That night, in the mid-watch when the old man--as his wont1 at intervals2--stepped forth3 from the scuttle4 in which he leaned, and went to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious ship's dog will, in drawing nigh to some barbarous isle6. He declared that a whale must be near. Soon that peculiar7 odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living sperm8 whale, was palpable to all the watch; nor was any mariner9 surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and then ascertaining11 the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship's course to be slightly altered, and the sail to be shortened.
The acute policy dictating12 these movements was sufficiently13 vindicated14 at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek15 on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery16 wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.
"Man the mast-heads! Call all hands!"
Thundering with the butts17 of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle deck, Daggoo roused the sleepers19 with such judgment20 claps that they seemed to exhale21 from the scuttle, so instantaneously did they appear with their clothes in their hands.
"What d'ye see?" cried Ahab, flattening22 his face to the sky.
"Nothing, nothing sir!" was the sound hailing down in reply.
"T'gallant sails!--stunsails! alow and aloft, and on both sides!"
All sail being set, he now cast loose the life-line, reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were hoisting25 him thither26, when, while but two thirds of the way aloft, and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy27 between the main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the air. "There she blows!--there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!"
Fired by the cry which seemed simultaneously28 taken up by the three look-outs, the men on deck rushed to the rigging to behold29 the famous whale they had so long been pursuing. Ahab had now gained his final perch30, some feet above the other look-outs, Tashtego standing31 just beneath him on the cap of the top-gallant-mast, so that the Indian's head was almost on a level with Ahab's heel. From this height the whale was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout32 into the air. To the credulous33 mariners34 it seemed the same silent spout they had so long ago beheld35 in the moonlit Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
"And did none of ye see it before?" cried Ahab, hailing the perched men all around him.
"I saw him almost that same instant, sir, that Captain Ahab did, and I cried out," said Tashtego.
"Not the same instant; not the same--no, the doubloon is mine, Fate reserved the doubloon for me. I only; none of ye could have raised the White Whale first. There she blows! there she blows!-- there she blows!--there she blows! There again!--there again!" he cried, in long-drawn, lingering, methodic tones, attuned36 to the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets. "He's going to sound! In stunsails! Down top-gallant-sails! Stand by three boats. Mr. Starbuck, remember, stay on board, and keep the ship. Helm there! Luff, luff a point! So; steady, man, steady! There go flukes! No, no; only black water! All ready the boats there? Stand by, stand by! Lower me, Mr. Starbuck; lower, lower,--quick, quicker!" and he slid through the air to the deck.
"He is heading straight to leeward38, sir," cried Stubb, "right away from us; cannot have seen the ship yet."
"Be dumb, man! Stand by the braces39! Hard down the helm!--brace up! Shiver her!--shiver her!--So; well that! Boats, boats!"
Soon all the boats but Starbuck's were dropped; all the boat-sails set-- all the paddles plying40; with rippling41 swiftness, shooting to leeward; and Ahab heading the onset42. A pale, death-glimmer lit up Fedallah's sunken eyes; a hideous43 motion gnawed44 his mouth.
Like noiseless nautilus shells, their light prows45 sped through the sea; but only slowly they neared the foe46. As they neared him, the ocean grew still more smooth; seemed drawing a carpet over its waves; seemed a noon-meadow, so serenely48 it spread. At length the breathless hunter came so nigh his seemingly unsuspecting prey49, that his entire dazzling hump was distinctly visible, sliding along the sea as if an isolated50 thing, and continually set in a revolving51 ring of finest, fleecy, greenish foam52. He saw the vast, involved wrinkles of the slightly projecting head beyond. Before it, far out on the soft Turkish-rugged waters, went the glistening53 white shadow from his broad, milky54 forehead, a musical rippling playfully accompanying the shade; and behind, the blue waters interchangeably flowed over into the moving valley of his steady wake; and on either hand bright bubbles arose and danced by his side. But these were broken again by the light toes of hundreds of gay fowls55 softly feathering the sea, alternate with their fitful flight; and like to some flag-staff rising from the painted hull56 of an argosy, the tall but shattered pole of a recent lance projected from the white whale's back; and at intervals one of the cloud of soft-toed fowls hovering57, and to and fro skimming like a canopy58 over the fish, silently perched and rocked on this pole, the long tail feathers streaming like pennons.
A gentle joyousness--a mighty60 mildness of repose61 in swiftness, invested the gliding62 whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful63 horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial64 bower65 in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty66 Supreme67! did surpass the glorified68 White Whale as he so divinely swam.
On each soft side--coincident with the parted swell69, that but once leaving him then flowed so wide away--on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings. No wonder there had been some among the hunters who namelessly transported and allured71 by all this serenity72, had ventured to assail73 it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes74. Yet calm, enticing70 calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way thou mayst have bejuggled and destroyed before.
And thus, through the serene47 tranquillities of the tropical sea, among waves whose hand-clappings were suspended by exceeding rapture75, Moby Dick moved on, still withholding76 from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely77 hiding the wrenched79 hideousness80 of his jaw81. But soon the fore18 part of him slowly rose from the water; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's Natural Bridge, and warningly waving his bannered flukes in the air, the grand god revealed himself, sounded and went out of sight. Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly82 lingered over the agitated83 pool that he left.
With oars84 apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance.
"An hour," said Ahab, standing rooted in his boat's stern; and he gazed beyond the whale's place, towards the dim blue spaces and wide wooing vacancies85 to leeward. It was only an instant; for again his eyes seemed whirling round in his head as he swept the watery circle. The breeze now freshened; the sea began to swell.
"The birds!--the birds!" cried Tashtego.
In long Indian file, as when herons take wing, the white birds were now all flying towards Ahab's boat; and when within a few yards began fluttering over the water there, wheeling round and round, with joyous59, expectant cries. Their vision was keener than man's; Ahab could discover no sign in the sea. But suddenly as he peered down and down into its depths, he profoundly saw a white living spot no bigger than a white weasel, with wonderful celerity uprising, and magnifying as it rose, till it turned, and then there were plainly revealed two long crooked86 rows of white, glistening teeth, floating up from the undiscoverable bottom. It was Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled87 jaw; his vast, shadowed bulk still half blending with the blue of the sea. The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble tomb; and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering88 oar37, Ahab whirled the craft aside from this tremendous apparition89. Then, calling upon Fedallah to change places with him, went forward to the bows, and seizing Perth's harpoon90, commanded his crew to grasp their oars and stand by to stern.
Now, by reason of this timely spinning round the boat upon its axis91, its bow, by anticipation92, was made to face the whale's head while yet under water. But as if perceiving this stratagem93, Moby Dick, with that malicious94 intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat.
Through and through; through every plank96 and each rib95, it thrilled for an instant, the whale obliquely97 lying on his back, in the manner of a biting shark slowly and feelingly taking its bows full within his mouth, so that the long, narrow, scrolled lower jaw curled high up into the open air, and one of the teeth caught in a row-lock. The bluish pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahab's head, and reached higher than that. In this attitude the White Whale now shook the slight cedar98 as a mildly cruel cat her mouse. With unastonished eyes Fedallah gazed, and crossed his arms; but the tiger-yellow crew were tumbling over each other's heads to gain the uttermost stern.
And now, while both elastic99 gunwales were springing in and out, as the whale dallied100 with the doomed102 craft in this devilish way; and from his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted103 at from the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing104 vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws105 he hated; frenzied106 with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench78 it from its gripe. As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the frail107 gunwales bent108 in, collapsed109, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears110, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks112. These floated aside, the broken ends drooping114, the crew at the stern-wreck113 clinging to the gunwales, and striving to hold fast to the oars to lash115 them across.
At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first to perceive the whale's intent, by the crafty116 upraising of his head, a movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite. But only slipping further into the whale's mouth, and tilting117 over sideways as it slipped, the boat had shaken off his hold on the jaw; spilled him out of it, as he leaned to the push; and so he fell flat-faced upon the sea.
Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically118 thrusting his oblong white head up and down in the billows; and at the same time slowly revolving his whole spindled body; so that when his vast wrinkled forehead rose-- some twenty or more feet out of the water--the now rising swells119, with all their confluent waves, dazzlingly broke against it; vindictively120 tossing their shivered spray still higher into the air.* So, in a gale121, the but half baffled Channel billows only recoil122 from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly124 to overleap its summit with their scud125.
*This motion is peculiar to the sperm whale. It receives its designation (pitchpoling) from its being likened to that preliminary up-and-down poise126 of the whale-lance, in the exercise called pitchpoling, previously127 described. By this motion the whale must best and most comprehensively view whatever objects may be encircling him.
But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round and round the wrecked128 crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing129 himself up to still another and more deadly assault. The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the book of Maccabees. Meanwhile Ahab half smothered130 in the foam of the whale's insolent131 tail, and too much of a cripple to swim,--though he could still keep afloat, even in the heart of such a whirlpool as that; helpless Ahab's head was seen, like a tossed bubble which the least chance shock might burst. From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not succor132 him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves. For so revolvingly appalling133 was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping134 upon them. And though the other boats, unharmed, still hovered135 hard by; still they dared not pull into the eddy123 to strike, lest that should be the signal for the instant destruction of the jeopardized136 castaways, Ahab and all; nor in that case could they themselves hope to escape. With straining eyes, then, they remained on the outer edge of the direful zone, whose centre had now become the old man's head.
Meantime, from the beginning all this had been descried137 from the ship's mast heads; and squaring her yards, she had borne down upon the scene; and was now so nigh, that Ahab in the water hailed her!--"Sail on the"-- but that moment a breaking sea dashed on him from Moby Dick, and whelmed him for the time. But struggling out of it again, and chancing to rise on a towering crest138, he shouted,--"Sail on the whale!--Drive him off!"
The Pequod's prows were pointed-, and breaking up the charmed circle, she effectually parted the white whale from his victim. As he sullenly139 swam off, the boats flew to the rescue.
Dragged into Stubb's boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes, the white brine caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahab's bodily strength did crack, and helplessly he yielded to his body's doom101 for a time, lying all crushed in the bottom of Stubb's boat, like one trodden under foot of herds140 of elephants. Far inland, nameless wails141 came from him, as desolate142 sounds from out ravines.
But this intensity143 of his physical prostration144 did but so much the more abbreviate145 it. In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang146, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly147 diffused148 through feebler men's whole lives. And so, such hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time aggregate149 a whole age of woe150, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities151; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences152 of inferior souls.
"The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm--"is it safe?"
"Aye, sir, for it was not darted; this is it," said Stubb, showing it.
"Lay it before me;--any missing men?"
"One, two, three, four, five;--there were five oars, sir, and here are five men."
"That's good.--Help me, man; I wish to stand. So, so, I see him! there! there! going to leeward still; what a leaping spout!-- Hands off from me! The eternal sap runs up in Ahab's bones again! Set the sail; out oars; the helm!"
It is often the case that when a boat is stove, its crew, being picked up by another boat, help to work that second boat; and the chase is thus continued with what is called double-banked oars. It was thus now. But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin5; swimming with a velocity153 which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar; a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude154. The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising155 intermediate means of overtaking the chase. Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes--the two parts of the wrecked boat having been previously secured by her--and then hoisting everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stunsails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby Dick. At the well known, methodic intervals, the whale's glittering spout was regularly announced from the manned mast-heads; and when he would be reported as just gone down, Ahab would take the time, and then pacing the deck, binnacle-watch in hand, so soon as the last second of the allotted156 hour expired, his voice was heard.--"Whose is the doubloon now? D'ye see him?" and if the reply was No, sir! straightway he commanded them to lift him to his perch. In this way the day wore on; Ahab, now aloft and motionless; anon, unrestingly pacing the planks157.
As he was thus walking, uttering no sound, except to hail the men aloft, or to bid them hoist24 a sail still higher, or to spread one to a still greater breadth--thus to and fro pacing, beneath his slouched hat, at every turn he passed his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped upon the quarter-deck, and lay there reversed; broken bow to shattered stern. At last he paused before it; and as in an already over-clouded sky fresh troops of clouds will sometimes sail across, so over the old man's face there now stole some such added gloom as this.
Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude158, and thus keep up a valiant159 place in his Captain's mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed-- "The thistle the ass10 refused; it pricked160 his mouth too keenly, sir; ha! ha! ha!"
"What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck? Man, man! did I not know thee brave as fearless fire (and as mechanical) I could swear thou wert a poltroon161. Groan162 nor laugh should be heard before a wreck."
"Aye, sir," said Starbuck drawing near, "'tis a solemn sight; an omen23, and an ill one."
"Omen? omen?--the dictionary! If the gods think to speak outright163 to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' darkling hint.--Begone! Ye two are the opposite poles of one thing; Starbuck is Stubb reversed, and Stubb is Starbuck; and ye two are all mankind; and Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors! Cold, cold--I shiver!--How now? Aloft there! D'ye see him? Sing out for every spout, though he spout ten times a second!"
The day was nearly done; only the hem111 of his golden robe was rustling164. Soon it was almost dark, but the look-out men still remained unset.
"Can't see the spout now, sir;--too dark"--cried a voice from the air.
"How heading when last seen?"
"As before, sir,--straight to leeward."
"Good! he will travel slower now 'tis night. Down royals and top-gallant stunsails, Mr. Starbuck. We must not run over him before morning; he's making a passage now, and may heave-to a while. Helm there! keep her full before the wind!--Aloft! come down!-- Mr. Stubb, send a fresh hand to the fore-mast head, and see it manned till morning."--Then advancing towards the doubloon in the main-mast--"Men, this gold is mine, for I earned it; but I shall let it abide165 here till the White Whale is dead; and then, whosoever of ye first raises him, upon the day he shall be killed, this gold is that man's; and if on that day I shall again raise him, then, ten times its sum shall be divided among all of ye! Away now! the deck is thine, sir!"
And so saying, he placed himself half way within the scuttle, and slouching his hat, stood there till dawn, except when at intervals rousing himself to see how the night wore on.
收听单词发音 |
1
wont
|
|
| adj.习惯于；v.习惯；n.习惯 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
2
intervals
|
|
| n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 )；间隔时间；[数学]区间；（戏剧、电影或音乐会的）幕间休息 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
3
forth
|
|
| adv.向前；向外，往外 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
4
scuttle
|
|
| v.急赶，疾走，逃避；n.天窗；舷窗 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
5
fin
|
|
| n.鳍；(飞机的)安定翼 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
6
isle
|
|
| n.小岛，岛 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
7
peculiar
|
|
| adj.古怪的，异常的；特殊的，特有的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
8
sperm
|
|
| n.精子，精液 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
9
mariner
|
|
| n.水手号不载人航天探测器，海员，航海者 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
10
ass
|
|
| n.驴；傻瓜，蠢笨的人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
11
ascertaining
|
|
| v.弄清，确定，查明( ascertain的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
12
dictating
|
|
| v.大声讲或读( dictate的现在分词 )；口授；支配；摆布 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
13
sufficiently
|
|
| adv.足够地，充分地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
14
vindicated
|
|
| v.澄清（某人/某事物）受到的责难或嫌疑( vindicate的过去式和过去分词 )；表明或证明（所争辩的事物）属实、正当、有效等；维护 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
15
sleek
|
|
| adj.光滑的，井然有序的；v.使光滑，梳拢 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
16
watery
|
|
| adj.有水的，水汪汪的；湿的，湿润的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
17
butts
|
|
| 笑柄( butt的名词复数 )； （武器或工具的）粗大的一端； 屁股； 烟蒂 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
18
fore
|
|
| adv.在前面；adj.先前的；在前部的；n.前部 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
19
sleepers
|
|
| n.卧铺（通常以复数形式出现）；卧车( sleeper的名词复数 )；轨枕；睡觉（呈某种状态）的人；小耳环 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
20
judgment
|
|
| n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
21
exhale
|
|
| v.呼气，散出，吐出，蒸发 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
22
flattening
|
|
| n. 修平 动词flatten的现在分词 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
23
omen
|
|
| n.征兆，预兆；vt.预示 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
24
hoist
|
|
| n.升高，起重机，推动；v.升起，升高，举起 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
25
hoisting
|
|
| 起重，提升 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
26
thither
|
|
| adv.向那里；adj.在那边的，对岸的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
27
vacancy
|
|
| n.（旅馆的）空位，空房，（职务的）空缺 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
28
simultaneously
|
|
| adv.同时发生地，同时进行地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
29
behold
|
|
| v.看，注视，看到 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
30
perch
|
|
| n.栖木，高位，杆；v.栖息，就位，位于 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
31
standing
|
|
| n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
32
spout
|
|
| v.喷出，涌出；滔滔不绝地讲；n.喷管；水柱 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
33
credulous
|
|
| adj.轻信的，易信的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
34
mariners
|
|
| 海员，水手（mariner的复数形式） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
35
beheld
|
|
| v.看，注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 )；瞧；看呀；（叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现）哎哟 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
36
attuned
|
|
| v.使协调( attune的过去式和过去分词 )；调音 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
37
oar
|
|
| n.桨，橹，划手；v.划行 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
38
leeward
|
|
| adj.背风的；下风的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
39
braces
|
|
| n.吊带，背带；托架( brace的名词复数 )；箍子；括弧；（儿童）牙箍v.支住( brace的第三人称单数 )；撑牢；使自己站稳；振作起来 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
40
plying
|
|
| v.使用（工具）( ply的现在分词 )；经常供应（食物、饮料）；固定往来；经营生意 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
41
rippling
|
|
| 起涟漪的，潺潺流水般声音的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
42
onset
|
|
| n.进攻，袭击，开始，突然开始 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
43
hideous
|
|
| adj.丑陋的，可憎的，可怕的，恐怖的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
44
gnawed
|
|
| 咬( gnaw的过去式和过去分词 )； （长时间） 折磨某人； （使）苦恼； （长时间）危害某事物 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
45
prows
|
|
| n.船首( prow的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
46
foe
|
|
| n.敌人，仇敌 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
47
serene
|
|
| adj. 安详的，宁静的，平静的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
48
serenely
|
|
| adv.安详地，宁静地，平静地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
49
prey
|
|
| n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
50
isolated
|
|
| adj.与世隔绝的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
51
revolving
|
|
| adj.旋转的，轮转式的；循环的v.（使）旋转( revolve的现在分词 )；细想 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
52
foam
|
|
| v./n.泡沫，起泡沫 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
53
glistening
|
|
| adj.闪耀的，反光的v.湿物闪耀，闪亮( glisten的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
54
milky
|
|
| adj.牛奶的，多奶的；乳白色的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
55
fowls
|
|
| 鸟( fowl的名词复数 )； 禽肉； 既不是这； 非驴非马 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
56
hull
|
|
| n.船身；(果、实等的)外壳；vt.去(谷物等)壳 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
57
hovering
|
|
| 鸟( hover的现在分词 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 犹豫 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
58
canopy
|
|
| n.天篷，遮篷 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
59
joyous
|
|
| adj.充满快乐的；令人高兴的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
60
mighty
|
|
| adj.强有力的；巨大的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
61
repose
|
|
| v.(使)休息；n.安息 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
62
gliding
|
|
| v. 滑翔 adj. 滑动的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
63
graceful
|
|
| adj.优美的，优雅的；得体的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
64
nuptial
|
|
| adj.婚姻的，婚礼的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
65
bower
|
|
| n.凉亭，树荫下凉快之处；闺房；v.荫蔽 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
66
majesty
|
|
| n.雄伟，壮丽，庄严，威严；最高权威，王权 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
67
supreme
|
|
| adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
68
glorified
|
|
| 美其名的，变荣耀的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
69
swell
|
|
| vi.膨胀，肿胀；增长，增强 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
70
enticing
|
|
| adj.迷人的；诱人的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
71
allured
|
|
| 诱引，吸引( allure的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
72
serenity
|
|
| n.宁静，沉着，晴朗 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
73
assail
|
|
| v.猛烈攻击，抨击，痛斥 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
74
tornadoes
|
|
| n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
75
rapture
|
|
| n.狂喜；全神贯注；着迷；v.使狂喜 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
76
withholding
|
|
| 扣缴税款 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
77
entirely
|
|
| ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
78
wrench
|
|
| v.猛拧；挣脱；使扭伤；n.扳手；痛苦，难受 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
79
wrenched
|
|
| v.（猛力地）扭( wrench的过去式和过去分词 )；扭伤；使感到痛苦；使悲痛 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
80
hideousness
|
|
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
81
jaw
|
|
| n.颚，颌，说教，流言蜚语；v.喋喋不休，教训 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
82
longingly
|
|
| adv. 渴望地 热望地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
83
agitated
|
|
| adj.被鼓动的，不安的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
84
oars
|
|
| n.桨，橹( oar的名词复数 )；划手v.划（行）( oar的第三人称单数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
85
vacancies
|
|
| n.空房间( vacancy的名词复数 )；空虚；空白；空缺 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
86
crooked
|
|
| adj.弯曲的；不诚实的，狡猾的，不正当的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
87
scrolled
|
|
| adj.具有涡卷装饰的v.（电脑屏幕上）从上到下移动（资料等），卷页( scroll的过去式和过去分词 )；（似卷轴般）卷起；（像展开卷轴般地）将文字显示于屏幕 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
88
steering
|
|
| n.操舵装置 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
89
apparition
|
|
| n.幽灵，神奇的现象 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
90
harpoon
|
|
| n.鱼叉；vt.用鱼叉叉，用鱼叉捕获 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
91
axis
|
|
| n.轴，轴线，中心线；坐标轴，基准线 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
92
anticipation
|
|
| n.预期，预料，期望 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
93
stratagem
|
|
| n.诡计，计谋 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
94
malicious
|
|
| adj.有恶意的，心怀恶意的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
95
rib
|
|
| n.肋骨，肋状物 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
96
plank
|
|
| n.板条，木板，政策要点，政纲条目 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
97
obliquely
|
|
| adv.斜； 倾斜； 间接； 不光明正大 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
98
cedar
|
|
| n.雪松，香柏(木) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
99
elastic
|
|
| n.橡皮圈，松紧带；adj.有弹性的；灵活的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
100
dallied
|
|
| v.随随便便地对待( dally的过去式和过去分词 )；不很认真地考虑；浪费时间；调情 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
101
doom
|
|
| n.厄运，劫数；v.注定，命定 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
102
doomed
|
|
| 命定的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
103
darted
|
|
| v.投掷，投射( dart的过去式和过去分词 )；向前冲，飞奔 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
104
tantalizing
|
|
| adj.逗人的；惹弄人的；撩人的；煽情的v.逗弄，引诱，折磨( tantalize的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
105
jaws
|
|
| n.口部；嘴 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
106
frenzied
|
|
| a.激怒的；疯狂的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
107
frail
|
|
| adj.身体虚弱的；易损坏的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
108
bent
|
|
| n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
109
collapsed
|
|
| adj.倒塌的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
110
shears
|
|
| n.大剪刀 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
111
hem
|
|
| n.贴边，镶边；vt.缝贴边；(in)包围，限制 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
112
wrecks
|
|
| n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 )；（事故中）遭严重毁坏的汽车（或飞机等）；（身体或精神上）受到严重损伤的人；状况非常糟糕的车辆（或建筑物等）v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 )；使（船舶）失事，使遇难，使下沉 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
113
wreck
|
|
| n.失事，遇难；沉船；vt.(船等)失事，遇难 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
114
drooping
|
|
| adj. 下垂的，无力的 动词droop的现在分词 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
115
lash
|
|
| v.系牢；鞭打；猛烈抨击；n.鞭打；眼睫毛 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
116
crafty
|
|
| adj.狡猾的，诡诈的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
117
tilting
|
|
| 倾斜，倾卸 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
118
vertically
|
|
| adv.垂直地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
119
swells
|
|
| 增强( swell的第三人称单数 )； 肿胀； （使）凸出； 充满（激情） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
120
vindictively
|
|
| adv.恶毒地；报复地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
121
gale
|
|
| n.大风，强风，一阵闹声（尤指笑声等） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
122
recoil
|
|
| vi.退却，退缩，畏缩 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
123
eddy
|
|
| n.漩涡，涡流 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
124
triumphantly
|
|
| ad.得意洋洋地；得胜地；成功地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
125
scud
|
|
| n.疾行；v.疾行 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
126
poise
|
|
| vt./vi. 平衡，保持平衡；n.泰然自若，自信 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
127
previously
|
|
| adv.以前，先前（地） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
128
wrecked
|
|
| adj.失事的，遇难的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
129
lashing
|
|
| n.鞭打；痛斥；大量；许多v.鞭打( lash的现在分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
130
smothered
|
|
| （使）窒息， （使）透不过气( smother的过去式和过去分词 )； 覆盖； 忍住； 抑制 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
131
insolent
|
|
| adj.傲慢的，无理的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
132
succor
|
|
| n.援助，帮助；v.给予帮助 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
133
appalling
|
|
| adj.骇人听闻的，令人震惊的，可怕的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
134
swooping
|
|
| 俯冲，猛冲( swoop的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
135
hovered
|
|
| 鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 犹豫 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
136
jeopardized
|
|
| 危及，损害( jeopardize的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
137
descried
|
|
| adj.被注意到的，被发现的，被看到的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
138
crest
|
|
| n.顶点；饰章；羽冠；vt.达到顶点；vi.形成浪尖 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
139
sullenly
|
|
| 不高兴地，绷着脸，忧郁地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
140
herds
|
|
| 兽群( herd的名词复数 )； 牧群； 人群； 群众 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
141
wails
|
|
| 痛哭，哭声( wail的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
142
desolate
|
|
| adj.荒凉的，荒芜的；孤独的，凄凉的；v.使荒芜，使孤寂 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
143
intensity
|
|
| n.强烈，剧烈；强度；烈度 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
144
prostration
|
|
| n. 平伏, 跪倒, 疲劳 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
145
abbreviate
|
|
| v.缩写，使...简略，缩短 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
146
pang
|
|
| n.剧痛，悲痛，苦闷 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
147
kindly
|
|
| adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
148
diffused
|
|
| 散布的，普及的，扩散的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
149
aggregate
|
|
| adj.总计的，集合的；n.总数；v.合计；集合 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
150
woe
|
|
| n.悲哀，苦痛，不幸，困难；int.用来表达悲伤或惊慌 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
151
intensities
|
|
| n.强烈( intensity的名词复数 )；（感情的）强烈程度；强度；烈度 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
152
circumferences
|
|
| 周围，圆周( circumference的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
|
153
velocity
|
|
| n.速度，速率 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
154
vicissitude
|
|
| n.变化，变迁，荣枯，盛衰 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
155
promising
|
|
| adj.有希望的，有前途的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
156
allotted
|
|
| 分配，拨给，摊派( allot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
157
planks
|
|
| （厚）木板( plank的名词复数 )； 政纲条目，政策要点 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
158
fortitude
|
|
| n.坚忍不拔；刚毅 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
159
valiant
|
|
| adj.勇敢的，英勇的；n.勇士，勇敢的人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
160
pricked
|
|
| 刺，扎，戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 )； 刺伤； 刺痛； 使剧痛 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
161
poltroon
|
|
| n.胆怯者；懦夫 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
162
groan
|
|
| vi./n.呻吟，抱怨；(发出)呻吟般的声音 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
163
outright
|
|
| adv.坦率地；彻底地；立即；adj.无疑的；彻底的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
164
rustling
|
|
| n. 瑟瑟声，沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
165
abide
|
|
| vi.遵守；坚持；vt.忍受 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
| 欢迎访问英文小说网 |