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SHOULD SOLDIERS BE POLITE?
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 My desire was once to pass a peaceful and pleasant winter in Brussels, attending to my work, improving my mind.  Brussels is a bright and cheerful town, and I think I could have succeeded had it not been for the Belgian Army.  The Belgian Army would follow me about and worry me.  Judging of it from my own experience, I should say it was a good army.  Napoleon laid it down as an axiom that your enemy never ought to be permitted to get away from you—never ought to be allowed to feel, even for a moment, that he had shaken you off.  What tactics the Belgian Army might adopt under other conditions I am unable to say, but against me personally that was the plan of campaign it determined1 upon and carried out with a success that was astonishing, even to myself.
 
I found it utterly2 impossible to escape from the Belgian Army.  I made a point of choosing the quietest and most unlikely streets, I chose all hours—early in the morning, in the afternoon, late in the evening.  There were moments of wild exaltation when I imagined I had given it the slip.  I could not see it anywhere, I could not hear it.
 
“Now,” said I to myself, “now for five minutes’ peace and quiet.”
 
I had been doing it injustice3: it had been working round me.  Approaching the next corner, I would hear the tattoo4 of its drum.  Before I had gone another quarter of a mile it would be in full pursuit of me.  I would jump upon a tram, and travel for miles.  Then, thinking I had shaken it off, I would alight and proceed upon my walk.  Five minutes later another detachment would be upon my heels.  I would slink home, the Belgian Army pursuing me with its exultant5 tattoo.  Vanquished6, shamed, my insular7 pride for ever vanished, I would creep up into my room and close the door.  The victorious8 Belgian Army would then march back to barracks.
 
If only it had followed me with a band: I like a band.  I can loaf against a post, listening to a band with anyone.  I should not have minded so much had it come after me with a band.  But the Belgian Army, apparently9, doesn’t run to a band.  It has nothing but this drum.  It has not even a real drum—not what I call a drum.  It is a little boy’s drum, the sort of thing I used to play myself at one time, until people took it away from me, and threatened that if they heard it once again that day they would break it over my own head.  It is cowardly going up and down, playing a drum of this sort, when there is nobody to stop you.  The man would not dare to do it if his mother was about.  He does not even play it.  He walks along tapping it with a little stick.  There’s no tune10, there’s no sense in it.  He does not even keep time.  I used to think at first, hearing it in the distance, that it was the work of some young gamin who ought to be at school, or making himself useful taking the baby out in the perambulator: and I would draw back into dark doorways11, determined, as he came by, to dart12 out and pull his ear for him.  To my astonishment13—for the first week—I learnt it was the Belgian Army, getting itself accustomed, one supposes, to the horrors of war.  It had the effect of making me a peace-at-any-price man.
 
They tell me these armies are necessary to preserve the tranquility of Europe.  For myself, I should be willing to run the risk of an occasional row.  Cannot someone tell them they are out of date, with their bits of feathers and their odds14 and ends of ironmongery—grown men that cannot be sent out for a walk unless accompanied by a couple of nursemen, blowing a tin whistle and tapping a drum out of a toy shop to keep them in order and prevent their running about: one might think they were chickens.  A herd15 of soldiers with their pots and pans and parcels, and all their deadly things tied on to them, prancing16 about in time to a tune, makes me think always of the White Knight17 that Alice met in Wonderland.  I take it that for practical purposes—to fight for your country, or to fight for somebody else’s country, which is, generally speaking, more popular—the thing essential is that a certain proportion of the populace should be able to shoot straight with a gun.  How standing18 in a line and turning out your toes is going to assist you, under modern conditions of warfare19, is one of the many things my intellect is incapable20 of grasping.
 
In mediæval days, when men fought hand to hand, there must have been advantage in combined and precise movement.  When armies were mere21 iron machines, the simple endeavour of each being to push the other off the earth, then the striking simultaneously22 with a thousand arms was part of the game.  Now, when we shoot from behind cover with smokeless powder, brain not brute23 force—individual sense not combined solidity is surely the result to be aimed at.  Cannot somebody, as I have suggested, explain to the military man that the proper place for the drill sergeant24 nowadays is under a glass case in some museum of antiquities25?
 
I lived once near the Hyde Park barracks, and saw much of the drill sergeant’s method.  Generally speaking, he is a stout26 man with the walk of an egotistical pigeon.  His voice is one of the most extraordinary things in nature: if you can distinguish it from the bark of a dog, you are clever.  They tell me that the privates, after a little practice, can—which gives one a higher opinion of their intelligence than otherwise one might form.  But myself I doubt even this statement.  I was the owner of a fine retriever dog about the time of which I am speaking, and sometimes he and I would amuse ourselves by watching Mr. Sergeant exercising his squad27.  One morning he had been shouting out the usual “Whough, whough, whough!” for about ten minutes, and all had hitherto gone well.  Suddenly, and evidently to his intense astonishment, the squad turned their backs upon him and commenced to walk towards the Serpentine28.
 
“Halt!” yelled the sergeant, the instant his amazed indignation permitted him to speak, which fortunately happened in time to save the detachment from a watery29 grave.
 
The squad halted.
 
“Who the thunder, and the blazes, and other things told you to do that?”
 
The squad looked bewildered, but said nothing, and were brought back to the place where they were before.  A minute later precisely30 the same thing occurred again.  I really thought the sergeant would burst.  I was preparing to hasten to the barracks for medical aid.  But the paroxysm passed.  Calling upon the combined forces of heaven and hell to sustain him in his trouble, he requested his squad, as man to man, to inform him of the reason why to all appearance they were dispensing31 with his services and drilling themselves.
 
At this moment “Columbus” barked again, and the explanation came to him.
 
“Please go away, sir,” he requested me.  “How can I exercise my men with that dog of yours interfering32 every five minutes?”
 
It was not only on that occasion.  It happened at other times.  The dog seemed to understand and take a pleasure in it.  Sometimes meeting a soldier, walking with his sweetheart, Columbus, from behind my legs, would bark suddenly.  Immediately the man would let go the girl and proceed, involuntarily, to perform military tricks.
 
The War Office authorities accused me of having trained the dog.  I had not trained him: that was his natural voice.  I suggested to the War Office authorities that instead of quarrelling with my dog for talking his own language, they should train their sergeants33 to use English.
 
They would not see it.  Unpleasantness was in the air, and, living where I did at the time, I thought it best to part with Columbus.  I could see what the War Office was driving at, and I did not desire that responsibility for the inefficiency34 of the British Army should be laid at my door.
 
Some twenty years ago we, in London, were passing through a riotous35 period, and a call was made to law-abiding citizens to enrol36 themselves as special constables37.  I was young, and the hope of trouble appealed to me more than it does now.  In company with some five or six hundred other more or less respectable citizens, I found myself one Sunday morning in the drill yard of the Albany Barracks.  It was the opinion of the authorities that we could guard our homes and protect our wives and children better if first of all we learned to roll our “eyes right” or left at the given word of command, and to walk with our thumbs stuck out.  Accordingly a drill sergeant was appointed to instruct us on these points.  He came out of the canteen, wiping his mouth and flicking39 his leg, according to rule, with the regulation cane40.  But, as he approached us, his expression changed.  We were stout, pompous-looking gentlemen, the majority of us, in frock coats and silk hats.  The sergeant was a man with a sense of the fitness of things.  The idea of shouting and swearing at us fell from him: and that gone there seemed to be no happy medium left to him.  The stiffness departed from his back.  He met us with a defferential attitude, and spoke41 to us in the language of social intercourse42.
 
“Good morning, gentlemen,” said the sergeant.
 
“Good morning,” we replied: and there was a pause.
 
The sergeant fidgetted upon his feet.  We waited.
 
“Well, now, gentlemen,” said the sergeant, with a pleasant smile, “what do you say to falling in?”
 
We agreed to fall in.  He showed us how to do it.  He cast a critical eye along the back of our rear line.
 
“A little further forward, number three, if you don’t mind, sir,” he suggested.
 
Number three, who was an important-looking gentleman, stepped forward.
 
The sergeant cast his critical eye along the front of the first line.
 
“A little further back, if you don’t mind, sir,” he suggested, addressing the third gentleman from the end.
 
“Can’t,” explained the third gentleman, “much as I can do to keep where I am.”
 
The sergeant cast his critical eye between the lines.
 
“Ah,” said the sergeant, “a little full-chested, some of us.  We will make the distance another foot, if you please, gentlemen.”
 
In pleasant manner, like to this, the drill proceeded.
 
“Now then, gentlemen, shall we try a little walk?  Quick march!  Thank you, gentlemen.  Sorry to trouble you, but it may be necessary to run—forward I mean, of course..  So if you really do not mind, we will now do the double quick.  Halt!  And if next time you can keep a little more in line—it has a more imposing43 appearance, if you understand me.  The breathing comes with practice.”
 
If the thing must be done at all, why should it not be done in this way?  Why should not the sergeant address the new recruits politely:
 
“Now then, you young chaps, are you all ready?  Don’t hurry yourselves: no need to make hard work of what should be a pleasure to all of us.  That’s right, that’s very good indeed—considering you are only novices44.  But there is still something to be desired in your attitude, Private Bully-boy.  You will excuse my being personal, but are you knock-kneed naturally?  Or could you, with an effort, do you think, contrive45 to give yourself less the appearance of a marionette46 whose strings47 have become loose?  Thank you, that is better.  These little things appear trivial, I know, but, after all, we may as well try and look our best—
 
“Don’t you like your boots, Private Montmorency?  Oh, I beg your pardon.  I thought from the way you were bending down and looking at them that perhaps their appearance was dissatisfying to you.  My mistake.
 
“Are you suffering from indigestion, my poor fellow?  Shall I get you a little brandy?  It isn’t indigestion.  Then what’s the matter with it?  Why are you trying to hide it?  It’s nothing to be ashamed of.  We’ve all got one.  Let it come forward man.  Let’s see it.”
 
Having succeeded, with a few such kindly48 words, in getting his line into order, he would proceed to recommend healthy exercise.
 
“Shoulder arms!  Good, gentlemen, very good for a beginning.  Yet still, if I may be critical, not perfect.  There is more in this thing than you might imagine, gentlemen.  May I point out to Private Henry Thompson that a musket49 carried across the shoulder at right angles is apt to inconvenience the gentleman behind.  Even from the point of view of his own comfort, I feel sure that Private Thompson would do better to follow the usual custom in this matter.
 
“I would also suggest to Private St. Leonard that we are not here to practice the art of balancing a heavy musket on the outstretched palm of the hand.  Private St. Leonard’s performance with the musket is decidedly clever.  But it is not war.
 
“Believe me, gentlemen, this thing has been carefully worked out, and no improvement is likely to result from individual effort.  Let our idea be uniformity.  It is monotonous50, but it is safe.  Now, then, gentlemen, once again.”
 
The drill yard would be converted into a source of innocent delight to thousands.  “Officer and gentleman” would become a phrase of meaning.  I present the idea, for what it may be worth, with my compliments, to Pall51 Mall.
 
The fault of the military man is that he studies too much, reads too much history, is over reflective.  If, instead, he would look about him more he would notice that things are changing.  Someone has told the British military man that Waterloo was won upon the playing fields of Eton.  So he goes to Eton and plays.  One of these days he will be called upon to fight another Waterloo: and afterwards—when it is too late—they will explain to him that it was won not upon the play field but in the class room.
 
From the mound52 on the old Waterloo plain one can form a notion of what battles, under former conditions, must have been.  The other battlefields of Europe are rapidly disappearing: useful Dutch cabbages, as Carlyle would have pointed38 out with justifiable53 satisfaction, hiding the theatre of man’s childish folly54.  You find, generally speaking, cobblers happily employed in cobbling shoes, women gossipping cheerfully over the washtub on the spot where a hundred years ago, according to the guide-book, a thousand men dressed in blue and a thousand men dressed in red rushed together like quarrelsome fox-terriers, and worried each other to death.
 
But the field of Waterloo is little changed.  The guide, whose grandfather was present at the battle—quite an extraordinary number of grandfathers must have fought at Waterloo: there must have been whole regiments55 composed of grandfathers—can point out to you the ground across which every charge was delivered, can show you every ridge56, still existing, behind which the infantry57 crouched58.  The whole business was began and finished within a space little larger than a square mile.  One can understand the advantage then to be derived59 from the perfect moving of the military machine; the uses of the echelon60, the purposes of the linked battalion61, the manipulation of centre, left wing and right wing.  Then it may have been worth while—if war be ever worth the while—which grown men of sense are beginning to doubt—to waste two years of a soldier’s training, teaching him the goose-step.  In the twentieth century, teaching soldiers the evolutions of the Thirty Years’ War is about as sensible as it would be loading our iron-clads with canvas.
 
I followed once a company of Volunteers across Blackfriars Bridge on their way from Southwark to the Temple.  At the bottom of Ludgate Hill the commanding officer, a young but conscientious62 gentleman, ordered “Left wheel!”  At once the vanguard turned down a narrow alley—I forget its name—which would have led the troop into the purlieus of Whitefriars, where, in all probability, they would have been lost for ever.  The whole company had to be halted, right-about-faced, and retired63 a hundred yards.  Then the order “Quick march!” was given.  The vanguard shot across Ludgate Circus, and were making for the Meat Market.
 
At this point that young commanding officer gave up being a military man and talked sense.
 
“Not that way,” he shouted: “up Fleet Street and through Middle Temple Lane.”
 
Then without further trouble the army of the future went upon its way.
 

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1 determined duszmP     
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。
2 utterly ZfpzM1     
adv.完全地,绝对地
参考例句:
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
3 injustice O45yL     
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。
4 tattoo LIDzk     
n.纹身,(皮肤上的)刺花纹;vt.刺花纹于
参考例句:
  • I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
  • He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
5 exultant HhczC     
adj.欢腾的,狂欢的,大喜的
参考例句:
  • The exultant crowds were dancing in the streets.欢欣的人群在大街上跳起了舞。
  • He was exultant that she was still so much in his power.他仍然能轻而易举地摆布她,对此他欣喜若狂。
6 vanquished 3ee1261b79910819d117f8022636243f     
v.征服( vanquish的过去式和过去分词 );战胜;克服;抑制
参考例句:
  • She had fought many battles, vanquished many foes. 她身经百战,挫败过很多对手。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I vanquished her coldness with my assiduity. 我对她关心照顾从而消除了她的冷淡。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
7 insular mk0yd     
adj.岛屿的,心胸狭窄的
参考例句:
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • Having lived in one place all his life,his views are insular.他一辈子住在一个地方,所以思想狭隘。
8 victorious hhjwv     
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。
9 apparently tMmyQ     
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
参考例句:
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
10 tune NmnwW     
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
参考例句:
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
11 doorways 9f2a4f4f89bff2d72720b05d20d8f3d6     
n.门口,门道( doorway的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群,从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。 来自辞典例句
  • He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。 来自辞典例句
12 dart oydxK     
v.猛冲,投掷;n.飞镖,猛冲
参考例句:
  • The child made a sudden dart across the road.那小孩突然冲过马路。
  • Markov died after being struck by a poison dart.马尔科夫身中毒镖而亡。
13 astonishment VvjzR     
n.惊奇,惊异
参考例句:
  • They heard him give a loud shout of astonishment.他们听见他惊奇地大叫一声。
  • I was filled with astonishment at her strange action.我对她的奇怪举动不胜惊异。
14 odds n5czT     
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
参考例句:
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
15 herd Pd8zb     
n.兽群,牧群;vt.使集中,把…赶在一起
参考例句:
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见,只是人云亦云。
16 prancing 9906a4f0d8b1d61913c1d44e88e901b8     
v.(马)腾跃( prance的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The lead singer was prancing around with the microphone. 首席歌手手执麦克风,神气地走来走去。
  • The King lifted Gretel on to his prancing horse and they rode to his palace. 国王把格雷特尔扶上腾跃着的马,他们骑马向天宫走去。 来自辞典例句
17 knight W2Hxk     
n.骑士,武士;爵士
参考例句:
  • He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
  • A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。
18 standing 2hCzgo     
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。
19 warfare XhVwZ     
n.战争(状态);斗争;冲突
参考例句:
  • He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
  • Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。
20 incapable w9ZxK     
adj.无能力的,不能做某事的
参考例句:
  • He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.他不会做出这么残忍的事。
  • Computers are incapable of creative thought.计算机不会创造性地思维。
21 mere rC1xE     
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
参考例句:
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
22 simultaneously 4iBz1o     
adv.同时发生地,同时进行地
参考例句:
  • The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
  • The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。
23 brute GSjya     
n.野兽,兽性
参考例句:
  • The aggressor troops are not many degrees removed from the brute.侵略军简直象一群野兽。
  • That dog is a dangerous brute.It bites people.那条狗是危险的畜牲,它咬人。
24 sergeant REQzz     
n.警官,中士
参考例句:
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
25 antiquities c0cf3d8a964542256e19beef0e9faa29     
n.古老( antiquity的名词复数 );古迹;古人们;古代的风俗习惯
参考例句:
  • There is rest and healing in the contemplation of antiquities. 欣赏古物有休息和疗养之功。 来自辞典例句
  • Bertha developed a fine enthusiasm for the antiquities of London. 伯沙对伦敦的古迹产生了很大的热情。 来自辞典例句
27 squad 4G1zq     
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
参考例句:
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
28 serpentine MEgzx     
adj.蜿蜒的,弯曲的
参考例句:
  • One part of the Serpentine is kept for swimmers.蜿蜒河的一段划为游泳区。
  • Tremolite laths and serpentine minerals are present in places.有的地方出现透闪石板条及蛇纹石。
29 watery bU5zW     
adj.有水的,水汪汪的;湿的,湿润的
参考例句:
  • In his watery eyes there is an expression of distrust.他那含泪的眼睛流露出惊惶失措的神情。
  • Her eyes became watery because of the smoke.因为烟熏,她的双眼变得泪汪汪的。
30 precisely zlWzUb     
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
参考例句:
  • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
  • The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
31 dispensing 1555b4001e7e14e0bca70a3c43102922     
v.分配( dispense的现在分词 );施与;配(药)
参考例句:
  • A dispensing optician supplies glasses, but doesn't test your eyes. 配镜师为你提供眼镜,但不检查眼睛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The firm has been dispensing ointments. 本公司配制药膏。 来自《简明英汉词典》
32 interfering interfering     
adj. 妨碍的 动词interfere的现在分词
参考例句:
  • He's an interfering old busybody! 他老爱管闲事!
  • I wish my mother would stop interfering and let me make my own decisions. 我希望我母亲不再干预,让我自己拿主意。
33 sergeants c7d22f6a91d2c5f9f5a4fd4d5721dfa0     
警官( sergeant的名词复数 ); (美国警察)警佐; (英国警察)巡佐; 陆军(或空军)中士
参考例句:
  • Platoon sergeants fell their men in on the barrack square. 排长们在营房广场上整顿队伍。
  • The recruits were soon licked into shape by the drill sergeants. 新兵不久便被教育班长训练得象样了。
34 inefficiency N7Xxn     
n.无效率,无能;无效率事例
参考例句:
  • Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace. 资方与工人之间的冲突使得工厂生产效率很低。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are ill-equipped. 出现此种低效率是因为工人与管理层都能力不足。 来自《简明英汉词典》
35 riotous ChGyr     
adj.骚乱的;狂欢的
参考例句:
  • Summer is in riotous profusion.盛夏的大地热闹纷繁。
  • We spent a riotous night at Christmas.我们度过了一个狂欢之夜。
36 enrol do2xx     
v.(使)注册入学,(使)入学,(使)入会
参考例句:
  • I like your institute but I do not want to enrol.我喜欢你们学院但我不想报名去你院。
  • They decided to enrol him as a member of the society.他们决定吸收他成为会社的成员。
37 constables 34fd726ea7175d409b9b80e3cf9fd666     
n.警察( constable的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn. 警察漫不经心地拦着不让他们靠近谷仓。 来自辞典例句
  • There were also constables appointed to keep the peace. 城里也有被派来维持治安的基层警员。 来自互联网
38 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的,直截了当的
参考例句:
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
39 flicking 856751237583a36a24c558b09c2a932a     
(尤指用手指或手快速地)轻击( flick的现在分词 ); (用…)轻挥; (快速地)按开关; 向…笑了一下(或瞥了一眼等)
参考例句:
  • He helped her up before flicking the reins. 他帮她上马,之后挥动了缰绳。
  • There's something flicking around my toes. 有什么东西老在叮我的脚指头。
40 cane RsNzT     
n.手杖,细长的茎,藤条;v.以杖击,以藤编制的
参考例句:
  • This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
  • English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。
41 spoke XryyC     
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。
42 intercourse NbMzU     
n.性交;交流,交往,交际
参考例句:
  • The magazine becomes a cultural medium of intercourse between the two peoples.该杂志成为两民族间文化交流的媒介。
  • There was close intercourse between them.他们过往很密。
43 imposing 8q9zcB     
adj.使人难忘的,壮丽的,堂皇的,雄伟的
参考例句:
  • The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
  • He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。
44 novices 760ca772bcfbe170dc208a6174b7f7a2     
n.新手( novice的名词复数 );初学修士(或修女);(修会等的)初学生;尚未赢过大赛的赛马
参考例句:
  • The Russians are such novices in Africa. 在非洲的俄国人简直都是些毫无经验的生手。 来自辞典例句
  • Where the primary track all novices, screams everywhere, ha ha good terror. 那里的初级道上全是生手,到处都是尖叫声,哈哈好恐怖的。 来自互联网
45 contrive GpqzY     
vt.谋划,策划;设法做到;设计,想出
参考例句:
  • Can you contrive to be here a little earlier?你能不能早一点来?
  • How could you contrive to make such a mess of things?你怎么把事情弄得一团糟呢?
46 marionette sw2ye     
n.木偶
参考例句:
  • With this marionette I wish to travel through the world.我希望带着这个木偶周游世界。
  • The development of marionette had a great influence on the future development of opera.木偶戏的发展对以后的戏曲有十分重要的影响。
47 strings nh0zBe     
n.弦
参考例句:
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
48 kindly tpUzhQ     
adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
参考例句:
  • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
  • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
49 musket 46jzO     
n.滑膛枪
参考例句:
  • I hunted with a musket two years ago.两年前我用滑膛枪打猎。
  • So some seconds passed,till suddenly Joyce whipped up his musket and fired.又过了几秒钟,突然,乔伊斯端起枪来开了火。
50 monotonous FwQyJ     
adj.单调的,一成不变的,使人厌倦的
参考例句:
  • She thought life in the small town was monotonous.她觉得小镇上的生活单调而乏味。
  • His articles are fixed in form and monotonous in content.他的文章千篇一律,一个调调儿。
51 pall hvwyP     
v.覆盖,使平淡无味;n.柩衣,棺罩;棺材;帷幕
参考例句:
  • Already the allure of meals in restaurants had begun to pall.饭店里的饭菜已经不像以前那样诱人。
  • I find his books begin to pall on me after a while.我发觉他的书读过一阵子就开始对我失去吸引力。
52 mound unCzhy     
n.土墩,堤,小山;v.筑堤,用土堆防卫
参考例句:
  • The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.勘探者爬上土丘去勘测周围的土地。
  • The mound can be used as our screen.这个土丘可做我们的掩蔽物。
53 justifiable a3ExP     
adj.有理由的,无可非议的
参考例句:
  • What he has done is hardly justifiable.他的所作所为说不过去。
  • Justifiable defense is the act being exempted from crimes.正当防卫不属于犯罪行为。
54 folly QgOzL     
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话
参考例句:
  • Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
  • Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。
55 regiments 874816ecea99051da3ed7fa13d5fe861     
(军队的)团( regiment的名词复数 ); 大量的人或物
参考例句:
  • The three regiments are all under the command of you. 这三个团全归你节制。
  • The town was garrisoned with two regiments. 该镇有两团士兵驻守。
56 ridge KDvyh     
n.山脊;鼻梁;分水岭
参考例句:
  • We clambered up the hillside to the ridge above.我们沿着山坡费力地爬上了山脊。
  • The infantry were advancing to attack the ridge.步兵部队正在向前挺进攻打山脊。
57 infantry CbLzf     
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
参考例句:
  • The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
  • We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
58 crouched 62634c7e8c15b8a61068e36aaed563ab     
v.屈膝,蹲伏( crouch的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He crouched down beside her. 他在她的旁边蹲了下来。
  • The lion crouched ready to pounce. 狮子蹲下身,准备猛扑。
59 derived 6cddb7353e699051a384686b6b3ff1e2     
vi.起源;由来;衍生;导出v.得到( derive的过去式和过去分词 );(从…中)得到获得;源于;(从…中)提取
参考例句:
  • Many English words are derived from Latin and Greek. 英语很多词源出于拉丁文和希腊文。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
60 echelon YkZzT     
n.梯队;组织系统中的等级;v.排成梯队
参考例句:
  • What kind of friends can be considered the first echelon of the friends?那什么样的朋友才能算第一梯队的朋友?
  • These are the first echelon members.这些是我们的第一梯队的队员。
61 battalion hu0zN     
n.营;部队;大队(的人)
参考例句:
  • The town was garrisoned by a battalion.该镇由一营士兵驻守。
  • At the end of the drill parade,the battalion fell out.操练之后,队伍解散了。
62 conscientious mYmzr     
adj.审慎正直的,认真的,本着良心的
参考例句:
  • He is a conscientious man and knows his job.他很认真负责,也很懂行。
  • He is very conscientious in the performance of his duties.他非常认真地履行职责。
63 retired Njhzyv     
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
参考例句:
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。


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