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SOON AFTER THIS the children came in to say good-night. The children kissed every one, the tutors and governesses said good-night and went away. Dessalle alone remained with his pupil. The tutor whispered to his young charge to come downstairs.

“No, M. Dessalle, I will ask my aunt for leave to stay,” Nikolinka Bolkonsky answered, also in a whisper.

“Ma tante, will you let me stay?” said Nikolinka, going up to his aunt. His face was full of entreaty1, excitement, and enthusiasm. Countess Marya looked at him and turned to Pierre

“When you are here, there is no tearing him away …” she said.

“I will bring him directly, M. Dessalle. Good-night,” said Pierre, giving his hand to the Swiss tutor, and he turned smiling to Nikolinka. “We have not seen each other at all yet. Marie, how like he is growing,” he added, turning to Countess Marya.

“Like my father?” said the boy, flushing crimson2 and looking up at Pierre with rapturous, shining eyes.

Pierre nodded to him, and went on with the conversation that had been interrupted by the children. Countess Marya had some canvas embroidery3 in her hands; Natasha sat with her eyes fixed4 on her husband. Nikolay and Denisov got up, asked for pipes, smoked, and took cups of tea from Sonya, still sitting with weary pertinacity5 at the samovar, and asked questions of Pierre. The curly-headed, delicate boy, with his shining eyes, sat unnoticed by any one in a corner. Turning the curly head and the slender neck above his laydown collar to follow Pierre's movements, he trembled now and then, and murmured something to himself, evidently thrilled by some new and violent emotion.

The conversation turned on the scandals of the day in the higher government circles, a subject in which the majority of people usually find the chief interest of home politics. Denisov, who was dissatisfied with the government on account of his own disappointments in the service, heard with glee of all the follies6, as he considered them, that were going on now in Petersburg, and made his comments on Pierre's words in harsh and in cutting phrases.

“In old days you had to be a German to be anybody, nowadays you have to dance with the Tatarinov woman and Madame Krüdner, to read …Eckartshausen, and the rest of that crew. Ugh! I would let good old Bonaparte loose again! He would knock all the nonsense out of them. Why, isn't it beyond everything to have given that fellow Schwartz the Semyonovsky regiment7?” he shouted.

Though Nikolay had not Denisov's disposition8 to find everything amiss, he too thought it dignified9 and becoming to criticise10 the government, and he believed that the fact, that A. had been appointed minister of such a department, and B. had been made governor of such a province, and the Tsar had said this, and the minister had said that, were all matters of the greatest importance. And he thought it incumbent11 upon him to take an interest in the subject and to question Pierre about it. So the questions put by Nikolay and Denisov kept the conversation on the usual lines of gossip about the higher government circles.

But Natasha, who knew every thought and expression in her husband, saw that Pierre all the while wanted to lead the conversation into another channel, and to open his heart on his own idea, the idea which he had gone to Petersburg to consult his new friend Prince Fyodor about. She saw too that he could not lead up to this, and she came to the rescue with a question: How had he settled things with Prince Fyodor?

“What was that?” asked Nikolay.

“All the same thing over and over again,” said Pierre, looking about him. “Every one sees that things are all going so wrong that they can't be endured, and that it's the duty of all honest men to oppose it to the utmost of their power.”

“Why, what can honest men do?” said Nikolay, frowning slightly. “What can be done?”

“Why, this…”

“Let us go into the study,” said Nikolay.

Natasha, who had a long while been expecting to be fetched to her baby, heard the nurse calling her, and went off to the nursery. Countess Marya went with her. The men went to the study, and Nikolinka Bolkonsky stole in, unnoticed by his uncle, and sat down at the writing table, in the dark by the window.

“Well, what are you going to do?” said Denisov.

“Everlastingly these fantastic schemes,” said Nikolay.

“Well,” Pierre began, not sitting down, but pacing the room, and coming to an occasional standstill, lisping and gesticulating rapidly as he talked. “This is the position of things in Petersburg: the Tsar lets everything go. He is entirely12 wrapped up in this mysticism” (mysticism Pierre could not forgive in anybody now). “All he asks for is peace; and he can only get peace through these men of no faith and no conscience, who are stifling13 and destroying everything, Magnitsky and Araktcheev, and tutti quanti…You will admit that if you did not look after your property yourself, and only asked for peace and quiet, the crueller your bailiff were, the more readily you would attain14 your object,” he said, turning to Nikolay.

“Well, but what is the drift of all this?” said Nikolay.

“Why, everything is going to ruin. Bribery15 in the law-courts, in the army nothing but coercion16 and drill: exile—people are being tortured, and enlightenment is suppressed. Everything youthful and honourable—they are crushing! Everybody sees that it can't go on like this. The strain is too great, and the string must snap,” said Pierre (as men always do say, looking into the working of any government so long as governments have existed). “I told them one thing in Petersburg.”

“Told whom?” asked Denisov.

“Oh, you know whom,” said Pierre, with a meaning look from under his brows, “Prince Fyodor and all of them. Zeal17 in educational and philanthropic work is all very good of course. Their object is excellent and all the rest of it; but in present circumstances what is wanted is something else.”

At that moment Nikolay noticed the presence of his nephew. His face fell; he went up to him.

“Why are you here?”

“Oh, let him be,” said Pierre, taking hold of Nikolay's arm; and he went on. “That's not enough, I told them; something else is wanted now. While you stand waiting for the string to snap every moment; while every one is expecting the inevitable18 revolution, as many people as possible should join hands as closely as they can to withstand the general catastrophe19. All the youth and energy is being drawn20 away and dissipated. One lured21 by women, another by honours, a third by display or money—they are all going over to the wrong side. As for independent, honest men, like you and me—there are none of them left. I say: enlarge the scope of the society: let the mot d'ordre be not loyalty22 only, but independence and action.”

Nikolay, leaving his nephew, had angrily moved out a chair, and sat down in it. As he listened to Pierre, he coughed in a dissatisfied way, and frowned more and more.

“But action with what object?” he cried. “And what attitude do you take up to the government?”

“Why, the attitude of supporters! The society will perhaps not even be a secret one, if the government will allow it. So far from being hostile to the government, we are the real conservatives. It is a society of gentlemen, in the full significance of the word. It is simply to prevent Pugatchov from coming to massacre23 my children and yours, to prevent Araktcheev from transporting me to a military settlement, that we are joining hands, with the sole object of the common welfare and security.”

“Yes; but it's a secret society, and consequently a hostile and mischievous24 society, which can only lead to evil.”

“Why so? Did the Tugend-bund which saved Europe” (people did not yet venture to believe that Russia had saved Europe) “lead to evil? A Tugend-bund it is, an alliance of virtue25; it is love and mutual26 help; it is what Christ preached on the cross…”

Natasha, coming into the room in the middle of the conversation, looked joyfully27 at her husband. She was not rejoicing in what he was saying. It did not interest her indeed, because it seemed to her that it was all so excessively simple, and that she had known it long ago. She fancied this, because she knew all that it sprang from—all Pierre's soul. But she was glad looking at his eager, enthusiastic figure.

Pierre was watched with even more rapturous gladness by the boy with the slender neck in the laydown collar, who had been forgotten by all of them. Every word Pierre uttered set his heart in a glow, and his fingers moving nervously28, he unconsciously picked up and broke to pieces the sticks of sealing-wax and pens on his uncle's table.

“It's not at all what you imagine, but just such a society as the German Tugend-bund is what I propose.”

“Well, my boy, that's all very well for the sausage-eaters—a Tugend-bund—but I don't understand it, and I can't even pronounce it,” Denisov's loud, positive voice broke in. “Everything's rotten and corrupt29; I agree there; only your Tugend-bund I don't understand, but if one is dissatisfied,—a bunt now” (i.e. riot or mutiny), “je suis votre homme!”

Pierre smiled, Natasha laughed; but Nikolay knitted his brows more than ever, and began arguing with Pierre that no revolution was to be expected, and that the danger he talked of had no existence but in his imagination. Pierre maintained his view, and as his intellectual faculties30 were keener and more resourceful, Nikolay was soon at a loss for an answer. This angered him still more, as in his heart he felt convinced, not by reasoning, but by something stronger than reasoning, of the indubitable truth of his own view.

“Well, let me tell you,” he said, getting up and nervously setting his pipe down in the corner, and then flinging it away; “I can't prove it you. You say everything is all rotten, and there will be a revolution; I don't see it; but you say our oath of allegiance is a conditional31 thing, and as to that, let me tell you, you are my greatest friend, you know that, but you make a secret society, you begin working against the government—whatever it may be, I know it's my duty to obey it. And if Araktcheev bids me march against you with a squadron and cut you down, I shan't hesitate for a second, I shall go. And then you may think what you like about it.”

An awkward silence followed these words. Natasha was the first to break it by defending her husband and attacking her brother. Her defence was weak and clumsy. But it attained32 her object. The conversation was taken up again, and no longer in the unpleasantly hostile tone in which Nikolay's last words had been spoken.

When they all got up to go in to supper, Nikolinka Bolkonsky went up to Pierre with a pale face and shining, luminous33 eyes.

“Uncle Pierre…you…no…If papa had been alive…he would have been on your side?” he asked.

Pierre saw in a flash all the original, complicated and violent travail34 of thought and feeling that must have been going on independently in this boy during the conversation. And recalling all he had been saying, he felt vexed35 that the boy should have heard him. He had to answer him, however.

“I believe he would,” he said reluctantly, and he went out of the study.

The boy looked down, and then for the first time seemed to become aware of the havoc36 he had been making on the writing-table. He flushed hotly and went up to Nikolay.

“Uncle, forgive me; I did it—not on purpose,” he said, pointing to the fragments of sealing-wax and pens.

Nikolay bounded up angrily. “Very good, very good,” he said, throwing the bits of pens and sealing-wax under the table. And with evident effort mastering his fury, he turned away from him.

“You ought not to have been here at all,” he said.


过了不久,孩子们来道晚安。孩子们同所有在座的人一一吻别,男女家庭教师也行过礼,然后就出去了。只有德萨尔和他的学生小尼古拉留了下来。德萨尔低声叫小尼古拉下楼去。

“不,德萨尔先生,我要求姑妈让我留在这儿。①”

小尼古拉同样小声回答说。

①此处字下打黑点表示,原文直接用法语,此处译成汉语。


“姑妈,让我留在这儿吧。”小尼古拉走到姑母面前说。他又兴奋,又激动,脸上露出恳求的神色。玛丽亚伯爵夫人看了他一眼,对皮埃尔说:

“只要您在这儿,他就不乐意走了……”

“德萨尔先生,过一会我就把他送到您那儿去,晚安。”①皮埃尔把手伸给那位瑞士教师,接着含笑转向小尼古拉说:“我们没见过面呢。玛丽亚,他长得真像……”他转身对玛丽亚伯爵夫人说。

“是像爸爸吗?”孩子的脸红了,他用敬慕的、明亮的眼睛从上到下打量着皮埃尔。皮埃尔向他点点头,又接着谈被孩子打断的话题。玛丽亚伯爵夫人在十字布上绣花,娜塔莎目不转睛地望着丈夫。尼古拉和杰尼索夫站起来要烟斗抽烟,他又向一直守着茶炊无精打采的索尼娅接过茶,又询问皮埃尔有关这次外出了解到的消息,小尼古拉,这个长着一头卷发的孱弱的孩子,坐在没人注意的一个角落里,双眼闪闪发光,从衣领里伸出细脖子,他的满头卷发的头向着皮埃尔,在偶而体验到某种新的强烈的感情时,他会不由自主地哆嗦一下。

接着,众人的话题转到当时对最高当局的一些流言,其中包含了大多数人通常最感兴趣的国内政治问题。杰尼索夫因在军界失意而对政府不满,现在听说彼得堡出了丑闻十分高兴,于是对皮埃尔所述情况发表了一通尖刻的评论。

“过去不得不作德意志人,现在就得陪塔塔利诺娃和克律德涅夫人②团团转跳舞,还得捧读艾加特豪森之流的著作。哎,要是把波拿巴那个宝贝放出来就好了,他就会把一切胡涂思想扫除掉,把谢苗诺夫团交给施瓦茨这样的大兵来指挥,成何体统?”他大喊大叫地说。

①此处用法语。“德萨尔先生……晚安。”

②朱丽安·克律德涅夫人(1766~1824),女作家,出生在里加,神秘主义者,亚历山大一世曾一度受过她的影响。


尼古拉虽然不像杰尼索夫那样专门挑毛病,但他仍然认为议论政府可是一件大事情,而甲出任大臣,乙担任总督,皇帝说什么话,大臣说什么话,都是很重大的事。他认为国家大事,匹夫有责,所以也向皮埃尔询问各种问题。只是他们俩人问到的不外乎一些有关政府高级部门的轶闻。

娜塔莎十分了解丈夫的心思和脾气,她看出皮埃尔早想转换话题,看出他早就想倾吐他内心深处的一些想法。他这次要去彼得堡,就是想同他的新友费奥多尔公爵一起商量此事。于是她问皮埃尔,他跟费奥多尔①的事怎么样了。

①指十二月党人的革命活动。


“什么事?”尼古拉问。

“也就是那些事,”皮埃尔向四周看了一下,说,“大家都看到,情况已经糟到不能再糟的地步,一切正直的人们都有责任来尽力挽救局势。”

“那么正直的人们该做些什么呢?”尼古拉微微皱起眉头说。“他们能做些什么呢?”

“应该做的是……”

“我们到书斋里去吧,”尼古拉说。

娜塔莎早就想到该喂孩子了,听见保姆叫唤她,就到育儿室去了。玛丽亚伯爵夫人也跟着她去了。男人们走进书斋去,小尼古拉趁姑父不注意,也跟着溜了进去,躲在靠窗的写字台的幽暗角落里。

“你说该怎么办?”杰尼索夫说。

“都是些空想。”尼古拉说。

“情况是这样。”皮埃尔没有坐下就开始讲了。他在房间里踱来踱去,有时又停下,一边含混不清地说着,一边很快地打着手势。“彼得堡目前的情况就是这样,皇帝不过问任何国家大事。他已完全陷入了神秘主义之中(而无论何人迷信神秘主义,皮埃尔都是无法容忍的)。他只图清静。而只有那些丧尽天良、寡廉鲜耻的人,如马格尼茨基、阿拉克切耶夫之流,尽干伤天害理的事,乱砍乱杀,祸国殃民,才能使他得到清静……如果你不亲自来抓经济,只贪图安宁,那么你的管家越厉害,你的目的就更容易达到,你同意吗?”他问尼古拉。

“你说这话是什么意思?”尼古拉说。

“咳,整个国家要崩溃了。法庭里盗窃案数不胜数,军队里只有鞭笞,出操,屯垦,人民在遭受苦难,教育遭到扼杀。新生的事物,正统的事物都遭到摧残和压制。大家都明白,不能再这样继续下去了。弦绷得太紧就会绷断的。”皮埃尔说(自有政府以来,人们在观察政府行为时都这么说)。“我在彼得堡只给他们说了一点。”

“对谁说?”杰尼索夫问。

“这您知道,”皮埃尔皱着眉头,意味深长地望着他说。

“就是对费奥多尔公爵和他们那一帮人说。奖励教育事业,热心支持慈善事业,这固然很好,但也只是用心良好而已,从目前的情况来看,更需要另外的东西。”

尼古拉这时才发现他的小侄儿在场,就沉下脸朝他走去。

“你在这儿干什么?”

“什么?让他待在这里吧!”皮埃尔抓住尼古拉的手臂,又说:“我对他们说,那样是不够的,现在需要另外的东西。大家都在等待着,弦绷得太紧,随时可能断。当大家都在等待着那不可避免的变革时,就需要更多的人,更加加强团结,紧密携手,共同努力,来抗御那将要来临的灾难。年富力强的人都已经被拉过去了,蜕化变质了,腐化堕落了。有的沉湎于女色,有的醉心于名位,有的追求金钱和权势,都投奔到那个阵营去了。像你我这样有独立人格的人,自有主见的人就根本找不到了。我说,要扩大我们的社会圈子。我们的口号是:不能光停留在口头上的道德,而应要独立和行动。”

尼古拉从侄儿身边走开,忿忿不平地挪过一把椅子坐下,听皮埃尔谈着,他不以为然地干咳着,眉头越皱越紧。

“那么,这些行动又要达到什么目的呢?”他喊叫道。“你对政府又是抱什么态度呢?”

“抱这样的态度!协助的态度。如果政府允许我们的组织也无需保密。我们的组织不仅不同政府作对,而且是一个真正的保皇派。这是一个地地道道的绅士组织。我们的目的是不让普加乔夫来杀害你我的子孙,不让阿拉克切耶夫把我送到屯垦区去。我们是为了公众的利益,为了大众的安全才携起手来为了共同的目的而奋斗。”

“是的,但是秘密组织总是敌对的、有害的,只能产生恶果。”尼古拉说。

“为什么?难道拯救欧洲的道德联盟①(当时还不敢妄想俄国能拯救欧洲)有什么害处吗?道德联盟是一种美德的联盟,那就是爱,那就是互助,就是耶稣基督在十字架上所宣扬的东西。”

娜塔莎在谈话中间走了进来,愉快地看着她丈夫。并不是丈夫的谈话本身使她高兴。她对丈夫所谈的事不感兴趣,他讲的这些,她早就知道了(并且她知道皮埃尔所讲的都是他内心里的想法),但是当她看到他兴高采烈、神采奕奕的样子她心里就特别高兴。

这里还有一个被众人所遗忘从翻领里伸出细脖子的孩子,他也是那么兴高采烈、十分激动地望着皮埃尔。皮埃尔的每一句话却深深地印在他的心上,他的手指在不安地动着,以致于不知不觉把姑父桌上的火漆和鹅毛笔都捏断了。

“完全不是像你所想的那样,这就是所谓的德意志的道德联盟,这也就是我所建议的东西。”

“哦,老弟,道德联盟只对吃腊肠的人(德国人)有好处,但是我对它不了解,说也说不清楚。”杰尼索夫大声地断言道。

“到处都很腐败,很糟糕,这个事实我承认,不过对道德联盟我不了解,也不喜欢。什么暴动②,什么联盟!无非是要我,完全听你的指挥。”③

①道德联盟是一八○八年在普鲁士成立的一个秘密政治团体,其宗旨是反对拿破仑的法国,于一八一○年被法国政府下令解散。

②原文为俄语DyEF(暴动)一词与德语bund(联盟)音同。

③原文中用法语:直译为到时候我就是你的人了。


皮埃尔微笑了一下,娜塔莎则放声大笑,尼古拉却把眉头皱得更紧,他开始尽力向皮埃尔说明,不会发生任何变革,他所说的危险是他自己想象出来的。对此,皮埃尔作出了相反的论证,由于他的思维能力更强些,思想更敏捷,因而使尼古拉陷于窘境。这就使他更感到气恼,因为他不是凭推理,而是凭比推理更有力的直觉认为自己的看法是完全正确的。

“我要向你说明白,”他站起来说,神经质地把烟斗移到嘴角,又把烟斗干脆扔开。“我无法向你证明。你说我们的一切都腐败了,必须进行一次改革,我看没有这个必要。你说,宣誓是有条件的,关于这个问题我要向你说清楚,你是我最好的朋友,这一点你也知道,但是你们要是组织秘密团体反对政府,不管是什么样的政府,我的职责是维护政府,如果阿拉克切耶夫现在下命令,要我带领一个骑兵连讨伐你们,我就毫不犹豫,立即出动。至于你爱怎么说,就怎么说吧。”

他说完这一番话后,接着是一阵难堪的沉默。娜塔莎终于打破沉默率先开口。当然,她的发言是替丈夫辩护,而对哥哥则是攻击。她的辩解虽然笨拙无力,但她却达到了目的。于是,交谈又开始了,但已没有尼古拉刚才说完话时那种舌战的敌对气氛了。

当大家都站起来,准备去吃晚饭的时候,小尼古拉·博尔孔斯基走到皮埃尔面前,他脸色苍白,但明亮的眼睛炯炯有神。

“皮埃尔叔叔…您……不……要是爸爸活着,他会同意您的看法吗?”他问。

皮埃尔突然明白了,当他在谈话时,这孩子头脑里一定展开过一场特殊的、强烈的感情波澜和复杂的、独立思考的活动。他回想了他所说过的话,后悔不该让孩子听见。但不管如何,他还得回答他。

“我想他会赞成的。”他勉强地答了一句,就走出了书斋。

孩子低下头去,似乎这时他才突然发现,他把桌上的东西弄坏了。他涨红了脸,向尼古拉走过去。

“姑父,原谅我,我不是故意的。”他指着折断的火漆和鹅毛笔说。

尼古拉气得哆嗦了一下。

“算了,算了。”他把折断的火漆和鹅毛笔扔到桌子下面去。显然,他在强压着自己不发脾气,把脸转过去了。

“你根本就不该到这里来。”他又加了一句。


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1 entreaty voAxi     
n.恳求,哀求
参考例句:
  • Mrs. Quilp durst only make a gesture of entreaty.奎尔普太太仅做出一种哀求的姿势。
  • Her gaze clung to him in entreaty.她的眼光带着恳求的神色停留在他身上。
2 crimson AYwzH     
n./adj.深(绯)红色(的);vi.脸变绯红色
参考例句:
  • She went crimson with embarrassment.她羞得满脸通红。
  • Maple leaves have turned crimson.枫叶已经红了。
3 embroidery Wjkz7     
n.绣花,刺绣;绣制品
参考例句:
  • This exquisite embroidery won people's great admiration.这件精美的绣品,使人惊叹不已。
  • This is Jane's first attempt at embroidery.这是简第一次试着绣花。
4 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。
5 pertinacity sMPxS     
n.执拗,顽固
参考例句:
6 follies e0e754f59d4df445818b863ea1aa3eba     
罪恶,时事讽刺剧; 愚蠢,蠢笨,愚蠢的行为、思想或做法( folly的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He has given up youthful follies. 他不再做年轻人的荒唐事了。
  • The writings of Swift mocked the follies of his age. 斯威夫特的作品嘲弄了他那个时代的愚人。
7 regiment JATzZ     
n.团,多数,管理;v.组织,编成团,统制
参考例句:
  • As he hated army life,he decide to desert his regiment.因为他嫌恶军队生活,所以他决心背弃自己所在的那个团。
  • They reformed a division into a regiment.他们将一个师整编成为一个团。
8 disposition GljzO     
n.性情,性格;意向,倾向;排列,部署
参考例句:
  • He has made a good disposition of his property.他已对财产作了妥善处理。
  • He has a cheerful disposition.他性情开朗。
9 dignified NuZzfb     
a.可敬的,高贵的
参考例句:
  • Throughout his trial he maintained a dignified silence. 在整个审讯过程中,他始终沉默以保持尊严。
  • He always strikes such a dignified pose before his girlfriend. 他总是在女友面前摆出这种庄严的姿态。
10 criticise criticise     
v.批评,评论;非难
参考例句:
  • Right and left have much cause to criticise government.左翼和右翼有很多理由批评政府。
  • It is not your place to criticise or suggest improvements!提出批评或给予改进建议并不是你的责任!
11 incumbent wbmzy     
adj.成为责任的,有义务的;现任的,在职的
参考例句:
  • He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
  • It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。
12 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。
13 stifling dhxz7C     
a.令人窒息的
参考例句:
  • The weather is stifling. It looks like rain. 今天太闷热,光景是要下雨。
  • We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed. 我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里,简直透不过气来。
14 attain HvYzX     
vt.达到,获得,完成
参考例句:
  • I used the scientific method to attain this end. 我用科学的方法来达到这一目的。
  • His painstaking to attain his goal in life is praiseworthy. 他为实现人生目标所下的苦功是值得称赞的。
15 bribery Lxdz7Z     
n.贿络行为,行贿,受贿
参考例句:
  • FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
  • He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
16 coercion aOdzd     
n.强制,高压统治
参考例句:
  • Neither trickery nor coercion is used to secure confessions.既不诱供也不逼供。
  • He paid the money under coercion.他被迫付钱。
17 zeal mMqzR     
n.热心,热情,热忱
参考例句:
  • Revolutionary zeal caught them up,and they joined the army.革命热情激励他们,于是他们从军了。
  • They worked with great zeal to finish the project.他们热情高涨地工作,以期完成这个项目。
18 inevitable 5xcyq     
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
参考例句:
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
19 catastrophe WXHzr     
n.大灾难,大祸
参考例句:
  • I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
  • This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。
20 drawn MuXzIi     
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
21 lured 77df5632bf83c9c64fb09403ae21e649     
吸引,引诱(lure的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • The child was lured into a car but managed to escape. 那小孩被诱骗上了车,但又设法逃掉了。
  • Lured by the lust of gold,the pioneers pushed onward. 开拓者在黄金的诱惑下,继续奋力向前。
22 loyalty gA9xu     
n.忠诚,忠心
参考例句:
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
23 massacre i71zk     
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
参考例句:
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
24 mischievous mischievous     
adj.调皮的,恶作剧的,有害的,伤人的
参考例句:
  • He is a mischievous but lovable boy.他是一个淘气但可爱的小孩。
  • A mischievous cur must be tied short.恶狗必须拴得短。
25 virtue BpqyH     
n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力
参考例句:
  • He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
  • You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。
26 mutual eFOxC     
adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的
参考例句:
  • We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
  • Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。
27 joyfully joyfully     
adv. 喜悦地, 高兴地
参考例句:
  • She tripped along joyfully as if treading on air. 她高兴地走着,脚底下轻飘飘的。
  • During these first weeks she slaved joyfully. 在最初的几周里,她干得很高兴。
28 nervously tn6zFp     
adv.神情激动地,不安地
参考例句:
  • He bit his lip nervously,trying not to cry.他紧张地咬着唇,努力忍着不哭出来。
  • He paced nervously up and down on the platform.他在站台上情绪不安地走来走去。
29 corrupt 4zTxn     
v.贿赂,收买;adj.腐败的,贪污的
参考例句:
  • The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
  • This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
30 faculties 066198190456ba4e2b0a2bda2034dfc5     
n.能力( faculty的名词复数 );全体教职员;技巧;院
参考例句:
  • Although he's ninety, his mental faculties remain unimpaired. 他虽年届九旬,但头脑仍然清晰。
  • All your faculties have come into play in your work. 在你的工作中,你的全部才能已起到了作用。 来自《简明英汉词典》
31 conditional BYvyn     
adj.条件的,带有条件的
参考例句:
  • My agreement is conditional on your help.你肯帮助我才同意。
  • There are two forms of most-favored-nation treatment:conditional and unconditional.最惠国待遇有两种形式:有条件的和无条件的。
32 attained 1f2c1bee274e81555decf78fe9b16b2f     
(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况)
参考例句:
  • She has attained the degree of Master of Arts. 她已获得文学硕士学位。
  • Lu Hsun attained a high position in the republic of letters. 鲁迅在文坛上获得崇高的地位。
33 luminous 98ez5     
adj.发光的,发亮的;光明的;明白易懂的;有启发的
参考例句:
  • There are luminous knobs on all the doors in my house.我家所有门上都安有夜光把手。
  • Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.这家商店出售的大多数钟表都涂了发光漆。
34 travail ZqhyZ     
n.阵痛;努力
参考例句:
  • Mothers know the travail of giving birth to a child.母亲们了解分娩时的痛苦。
  • He gained the medal through his painful travail.他通过艰辛的努力获得了奖牌。
35 vexed fd1a5654154eed3c0a0820ab54fb90a7     
adj.争论不休的;(指问题等)棘手的;争论不休的问题;烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论
参考例句:
  • The conference spent days discussing the vexed question of border controls. 会议花了几天的时间讨论边境关卡这个难题。
  • He was vexed at his failure. 他因失败而懊恼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
36 havoc 9eyxY     
n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱
参考例句:
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。


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