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CHAPTER IX
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Shortly after dinner the entire party set out for the village, which was, it seemed, only half a mile away, and would have been reached by Jackson and Howard had they chanced to go in the right direction.
 
Bill and Joe knew all the easiest routes across the wreckage1, and led the newcomers by one, which, though not quite direct, yet involved the minimum of effort on Dorothy’s part. Nevertheless, progress was necessarily slow, and it took nearly an hour to go the so-called half mile.
 
When the village was sighted, it was evident that considerable pains had been taken to make it comfortable. A score of modern vessels3, mostly steamers, of about the same phase of flotation had been pulled into place and so bound together[111] as to constitute a solid mass. Over what had once been the interstices between them, planking had been laid, making it possible to go anywhere about the place without difficulty. Awnings4, spread from mast to mast, gave promise of cool shade.
 
“The cap’n fixed5 this up about a year after he came,” explained Bill to Howard. “Before then we just pigged around any which-a-ways. But he says that what with new ships drifting in continual, we’re gettin’ too far from the coast and we’ll have to move soon. Yonder he is, sir.”
 
As Bill spoke6, a tall, thickset man came hurriedly on deck, ran to the edge of the platform, cast a quick glance at the newcomers as they scrambled7 over the wreckage toward him, and then turned and beat a rapid tattoo8 on a ship’s bell that hung close at hand.
 
“That’s the signal that something’s doing,” explained Joe.
 
The village awoke to life. Half a dozen[112] hatchways gave out figures in every style of costume, and when the newcomers reached the deck, practically the entire population was waiting to welcome them.
 
Forbes was first, the rest holding back respectfully to give him precedence.
 
“Welcome! Welcome!” he called, holding out both hands. “Seldom indeed has any one been so welcome. And a special welcome to you, fair lady,” he added, as he bent9 low over Dorothy’s slender fingers. Then he turned to the villagers behind him. “Come, all of you,” he commanded. “Come and make our new friends feel at home.”
 
They came, all of them, crowding round the newcomers with a babble10 of greetings and questionings as to the world from which they had been so long cut off. So rapid was the fire of interrogation, and so multifarious the questions, that they fairly swept Jackson off his feet, and left the other two in little better case.
 
When the hubbub11 was at its height,[113] there came, from behind the rest, a hearty12, bustling13 sort of a voice. “Arrah! arrah! boys,” it pleaded. “Don’t you see you’re crowding the young lady? Make room for old Mother Joyce. How are you, me darlint? It’s terrible glad I am to see you; gladder than you are to see any of us, I’ll venture. There! deary! don’t cry. It’s all right.”
 
The old woman’s voice dropped to a soothing14 note. For Dorothy, all the experiences of the past two weeks coming on her afresh at sight of a woman’s face, had broken down completely, and was sobbing15 on Mother Joyce’s ample bosom16.
 
“Oh!” she wailed17, “I didn’t know how awful it has been until I saw you. All these dead ships——” Her voice died away.
 
“I know! I know! It was fifteen years agone that I—but I remimber. There, mavourneen, be aisy. Come along down to Mother Joyce’s cabin and have your cry out.”
 
[114]She took Dorothy down a hatchway some distance from the babbling18 throng19, into a cool and airy cabin.
 
“Sit down wid yees,” she commanded. “Sit down with Mother Joyce and wape it all out. I understand, dear heart; I understand.”
 
Dorothy’s curiosity soon mastered her tears, and before long the two women were exchanging confidences like old friends. Belonging to two different social worlds, elsewhere they would never have known each other. But adventure makes strange companions.
 
After a while Joe tapped at the door.
 
“Cap’n Forbes says, Mother Joyce,” he explained, “as how he hopes you an’ the young lady will take supper with him.”
 
Mother Joyce looked at Dorothy, who responded promptly20.
 
“I’ll be glad to do so, of course,” she answered.
 
“All right, Joe. We’ll come.” Then,[115] as the sailor’s footsteps died away, the old lady turned to Dorothy. “My dear,” she essayed diffidently. “It’s cautioning you a bit I must be. It’s a bad state of things for a pretty young woman like yourself we’re after having here, so it is. Will you be goin’ to marry that young man who saved your life and who’s been so kind to you ever since the wreck2?”
 
Dorothy sat up very straight, and her cheeks flamed.
 
“Indeed, I am not,” she exclaimed.
 
Mother Joyce looked more troubled than ever. “It’s not for idle curiosity I’m asking,” she continued, “but because—— Are you quite certain you don’t want to marry him? It’s good and true he looks and—maybe it’s not another chance you’ll be getting.”
 
Dorothy’s cheeks still burned, but uneasiness tugged22 at her heart-strings. Clearly there was something behind the old woman’s words—something of grave import, too. Joe and Bill had also hinted something she did not quite understand.
 
[116]“Marriage between me and Mr. Howard is entirely23 out of the question,” she replied quietly. “There are reasons that I can’t go into now. But I wish you would tell me exactly what the trouble is, dear Mother Joyce; for I am sure there is something dreadfully wrong.”
 
Mother Joyce studied the girl for a moment.
 
“Faith and I will,” she acquiesced24. “Maybe it’s all right it is—if you’re certain you don’t want to marry that young man of yours. The trouble is the plentiful25 lack of females we have here in the sea. You haven’t seen Prudence26 Gallegher yet. She’s the one other woman here. She drifted in alone and half crazy on the ship Swan two years ago. Her husband and everybody else had been drowned. In the two years she’s been here she’s been married four times.”
 
“Four times! How horrible! How could she——”
 
“It’s no choice she had. There were[117] twenty odd men here and only two women besides her. It’s not much about men in the rough you’ll be knowing, I think. Prudence had to make her choice and make it quick. She had to, or—well, she did the best she could, and she married two days after she got here. Six months later the poor creature was a widow—her husband killed by a block fallin’ from aloft and knocking his brains out. The morning after she married again. She had to, you’ll understand. Six or eight months afterward27 her second husband disappeared, and Cap’n Forbes declared it’s dead he must be, and that she must many once more. So marry she did. Three months ago Mr. Gallegher’s wife died—Mr. Gallegher is the mate—and within a week Prudence was a widow once more. It was a big snake that Captain Forbes keeps as a pet that did the worruk that time; it got loose and crushed poor Strother to death. The very next day Prudence was forced to marry[118] Gallegher—and her with a two-months’-old baby. Captain Forbes, you’ll understand, had a wife of his own all this time, but she died a week ago, and it’s myself that’s looking for somethin’ to happen to Gallegher any day.”
 
Dorothy gasped28. “You mean——” she cried.
 
“I mane that Cap’n Forbes wants a wife mighty29 bad, and that Gallegher wants even worse to find one for him. I mane that you’d better be considerin’ whether you’d rather marry your young man—or Cap’n Forbes.”
 
Dorothy listened with strained attention. This thing was too horrible to be true. That she, Dorothy Fairfax, ran the slightest danger of being forced to marry anybody was simply unthinkable. Mother Joyce was exaggerating. This Prudence Gallegher must be a weak sort of a woman—not one by whom to measure herself.
 
She turned to Mrs. Joyce. “Have—have[119] you been married more than once?” she asked.
 
A grim look banished30 the kindly31 lines from Mother Joyce’s face. “Only once, mavourneen,” she answered. “I gave them all to understand long ago that if they did away with Tim, it’s follow him I would—after I had killed all of them I could. And they belaved me. Besides, it’s an old woman I am—not a pretty young colleen like you. You’d better be after takin’ my advice; marry your young man quick if you want him and stay on your own ship till he can get you away from here.”
 
“But they all say we can’t get away.”
 
“Arrah! Go way wid you! Tell me twinty men can’t get away from anywhere if it’s any sinse they’ve got. Cap’n Forbes could have got us ashore32 long ago if he’d been wantin’ to. It’s talk he does about gittin’ stuck in the weed! What’s a lot of weed? You can cut through it, can’t you? Faith, the rale trouble is[120] Cap’n Forbes ain’t wantin’ to go, an’ he’s the only wan21 here with any seafarin’ since and any git up and git about him—unless your young man is after havin’ some.”
 
“Mr. Howard said we could get away if we could get a boat and compass and——”
 
“Oh! Sure, you’ll have to be havin’ a boat and some instruments to guide her, an’ it’s none so aisy to foind boats here. It’s me own opinion that the cap’n has destroyed all he found, so it is. As for compasses and such like, sure the cap’n has thim right enough locked away in his storehouse, even though he kapes them mighty secret. He don’t want to go himself and, be the same token, he don’t want any wan else to go. He moightn’t be such a big man if he was ashore, so he moightn’t! But you and your friends can get away—if Cap’n Forbes don’t prevent.”
 
Freed from the restraint of Dorothy’s[121] presence, the conversation on deck had grown even more animated33 than before. Howard and Jackson could scarcely answer one question before half a dozen more were plumped at them. Evidently, thirst for news of the world had not died out in the members of the colony.
 
Howard noticed, however, that Forbes himself soon drew aside from the rest and engaged in earnest talk with Joe and Bill, evidently questioning them in regard to the Queen and her passengers, and that later he devoted34 himself particularly to drawing out Jackson. Finally he came toward Howard.
 
“I guess your throat’s pretty dry, Mr. Howard,” he said, “and if you’ll come down to my cabin, I’ll see if I can’t find something to irrigate35 it with.”
 
Howard willingly accepted the invitation. From all he had heard it was obvious to him that this puppet king had resolutely36 set his face against any member of his colony leaving the wreck-pack,[122] and it was highly necessary to discover whether he would go so far as to oppose any attempts of the newcomers in that direction. If a contest was to come, the sooner Howard knew it, the better.
 
Forbes led the way to his cabin and pushed forward a chair.
 
“Choose your own poison, Mr. Howard,” he offered hospitably37, indicating a sideboard loaded with bottles. “We have pretty nearly everything there is. A single steamer last month brought us more than we could drink in a lifetime. What I have here doesn’t represent half her selection. There is beer in the ice-box over in that corner, if you prefer it.”
 
Upon Howard’s accepting the beer, his host set half a dozen bottles on the table, adding one of whiskey for himself.
 
“Bourbon is good enough for me,” he observed. “I sample the fancy drinks once in a while, but always come back to the straight stuff. I’m surprised that you don’t also. You are a naval38 officer, aren’t[123] you? I hope you are better up in other details of your profession.”
 
Howard laughed. “Hard drinking isn’t exactly compulsory39 in the service,” he observed, lightly.
 
“Oh, no offense40! I was only joking, of course. I suppose you have specialists in that line as well as in others. From what I read in the papers that drift in to us here, I take it that everything is being specialized41 nowadays. What’s your particular line—navigating, engineering, submarining?”
 
Howard laughed again. “This is an age of specialization, all right, captain,” he returned, “but it hasn’t struck the navy yet. Quite the contrary! Only a year or two ago, Congress wiped out all special lines and insisted that all officers should know everything. Perhaps it was right, but——”
 
“But you don’t think so. Well, it’s a good thing to know all about your own job if you can. I suppose, however, you[124] can’t help specializing more or less. For instance, you must have special men who manage your submarines.”
 
“Not exactly. Still, only a few men have had any experience in that line yet. The boats are too new and too few to give everybody a chance yet. Personally, I have been lucky enough to have had a good deal of experience with them, but comparatively few others have as yet.”
 
Forbes threw himself back in his chair with a look of intense satisfaction on his face. “That’s good,” he said heartily42. “Humph! By the way, Howard, this party of yours is a curiously43 mixed one.”
 
“You think so?”
 
“Oh, it’s evident on the face of it!— Have a cigarette?— A navy officer, a New York policeman, and a girl; that’s odd enough, isn’t it? Not that sailors and girls are antipathetic—quite the contrary—but where does the policeman come in? I don’t quite place him in the picture.”
 
[125]Howard lighted his cigarette with a steady hand. “I believe he had been to Porto Rico to bring a convict back to New York,” he returned.
 
“A convict. Humph! Too bad he didn’t bring him here. ‘There’s never a law of God or man runs in the Sargasso Sea.’ I’m up in the modern poets, you’ll observe, Howard. We have no extradition44 here. Well, as I was saying, Neptune45 makes some queer bed-fellows, especially here. Who is the lady, by the way?”
 
“Miss Dorothy Fairfax, daughter of Colonel John Fairfax, a millionaire railroad man who has been building lines in Porto Rico of late. His daughter was on her way home after visiting him on the island.”
 
Forbes’s eyes glittered. “Colonel John Fairfax’s daughter, eh! I was reading an article in the paper about him the other day that said he owned about half the railroads in the United States. His[126] daughter will be quite a catch for a poor man. Eh, Howard!”
 
Howard made a slight movement. “I would rather not discuss Miss Fairfax, captain,” he returned, quietly. “When and how can we get away from here?”
 
Forbes held his glass to the light and squinted46 at it. “Well, Howard,” he remarked reflectively. “I’ve been kind of expecting you to ask me that. In fact, I brought you down here to give you a chance to ask me. The truth is, you can’t get away at all unless you come to terms with me.”
 
“What are your terms?”
 
“Well—I’ll come to that after a while. Look here, Howard, I’ve been here ten years and I never was so comfortable in my life before. I’ve lived easy and slept soft, and never had a minute’s worry about grocery bills or taxes, or any of the other plagues of civilization. And my men have been in the same case. They’ve had just work enough to keep them[127] healthy, and just drink enough to keep them happy. If they were out of this, they’d either be working like dogs or drunk—also like dogs. Why in thunder should either they or I want to go back to that old damnable life?”
 
“No reason at all, captain, if you’re content here.”
 
“That’s the devil of it. I’m not content. I’m just fool enough to ache to get back. But I don’t want to go back empty-handed. I don’t want to go back poor. I want to go back rich, with influential47 connections, social relations, and all the rest of it.”
 
Howard smiled. “You’re not the only one who wants all that, captain,” he observed. “There are others.”
 
“So I suppose. But the difference between them and me is that since you got here I’ve got all this right in my fist. This morning it was far away; now it is close at hand. As I said, I’ve been here for ten years. In that time I have been[128] over about five thousand wrecks48, old and new. Nearly every one of them has had money on her. Some have had very large sums. Large or small, I have collected them all. It makes a great fortune for one; it is enough for two; but it isn’t a hill of beans among a score.”
 
“I am beginning to see.”
 
“I couldn’t take this money away secretly by boat—it’s too bulky. I couldn’t take it openly without sharing it with a dozen others—and it would need about a dozen to cut a way through this damnable weed. I’ve been ready to go for six months, but I didn’t see my way. Now I do.”
 
“Well.”
 
“Recently I found a safe, quick, and easy way for a man with the right technical knowledge to get away from here with two or three people—and my money. But I didn’t have the technical knowledge. Of all the ships that have floated in with libraries on them, not one has had a book[129] that told me what to do. Now you have come especially trained in the very line I want. Can you guess what my terms are now?”
 
“Humph! Perhaps. What is your way?”
 
“Don’t worry about that now. It’s all right, and that’s enough. I’m telling you a good deal, because I want your help, but I’m not giving myself away altogether. But about those terms. If you’ll help me get ashore with my money, I’ll give you a hundred thousand dollars.”
 
Howard lay back in his chair and stared at his host thoughtfully. The conversation had proceeded far otherwise from what he had expected. The man whose opposition49 to his leaving he had feared, was actually asking his aid. Yet this assistance was asked not slavishly, but as if the asker could compel it if he liked, but preferred to request. Howard felt that he must choose his words warily50.
 
“Such a question is hardly worth asking,[130] captain,” he returned. “Of course, I shall be glad to accept. I take it for granted that my friends are included in your invitation!”
 
“Your friends!” Forbes burst into a roar of laughter. “Your friends! That’s good! That’s very good! One of your friends—Mr. Jackson—I intend to leave behind as a special favor to you.”
 
For an instant Howard saw red. Then the fit passed, and he answered quietly, “You astonish me, captain.”
 
“Oh, no, I don’t! Look here, I’m on to you, Howard. You are the convict that Jackson went to Porto Rico for. You are now supposed to be dead. Leave Jackson here, and you can change your name and live anywhere in the world you like in perfect safety.”
 
“And Miss Fairfax?” Howard almost choked as he uttered the words, but the necessity of dissembling was strong upon him.
 
“Miss Fairfax will go with us—as my wife!”
 
[131]“What!”
 
“Sit down, Howard, and keep your shirt on. What’s the use of getting worked up. I know I’m not exactly in Miss Fairfax’s line, but she won’t be the only woman who has married out of her class. I’ll make good with her father, all right.”
 
“You think you can get Miss Fairfax to marry you?”
 
In spite of himself the scorn that Howard tried to hide showed in his voice. Forbes did not notice it.
 
“She can’t help herself,” he declared. “I’ve got her dead to rights. Besides, I’ve got the law—our law—on my side. You don’t suppose ordinary rules govern here, do you? Not much! The sexes are too frightfully disproportionate. Counting your party, there are just twenty-four men and only three women here. The coming of a new woman has always been the signal for trouble. Bad blood, quarrels, and murders have followed inevitably51. So we made a law some years[132] ago that every woman must marry within twenty-four hours after her arrival. Under that law I intend to marry Miss Fairfax. What have you to say about it?”
 
With the last word Captain Forbes put his elbows on the table and leaned forward, staring into Howard’s face. Huge, shaggy, and evidently immensely powerful, he towered menacingly above the smaller naval officer.
 
Howard wanted to say a good deal, but forbore. Clearly Forbes took him for an ordinary scoundrel who had his price like other scoundrels. If he was to help Dorothy, the obvious thing was to appear to fall in with the plan until opportunity offered to defeat it, or until action could no longer be deferred52. That is, he must gain time, and the only way to gain time was to dissimulate53.
 
“I don’t believe I have anything to say about it just now, captain,” he returned, mildly, “except that I think you could[133] make a better bargain with Colonel Fairfax if you merely returned his daughter to him safely. She’ll hate you forever, you know.”
 
Forbes’s brows relaxed. “Not much she won’t,” he returned. “She’ll come to time, all right, and mighty soon, too. I know how to handle the sex. She’ll be too proud to confess the truth, and she’ll praise me up to the skies. You’ll see! Besides, I don’t want the old man’s money; I’ll have enough of my own. I want his social help. Well! is it a bargain?”
 
Howard hesitated. “I must think about it for a while, captain,” he returned.
 
“What do you want to think about? Oh! I guess I see! You’ve got an idea of marrying the girl yourself, I reckon. Humph! Son-in-law saves girl, and rich daddy saves son-in-law. I don’t blame you, but I guess I’ll just have to queer that game once for all. Gallegher!”
 
[134]The last word came like a pistol-shot. Howard leaped to his feet, only to find three armed men standing54 behind him.
 
Forbes threw himself back in his chair and laughed.
 
“Stung!” he remarked lightly. “You might as well go quietly, Howard. There’s no use of committing suicide, you know. We won’t hurt you—you’re too valuable. And we’ll turn you loose—after the ceremony.”
 

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1 wreckage nMhzF     
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
参考例句:
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
2 wreck QMjzE     
n.失事,遇难;沉船;vt.(船等)失事,遇难
参考例句:
  • Weather may have been a factor in the wreck.天气可能是造成这次失事的原因之一。
  • No one can wreck the friendship between us.没有人能够破坏我们之间的友谊。
3 vessels fc9307c2593b522954eadb3ee6c57480     
n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人
参考例句:
  • The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4 awnings awnings     
篷帐布
参考例句:
  • Striped awnings had been stretched across the courtyard. 一些条纹雨篷撑开架在院子上方。
  • The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool. 这间屋子外面有这篷挡着,又阴暗又凉快。
5 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。
6 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。
7 scrambled 2e4a1c533c25a82f8e80e696225a73f2     
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:
  • Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 tattoo LIDzk     
n.纹身,(皮肤上的)刺花纹;vt.刺花纹于
参考例句:
  • I've decided to get my tattoo removed.我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。
  • He had a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手背上刺有花纹。
9 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
10 babble 9osyJ     
v.含糊不清地说,胡言乱语地说,儿语
参考例句:
  • No one could understand the little baby's babble. 没人能听懂这个小婴孩的话。
  • The babble of voices in the next compartment annoyed all of us.隔壁的车厢隔间里不间歇的嘈杂谈话声让我们都很气恼。
11 hubbub uQizN     
n.嘈杂;骚乱
参考例句:
  • The hubbub of voices drowned out the host's voice.嘈杂的声音淹没了主人的声音。
  • He concentrated on the work in hand,and the hubbub outside the room simply flowed over him.他埋头于手头的工作,室外的吵闹声他简直象没有听见一般。
12 hearty Od1zn     
adj.热情友好的;衷心的;尽情的,纵情的
参考例句:
  • After work they made a hearty meal in the worker's canteen.工作完了,他们在工人食堂饱餐了一顿。
  • We accorded him a hearty welcome.我们给他热忱的欢迎。
13 bustling LxgzEl     
adj.喧闹的
参考例句:
  • The market was bustling with life. 市场上生机勃勃。
  • This district is getting more and more prosperous and bustling. 这一带越来越繁华了。
14 soothing soothing     
adj.慰藉的;使人宽心的;镇静的
参考例句:
  • Put on some nice soothing music.播放一些柔和舒缓的音乐。
  • His casual, relaxed manner was very soothing.他随意而放松的举动让人很快便平静下来。
15 sobbing df75b14f92e64fc9e1d7eaf6dcfc083a     
<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的
参考例句:
  • I heard a child sobbing loudly. 我听见有个孩子在呜呜地哭。
  • Her eyes were red with recent sobbing. 她的眼睛因刚哭过而发红。
16 bosom Lt9zW     
n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的
参考例句:
  • She drew a little book from her bosom.她从怀里取出一本小册子。
  • A dark jealousy stirred in his bosom.他内心生出一阵恶毒的嫉妒。
17 wailed e27902fd534535a9f82ffa06a5b6937a     
v.哭叫,哀号( wail的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She wailed over her father's remains. 她对着父亲的遗体嚎啕大哭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The women of the town wailed over the war victims. 城里的妇女为战争的死难者们痛哭。 来自辞典例句
18 babbling babbling     
n.胡说,婴儿发出的咿哑声adj.胡说的v.喋喋不休( babble的现在分词 );作潺潺声(如流水);含糊不清地说话;泄漏秘密
参考例句:
  • I could hear the sound of a babbling brook. 我听得见小溪潺潺的流水声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Infamy was babbling around her in the public market-place. 在公共市场上,她周围泛滥着对她丑行的种种议论。 来自英汉文学 - 红字
19 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。
20 promptly LRMxm     
adv.及时地,敏捷地
参考例句:
  • He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
  • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
21 wan np5yT     
(wide area network)广域网
参考例句:
  • The shared connection can be an Ethernet,wireless LAN,or wireless WAN connection.提供共享的网络连接可以是以太网、无线局域网或无线广域网。
22 tugged 8a37eb349f3c6615c56706726966d38e     
v.用力拉,使劲拉,猛扯( tug的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She tugged at his sleeve to get his attention. 她拽了拽他的袖子引起他的注意。
  • A wry smile tugged at the corner of his mouth. 他的嘴角带一丝苦笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
23 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。
24 acquiesced 03acb9bc789f7d2955424223e0a45f1b     
v.默认,默许( acquiesce的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Senior government figures must have acquiesced in the cover-up. 政府高级官员必然已经默许掩盖真相。
  • After a lot of persuasion,he finally acquiesced. 经过多次劝说,他最终默许了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
25 plentiful r2izH     
adj.富裕的,丰富的
参考例句:
  • Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
  • Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。
26 prudence 9isyI     
n.谨慎,精明,节俭
参考例句:
  • A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。
  • The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.幸运者都把他们的成功归因于谨慎或功德。
27 afterward fK6y3     
adv.后来;以后
参考例句:
  • Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏,然后吃饭。
  • Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来,这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。
28 gasped e6af294d8a7477229d6749fa9e8f5b80     
v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要
参考例句:
  • She gasped at the wonderful view. 如此美景使她惊讶得屏住了呼吸。
  • People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
29 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。
30 banished b779057f354f1ec8efd5dd1adee731df     
v.放逐,驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚,五年后在那里去世。
  • He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. 他被放逐到一个无人居住的荒岛一年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
31 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。
32 ashore tNQyT     
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
参考例句:
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
33 animated Cz7zMa     
adj.生气勃勃的,活跃的,愉快的
参考例句:
  • His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
  • We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
34 devoted xu9zka     
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
参考例句:
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
35 irrigate HRtzo     
vt.灌溉,修水利,冲洗伤口,使潮湿
参考例句:
  • The farmer dug several trenches to irrigate the rice fields.这个农民挖了好几条沟以灌溉稻田。
  • They have built canals to irrigate the desert.他们建造成水渠以灌溉沙漠。
36 resolutely WW2xh     
adj.坚决地,果断地
参考例句:
  • He resolutely adhered to what he had said at the meeting. 他坚持他在会上所说的话。
  • He grumbles at his lot instead of resolutely facing his difficulties. 他不是果敢地去面对困难,而是抱怨自己运气不佳。
37 hospitably 2cccc8bd2e0d8b1720a33145cbff3993     
亲切地,招待周到地,善于款待地
参考例句:
  • At Peking was the Great Khan, and they were hospitably entertained. 忽必烈汗在北京,他们受到了盛情款待。
  • She was received hospitably by her new family. 她的新家人热情地接待了她。
38 naval h1lyU     
adj.海军的,军舰的,船的
参考例句:
  • He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
  • The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
39 compulsory 5pVzu     
n.强制的,必修的;规定的,义务的
参考例句:
  • Is English a compulsory subject?英语是必修课吗?
  • Compulsory schooling ends at sixteen.义务教育至16岁为止。
40 offense HIvxd     
n.犯规,违法行为;冒犯,得罪
参考例句:
  • I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
  • His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
41 specialized Chuzwe     
adj.专门的,专业化的
参考例句:
  • There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
  • These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。
42 heartily Ld3xp     
adv.衷心地,诚恳地,十分,很
参考例句:
  • He ate heartily and went out to look for his horse.他痛快地吃了一顿,就出去找他的马。
  • The host seized my hand and shook it heartily.主人抓住我的手,热情地和我握手。
43 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。
44 extradition R7Eyc     
n.引渡(逃犯)
参考例句:
  • The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱,等待引渡到英国。
  • He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。
45 Neptune LNezw     
n.海王星
参考例句:
  • Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun.海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
  • Neptune turned out to be a dynamic,stormy world.海王星原来是个有生气、多风暴的世界。
46 squinted aaf7c56a51bf19a5f429b7a9ddca2e9b     
斜视( squint的过去式和过去分词 ); 眯着眼睛; 瞟; 从小孔或缝隙里看
参考例句:
  • Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel. 他把枪顶肩,眯起眼睛瞄准。
  • I squinted through the keyhole. 我从锁眼窥看。
47 influential l7oxK     
adj.有影响的,有权势的
参考例句:
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
48 wrecks 8d69da0aee97ed3f7157e10ff9dbd4ae     
n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 );(事故中)遭严重毁坏的汽车(或飞机等);(身体或精神上)受到严重损伤的人;状况非常糟糕的车辆(或建筑物等)v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 );使(船舶)失事,使遇难,使下沉
参考例句:
  • The shores are strewn with wrecks. 海岸上满布失事船只的残骸。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • My next care was to get together the wrecks of my fortune. 第二件我所关心的事就是集聚破产后的余财。 来自辞典例句
49 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。
50 warily 5gvwz     
adv.留心地
参考例句:
  • He looked warily around him,pretending to look after Carrie.他小心地看了一下四周,假装是在照顾嘉莉。
  • They were heading warily to a point in the enemy line.他们正小心翼翼地向着敌人封锁线的某一处前进。
51 inevitably x7axc     
adv.不可避免地;必然发生地
参考例句:
  • In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去,毫无疑问是会散伙的。
  • Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。
52 deferred 43fff3df3fc0b3417c86dc3040fb2d86     
adj.延期的,缓召的v.拖延,延缓,推迟( defer的过去式和过去分词 );服从某人的意愿,遵从
参考例句:
  • The department deferred the decision for six months. 这个部门推迟了六个月才作决定。
  • a tax-deferred savings plan 延税储蓄计划
53 dissimulate 9tZxX     
v.掩饰,隐藏
参考例句:
  • This man was too injured to dissimulate well.这个人受伤严重,无法完全遮掩住。
  • He who knows not how to dissimulate,can not reign.不知道如何装扮成一个君子的人无法赢得尊重。
54 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。


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