"We'll have another search in the morning, but you can take it for granted that there's no cache here," Carnally said grimly.
"Could Mappin have made a mistake about the place?" Graham suggested.
"No, sir! That's a sure thing. But wait a minute. I think I see!" Carnally lighted his pipe before he resumed: "Now, you want to remember that we're up against a clever man. He didn't mean us to find the food but he'd see that there was a chance of our getting through without it and try to fix things so Allinson wouldn't have much ground for making trouble. So he sent the supplies up."
"Then where are they?" Andrew broke in.
"Let me finish. I guess there was nobody else about when you told him where to make the cache?"
Andrew nodded, and Carnally went on:
"You said the east Whitefish, and he sent the truck to the west fork. It's a point where one might go wrong, and he'll claim that he misunderstood you and you didn't make your instructions clear."
"I believe you're right!" Andrew had a savage2 glitter in his eyes. "But the brute's cold-blooded cunning is devilish! He meant to starve us to death because I threatened his contract!"
[Pg 176]"That's not all. Mappin's dirt mean, but I guess he has a stronger count against you."
"Ah!" said Andrew sharply, as a light dawned on him. "I wonder whether you have hit the mark?"
In spite of the peril3 to which he was exposed he felt a thrill of satisfaction. It looked as if Mappin, whom he suspected of seeking Geraldine's favor, had some ground for believing him a successful rival. Perhaps the girl had inadvertently betrayed a preference for him. Mappin would not be driven into a risky4 course by impulse; he must have believed his jealousy5 well-founded. This was comforting; but Andrew had now to consider how he and his comrades were to escape from their difficulties.
"Couldn't we get across to the west fork?" he suggested.
"We'll try," said Carnally. "It's a rough bit of country."
"Very rough," Graham agreed. "A low range with steep rock on this side runs through it. I've no doubt Mappin knew that when he decided6 to make the cache on the other fork."
"Then suppose we can't get over?"
Carnally looked thoughtful.
"If that's so, we'll push on for the second cache."
They looked at him in astonishment7 and he smiled. "The cache is there—somewhere about the neck you told him of—though I guess he'll have had it put where we won't find it easily. Anyhow, it will have to be found and, when it comes to bush work, my head's as good as Mappin's."
Andrew made a gesture of assent8. Apart from his knowledge of the wilds, Carnally had shown a power of close and accurate reasoning which had surprised him.[Pg 177] Indeed, Andrew was inclined to think him a match for Mappin all round, and was glad of it, because there was no doubt that he needed a keen-witted supporter.
"There's another thing," Carnally remarked presently "Has it struck you that Hathersage may have given the hog10 a hint?"
Andrew flushed.
"No," he said sternly. "It's unthinkable! I can't discuss the point."
"Oh, well," acquiesced11 Carnally. "Now that we've decided what to do, we'd better get to sleep. We have to look for a way across the range the first thing to-morrow."
At noon the next day Andrew stood, breathless, half-way up a gully filled with hard snow. Walls of ice-glazed12 rock shut it in, but it led straight up the face of a towering crag toward an opening high above. Andrew carried a thick, sharp-pointed13 stick with which he had laboriously14 broken holes for his feet, because soft moccasins are treacherous16 things on a steep snow-slope. He and Carnally had spent half an hour over the ascent17, and Andrew, looking up with a sinking heart, thought it would take them as long to reach the summit, provided they could avoid slipping, which was doubtful.
The gully lay in shadow, a long, deep rent, widening toward the bottom, in which the snow gleamed a soft blue-gray, though a ray of sunlight struck the beetling18 crag so that it flashed with steely brightness. Here and there a spur of rock broke the smooth surface and offered a resting-place, but some of the spaces between them seemed dangerously precipitous. Andrew, worn with hunger and fatigue19, frowned at the sight.
"This looked the quickest way up and we haven't[Pg 178] much time to lose," he said. "I'll feel very savage if we don't get a clear view from the top."
"You'll get that," replied Carnally, finding a precarious20 seat near by. "Whether you'll see a way through the rocks on the other side or not is another matter, and I'm doubtful. Better get a move on, hadn't you?"
Andrew placed his foot in a hole he had made, but the snow broke as he rested on it, and he slipped down several yards before the stick brought him up. He shuddered21 as he glanced below, for it struck him that had he slid a little farther he would not have stopped until he reached the bottom.
"This is an abominable22 slope," he exclaimed. "I've been on worse in Switzerland, but I had an ice-ax and wasn't half starved then. However, we'll have another try."
He got up twenty yards, clawing at the snow, and then stopped for breath, glancing ruefully at his mittens23, which showed signs of wearing through.
"It means frost-bitten hands if these things give out, and they won't stand much more," he said. "The worst of it is that you think we'll find we have wasted our labor15 when we get to the top. I believe I could feel cheerful if I could see Mappin crawling up after us."
"Mappin has more sense. He stays in his office, which is how money is made. You don't, as a rule, get much for doing this kind of thing. Still, he has to take some chances, and one he didn't size up right is going back on him. When I'm feeling tired and hungry I like to think of my meeting with that man."
"When you're feeling tired and hungry!" Andrew exclaimed. "I feel both all the time!"
[Pg 179]"Well," returned Carnally, "what can you expect? If you will make trouble instead of letting things alone, you must take the consequences. Now, if you had been a sensible man and not worried about shareholders24 you have never seen, you might have been sitting down to your lunch at home. Think of it! A nice warm room, a butler, or somebody of the kind, bringing you a menu as long as your hand. Put you there right now, and you'd take the whole lot. Say, what do you have as a rule?"
"Stop!" said Andrew. "It won't bear thinking of! I know what I'll get for supper, and that's an inch or two of flinty bannock, burned black outside."
It was surface jesting and forced upon them, because they would not face the tragic25 possibilities of the situation before it was necessary. It was easier to do what could be done with a laugh. Still, they had not laughed much lately, until the imminence26 of disaster braced27 them to it.
Changing places now and then to relieve the leader of the work of breaking footholds, they reached the summit, and Andrew's heart sank as he gazed at the landscape which stretched away before him. The air was clear, bright sunshine glittered on the high rocks, but the snow in the shadow was steeped in ethereal blue; dark spruces broke the gleaming surface with a delicate intricacy of outline. The scene had a wild grandeur28, but from Andrew's point of view it was inexpressibly discouraging. They had laboriously scaled the first and largest rampart, but beyond it lay a series of lower ridges30 with rugged31 and almost precipitous sides. The hollows, so far as he could see, were filled with spruce muskeg—the small rotting trees falling across each other with underbrush pushing up[Pg 180] between. To traverse these places would be a very difficult matter.
"It looks pretty bad," he said slowly. "Mappin knew his business when he had the cache made on the wrong side of the range."
"He's smart," Carnally agreed. "A hard man to beat, and you want to use a full-sized club when you stand up to him; but I guess he'd go down if he got the right knock-out."
Andrew, tired and hungry, failed to see how the decisive blow could be given: there did not seem to be much probability of his ever coming to close quarters with his enemy. So far as his brief experience went, injustice32 was singularly hard to vanquish33 and the reformer's path rough.
"Couldn't we work around the hills to the other fork?" he asked.
"The grub would run out before we got there."
"I suppose we couldn't push straight across, leaving Graham until we came back?"
"We might, if we had time enough. I believe there's forty miles of this broken country. Look at it!"
Andrew had already done so, and it had daunted34 him. He remembered that they had been since sunrise reaching the top of the first ridge29.
"Then what must be done?"
"My advice is to look for the second cache."
They turned back, following the crest35 until they found an easier but longer way down. Graham glanced at them sharply when they reached the camp, and guessed the truth, though Andrew tried to smile.
"Leave me behind," he urged.
"No," said Andrew firmly; "not while we have strength enough to haul the sled. There's no more[Pg 181] to be said on that point. We're going on together to the gap in the long ridge."
"When do you mean to start?"
"Right now!" Carnally broke in. "Get the camp truck rolled up. We'll have mighty36 keen appetites before we make the cache."
In quarter of an hour they crossed the creek37 and toiled38 up a broken slope, and when they gained the top Andrew looked back at the island with a grim smile.
"Yesterday afternoon I came up that river at four miles an hour, looking forward to my supper like an epicure39. Now I'm glad to see the last of the place."
They went down, stumbling and sliding, while Graham clung tightly to the lurching sled. Time was of vital importance to them now, for its flight could be measured by the exhaustion41 of their food supply. For the hour or two of daylight that remained Carnally drove his comrade hard, and it was with a strange savage hilarity42 that they rushed the sled down declivities and dragged it with many a crash and bump through thickets44. Their course was roughly south and any deviation45 was intolerable. Night closed in, but it was far from dark and they held on until Andrew stumbled and fell. The sled struck him before he could get up, but a hard smile was on his lips when he rose shakily and looked about. There was an uncovered rock not far off with a few junipers growing beside it.
"This is far enough, Jake," he said. "You're bad to tire, but I don't suppose you feel equal to hauling another passenger."
They broke camp in the dark the next morning, and the forced marches they made during the next seven[Pg 182] days wore the half-starved men terribly. Sometimes they had to contend with fresh snow, in which the sled runners sank; sometimes they plodded46 doggedly47 with lowered heads while a raging wind drove the stinging flakes48 into their pinched faces; and there were days of bitter frost when they could not keep warm. Still, they crept on across the rugged desolation, and one evening reached a belt of timber beneath a low range that stretched across their path. The ridge was broken by a gap a mile or two ahead, and it was there that Andrew had instructed Mappin to make the second cache. A crescent moon rose above the dark tree-tops as they lighted a fire. Andrew glanced at the hillside irresolutely49.
"There's food up yonder, if we could get our hands on it, and I would enjoy a good supper, Heaven knows; but I don't feel equal to facing another disappointment," he said. "I'm afraid we'll have to wait until to-morrow."
"That's my feeling," Carnally agreed. "I've gone as far as I'm able, and that grub won't be found easily. You may as well gather some wood and fill the kettle."
When they had eaten the few morsels50 he allowed them they sat smoking beside the fire. The thin spruce boughs51 above them were laden52 with snow which now and then fell upon the brands; a malignant53 wind swept between the slender trunks and blew the smoke about the men. After a while the casual talk, which had cost them an effort to keep up, died away, and there was a long silence until Carnally spoke54.
"I guess we're all thinking about those provisions. We'll look for them at sun-up. What I've been trying to do for several days is to put myself in Mappin's place."
[Pg 183]"It must have been difficult," Andrew remarked. "If I thought you could do so, I'd disown you. But go on."
"Well," said Carnally, "we have agreed that he meant to make it hard for us to find the cache; but he'd try to fix things so the packers he sent up with the truck shouldn't guess his object. He wouldn't tell them to pick a place where nobody would think of looking."
"You're assuming that he'd employ honest men," Graham objected. "What's to prevent his hiring three or four toughs and bribing55 them to say nothing?"
"He's too smart," said Carnally promptly56. "He'd know that if we got lost up here the fellows could keep striking him for money and he'd have to pay; while if we got through, there'd be a risk of our finding them and buying them over. Besides, men of the kind he'd want are scarce in the bush. If they're to be found, it's hanging round the saloons in the cities."
"Then we'll assume that the boys were square. That would make it harder for him and easier for us. What follows?"
Carnally drank some tea from a blackened can before he answered.
"This matter needs a lot of thinking out, and it looks as if our lives depended on our thinking right. Allinson's instructions to the hog seem to have been pretty clear, and he wouldn't plant the cache too far from the gap. Then he'd have to arrange things so the boys would think they'd dumped the truck in a handy place for a party coming down from the north."
"I believe he has never been up here," Andrew argued. "Are there any good maps? I couldn't get one."
"They're sketchy," Graham said. "My idea is[Pg 184] that Mappin would get hold of a prospector57 who knows the country and have a good talk with him; but he wouldn't send him up with the other men."
"It's probable," agreed Carnally. "Well, in my opinion the provisions are lying south of the pass in one of the gulches59 leading down from the height of land, but not directly on our line of march. You can come up from Rain Bluff61 several ways, and the hog would mark a route for the boys which would bring them in, so far as he could figure, a bit outside the shortest track. We've got to find the gulch60 they'd pitch on. It's our brains against Mappin's."
"Your brains," Andrew corrected him.
Carnally knocked out his pipe.
"I allow I'll want a clear head to-morrow and I'm going to sleep."
He and Andrew left camp in the dark the next morning; but day had broken when they stood in the gap of the neck, looking down on the broken country beneath. For a short distance the descent from the pass was clearly defined, leading down a hollow among the rocks, but after that it opened out on to a scarp of hillside from which a number of ravines branched off and led to the banks of a frozen creek. They seemed to be filled with brush, and the spurs between them were rough. It was a difficult country to traverse, and Andrew realized with concern that the search might last several days.
"Take that right hand gulch," Carnally directed. "Follow it right down to the creek and come back up the next farther on, while I prospect58 east. If we find nothing in the ravines, we'll try the spurs."
"The obvious place is the gap we're standing62 in," Andrew pointed out. "How would Mappin get over that without making his packers suspicious?"
[Pg 185]"I thought of it," said Carnally. "He'd contend that he was afraid the cache might get snowed up; and it would be a pretty good reason. The drifts pile up deep in a gap like this."
Andrew left him and spent a long while climbing down a rough ravine which led him to the river. It was noon when he came back up another and the exertion63 had told on him, but they had long ago dispensed64 with a midday meal and he held on at a dragging pace until a thrill ran through him at the sight of a tall pole among the rocks ahead. He made for it in haste, floundering over the snow-covered stones, and lost it once or twice at a bend in the gully. At last he stopped in the bottom of the hollow, looking up at a steep face of rock. It was ragged43 and broken, glazed with ice in some places, and he doubted whether he could get up; but a foot or two of the pole rose above the top. Following up the gully, he looked for an easier ascent, but he could not find one. Fearing to lose the pole, he stopped and shouted on the chance that Carnally might be in the neighborhood. Presently a cry answered him, and when Carnally came scrambling65 down the hollow Andrew took him back and pointed out the pole.
"A dead fir!" cried Carnally. "Looks as if somebody had broken the branches off, and there are no other trees about! The trouble is, we can't get up from here."
"We will have to!" declared Andrew. "If you could give me a lift up over the worst bits, I'd help you when I had found a hold. Anyway, we must try!"
Carnally consented dubiously66. The rock was about thirty feet in height and very steep, though there were several crevices67 and broken edges. Andrew ascended68 one of the latter, gripping it with hands and knees. Reaching a narrow ledge9, he leaned down and gave his[Pg 186] hand to Carnally, and when he had helped him up they stopped for a minute or two. They were weak and hungry, and there was an awkward bulge69 above.
"Steady me up," said Andrew. "If I can find a crack for my hand, I can get up there."
For a few moments he rested his foot on Carnally's back; then he pressed his toes against the stone and his comrade watched him disappear beyond the bulging70 rock with unpleasant sensations, knowing that he would have to follow. Presently, however, the bottom of Andrew's fur coat fell over the edge and Carnally, seizing it, scrambled71 up three or four feet, until the projecting stone forced him outward. Losing hold with his feet, he hung by his hands for a moment or two, in a state of horrible fear.
"Throw one arm over the projection72!" Andrew shouted.
Carnally found a hold; Andrew seized his arm; and after an arduous73 struggle he stood, gasping74, on a snowy knob. The sharp edge of a big slab75 rose eight or nine feet above him.
"Take a rest," advised Andrew. "If you go slowly, you ought to get up this last bit."
"I'll have to try. It's a sure thing I can't get down. But how d'you come to be so smart at this work?"
"I used to do something like it in Switzerland."
"Well," said Carnally, "you're a curious kind of man: I guess you didn't have to climb. I'd find it a bit too exciting if I wasn't doing it for money."
"We're not climbing for money now," Andrew grimly reminded him. "There's food ahead of us and we must get on!"
They made the ascent, though it tried their nerve severely76. When they finally crawled up to the summit Andrew stopped, growing suddenly white in the face.
Carnally sat down heavily in the snow.
"A dead tree! Nobody put it there; it grew!"
With an effort he pulled himself together.
"Come! We'll try farther on!"
点击
收听单词发音
收听单词发音 |
1
scanty
|
|
| adj.缺乏的，仅有的，节省的，狭小的，不够的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
2
savage
|
|
| adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
3
peril
|
|
| n.(严重的)危险；危险的事物 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
4
risky
|
|
| adj.有风险的，冒险的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
5
jealousy
|
|
| n.妒忌，嫉妒，猜忌 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
6
decided
|
|
| adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
7
astonishment
|
|
| n.惊奇，惊异 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
8
assent
|
|
| v.批准，认可；n.批准，认可 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
9
ledge
|
|
| n.壁架，架状突出物；岩架，岩礁 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
10
hog
|
|
| n.猪；馋嘴贪吃的人；vt.把…占为己有，独占 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
11
acquiesced
|
|
| v.默认，默许( acquiesce的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
12
glazed
|
|
| adj.光滑的，像玻璃的；上过釉的；呆滞无神的v.装玻璃( glaze的过去式)；上釉于，上光；（目光）变得呆滞无神 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
13
pointed
|
|
| adj.尖的，直截了当的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
14
laboriously
|
|
| adv.艰苦地；费力地；辛勤地；（文体等）佶屈聱牙地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
15
labor
|
|
| n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
16
treacherous
|
|
| adj.不可靠的，有暗藏的危险的；adj.背叛的，背信弃义的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
17
ascent
|
|
| n.(声望或地位)提高；上升，升高；登高 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
18
beetling
|
|
| adj.突出的，悬垂的v.快速移动( beetle的现在分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
19
fatigue
|
|
| n.疲劳，劳累 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
20
precarious
|
|
| adj.不安定的，靠不住的；根据不足的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
21
shuddered
|
|
| v.战栗( shudder的过去式和过去分词 )；发抖；（机器、车辆等）突然震动；颤动 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
22
abominable
|
|
| adj.可厌的，令人憎恶的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
23
mittens
|
|
| 不分指手套 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
24
shareholders
|
|
| n.股东( shareholder的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
25
tragic
|
|
| adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
26
imminence
|
|
| n.急迫，危急 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
27
braced
|
|
| adj.拉牢的v.支住( brace的过去式和过去分词 )；撑牢；使自己站稳；振作起来 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
28
grandeur
|
|
| n.伟大，崇高，宏伟，庄严，豪华 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
29
ridge
|
|
| n.山脊；鼻梁；分水岭 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
30
ridges
|
|
| n.脊( ridge的名词复数 )；山脊；脊状突起；大气层的)高压脊 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
31
rugged
|
|
| adj.高低不平的，粗糙的，粗壮的，强健的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
32
injustice
|
|
| n.非正义，不公正，不公平，侵犯（别人的）权利 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
33
vanquish
|
|
| v.征服，战胜；克服；抑制 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
34
daunted
|
|
| 使（某人）气馁，威吓( daunt的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
35
crest
|
|
| n.顶点；饰章；羽冠；vt.达到顶点；vi.形成浪尖 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
36
mighty
|
|
| adj.强有力的；巨大的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
37
creek
|
|
| n.小溪，小河，小湾 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
38
toiled
|
|
| 长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 )； 艰难缓慢地移动，跋涉 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
39
epicure
|
|
| n.行家，美食家 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
40
hustle
|
|
| v.推搡；竭力兜售或获取；催促；n.奔忙(碌) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
41
exhaustion
|
|
| n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
42
hilarity
|
|
| n.欢乐；热闹 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
43
ragged
|
|
| adj.衣衫褴褛的，粗糙的，刺耳的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
44
thickets
|
|
| n.灌木丛( thicket的名词复数 )；丛状物 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
45
deviation
|
|
| n.背离，偏离；偏差，偏向；离题 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
46
plodded
|
|
| v.沉重缓慢地走（路）( plod的过去式和过去分词 )；努力从事；沉闷地苦干；缓慢进行（尤指艰难枯燥的工作） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
47
doggedly
|
|
| adv.顽强地，固执地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
48
flakes
|
|
| 小薄片( flake的名词复数 )； （尤指）碎片； 雪花； 古怪的人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
49
irresolutely
|
|
| adv.优柔寡断地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
50
morsels
|
|
| n.一口( morsel的名词复数 )；（尤指食物）小块，碎屑 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
51
boughs
|
|
| 大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
52
laden
|
|
| adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
53
malignant
|
|
| adj.恶性的，致命的；恶意的，恶毒的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
54
spoke
|
|
| 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： |
|
|
|
|
55
bribing
|
|
| 贿赂 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
56
promptly
|
|
| adv.及时地，敏捷地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
57
prospector
|
|
| n.探矿者 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
58
prospect
|
|
| n.前景，前途；景色，视野 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
59
gulches
|
|
| n.峡谷( gulch的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
|
60
gulch
|
|
| n.深谷，峡谷 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
61
bluff
|
|
| v.虚张声势，用假象骗人；n.虚张声势，欺骗 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
62
standing
|
|
| n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
63
exertion
|
|
| n.尽力，努力 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
64
dispensed
|
|
| v.分配( dispense的过去式和过去分词 )；施与；配（药） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
65
scrambling
|
|
| v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
66
dubiously
|
|
| adv.可疑地，怀疑地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
67
crevices
|
|
| n.（尤指岩石的）裂缝，缺口( crevice的名词复数 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
68
ascended
|
|
| v.上升，攀登( ascend的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
69
bulge
|
|
| n.突出，膨胀，激增；vt.突出，膨胀 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
70
bulging
|
|
| 膨胀； 凸出（部）； 打气； 折皱 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
71
scrambled
|
|
| v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
72
projection
|
|
| n.发射，计划，突出部分 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
73
arduous
|
|
| adj.艰苦的，费力的，陡峭的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
74
gasping
|
|
| adj. 气喘的, 痉挛的 动词gasp的现在分词 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
75
slab
|
|
| n.平板，厚的切片；v.切成厚板，以平板盖上 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
76
severely
|
|
| adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
77
hoarsely
|
|
| adv.嘶哑地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
| 欢迎访问英文小说网 |