Despite the season the seafront of the city was gay with light — the long sloping lines of the Grande Corniche curving away to a low horizon; a thousand lighted panels of glass in which, like glorious tropical fish, the inhabitants of the European city sat at glittering tables stocked with glasses of mastic, aniseed or brandy. Watching them (I had eaten little lunch) my hunger overcame me, and as there was some time in hand before my meeting with Justine, I turned into the glittering doors of the Diamond Sutra and ordered a ham sandwich and a glass of whisky. Once again, as always when the drama of external events altered the emotional pattern of things, I began to see the city through new eyes — to examine the shapes and contours made by human beings with the detachment of an entomologist studying a hitherto unknown species of insect. Here it was, the race, each member of it absorbed in the solution of individual preoccupations, loves, hates and fears. A woman counting money on to a glass table, an old man feeding a dog, an Arab in a red flowerpot drawing a curtain.
Aromatic1 smoke poured from the small sailor
taverns2 along the seafront where the iron spits loaded with a freight of entrails and spices turned
monotonously3 back and
forth4, or
bellied5 from under the lids of shining
copper6 cauldrons, giving off hot
gusts7 of squid,
cuttlefish8 and pigeon. Here one drank from the blue cans and ate with one’s fingers as they do in the Cyclades even today. I picked up a
decrepit9 horse-cab and jogged along by the sighing sea towards the Aurore, drinking in the lighted darkness with regrets and fears so
fugitive10 as to be beyond analysis; but
underneath11 (like a
toad12 under a cool stone, the surface airs of night) I still felt the stirrings of horror at the thought that Justine herself might be endangered by the love which ‘we bore one another’. I turned the thought this way and that in my mind, like a prisoner pressing with all his weight upon doors which denied him an exit from an intolerable
bondage13, trying to devise an issue from a situation which, it seemed, might as well end in her death as in mine. The great car was waiting,
drawn14 up off the road in the darkness under the pepper-trees. She opened the door for me silently and I got in, spellbound by my fears. ‘Well’ she said at last, and giving a little
groan15 which expressed everything, sank into my arms and pressed her warm mouth on mine. ‘Did you go? Is it over?’ ‘Yes.’ She let in the clutch and the driving wheels
spurned16 the
gravel17 as the car moved out into the pearly nightfall and began to follow the coast road to the outer desert. I studied her harsh Semitic profile in the
furry18 light flung back by the headlights from the common objects of the roadside. It belonged so much to the city which I now saw as a series of symbols stretching away from us on either side —
minarets19, pigeons, statues, ships, coins, camels and palms; it lived in a heraldic relation to the
exhausted20 landscapes which enclosed it — the loops of the great lake: as proper to the scene as the Sphinx was to the desert. ‘My ring’ she said. ‘You brought it?’ ‘Yes.’ I polished it once more on my tie and slipped it back once more on to its appropriate finger. Involuntarily I said now: ‘Justine, what is to become of us?’ She gave me a wild frowning look like a Bedouin woman, and then smiled that warm smile. ‘Why?’ ‘Surely you see? We shall have to stop this altogether. I can’t bear to think you might be in danger…. Or else I should go straight to Nessim and confront him with….’ With what? I did not know. ‘No’ she said softly, ‘no. You could not do it. You are an Anglo-Saxon … you couldn’t step outside the law like that, could you? You are not one of us. Besides, you could tell Nessim nothing he does not guess if not actually know…. Darling’ she laid her warm hand upon mine, ‘simply wait … simply love, above all … and we shall see.’ It is astonishing now for me to realize, as I record this scene, that she was carrying within her (invisible as the already conceived foetus of a child) Pursewarden’s death: that her kisses were, for all I know, falling upon the graven image of my friend — the death-mask of the writer who himself did not love her, indeed regarded her with derision. But such a
demon21 is love that I would not be surprised if in a queer sort of way his death actually enriched our own love-making, filling it with the deceits on which the minds of women feed — the compost of secret pleasures and treacheries which are an inseparable part of every human relation. Yet what have I to complain of? Even this half-love filled my heart to
overflowing22. It is she, if anyone, who had cause for complaint. It is very hard to understand these things. Was she already planning her flight from Alexandria then? ‘The power of woman is such’ writes Pursewarden ‘that a single kiss can
paraphrase23 the reality of man’s life and turn it …’ but why go on? I was happy sitting beside her, feeling the warmth of her hand as it lay in mine. The blue night was
hoary24 with stars and the
attentive25 desert stretched away on either side with its
grotesque26 amphitheatres — like the empty rooms in some great cloud-mansion. The moon was late and
wan27 tonight, the air still, the
dunes28 wind-carved. ‘What are you thinking?’ said my lover. What was I thinking? Of a passage in Proclus which says that Orpheus ruled over the silver race, meaning those who led a ‘silver’ life; on Balthazar’s mantelpiece presumably among the pipe-cleaners and the Indian wood-carving of monkeys which neither saw,
spoke29 nor heard evil, under a magic pentacle from Pythagoras. What was I thinking? The foetus in its waxen wallet, the
locust30 squatting31 in the horn of the wheat, an Arab quoting a proverb which
reverberated32 in the mind. ‘The memory of man is as old as misfortune.’ The
quails33 from the burst cage spread upon the ground softly like honey, having no idea of escape. In the
Scent34 Bazaar35 the flavour of Persian lilac. ‘Fourteen thousand years ago’ I said aloud, ‘Vega in Lyra was the Pole Star. Look at her where she burns.’ The beloved head turned with its frowning deep-set eyes and once more I see the long boats drawing in to the Pharos, the tides running, the minarets a-glitter with dew; noise of the blind Hodja crying in the voice of a
mole36 assaulted by sunlight; a shuffle-pad of a camel-train
clumping37 to a festival carrying dark lanterns. An Arab woman makes my bed, beating the pillows till they fluff out like white egg under a whisk; a passage in Pursewarden’s book which reads: ‘They looked at each other, aware that there was neither youth nor strength enough between them to prevent their separation.’ When Melissa was pregnant by Nessim Amaril could not perform the
abortion38 Nessim so much desired because of her illness and her weak heart. ‘She may die anyway’ he said, and Nessim nodded
curtly39 and took up his overcoat. But she did not die then, she bore the child…. Justine is quoting something in Greek which I do not recognize: Sand, dog-roses and white rocks Of Alexandria, the mariner’s sea-marks, Some
sprawling40 dunes falling and pouring Sand into water, water into sand, Never into the wine of exile Which stains the air it is poured through; Or a voice which stains the mind, Singing in Arabic: ‘A ship without a sail Is a woman without breasts.’ Only that. Only that. We walked hand in hand across the soft sand-dunes,
laboriously41 as insects, until we reached Taposiris with its
rumble42 of shattered columns and capitals among the ancient weather-eroded sea-marks. (‘Reliques of sensation’ says Coleridge ‘may exist for an indefinite time in a latent state in the very same order in which they were impressed.’) Yes, but the order of the imagination is not that of memory. A faint wind blew off the sea from the Grecian archipelago. The sea was smooth as a human cheek. Only at the edges it stirred and sighed. Those warm kisses remain there, amputated from before and after, existing in their own right like the
frail43 transparencies of ferns or roses pressed between the covers of old books — unique and unfading as the memories of the city they exemplified and
evoked44: a
plume45 of music from a forgotten carnival-guitar echoing on in the dark streets of Alexandria for as long as silence lasts…. I see all of us not as men and women any longer, identities
swollen46 with their acts of forgetfulness,
follies47, and deceits — but as beings unconsciously made part of place, buried to the waist among the ruins of a single city, steeped in its values; like those creatures of whom Empedocles wrote ‘Solitary limbs wandered, seeking for union with one another,’ or in another place, ‘So it is that sweet lays hold of sweet, bitter rushes to bitter, acid comes to acid, warm couples with warm.’ All members of a city whose actions lay just outside the scope of the plotting or
conniving48 spirit: Alexandrians. Justine, lying back against a fallen column at Taposiris, dark head upon the darkness of the sighing water, one curl lifted by the sea-winds, saying: ‘In the whole of English only one phrase means something to me, the words “Time Immemorial”.’ Seen across the transforming screens of memory, how remote that forgotten evening seems. There was so much as yet left for us all to live through until we reached the occasion of the great duckshoot which so
abruptly49,
concisely50,
precipitated51 the final change — and the
disappearance52 of Justine herself. But all this belongs to another Alexandria — one which I created in my mind and which the great Interlinear of Balthazar has, if not destroyed, changed out of all recognition. ‘To intercalate realities’ writes Balthazar ‘is the only way to be faithful to Time, for at every moment in Time the possibilities are endless in their multiplicity. Life consists in the act of choice. The perpetual reservations of judgement and the perpetual choosing.’ From the vantage-point of this island I can see it all in its doubleness, in the intercalation of fact and fancy, with new eyes; and re-reading, re-working reality in the light of all I now know, I am surprised to find that my feelings themselves have changed, have grown, have deepened even. Perhaps then the destruction of my private Alexandria was necessary (‘the artifact of a true work of art never shows a plane surface’); perhaps buried in all this there lies the germ and substance of a truth — time’s usufruct — which, if I can accommodate it, will carry me a little further in what is really a search for my proper self. We shall see.
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aromatic
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| adj.芳香的，有香味的 |
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- It has an agreeable aromatic smell.它有一种好闻的香味。
- It is light,fruity aromatic and a perfect choice for ending a meal.它是口感轻淡，圆润，芳香的，用于结束一顿饭完美的选择。
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taverns
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| n.小旅馆，客栈，酒馆( tavern的名词复数 ) |
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- They ain't only two taverns. We can find out quick." 这儿只有两家客栈，会弄明白的。” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
- Maybe ALL the Temperance Taverns have got a ha'nted room, hey, Huck?" 也许所有的禁酒客栈都有个闹鬼的房间，喂，哈克，你说是不是？” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
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monotonously
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| adv.单调地，无变化地 |
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- The lecturer phrased monotonously. 这位讲师用词单调。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The maid, still in tears, sniffed monotonously. 侍女还在哭，发出单调的抽泣声。 来自辞典例句
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forth
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| adv.向前；向外，往外 |
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- 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。
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bellied
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| adj.有腹的，大肚子的 |
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- That big-bellied fellow was very cruel and greedy. 那个大腹便便的家伙既贪婪又残恶。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The ship's sails bellied in the wind. 船帆在风中鼓得大大的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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copper
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| n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的 |
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- The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
- Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
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gusts
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| 一阵强风( gust的名词复数 )； （怒、笑等的）爆发； （感情的）迸发； 发作 |
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- Her profuse skirt bosomed out with the gusts. 她的宽大的裙子被风吹得鼓鼓的。
- Turbulence is defined as a series of irregular gusts. 紊流定义为一组无规则的突风。
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cuttlefish
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| n.乌贼，墨鱼 |
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- I have no idea about how to prepare those cuttlefish and lobsters.我对如何烹调那些乌贼和龙虾毫无概念。
- The cuttlefish spurts out dark ink when it is in danger.乌鲗遇到危险的时候会喷出黑色液体。
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decrepit
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| adj.衰老的，破旧的 |
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- The film had been shot in a decrepit old police station.该影片是在一所破旧不堪的警察局里拍摄的。
- A decrepit old man sat on a park bench.一个衰弱的老人坐在公园的长凳上。
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fugitive
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| adj.逃亡的，易逝的；n.逃犯，逃亡者 |
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- The police were able to deduce where the fugitive was hiding.警方成功地推断出那逃亡者躲藏的地方。
- The fugitive is believed to be headed for the border.逃犯被认为在向国境线逃窜。
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underneath
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| adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面 |
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- Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
- She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。
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toad
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| n.蟾蜍，癞蛤蟆 |
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- Both the toad and frog are amphibian.蟾蜍和青蛙都是两栖动物。
- Many kinds of toad hibernate in winter.许多种蟾蜍在冬天都会冬眠。
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bondage
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| n.奴役，束缚 |
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- Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.奴隶主们有时允许奴隶为自己赎身。
- They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人。
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drawn
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| v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的 |
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- 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。
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groan
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| vi./n.呻吟，抱怨；(发出)呻吟般的声音 |
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- The wounded man uttered a groan.那个受伤的人发出呻吟。
- The people groan under the burden of taxes.人民在重税下痛苦呻吟。
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spurned
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| v.一脚踢开，拒绝接受( spurn的过去式和过去分词 ) |
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- Eve spurned Mark's invitation. 伊夫一口回绝了马克的邀请。
- With Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn. 对里德太太呢，我记得我的最大努力总是遭到唾弃。 来自辞典例句
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gravel
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| n.砂跞；砂砾层；结石 |
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- We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。
- More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。
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furry
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| adj.毛皮的；似毛皮的；毛皮制的 |
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- This furry material will make a warm coat for the winter.这件毛皮料在冬天会是一件保暖的大衣。
- Mugsy is a big furry brown dog,who wiggles when she is happy.马格斯是一只棕色大长毛狗，当她高兴得时候她会摇尾巴。
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minarets
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| n.（清真寺旁由报告祈祷时刻的人使用的）光塔( minaret的名词复数 ) |
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- Remind you of a mosque, red baked bricks, the minarets. 红砖和尖塔都会使你联想到伊斯兰教的礼拜寺。 来自互联网
- These purchases usually went along with embellishments such as minarets. 这些购置通常也伴随着注入尖塔等的装饰。 来自互联网
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exhausted
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| adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的 |
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- It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
- Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
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demon
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| n.魔鬼，恶魔 |
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- The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
- He has been possessed by the demon of disease for years.他多年来病魔缠身。
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overflowing
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| n. 溢出物,溢流
adj. 充沛的，充满的
动词overflow的现在分词形式 |
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- The stands were overflowing with farm and sideline products. 集市上农副产品非常丰富。
- The milk is overflowing. 牛奶溢出来了。
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paraphrase
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| vt.将…释义，改写；n.释义，意义 |
参考例句： |
- You may read the prose paraphrase of this poem.你可以看一下这首诗的散文释义。
- Paraphrase the following sentences or parts of sentences using your own words.用你自己的话解释下面的句子或句子的一部分。
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hoary
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| adj.古老的；鬓发斑白的 |
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- They discussed the hoary old problem.他们讨论老问题。
- Without a word spoken,he hurried away,with his hoary head bending low.他什么也没说，低着白发苍苍的头，匆匆地走了。
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attentive
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| adj.注意的，专心的；关心(别人)的，殷勤的 |
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- She was very attentive to her guests.她对客人招待得十分周到。
- The speaker likes to have an attentive audience.演讲者喜欢注意力集中的听众。
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grotesque
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| adj.怪诞的，丑陋的；n.怪诞的图案，怪人（物） |
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- His face has a grotesque appearance.他的面部表情十分怪。
- Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.她对这件事的陈述是荒诞地歪曲了事实。
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wan
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| (wide area network)广域网 |
参考例句： |
- The shared connection can be an Ethernet,wireless LAN,or wireless WAN connection.提供共享的网络连接可以是以太网、无线局域网或无线广域网。
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dunes
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| 沙丘( dune的名词复数 ) |
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- The boy galloped over the dunes barefoot. 那男孩光着脚在沙丘间飞跑。
- Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat. 将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
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spoke
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| 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 |
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- 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。
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locust
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| n.蝗虫；洋槐，刺槐 |
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- A locust is a kind of destructive insect.蝗虫是一种害虫。
- This illustration shows a vertical section through the locust.本图所示为蝗虫的纵剖面。
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squatting
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| v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的现在分词 )；非法擅自占用（土地或房屋）；为获得其所有权；而占用某片公共用地。 |
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- They ended up squatting in the empty houses on Oxford Road. 他们落得在牛津路偷住空房的境地。
- They've been squatting in an apartment for the past two years. 他们过去两年来一直擅自占用一套公寓。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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reverberated
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| 回响，回荡( reverberate的过去式和过去分词 )； 使反响，使回荡，使反射 |
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- Her voice reverberated around the hall. 她的声音在大厅里回荡。
- The roar of guns reverberated in the valley. 炮声响彻山谷。
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quails
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| 鹌鹑( quail的名词复数 )； 鹌鹑肉 |
参考例句： |
- Speckled quails rustled in the underbrush. 鹌鹑在矮树丛里沙沙作响。
- I went out to pop some quails. 我出去打几只鹌鹑。
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scent
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| n.气味，香味，香水，线索，嗅觉；v.嗅，发觉 |
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- 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。
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bazaar
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| n.集市，商店集中区 |
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- Chickens,goats and rabbits were offered for barter at the bazaar.在集市上，鸡、山羊和兔子被摆出来作物物交换之用。
- We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar.我们在集市通过讨价还价买到了一条很漂亮的地毯。
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mole
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| n.胎块；痣；克分子 |
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- She had a tiny mole on her cheek.她的面颊上有一颗小黑痣。
- The young girl felt very self- conscious about the large mole on her chin.那位年轻姑娘对自己下巴上的一颗大痣感到很不自在。
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clumping
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| v.（树、灌木、植物等的）丛、簇( clump的现在分词 )；（土、泥等）团；块；笨重的脚步声 |
参考例句： |
- Wipe the wand off before the first coat to prevent clumping. 把睫毛棒刷干净，避免结块。 来自互联网
- Fighting gravitational clumping would take a wavelength of a few dozen light-years. 为了对抗重力造成的聚集，这些粒子的波长可能会长达好几十光年的距离。 来自互联网
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abortion
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| n.流产，堕胎 |
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- She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
- A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
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curtly
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| adv.简短地 |
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- He nodded curtly and walked away. 他匆忙点了一下头就走了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The request was curtly refused. 这个请求被毫不客气地拒绝了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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sprawling
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- He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
- a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇
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laboriously
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| adv.艰苦地；费力地；辛勤地；（文体等）佶屈聱牙地 |
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- 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
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rumble
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| n.隆隆声；吵嚷；v.隆隆响；低沉地说 |
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- I hear the rumble of thunder in the distance.我听到远处雷声隆隆。
- We could tell from the rumble of the thunder that rain was coming.我们根据雷的轰隆声可断定，天要下雨了。
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frail
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| adj.身体虚弱的；易损坏的 |
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- Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herself.华纳太太已经九十六岁了，身体虚弱，不便独居。
- She lay in bed looking particularly frail.她躺在床上，看上去特别虚弱。
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evoked
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| [医]诱发的 |
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- The music evoked memories of her youth. 这乐曲勾起了她对青年时代的回忆。
- Her face, though sad, still evoked a feeling of serenity. 她的脸色虽然悲伤，但仍使人感觉安详。
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plume
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| n.羽毛；v.整理羽毛，骚首弄姿，用羽毛装饰 |
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- Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
- He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。
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swollen
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| adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀 |
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- Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
- A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。
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follies
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| 罪恶，时事讽刺剧； 愚蠢，蠢笨，愚蠢的行为、思想或做法( folly的名词复数 ) |
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- He has given up youthful follies. 他不再做年轻人的荒唐事了。
- The writings of Swift mocked the follies of his age. 斯威夫特的作品嘲弄了他那个时代的愚人。
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conniving
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| v.密谋 ( connive的现在分词 )；搞阴谋；默许；纵容 |
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- She knew that if she said nothing she would be conniving in an injustice. 她知道她如果什么也不说就是在纵容不公正的行为。
- The general is accused of conniving in a plot to topple the government. 将军被指控纵容一个颠覆政府的阴谋。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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abruptly
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| adv.突然地，出其不意地 |
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- He gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in the car.他粗鲁地示意弗吉尼亚上车。
- I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。
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concisely
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| adv.简明地 |
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- These equations are written more concisely as a single columnmatrix equation. 这些方程以单列矩阵方程表示会更简单。 来自辞典例句
- The fiber morphology can be concisely summarized. 可以对棉纤维的形态结构进行扼要地归纳。 来自辞典例句
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precipitated
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| v.（突如其来地）使发生( precipitate的过去式和过去分词 )；促成；猛然摔下；使沉淀 |
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- His resignation precipitated a leadership crisis. 他的辞职立即引发了领导层的危机。
- He lost his footing and was precipitated to the ground. 他失足摔倒在地上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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disappearance
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| n.消失，消散，失踪 |
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- He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
- Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
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