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SECOND BRANCH—THE BOOTS
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 Where had he been in his time? he repeated, when I asked him the question.  Lord, he had been everywhere!  And what had he been?  Bless you, he had been everything you could mention a’most!
 
Seen a good deal?  Why, of course he had.  I should say so, he could assure me, if I only knew about a twentieth part of what had come in his way.  Why, it would be easier for him, he expected, to tell what he hadn’t seen than what he had.  Ah!  A deal, it would.
 
What was the curiousest thing he had seen?  Well!  He didn’t know.  He couldn’t momently name what was the curiousest thing he had seen—unless it was a Unicorn1, and he see him once at a Fair.  But supposing a young gentleman not eight year old was to run away with a fine young woman of seven, might I think that a queer start?  Certainly.  Then that was a start as he himself had had his blessed eyes on, and he had cleaned the shoes they run away in—and they was so little that he couldn’t get his hand into ’em.
 
Master Harry2 Walmers’ father, you see, he lived at the Elmses, down away by Shooter’s Hill there, six or seven miles from Lunnon.  He was a gentleman of spirit, and good-looking, and held his head up when he walked, and had what you may call Fire about him.  He wrote poetry, and he rode, and he ran, and he cricketed, and he danced, and he acted, and he done it all equally beautiful.  He was uncommon3 proud of Master Harry as was his only child; but he didn’t spoil him neither.  He was a gentleman that had a will of his own and a eye of his own, and that would be minded.  Consequently, though he made quite a companion of the fine bright boy, and was delighted to see him so fond of reading his fairy books, and was never tired of hearing him say my name is Norval, or hearing him sing his songs about Young May Moons is beaming love, and When he as adores thee has left but the name, and that; still he kept the command over the child, and the child was a child, and it’s to be wished more of ’em was!
 
How did Boots happen to know all this?  Why, through being under-gardener.  Of course he couldn’t be under-gardener, and be always about, in the summer-time, near the windows on the lawn, a mowing4, and sweeping5, and weeding, and pruning6, and this and that, without getting acquainted with the ways of the family.  Even supposing Master Harry hadn’t come to him one morning early, and said, “Cobbs, how should you spell Norah, if you was asked?” and then began cutting it in print all over the fence.
 
He couldn’t say he had taken particular notice of children before that; but really it was pretty to see them two mites8 a going about the place together, deep in love.  And the courage of the boy!  Bless your soul, he’d have throwed off his little hat, and tucked up his little sleeves, and gone in at a Lion, he would, if they had happened to meet one, and she had been frightened of him.  One day he stops, along with her, where Boots was hoeing weeds in the gravel9, and says, speaking up, “Cobbs,” he says, “I like you.”  “Do you, sir?  I’m proud to hear it.”  “Yes, I do, Cobbs.  Why do I like you, do you think, Cobbs?”  “Don’t know, Master Harry, I am sure.”  “Because Norah likes you, Cobbs.”  “Indeed, sir?  That’s very gratifying.”  “Gratifying, Cobbs?  It’s better than millions of the brightest diamonds to be liked by Norah.”  “Certainly, sir.”  “You’re going away, ain’t you, Cobbs?”  “Yes, sir.”  “Would you like another situation, Cobbs?”  “Well, sir, I shouldn’t object, if it was a good Inn.”  “Then, Cobbs,” says he, “you shall be our Head Gardener when we are married.”  And he tucks her, in her little sky-blue mantle10, under his arm, and walks away.
 
Boots could assure me that it was better than a picter, and equal to a play, to see them babies, with their long, bright, curling hair, their sparkling eyes, and their beautiful light tread, a rambling11 about the garden, deep in love.  Boots was of opinion that the birds believed they was birds, and kept up with ’em, singing to please ’em.  Sometimes they would creep under the Tulip-tree, and would sit there with their arms round one another’s necks, and their soft cheeks touching12, a reading about the Prince and the Dragon, and the good and bad enchanters, and the king’s fair daughter.  Sometimes he would hear them planning about having a house in a forest, keeping bees and a cow, and living entirely13 on milk and honey.  Once he came upon them by the pond, and heard Master Harry say, “Adorable Norah, kiss me, and say you love me to distraction14, or I’ll jump in head-foremost.”  And Boots made no question he would have done it if she hadn’t complied.  On the whole, Boots said it had a tendency to make him feel as if he was in love himself—only he didn’t exactly know who with.
 
“Cobbs,” said Master Harry, one evening, when Cobbs was watering the flowers, “I am going on a visit, this present Midsummer, to my grandmamma’s at York.”
 
“Are you indeed, sir?  I hope you’ll have a pleasant time.  I am going into Yorkshire, myself, when I leave here.”
 
“Are you going to your grandmamma’s, Cobbs?”
 
“No, sir.  I haven’t got such a thing.”
 
“Not as a grandmamma, Cobbs?”
 
“No, sir.”
 
The boy looked on at the watering of the flowers for a little while, and then said, “I shall be very glad indeed to go, Cobbs,—Norah’s going.”
 
“You’ll be all right then, sir,” says Cobbs, “with your beautiful sweetheart by your side.”
 
“Cobbs,” returned the boy, flushing, “I never let anybody joke about it, when I can prevent them.”
 
“It wasn’t a joke, sir,” says Cobbs, with humility,—“wasn’t so meant.”
 
“I am glad of that, Cobbs, because I like you, you know, and you’re going to live with us.—Cobbs!”
 
“Sir.”
 
“What do you think my grandmamma gives me when I go down there?”
 
“I couldn’t so much as make a guess, sir.”
 
“A Bank of England five-pound note, Cobbs.”
 
“Whew!” says Cobbs, “that’s a spanking15 sum of money, Master Harry.”
 
“A person could do a good deal with such a sum of money as that,—couldn’t a person, Cobbs?”
 
“I believe you, sir!”
 
“Cobbs,” said the boy, “I’ll tell you a secret.  At Norah’s house, they have been joking her about me, and pretending to laugh at our being engaged,—pretending to make game of it, Cobbs!”
 
“Such, sir,” says Cobbs, “is the depravity of human natur.”
 
The boy, looking exactly like his father, stood for a few minutes with his glowing face towards the sunset, and then departed with, “Good-night, Cobbs.  I’m going in.”
 
If I was to ask Boots how it happened that he was a-going to leave that place just at that present time, well, he couldn’t rightly answer me.  He did suppose he might have stayed there till now if he had been anyways inclined.  But, you see, he was younger then, and he wanted change.  That’s what he wanted,—change.  Mr. Walmers, he said to him when he gave him notice of his intentions to leave, “Cobbs,” he says, “have you anythink to complain of?  I make the inquiry16 because if I find that any of my people really has anythink to complain of, I wish to make it right if I can.”  “No, sir,” says Cobbs; “thanking you, sir, I find myself as well sitiwated here as I could hope to be anywheres.  The truth is, sir, that I’m a-going to seek my fortun’.”  “O, indeed, Cobbs!” he says; “I hope you may find it.”  And Boots could assure me—which he did, touching his hair with his bootjack, as a salute17 in the way of his present calling—that he hadn’t found it yet.
 
Well, sir!  Boots left the Elmses when his time was up, and Master Harry, he went down to the old lady’s at York, which old lady would have given that child the teeth out of her head (if she had had any), she was so wrapped up in him.  What does that Infant do,—for Infant you may call him and be within the mark,—but cut away from that old lady’s with his Norah, on a expedition to go to Gretna Green and be married!
 
Sir, Boots was at this identical Holly-Tree Inn (having left it several times since to better himself, but always come back through one thing or another), when, one summer afternoon, the coach drives up, and out of the coach gets them two children.  The Guard says to our Governor, “I don’t quite make out these little passengers, but the young gentleman’s words was, that they was to be brought here.”  The young gentleman gets out; hands his lady out; gives the Guard something for himself; says to our Governor, “We’re to stop here to-night, please.  Sitting-room18 and two bedrooms will be required.  Chops and cherry-pudding for two!” and tucks her, in her sky-blue mantle, under his arm, and walks into the house much bolder than Brass19.
 
Boots leaves me to judge what the amazement20 of that establishment was, when these two tiny creatures all alone by themselves was marched into the Angel,—much more so, when he, who had seen them without their seeing him, give the Governor his views of the expedition they was upon.  “Cobbs,” says the Governor, “if this is so, I must set off myself to York, and quiet their friends’ minds.  In which case you must keep your eye upon ’em, and humour ’em, till I come back.  But before I take these measures, Cobbs, I should wish you to find from themselves whether your opinion is correct.”  “Sir, to you,” says Cobbs, “that shall be done directly.”
 
So Boots goes up-stairs to the Angel, and there he finds Master Harry on a e-normous sofa,—immense at any time, but looking like the Great Bed of Ware21, compared with him,—a drying the eyes of Miss Norah with his pocket-hankecher.  Their little legs was entirely off the ground, of course, and it really is not possible for Boots to express to me how small them children looked.
 
“It’s Cobbs!  It’s Cobbs!” cries Master Harry, and comes running to him, and catching22 hold of his hand.  Miss Norah comes running to him on t’other side and catching hold of his t’other hand, and they both jump for joy.
 
“I see you a getting out, sir,” says Cobbs.  “I thought it was you.  I thought I couldn’t be mistaken in your height and figure.  What’s the object of your journey, sir?—Matrimonial?”
 
“We are going to be married, Cobbs, at Gretna Green,” returned the boy.  “We have run away on purpose.  Norah has been in rather low spirits, Cobbs; but she’ll be happy, now we have found you to be our friend.”
 
“Thank you, sir, and thank you, miss,” says Cobbs, “for your good opinion.  Did you bring any luggage with you, sir?”
 
If I will believe Boots when he gives me his word and honour upon it, the lady had got a parasol, a smelling-bottle, a round and a half of cold buttered toast, eight peppermint23 drops, and a hair-brush,—seemingly a doll’s.  The gentleman had got about half a dozen yards of string, a knife, three or four sheets of writing-paper folded up surprising small, a orange, and a Chaney mug with his name upon it.
 
“What may be the exact natur of your plans, sir?” says Cobbs.
 
“To go on,” replied the boy,—which the courage of that boy was something wonderful!—“in the morning, and be married to-morrow.”
 
“Just so, sir,” says Cobbs.  “Would it meet your views, sir, if I was to accompany you?”
 
When Cobbs said this, they both jumped for joy again, and cried out, “Oh, yes, yes, Cobbs!  Yes!”
 
“Well, sir,” says Cobbs.  “If you will excuse my having the freedom to give an opinion, what I should recommend would be this.  I’m acquainted with a pony24, sir, which, put in a pheayton that I could borrow, would take you and Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior, (myself driving, if you approved,) to the end of your journey in a very short space of time.  I am not altogether sure, sir, that this pony will be at liberty to-morrow, but even if you had to wait over to-morrow for him, it might be worth your while.  As to the small account here, sir, in case you was to find yourself running at all short, that don’t signify; because I’m a part proprietor25 of this inn, and it could stand over.”
 
Boots assures me that when they clapped their hands, and jumped for joy again, and called him “Good Cobbs!” and “Dear Cobbs!” and bent26 across him to kiss one another in the delight of their confiding27 hearts, he felt himself the meanest rascal28 for deceiving ’em that ever was born.
 
“Is there anything you want just at present, sir?” says Cobbs, mortally ashamed of himself.
 
“We should like some cakes after dinner,” answered Master Harry, folding his arms, putting out one leg, and looking straight at him, “and two apples,—and jam.  With dinner we should like to have toast-and-water.  But Norah has always been accustomed to half a glass of currant wine at dessert.  And so have I.”
 
“It shall be ordered at the bar, sir,” says Cobbs; and away he went.
 
Boots has the feeling as fresh upon him at this minute of speaking as he had then, that he would far rather have had it out in half-a-dozen rounds with the Governor than have combined with him; and that he wished with all his heart there was any impossible place where those two babies could make an impossible marriage, and live impossibly happy ever afterwards.  However, as it couldn’t be, he went into the Governor’s plans, and the Governor set off for York in half an hour.
 
The way in which the women of that house—without exception—every one of ’em—married and single—took to that boy when they heard the story, Boots considers surprising.  It was as much as he could do to keep ’em from dashing into the room and kissing him.  They climbed up all sorts of places, at the risk of their lives, to look at him through a pane29 of glass.  They was seven deep at the keyhole.  They was out of their minds about him and his bold spirit.
 
In the evening, Boots went into the room to see how the runaway30 couple was getting on.  The gentleman was on the window-seat, supporting the lady in his arms.  She had tears upon her face, and was lying, very tired and half asleep, with her head upon his shoulder.
 
“Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior, fatigued31, sir?” says Cobbs.
 
“Yes, she is tired, Cobbs; but she is not used to be away from home, and she has been in low spirits again.  Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please?”
 
“I ask your pardon, sir,” says Cobbs.  “What was it you—?”
 
“I think a Norfolk biffin would rouse her, Cobbs.  She is very fond of them.”
 
Boots withdrew in search of the required restorative, and when he brought it in, the gentleman handed it to the lady, and fed her with a spoon, and took a little himself; the lady being heavy with sleep, and rather cross.  “What should you think, sir,” says Cobbs, “of a chamber32 candlestick?”  The gentleman approved; the chambermaid went first, up the great staircase; the lady, in her sky-blue mantle, followed, gallantly33 escorted by the gentleman; the gentleman embraced her at her door, and retired34 to his own apartment, where Boots softly locked him up.
 
Boots couldn’t but feel with increased acuteness what a base deceiver he was, when they consulted him at breakfast (they had ordered sweet milk-and-water, and toast and currant jelly, overnight) about the pony.  It really was as much as he could do, he don’t mind confessing to me, to look them two young things in the face, and think what a wicked old father of lies he had grown up to be.  Howsomever, he went on a lying like a Trojan about the pony.  He told ’em that it did so unfortunately happen that the pony was half clipped, you see, and that he couldn’t be taken out in that state, for fear it should strike to his inside.  But that he’d be finished clipping in the course of the day, and that to-morrow morning at eight o’clock the pheayton would be ready.  Boots’s view of the whole case, looking back on it in my room, is, that Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior, was beginning to give in.  She hadn’t had her hair curled when she went to bed, and she didn’t seem quite up to brushing it herself, and its getting in her eyes put her out.  But nothing put out Master Harry.  He sat behind his breakfast-cup, a tearing away at the jelly, as if he had been his own father.
 
After breakfast, Boots is inclined to consider that they drawed soldiers,—at least, he knows that many such was found in the fire-place, all on horseback.  In the course of the morning, Master Harry rang the bell,—it was surprising how that there boy did carry on,—and said, in a sprightly35 way, “Cobbs, is there any good walks in this neighbourhood?”
 
“Yes, sir,” says Cobbs.  “There’s Love Lane.”
 
“Get out with you, Cobbs!”—that was that there boy’s expression,—“you’re joking.”
 
“Begging your pardon, sir,” says Cobbs, “there really is Love Lane.  And a pleasant walk it is, and proud shall I be to show it to yourself and Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior.”
 
“Norah, dear,” said Master Harry, “this is curious.  We really ought to see Love Lane.  Put on your bonnet36, my sweetest darling, and we will go there with Cobbs.”
 
Boots leaves me to judge what a Beast he felt himself to be, when that young pair told him, as they all three jogged along together, that they had made up their minds to give him two thousand guineas a year as head-gardener, on accounts of his being so true a friend to ’em.  Boots could have wished at the moment that the earth would have opened and swallowed him up, he felt so mean, with their beaming eyes a looking at him, and believing him.  Well, sir, he turned the conversation as well as he could, and he took ’em down Love Lane to the water-meadows, and there Master Harry would have drowned himself in half a moment more, a getting out a water-lily for her,—but nothing daunted37 that boy.  Well, sir, they was tired out.  All being so new and strange to ’em, they was tired as tired could be.  And they laid down on a bank of daisies, like the children in the wood, leastways meadows, and fell asleep.
 
Boots don’t know—perhaps I do,—but never mind, it don’t signify either way—why it made a man fit to make a fool of himself to see them two pretty babies a lying there in the clear still sunny day, not dreaming half so hard when they was asleep as they done when they was awake.  But, Lord! when you come to think of yourself, you know, and what a game you have been up to ever since you was in your own cradle, and what a poor sort of a chap you are, and how it’s always either Yesterday with you, or else To-morrow, and never To-day, that’s where it is!
 
Well, sir, they woke up at last, and then one thing was getting pretty clear to Boots, namely, that Mrs. Harry Walmerses, Junior’s, temper was on the move.  When Master Harry took her round the waist, she said he “teased her so;” and when he says, “Norah, my young May Moon, your Harry tease you?” she tells him, “Yes; and I want to go home!”
 
A biled fowl38, and baked bread-and-butter pudding, brought Mrs. Walmers up a little; but Boots could have wished, he must privately39 own to me, to have seen her more sensible of the woice of love, and less abandoning of herself to currants.  However, Master Harry, he kept up, and his noble heart was as fond as ever.  Mrs. Walmers turned very sleepy about dusk, and began to cry.  Therefore, Mrs. Walmers went off to bed as per yesterday; and Master Harry ditto repeated.
 
About eleven or twelve at night comes back the Governor in a chaise, along with Mr. Walmers and a elderly lady.  Mr. Walmers looks amused and very serious, both at once, and says to our missis, “We are much indebted to you, ma’am, for your kind care of our little children, which we can never sufficiently40 acknowledge.  Pray, ma’am, where is my boy?”  Our missis says, “Cobbs has the dear child in charge, sir.  Cobbs, show Forty!”  Then he says to Cobbs, “Ah, Cobbs, I am glad to see you!  I understood you was here!”  And Cobbs says, “Yes, sir.  Your most obedient, sir.”
 
I may be surprised to hear Boots say it, perhaps; but Boots assures me that his heart beat like a hammer, going up-stairs.  “I beg your pardon, sir,” says he, while unlocking the door; “I hope you are not angry with Master Harry.  For Master Harry is a fine boy, sir, and will do you credit and honour.”  And Boots signifies to me, that, if the fine boy’s father had contradicted him in the daring state of mind in which he then was, he thinks he should have “fetched him a crack,” and taken the consequences.
 
But Mr. Walmers only says, “No, Cobbs.  No, my good fellow.  Thank you!”  And, the door being opened, goes in.
 
Boots goes in too, holding the light, and he sees Mr. Walmers go up to the bedside, bend gently down, and kiss the little sleeping face.  Then he stands looking at it for a minute, looking wonderfully like it (they do say he ran away with Mrs. Walmers); and then he gently shakes the little shoulder.
 
“Harry, my dear boy!  Harry!”
 
Master Harry starts up and looks at him.  Looks at Cobbs too.  Such is the honour of that mite7, that he looks at Cobbs, to see whether he has brought him into trouble.
 
“I am not angry, my child.  I only want you to dress yourself and come home.”
 
“Yes, pa.”
 
Master Harry dresses himself quickly.  His breast begins to swell41 when he has nearly finished, and it swells42 more and more as he stands, at last, a looking at his father: his father standing43 a looking at him, the quiet image of him.
 
“Please may I”—the spirit of that little creatur, and the way he kept his rising tears down!—“please, dear pa—may I—kiss Norah before I go?”
 
“You may, my child.”
 
So he takes Master Harry in his hand, and Boots leads the way with the candle, and they come to that other bedroom, where the elderly lady is seated by the bed, and poor little Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior, is fast asleep.  There the father lifts the child up to the pillow, and he lays his little face down for an instant by the little warm face of poor unconscious little Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior, and gently draws it to him,—a sight so touching to the chambermaids who are peeping through the door, that one of them calls out, “It’s a shame to part ’em!”  But this chambermaid was always, as Boots informs me, a soft-hearted one.  Not that there was any harm in that girl.  Far from it.
 
Finally, Boots says, that’s all about it.  Mr. Walmers drove away in the chaise, having hold of Master Harry’s hand.  The elderly lady and Mrs. Harry Walmers, Junior, that was never to be (she married a Captain long afterwards, and died in India), went off next day.  In conclusion, Boots put it to me whether I hold with him in two opinions: firstly, that there are not many couples on their way to be married who are half as innocent of guile44 as those two children; secondly45, that it would be a jolly good thing for a great many couples on their way to be married, if they could only be stopped in time, and brought back separately.

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1 unicorn Ak7wK     
n.(传说中的)独角兽
参考例句:
  • The unicorn is an imaginary beast.独角兽是幻想出来的动物。
  • I believe unicorn was once living in the world.我相信独角兽曾经生活在这个世界。
2 harry heBxS     
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
参考例句:
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
3 uncommon AlPwO     
adj.罕见的,非凡的,不平常的
参考例句:
  • Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.这些看法在30年前很常见。
  • Phil has uncommon intelligence.菲尔智力超群。
4 mowing 2624de577751cbaf6c6d7c6a554512ef     
n.割草,一次收割量,牧草地v.刈,割( mow的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The lawn needs mowing. 这草坪的草该割了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • "Do you use it for mowing?" “你是用它割草么?” 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
5 sweeping ihCzZ4     
adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的
参考例句:
  • The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
  • Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗?
6 pruning 6e4e50e38fdf94b800891c532bf2f5e7     
n.修枝,剪枝,修剪v.修剪(树木等)( prune的现在分词 );精简某事物,除去某事物多余的部分
参考例句:
  • In writing an essay one must do a lot of pruning. 写文章要下一番剪裁的工夫。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • A sapling needs pruning, a child discipline. 小树要砍,小孩要管。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
7 mite 4Epxw     
n.极小的东西;小铜币
参考例句:
  • The poor mite was so ill.可怜的孩子病得这么重。
  • He is a mite taller than I.他比我高一点点。
8 mites d5df57c25d6a534a9cab886a451cde43     
n.(尤指令人怜悯的)小孩( mite的名词复数 );一点点;一文钱;螨
参考例句:
  • The only discovered animals are water bears, mites, microscopic rotifers. 能够发现的动物只有海蜘蛛、螨和微小的轮虫。 来自辞典例句
  • Mites are frequently found on eggs. 螨会经常出现在蛋上。 来自辞典例句
9 gravel s6hyT     
n.砂跞;砂砾层;结石
参考例句:
  • 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。
10 mantle Y7tzs     
n.斗篷,覆罩之物,罩子;v.罩住,覆盖,脸红
参考例句:
  • The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green.大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
  • The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow.山上覆盖着一层雪。
11 rambling MTfxg     
adj.[建]凌乱的,杂乱的
参考例句:
  • We spent the summer rambling in Ireland. 我们花了一个夏天漫游爱尔兰。
  • It was easy to get lost in the rambling house. 在布局凌乱的大房子里容易迷路。
12 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
13 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
14 distraction muOz3l     
n.精神涣散,精神不集中,消遣,娱乐
参考例句:
  • Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注,不能有丝毫分神。
  • Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。
15 spanking OFizF     
adj.强烈的,疾行的;n.打屁股
参考例句:
  • The boat is spanking along on the river.船在小河疾驶。
  • He heard a horse approaching at a spanking trot.他听到一匹马正在疾步驰近。
16 inquiry nbgzF     
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
参考例句:
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
17 salute rYzx4     
vi.行礼,致意,问候,放礼炮;vt.向…致意,迎接,赞扬;n.招呼,敬礼,礼炮
参考例句:
  • Merchant ships salute each other by dipping the flag.商船互相点旗致敬。
  • The Japanese women salute the people with formal bows in welcome.这些日本妇女以正式的鞠躬向人们施礼以示欢迎。
18 sitting-room sitting-room     
n.(BrE)客厅,起居室
参考例句:
  • The sitting-room is clean.起居室很清洁。
  • Each villa has a separate sitting-room.每栋别墅都有一间独立的起居室。
19 brass DWbzI     
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。
20 amazement 7zlzBK     
n.惊奇,惊讶
参考例句:
  • All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
  • He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。
21 ware sh9wZ     
n.(常用复数)商品,货物
参考例句:
  • The shop sells a great variety of porcelain ware.这家店铺出售品种繁多的瓷器。
  • Good ware will never want a chapman.好货不须叫卖。
22 catching cwVztY     
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
参考例句:
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
23 peppermint slNzxg     
n.薄荷,薄荷油,薄荷糖
参考例句:
  • Peppermint oil is very good for regulating digestive disorders.薄荷油能很有效地调节消化系统失调。
  • He sat down,popped in a peppermint and promptly choked to death.他坐下来,突然往嘴里放了一颗薄荷糖,当即被噎死。
24 pony Au5yJ     
adj.小型的;n.小马
参考例句:
  • His father gave him a pony as a Christmas present.他父亲给了他一匹小马驹作为圣诞礼物。
  • They made him pony up the money he owed.他们逼他还债。
25 proprietor zR2x5     
n.所有人;业主;经营者
参考例句:
  • The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his.业主是他的一位旧相识。
  • The proprietor of the corner grocery was a strange thing in my life.拐角杂货店店主是我生活中的一个怪物。
26 bent QQ8yD     
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。
27 confiding e67d6a06e1cdfe51bc27946689f784d1     
adj.相信人的,易于相信的v.吐露(秘密,心事等)( confide的现在分词 );(向某人)吐露(隐私、秘密等)
参考例句:
  • The girl is of a confiding nature. 这女孩具有轻信别人的性格。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Celia, though confiding her opinion only to Andrew, disagreed. 西莉亚却不这么看,尽管她只向安德鲁吐露过。 来自辞典例句
28 rascal mAIzd     
n.流氓;不诚实的人
参考例句:
  • If he had done otherwise,I should have thought him a rascal.如果他不这样做,我就认为他是个恶棍。
  • The rascal was frightened into holding his tongue.这坏蛋吓得不敢往下说了。
29 pane OKKxJ     
n.窗格玻璃,长方块
参考例句:
  • He broke this pane of glass.他打破了这块窗玻璃。
  • Their breath bloomed the frosty pane.他们呼出的水气,在冰冷的窗玻璃上形成一层雾。
30 runaway jD4y5     
n.逃走的人,逃亡,亡命者;adj.逃亡的,逃走的
参考例句:
  • The police have not found the runaway to date.警察迄今没抓到逃犯。
  • He was praised for bringing up the runaway horse.他勒住了脱缰之马受到了表扬。
31 fatigued fatigued     
adj. 疲乏的
参考例句:
  • The exercises fatigued her. 操练使她感到很疲乏。
  • The President smiled, with fatigued tolerance for a minor person's naivety. 总统笑了笑,疲惫地表现出对一个下级人员的天真想法的宽容。
32 chamber wnky9     
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
参考例句:
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
33 gallantly gallantly     
adv. 漂亮地,勇敢地,献殷勤地
参考例句:
  • He gallantly offered to carry her cases to the car. 他殷勤地要帮她把箱子拎到车子里去。
  • The new fighters behave gallantly under fire. 新战士在炮火下表现得很勇敢。
34 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。
35 sprightly 4GQzv     
adj.愉快的,活泼的
参考例句:
  • She is as sprightly as a woman half her age.她跟比她年轻一半的妇女一样活泼。
  • He's surprisingly sprightly for an old man.他这把年纪了,还这么精神,真了不起。
36 bonnet AtSzQ     
n.无边女帽;童帽
参考例句:
  • The baby's bonnet keeps the sun out of her eyes.婴孩的帽子遮住阳光,使之不刺眼。
  • She wore a faded black bonnet garnished with faded artificial flowers.她戴着一顶褪了色的黑色无边帽,帽上缀着褪了色的假花。
37 daunted 7ffb5e5ffb0aa17a7b2333d90b452257     
使(某人)气馁,威吓( daunt的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead. 她是一个勇敢的女人,但对面前的任务却感到信心不足。
  • He was daunted by the high quality of work they expected. 他被他们对工作的高品质的要求吓倒了。
38 fowl fljy6     
n.家禽,鸡,禽肉
参考例句:
  • Fowl is not part of a traditional brunch.禽肉不是传统的早午餐的一部分。
  • Since my heart attack,I've eaten more fish and fowl and less red meat.自从我患了心脏病后,我就多吃鱼肉和禽肉,少吃红色肉类。
39 privately IkpzwT     
adv.以私人的身份,悄悄地,私下地
参考例句:
  • Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
  • The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
40 sufficiently 0htzMB     
adv.足够地,充分地
参考例句:
  • It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
  • The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。
41 swell IHnzB     
vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强
参考例句:
  • The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
  • His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。
42 swells e5cc2e057ee1aff52e79fb6af45c685d     
增强( swell的第三人称单数 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情)
参考例句:
  • The waters were heaving up in great swells. 河水正在急剧上升。
  • A barrel swells in the middle. 水桶中部隆起。
43 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。
44 guile olNyJ     
n.诈术
参考例句:
  • He is full of guile.他非常狡诈。
  • A swindler uses guile;a robber uses force.骗子用诈术;强盗用武力。
45 secondly cjazXx     
adv.第二,其次
参考例句:
  • Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二,动脑筋提出自己的见解。
  • Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次,需要确定所作用的载荷。


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