分）
• Clenching her lips, she nodded. 她紧闭着嘴唇，点点头。 来自辞典例句

16 hatchet   

n.短柄小斧；v.扼杀

参考例句：

• I shall have to take a hatchet to that stump.我得用一把短柄斧来劈这树桩。
• Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.别用斧头拍打朋友额头上的苍蝇。

17 taunt   

n.辱骂，嘲弄；v.嘲弄

参考例句：

• He became a taunt to his neighbours.他成了邻居们嘲讽的对象。
• Why do the other children taunt him with having red hair?为什么别的小孩子讥笑他有红头发？

18 sabotage   

n.怠工，破坏活动，破坏；v.从事破坏活动，妨害，破坏

参考例句：

• They tried to sabotage my birthday party.他们企图破坏我的生日晚会。
• The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.那家工厂的火灾是有人蓄意破坏引起的。

19 buddies   

n.密友( buddy的名词复数 )；同伴；弟兄；（用于称呼男子，常带怒气）家伙v.（如密友、战友、伙伴、弟兄般）交往( buddy的第三人称单数 )；做朋友；亲近（…）；伴护艾滋病人

参考例句：

• We became great buddies. 我们成了非常好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
• The two of them have become great buddies. 他们俩成了要好的朋友。 来自辞典例句

20 standing   

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。

21 villain   

n.反派演员，反面人物；恶棍；问题的起因

参考例句：

• He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。
• The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。

22 scampered   

v.蹦蹦跳跳地跑，惊惶奔跑( scamper的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The cat scampered away. 猫刺棱一下跑了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The rabbIt'scampered off. 兔子迅速跑掉了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

23 sedate   

adj.沉着的，镇静的，安静的

参考例句：

• After the accident,the doctor gave her some pills to sedate her.事故发生后，医生让她服了些药片使她镇静下来。
• We spent a sedate evening at home.我们在家里过了一个恬静的夜晚。

24 screeched   

v.发出尖叫声( screech的过去式和过去分词 )；发出粗而刺耳的声音；高叫

参考例句：

• She screeched her disapproval. 她尖叫着不同意。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The car screeched to a stop. 汽车嚓的一声停住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

25 bowels   

n.肠，内脏，内部；肠( bowel的名词复数 )；内部，最深处

参考例句：

• Salts is a medicine that causes movements of the bowels. 泻盐是一种促使肠子运动的药物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cabins are in the bowels of the ship. 舱房设在船腹内。 来自《简明英汉词典》

26 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

27 peek   

vi.偷看，窥视；n.偷偷的一看，一瞥

参考例句：

• Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
• Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。

28 winked   

v.使眼色( wink的过去式和过去分词 )；递眼色（表示友好或高兴等）；（指光）闪烁；闪亮

参考例句：

• He winked at her and she knew he was thinking the same thing that she was. 他冲她眨了眨眼，她便知道他的想法和她一样。
• He winked his eyes at her and left the classroom. 他向她眨巴一下眼睛走出了教室。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

29 hustled   

催促（hustle的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He grabbed her arm and hustled her out of the room. 他抓住她的胳膊把她推出房间。
• The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater. 特务机关的代理人把演讲者驱逐出竞技场。

30 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

31 rustling   

n. 瑟瑟声，沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的

参考例句：

• the sound of the trees rustling in the breeze 树木在微风中发出的沙沙声
• the soft rustling of leaves 树叶柔和的沙沙声

32 grimaced   

v.扮鬼相，做鬼脸( grimace的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He grimaced at the bitter taste. 他一尝那苦味，做了个怪相。
• She grimaced at the sight of all the work. 她一看到这么多的工作就皱起了眉头。 来自《简明英汉词典》

33 rim   

n.(圆物的)边，轮缘；边界

参考例句：

• The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
• She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。

34 confession   

n.自白，供认，承认

参考例句：

• Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
• The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。

35 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

36 shuffler   

n.曳步而行者； 洗牌者； 轮到洗牌的人； 做事漫不经心者

参考例句：

• The gruff ruffian's ruffled cuff is scuffed in the scuffle with the shuffler. 在与洗牌者的混战中，粗暴暴徒的皱袖口被磨破。 来自互联网

37 sobbed   

哭泣，啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 )； 哭诉，呜咽地说

参考例句：

• She sobbed out the story of her son's death. 她哭诉着她儿子的死。
• She sobbed out the sad story of her son's death. 她哽咽着诉说她儿子死去的悲惨经过。

38 yeast   

n.酵母；酵母片；泡沫；v.发酵；起泡沫

参考例句：

• Yeast can be used in making beer and bread.酵母可用于酿啤酒和发面包。
• The yeast began to work.酵母开始发酵。

39 fluorescent   

adj.荧光的，发出荧光的

参考例句：

• They observed the deflections of the particles by allowing them to fall on a fluorescent screen.他们让粒子落在荧光屏上以观察他们的偏移。
• This fluorescent lighting certainly gives the food a peculiar color.这萤光灯当然增添了食物特别的色彩。

40 hissed   

发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 )； 发嘘声表示反对

参考例句：

• Have you ever been hissed at in the middle of a speech? 你在演讲中有没有被嘘过？
• The iron hissed as it pressed the wet cloth. 熨斗压在湿布上时发出了嘶嘶声。

41 whitewashed   

粉饰，美化，掩饰( whitewash的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The wall had been whitewashed. 墙已粉过。
• The towers are in the shape of bottle gourds and whitewashed. 塔呈圆形，状近葫芦，外敷白色。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

42 linoleum   

n.油布，油毯

参考例句：

• They mislaid the linoleum.他们把油毡放错了地方。
• Who will lay the linoleum?谁将铺设地板油毡？

43 propped   

支撑，支持，维持( prop的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He sat propped up in the bed by pillows. 他靠着枕头坐在床上。
• This fence should be propped up. 这栅栏该用东西支一支。

44 brass   

n.黄铜；黄铜器，铜管乐器

参考例句：

• Many of the workers play in the factory's brass band.许多工人都在工厂铜管乐队中演奏。
• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。

45 stony   

adj.石头的，多石头的，冷酷的，无情的

参考例句：

• The ground is too dry and stony.这块地太干，而且布满了石头。
• He listened to her story with a stony expression.他带着冷漠的表情听她讲经历。

46 flickering   

adj.闪烁的，摇曳的，一闪一闪的

参考例句：

• The crisp autumn wind is flickering away. 清爽的秋风正在吹拂。
• The lights keep flickering. 灯光忽明忽暗。

47 strap   

n.皮带，带子；v.用带扣住，束牢；用绷带包扎

参考例句：

• She held onto a strap to steady herself.她抓住拉手吊带以便站稳。
• The nurse will strap up your wound.护士会绑扎你的伤口。

48 fabric   

n.织物，织品，布；构造，结构，组织

参考例句：

• The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
• I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。

49 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

50 stank   

n. (英)坝，堰，池塘 动词stink的过去式

参考例句：

• Her breath stank of garlic. 她嘴里有股大蒜味。
• The place stank of decayed fish. 那地方有烂鱼的臭味。

51 reek   

v.发出臭气；n.恶臭

参考例句：

• Where there's reek,there's heat.哪里有恶臭，哪里必发热。
• That reek is from the fox.那股恶臭是狐狸发出的。

52 bray   

n.驴叫声, 喇叭声；v.驴叫

参考例句：

• She cut him off with a wild bray of laughter.她用刺耳的狂笑打断了他的讲话。
• The donkey brayed and tried to bolt.这头驴嘶叫着试图脱缰而逃。

53 despondently   

adv.沮丧地，意志消沉地

参考例句：

• It had come to that, he reflected despondently. 事情已经到了这个地步了，他沉思着，感到心灰意懒。 来自辞典例句
• He shook his head despondently. 他沮丧地摇摇头。 来自辞典例句

54 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。

55 scuttle   

v.急赶，疾走，逃避；n.天窗；舷窗

参考例句：

• There was a general scuttle for shelter when the rain began to fall heavily.下大雨了，人们都飞跑着寻找躲雨的地方。
• The scuttle was open,and the good daylight shone in.明朗的亮光从敞开的小窗中照了进来。

56 paraphernalia   

n.装备；随身用品

参考例句：

• Can you move all your paraphernalia out of the way?你可以把所有的随身物品移开吗？
• All my fishing paraphernalia is in the car.我的鱼具都在汽车里。

57 fingerprints   

n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Everyone's fingerprints are unique. 每个人的指纹都是独一无二的。
• They wore gloves so as not to leave any fingerprints behind (them). 他们戴着手套，以免留下指纹。 来自《简明英汉词典》

58 waned   

v.衰落( wane的过去式和过去分词 )；（月）亏；变小；变暗淡

参考例句：

• However,my enthusiasm waned.The time I spent at exercises gradually diminished. 然而，我的热情减退了。我在做操上花的时间逐渐减少了。 来自《用法词典》
• The bicycle craze has waned. 自行车热已冷下去了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

59 somber   

adj.昏暗的，阴天的，阴森的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
• His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。

60 peeved   

adj.恼怒的，不高兴的v.（使）气恼，（使）焦躁，（使）愤怒( peeve的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He sounded peeved about not being told. 没人通知他，为此他气哼哼的。
• She was very peeved about being left out. 她为被遗漏而恼怒。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

61 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

62 doom   

n.厄运，劫数；v.注定，命定

参考例句：

• The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
• The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。

63 tinkles   

丁当声，铃铃声( tinkle的名词复数 )； 一次电话

参考例句：

• Small drips, tinkles, and bubbles are what birds like. ——小水滴、叮当响声和小泡沫才是鸟类所喜欢的。
• Tinkles: Is the puppy alive or not? 丁克斯：那只小狗还活着吗？

64 cascades   

倾泻( cascade的名词复数 )； 小瀑布（尤指一连串瀑布中的一支）； 瀑布状物； 倾泻（或涌出）的东西

参考例句：

• The river fell in a series of cascades down towards the lake. 河形成阶梯状瀑布泻入湖中。
• Turning into the sun, he began the long, winding drive through the Cascades. 现在他朝着太阳驶去，开始了穿越喀斯喀特山脉的漫长而曲折的路程。 来自英汉文学 - 廊桥遗梦

65 mighty   

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。

66 fumbled   

（笨拙地）摸索或处理（某事物）( fumble的过去式和过去分词 )； 乱摸，笨拙地弄； 使落下

参考例句：

• She fumbled in her pocket for a handkerchief. 她在她口袋里胡乱摸找手帕。
• He fumbled about in his pockets for the ticket. 他（瞎）摸着衣兜找票。

67 buzzer   

n.蜂鸣器；汽笛

参考例句：

• The buzzer went off at eight o'clock.蜂鸣器在8点钟时响了。
• Press the buzzer when you want to talk.你想讲话的时候就按蜂鸣器。

68 dangled   

悬吊着( dangle的过去式和过去分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• Gold charms dangled from her bracelet. 她的手镯上挂着许多金饰物。
• It's the biggest financial incentive ever dangled before British footballers. 这是历来对英国足球运动员的最大经济诱惑。

69 stink   

vi.发出恶臭；糟透，招人厌恶；n.恶臭

参考例句：

• The stink of the rotten fish turned my stomach.腐烂的鱼臭味使我恶心。
• The room has awful stink.那个房间散发着难闻的臭气。

70 fiddle   

n.小提琴；vi.拉提琴；不停拨弄，乱动

参考例句：

• She plays the fiddle well.她小提琴拉得好。
• Don't fiddle with the typewriter.不要摆弄那架打字机了。

71 outfit   

n.（为特殊用途的）全套装备，全套服装

参考例句：

• Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
• His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。

72 clenched   

v.紧握，抓紧，咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。
• She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上，以掩饰其颤抖。 来自《简明英汉词典》

73 flares   

n.喇叭裤v.（使）闪耀( flare的第三人称单数 )；（使）（船舷）外倾；（使）鼻孔张大；（使）（衣裙、酒杯等）呈喇叭形展开

参考例句：

• The side of a ship flares from the keel to the deck. 船舷从龙骨向甲板外倾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He's got a fiery temper and flares up at the slightest provocation. 他是火爆性子，一点就着。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

74 fishy   

adj. 值得怀疑的

参考例句：

• It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
• There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。

75 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

76 agitation   

n.搅动；搅拌；鼓动，煽动

参考例句：

• Small shopkeepers carried on a long agitation against the big department stores.小店主们长期以来一直在煽动人们反对大型百货商店。
• These materials require constant agitation to keep them in suspension.这些药剂要经常搅动以保持悬浮状态。

77 injustice   

n.非正义，不公正，不公平，侵犯（别人的）权利

参考例句：

• They complained of injustice in the way they had been treated.他们抱怨受到不公平的对待。
• All his life he has been struggling against injustice.他一生都在与不公正现象作斗争。

78 accusation   

n.控告，指责，谴责

参考例句：

• I was furious at his making such an accusation.我对他的这种责备非常气愤。
• She knew that no one would believe her accusation.她知道没人会相信她的指控。

79 confrontation   

n.对抗，对峙，冲突

参考例句：

• We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
• After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。

80 overdrawn   

透支( overdraw的过去分词 )； (overdraw的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The characters in this novel are rather overdrawn. 这本小说中的人物描写得有些夸张。
• His account of the bank robbery is somewhat overdrawn. 他对银行抢案的叙述有些夸张。

81 determined   

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。

82 bent   

n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的

参考例句：

• He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
• We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。

83 flannel   

n.法兰绒；法兰绒衣服

参考例句：

• She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
• She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子，看上去楚楚动人。

84 laboriously   

adv.艰苦地；费力地；辛勤地；（文体等）佶屈聱牙地

参考例句：

• She is tracing laboriously now. 她正在费力地写。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She is laboriously copying out an old manuscript. 她正在费劲地抄出一份旧的手稿。 来自辞典例句

85 obsession   

n.困扰，无法摆脱的思想(或情感)

参考例句：

• I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
• She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。

86 scooped   

v.抢先报道( scoop的过去式和过去分词 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• They scooped the other newspapers by revealing the matter. 他们抢先报道了这件事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car. 车轮搅起的石块，在车身下发出不吉祥的锤击声。 来自《简明英汉词典》

87 maneuvered   

v.移动，用策略( maneuver的过去式和过去分词 )；操纵

参考例句：

• I maneuvered my way among the tables to the back corner of the place. 我在那些桌子间穿行，来到那地方后面的角落。 来自辞典例句
• The admiral maneuvered his ships in the battle plan. 舰队司令按作战计划进行舰队演习。 来自辞典例句

88 victorious   

adj.胜利的，得胜的

参考例句：

• We are certain to be victorious.我们定会胜利。
• The victorious army returned in triumph.获胜的部队凯旋而归。

89 belly   

n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛

参考例句：

• The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
• His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。

90 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。

91 squeaked   

v.短促地尖叫( squeak的过去式和过去分词 )；吱吱叫；告密；充当告密者

参考例句：

• The radio squeaked five. 收音机里嘟嘟地发出五点钟报时讯号。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Amy's shoes squeaked on the tiles as she walked down the corridor. 埃米走过走廊时，鞋子踩在地砖上嘎吱作响。 来自辞典例句

92 amiably   

adv.和蔼可亲地，亲切地

参考例句：

• She grinned amiably at us. 她咧着嘴向我们亲切地微笑。
• Atheists and theists live together peacefully and amiably in this country. 无神论者和有神论者在该国和睦相处。 来自《简明英汉词典》

93 idol   

n.偶像，红人，宠儿

参考例句：

• As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子，他是父母的宠儿。
• Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。

94 pessimism   

n.悲观者，悲观主义者，厌世者

参考例句：

• He displayed his usual pessimism.他流露出惯有的悲观。
• There is the note of pessimism in his writings.他的著作带有悲观色彩。

95 solidify   

v.(使)凝固，(使)固化，(使)团结

参考例句：

• Opinion on this question began to solidify.对这个问题的意见开始具体化了。
• Water will solidify into ice if you freeze it.水冷冻会结冰。

96 gutted   

adj.容易消化的v.毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的过去式和过去分词 )；取出…的内脏

参考例句：

• Disappointed? I was gutted! 失望？我是伤心透了！
• The invaders gutted the historic building. 侵略者们将那幢历史上有名的建筑洗劫一空。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

97 horrified   

a.(表现出)恐惧的

参考例句：

• The whole country was horrified by the killings. 全国都对这些凶杀案感到大为震惊。
• We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. 地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。

98 pivot   

v.在枢轴上转动；装枢轴，枢轴；adj.枢轴的

参考例句：

• She is the central pivot of creation and represents the feminine aspect in all things.她是创造的中心枢轴，表现出万物的女性面貌。
• If a spring is present,the hand wheel will pivot on the spring.如果有弹簧，手轮的枢轴会装在弹簧上。

99 realization   

n.实现；认识到，深刻了解

参考例句：

• We shall gladly lend every effort in our power toward its realization.我们将乐意为它的实现而竭尽全力。
• He came to the realization that he would never make a good teacher.他逐渐认识到自己永远不会成为好老师。