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CHAPTER IV
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 Why Harris considers alarm clocks unnecessary in a family—Social instinct of the young—A child’s thoughts about the morning—The sleepless1 watchman—The mystery of him—His over anxiety—Night thoughts—The sort of work one does before breakfast—The good sheep and the bad—Disadvantages of being virtuous2—Harris’s new stove begins badly—The daily out-going of my Uncle Podger—The elderly city man considered as a racer—We arrive in London—We talk the language of the traveller.
 
George came down on Tuesday evening, and slept at Harris’s place.  We thought this a better arrangement than his own suggestion, which was that we should call for him on our way and “pick him up.”  Picking George up in the morning means picking him out of bed to begin with, and shaking him awake—in itself an exhausting effort with which to commence the day; helping3 him find his things and finish his packing; and then waiting for him while he eats his breakfast, a tedious entertainment from the spectator’s point of view, full of wearisome repetition.
 
I knew that if he slept at “Beggarbush” he would be up in time; I have slept there myself, and I know what happens.  About the middle of the night, as you judge, though in reality it may be somewhat later, you are startled out of your first sleep by what sounds like a rush of cavalry4 along the passage, just outside your door.  Your half-awakened intelligence fluctuates between burglars, the Day of Judgment5, and a gas explosion.  You sit up in bed and listen intently.  You are not kept waiting long; the next moment a door is violently slammed, and somebody, or something, is evidently coming downstairs on a tea-tray.
 
“I told you so,” says a voice outside, and immediately some hard substance, a head one would say from the ring of it, rebounds7 against the panel of your door.
 
By this time you are charging madly round the room for your clothes.  Nothing is where you put it overnight, the articles most essential have disappeared entirely8; and meanwhile the murder, or revolution, or whatever it is, continues unchecked.  You pause for a moment, with your head under the wardrobe, where you think you can see your slippers9, to listen to a steady, monotonous10 thumping11 upon a distant door.  The victim, you presume, has taken refuge there; they mean to have him out and finish him.  Will you be in time?  The knocking ceases, and a voice, sweetly reassuring12 in its gentle plaintiveness13, asks meekly14:
 
“Pa, may I get up?”
 
You do not hear the other voice, but the responses are:
 
“No, it was only the bath—no, she ain’t really hurt,—only wet, you know.  Yes, ma, I’ll tell ’em what you say.  No, it was a pure accident.  Yes; good-night, papa.”
 
Then the same voice, exerting itself so as to be heard in a distant part of the house, remarks:
 
“You’ve got to come upstairs again.  Pa says it isn’t time yet to get up.”
 
You return to bed, and lie listening to somebody being dragged upstairs, evidently against their will.  By a thoughtful arrangement the spare rooms at “Beggarbush” are exactly underneath15 the nurseries.  The same somebody, you conclude, still offering the most creditable opposition16, is being put back into bed.  You can follow the contest with much exactitude, because every time the body is flung down upon the spring mattress17, the bedstead, just above your head, makes a sort of jump; while every time the body succeeds in struggling out again, you are aware by the thud upon the floor.  After a time the struggle wanes18, or maybe the bed collapses19; and you drift back into sleep.  But the next moment, or what seems to be the next moment, you again open your eyes under the consciousness of a presence.  The door is being held ajar, and four solemn faces, piled one on top of the other, are peering at you, as though you were some natural curiosity kept in this particular room.  Seeing you awake, the top face, walking calmly over the other three, comes in and sits on the bed in a friendly attitude.
 
“Oh!” it says, “we didn’t know you were awake.  I’ve been awake some time.”
 
“So I gather,” you reply, shortly.
 
“Pa doesn’t like us to get up too early,” it continues.  “He says everybody else in the house is liable to be disturbed if we get up.  So, of course, we mustn’t.”
 
The tone is that of gentle resignation.  It is instinct with the spirit of virtuous pride, arising from the consciousness of self-sacrifice.
 
“Don’t you call this being up?” you suggest.
 
“Oh, no; we’re not really up, you know, because we’re not properly dressed.”  The fact is self-evident.  “Pa’s always very tired in the morning,” the voice continues; “of course, that’s because he works hard all day.  Are you ever tired in the morning?”
 
At this point he turns and notices, for the first time, that the three other children have also entered, and are sitting in a semi-circle on the floor.  From their attitude it is clear they have mistaken the whole thing for one of the slower forms of entertainment, some comic lecture or conjuring20 exhibition, and are waiting patiently for you to get out of bed and do something.  It shocks him, the idea of their being in the guest’s bedchamber.  He peremptorily21 orders them out.  They do not answer him, they do not argue; in dead silence, and with one accord they fall upon him.  All you can see from the bed is a confused tangle22 of waving arms and legs, suggestive of an intoxicated23 octopus24 trying to find bottom.  Not a word is spoken; that seems to be the etiquette26 of the thing.  If you are sleeping in your pyjamas27, you spring from the bed, and only add to the confusion; if you are wearing a less showy garment, you stop where you are and shout commands, which are utterly28 unheeded.  The simplest plan is to leave it to the eldest29 boy.  He does get them out after a while, and closes the door upon them.  It re-opens immediately, and one, generally Muriel, is shot back into the room.  She enters as from a catapult.  She is handicapped by having long hair, which can be used as a convenient handle.  Evidently aware of this natural disadvantage, she clutches it herself tightly in one hand, and punches with the other.  He opens the door again, and cleverly uses her as a battering-ram against the wall of those without.  You can hear the dull crash as her head enters among them, and scatters31 them.  When the victory is complete, he comes back and resumes his seat on the bed.  There is no bitterness about him; he has forgotten the whole incident.
 
“I like the morning,” he says, “don’t you?”
 
“Some mornings,” you agree, “are all right; others are not so peaceful.”
 
He takes no notice of your exception; a far-away look steals over his somewhat ethereal face.
 
“I should like to die in the morning,” he says; “everything is so beautiful then.”
 
“Well,” you answer, “perhaps you will, if your father ever invites an irritable32 man to come and sleep here, and doesn’t warn him beforehand.”
 
He descends33 from his contemplative mood, and becomes himself again.
 
“It’s jolly in the garden,” he suggests; “you wouldn’t like to get up and have a game of cricket, would you?”
 
It was not the idea with which you went to bed, but now, as things have turned out, it seems as good a plan as lying there hopelessly awake; and you agree.
 
You learn, later in the day, that the explanation of the proceeding34 is that you, unable to sleep, woke up early in the morning, and thought you would like a game of cricket.  The children, taught to be ever courteous35 to guests, felt it their duty to humour you.  Mrs. Harris remarks at breakfast that at least you might have seen to it that the children were properly dressed before you took them out; while Harris points out to you, pathetically, how, by your one morning’s example and encouragement, you have undone36 his labour of months.
 
On this Wednesday morning, George, it seems, clamoured to get up at a quarter-past five, and persuaded them to let him teach them cycling tricks round the cucumber frames on Harris’s new wheel.  Even Mrs. Harris, however, did not blame George on this occasion; she felt intuitively the idea could not have been entirely his.
 
It is not that the Harris children have the faintest notion of avoiding blame at the expense of a friend and comrade.  One and all they are honesty itself in accepting responsibility for their own misdeeds.  It simply is, that is how the thing presents itself to their understanding.  When you explain to them that you had no original intention of getting up at five o’clock in the morning to play cricket on the croquet lawn, or to mimic38 the history of the early Church by shooting with a cross-bow at dolls tied to a tree; that as a matter of fact, left to your own initiative, you would have slept peacefully till roused in Christian39 fashion with a cup of tea at eight, they are firstly astonished, secondly40 apologetic, and thirdly sincerely contrite41.  In the present instance, waiving42 the purely43 academic question whether the awakening44 of George at a little before five was due to natural instinct on his part, or to the accidental passing of a home-made boomerang through his bedroom window, the dear children frankly45 admitted that the blame for his uprising was their own.  As the eldest boy said:
 
“We ought to have remembered that Uncle George had a long day, before him, and we ought to have dissuaded46 him from getting up.  I blame myself entirely.”
 
But an occasional change of habit does nobody any harm; and besides, as Harris and I agreed, it was good training for George.  In the Black Forest we should be up at five every morning; that we had determined47 on.  Indeed, George himself had suggested half-past four, but Harris and I had argued that five would be early enough as an average; that would enable us to be on our machines by six, and to break the back of our journey before the heat of the day set in.  Occasionally we might start a little earlier, but not as a habit.
 
I myself was up that morning at five.  This was earlier than I had intended.  I had said to myself on going to sleep, “Six o’clock, sharp!”
 
There are men I know who can wake themselves at any time to the minute.  They say to themselves literally48, as they lay their heads upon the pillow, “Four-thirty,” “Four-forty-five,” or “Five-fifteen,” as the case may be; and as the clock strikes they open their eyes.  It is very wonderful this; the more one dwells upon it, the greater the mystery grows.  Some Ego49 within us, acting50 quite independently of our conscious self, must be capable of counting the hours while we sleep.  Unaided by clock or sun, or any other medium known to our five senses, it keeps watch through the darkness.  At the exact moment it whispers “Time!” and we awake.  The work of an old riverside fellow I once talked with called him to be out of bed each morning half an hour before high tide.  He told me that never once had he overslept himself by a minute.  Latterly, he never even troubled to work out the tide for himself.  He would lie down tired, and sleep a dreamless sleep, and each morning at a different hour this ghostly watchman, true as the tide itself, would silently call him.  Did the man’s spirit haunt through the darkness the muddy river stairs; or had it knowledge of the ways of Nature?  Whatever the process, the man himself was unconscious of it.
 
In my own case my inward watchman is, perhaps, somewhat out of practice.  He does his best; but he is over-anxious; he worries himself, and loses count.  I say to him, maybe, “Five-thirty, please;” and he wakes me with a start at half-past two.  I look at my watch.  He suggests that, perhaps, I forgot to wind it up.  I put it to my ear; it is still going.  He thinks, maybe, something has happened to it; he is confident himself it is half-past five, if not a little later.  To satisfy him, I put on a pair of slippers and go downstairs to inspect the dining-room clock.  What happens to a man when he wanders about the house in the middle of the night, clad in a dressing-gown and a pair of slippers, there is no need to recount; most men know by experience.  Everything—especially everything with a sharp corner—takes a cowardly delight in hitting him.  When you are wearing a pair of stout51 boots, things get out of your way; when you venture among furniture in woolwork slippers and no socks, it comes at you and kicks you.  I return to bed bad tempered, and refusing to listen to his further absurd suggestion that all the clocks in the house have entered into a conspiracy52 against me, take half an hour to get to sleep again.  From four to five he wakes me every ten minutes.  I wish I had never said a word to him about the thing.  At five o’clock he goes to sleep himself, worn out, and leaves it to the girl, who does it half an hour later than usual.
 
On this particular Wednesday he worried me to such an extent, that I got up at five simply to be rid of him.  I did not know what to do with myself.  Our train did not leave till eight; all our luggage had been packed and sent on the night before, together with the bicycles, to Fenchurch Street Station.  I went into my study; I thought I would put in an hour’s writing.  The early morning, before one has breakfasted, is not, I take it, a good season for literary effort.  I wrote three paragraphs of a story, and then read them over to myself.  Some unkind things have been said about my work; but nothing has yet been written which would have done justice to those three paragraphs.  I threw them into the waste-paper basket, and sat trying to remember what, if any, charitable institutions provided pensions for decayed authors.
 
To escape from this train of reflection, I put a golf-ball in my pocket, and selecting a driver, strolled out into the paddock.  A couple of sheep were browsing53 there, and they followed and took a keen interest in my practice.  The one was a kindly54, sympathetic old party.  I do not think she understood the game; I think it was my doing this innocent thing so early in the morning that appealed to her.  At every stroke I made she bleated55:
 
“Go-o-o-d, go-o-o-d ind-e-e-d!”
 
She seemed as pleased as if she had done it herself.
 
As for the other one, she was a cantankerous56, disagreeable old thing, as discouraging to me as her friend was helpful.
 
“Ba-a-ad, da-a-a-m ba-a-a-d!” was her comment on almost every stroke.  As a matter of fact, some were really excellent strokes; but she did it just to be contradictory57, and for the sake of irritating.  I could see that.
 
By a most regrettable accident, one of my swiftest balls struck the good sheep on the nose.  And at that the bad sheep laughed—laughed distinctly and undoubtedly58, a husky, vulgar laugh; and, while her friend stood glued to the ground, too astonished to move, she changed her note for the first time and bleated:
 
“Go-o-o-d, ve-e-ry go-o-o-d!  Be-e-e-est sho-o-o-ot he-e-e’s ma-a-a-de!”
 
I would have given half-a-crown if it had been she I had hit instead of the other one.  It is ever the good and amiable59 who suffer in this world.
 
I had wasted more time than I had intended in the paddock, and when Ethelbertha came to tell me it was half-past seven, and the breakfast was on the table, I remembered that I had not shaved.  It vexes60 Ethelbertha my shaving quickly.  She fears that to outsiders it may suggest a poor-spirited attempt at suicide, and that in consequence it may get about the neighbourhood that we are not happy together.  As a further argument, she has also hinted that my appearance is not of the kind that can be trifled with.
 
On the whole, I was just as glad not to be able to take a long farewell of Ethelbertha; I did not want to risk her breaking down.  But I should have liked more opportunity to say a few farewell words of advice to the children, especially as regards my fishing rod, which they will persist in using for cricket stumps61; and I hate having to run for a train.  Quarter of a mile from the station I overtook George and Harris; they were also running.  In their case—so Harris informed me, jerkily, while we trotted62 side by side—it was the new kitchen stove that was to blame.  This was the first morning they had tried it, and from some cause or other it had blown up the kidneys and scalded the cook.  He said he hoped that by the time we returned they would have got more used to it.
 
We caught the train by the skin of our teeth, as the saying is, and reflecting upon the events of the morning, as we sat gasping63 in the carriage, there passed vividly64 before my mind the panorama65 of my Uncle Podger, as on two hundred and fifty days in the year he would start from Ealing Common by the nine-thirteen train to Moorgate Street.
 
From my Uncle Podger’s house to the railway station was eight minutes’ walk.  What my uncle always said was:
 
“Allow yourself a quarter of an hour, and take it easily.”
 
What he always did was to start five minutes before the time and run.  I do not know why, but this was the custom of the suburb.  Many stout City gentlemen lived at Ealing in those days—I believe some live there still—and caught early trains to Town.  They all started late; they all carried a black bag and a newspaper in one hand, and an umbrella in the other; and for the last quarter of a mile to the station, wet or fine, they all ran.
 
Folks with nothing else to do, nursemaids chiefly and errand boys, with now and then a perambulating costermonger added, would gather on the common of a fine morning to watch them pass, and cheer the most deserving.  It was not a showy spectacle.  They did not run well, they did not even run fast; but they were earnest, and they did their best.  The exhibition appealed less to one’s sense of art than to one’s natural admiration66 for conscientious67 effort.
 
Occasionally a little harmless betting would take place among the crowd.
 
“Two to one agin the old gent in the white weskit!”
 
“Ten to one on old Blowpipes, bar he don’t roll over hisself ’fore ’e gets there!”
 
“Heven money on the Purple Hemperor!”—a nickname bestowed68 by a youth of entomological tastes upon a certain retired69 military neighbour of my uncle’s,—a gentleman of imposing70 appearance when stationary71, but apt to colour highly under exercise.
 
My uncle and the others would write to the Ealing Press complaining bitterly concerning the supineness of the local police; and the editor would add spirited leaders upon the Decay of Courtesy among the Lower Orders, especially throughout the Western Suburbs.  But no good ever resulted.
 
It was not that my uncle did not rise early enough; it was that troubles came to him at the last moment.  The first thing he would do after breakfast would be to lose his newspaper.  We always knew when Uncle Podger had lost anything, by the expression of astonished indignation with which, on such occasions, he would regard the world in general.  It never occurred to my Uncle Podger to say to himself:
 
“I am a careless old man.  I lose everything: I never know where I have put anything.  I am quite incapable72 of finding it again for myself.  In this respect I must be a perfect nuisance to everybody about me.  I must set to work and reform myself.”
 
On the contrary, by some peculiar73 course of reasoning, he had convinced himself that whenever he lost a thing it was everybody else’s fault in the house but his own.
 
“I had it in my hand here not a minute ago!” he would exclaim.
 
From his tone you would have thought he was living surrounded by conjurers, who spirited away things from him merely to irritate him.
 
“Could you have left it in the garden?” my aunt would suggest.
 
“What should I want to leave it in the garden for?  I don’t want a paper in the garden; I want the paper in the train with me.”
 
“You haven’t put it in your pocket?”
 
“God bless the woman!  Do you think I should be standing37 here at five minutes to nine looking for it if I had it in my pocket all the while?  Do you think I’m a fool?”
 
Here somebody would explain, “What’s this?” and hand him from somewhere a paper neatly74 folded.
 
“I do wish people would leave my things alone,” he would growl75, snatching at it savagely76.
 
He would open his bag to put it in, and then glancing at it, he would pause, speechless with sense of injury.
 
“What’s the matter?” aunt would ask.
 
“The day before yesterday’s!” he would answer, too hurt even to shout, throwing the paper down upon the table.
 
If only sometimes it had been yesterday’s it would have been a change.  But it was always the day before yesterday’s; except on Tuesday; then it would be Saturday’s.
 
We would find it for him eventually; as often as not he was sitting on it.  And then he would smile, not genially77, but with the weariness that comes to a man who feels that fate has cast his lot among a band of hopeless idiots.
 
“All the time, right in front of your noses—!”  He would not finish the sentence; he prided himself on his self-control.
 
This settled, he would start for the hall, where it was the custom of my Aunt Maria to have the children gathered, ready to say good-bye to him.
 
My aunt never left the house herself, if only to make a call next door, without taking a tender farewell of every inmate79.  One never knew, she would say, what might happen.
 
One of them, of course, was sure to be missing, and the moment this was noticed all the other six, without an instant’s hesitation80, would scatter30 with a whoop81 to find it.  Immediately they were gone it would turn up by itself from somewhere quite near, always with the most reasonable explanation for its absence; and would at once start off after the others to explain to them that it was found.  In this way, five minutes at least would be taken up in everybody’s looking for everybody else, which was just sufficient time to allow my uncle to find his umbrella and lose his hat.  Then, at last, the group reassembled in the hall, the drawing-room clock would commence to strike nine.  It possessed82 a cold, penetrating83 chime that always had the effect of confusing my uncle.  In his excitement he would kiss some of the children twice over, pass by others, forget whom he had kissed and whom he hadn’t, and have to begin all over again.  He used to say he believed they mixed themselves up on purpose, and I am not prepared to maintain that the charge was altogether false.  To add to his troubles, one child always had a sticky face; and that child would always be the most affectionate.
 
If things were going too smoothly84, the eldest boy would come out with some tale about all the clocks in the house being five minutes slow, and of his having been late for school the previous day in consequence.  This would send my uncle rushing impetuously down to the gate, where he would recollect85 that he had with him neither his bag nor his umbrella.  All the children that my aunt could not stop would charge after him, two of them struggling for the umbrella, the others surging round the bag.  And when they returned we would discover on the hall table the most important thing of all that he had forgotten, and wondered what he would say about it when he came home.
 
We arrived at Waterloo a little after nine, and at once proceeded to put George’s experiment into operation.  Opening the book at the chapter entitled “At the Cab Rank,” we walked up to a hansom, raised our hats, and wished the driver “Good-morning.”
 
This man was not to be outdone in politeness by any foreigner, real or imitation.  Calling to a friend named “Charles” to “hold the steed,” he sprang from his box, and returned to us a bow, that would have done credit to Mr. Turveydrop himself.  Speaking apparently86 in the name of the nation, he welcomed us to England, adding a regret that Her Majesty87 was not at the moment in London.
 
We could not reply to him in kind.  Nothing of this sort had been anticipated by the book.  We called him “coachman,” at which he again bowed to the pavement, and asked him if he would have the goodness to drive us to the Westminster Bridge road.
 
He laid his hand upon his heart, and said the pleasure would be his.
 
Taking the third sentence in the chapter, George asked him what his fare would be.
 
The question, as introducing a sordid88 element into the conversation, seemed to hurt his feelings.  He said he never took money from distinguished89 strangers; he suggested a souvenir—a diamond scarf pin, a gold snuffbox, some little trifle of that sort by which he could remember us.
 
As a small crowd had collected, and as the joke was drifting rather too far in the cabman’s direction, we climbed in without further parley90, and were driven away amid cheers.  We stopped the cab at a boot shop a little past Astley’s Theatre that looked the sort of place we wanted.  It was one of those overfed shops that the moment their shutters91 are taken down in the morning disgorge their goods all round them.  Boxes of boots stood piled on the pavement or in the gutter92 opposite.  Boots hung in festoons about its doors and windows.  Its sun-blind was as some grimy vine, bearing bunches of black and brown boots.  Inside, the shop was a bower93 of boots.  The man, when we entered, was busy with a chisel94 and hammer opening a new crate95 full of boots.
 
George raised his hat, and said “Good-morning.”
 
The man did not even turn round.  He struck me from the first as a disagreeable man.  He grunted96 something which might have been “Good-morning,” or might not, and went on with his work.
 
George said: “I have been recommended to your shop by my friend, Mr. X.”
 
In response, the man should have said: “Mr. X. is a most worthy97 gentleman; it will give me the greatest pleasure to serve any friend of his.”
 
What he did say was: “Don’t know him; never heard of him.”
 
This was disconcerting.  The book gave three or four methods of buying boots; George had carefully selected the one centred round “Mr. X,” as being of all the most courtly.  You talked a good deal with the shopkeeper about this “Mr. X,” and then, when by this means friendship and understanding had been established, you slid naturally and gracefully98 into the immediate6 object of your coming, namely, your desire for boots, “cheap and good.”  This gross, material man cared, apparently, nothing for the niceties of retail99 dealing100.  It was necessary with such an one to come to business with brutal101 directness.  George abandoned “Mr. X,” and turning back to a previous page, took a sentence at random102.  It was not a happy selection; it was a speech that would have been superfluous103 made to any bootmaker.  Under the present circumstances, threatened and stifled104 as we were on every side by boots, it possessed the dignity of positive imbecility.  It ran:—“One has told me that you have here boots for sale.”
 
For the first time the man put down his hammer and chisel, and looked at us.  He spoke25 slowly, in a thick and husky voice.  He said:
 
“What d’ye think I keep boots for—to smell ’em?”
 
He was one of those men that begin quietly and grow more angry as they proceed, their wrongs apparently working within them like yeast105.
 
“What d’ye think I am,” he continued, “a boot collector?  What d’ye think I’m running this shop for—my health?  D’ye think I love the boots, and can’t bear to part with a pair?  D’ye think I hang ’em about here to look at ’em?  Ain’t there enough of ’em?  Where d’ye think you are—in an international exhibition of boots?  What d’ye think these boots are—a historical collection?  Did you ever hear of a man keeping a boot shop and not selling boots?  D’ye think I decorate the shop with ’em to make it look pretty?  What d’ye take me for—a prize idiot?”
 
I have always maintained that these conversation books are never of any real use.  What we wanted was some English equivalent for the well-known German idiom: “Behalten Sie Ihr Haar auf.”
 
Nothing of the sort was to be found in the book from beginning to end.  However, I will do George the credit to admit he chose the very best sentence that was to be found therein and applied106 it.  He said:.
 
“I will come again, when, perhaps, you will have some more boots to show me.  Till then, adieu!”
 
With that we returned to our cab and drove away, leaving the man standing in the centre of his boot-bedecked doorway107 addressing remarks to us.  What he said, I did not hear, but the passers-by appeared to find it interesting.
 
George was for stopping at another boot shop and trying the experiment afresh; he said he really did want a pair of bedroom slippers.  But we persuaded him to postpone108 their purchase until our arrival in some foreign city, where the tradespeople are no doubt more inured109 to this sort of talk, or else more naturally amiable.  On the subject of the hat, however, he was adamant110.  He maintained that without that he could not travel, and, accordingly, we pulled up at a small shop in the Blackfriars Road.
 
The proprietor111 of this shop was a cheery, bright-eyed little man, and he helped us rather than hindered us.
 
When George asked him in the words of the book, “Have you any hats?” he did not get angry; he just stopped and thoughtfully scratched his chin.
 
“Hats,” said he.  “Let me think.  Yes”—here a smile of positive pleasure broke over his genial78 countenance112—“yes, now I come to think of it, I believe I have a hat.  But, tell me, why do you ask me?”
 
George explained to him that he wished to purchase a cap, a travelling cap, but the essence of the transaction was that it was to be a “good cap.”
 
The man’s face fell.
 
“Ah,” he remarked, “there, I am afraid, you have me.  Now, if you had wanted a bad cap, not worth the price asked for it; a cap good for nothing but to clean windows with, I could have found you the very thing.  But a good cap—no; we don’t keep them.  But wait a minute,” he continued,—on seeing the disappointment that spread over George’s expressive113 countenance, “don’t be in a hurry.  I have a cap here”—he went to a drawer and opened it—“it is not a good cap, but it is not so bad as most of the caps I sell.”
 
He brought it forward, extended on his palm.
 
“What do you think of that?” he asked.  “Could you put up with that?”
 
George fitted it on before the glass, and, choosing another remark from the book, said:
 
“This hat fits me sufficiently114 well, but, tell me, do you consider that it becomes me?”
 
The man stepped back and took a bird’s-eye view.
 
“Candidly,” he replied, “I can’t say that it does.”
 
He turned from George, and addressed himself to Harris and myself.
 
“Your friend’s beauty,” said he, “I should describe as elusive115.  It is there, but you can easily miss it.  Now, in that cap, to my mind, you do miss it.”
 
At that point it occurred to George that he had had sufficient fun with this particular man.  He said:
 
“That is all right.  We don’t want to lose the train.  How much?”
 
Answered the man: “The price of that cap, sir, which, in my opinion, is twice as much as it is worth, is four-and-six.  Would you like it wrapped up in brown paper, sir, or in white?”
 
George said he would take it as it was, paid the man four-and-six in-silver, and went out.  Harris and I followed.
 
At Fenchurch Street we compromised with our cabman for five shillings.  He made us another courtly bow, and begged us to remember him to the Emperor of Austria.
 
Comparing views in the train, we agreed that we had lost the game by two points to one; and George, who was evidently disappointed, threw the book out of window.
 
We found our luggage and the bicycles safe on the boat, and with the tide at twelve dropped down the river.

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1 sleepless oiBzGN     
adj.不睡眠的,睡不著的,不休息的
参考例句:
  • The situation gave her many sleepless nights.这种情况害她一连好多天睡不好觉。
  • One evening I heard a tale that rendered me sleepless for nights.一天晚上,我听说了一个传闻,把我搞得一连几夜都不能入睡。
2 virtuous upCyI     
adj.有品德的,善良的,贞洁的,有效力的
参考例句:
  • She was such a virtuous woman that everybody respected her.她是个有道德的女性,人人都尊敬她。
  • My uncle is always proud of having a virtuous wife.叔叔一直为娶到一位贤德的妻子而骄傲。
3 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
4 cavalry Yr3zb     
n.骑兵;轻装甲部队
参考例句:
  • We were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 我们翼侧受到一队骑兵的袭击。
  • The enemy cavalry rode our men down. 敌人的骑兵撞倒了我们的人。
5 judgment e3xxC     
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
参考例句:
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
6 immediate aapxh     
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
参考例句:
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
7 rebounds 87b0c2d1da6e752183ab26d425c5acd4     
反弹球( rebound的名词复数 ); 回弹球; 抢断篮板球; 复兴
参考例句:
  • V is the velocity after the gas particle rebounds from the wall. V是粒子从壁上弹开后的速度。
  • In the former case, the first body rebounds with practically its original velocity. 在前一种情况下,第一个物体实际上以原来的速度弹回。
8 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。
9 slippers oiPzHV     
n. 拖鞋
参考例句:
  • a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋
  • He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋,倒在床上。
10 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。
11 thumping hgUzBs     
adj.重大的,巨大的;重击的;尺码大的;极好的adv.极端地;非常地v.重击(thump的现在分词);狠打;怦怦地跳;全力支持
参考例句:
  • Her heart was thumping with emotion. 她激动得心怦怦直跳。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He was thumping the keys of the piano. 他用力弹钢琴。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
12 reassuring vkbzHi     
a.使人消除恐惧和疑虑的,使人放心的
参考例句:
  • He gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 他轻拍了一下她的肩膀让她放心。
  • With a reassuring pat on her arm, he left. 他鼓励地拍了拍她的手臂就离开了。
13 plaintiveness 2f082cf85fb4c75b1e66d29140109ebe     
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14 meekly meekly     
adv.温顺地,逆来顺受地
参考例句:
  • He stood aside meekly when the new policy was proposed. 当有人提出新政策时,他唯唯诺诺地站 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He meekly accepted the rebuke. 他顺从地接受了批评。 来自《简明英汉词典》
15 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
参考例句:
  • 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。
16 opposition eIUxU     
n.反对,敌对
参考例句:
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
17 mattress Z7wzi     
n.床垫,床褥
参考例句:
  • The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
  • The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。
18 wanes 2dede4a31d9b2bb3281301f6e37d3968     
v.衰落( wane的第三人称单数 );(月)亏;变小;变暗淡
参考例句:
  • The moon waxes till it becomes full, and then wanes. 月亮渐盈,直到正圆,然后消亏。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The moon waxes and wanes every month. 月亮每个月都有圆缺。 来自《简明英汉词典》
19 collapses 9efa410d233b4045491e3d6f683e12ed     
折叠( collapse的第三人称单数 ); 倒塌; 崩溃; (尤指工作劳累后)坐下
参考例句:
  • This bridge table collapses. 这张桥牌桌子能折叠。
  • Once Russia collapses, the last chance to stop Hitler will be gone. 一旦俄国垮台,抑止希特勒的最后机会就没有了。
20 conjuring IYdyC     
n.魔术
参考例句:
  • Paul's very good at conjuring. 保罗很会变戏法。
  • The entertainer didn't fool us with his conjuring. 那个艺人变的戏法没有骗到我们。
21 peremptorily dbf9fb7e6236647e2b3396fe01f8d47a     
adv.紧急地,不容分说地,专横地
参考例句:
  • She peremptorily rejected the request. 她断然拒绝了请求。
  • Their propaganda was peremptorily switched to an anti-Western line. 他们的宣传断然地转而持反对西方的路线。 来自辞典例句
22 tangle yIQzn     
n.纠缠;缠结;混乱;v.(使)缠绕;变乱
参考例句:
  • I shouldn't tangle with Peter.He is bigger than me.我不应该与彼特吵架。他的块头比我大。
  • If I were you, I wouldn't tangle with them.我要是你,我就不跟他们争吵。
23 intoxicated 350bfb35af86e3867ed55bb2af85135f     
喝醉的,极其兴奋的
参考例句:
  • She was intoxicated with success. 她为成功所陶醉。
  • They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented. 他们酩酊大醉,东南西北全然不辨。
24 octopus f5EzQ     
n.章鱼
参考例句:
  • He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
  • One octopus has eight tentacles.一条章鱼有八根触角。
25 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。
26 etiquette Xiyz0     
n.礼仪,礼节;规矩
参考例句:
  • The rules of etiquette are not so strict nowadays.如今的礼仪规则已不那么严格了。
  • According to etiquette,you should stand up to meet a guest.按照礼节你应该站起来接待客人。
27 pyjamas 5SSx4     
n.(宽大的)睡衣裤
参考例句:
  • This pyjamas has many repairs.这件睡衣有许多修补过的地方。
  • Martin was in his pyjamas.马丁穿着睡衣。
28 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。
29 eldest bqkx6     
adj.最年长的,最年老的
参考例句:
  • The King's eldest son is the heir to the throne.国王的长子是王位的继承人。
  • The castle and the land are entailed on the eldest son.城堡和土地限定由长子继承。
30 scatter uDwzt     
vt.撒,驱散,散开;散布/播;vi.分散,消散
参考例句:
  • You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。
  • Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。
31 scatters 803ecee4ca49a54ca72e41929dab799f     
v.(使)散开, (使)分散,驱散( scatter的第三人称单数 );撒
参考例句:
  • He scatters money about as if he were rich. 他四处挥霍,好像很有钱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Truth raises against itself the storm that scatters its seeds broadcast. 真理引起了反对它自己的狂风骤雨,那场风雨吹散了真理的广播的种子。 来自辞典例句
32 irritable LRuzn     
adj.急躁的;过敏的;易怒的
参考例句:
  • He gets irritable when he's got toothache.他牙一疼就很容易发脾气。
  • Our teacher is an irritable old lady.She gets angry easily.我们的老师是位脾气急躁的老太太。她很容易生气。
33 descends e9fd61c3161a390a0db3b45b3a992bee     
v.下来( descend的第三人称单数 );下去;下降;下斜
参考例句:
  • This festival descends from a religious rite. 这个节日起源于宗教仪式。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The path descends steeply to the village. 小路陡直而下直到村子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
34 proceeding Vktzvu     
n.行动,进行,(pl.)会议录,学报
参考例句:
  • This train is now proceeding from Paris to London.这次列车从巴黎开往伦敦。
  • The work is proceeding briskly.工作很有生气地进展着。
35 courteous tooz2     
adj.彬彬有礼的,客气的
参考例句:
  • Although she often disagreed with me,she was always courteous.尽管她常常和我意见不一,但她总是很谦恭有礼。
  • He was a kind and courteous man.他为人友善,而且彬彬有礼。
36 undone JfJz6l     
a.未做完的,未完成的
参考例句:
  • He left nothing undone that needed attention.所有需要注意的事他都注意到了。
37 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。
38 mimic PD2xc     
v.模仿,戏弄;n.模仿他人言行的人
参考例句:
  • A parrot can mimic a person's voice.鹦鹉能学人的声音。
  • He used to mimic speech peculiarities of another.他过去总是模仿别人讲话的特点。
39 Christian KVByl     
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
参考例句:
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
40 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。
41 contrite RYXzf     
adj.悔悟了的,后悔的,痛悔的
参考例句:
  • She was contrite the morning after her angry outburst.她发了一顿脾气之后一早上追悔莫及。
  • She assumed a contrite expression.她装出一副后悔的表情。
42 waiving cc5f6ad349016a559ff973536ac175a6     
v.宣布放弃( waive的现在分词 );搁置;推迟;放弃(权利、要求等)
参考例句:
  • Other steps suggested included waiving late payment charges, making quicker loan decisions and easing loan terms. 其他测试还包括免去滞纳金,尽快做出贷款决定和放宽贷款条件。 来自互联网
  • Stuyvesant Town offers the same perk on some apartments, along waiving the broker's fee. StuyvesantTown对于他们出租的某些房子也提供同样的好处,顺带还省略了中介费。 来自互联网
43 purely 8Sqxf     
adv.纯粹地,完全地
参考例句:
  • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
  • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
44 awakening 9ytzdV     
n.觉醒,醒悟 adj.觉醒中的;唤醒的
参考例句:
  • the awakening of interest in the environment 对环境产生的兴趣
  • People are gradually awakening to their rights. 人们正逐渐意识到自己的权利。
45 frankly fsXzcf     
adv.坦白地,直率地;坦率地说
参考例句:
  • To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说,我一点也不赞成这个主意。
  • Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说,我不反对改革。
46 dissuaded a2aaf4d696a6951c453bcb3bace560b6     
劝(某人)勿做某事,劝阻( dissuade的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was easily dissuaded from going. 他很容易就接受劝告不走了。
  • Ulysses was not to be dissuaded from his attempt. 尤利西斯想前去解救的决心不为所动。
47 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。
48 literally 28Wzv     
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
参考例句:
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
49 ego 7jtzw     
n.自我,自己,自尊
参考例句:
  • He is absolute ego in all thing.在所有的事情上他都绝对自我。
  • She has been on an ego trip since she sang on television.她上电视台唱过歌之后就一直自吹自擂。
50 acting czRzoc     
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
参考例句:
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
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52 conspiracy NpczE     
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
参考例句:
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
53 browsing 509387f2f01ecf46843ec18c927f7822     
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
参考例句:
  • He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
54 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。
55 bleated 671410a5fa3040608b13f2eb8ecf1664     
v.(羊,小牛)叫( bleat的过去式和过去分词 );哭诉;发出羊叫似的声音;轻声诉说
参考例句:
  • The lost lamb bleated. 迷路的小羊咩咩的叫。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She bleated her disapproval of her son's marriage to Amy. 她用颤抖的声音表示不赞成儿子与艾米的婚事。 来自辞典例句
56 cantankerous TTuyb     
adj.爱争吵的,脾气不好的
参考例句:
  • He met a crabbed,cantankerous director.他碰上了一位坏脾气、爱争吵的主管。
  • The cantankerous bus driver rouse on the children for singing.那个坏脾气的公共汽车司机因为孩子们唱歌而骂他们。
57 contradictory VpazV     
adj.反驳的,反对的,抗辩的;n.正反对,矛盾对立
参考例句:
  • The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
  • What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。
58 undoubtedly Mfjz6l     
adv.确实地,无疑地
参考例句:
  • It is undoubtedly she who has said that.这话明明是她说的。
  • He is undoubtedly the pride of China.毫无疑问他是中国的骄傲。
59 amiable hxAzZ     
adj.和蔼可亲的,友善的,亲切的
参考例句:
  • She was a very kind and amiable old woman.她是个善良和气的老太太。
  • We have a very amiable companionship.我们之间存在一种友好的关系。
60 vexes 4f0f7f99f8f452d30f9a07df682cc9e2     
v.使烦恼( vex的第三人称单数 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论
参考例句:
  • Her continuous chatter vexes me. 她的喋喋不休使我烦透了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His continuous chatter vexes me. 他唠叨不休,真烦死我了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
61 stumps 221f9ff23e30fdcc0f64ec738849554c     
(被砍下的树的)树桩( stump的名词复数 ); 残肢; (板球三柱门的)柱; 残余部分
参考例句:
  • Rocks and stumps supplied the place of chairs at the picnic. 野餐时石头和树桩都充当了椅子。
  • If you don't stir your stumps, Tom, you'll be late for school again. 汤姆,如果你不快走,上学又要迟到了。
62 trotted 6df8e0ef20c10ef975433b4a0456e6e1     
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
参考例句:
  • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
  • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
63 gasping gasping     
adj. 气喘的, 痉挛的 动词gasp的现在分词
参考例句:
  • He was gasping for breath. 他在喘气。
  • "Did you need a drink?""Yes, I'm gasping!” “你要喝点什么吗?”“我巴不得能喝点!”
64 vividly tebzrE     
adv.清楚地,鲜明地,生动地
参考例句:
  • The speaker pictured the suffering of the poor vividly.演讲者很生动地描述了穷人的生活。
  • The characters in the book are vividly presented.这本书里的人物写得栩栩如生。
65 panorama D4wzE     
n.全景,全景画,全景摄影,全景照片[装置]
参考例句:
  • A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前。
  • A flourishing and prosperous panorama spread out before our eyes.一派欣欣向荣的景象展现在我们的眼前。
66 admiration afpyA     
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
参考例句:
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
67 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。
68 bestowed 12e1d67c73811aa19bdfe3ae4a8c2c28     
赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • It was a title bestowed upon him by the king. 那是国王赐给他的头衔。
  • He considered himself unworthy of the honour they had bestowed on him. 他认为自己不配得到大家赋予他的荣誉。
69 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。
70 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。
71 stationary CuAwc     
adj.固定的,静止不动的
参考例句:
  • A stationary object is easy to be aimed at.一个静止不动的物体是容易瞄准的。
  • Wait until the bus is stationary before you get off.你要等公共汽车停稳了再下车。
72 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。
73 peculiar cinyo     
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的
参考例句:
  • He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
  • He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
74 neatly ynZzBp     
adv.整洁地,干净地,灵巧地,熟练地
参考例句:
  • Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly.水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。
  • The child's dress is neatly gathered at the neck.那孩子的衣服在领口处打着整齐的皱褶。
75 growl VeHzE     
v.(狗等)嗥叫,(炮等)轰鸣;n.嗥叫,轰鸣
参考例句:
  • The dog was biting,growling and wagging its tail.那条狗在一边撕咬一边低声吼叫,尾巴也跟着摇摆。
  • The car growls along rutted streets.汽车在车辙纵横的街上一路轰鸣。
76 savagely 902f52b3c682f478ddd5202b40afefb9     
adv. 野蛮地,残酷地
参考例句:
  • The roses had been pruned back savagely. 玫瑰被狠狠地修剪了一番。
  • He snarled savagely at her. 他向她狂吼起来。
77 genially 0de02d6e0c84f16556e90c0852555eab     
adv.亲切地,和蔼地;快活地
参考例句:
  • The white church peeps out genially from behind the huts scattered on the river bank. 一座白色教堂从散布在岸上的那些小木房后面殷勤地探出头来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • "Well, It'seems strange to see you way up here,'said Mr. Kenny genially. “咳,真没想到会在这么远的地方见到你,"肯尼先生亲切地说。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
78 genial egaxm     
adj.亲切的,和蔼的,愉快的,脾气好的
参考例句:
  • Orlando is a genial man.奥兰多是一位和蔼可亲的人。
  • He was a warm-hearted friend and genial host.他是个热心的朋友,也是友善待客的主人。
79 inmate l4cyN     
n.被收容者;(房屋等的)居住人;住院人
参考例句:
  • I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
  • The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。
80 hesitation tdsz5     
n.犹豫,踌躇
参考例句:
  • After a long hesitation, he told the truth at last.踌躇了半天,他终于直说了。
  • There was a certain hesitation in her manner.她的态度有些犹豫不决。
81 whoop qIhys     
n.大叫,呐喊,喘息声;v.叫喊,喘息
参考例句:
  • He gave a whoop of joy when he saw his new bicycle.他看到自己的新自行车时,高兴得叫了起来。
  • Everybody is planning to whoop it up this weekend.大家都打算在这个周末好好欢闹一番。
82 possessed xuyyQ     
adj.疯狂的;拥有的,占有的
参考例句:
  • He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
  • He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。
83 penetrating ImTzZS     
adj.(声音)响亮的,尖锐的adj.(气味)刺激的adj.(思想)敏锐的,有洞察力的
参考例句:
  • He had an extraordinarily penetrating gaze. 他的目光有股异乎寻常的洞察力。
  • He examined the man with a penetrating gaze. 他以锐利的目光仔细观察了那个人。
84 smoothly iiUzLG     
adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地
参考例句:
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作,所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
85 recollect eUOxl     
v.回忆,想起,记起,忆起,记得
参考例句:
  • He tried to recollect things and drown himself in them.他极力回想过去的事情而沉浸于回忆之中。
  • She could not recollect being there.她回想不起曾经到过那儿。
86 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。
87 majesty MAExL     
n.雄伟,壮丽,庄严,威严;最高权威,王权
参考例句:
  • The king had unspeakable majesty.国王有无法形容的威严。
  • Your Majesty must make up your mind quickly!尊贵的陛下,您必须赶快做出决定!
88 sordid PrLy9     
adj.肮脏的,不干净的,卑鄙的,暗淡的
参考例句:
  • He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively.他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。
  • They lived in a sordid apartment.他们住在肮脏的公寓房子里。
89 distinguished wu9z3v     
adj.卓越的,杰出的,著名的
参考例句:
  • Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
  • A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。
90 parley H4wzT     
n.谈判
参考例句:
  • The governor was forced to parley with the rebels.州长被迫与反叛者谈判。
  • The general held a parley with the enemy about exchanging prisoners.将军与敌人谈判交换战俘事宜。
91 shutters 74d48a88b636ca064333022eb3458e1f     
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门
参考例句:
  • The shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters. 那商店的店门装有卷门。
  • The shutters thumped the wall in the wind. 在风中百叶窗砰砰地碰在墙上。
92 gutter lexxk     
n.沟,街沟,水槽,檐槽,贫民窟
参考例句:
  • There's a cigarette packet thrown into the gutter.阴沟里有个香烟盒。
  • He picked her out of the gutter and made her a great lady.他使她脱离贫苦生活,并成为贵妇。
93 bower xRZyU     
n.凉亭,树荫下凉快之处;闺房;v.荫蔽
参考例句:
  • They sat under the leafy bower at the end of the garden and watched the sun set.他们坐在花园尽头由叶子搭成的凉棚下观看落日。
  • Mrs. Quilp was pining in her bower.奎尔普太太正在她的闺房里度着愁苦的岁月。
94 chisel mr8zU     
n.凿子;v.用凿子刻,雕,凿
参考例句:
  • This chisel is useful for getting into awkward spaces.这凿子在要伸入到犄角儿里时十分有用。
  • Camille used a hammer and chisel to carve out a figure from the marble.卡米尔用锤子和凿子将大理石雕刻出一个人像。
95 crate 6o1zH     
vt.(up)把…装入箱中;n.板条箱,装货箱
参考例句:
  • We broke open the crate with a blow from the chopper.我们用斧头一敲就打开了板条箱。
  • The workers tightly packed the goods in the crate.工人们把货物严紧地包装在箱子里。
96 grunted f18a3a8ced1d857427f2252db2abbeaf     
(猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说
参考例句:
  • She just grunted, not deigning to look up from the page. 她只咕哝了一声,继续看书,不屑抬起头来看一眼。
  • She grunted some incomprehensible reply. 她咕噜着回答了些令人费解的话。
97 worthy vftwB     
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的
参考例句:
  • I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
  • There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。
98 gracefully KfYxd     
ad.大大方方地;优美地
参考例句:
  • She sank gracefully down onto a cushion at his feet. 她优雅地坐到他脚旁的垫子上。
  • The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line. 新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。
99 retail VWoxC     
v./n.零售;adv.以零售价格
参考例句:
  • In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
  • These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。
100 dealing NvjzWP     
n.经商方法,待人态度
参考例句:
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
101 brutal bSFyb     
adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的
参考例句:
  • She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
  • They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼,骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
102 random HT9xd     
adj.随机的;任意的;n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
参考例句:
  • The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
103 superfluous EU6zf     
adj.过多的,过剩的,多余的
参考例句:
  • She fined away superfluous matter in the design. 她删去了这图案中多余的东西。
  • That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it.我这样写的时候觉得这个请求似乎是多此一举。
104 stifled 20d6c5b702a525920b7425fe94ea26a5     
(使)窒息, (使)窒闷( stifle的过去式和过去分词 ); 镇压,遏制; 堵
参考例句:
  • The gas stifled them. 煤气使他们窒息。
  • The rebellion was stifled. 叛乱被镇压了。
105 yeast 7VIzu     
n.酵母;酵母片;泡沫;v.发酵;起泡沫
参考例句:
  • Yeast can be used in making beer and bread.酵母可用于酿啤酒和发面包。
  • The yeast began to work.酵母开始发酵。
106 applied Tz2zXA     
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
参考例句:
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
107 doorway 2s0xK     
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
参考例句:
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
108 postpone rP0xq     
v.延期,推迟
参考例句:
  • I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
  • She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。
109 inured inured     
adj.坚强的,习惯的
参考例句:
  • The prisoners quickly became inured to the harsh conditions.囚犯们很快就适应了苛刻的条件。
  • He has inured himself to accept misfortune.他锻练了自己,使自己能承受不幸。
110 adamant FywzQ     
adj.坚硬的,固执的
参考例句:
  • We are adamant on the building of a well-off society.在建设小康社会这一点上,我们是坚定不移的。
  • Veronica was quite adamant that they should stay on.维罗妮卡坚信他们必须继续留下去。
111 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。
112 countenance iztxc     
n.脸色,面容;面部表情;vt.支持,赞同
参考例句:
  • At the sight of this photograph he changed his countenance.他一看见这张照片脸色就变了。
  • I made a fierce countenance as if I would eat him alive.我脸色恶狠狠地,仿佛要把他活生生地吞下去。
113 expressive shwz4     
adj.表现的,表达…的,富于表情的
参考例句:
  • Black English can be more expressive than standard English.黑人所使用的英语可能比正式英语更有表现力。
  • He had a mobile,expressive,animated face.他有一张多变的,富于表情的,生动活泼的脸。
114 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。
115 elusive d8vyH     
adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的
参考例句:
  • Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
  • Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。


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