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CHAPTER VIII
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 Mr. and Miss Jones, of Manchester—The benefits of cocoa—A hint to the Peace Society—The window as a mediaeval argument—The favourite Christian1 recreation—The language of the guide—How to repair the ravages2 of time—George tries a bottle—The fate of the German beer drinker—Harris and I resolve to do a good action—The usual sort of statue—Harris and his friends—A pepperless Paradise—Women and towns.
 
We were on our way to Prague, and were waiting in the great hall of the Dresden Station until such time as the powers-that-be should permit us on to the platform.  George, who had wandered to the bookstall, returned to us with a wild look in his eyes.  He said:
 
“I’ve seen it.”
 
I said, “Seen what?”
 
He was too excited to answer intelligently.  He said
 
“It’s here.  It’s coming this way, both of them.  If you wait, you’ll see it for yourselves.  I’m not joking; it’s the real thing.”
 
As is usual about this period, some paragraphs, more or less serious, had been appearing in the papers concerning the sea-serpent, and I thought for the moment he must be referring to this.  A moment’s reflection, however, told me that here, in the middle of Europe, three hundred miles from the coast, such a thing was impossible.  Before I could question him further, he seized me by the arm.
 
“Look!” he said; “now am I exaggerating?”
 
I turned my head and saw what, I suppose, few living Englishmen have ever seen before—the travelling Britisher according to the Continental3 idea, accompanied by his daughter.  They were coming towards us in the flesh and blood, unless we were dreaming, alive and concrete—the English “Milor” and the English “Mees,” as for generations they have been portrayed4 in the Continental comic press and upon the Continental stage.  They were perfect in every detail.  The man was tall and thin, with sandy hair, a huge nose, and long Dundreary whiskers.  Over a pepper-and-salt suit he wore a light overcoat, reaching almost to his heels.  His white helmet was ornamented5 with a green veil; a pair of opera-glasses hung at his side, and in his lavender-gloved hand he carried an alpenstock a little taller than himself.  His daughter was long and angular.  Her dress I cannot describe: my grandfather, poor gentleman, might have been able to do so; it would have been more familiar to him.  I can only say that it appeared to me unnecessarily short, exhibiting a pair of ankles—if I may be permitted to refer to such points—that, from an artistic7 point of view, called rather for concealment8.  Her hat made me think of Mrs. Hemans; but why I cannot explain.  She wore side-spring boots—“prunella,” I believe, used to be the trade name—mittens, and pince-nez.  She also carried an alpenstock (there is not a mountain within a hundred miles of Dresden) and a black bag strapped9 to her waist.  Her teeth stuck out like a rabbit’s, and her figure was that of a bolster10 on stilts11.
 
Harris rushed for his camera, and of course could not find it; he never can when he wants it.  Whenever we see Harris scuttling12 up and down like a lost dog, shouting, “Where’s my camera?  What the dickens have I done with my camera?  Don’t either of you remember where I put my camera?”—then we know that for the first time that day he has come across something worth photographing.  Later on, he remembered it was in his bag; that is where it would be on an occasion like this.
 
They were not content with appearance; they acted the thing to the letter.  They walked gaping13 round them at every step.  The gentleman had an open Baedeker in his hand, and the lady carried a phrase book.  They talked French that nobody could understand, and German that they could not translate themselves!  The man poked14 at officials with his alpenstock to attract their attention, and the lady, her eye catching15 sight of an advertisement of somebody’s cocoa, said “Shocking!” and turned the other way.
 
Really, there was some excuse for her.  One notices, even in England, the home of the proprieties16, that the lady who drinks cocoa appears, according to the poster, to require very little else in this world; a yard or so of art muslin at the most.  On the Continent she dispenses17, so far as one can judge, with every other necessity of life.  Not only is cocoa food and drink to her, it should be clothes also, according to the idea of the cocoa manufacturer.  But this by the way.
 
Of course, they immediately became the centre of attraction.  By being able to render them some slight assistance, I gained the advantage of five minutes’ conversation with them.  They were very affable.  The gentleman told me his name was Jones, and that he came from Manchester, but he did not seem to know what part of Manchester, or where Manchester was.  I asked him where he was going to, but he evidently did not know.  He said it depended.  I asked him if he did not find an alpenstock a clumsy thing to walk about with through a crowded town; he admitted that occasionally it did get in the way.  I asked him if he did not find a veil interfere18 with his view of things; he explained that you only wore it when the flies became troublesome.  I enquired19 of the lady if she did not find the wind blow cold; she said she had noticed it, especially at the corners.  I did not ask these questions one after another as I have here put them down; I mixed them up with general conversation, and we parted on good terms.
 
I have pondered much upon the apparition20, and have come to a definite opinion.  A man I met later at Frankfort, and to whom I described the pair, said he had seen them himself in Paris, three weeks after the termination of the Fashoda incident; while a traveller for some English steel works whom we met in Strassburg remembered having seen them in Berlin during the excitement caused by the Transvaal question.  My conclusion is that they were actors out of work, hired to do this thing in the interest of international peace.  The French Foreign Office, wishful to allay21 the anger of the Parisian mob clamouring for war with England, secured this admirable couple and sent them round the town.  You cannot be amused at a thing, and at the same time want to kill it.  The French nation saw the English citizen and citizeness—no caricature, but the living reality—and their indignation exploded in laughter.  The success of the stratagem22 prompted them later on to offer their services to the German Government, with the beneficial results that we all know.
 
Our own Government might learn the lesson.  It might be as well to keep near Downing Street a few small, fat Frenchmen, to be sent round the country when occasion called for it, shrugging their shoulders and eating frog sandwiches; or a file of untidy, lank-haired Germans might be retained, to walk about, smoking long pipes, saying “So.”  The public would laugh and exclaim, “War with such?  It would be too absurd.”  Failing the Government, I recommend the scheme to the Peace Society.
 
Our visit to Prague we were compelled to lengthen23 somewhat.  Prague is one of the most interesting towns in Europe.  Its stones are saturated24 with history and romance; its every suburb must have been a battlefield.  It is the town that conceived the Reformation and hatched the Thirty Years’ War.  But half Prague’s troubles, one imagines, might have been saved to it, had it possessed25 windows less large and temptingly convenient.  The first of these mighty26 catastrophes27 it set rolling by throwing the seven Catholic councillors from the windows of its Rathhaus on to the pikes of the Hussites below.  Later, it gave the signal for the second by again throwing the Imperial councillors from the windows of the old Burg in the Hradschin—Prague’s second “Fenstersturz.”  Since, other fateful questions have been decide in Prague, one assumes from their having been concluded without violence that such must have been discussed in cellars.  The window, as an argument, one feels, would always have proved too strong a temptation to any true-born Praguer.
 
In the Teynkirche stands the worm-eaten pulpit from which preached John Huss.  One may hear from the selfsame desk to-day the voice of a Papist priest, while in far-off Constance a rude block of stone, half ivy28 hidden, marks the spot where Huss and Jerome died burning at the stake.  History is fond of her little ironies29.  In this same Teynkirche lies buried Tycho Brahe, the astronomer30, who made the common mistake of thinking the earth, with its eleven hundred creeds31 and one humanity, the centre of the universe; but who otherwise observed the stars clearly.
 
Through Prague’s dirty, palace-bordered alleys32 must have pressed often in hot haste blind Ziska and open-minded Wallenstein—they have dubbed33 him “The Hero” in Prague; and the town is honestly proud of having owned him for citizen.  In his gloomy palace in the Waldstein-Platz they show as a sacred spot the cabinet where he prayed, and seem to have persuaded themselves he really had a soul.  Its steep, winding34 ways must have been choked a dozen times, now by Sigismund’s flying legions, followed by fierce-killing Tarborites, and now by pale Protestants pursued by the victorious35 Catholics of Maximilian.  Now Saxons, now Bavarians, and now French; now the saints of Gustavus Adolphus, and now the steel fighting machines of Frederick the Great, have thundered at its gates and fought upon its bridges.
 
The Jews have always been an important feature of Prague.  Occasionally they have assisted the Christians36 in their favourite occupation of slaughtering37 one another, and the great flag suspended from the vaulting38 of the Altneuschule testifies to the courage with which they helped Catholic Ferdinand to resist the Protestant Swedes.  The Prague Ghetto39 was one of the first to be established in Europe, and in the tiny synagogue, still standing40, the Jew of Prague has worshipped for eight hundred years, his women folk devoutly41 listening, without, at the ear holes provided for them in the massive walls.  A Jewish cemetery42 adjacent, “Bethchajim, or the House of Life,” seems as though it were bursting with its dead.  Within its narrow acre it was the law of centuries that here or nowhere must the bones of Israel rest.  So the worn and broken tombstones lie piled in close confusion, as though tossed and tumbled by the struggling host beneath.
 
The Ghetto walls have long been levelled, but the living Jews of Prague still cling to their foetid lanes, though these are being rapidly replaced by fine new streets that promise to eventually transform this quarter into the handsomest part of the town.
 
At Dresden they advised us not to talk German in Prague.  For years racial animosity between the German minority and the Czech majority has raged throughout Bohemia, and to be mistaken for a German in certain streets of Prague is inconvenient43 to a man whose staying powers in a race are not what once they were.  However, we did talk German in certain streets in Prague; it was a case of talking German or nothing.  The Czech dialect is said to be of great antiquity44 and of highly scientific cultivation45.  Its alphabet contains forty-two letters, suggestive to a stranger of Chinese.  It is not a language to be picked up in a hurry.  We decided46 that on the whole there would be less risk to our constitution in keeping to German, and as a matter of fact no harm came to us.  The explanation I can only surmise47.  The Praguer is an exceedingly acute person; some subtle falsity of accent, some slight grammatical inaccuracy, may have crept into our German, revealing to him the fact that, in spite of all appearances to the contrary, we were no true-born Deutscher.  I do not assert this; I put it forward as a possibility.
 
To avoid unnecessary danger, however, we did our sight-seeing with the aid of a guide.  No guide I have ever come across is perfect.  This one had two distinct failings.  His English was decidedly weak.  Indeed, it was not English at all.  I do not know what you would call it.  It was not altogether his fault; he had learnt English from a Scotch48 lady.  I understand Scotch fairly well—to keep abreast49 of modern English literature this is necessary,—but to understand broad Scotch talked with a Sclavonic accent, occasionally relieved by German modifications50, taxes the intelligence.  For the first hour it was difficult to rid one’s self of the conviction that the man was choking.  Every moment we expected him to die on our hands.  In the course of the morning we grew accustomed to him, and rid ourselves of the instinct to throw him on his back every time he opened his mouth, and tear his clothes from him.  Later, we came to understand a part of what he said, and this led to the discovery of his second failing.
 
It would seem he had lately invented a hair-restorer, which he had persuaded a local chemist to take up and advertise.  Half his time he had been pointing out to us, not the beauties of Prague, but the benefits likely to accrue51 to the human race from the use of this concoction52; and the conventional agreement with which, under the impression he was waxing eloquent53 concerning views and architecture, we had met his enthusiasm he had attributed to sympathetic interest in this wretched wash of his.
 
The result was that now there was no keeping him away from the subject.  Ruined palaces and crumbling54 churches he dismissed with curt55 reference as mere56 frivolities, encouraging a morbid57 taste for the decadent58.  His duty, as he saw it, was not to lead us to dwell upon the ravages of time, but rather to direct our attention to the means of repairing them.  What had we to do with broken-headed heroes, or bald-headed saints?  Our interest should be surely in the living world; in the maidens59 with their flowing tresses, or the flowing tresses they might have, by judicious60 use of “Kophkeo,” in the young men with their fierce moustaches—as pictured on the label.
 
Unconsciously, in his own mind, he had divided the world into two sections.  The Past (“Before Use”), a sickly, disagreeable-looking, uninteresting world.  The Future (“After Use”) a fat, jolly, God-bless-everybody sort of world; and this unfitted him as a guide to scenes of mediaeval history.
 
He sent us each a bottle of the stuff to our hotel.  It appeared that in the early part of our converse61 with him we had, unwittingly, clamoured for it.  Personally, I can neither praise it nor condemn62 it.  A long series of disappointments has disheartened me; added to which a permanent atmosphere of paraffin, however faint, is apt to cause remark, especially in the case of a married man.  Now, I never try even the sample.
 
I gave my bottle to George.  He asked for it to send to a man he knew in Leeds.  I learnt later that Harris had given him his bottle also, to send to the same man.
 
A suggestion of onions has clung to this tour since we left Prague.  George has noticed it himself.  He attributes it to the prevalence of garlic in European cooking.
 
It was in Prague that Harris and I did a kind and friendly thing to George.  We had noticed for some time past that George was getting too fond of Pilsener beer.  This German beer is an insidious63 drink, especially in hot weather; but it does not do to imbibe64 too freely of it.  It does not get into your head, but after a time it spoils your waist.  I always say to myself on entering Germany:
 
“Now, I will drink no German beer.  The white wine of the country, with a little soda-water; perhaps occasionally a glass of Ems or potash.  But beer, never—or, at all events, hardly ever.”
 
It is a good and useful resolution, which I recommend to all travellers.  I only wish I could keep to it myself.  George, although I urged him, refused to bind65 himself by any such hard and fast limit.  He said that in moderation German beer was good.
 
“One glass in the morning,” said George, “one in the evening, or even two.  That will do no harm to anyone.”
 
Maybe he was right.  It was his half-dozen glasses that troubled Harris and myself.
 
“We ought to do something to stop it,” said Harris; “it is becoming serious.”
 
“It’s hereditary66, so he has explained to me,” I answered.  “It seems his family have always been thirsty.”
 
“There is Apollinaris water,” replied Harris, “which, I believe, with a little lemon squeezed into it, is practically harmless.  What I am thinking about is his figure.  He will lose all his natural elegance67.”
 
We talked the matter over, and, Providence68 aiding us, we fixed69 upon a plan.  For the ornamentation of the town a new statue had just been cast.  I forget of whom it was a statue.  I only remember that in the essentials it was the usual sort of street statue, representing the usual sort of gentleman, with the usual stiff neck, riding the usual sort of horse—the horse that always walks on its hind70 legs, keeping its front paws for beating time.  But in detail it possessed individuality.  Instead of the usual sword or baton71, the man was holding, stretched out in his hand, his own plumed72 hat; and the horse, instead of the usual waterfall for a tail, possessed a somewhat attenuated73 appendage74 that somehow appeared out of keeping with his ostentatious behaviour.  One felt that a horse with a tail like that would not have pranced75 so much.
 
It stood in a small square not far from the further end of the Karlsbrücke, but it stood there only temporarily.  Before deciding finally where to fix it, the town authorities had resolved, very sensibly, to judge by practical test where it would look best.  Accordingly, they had made three rough copies of the statue—mere wooden profiles, things that would not bear looking at closely, but which, viewed from a little distance, produced all the effect that was necessary.  One of these they had set up at the approach to the Franz-Josefsbrücke, a second stood in the open space behind the theatre, and the third in the centre of the Wenzelsplatz.
 
“If George is not in the secret of this thing,” said Harris—we were walking by ourselves for an hour, he having remained behind in the hotel to write a letter to his aunt,—“if he has not observed these statues, then by their aid we will make a better and a thinner man of him, and that this very evening.”
 
So during dinner we sounded him, judiciously76; and finding him ignorant of the matter, we took him out, and led him by side-streets to the place where stood the real statue.  George was for looking at it and passing on, as is his way with statues, but we insisted on his pulling up and viewing the thing conscientiously77.  We walked him round that statue four times, and showed it to him from every possible point of view.  I think, on the whole, we rather bored him with the thing, but our object was to impress it upon him.  We told him the history of the man who rode upon the horse, the name of the artist who had made the statue, how much it weighed, how much it measured.  We worked that statue into his system.  By the time we had done with him he knew more about that statue, for the time being, than he knew about anything else.  We soaked him in that statue, and only let him go at last on the condition that he would come again with us in the morning, when we could all see it better, and for such purpose we saw to it that he made a note in his pocket-book of the place where the statue stood.
 
Then we accompanied him to his favourite beer hall, and sat beside him, telling him anecdotes78 of men who, unaccustomed to German beer, and drinking too much of it, had gone mad and developed homicidal mania79; of men who had died young through drinking German beer; of lovers that German beer had been the means of parting for ever from beautiful girls.
 
At ten o’clock we started to walk back to the hotel.  It was a stormy-looking night, with heavy clouds drifting over a light moon.  Harris said:
 
“We won’t go back the same way we came; we’ll walk back by the river.  It is lovely in the moonlight.”
 
Harris told a sad history, as we walked, about a man he once knew, who is now in a home for harmless imbeciles.  He said he recalled the story because it was on just such another night as this that he was walking with that man the very last time he ever saw the poor fellow.  They were strolling down the Thames Embankment, Harris said, and the man frightened him then by persisting that he saw the statue of the Duke of Wellington at the corner of Westminster Bridge, when, as everybody knows, it stands in Piccadilly.
 
It was at this exact instant that we came in sight of the first of these wooden copies.  It occupied the centre of a small, railed-in square a little above us on the opposite side of the way.  George suddenly stood still and leant against the wall of the quay80.
 
“What’s the matter?” I said; “feeling giddy?”
 
He said: “I do, a little.  Let’s rest here a moment.”
 
He stood there with his eyes glued to the thing.
 
He said, speaking huskily:
 
“Talking of statues, what always strikes me is how very much one statue is like another statue.”
 
Harris said: “I cannot agree with you there—pictures, if you like.  Some pictures are very like other pictures, but with a statue there is always something distinctive81.  Take that statue we saw early in the evening,” continued Harris, “before we went into the concert hall.  It represented a man sitting on a horse.  In Prague you will see other statues of men on horses, but nothing at all like that one.”
 
“Yes they are,” said George; “they are all alike.  It’s always the same horse, and it’s always the same man.  They are all exactly alike.  It’s idiotic82 nonsense to say they are not.”
 
He appeared to be angry with Harris.
 
“What makes you think so?” I asked.
 
“What makes me think so?” retorted George, now turning upon me.  “Why, look at that damned thing over there!”
 
I said: “What damned thing?”
 
“Why, that thing,” said George; “look at it!  There is the same horse with half a tail, standing on its hind legs; the same man without his hat; the same—”
 
Harris said: “You are talking now about the statue we saw in the Ringplatz.”
 
“No, I’m not,” replied George; “I’m talking about the statue over there.”
 
“What statue?” said Harris.
 
George looked at Harris; but Harris is a man who might, with care, have been a fair amateur actor.  His face merely expressed friendly sorrow, mingled83 with alarm.  Next, George turned his gaze on me.  I endeavoured, so far as lay with me, to copy Harris’s expression, adding to it on my own account a touch of reproof84.
 
“Will you have a cab?” I said as kindly85 as I could to George.  “I’ll run and get one.”
 
“What the devil do I want with a cab?” he answered, ungraciously.  “Can’t you fellows understand a joke?  It’s like being out with a couple of confounded old women,” saying which, he started off across the bridge, leaving us to follow.
 
“I am so glad that was only a joke of yours,” said Harris, on our overtaking him.  “I knew a case of softening86 of the brain that began—”
 
“Oh, you’re a silly ass6!” said George, cutting him short; “you know everything.”
 
He was really most unpleasant in his manner.
 
We took him round by the riverside of the theatre.  We told him it was the shortest way, and, as a matter of fact, it was.  In the open space behind the theatre stood the second of these wooden apparitions87.  George looked at it, and again stood still.
 
“What’s the matter?” said Harris, kindly.  “You are not ill, are you?”
 
“I don’t believe this is the shortest way,” said George.
 
“I assure you it is,” persisted Harris.
 
“Well, I’m going the other,” said George; and he turned and went, we, as before, following him.
 
Along the Ferdinand Strasse Harris and I talked about private lunatic asylums88, which, Harris said, were not well managed in England.  He said a friend of his, a patient in a lunatic asylum—
 
George said, interrupting: “You appear to have a large number of friends in lunatic asylums.”
 
He said it in a most insulting tone, as though to imply that that is where one would look for the majority of Harris’s friends.  But Harris did not get angry; he merely replied, quite mildly:
 
“Well, it really is extraordinary, when one comes to think of it, how many of them have gone that way sooner or later.  I get quite nervous sometimes, now.”
 
At the corner of the Wenzelsplatz, Harris, who was a few steps ahead of us, paused.
 
“It’s a fine street, isn’t it?” he said, sticking his hands in his pockets, and gazing up at it admiringly.
 
George and I followed suit.  Two hundred yards away from us, in its very centre, was the third of these ghostly statues.  I think it was the best of the three—the most like, the most deceptive89.  It stood boldly outlined against the wild sky: the horse on its hind legs, with its curiously90 attenuated tail; the man bareheaded, pointing with his plumed hat to the now entirely91 visible moon.
 
“I think, if you don’t mind,” said George—he spoke92 with almost a pathetic ring in his voice, his aggressiveness had completely fallen from him,—“that I will have that cab, if there’s one handy.”
 
“I thought you were looking queer,” said Harris, kindly.  “It’s your head, isn’t it?”
 
“Perhaps it is,” answered George.
 
“I have noticed it coming on,” said Harris; “but I didn’t like to say anything to you.  You fancy you see things, don’t you?”
 
“No, no; it isn’t that,” replied George, rather quickly.  “I don’t know what it is.”
 
“I do,” said Harris, solemnly, “and I’ll tell you.  It’s this German beer that you are drinking.  I have known a case where a man—”
 
“Don’t tell me about him just now,” said George.  “I dare say it’s true, but somehow I don’t feel I want to hear about him.”
 
“You are not used to it,” said Harris.
 
“I shall give it up from to-night,” said George.  “I think you must be right; it doesn’t seem to agree with me.”
 
We took him home, and saw him to bed.  He was very gentle and quite grateful.
 
One evening later on, after a long day’s ride, followed by a most satisfactory dinner, we started him on a big cigar, and, removing things from his reach, told him of this stratagem that for his good we had planned.
 
“How many copies of that statue did you say we saw?” asked George, after we had finished.
 
“Three,” replied Harris.
 
“Only three?” said George.  “Are you sure?”
 
“Positive,” replied Harris.  “Why?”
 
“Oh, nothing!” answered George.
 
But I don’t think he quite believed Harris.
 
From Prague we travelled to Nuremberg, through Carlsbad.  Good Germans, when they die, go, they say, to Carlsbad, as good Americans to Paris.  This I doubt, seeing that it is a small place with no convenience for a crowd.  In Carlsbad, you rise at five, the fashionable hour for promenade93, when the band plays under the Colonnade94, and the Sprudel is filled with a packed throng95 over a mile long, being from six to eight in the morning.  Here you may hear more languages spoken than the Tower of Babel could have echoed.  Polish Jews and Russian princes, Chinese mandarins and Turkish pashas, Norwegians looking as if they had stepped out of Ibsen’s plays, women from the Boulevards, Spanish grandees96 and English countesses, mountaineers from Montenegro and millionaires from Chicago, you will find every dozen yards.  Every luxury in the world Carlsbad provides for its visitors, with the one exception of pepper.  That you cannot get within five miles of the town for money; what you can get there for love is not worth taking away.  Pepper, to the liver brigade that forms four-fifths of Carlsbad’s customers, is poison; and, prevention being better than cure, it is carefully kept out of the neighbourhood.  “Pepper parties” are formed in Carlsbad to journey to some place without the boundary, and there indulge in pepper orgies.
 
Nuremberg, if one expects a town of mediaeval appearance, disappoints.  Quaint97 corners, picturesque98 glimpses, there are in plenty; but everywhere they are surrounded and intruded99 upon by the modern, and even what is ancient is not nearly so ancient as one thought it was.  After all, a town, like a woman, is only as old as it looks; and Nuremberg is still a comfortable-looking dame100, its age somewhat difficult to conceive under its fresh paint and stucco in the blaze of the gas and the electric light.  Still, looking closely, you may see its wrinkled walls and grey towers.

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1 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。
2 ravages 5d742bcf18f0fd7c4bc295e4f8d458d8     
劫掠后的残迹,破坏的结果,毁坏后的残迹
参考例句:
  • the ravages of war 战争造成的灾难
  • It is hard for anyone to escape from the ravages of time. 任何人都很难逃避时间的摧残。
3 continental Zazyk     
adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的
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。
  • The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
4 portrayed a75f5b1487928c9f7f165b2773c13036     
v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
参考例句:
  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
  • The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5 ornamented af417c68be20f209790a9366e9da8dbb     
adj.花式字体的v.装饰,点缀,美化( ornament的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The desk was ornamented with many carvings. 这桌子装饰有很多雕刻物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She ornamented her dress with lace. 她用花边装饰衣服。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 ass qvyzK     
n.驴;傻瓜,蠢笨的人
参考例句:
  • He is not an ass as they make him.他不象大家猜想的那样笨。
  • An ass endures his burden but not more than his burden.驴能负重但不能超过它能力所负担的。
7 artistic IeWyG     
adj.艺术(家)的,美术(家)的;善于艺术创作的
参考例句:
  • The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
  • These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。
8 concealment AvYzx1     
n.隐藏, 掩盖,隐瞒
参考例句:
  • the concealment of crime 对罪行的隐瞒
  • Stay in concealment until the danger has passed. 把自己藏起来,待危险过去后再出来。
9 strapped ec484d13545e19c0939d46e2d1eb24bc     
adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带
参考例句:
  • Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 bolster ltOzK     
n.枕垫;v.支持,鼓励
参考例句:
  • The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
  • He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。
11 stilts 1d1f7db881198e2996ecb9fc81dc39e5     
n.(支撑建筑物高出地面或水面的)桩子,支柱( stilt的名词复数 );高跷
参考例句:
  • a circus performer on stilts 马戏团里踩高跷的演员
  • The bamboo huts here are all built on stilts. 这里的竹楼都是架空的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
12 scuttling 56f5e8b899fd87fbaf9db14c025dd776     
n.船底穿孔,打开通海阀(沉船用)v.使船沉没( scuttle的现在分词 );快跑,急走
参考例句:
  • I could hear an animal scuttling about in the undergrowth. 我可以听到一只动物在矮树丛中跑来跑去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • First of all, scuttling Yu Lung (this yuncheng Hejin) , flood discharge. 大禹首先凿开龙门(今运城河津市),分洪下泄。 来自互联网
13 gaping gaping     
adj.口的;张口的;敞口的;多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 );张开,张大
参考例句:
  • Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
14 poked 87f534f05a838d18eb50660766da4122     
v.伸出( poke的过去式和过去分词 );戳出;拨弄;与(某人)性交
参考例句:
  • She poked him in the ribs with her elbow. 她用胳膊肘顶他的肋部。
  • His elbow poked out through his torn shirt sleeve. 他的胳膊从衬衫的破袖子中露了出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
15 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。
16 proprieties a7abe68b92bbbcb6dd95c8a36305ea65     
n.礼仪,礼节;礼貌( propriety的名词复数 );规矩;正当;合适
参考例句:
  • "Let us not forget the proprieties due. "咱们别忘了礼法。 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
  • Be careful to observe the proprieties. 注意遵守礼仪。 来自辞典例句
17 dispenses db30e70356402e4e0fbfa2c0aa480ca0     
v.分配,分与;分配( dispense的第三人称单数 );施与;配(药)
参考例句:
  • The machine dispenses a range of drinks and snacks. 这台机器发售各种饮料和小吃。
  • This machine dispenses coffee. 这台机器发售咖啡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
18 interfere b5lx0     
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰
参考例句:
  • If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话,可能弊多利少。
  • When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件,棘手的事情就来了。
19 enquired 4df7506569079ecc60229e390176a0f6     
打听( enquire的过去式和过去分词 ); 询问; 问问题; 查问
参考例句:
  • He enquired for the book in a bookstore. 他在书店查询那本书。
  • Fauchery jestingly enquired whether the Minister was coming too. 浮式瑞嘲笑着问部长是否也会来。
20 apparition rM3yR     
n.幽灵,神奇的现象
参考例句:
  • He saw the apparition of his dead wife.他看见了他亡妻的幽灵。
  • But the terror of this new apparition brought me to a stand.这新出现的幽灵吓得我站在那里一动也不敢动。
21 allay zxIzJ     
v.消除,减轻(恐惧、怀疑等)
参考例句:
  • The police tried to allay her fears but failed.警察力图减轻她的恐惧,但是没有收到什么效果。
  • They are trying to allay public fears about the spread of the disease.他们正竭力减轻公众对这种疾病传播的恐惧。
22 stratagem ThlyQ     
n.诡计,计谋
参考例句:
  • Knit the brows and a stratagem comes to mind.眉头一皱,计上心来。
  • Trade discounts may be used as a competitive stratagem to secure customer loyalty.商业折扣可以用作维护顾客忠诚度的一种竞争策略。
23 lengthen n34y1     
vt.使伸长,延长
参考例句:
  • He asked the tailor to lengthen his coat.他请裁缝把他的外衣放长些。
  • The teacher told her to lengthen her paper out.老师让她把论文加长。
24 saturated qjEzG3     
a.饱和的,充满的
参考例句:
  • The continuous rain had saturated the soil. 连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。
  • a saturated solution of sodium chloride 氯化钠饱和溶液
25 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。
26 mighty YDWxl     
adj.强有力的;巨大的
参考例句:
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
27 catastrophes 9d10f3014dc151d21be6612c0d467fd0     
n.灾祸( catastrophe的名词复数 );灾难;不幸事件;困难
参考例句:
  • Two of history's worst natural catastrophes occurred in 1970. 1970年发生了历史上最严重两次自然灾害。 来自辞典例句
  • The Swiss deposits contain evidence of such catastrophes. 瑞士的遗址里还有这种灾难的证据。 来自辞典例句
28 ivy x31ys     
n.常青藤,常春藤
参考例句:
  • Her wedding bouquet consisted of roses and ivy.她的婚礼花篮包括玫瑰和长春藤。
  • The wall is covered all over with ivy.墙上爬满了常春藤。
29 ironies cb70cfbfac9e60ff1ec5e238560309fb     
n.反语( irony的名词复数 );冷嘲;具有讽刺意味的事;嘲弄
参考例句:
  • It was one of life's little ironies. 那是生活中的一个小小的嘲弄。
  • History has many ironies. 历史有许多具有讽刺意味的事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
30 astronomer DOEyh     
n.天文学家
参考例句:
  • A new star attracted the notice of the astronomer.新发现的一颗星引起了那位天文学家的注意。
  • He is reputed to have been a good astronomer.他以一个优秀的天文学者闻名于世。
31 creeds 6087713156d7fe5873785720253dc7ab     
(尤指宗教)信条,教条( creed的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • people of all races, colours and creeds 各种种族、肤色和宗教信仰的人
  • Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creeds. 天主教徒对于新教教义来说,是不可知论者。
32 alleys ed7f32602655381e85de6beb51238b46     
胡同,小巷( alley的名词复数 ); 小径
参考例句:
  • I followed him through a maze of narrow alleys. 我紧随他穿过一条条迂迴曲折的窄巷。
  • The children lead me through the maze of alleys to the edge of the city. 孩子们领我穿过迷宫一般的街巷,来到城边。
33 dubbed dubbed     
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
参考例句:
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
34 winding Ue7z09     
n.绕,缠,绕组,线圈
参考例句:
  • A winding lane led down towards the river.一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
  • The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation.迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。
35 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。
36 Christians 28e6e30f94480962cc721493f76ca6c6     
n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
  • His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。
37 slaughtering 303e79b6fadb94c384e21f6b9f287a62     
v.屠杀,杀戮,屠宰( slaughter的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The Revolutionary Tribunal went to work, and a steady slaughtering began. 革命法庭投入工作,持续不断的大屠杀开始了。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史
  • \"Isn't it terrific slaughtering pigs? “宰猪的! 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
38 vaulting d6beb2dc838180d7d10c4f3f14b1fb72     
n.(天花板或屋顶的)拱形结构
参考例句:
  • The vaulting horse is a difficult piece of apparatus to master. 鞍马是很难掌握的器械。
  • Sallie won the pole vaulting. 莎莉撑杆跳获胜。
39 ghetto nzGyV     
n.少数民族聚居区,贫民区
参考例句:
  • Racism and crime still flourish in the ghetto.城市贫民区的种族主义和犯罪仍然十分猖獗。
  • I saw that achievement as a possible pattern for the entire ghetto.我把获得的成就看作整个黑人区可以仿效的榜样。
40 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。
41 devoutly b33f384e23a3148a94d9de5213bd205f     
adv.虔诚地,虔敬地,衷心地
参考例句:
  • She was a devoutly Catholic. 她是一个虔诚地天主教徒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This was not a boast, but a hope, at once bold and devoutly humble. 这不是夸夸其谈,而是一个即大胆而又诚心、谦虚的希望。 来自辞典例句
42 cemetery ur9z7     
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
参考例句:
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
43 inconvenient m4hy5     
adj.不方便的,令人感到麻烦的
参考例句:
  • You have come at a very inconvenient time.你来得最不适时。
  • Will it be inconvenient for him to attend that meeting?他参加那次会议会不方便吗?
44 antiquity SNuzc     
n.古老;高龄;古物,古迹
参考例句:
  • The museum contains the remains of Chinese antiquity.博物馆藏有中国古代的遗物。
  • There are many legends about the heroes of antiquity.有许多关于古代英雄的传说。
45 cultivation cnfzl     
n.耕作,培养,栽培(法),养成
参考例句:
  • The cultivation in good taste is our main objective.培养高雅情趣是我们的主要目标。
  • The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.这块土地不够肥沃,不值得耕种。
46 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
47 surmise jHiz8     
v./n.猜想,推测
参考例句:
  • It turned out that my surmise was correct.结果表明我的推测没有错。
  • I surmise that he will take the job.我推测他会接受这份工作。
48 scotch ZZ3x8     
n.伤口,刻痕;苏格兰威士忌酒;v.粉碎,消灭,阻止;adj.苏格兰(人)的
参考例句:
  • Facts will eventually scotch these rumours.这种谣言在事实面前将不攻自破。
  • Italy was full of fine views and virtually empty of Scotch whiskey.意大利多的是美景,真正缺的是苏格兰威士忌。
49 abreast Zf3yi     
adv.并排地;跟上(时代)的步伐,与…并进地
参考例句:
  • She kept abreast with the flood of communications that had poured in.她及时回复如雪片般飞来的大批信件。
  • We can't keep abreast of the developing situation unless we study harder.我们如果不加强学习,就会跟不上形势。
50 modifications aab0760046b3cea52940f1668245e65d     
n.缓和( modification的名词复数 );限制;更改;改变
参考例句:
  • The engine was pulled apart for modifications and then reassembled. 发动机被拆开改型,然后再组装起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The original plan had undergone fairly extensive modifications. 原计划已经作了相当大的修改。 来自《简明英汉词典》
51 accrue iNGzp     
v.(利息等)增大,增多
参考例句:
  • Ability to think will accrue to you from good habits of study.思考能力将因良好的学习习惯而自然增强。
  • Money deposited in banks will accrue to us with interest.钱存在银行,利息自生。
52 concoction 8Ytyv     
n.调配(物);谎言
参考例句:
  • She enjoyed the concoction of foreign dishes.她喜欢调制外国菜。
  • His story was a sheer concoction.他的故事实在是一纯属捏造之事。
53 eloquent ymLyN     
adj.雄辩的,口才流利的;明白显示出的
参考例句:
  • He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.他能言善辩,胜过最好的演说家。
  • These ruins are an eloquent reminder of the horrors of war.这些废墟形象地提醒人们不要忘记战争的恐怖。
54 crumbling Pyaxy     
adj.摇摇欲坠的
参考例句:
  • an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
  • The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。
55 curt omjyx     
adj.简短的,草率的
参考例句:
  • He gave me an extremely curt answer.他对我作了极为草率的答复。
  • He rapped out a series of curt commands.他大声发出了一连串简短的命令。
56 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。
57 morbid u6qz3     
adj.病的;致病的;病态的;可怕的
参考例句:
  • Some people have a morbid fascination with crime.一些人对犯罪有一种病态的痴迷。
  • It's morbid to dwell on cemeteries and such like.不厌其烦地谈论墓地以及诸如此类的事是一种病态。
58 decadent HaYyZ     
adj.颓废的,衰落的,堕落的
参考例句:
  • Don't let decadent ideas eat into yourselves.别让颓废的思想侵蚀你们。
  • This song was once banned, because it was regarded as decadent.这首歌曾经被认定为是靡靡之音而被禁止播放。
59 maidens 85662561d697ae675e1f32743af22a69     
处女( maiden的名词复数 ); 少女; 未婚女子; (板球运动)未得分的一轮投球
参考例句:
  • stories of knights and fair maidens 关于骑士和美女的故事
  • Transplantation is not always successful in the matter of flowers or maidens. 花儿移栽往往并不成功,少女们换了环境也是如此。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
60 judicious V3LxE     
adj.明智的,明断的,能作出明智决定的
参考例句:
  • We should listen to the judicious opinion of that old man.我们应该听取那位老人明智的意见。
  • A judicious parent encourages his children to make their own decisions.贤明的父亲鼓励儿女自作抉择。
61 converse 7ZwyI     
vi.谈话,谈天,闲聊;adv.相反的,相反
参考例句:
  • He can converse in three languages.他可以用3种语言谈话。
  • I wanted to appear friendly and approachable but I think I gave the converse impression.我想显得友好、平易近人些,却发觉给人的印象恰恰相反。
62 condemn zpxzp     
vt.谴责,指责;宣判(罪犯),判刑
参考例句:
  • Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他,而有些人谴责他。
  • We mustn't condemn him on mere suppositions.我们不可全凭臆测来指责他。
63 insidious fx6yh     
adj.阴险的,隐匿的,暗中为害的,(疾病)不知不觉之间加剧
参考例句:
  • That insidious man bad-mouthed me to almost everyone else.那个阴险的家伙几乎见人便说我的坏话。
  • Organized crime has an insidious influence on all who come into contact with it.所有和集团犯罪有关的人都会不知不觉地受坏影响。
64 imbibe Fy9yO     
v.喝,饮;吸入,吸收
参考例句:
  • Plants imbibe nourishment usually through their leaves and roots.植物通常经过叶和根吸收养分。
  • I always imbibe fresh air in the woods.我经常在树林里呼吸新鲜空气。
65 bind Vt8zi     
vt.捆,包扎;装订;约束;使凝固;vi.变硬
参考例句:
  • I will let the waiter bind up the parcel for you.我让服务生帮你把包裹包起来。
  • He wants a shirt that does not bind him.他要一件不使他觉得过紧的衬衫。
66 hereditary fQJzF     
adj.遗传的,遗传性的,可继承的,世袭的
参考例句:
  • The Queen of England is a hereditary ruler.英国女王是世袭的统治者。
  • In men,hair loss is hereditary.男性脱发属于遗传。
67 elegance QjPzj     
n.优雅;优美,雅致;精致,巧妙
参考例句:
  • The furnishings in the room imparted an air of elegance.这个房间的家具带给这房间一种优雅的气氛。
  • John has been known for his sartorial elegance.约翰因为衣着讲究而出名。
68 providence 8tdyh     
n.深谋远虑,天道,天意;远见;节约;上帝
参考例句:
  • It is tempting Providence to go in that old boat.乘那艘旧船前往是冒大险。
  • To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence.照你的所作所为那样去行事,是违背上帝的意志的。
69 fixed JsKzzj     
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
参考例句:
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
70 hind Cyoya     
adj.后面的,后部的
参考例句:
  • The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.这种动物能够用后肢站立。
  • Don't hind her in her studies.不要在学业上扯她后腿。
71 baton 5Quyw     
n.乐队用指挥杖
参考例句:
  • With the baton the conductor was beating time.乐队指挥用指挥棒打拍子。
  • The conductor waved his baton,and the band started up.指挥挥动指挥棒,乐队开始演奏起来。
72 plumed 160f544b3765f7a5765fdd45504f15fb     
饰有羽毛的
参考例句:
  • The knight plumed his helmet with brilliant red feathers. 骑士用鲜红的羽毛装饰他的头盔。
  • The eagle plumed its wing. 这只鹰整理它的翅膀。
73 attenuated d547804f5ac8a605def5470fdb566b22     
v.(使)变细( attenuate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)变薄;(使)变小;减弱
参考例句:
  • an attenuated form of the virus 毒性已衰减的病毒
  • You're a seraphic suggestion of attenuated thought . 你的思想是轻灵得如同天使一般的。 来自辞典例句
74 appendage KeJy7     
n.附加物
参考例句:
  • After their work,the calculus was no longer an appendage and extension of Greek geometry.经过他们的工作,微积分不再是古希腊几何的附庸和延展。
  • Macmillan must have loathed being judged as a mere appendage to domestic politics.麦克米伦肯定极不喜欢只被当成国内政治的附属品。
75 pranced 7eeb4cd505dcda99671e87a66041b41d     
v.(马)腾跃( prance的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Their horses pranced and whinnied. 他们的马奔腾着、嘶鸣着。 来自辞典例句
  • The little girl pranced about the room in her new clothes. 小女孩穿着新衣在屋里雀跃。 来自辞典例句
76 judiciously 18cfc8ca2569d10664611011ec143a63     
adv.明断地,明智而审慎地
参考例句:
  • Let's use these intelligence tests judiciously. 让我们好好利用这些智力测试题吧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His ideas were quaint and fantastic. She brought him judiciously to earth. 他的看法荒廖古怪,她颇有见识地劝他面对现实。 来自辞典例句
77 conscientiously 3vBzrQ     
adv.凭良心地;认真地,负责尽职地;老老实实
参考例句:
  • He kept silent,eating just as conscientiously but as though everything tasted alike. 他一声不吭,闷头吃着,仿佛桌上的饭菜都一个味儿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She discharged all the responsibilities of a minister conscientiously. 她自觉地履行部长的一切职责。 来自《简明英汉词典》
78 anecdotes anecdotes     
n.掌故,趣闻,轶事( anecdote的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • amusing anecdotes about his brief career as an actor 关于他短暂演员生涯的趣闻逸事
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman. 他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
79 mania 9BWxu     
n.疯狂;躁狂症,狂热,癖好
参考例句:
  • Football mania is sweeping the country.足球热正风靡全国。
  • Collecting small items can easily become a mania.收藏零星物品往往容易变成一种癖好。
80 quay uClyc     
n.码头,靠岸处
参考例句:
  • There are all kinds of ships in a quay.码头停泊各式各样的船。
  • The side of the boat hit the quay with a grinding jar.船舷撞到码头发出刺耳的声音。
81 distinctive Es5xr     
adj.特别的,有特色的,与众不同的
参考例句:
  • She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
  • This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。
82 idiotic wcFzd     
adj.白痴的
参考例句:
  • It is idiotic to go shopping with no money.去买东西而不带钱是很蠢的。
  • The child's idiotic deeds caused his family much trouble.那小孩愚蠢的行为给家庭带来许多麻烦。
83 mingled fdf34efd22095ed7e00f43ccc823abdf     
混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系]
参考例句:
  • The sounds of laughter and singing mingled in the evening air. 笑声和歌声交织在夜空中。
  • The man and the woman mingled as everyone started to relax. 当大家开始放松的时候,这一男一女就开始交往了。
84 reproof YBhz9     
n.斥责,责备
参考例句:
  • A smart reproof is better than smooth deceit.严厉的责难胜过温和的欺骗。
  • He is impatient of reproof.他不能忍受指责。
85 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。
86 softening f4d358268f6bd0b278eabb29f2ee5845     
变软,软化
参考例句:
  • Her eyes, softening, caressed his face. 她的眼光变得很温柔了。它们不住地爱抚他的脸。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • He might think my brain was softening or something of the kind. 他也许会觉得我婆婆妈妈的,已经成了个软心肠的人了。
87 apparitions 3dc5187f53445bc628519dfb8474d1d7     
n.特异景象( apparition的名词复数 );幽灵;鬼;(特异景象等的)出现
参考例句:
  • And this year occurs the 90th anniversary of these apparitions. 今年是她显现的九十周年纪念。 来自互联网
  • True love is like ghostly apparitions: everybody talks about them but few have ever seen one. 真爱就如同幽灵显现:所有人都谈论它们,但很少有人见到过一个。 来自互联网
88 asylums a7cbe86af3f73438f61b49bb3c95d31e     
n.避难所( asylum的名词复数 );庇护;政治避难;精神病院
参考例句:
  • No wonder Mama says love drives people into asylums. 难怪南蛮妈妈说,爱情会让人变成疯子。 来自互联网
89 deceptive CnMzO     
adj.骗人的,造成假象的,靠不住的
参考例句:
  • His appearance was deceptive.他的外表带有欺骗性。
  • The storyline is deceptively simple.故事情节看似简单,其实不然。
90 curiously 3v0zIc     
adv.有求知欲地;好问地;奇特地
参考例句:
  • He looked curiously at the people.他好奇地看着那些人。
  • He took long stealthy strides. His hands were curiously cold.他迈着悄没声息的大步。他的双手出奇地冷。
91 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。
92 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。
93 promenade z0Wzy     
n./v.散步
参考例句:
  • People came out in smarter clothes to promenade along the front.人们穿上更加时髦漂亮的衣服,沿着海滨散步。
  • We took a promenade along the canal after Sunday dinner.星期天晚饭后我们沿着运河散步。
94 colonnade OqmzM     
n.柱廊
参考例句:
  • This colonnade will take you out of the palace and the game.这条柱廊将带你离开宫殿和游戏。
  • The terrace was embraced by the two arms of the colonnade.平台由两排柱廊环抱。
95 throng sGTy4     
n.人群,群众;v.拥挤,群集
参考例句:
  • A patient throng was waiting in silence.一大群耐心的人在静静地等着。
  • The crowds thronged into the mall.人群涌进大厅。
96 grandees b56a4bfd572b54025901b6b6f4afff8a     
n.贵族,大公,显贵者( grandee的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The highest-ranking members of the Spanish aristocracy are the grandees. 西班牙贵族中爵位最高的成员乃是大公。 来自辞典例句
  • Several grandees of the town are present at the party. 城里的几位要人出席了晚会。 来自互联网
97 quaint 7tqy2     
adj.古雅的,离奇有趣的,奇怪的
参考例句:
  • There were many small lanes in the quaint village.在这古香古色的村庄里,有很多小巷。
  • They still keep some quaint old customs.他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。
98 picturesque qlSzeJ     
adj.美丽如画的,(语言)生动的,绘声绘色的
参考例句:
  • You can see the picturesque shores beside the river.在河边你可以看到景色如画的两岸。
  • That was a picturesque phrase.那是一个形象化的说法。
99 intruded 8326c2a488b587779b620c459f2d3c7e     
n.侵入的,推进的v.侵入,侵扰,打扰( intrude的过去式和过去分词 );把…强加于
参考例句:
  • One could believe that human creatures had never intruded there before. 你简直会以为那是从来没有人到过的地方。 来自辞典例句
  • The speaker intruded a thin smile into his seriousness. 演说人严肃的脸上掠过一丝笑影。 来自辞典例句
100 dame dvGzR0     
n.女士
参考例句:
  • The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
  • If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会,你就要跟那个夫人结婚。


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