Chapter 15 Circe

The Mabbot street entrance of nighttown, before which stretches an uncobbled transiding set with skeleton tracks, red and green will-o'-the-wisps and danger signals. Rows of flimsy houses with gaping² doors. Rare lamps with faint rainbow fans. Round Rabaiotti's halted ice gondola³ stunted⁴ men and women squabble. They grab wafers between which are wedged lumps of coal and copper⁵ snow. Sucking, they scatter⁶ slowly. Children. The swancomb of the gondola, highreared, forges on through the murk, white and blue under a lighthouse. Whistles call and answer.
THE CALLS Wait, my love, and I'll be with you.

THE ANSWERS Round behind the stable.

(A deaf mute idiot with goggle⁸ eyes, his shapeless mouth dribbling⁹, jerks past, shaken in Saint Vitus' dance. A chain of children's hands imprisons¹¹ him.)

THE CHILDREN Kithoguel Salute¹⁴.

THE IDIOT (Lifts a palsied left arm and gurgles.) Grhahute!

THE CHILDREN Where's the great light?

THE IDIOT (Gobbing.) Ghaghahest.

(They release him. He jerks on. A pygmy woman swings on a rope slung¹⁸ between the railings, counting. A form sprawled¹⁹ against a dustbin and muffled²¹ by its arm and hat moves, groans²², grinding growling²³ teeth, and snores again. On a step a gnome²⁴ totting among a rubbish tip crouches²⁵ to shoulder a sack of rags and bones. A crone standing²⁶ by with a smoky oil lamp rams²⁷ the last bottle in the maw of his sack. He heaves his booty, tugs²⁸ askew²⁹ his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely. The crone makes back for her lair³⁰ swaying her lamp. A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a papershuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts³², clutches her skirt, scrambles³⁴ up. A drunken navvy ups with both hands the railings of an area, lurching heavily. At a corner two night watch in shoulder capes³⁸, their hands upon their staffholsters, loom³⁹ tall. A plate crashes; a woman screams; a child wails⁴¹. Oaths of a man roar, mutter, cease. Figures wander, lurk⁴³, peer from warrens. In a room lit by a candle stuck in a bottleneck⁴⁴ a slut combs out the tatts from the hair of a scrofulous child. Cissy Caffrey's voice, still young, sings shrill⁴⁵ from a lane.)

CISSY CAFFREY

I gave it to Molly
Because she was jolly,
The leg of the duck
The leg of the duck.
(Private Cart and Private Compton, swaggersticks tight in their oxters, as they march unsteadily rightaboutface and burst together from their mouths a volleyed fart. Laughter of men from the lane. A hoarse⁴⁸ virago⁴⁹ retorts.)
THE VIRAGO Signs on you, hairy arse. More power the Cavan girl.

CISSY CAFFREY More luck to me. Cavan, Cootehill and Belturbet.

(She sings.)

I gave it to Nelly
To stick in her belly⁵⁰
The leg of the duck
The leg of the duck.
(Private Cart and Private Compton turn and counterretort, their tunics⁵¹ bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets⁵² of caps on their blond copper polls. Stephen Dedalus and Lynch pass through the crowd close to the redcoats.)
PRIVATE COMPTON (Jerks his finger.) Way for the parson.

PRIVATE CARR (Turns and calls.) What ho, parson!

CISSY CAFFREY (Her voice soaring higher.)

She has it, she got it,
Wherever she put it
The leg of the duck.
(Stephen, flourishing the ashplant in his left hand, chants with joy the introit for paschal time. Lynch, his jockey cap low on his brow, attends him, a sneer⁵⁶ of discontent wrinkling his face.)
STEPHEN Vidi aquam egredientem de templo a latere dextro. Alleluia.

(The famished⁵⁸ snaggletusks of an elderly bawd protrude⁶¹ from a doorway⁶².)

THE BAWD (Her voice whispering huskily.) Sst! Come here till I tell you. Maidenhead inside. Sst.

STEPHEN (Altius aliqantulum) Et omnes ad quos pervenit acqua ista.

THE BAWD (Spits in their trail her jet of venom⁶⁴.) Trinity medicals. Fallopian tube. All prick⁶⁵ and no pence.

(Edy Boardman, sniffling, crouched⁶⁶ with Bertha Supple⁶⁷, draws her shawl across her nostrils⁶⁸.)

EDY BOARDMAN (Bickering.) And say the one: I seen you up Faithful place with your squarepusher, the greaser off the railway, in his cometobed hat. Did you, says I. That's not for you to say, says I. You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander⁷¹, says I. The likes of her! Stag that one is. Stubborn as a mule⁷²! And her walking with two fellows the one time, Kildbride the enginedriver and lancecorporal Oliphant.

STEPHEN (Triumphaliter.) Salvi facti i sunt.

(He flourishes his ashplant shivering the lamp image, shattering light over the world. A liver and white spaniel on the prowl slinks after him, growling. Lynch scar's it with a kick.)

LYNCH So that?

STEPHEN (Looks behind.) So that gesture, not music, not odours, would be a universal language, the gift of tongues rendering⁷³ visible not the lay sense but the first entelechy, the structural⁷⁴ rhythm.

LYNCH Pornosophical philotheology. Metaphysics in Mecklenburg street!

STEPHEN We have shrewridden Shakespeare and henpecked Socrates. Even the allwisest stagyrite was bitted, bridled⁷⁷ and mounted by a light of love.

LYNCH Ba!

STEPHEN Anyway, who wants two gestures to illustrate⁷⁸ a loaf and a jug⁸⁰? This movement illustrates⁸¹ the loaf and jug of bread and wine in Omar. Hold my stick.

LYNCH Damn your yellow stick. Where are we going?

STEPHEN Lecherous⁸² lynx, to la belle⁸³ dame⁸⁴ sans merci, Georgina Johnson, ad deam qui laetificat juventutem meam.

(Stephen thrusts the ashplant on him and slowly holds out his hands, his head going back till both hands are a span from his breast, down turned in planes intersecting, the fingers about to part, the left being higher.)

LYNCH Which is the jug of bread? It skills not. That or the customhouse. Illustrate thou. Here take your crutch⁸⁶ and walk.

(They pass. Tommy Caffrey scrambles to a gaslamp and, clasping, climbs in spasms⁸⁷. From the top spur he slides down. Jacky Caffrey clasps to climb. The navvy lurches against the lamp. The twins scuttle⁹⁰ off in the dark. The navvy, swaying, presses a forefinger⁹¹ against a wing of his nose and ejects from the farther nostril⁶⁹ a long liquid jet of snot. Shouldering the lamp he staggers away through the crowd with his flaring⁹² cresset.

Snakes of river fog creep slowly. From drains, clefts⁹³, cesspools, middens arise on all sides stagnant⁹⁵ fumes⁹⁶. A glow leaps in the south beyond the seaward reaches of the river. The navvy staggering forward cleaves⁹⁸ the crowd and lurches towards the tramsiding. On the farther side under the railway bridge Bloom appears flushed, panting, cramming¹⁰⁰ bread and chocolate into a side pocket. From Gillens hairdressers window a composite portrait shows him gallant¹⁰¹ Nelson's image. A concave mirror at the side presents to him lovelorn longlost lugubru Booloohoom. Grave Gladstone sees him level Bloom for Bloom. He passes, struck by the stare of truculent¹⁰³ Wellington but in the con⁵⁷ vex¹⁰⁴ mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

At Antonio Babaiotti's door Bloom halts, sweated under the bright arclamps. He disappears. In a moment he reappears and hurries on.)

BLOOM Fish and taters. N. g. Ah!

(He disappears into Olhousen's, the pork butcher's, under the downcoming rollshutter. A few moments later he emerges from under the shutter¹⁰⁷ puffing¹⁰⁸ Poldy, blowing Bloohoom. In each hand he holds a parcel, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the other a cold sheep's trotter sprinkled with wholepepper He gasps¹¹⁰, standing upright. Then bending to one side he presses a parcel against his rib¹⁰ and groans.)

BLOOM Stitch in my side. Why did I run?

(He takes breath with care and goes forward slowly towards the lampset siding. The glow leaps again.)

BLOOM What is that? A flasher? Searchlight.

(He stands at Cormack's corner watching.)

BLOOM Aurora¹¹² borealis or a steel foundry? Ah, the brigade, of course. South side anyhow. Big blaze. Might be his house. Beggar's bush. We're safe. (He hums cheerfully.) London's burning, London's burning! On fire, on fire! (He catches sight of the navvy lurching through the crowd at the farther side of Talbot street.) I'll miss him. Run. Quick. Better cross here.

(He darts¹¹⁴ to cross the road. Urchins¹¹⁵ shout.)

THE URCHINS Mind out, mister! (Two cyclists, with lighted paper lanterns aswing, swim by him, grazing him, their bells rattling¹¹⁶.)

THE BELLS Haltyaltyaltyall.

BLOOM (Halts erect¹¹⁷ stung by a spasm⁸⁸.) Ow.

(He looks round, darts forward suddenly. Through rising fog a dragon sandstrewer, travelling at caution, slews¹¹⁸ heavily down upon him, its huge red headlight winking¹¹⁹, its trolley¹²⁰ hissing¹²¹ on the wire. The motorman bangs his footgong.)

THE GONG Bang Bang Bla Bak Blud Bugg Bloo.

(The brake cracks violently. Bloom, raising a policeman's whitegloved hand, blunders stifflegged, out of the track. The motorman thrown forward, pugnosed, on the guidewheel, yells as he slides past over chains and keys.)

THE MOTORMAN Hey, shitbreeches, are you doing the hattrick?

BLOOM (Bloom trickleaps to the curbstone and halts again. He brushes a mudflake from his cheek with a parcelled hand.) No thoroughfare. Close shave that but cured the stitch. Must take up Sandow's exercises again. On the hands down. Insure against street accident too. The Providential. (He feels his trouser pocket.) Poor mamma's panacea¹²⁴. Heel easily catch in tracks or bootlace in a cog. Day the wheel of the black Maria peeled off my shoe at Leonard's corner. Third time is the charm. Shoe trick. Insolent¹²⁵ driver. I ought to report him. Tension makes them nervous. Might be the fellow balked¹²⁷ me this morning with that horsey woman. Same style of beauty. Quick of him all the same. The stiff walk. True word spoken in jest. That awful cramp¹²⁹ in Lad lane. Something poisonous I ate. Emblem¹³⁰ of luck. Why? Probably lost cattle. Mark of the beast. (He closes his eyes an instant.) Bit light in the head. Monthly or effect of the other. Brainfogfag. That tired feeling. Too much for me now. Ow!

(A sinister¹³¹ figure leans on plaited legs against O'Beirnes wall, a visage unknown, injected with dark mercury. From under a wideleaved sombrero the figure regards him with evil eye.)

BLOOM Buenos noches, se?orita Blanca, que calle es esta?

THE FIGURE (Impassive, raises a signal arm.) Password. Sraid Mabbot.

BLOOM Haha. Merci. Esperanto. Slan leath. (He mutters.) Gaelic league spy, sent by that fireeater.

(He steps forward. A sackshouldered ragman bars his path. He steps left, ragsackman left.)

BLOOM I beg. (He swerves¹³³, sidles, stepsaside, slips past and on.)

BLOOM Keep to the right, right, right. If there is a fingerpost planted by the Touring Club at Stepaside who procured¹³⁴ that public boon¹³⁵? I who lost my way and contributed to the columns of the Irish Cyclist the letter headed, In darkest Stepaside. Keep, keep, keep to the right. Rags and bones, at midnight. A fence more likely. First place murderer makes for. Wash off his sins of the world.

(Jacky Caffrey, hunted by Tommy Caffrey, runs full tilt¹³⁶ against Bloom.)

BLOOM O!

(Shocked, on weak hams, he halts. Tommy and Jacky vanish there, there. Bloom pats with parcelled hands watch, fobpocket, bookpocket, pursepocket, sweets of sin, potato soap.)

BLOOM Beware of pickpockets¹³⁸. Old thieves' dodge¹³⁹. Collide. Then snatch your purse.

(The retriever approaches sniffling, nose to the ground. A sprawled form sneezes. A stooped bearded figure appears garbed¹⁴¹ in the long caftan of an elder in Zion and a smoking cap with magenta¹⁴³ tassels¹⁴⁴. Horned spectacles hang down at the wings of the nose. Yellow poison streaks¹⁴⁵ are on the drawn¹⁴⁶ face.)

RUDOLPH Second halfcrown waste money today. I told you not go with drunken goy ever. So. You catch no money.

BLOOM (Hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen¹⁴⁷, feels warm and cold feetmeat) Ja, ich weiss, papachi.

RUDOLPH What you making down this place? Have you no soul? (With feeble vulture talons¹⁴⁸ he feels the silent face of Bloom) Are you not my son Leopold, the grandson of Leopold? Are you not my dear son Leopold who left the house of his father and left the god of his fathers Abraham and Jacob?

BLOOM (With precaution.) I suppose so, father. Mosenthal. All that's left of him.

RUDOLPH (Severely.) One night they bring you home drunk as dog after spend your good money. What you call them running chaps?

BLOOM (In youth's smart blue Oxford¹⁴⁹ suit with white vestslips, narrowshouldered, in brown Alpine¹⁵⁰ hat, wearing gent's sterling¹⁵¹ silver waterbury keyless watch and double curb¹²² Albert with seal attached, one side of him coated with stiffening¹⁵³ mud.) Harriers, father. Only that once.

RUDOLPH Once! Mud head to foot. Cut your hand open. Lockjaw. They make you kaput, Leopoldleben. You watch them chaps.

BLOOM (Weakly.) They challenged me to a sprint¹⁵⁵. It was muddy. I slipped.

RUDOLPH (With contempt) Ooim nachez. Nice spectacles for your poor mother!

BLOOM Mamma!

ELLEN BLOOM (In pantomime dame's stringed mobcap, crinoline and bustle¹⁵⁸, widow Twankey's blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind, grey mittens¹⁶¹ and cameo brooch, her hairplaited in a crisping net, appears over the staircase banisters, a slanted¹⁶² candlestick in her hand and cries out in shrill alarm.) O blessed Redeemer, what have they done to him! My smelling salts! (She hauls up a reef of skirt and ransacks¹⁶³ the pouch¹⁶⁴ of her striped blay petticoat. A phial, an Agnus Dei, a shrivelled potato and a celluloid doll fall out.) Sacred Heart of Mary, where were you at all, at all?

(Bloom, mumbling¹⁶⁵, his eyes downcast, begins to bestow¹⁶⁶ his parcels in his filled pockets but desists, muttering.)

A VOICE (Sharply.) Poldy!

BLOOM Who? (He ducks and wards⁹⁹ off a blow clumsily.) At your service.

(He looks up. Beside her mirage¹⁶⁸ of datepalms a handsome woman in Turkish costume stands before him. Opulent curves fill out her scarlet¹⁶⁹ trousers and jacket slashed¹⁷⁰ with gold. A wide yells cummerbund girdles her. A white yashmak violet in the night, covers her face, leaving free only her lace dark eyes and raven¹⁷³ hair.)

BLOOM Molly!

MARION Welly? Mrs Marion from this out, my dear man, when you speak to me. (Satirically.) Has poor little hubby cold feet waiting so long?

BLOOM (Shifts from foot to foot.) No, no. Not the least little bit.

(He breathes in deep agitation¹⁷⁴, swallowing gulps¹⁷⁵ of air questions, hopes, crubeens for her supper things to tell her excuses, desire, spellbound. A coin gleams on her forehead. On her feet are jewelled toerings. Her ankles are linked by a slender fetterchain. Beside her a camel, hooded¹⁷⁶ with a turreting turban, waits. A silk ladder of innumerable rungs climbs to his bobbing howdah. He ambles³⁶ near with disgruntled hindquarters. Fiercely she slaps his haunch, her goldcurb wristbangles angriling, scolding him in Moorish¹⁸⁰.)

MARION Nebrakada! Feminimum.

(The camel, lifting a foreleg, plucks from a tree a lace mango fruit, offers it to his mistress, blinking, in his cloven hoof¹⁸¹ then droops¹⁸³ his head and, grunting¹⁸⁴, with uplifted neck, fumbles¹⁸⁵ to kneel. Bloom stoops his back for leapfrog.)

BLOOM I can give you... I mean as your business menagerer Mrs Marion... if you...

MARION So you notice some change? (Her hands passing slowly over her trinketed stomacher. A slow friendly mockery in her eyes.) O Poldy, Poldy, you are a poor old stick in the mud! Go and see life. See the wide world.

BLOOM I was just going back for that lotion¹⁸⁶ whitewax, orangeflower water. Shop closes early on Thursday. But the first thing in the morning. (He pats divers¹⁸⁷ pockets.) This moving kidney. Ah!

(He points to the south, then to the east. A cake of new clean lemon soap arises, diffusing¹⁸⁸ light and perfume.)

THE SOAP

We're a capital couple are Bloom and I;
He brightens the earth, I polish the sky.
(The freckled¹⁸⁹ face of Sweny, the druggist, appeals in the disc of the soapsun.)
SWENY Three and a penny, please.

BLOOM Yes. For my wife, Mrs Marion. Special recipe.

MARION (Softly.) Poldy!

BLOOM Yes, ma'am?

MARION Ti trema un poco il cuore?

(In disdain¹⁹⁰ she saunters away, plump as a pampered¹⁹¹ pouter pigeon, humming the duet from Don Giovanni)

BLOOM Are you sure about that Voglio? I mean the pronunciati...

(He follows, followed by the sniffing¹⁹³ terrier. The elderly bawd seizes his sleeve, the bristles¹⁹⁴ of her chinmole glittering.)

THE BAWD Ten shillings a maidenhead. Fresh thing was never touched. Fifteen. There's no-one in it only her old father that's dead drunk.

(She points. In the gap of her dark den⁶³ furtive¹⁹⁵, rainbedraggled Bridie Kelly stands.)

BRIDIE Hatch street. Any good in your mind?

(With a squeak¹⁹⁶ she flaps her bat shawl and runs. A burly rough pursues with booted strides. He stumbles on the steps, recovers, plunges¹⁹⁷ into gloom. Weak squeaks¹⁹⁹ of laughter are heard, weaker.)

THE BAWD (Her wolfeyes shining.) He's getting his pleasure. You won't get a virgin²⁰⁰ in the flash houses. Ten shillings. Don't be all night before the polis in plain clothes sees us. Sixtyseven is a bitch.

(Leering Gerty MacDowell limps forward. She draws from behind ogling²⁰¹, and shows coyly her bloodied²⁰² clout²⁰³.)

GERTY With all my worldly goods I thee and thou. (She murmurs²⁰⁵.) You did that. I hate you.

BLOOM I? When? You're dreaming. I never saw you.

THE BAWD Leave the gentleman alone, you cheat. Writing the gentleman false letters. Streetwalking and soliciting²⁰⁷. Better for your mother take the strap²⁰⁸ to you at the bedpost, hussy like you.

GERTY (To Bloom.) When you saw all the secrets of my bottom drawer. (She paws his sleeve, slobbering.) Dirty married man! I love you for doing that to me.

(She slides away crookedly²¹⁰. Mrs Breen in man's frieze²¹² overcoat with loose bellows²¹³ pockets, stands in the causeway, her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth.)

MRS BREEN Mr.

BLOOM (Coughs gravely.) Madam, when we last had this pleasure by letter dated the sixteenth instant .

MRS BREEN Mr Bloom! You down here in the haunts of sin! I caught you nicely! Scamp!

BLOOM (Hurriedly.) Not so loud my name. Whatever do you think me? Don't give me away. Walls have hears. How do you do? It's ages since I. You're looking splendid. Absolutely it. Seasonable weather we are having this time of year. Black refracts heat. Short cut home here. Interesting quarter. Rescue of fallen women Magdalen asylum²¹⁶. I am the secretary...

MRS BREEN (Holds up a finger.) Now don't tell a big fib! I know somebody won't like that. O just wait till I see Molly! (Slily.) Account for yourself this very minute or woe²¹⁷ betide you!

BLOOM (Looks behind.) She often said she'd like to visit. Slumming. The exotic, you see. Negro servants too in livery if she had money. Othello black brute²¹⁸. Eugene Stratton. Even the bones and cornerman at the Livermore christies. Bohee brothers. Sweep for that matter.

(Tom and Sam Bohee, coloured coons in white duck suits, scarlet socks, upstarched Sambo chokers and lace scarlet asters in their buttonholes leap out. Each has his banjo slung. Their paler smaller negroid hands jingle²²⁰ the twingtwang wires. Flashing white Kaffir eyes and tusks⁶⁰ they rattle²²¹ through a breakdown²²² in clumsy clogs²²³, twinging, singing, back to back, toe heel, heel toe, with smackfatclacking nigger lips.)

There's someone in the house with Dina
There's someone in the house, I know,
There's someone in the house with Dina
Playing on the old banjo.
(They whisk black masks from raw babby faces: then, chuckling²²⁴, chortling, trumming, twanging they diddle diddle cakewalk dance away.)
BLOOM (With a sour tenderish smile.) A little frivol, shall we, if you are so inclined? Would you like me perhaps to embrace you just for a fraction of a second?

MRS BREEN (Screams gaily²²⁵.) O, you ruck! You ought to see yourself!

BLOOM For old sake'sake. I only meant a square party, a mixed marriage mingling²²⁶ of our different little conjugials. You know I had a soft corner for you. (Gloomily.) 'Twas I sent you that valentine of the dear gazelle.

MRS BREEN Glory Alice, you do look a holy show! Killing²²⁷ simply. (She puts out her hand inquisitively²²⁸.) What are you hiding behind your back? Tell us, there's a dear.

BLOOM (Seizes her wrist with his free hand.) Josie Powell that was, prettiest deb in Dublin. How time flies by! Do you remember, harking back in a retrospective arrangement, Old Christmas night Georgina Simpson's housewarming while they were playing the Irving Bishop²³¹ game, finding the pin blindfold²³² and thoughtreading? Subject, what is in this snuff box?

MRS BREEN You were the lion of the night with your seriocomic recitation and you looked the part. You were always a favourite with the ladies.

BLOOM (Squire of dames²³³, in dinner jacket, with watered-silk facings, blue masonic badge in his buttonhole, black bow and mother-of-pearl studs, a prismatic champagne²³⁴ glass tilted²³⁵ in his hand.) Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ireland, home and beauty.

MRS BREEN The dear dead days beyond recall. Love's old sweet song.

BLOOM (Meaningfully dropping his voice.) I confess I'm teapot with curiosity to find out whether some person's something is a little teapot at present.

MRS BREEN (Gushingly.) Tremendously teapot! London's tea pot and I'm simply teapot all over me. (She rubs sides with him.) After the parlour mystery games and the crackers²³⁶ from the tree we sat on the staircase ottoman. Under the mistletoe. Two is company.

BLOOM (Wearing a purple Napoleon hat with an amber²³⁷ halfmoon, his fingers and thumbs passing slowly down to her soft moist meaty palm which she surrenders gently.) The witching hour of night. I took the splinter out of this hand, carefully, slowly. (Tenderly, as he slips on her finger a ruby²³⁸ ring.) Là ci darem la mano.

MRS BREEN (In a onepiece eveningfrock executed in moonlight blue, a tinsel sylph's diadem²³⁹ on her brow with her dancecard fallen beside her moonblue satin slipper²⁴⁰ curves her palm softly, breathing quickly.) Voglio e non. You're hot! You're scalding! The left hand nearest the heart.

BLOOM When you made your present choice they said it was beauty and the beast. I can never forgive you for that. (His clenched²⁴¹ fist at his brow.) Think what it means. All you meant to me then. (Hoarsely²⁴².) Woman, it's breaking me! (Dennis Breen, whitetallhatted, with Wisdom Hely's sandwich board, shuffles²⁴³ past them in cadet slippers²⁴⁴, his dull beard thrust out, muttering to right and left. Little Alf Bergan, cloaked in the pall²⁴⁵ of the ace⁴⁷ of spaces, dogs him to left and right, doubled in laughter.)

ALF BERGAN (Points jeering²⁴⁶ at the sandwich boards.) U.p.: Up.

MRS BREEN (To Bloom.) High jinks below stairs. (She gives him the glad eye.) Why didn't you kiss the spot to make it well? You wanted to.

BLOOM (Shocked.) Molly's best friend! Could you?

MRS BREEN (Her pulpy²⁴⁷ tongue between her lips, offers a pigeon kiss.) Hnhn. The answer is a lemon. Have you a little present for me there?

BLOOM (Off handedly.) Kosher. A snack for supper. The home without potted meat is incomplete. I was at Leah. Mrs Bandman Palmer. Trenchant²⁴⁸ exponent²⁴⁹ of Shakespeare. Unfortunately threw away the programme. Rattling good place round there for pig's feet. Feel.

(Richie Goulding, three ladies' hats pinned on his head, appears weighted to one side by the black legal bag of Collis and Ward⁹⁷ on which a skull²⁵⁰ and crossbones are painted in white limewash. He ins it and shows it full of polonies, kippered, herrings, Findon haddies and tightpacked pills.)

RICHIE Best value in Dub²²⁹.

(Bald Pat, bothered beetle²⁵², stands on the curbstone, folding his napkin, waiting to wait.)

PAT (Advances with a tilted dish of spillspilling gravy²⁵³.) Steak and kidney. Bottle of lager. Hee hee hee. Wait till I wait.

RICHIE Goodgod. Inev erate inall...

(With hanging head he marches doggedly²⁵⁴ forward. The navvy, lurching by, gores²⁵⁵ him with his flaming pronghorn.)

RICHIE (With a cry of pain, his hand to his back) Ah! Bright's! Lights!

BLOOM (Points to the navvy.) A spy. Don't attract attention. I hate stupid crowds. I am not on pleasure bent²⁵⁶. I am in a grave predicament.

MRS BREEN Humbugging and delutbering as per usual with your cock and bull story.

BLOOM I want to tell you a little secret about how I came to be here. But you must never tell. Not even Molly. I have a most particular reason.

MRS BREEN (All agog²⁵⁷.) O, not for worlds.

BLOOM Let's walk on. Shall us?

MRS BREEN Let's.

(The bawd makes an unheeded sign. Bloom walks on with Mrs Breen. The terrier follows, whining²⁵⁸ piteously, wagging his tail.)

THE BAWD Jewman's melt!

BLOOM (In an oatmeal sporting suit, a sprig of woodbine in the lapel, tony buff shirt, shepherd's plaid Saint Andrew's cross scarftie, white spats²⁶⁰, fawn²⁶¹ dustcoat on his arm, tawny²⁶² red brogues, fieldglasses in bandolier and a grey billycock hat.) Do you remember a long long time, years and years ago, just after Milly, Marionette²⁶³ we called her, was weaned when we all went together to Fairyhouse races, was it?

MRS BREEN (In smart Saxe tailormade, white velours hat and spider veil.) Leopardstown.

BLOOM I mean, Leopardstown. And Molly won seven shillings on a three year old named Nevertell and coming home along by Foxrock in that old fiveseater shanderadan of a waggonette you were in your heyday²⁶⁵ then and you had on that new hat of white velours with a surround of molefur that Mrs Hayes advised you to buy because it was marked down to nineteen and eleven, a bit of wire and an old rag of velveteen, and I'll lay you what you like she did it on purpose...

MRS BREEN She did, of course, the cat! Don't tell me! Nice adviser²⁶⁸!

BLOOM Because it didn't suit you one quarter as well as the other ducky little tammy toque with the bird of paradise wing in it that I admired on you and you honestly looked just too fetching in it though it was a pity to kill it, you cruel creature, little mite²⁶⁹ of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

MRS BREEN (Squeezes his arm, simpers.) Naughty cruel I was.

BLOOM (Low, secretly, ever more rapidly.) And Molly was eating a sandwich of spiced beef out of Mrs Joe Gallaher's lunch basket. Frankly²⁷⁰, though she had her advisers²⁷¹ or admirers, I never cared much for her style. She was .

MRS BREEN Too.

BLOOM Yes. And Molly was laughing because Rogers and Maggot O'Reilly were mimicking²⁷² a cock as we passed a farmhouse²⁷³ and Marcus Tertius Moses, the tea merchant, drove past us in a gig with his daughter, Dancer Moses was her name, and the poodle in her lap bridled up and you asked me if I ever heard or read or knew or came across .

MRS BREEN (Eagerly.) Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

(She fades from his side. Followed by the whining dog he walks on towards hellsgates. In an archway a standing woman, bent forward, her feet apart, pisses cowily. Outside a shuttered pub a bunch of loiterers listen to a tale which their broken snouted gaffer rasps out with raucous²⁷⁴ humour. An armless pair of them flop²⁷⁵ wrestling, growling, in maimed sodden²⁷⁶ playfight.)

THE GAFFER (Crouches, his voice twisted in his snout.) And when Cairns came down from the scaffolding in Beaver²⁷⁷ Street what was he after doing it into only into the bucket of porter that was there waiting on the shavings for Derwan's plasterers.

THE LOITERERS (Guffaw with cleft⁹⁴ palates.) O jays!

(Their paintspeckled hats wag. Spattered with size and lime of their lodges²⁷⁹ they frisk limblessly about him.)

BLOOM Coincidence too. They think it funny. Anything but that. Broad daylight. Trying to walk. Lucky no woman.

THE LOITERERS Jays, that's a good one. Glauber salts. O jays, into the men's porter.

(Bloom passes. Cheap whores, singly, coupled, shawled, dishevelled, call from lanes, doors, corners.)

THE WHORES Are you going far, queer fellow? How's your middle leg? Got a match on you? Eh, come here till I stiffen¹⁵² it for you.

(He plodges through their sump towards the lighted street beyond. From a bulge²⁸⁰ of window curtains a gramophone rears a battered²⁸¹ brazen²⁸² trunk. In the shadow a shebeenkeeper haggles²⁸³ with the navvy and the two redcoats.)

THE NAVVY (Belching.) Where's the bloody²⁸⁴ house?

THE SHEBEENKEEPER Purdon street. Shilling a bottle of stout²⁸⁵. Respectable woman.

THE NAVVY (Gripping the two redcoats, staggers forward with them.) Come on, you British army!

PRIVATE CARR (Behind his back.) He aint half balmy.

PRIVATE COMPTON (LAughs.) What ho!

PRIVATE CARR (To the navvy.) Portobello barracks canteen. You ask for Carr. Just Carr.

THE NAVVY (Shouts.)

We are the boys. Of Wexford.

PRIVATE COMPTON Say! What price the sergeantmajor?

PRIVATE CARR Bennett? He's my pal¹⁷. I love old Bennett.

THENAVVY (Shouts.)

The galling²⁸⁸ chain.
And free our native land.
(He staggers forward, dragging them with him. Bloom stops, at fault. The dog approaches, his tongue outlolling, panting.)
BLOOM Wildgoose chase this. Disorderly houses. Lord knows where they are gone. Drunks cover distance double quick. Nice mixup. Scene at Westland row. Then jump in first class with third ticket. Then too far. Train with engine behind. Might have taken me to Malahide or a siding for the night or collision. Second drink does it. Once is a dose. What am I following him for? Still, he's the best of that lot. If I hadn't heard about Mrs Beaufoy Purefoy I wouldn't have gone and wouldn't have met. Kismet. He'll lose that cash. Relieving office here. Good biz for cheapjacks, organs. What do ye lack? Soon got, soon gone. Might have lost my life too with that mangongwheeltracktrolleyglarejuggernaut only for presence of mind. Can't always save you, though. If I had passed Truelock's window that day two minutes later would have been shot. Absence of body. Still if bullet only went through my coat get damages for shock, five hundred pounds. What was he? Kildare street club toff. God help his gamekeeper.

(He gazes ahead reading on the wall a scrawled²⁸⁹ chalk legend Wet Dream and a phallic design.)

Odd! Molly drawing on the frosted carriagepane at Kingstown. What's that like? (Gaudy dollwomen loll in the lighted doorways²⁹⁰, in window embrasures, smoking birdseye cigarettes. The odour of the sicksweet weed floats towards him in slow round ovalling wreaths.)

THE WREATHS Sweet are the sweets. Sweets of sin.

BLOOM My spine²⁹¹'s a bit limp. Go or turn? And this food? Eat it and get all pigsticky. Absurd I am. Waste of money. One and eightpence too much. (The retriever drives a cold snivelling muzzle²⁹² against his hand, wagging his tail.) Strange how they take to me. Even that brute today. Better speak to him first. Like women they like rencontres. Stinks²⁹⁴ like a polecat. Chacun son go?t. He might be mad. Fido. Uncertain in his movements. Good fellow! Garryowen! (The wolfdog sprawls²⁹⁵ on his back, wriggling²⁹⁶ obscenely with begging paws, his long black tongue lolling out.) Influence of his surroundings. Give and have done with it. Provided nobody. (Calling encouraging words he shambles²⁹⁷ back with a furtive poacher's tread, dogged by the setter into a dark stalestunk corner. He unrolls one parcel and goes to dump the crubeen softly but holds back and feels the trotter.) Sizeable for threepence. But then I have it in my left hand. Calls for more effort. Why? Smaller from want of use. O, let it slide. Two and six.

(With regret he lets unrolled crubeen and trotter slide. The mastiff mauls the bundle clumsily and gluts²⁹⁸ himself with growling greed, crunching²⁹⁹ the bones. Two raincaped watch approach, silent, vigilant³⁰⁰. They murmur²⁰⁴ together.)

THE WATCH Bloom. Of Bloom. For Bloom. Bloom.

(Each lays a hand on Blooms shoulder.)

FIRST WATCH Caught in the act. Commit no nuisance.

BLOOM (Stammers.) I am doing good to others.

(A covey of gulls³⁰³, storm petrels, rises hungrily from Liffey slime with Banbury cakes in their beaks³⁰⁵.)

THE GULLS Kaw kave kankury kake.

BLOOM The friend of man. Trained by kindness.

(He points. Bob Doran, toppling from a high bars tool, sways over the munching³⁰⁶ spaniel.)

BOB DORAN Towser. Give us the paw. Give the paw.

(The bulldog growls³⁰⁷, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pigs knuckle³⁰⁸ between his molars through which rabid scrumspittle dribbles³⁰⁹. Bob Doran falls silently into an area.)

SECOND WATCH Prevention of cruelty to animals.

BLOOM (Enthusiastically.) A noble work! I scolded that tramdriver on Harold's cross bridge for illusing the poor horse with his harness scab. Bad French I got for my pains. Of course it was frosty and the last tram. All tales of circus life are highly demoralising.

(Signor Maffei, passion pale, in liontamer's costume with diamond studs in his shirtfront, steps forward, holding a circus paper hoop³¹⁰, a curling carriagewhip and a revolver with which he covers the going boarhound.)

SIGNOR MAFFEI (With a sinister smile.) Ladies and gentlemen, my educated greyhound. It was I broke in the bucking³¹² broncho Ajax with my patent spiked³¹³ saddle for carnivores. Lash¹¹¹ under the belly with a knotted thong³¹⁴. Block tackle and a strangling pully will bring your lion to heel, no matter how fractious, even Leo ferox there, the Libyan maneater. A redhot crowbar and some liniment rubbing on the burning part produced Fritz of Amsterdam, the thinking hyena³¹⁵. (He glares.) I possess the Indian sign. The glint of my eye does it with these breastsparklers. (With a bewitching smile.) I now introduce Mademoiselle Ruby, the pride of the ring.

FIRST WATCH Come. Name and address.

BLOOM I have forgotten for the moment. Ah, yes! (He takes off his high grade hat, saluting³¹⁶.) Dr Bloom, Leopold, dental surgeon. You have heard of von Bloom Pasha. Umpteen³¹⁷ mil lions. Donnerwetter! Owns half Austria. Egypt. Cousin.

FIRST WATCH Proof.

(A card falls from inside the leather headband of Bloom's hat.)

BLOOM (In red fez, cadi's dress coat with broad green sash, wearing a false badge of the Legion of Honour, picks up the card hastily and offers it.) Allow me. My club is the Junior Army and Navy. Solicitors³¹⁸: Messrs John Henry Menton, 27 Bachelor's Walk.

FIRST WATCH (Reads.) Henry Flower. No fixed³²⁰ abode³²¹. Un lawfully³²² watching and besetting³²⁴.

SECOND WATCH An alibi³²⁵. You are cautioned.

BLOOM (Produces from his heartpocket a crumpled³²⁶ yellow flower.) This is the flower in question. It was given me by a man I don't know his name. (Plausibly.) You know that old joke, rose of Castille. Bloom. The change of name Virag. (He murmurs privately³²⁸ and confidentially³³⁰.) We are engaged you see, sergeant²⁸⁷. Lady in the case. Love entanglement³³². (He shoulders the second watch gently.) Dash it all. It's a way we gallants have in the navy. Uniform that does it. (He turns gravely to the first watch.) Still, of course, you do get your Waterloo sometimes. drop in some evening and have a glass of old Burgundy. (To the second watch gaily.) I'll introduce you, inspector³³³. She's game. Do it in shake of a lamb's tail.

(A dark mercurialised face appears, leading a veiled figure.)

THE DARK MERCURY The Castle is looking for him. He was drummed out of the army.

MARTHA (Thickveiled, a crimson³³⁵ halter round her neck, a copy of the Irish Times in her hand, in tone of reproach, pointing.) Henry! Leopold! Leopold! Lionel, thou lost one! Clear my name.

FIRST WATCH (Sternly.) Come to the station.

BLOOM (Scared, hats himself steps back, then, plucking at his heart and lifting his right forearm on the square, he gives the sign and dueguard of fellowcraft.) No, no, worshipful master, light of love. Mistaken identity. The Lyons mail. Lesurques and Dubosc. You remember the Childs fratricide case. We medical men. By striking him dead with a hatchet³³⁶. I am wrongfully accused. Better one guilty escape than ninetynine wrongfully condemned³³⁷.

MARTHA (Sobbing behind her veil.) Breach³³⁸ of promise. My real name is Peggy Griffin. He wrote to me that he was miserable³⁴⁰. I'll tell my brother, the Bective rugger fullback, on you, heartless flirt³⁴¹.

BLOOM (Behind his hand.) She's drunk. The woman is inebriated³⁴². (He murmurs vaguely³⁴³ the past of Ephraim.) Shitbroleeth.

SECOND WATCH (Tears in his eyes, to Bloom.) You ought to be thoroughly³⁴⁴ well ashamed of yourself.

BLOOM Gentleman of the jury, let me explain. A pure mare³⁴⁵'s nest. I am a man misunderstood. I am being made a scapegoat³⁴⁶ of. I am a respectable married man, without a stain on my character. I live in Eccles street. My wife, I am the daughter of a most distinguished³⁴⁷ commander, a gallant upstanding gentleman, who do you call him, Majorgeneral Brian Tweedy, one of Britain's fighting men who helped to win our battles. Got his majority for the heroic defence of Rorke's Drift.

FIRST WATCH Regiment³⁴⁸.

BLOOM (Turns to the gallery.) The royal Dublins, boys, the salt of the earth, known the world over. I think I see some old comrades in arms up there among you. The R. D. F. With our own Metropolitan³⁴⁹ police, guardians³⁵⁰ of our homes, the pluckiest lads and the finest body of men, as physique, in the service of our sovereign.

A VOICE Turncoat! Up the Boers! Who booed Joe Chamberlain?

BLOOM (His hand on the shoulder of the first watch.) My old dad too was a J.P. I'm as staunch a Britisher as you are, sir. I fought with the colours for king and country in the absentminded war under General Gough in the park and was disabled at Spion Kop and Bloemfontein, was mentioned in dispatches. I did all a white man could. (With quiet feeling.) Jim Bludso. Hold her nozzle again the bank.

FIRST WATCH Profession or trade.

BLOOM Well, I follow a literary occupation. Author-journalist. In fact we are just bringing out a collection of prize stories of which I am the inventor, something that is an entirely³⁵⁴ new departure. I am connected with the British and Irish press. If you ring up...

(Myles Crawford strides out jerkily, a quill³⁵⁵ between his teeth. His scarlet beak³⁰⁴ blazes within the aureole of his straw hat. He dangles³⁵⁶ a hank of Spanish onions in one hand and holds with the other hand a telephone receiver nozzle to his ear.)

MYLES CRAWFORD (His cock's wattles wagging.) Hello, seventyseven eightfour. Hello. Freeman's Urinal and Weekly Arse wiper here. Paralyse Europe. You which? Bluebags? Who writes? Is it Bloom?

(Mr Philip Beaufoy, palefaced, stands in the witnessbox, in accurate morning dress, outbreast pocket with peak of handkerchief showing, creased³⁵⁷ lavender trousers and patent boots. He cames a lace portfolio³⁵⁸ labelled Matcham's Masterstrokes.)

BEAUFOY (Drawls.) No, you aren't, not by a long shot if I know it. I don't see it, that's all. No born gentleman, no one with the most rudimentary promptings of a gentleman would stoop to such particularly loathsome³⁶⁰ conduct. One of those, my lord. A plagiarist³⁶¹. A soapy sneak³⁶² masquerading as a literateur. It's perfectly³⁶³ obvious that with the most inherent baseness he has cribbed some of my bestselling books, really gorgeous stuff, a perfect gem²³⁰, the love passages in which are beneath suspicion. The Beaufoy books of love and great possessions with which your lordship is doubtless familiar, are a household word throughout the kingdom.

BLOOM (Murmurs with hangdog meekness³⁶⁵.) That bit about the laughing witch hand in hand I take exception to, if I may... ?

BEAUFOY (His lip upcurled, smiles superciliously³⁶⁶ on the court.) You funny ass⁵³, you! You're too beastly awfully³²³ weird³⁶⁷ for words! I don't think you need over excessively disincommodate yourself in that regard. My literary agent Mr J. B. Pinker is in attendance. I presume, my lord, we shall receive the usual witnesses' fees, shan't we? We are considerably³⁶⁸ out of pocket over this bally pressman johnny, this jackdaw of Rheims, who has not even been to a university.

BLOOM (Indistinctly.) University of life. Bad art.

BEAUFOY (Shouts.) It's a damnably foul³⁶⁹ lie showing the moral rottenness of the man! (He extends his portfolio.) We have here damning evidence, the corpus delicti, my lord, a specimen³⁷⁰ of my maturer work disfigured by the hallmark of the beast.

A VOICE FROM THE GALLERY

Moses, Moses, king of the jews,
Wiped his arse in the Daily News.
BLOOM (Bravely.) Overdrawn³⁷¹.
BEAUFOY You low cad! You ought to be ducked in the horsepond, you rotter! (To the court.) Why, look at the man's private life! Leading a quadruple existence! Street angel and house devil. Not fit to be mentioned in mixed society. The arch conspirator³⁷² of the age.

BLOOM (To the court.) And he, a bachelor, how.

FIRST WATCH The King versus³⁷³ Bloom. Call the woman Driscoll.

THE CRIER Mary Driscoll, scullerymaid!

(Mary Driscoll, a slipshod servant girl, approaches. She has a bucket on the crook²⁰⁹ of her arm and a scouringbrush in her hand.)

SECOND WATCH Another! Are you of the unfortunate class?

MARY DRISCOLL (Indignantly.) I'm not a bad one. I bear a respectable character and was four months in my last place. I was in a situation, six pounds a year and my chances with Fridays out, and I had to leave owing to his carryings on.

FIRST WATCH What do you tax him with?

MARY DRISCOLL He made a certain suggestion but I thought more of myself as poor as I am.

BLOOM (In housejacket of ripplecloth, flannel³⁷⁴ trousers, heelless slippers, unshaven, his hair rumpled³²⁷ softly.) I treated you white. I gave you mementoes, smart emerald garters far above your station. Incautiously I took your part when you were accused of pilfering³⁷⁵. There's a medium in all things. Play cricket.

MARY DRISCOLL (Excitedly.) As God is looking down on me this night if ever I laid a hand to them oysters³⁷⁶!

FIRST WATCH The offence complained of? Did something happen?

MARY DRISCOLL He surprised me in the rere of the premises³⁷⁷, your honour, when the missus was out shopping one morning with a request for a safety pin. He held me and I was discoloured in four places as a result. And he interfered³⁷⁹ twice with my clothing.

BLOOM She counterassaulted.

MARY DRISCOLL (Scornfully.) I had more respect for the scouringbrush, so I had. I remonstrated³⁸⁰ with him, your lord, and he remarked: Keep it quiet!

(General laughter.)

GEORGES FOTTRELL (Clerk of the crown and peace, resonantly³⁸¹.) Order in court! The accused will now make a bogus statement.

(Bloom, pleading not guilty and holding a fullblown waterlily, begins a long unintelligible³⁸³ speech. They would hear what counsel had to say in his stirring address to the grand-jury. He was down and out but, though branded as a black sheep, if he might say so, he meant to reform, to retrieve¹⁴⁰ the memory of the past in a purely³⁸⁴ sisterly way and return to nature as a purely domestic animal. A seven months' child, he had been carefully brought up and nurtured³⁸⁵ by an aged³³¹ bedridden parent. There might have been lapses³⁸⁷ of an erring²⁵¹ father but he wanted to turn over a new leaf and now, when at long last in sight of the whipping post, to lead a homely³⁸⁸ life in the evening of his days, permeated³⁸⁹ by the affectionate surroundings of the heaving bosom³⁹⁰ of the family. An acclimatised Britisher he had seen that summer eve from the footplate of an engine cab of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as it were, through the windows of loveful households in Dublin city and urban district of scenes truly rural of happiness of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent British born bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums, model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting³⁹¹ stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever... )

(Renewed laughter. He mumbles³⁹² incoherently. Reporters complain that they cannot hear.)

LONGHAND AND SHORTHAND (Without looking up from their notebooks.) Loosen his boots.

PROFESSOR MACHUGH (From the presstable, coughs and calls.) Cough it up, man. Get it out in bits.

(The crossexamination proceeds re Bloom and the bucket. A lace bucket. Bloom himself Bowel³⁹³ trouble. In Beaver street. Gripe, yes. Quite bad. A plasterers bucket. By walking stifflegged. Suffered untold³⁹⁴ misery³⁹⁵. Deadly agony. About noon. Love or burgundy. Yes, some spinach³⁹⁶. Crucial moment. He did not look in the bucket. Nobody. Rather a mess. Not completely. A Titbits back number.)

(Uproar and catcalls. Bloom, in a torn frockcoat stained with whitewash³⁹⁷, dinged silk hat sideways on his head, a strip of sticking-plaster across his nose, talks inaudibly.)

J. J. O'MOLLOY (In barrister's grey wig³⁹⁸ and stuffgown, speaking with a voice of pained protest.) This is no place for indecent levity³⁹⁹ at the expense of an erring mortal disguised in liquor. We are not in a beargarden nor at an Oxford rag nor is this a travesty⁴⁰⁰ of justice. My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway⁴⁰¹ and is now trying to turn an honest penny. The trumped⁴⁰² up misdemeanour was due to a momentary⁴⁰³ aberration⁴⁰⁴ of heredity, brought on by hallucination, such familiarities as the alleged⁴⁰⁵ guilty occurrence being quite permitted in my client's native place, the land of the Pharaoh. Prima facie, I put it to you that there was no attempt at carnally knowing. Intimacy⁴⁰⁶ did not occur and the offence complained of by Driscoll, that her virtue⁴⁰⁷ was solicited⁴⁰⁸, was not repeated. I would deal inespecial with atavism. There have been cases of shipwreck⁴⁰⁹ and somnambulism in my client's family. If the accused could speak he could a tale unfold one of the strangest that have ever been narrated⁴¹¹ between the covers of a book. He himself, my lord, is a physical wreck⁴¹⁰ from cobbler's weak chest. His submission⁴¹² is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.

BLOOM (Barefoot, pigeonbreasted, in lascar's vest and trousers, apologetic toes turned in, opens his tiny mole's eyes and looks about him dazedly⁴¹³, passing a slow hand across his forehead. Then he hitches⁴¹⁴ his belt sailor fashion and with a shrug⁴¹⁵ of oriental obeisance⁴¹⁶ salutes⁴¹⁷ the court, pointing one thumb heavenward.) Him makee velly muchee fine night. (He begins to lilt simply.)

Li li poo lil chile,
Blingee pigfoot evly night.
Payee two shilly...
(He is howled down.)
J. J. O'MOLLOY (Hotly to the populace.) This is a lonehand fight. By Hades, I will not have any client of mine gagged and badgered in this fashion by a pack of curs and laughing hyenas⁴²⁰. The Mosaic⁴²¹ code has superseded⁴²³ the law of the jungle. I say it and I say it emphatically without wishing for one moment to defeat the ends of justice, accused was not accessory before the act and prosecutrix has not been tampered⁴²⁴ with. The young person was treated by defendant⁴²⁵ as if she were his very own daughter. (Bloom takes J. J. O'Molloy's hand and raises it to his lips.) I shall call rebutting⁴²⁶ evidence to prove up to the hilt that the hidden hand is again at its old game. When in doubt persecute⁴²⁸ Bloom. My client, an innately⁴²⁹ bashful man, would be the last man in the world to do anything ungentlemanly which injured modesty⁴³⁰ could object to or cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning when some dastard⁴³¹, responsible for her condition, had worked his own sweet will on her. He wants to go straight. I regard him as the whitest man I know. He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive property at Agendath Netaim in faraway Asia Minor⁴³², slides of which will now be shown. (To Bloom.) I suggest that you will do the handsome thing.

BLOOM A penny in the pound.

(The mirage of the lake of Kinnereth with blurred⁴³³ cattle cropping in silver haze⁴³⁴ is projected on the wall. Moses Dlugacz, ferreteyed albino, in blue dungarees, stands up in the gallery, holding in each hand an orange citron and a pork kidney.)

DLUGACZ (Hoarsely.) Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W. 13.

(J. J. O'Molloy steps on to a low plinth and holds the lapel of his coat with solemnity. His face lengthens⁴³⁵, grows pale and bearded, with sunken eyes, the blotches⁴³⁶ of phthisis and hectic⁴³⁷ cheekbones of John F. Taylor. He applies his handkerchief to his mouth and scrutinises the galloping⁴³⁹ tide of rosepink blood.)

J. J. O'MOLLOY (Almost voicelessly.) Excuse me, I am suffering from a severe chill, have recently come from a sickbed. A few wellchosen words. (He assumes the avine head, foxy moustache and proboscidal eloquence⁴⁴⁰ of Seymour Bushe.) When the angel's book comes to be opened if aught that the pensive⁴⁴¹ bosom has inaugurated of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live I say accord the prisoner at the bar the sacred benefit of the doubt. (A paper with something written on it is handed into court.)

BLOOM (In court dress.) Can give best references. Messrs Callan, Coleman. Mr Wisdom Hely J. P. My old chief Joe Cuffe. Mr V. B. Dillon, ex-lord mayor of Dublin. I have moved in the charmed circle of the highest . Queens of Dublin Society. (Carelessly.) I was just chatting this afternoon at the viceregal lodge²⁷⁸ to my old pals¹⁶, sir Robert and lady Ball, astronomer⁴⁴² royal, at the levee. Sir Bob, I said...

MRS YELVERTON BARRY (In lowcorsaged opal balldress and elbowlength ivory gloves, wearing a sabletrimmed brick quilted dolman, a comb of brilliants and panache⁴⁴³ of osprey in her hair.) Arrest him constable⁴⁴⁵. He wrote me an anonymous⁴⁴⁶ letter in prentice backhand when my husband was in the North Riding of Tipperary on the Munster circuit, signed James Lovebirch. He said that he had seen from the gods my peerless globes as I sat in a box of the Theatre Royal at a command performance of La Cigale. I deeply inflamed⁴⁴⁷ him, he said. He made improper⁴⁴⁹ overtures⁴⁵⁰ to me to misconduct myself at half past four p.m. on the following Thursday, Dunsink time. He offered to send me through the post a work of fiction by Monsieur Paul de Kock, entitled The Girl with the Three Pairs of Stays.

MRS BELLINGHAM (In cap and seal coneymantle, wrapped up to the nose, steps out of her brougham and scans through tortoiseshell quizzingglasses which she takes from inside her huge opossum muff.) Also to me. Yes, I believe it is the same objectionable person. Because he closed my carriage door outside sir Thornley Stoker's one sleety⁴⁵³ day during the cold snap of February ninetythree when even the grid⁴⁵⁴ of the wastepipe and ballstop in my bath cistern⁴⁵⁵ were frozen. Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled⁴⁵⁶ on the heights, as he said, in my honour. I had it examined by a botanical expert and elicited⁴⁵⁷ the information that it was a blossom of the homegrown potato plant purloined⁴⁵⁸ from a forcingcase of the model farm.

MRS YELVERTON BARRY Shame on him!

(A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins sues forward.)

THE SLUTS AND RAGAMUFFINS (Screaming.) Stop thief! Hurrah⁴⁵⁹ there, Bluebeard! Three cheers for Ikey Mo!

SECOND WATCH (Produces handcuffs.) Here are the darbies.

MRS BELLINGHAM He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome⁴⁶¹ compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Balmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious⁴⁶² of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity⁴⁶³ to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished⁴⁶⁴ sable³⁵³, a buck²¹⁴'s head couped or. He lauded⁴⁶⁵ almost extravagantly⁴⁶⁶ my nether⁴⁶⁷ extremities⁴⁶⁸, my swelling⁴⁷⁰ calves⁴⁷¹ in silk hose drawn up to the limit, and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he said, he could conjure⁴⁷² up. He urged me, stating that he felt it his mission in life to urge me, to defile⁴⁷³ the marriage bed, to commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity.

THE HONOURABLE⁴⁷⁴ MRS MERVYN TALBOYS (In amazon costume, hard hat, jackboots cockspurred, vermilion waistcoat, fawn musketeer gauntlets with bra idea drums, long train held up and hunting crop with which she strikes her welt constantly.) Also me. Because he saw me on the polo ground of the Phnix park at the match All Ireland versus the Rest of Ireland. My eyes, I know, shone divinely as I watched Captain Slogger Dennehy of the Inniskillings win the final chukkar on his darling cob Centaur⁴⁷⁵. This plebeian⁴⁷⁶ Don Juan observed me from behind a hackney car and sent me in double envelopes an obscene photograph, such as are sold after dark on Paris boulevards, insulting to any lady. I have it still. It represents a partially⁴⁷⁷ nude⁴⁷⁸ senorita, frail⁴⁷⁹ and lovely (his wife as he solemnly assured me, taken by him from nature), practising illicit⁴⁸⁰ intercourse⁴⁸¹ with a muscular torero, evidently a blackguard. He urged me to do likewise, to misbehave, to sin with officers of the garrison⁴⁸². He implored⁴⁸³ me to soil his letter in an unspeakable manner, to chastise⁴⁸⁴ him as he richly deserves, to bestride and ride him, to give him a most vicious horsewhipping.

MRS BELLINGHAM Me too.

MRS YELVERTON BARRY Me too.

(Several highly respectable Dublin ladies hold up improper letters received from Bloom.)

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS (Stamps her jingling⁴⁸⁵ spurs in a sudden paroxysm of sudden fury.) I will, by the God above me. I'll scourge⁴⁸⁶ the pigeonlivered cur as long as I can stand over him. I'll flay⁴⁸⁷ him alive.

BLOOM (His eyes closing, quails⁴⁸⁸ expectantly.) Here? (He squirms.) Again! (He pants cringing⁴⁸⁹.) I love the danger.

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS Very much so! I'll make it hot for you. I'll make you dance Jack⁸⁹ Latten for that.

MRS BELLINGHAM Tan his breech well, the upstart! Write the stars and stripes on it!

MRS YELVERTON BARRY Disgraceful! There's no excuse for him! A married man!

BLOOM All these people. I meant only the spanking⁴⁹¹ idea. A warm tingling⁴⁹² glow without effusion. Refined birching to stimulate⁴⁹³ the circulation.

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS (Laughs derisively⁴⁹⁴.) O, did you, my fine fellow? Well, by the living God, you'll get the surprise of your life now, believe me, the most unmerciful hiding a man ever bargained for. You have lashed¹⁷¹ the dormant⁴⁹⁵ tigress in my nature into fury.

MRS BELLINGHAM (Shakes her muff and quizzing-glasses vindictively⁴⁹⁶.) Make him smart, Hanna dear. Give him ginger⁴⁹⁷. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his life. The cat-o' nine-tails. Geld him. Vivisect him.

BLOOM (Shuddering, shrinking, joins his hands with hangdog mien⁴⁹⁸.) O cold! O shivery! It was your ambrosial⁴⁹⁹ beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. (He offers the other cheek.)

MRS YELVERTON BARRY (Severely.) Don't do so on any account, Mrs Talboys! He should be soundly trounced!

THE HONOURABLE MRS MERVYN TALBOYS (Unbuttoning her gauntlet violently.) I'll do no such thing. Pig dog and always was ever since he was pupped! To dare address me! I'll flog him black and blue in the public streets. I'll dig my spurs in him up to the rowel. He is a wellknown cuckold. (She swishes her hunting crop savagely⁵⁰⁰ in the air.) Take down his trousers without loss of time. Come here, sir! Quick! Ready?

BLOOM (Trembling, beginning to obey.) The weather has been so warm.

(Davy Stephens, ringleted, passes with a bevy⁵⁰² of barefoot newsboys.)

DAVY STEPHENS Messenger of the Sacred Heart and Evening Telegraph with Saint Patrick's Day Supplement. Containing the new addresses of all the cuckolds in Dublin.

(The very reverend Canon O'Hanlon in cloth of gold cope elevates and exposes a marble timepiece. Before him Father Conroy and the reverend John Hughes S.J. bend low.)

THE TIMEPIECE (Unportalling.)

Cuckoo
Cuckoo
Cuckoo
(The brass⁵⁰³ quoits of a bed are heard to jingle.)
THE QUOITS Jigjag, Jigajiga. Jigjag.

(A panel of fog rolls back rapidly, revealing rapidly in the jurybox the faces of Martin Cunningham, foreman silkhatted, Jack Power Simon Dedalus, Tom Kernan, Ned Lambert, John Henry Menton, Myles Crawford, Lenehan, Paddy Leonard Nosey Flynn, M'Coy and the featureless face of a Nameless One.)

THE NAMELESS ONE Bareback riding. Weight for age. Gob, he organised her.

THE JURORS (All their heads turned to his voice.) Really?

THE NAMELESS ONE (Snarls.) Arse over tip. Hundred shillings to five.

THE JURORS (All their heads lowered in assent⁵⁰⁵.) Most of us thought as much.

FIRST WATCH He is a marked man. Another girl's plait cut. Wanted: Jack the Ripper. A thousand pounds reward.

SECOND WATCH (Awed, whispers.) And in black. A mormon. Anarchist⁵⁰⁶.

THE CRIER (Loudly.) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a well-known dynamitard, forger⁵⁰⁷, bigamist, bawd and cuckold ad a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable.

(His Honour sir Frederick Falkiner recorder of Dublin, in judicial⁵⁰⁸ garb¹⁴² of grey stone rises from the bench, stonebearded. He bears in his arms an umbrella sceptre. From his forehead arise starkly⁵⁰⁹ the Mosaic ramshorns.)

THE RECORDER I will put an end to this white slave traffic and rid Dublin of this odious⁵¹¹ pest. Scandalous! (He dons the black cap.) Let him be taken, Mr Subsheriff, from the dock where he now stands and detained in custody⁵¹² in Mountjoy prison during His Majesty⁵¹³'s pleasure and there be hanged by the neck until he is dead and therein fail not at your peril⁵¹⁴ or may the Lord have-mercy on your soul. Remove him. (A black skullcap descends⁵¹⁵ upon his head.)

(The subsheriff long John Fanning appears, smoking a pungent⁵¹⁶ Henry Clay.)

LONG JOHN FANNING (Scowls and calls with rich rolling utterance⁵¹⁷.) Who'll hang Judas Iscariot?

(H. Rumbold, master barber in a bloodcoloured jerk in and tanner's apron⁵¹⁸, a rope coiled over his shoulder mounts the block. A life preserver and a nailstudded bludgeon are stuck in his belt. He rubs grimly his grapping hands, knobbed with knuckledusters.)

RUMBOLD (To the recorder with sinister familiarity.) Hanging Harry⁵¹⁹, your Majesty, the Mersey terror. Five guineas a jugular⁵²⁰. Neck or nothing.

(The bells of George's church toll⁵²¹ slowly, loud dark iron.)

THE BELLS Heigho! Heigho!

BLOOM (Desperately⁵²².) Wait. Stop. Gulls. Good heart. I saw. Innocence⁵²³. Girl in the monkeyhouse. Zoo. Lewd⁵²⁵ chimpanzees. (Breathlessly.) Pelvic basin. Her artless blush unmanned me. (Overcome with emotion.) I left the precincts. (He turns to a figure in the crowd, appealing.) Hynes, may I speak to you? You know me. That three shillings you can keep. If you want a little more .

HYNES (Coldly.) You are a perfect stranger.

SECOND WATCH (Points to the corner.) The bomb is here. FIRST WATCH Infernal machine with a time fuse. BLOOM No, no. Pig's feet. I was at a funeral. FIRST WATCH (Draws his truncheon.) Liar³⁶⁴!

(The beagle lifts his snout, showing the grey scorbutic face of Paddy Dignam. He has gnawed⁵²⁷ all. He exhales⁵²⁸ a putrid⁵²⁹ carcasefed breath. He grows to human size and shape. His dachshund coat becomes a brown mortuary habit. His green eyeflashes bloodshot. Half of one ear all the nose and both thumbs are ghouleaten.)

PADDY DIGNAM (In a hollow voice.) It is true. It was my funeral. Doctor Finucane pronounced life extinct when I succumbed⁵³¹ to the disease from natural causes.

(He lifts his mutilated ashen⁵³² face moonwards and bays lugubriously⁵³⁴.)

BLOOM (In triumph.) You hear?

PADDY DIGNAM Bloom, I am Paddy Dignam's spirit. List, list, O list!

BLOOM The voice is the voice of Esau.

SECOND WATCH (Blesses himself.) How is that possible?

FIRST WATCH It is not in the penny catechism.

PADDY DIGNAM By metempsychosis. Spooks.

A VOICE O rocks.

PADDY DIGNAM (Earnestly.) Once I was in the employ of Mr J. H. Menton, solicitor³¹⁹, commissioner⁵³⁵ for oaths and affidavits⁵³⁶, of 27 Bachelor's Walk. Now I am defunct⁵³⁷, the wall of the heart hypertrophied. Hard lines. The poor wife was awfully cut up. Dow is she bearing it? Keep her off that bottle of sherry. (He looks round him.) A lamp. I must satisfy an animal need. That buttermilk didn't agree with me.

(The portly figure of John O'Connell, caretaker stands forth⁵³⁸, holding a bunch of keys tied with crape. Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toad⁵⁴⁰ bellied⁵⁴¹, wrynecked, in a surplice and bandanna⁵⁴² nightcap, holding sleepily a staff of twisted poppies.)

FATHER COFFEY (Yawns, then chants with a hoarse croak⁵⁴³.) Namine. Jacobs Vobiscuits. Amen.

(Foghorns⁵⁴⁴ stormily through his megaphone.) Dignam, Patrick T., deceased.

PADDY DIGNAM (With pricked⁵⁴⁵ up ears, winces⁵⁴⁶.) Overtones.

(He wriggles⁵⁴⁷ forward, places an ear to the ground.) My masters' voice!

JOHN O'CONNELL Burial docket letter number U. P. Eightyfive thousand. Field seventeen. House of Keys. Plot, one hundred and one.

(Paddy Dignam listens with visible effort, thinking, his tailstiffpointed, his ears cocked.)

PADDY DIGNAM Pray for the repose⁵⁵⁰ of his soul.

(He worms down through a coal hole, his brown habit trailing its tether over rattling pebbles⁵⁵¹. After him toddles⁵⁵² an obese⁵⁵³ grandfather rat on fungus⁵⁵⁴ turtle paws under a grey carapace⁵⁵⁵. Dignam's voice, muffled, is heard baying under ground: Dignam's dead and gone below. Tom Rochford, robinredbreasted, in cap and breeches, jumps from his two-columned machine.)

TOM ROCHFORD (A hand to his breastbone, bows.) Reuben J. A florin I find him. (He fixes the manhole with a resolute⁵⁵⁶ stare.) My turn now on. Follow me up to Carlow.

(He executes a daredevil salmon⁵⁵⁷ leap in the air and is engulfed⁵⁵⁸ in the coalhole. Two discs on the columns wobble eyes of nought⁵⁵⁹. All recedes⁵⁶⁰. Bloom plodges forward again. He stands before a lighted house, listening. The kisses, winging from their bowers⁵⁶¹, fly about him, twittering, warbling, cooing.)

THE KISSES (Warbling.) Leo! (Twittering.) Icky licky micky sticky for Leo! (Cooing.) Coo coocoo! Yummyumm Wom worn! (Warbling.) Big comebig! Pirouette! Leopopold! (Twittering.) Leeolee! (Warbling.) O Leo!

(They rustle⁵⁶², flutter upon his garments, alight, bright giddyflecks, silvery sequins.)

BLOOM A man's touch. Sad music. Church music. Perhaps here.

(Zoe Higgins, a young whore in a sapphire⁵⁶³ slip, closed with three bronze buckles⁵⁶⁴, a slim black velvet²⁶⁶ fillet round her throat, nods, trips down the steps and accosts⁵⁶⁵ him.)

ZOE Are you looking for someone? He's inside with his friend.

BLOOM Is this Mrs Mack's?

ZOE No, eightyone. Mrs Cohen's. You might go farther and fare worse. Mother Slipperslapper. (Familiarly.) She's on the job herself tonight with the vet²⁶⁷, her tipster, that gives her all the winners and pays for her son in Oxford. Working overtime⁵⁶⁶ but her luck's turned today. (Suspiciously.) You're not his father, are you?

BLOOM Not I!

ZOE You both in black. Has little mousey any tickles⁵⁶⁷ tonight?

(His skin, alert, feels her fingertips approach. A hand slides over his left thigh⁵⁶⁸.)

ZOE How's the nuts?

BLOOM Off side. Curiously⁵⁶⁹ they are on the right. Heavier I suppose. One in a million my tailor, Mesias, says.

ZOE (In sudden alarm.) You've a hard chancre.

BLOOM Not likely.

ZOE I feel it.

(Her hand slides into his left trouser pocket and brings out a hard black shrivelled potato. She regards it and Bloom with dumb moist lips.)

BLOOM A talisman⁵⁷⁰. Heirloom.

ZOE For Zoe? For keeps? For being so nice, eh?

(She puts the potato greedily into a pocket, then links his arm, cuddling him with supple warmth. He smiles uneasily. Slowly, note by note, oriental music is played. He gazes in the tawny crystal of her eyes, ringed with kohol. His smile softens⁵⁷¹.)

ZOE You'll know me the next time.

BLOOM (Forlornly.) I never loved a dear gazelle but it was sure to.

(Gazelles are leaping, feeding on the mountains. Near are lakes. Round their shores file shadows black of cedargroves. Aroma⁵⁷² rises, a strong hairgrowth of resin⁵⁷³. It burns, the orient, a sky of sapphire, cleft by the bronze flight of eagles. Under it lies the womancity, nude, white, still, cool, in luxury. A fountain murmurs among damask roses. Mammoth⁵⁷⁴ roses murmur of scarlet winegrapes. A wine of shame, lust⁷⁹, blood exudes⁵⁷⁵, strangely murmuring.)

ZOE (Murmuring singsong with the music, her odalisk lips lusciously⁵⁷⁶ smeared⁵⁷⁷ with salve of swinefat and rosewater.) Schorach ani wenowach, benoith Hierushaloim.

BLOOM (Fascinated.) I thought you were of good stock by your accent.

ZOE And you know what thought did?

(She bites his ear gently with little goldstopped teeth sending on him a cloying⁵⁷⁸ breath of stale garlic. The roses draw apart, disclose a sepulchre of the gold of kings and their mouldering⁵⁷⁹ bones.)

BLOOM (Draws back, mechanically caressing⁵⁸⁰ her right bub with a flat awkward hand.) Are you a Dublin girl?

ZOE (Catches a stray hair deftly⁵⁸² and twists it to her coil.) No bloody fear. I'm English. Have you a swaggerroot?

BLOOM (As before.) Rarely smoke, dear. Cigar now and then. Childish device. (Lewdly.) The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder⁵⁸⁴ of rank weed.

ZOE Go on. Make a stump⁵⁸⁵ speech out of it.

BLOOM (In workman's corduroy overalls⁵⁸⁶, black gansy with red floating tie and apache cap.) Mankind is incorrigible⁵⁸⁷. Sir Walter Raleigh brought from the new world that potato and that weed, the one a killer⁵⁸⁸ of pestilence⁵⁸⁹ by absorption, the other a poisoner of the ear, eye, heart, memory, will, understanding, all. That is to say, he brought the poison a hundred years before another person whose name I forget brought the food. Suicide. Lies. All our habits. Why, look at our public life!

(Midnight chimes from distant steeples.)

THE CHIMES Turn again, Leopold! Lord Mayor of Dublin!

BLOOM (In alderman's gown and chain.) Electors of Arran Quay⁵⁹¹, Inns Quay, Rotunda⁵⁹², Mountjoy and North Dock, better run a tramline, I say, from the cattlemarket to the river. That's the music of the future. That's my programme. Cui Bono? But our buccaneering Vanderdeckens in their phantom⁵⁹³ ship of finance...

AN ELECTOR Three times three for our future chief magistrate⁵⁹⁴!

(The aurora borealis of the torchlight procession leaps.)

THE TORCH BEARERS Hooray!

(Several wellknown burgesses, city magnates and freemen of the city shake hands with Bloom and congratulate him. Timothy Harrington, late thrice Lord Mayor of Dublin, imposing⁵⁹⁵ in mayoral scarlet, gold chain and white silk tie, confers with councillor Lorcan Sherlock, locum tenens. They nod vigorously in agreement.)

LATE LORD MAYOR HARRINGTON (In scarlet robe with mace⁵⁹⁶, gold mayoral chain and lace white silk scarf) That alder⁵⁹⁰ man sir Leo Bloom's speech be printed at the expense of the ratepayers. That the house in which he was born be ornamented⁵⁹⁷ with a commemorative tablet and that the thoroughfare hitherto known as Cow Parlour off Cork⁵⁹⁸ street be henceforth designated Boulevard Bloom.

COUNCILLOR LORCAN SHERLOCK Carried unanimously.

BLOOM (Impassionedly.) These flying Dutchmen or lying Dutchmen as they recline in their upholstered poop, casting dice⁵⁹⁹, what reck they? Machines is their cry, their chimera⁶⁰⁰, their panacea. Laboursaving apparatuses⁶⁰¹, supplanters, bug-bears, manufactured monsters for mutual⁶⁰² murder, hideous⁶⁰³ hobgoblins produced by a horde⁶⁰⁴ of capitalistic lusts⁶⁰⁵ upon our prostituted labour. The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind⁶⁰⁷ pomp of pelf⁶⁰⁸ and power. But their reign³⁵¹ is rover for rever and ever and ev...

(Prolonged applause. Venetian masts, maypoles and festal arches spring up. A streamer bearing the legends Cead Mille Failte and Mah Ttob Melek Israel spans the street. All the windows are thronged⁶¹⁰ with sightseers, chiefly ladies. Along the route the regiments⁶¹¹ of the royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Kings Own Scottish Boraerers, the Cameron Highlanders and the Welsh Fusiliers, standing to attention, keep back the crowd. Boys from High school are perched on the lampposts, telegraph poles, windowsills, cornices, gutters⁶¹², chimneypots, railings, rainspouts, whistling and cheering. The pillar of the cloud appears. A fife and drum band is heard in the distance playing the Kol Nidre. The beaters approach with imperial eagles hoisted⁶¹³, trailing banners and waving oriental palms. The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the civic⁶¹⁴ flag. The van of the procession appears headed by John Howard Parnell, city marshal, in a chessboard tabard, the Athlone Poursuivant and Ulster King of Arms. They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Watedord, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees⁶¹⁷ and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic⁶¹⁸ order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor His Eminence⁶¹⁹ Michael cardinal⁶²⁰ Logue archbishop of Armagh, primate⁶²¹ of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels⁶²³ and the honorary secretary of the society of friends. her them march the guilds⁶²⁴ and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopen, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimney sweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers⁶²⁷, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertaken, silk mercers, lapidaries⁶²⁸, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion⁶²⁹ broken, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing⁶³¹ contractors⁶³². After them march gentlemen of the bed chamber³⁵² Black Rod, Deputy Garter Gold Stick, the master of hone, the lord great chamberlain, the earl marshal, the high constable carrying the sword of state, saint Stephen's iron crown, the chalice⁶³³ and bible. Four buglers on foot blow a sennet. Beefeaten reply, winding⁶³⁴ clarions of welcome. Under an arch of triumph Bloom appears bareheaded, in a crimson velvet mantle⁴⁵² trimmed with ermine, bearing Saint Edward's staff the orb⁵²⁶ and sceptre with the dove, the curtana. He is seated on a milkwhite hone with long flowing crimson tail, richly caparisoned, with golden heads tall. Wild excitement. The ladies from their balconies throw down rosepetals. The air is perfumed with essences. The men cheer. Bloom's boys run amid the bystanders with branches of hawthorn⁶³⁵ and wrenbushes.)

BLOOM'S BOYS

The wren⁶³⁶, the wren,
The king of all birds,
Saint Stephen's his day,
Was caught in the furze.
A BLACKSMITH (Murmurs.) For the Honour of God! And is that Bloom? He scarcely looks thirtyone.
A PAVIOR AND FLAGGER That's the famous Bloom now, the world's greatest reformer. Hats off!

(All uncover their heads. Women whisper eagerly.)

A MILLIONAIRESS (Richly.) Isn't he simply wonderful?

A NOBLEWOMAN (Nobly.) All that man has seen!

A FEMINIST⁶³⁷ (Masculinely.) And done!

A BELLHANGER A classic face! He has the forehead of a thinker.

(Bloom's weather. A sunburst appears in the northwest.)

THE BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR I here present your un doubted emperor president and king chairman, the most serene⁶³⁸ and potent⁶³⁹ and very puissant⁶⁴⁰ ruler of this realm. God save Leopold the First!

ALL God save Leopold the First!

BLOOM (In dalmatic and purple mantle, to the bishop of Down and Connor with dignity.) Thanks, somewhat eminent⁶⁴¹ sir.

WILLIAM, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH (In purple stock and shovel⁶⁴² hat.) Will you to your power cause law and mercy to be executed in all your judgments⁶⁴³ in Ireland and territories thereunto belonging?

BLOOM (Placing his right hand on his testicles, swears.) So may the Creator deal with me. All this I promise to do.

MICHAEL, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH (Pours a cruse of hair oil over Bloom's head.) Gaudium magnum annuntio vobis. Habemus carneficem. Leopold, Patrick, Andrew, David, George, be thou anointed!

(Bloom assumes a mantle of cloth of gold and puts on a ruby ring. He ascends⁶⁴⁵ and stands on the stone of destiny. The representative peers put on at the same time their twentyeight crowns. Joybells ring in Christ church, Saint Patrick's, George's and gay Malahide. Mirus bazaar⁶⁴⁶ fireworks go up from all sides with symbolical⁶⁴⁷ phallopyrotechnic designs. The peers do homage⁶⁴⁸, one by one, approaching and genuflecting⁶⁴⁹.)

THE PEERS I do become your liege man of life and limb to earthly worship.

(Bloom holds up his right hand on which sparkles the Koh-i-Noor diamond. His palfrey neighs. Immediate⁶⁵⁰ silence. Wireless⁶⁵¹ intercontinental and interplanetary transmitters are set for reception of message.)

BLOOM My subjects! We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix hereditary⁶⁵² Grand Vizier and announce that we have this day repudiated⁶⁵³ our former spouse⁶⁵⁴ and have bestowed⁶⁵⁵ our royal hand upon the princess Selene, the splendour of night.

(The former morganatic spouse of Bloom is hastily removed in the Black Maria. The princess Selene, in moon blue robes, a silver crescent on her head, descends from a Sedan chair borne by two giants. An outburst of cheering.)

JOHN HOWARD PARNELL (Raises the royal standard.) Illustrious Bloom! Successor to my famous brother!

BLOOM (Embraces John Howard Parnell.) We thank you from our heart, John, for this right royal welcome to green Erin, the promised land of our common ancestors.

(The freedom of the city is presented to him embodied⁶⁵⁸ in a charter. The keys of Dublin, crossed on a crimson cushion, are given to him. He shows all that he is wearing green socks.)

TOM KERNAN You deserve it, your honour.

BLOOM On this day twenty years ago we overcame the hereditary enemy at Ladysmith. Our howitzers and camel swivel guns played on his lines with telling effect. Half a league onward⁵³³! They charge! All is lost now! Do we yield? No! We drive them headlong! Lo! We charge! Deploying⁶⁶⁰ to the left our light horse swept across the heights of Plevna and, uttering their warcry, Bonafide Sabaoth, sabred the Saracen gunners to a man.

THE CHAPEL⁶²² OF FREEMAN TYPESETTERS Hear! Hear!

JOHN WYSE NOLAN There's the man that got away James Stephens.

A BLUECOAT SCHOOLBOY Bravo!

AN OLD RESIDENT You're a credit to your country, sir, that's what you are.

AN APPLEWOMAN He's a man like Ireland wants.

BLOOM My beloved subjects, a new era is about to dawn. I, Bloom, tell you verily it is even now at hand. Yea, on the word of a Bloom, ye shall ere long enter into the golden city which is to be, the new Bloomusalem in the Nova Hibernia of the future.

(Thirtytwo workmen wearing rosettes, from all the counties of Ireland, under the guidance of Derwan the builder construct the new Bloomusalem. It is a colossal⁶⁶¹ edifice⁶⁶², with crystal roof built in the shape of a huge pork kidney, containing forty thousand rooms. In the course of its extension several buildings and monuments are demolished⁶⁶³. Government offices are temporarily transferred to railway sheds. Numerous houses are razed⁶⁶⁵ to the ground. The inhabitants are lodged⁶⁶⁶ in barrels and boxes, all marked in red with the letters: L. B. Several paupers⁶⁶⁷ fall from a ladder. A part of the walls of Dublin, crowded with loyal sightseers, collapses⁶⁶⁸.)

THE SIGHTSEERS (Dying) Morituri te salutant. (They die.)

(A man in a brown macintosh springs up through a trap-door. He points an elongated⁶⁶⁹ finger at Bloom.)

THE MAN IN THE MACINTOSH Don't you believe a word he Says. That man is Leopold M'Intosh, the notorious fireraiser. His real name is Higgins.

BLOOM Shoot him! Dog of a christian⁶⁷⁰! So much for M'Intosh!

(A cannonshot. The man in the macintosh disappears. Bloom with his sceptre strikes down poppies. The instantaneous deaths of many powerful enemies, graziers, members of parliament, members of standing committees, are reported. Bloom's bodyguard⁶⁷¹ distribute Maundy money, commemoration medals, loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars, free cowbones for soup, rubber preservatives⁶⁷², in sealed envelopes tied with gold thread, butter scotch⁶⁷⁴, pineapple rock, billets doux in the form of cocked hats, readymade suits, porringers of toad in the hole, bottles of Jeyes' Fluid, purchase stamps, 40 days' indulgences, spurious coins, dairyfed pork sausages, theatre passes, season tickets available for all tram lines, coupons⁶⁷⁵ of the royal and privileged Hungarian lottery⁶⁷⁷, penny dinner counters, cheap reprints of the World's Twelve Worst Books: Froggy and Fritz (politic), Care of the Baby (infantilic), So Meals for 7/6 (culinic), Was Jesus a Sun Myth? (historic), Expel that Pain (medic), Infant's Compendium⁶⁷⁸ of the Universe (cosmic), Let's All Chortle (hilaric), Canvasser⁶²⁵'s Vade Mecum (journalic), love-letters of Mother Assistant (erotic), Who's Who in Space (astric), Songs that Reached Our Heart (melodic), Pennywise's Way to Wealth (parsimonic). A general rush and scramble³³. Women press forward to touch the hem¹²⁶ of Bloom's robe. The lady Gwendolen Dubedat bursts through the throng⁶⁰⁹, leaps on his horse and kisses him on both cheeks amid great acclamation. A magnesium⁶⁷⁹ flashlight photograph is taken. Babes and sucklings are held up.)

THE WOMEN Little father! Little father!

THE BABES AND SUCKLINGS

Clap clap hands till Poldy comes home,
Cakes in his pocket for Leo alone.
(Bloom, bending down, pokes⁶⁸⁰ Baby Boardman gently in the stomach.)
BABY BOARDMAN (Hiccups⁶⁸¹, curdled⁶⁸² milk flowing from his mouth.) Hajajaja.

BLOOM (Shaking hands with a blind stripling.) My more than Brother! (Placing his arms round the shoulders of an old couple.) Dear old friends! (He plays pussy⁶⁸³ fourcorners with ragged⁶⁸⁴ boys and girls.) Peep! Bopeep! (He wheels twins in a perambulator.) Ticktacktwo wouldyousetashoe? (He performs juggler's tricks, draws red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo⁶⁸⁵ and violet silk handkerchiefs from his mouth.) Roygbiv. 32 feet per second. (He consoles a widow.) Absence makes the heart grow younger. (He dances the Highland⁷⁰ fling with grotesque⁶⁸⁶ antics.) Leg it, ye devils! (He kisses the bedsores of a palsied veteran.) Honourable wounds! (He trips up a fat policeman.) U.p.: up. U.p.: up. (He whispers in the ear of a blushing waitress and laughs kindly⁶⁸⁷.) Ah, naughty, naughty! (He eats a raw turnip⁶⁸⁸ offered him by Maurice Butterly, farmer.) Fine! Splendid! (He refuses to accept three shillings offered him by Joseph Hynes, journalist.) My dear fellow, not at all! (He gives his coat to a beggar.) Please accept. (He takes part in a stomach race with elderly male and female cripples.) Come on, boys! Wriggle⁵⁴⁸ it, girls!

THE CITIZEN (Choked with emotion, brushes aside a tear in his emerald muffler.) May the good God bless him!

(The rams' horns sound for silence. The standard of Zion is hoisted.)

BLOOM (Uncloaks impressively, revealing obesity⁶⁸⁹, unrolls a paper and reads solemnly.) Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim Kosher Yom Kippur Hanukah Ros chaschana Beni Brith Bar Mitzvah Mazzoth Askenazim Meshuggah Talith.

(An official translation is read by Jimmy Henry, assistant town clerk.)

JIMMY HENRY The Court of Conscience is now open. His Most Catholic Majesty will now administer open air justice. Free medical and legal advice, solution of doubles and other problems. All cordially invited. Given at this our loyal city of Dublin in the year I of the Paradisiacal Era.

PADDY LEONARD What am I to do about my rates and taxes?

BLOOM Pay them, my friend.

PADDY LEONARD Thank you.

NOSEY FLYNN Can I raise a mortgage on my fire insurance?

BLOOM (Obdurately.) Sirs, take notice that by the law of torts you are bound over in your own recognisances for six months in the sum of five pounds.

J.J. O'MOLLY A Daniel did I say? Nay⁶⁹⁰! A Peter O'Brien!

NOSEY FLYNN Where do I draw the five pounds?

PISSER BURKE For bladder trouble?

BLOOM

Acid. nit. hydrochlor dil., 20 minims,
Tinct. mix. vom., 4 minims.
Extr. taraxel. lig., 30 minims.
Aq. dis. ter in die.
CHRIS CALLINAN What is the parallax of the subsolar ecliptic of Aldebaran?
BLOOM Pleased to hear from you, Chris. K. II.

JOE HYNES Why aren't you in uniform?

BLOOM When my progenitor⁶⁹¹ of sainted memory wore the uniform of the Austrian despot in a dank prison where was yours?

BEN DOLLARD Pansies?

BLOOM Embellish⁶⁹² (beautify) suburban⁶⁹³ gardens.

BEN DOLLARD When twins arrive?

BLOOM Father (pater, dad) starts thinking.

LARRY O'ROURKE An eight day licence for my new premises. You remember me, sir Leo, when you were in number seven. I'm sending around a dozen of stout for the missus.

BLOOM (Coldly.) You have the advantage of me. Lady Bloom accepts no presents.

CROFTON This is indeed a festivity.

BLOOM (Solemnly.) You call it a festivity. I call it a sacrament.

ALEXANDER KEYES When will we have our own house of keys?

BLOOM I stand for the reform of municipal morals and the plain ten commandments. New worlds for old. union of all, jew, moslem⁶⁹⁴ and gentile. Three acres and a cow for all children of nature. Saloon motor hearses. Compulsory⁶⁹⁵ manual labour for all. All parks open to the public day and night. Electric dishscrubbers. Tuberculosis⁶⁹⁶, lunacy, war and mendicancy⁶⁹⁷ must now cease. General amnesty, weekly carnival⁶⁹⁸, with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal brotherhood⁶⁹⁹. No more patriotism⁷⁰¹ of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state.

O'MADDEN BURKE Free fox in a free henroost.

DAVY BYRNE (Yawning.) Iiiiiiiiiaaaaaaach!

BLOOM Mixed races and mixed marriage.

LENEHAN What about mixed bathing?

(Bloom explains to those near him his schemes for social regeneration. All agree with him. The keeper of the Kildare Street Museum appears, dragging a lorry on which are the shaking statues of several naked goddesses, Venus Callipyge, Venus Pandemos Venus Metempsychosis, and plaster figures, also naked, representing the new nine muses⁷⁰², Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor Publicity⁷⁰³, Manufacture, liberty of Speech, Plural⁷⁰⁴ Voting, Gastronomy⁷⁰⁵, Private Hygiene⁷⁰⁶, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.)

FATHER FARLEY He is an episcopalian, an agnostic, an any thingarian seeking to overthrow⁷⁰⁷ our holy faith.

MRS RIORDAN (Tears up her will.) I'm disappointed in you! You bad man!

MOTHER GROGAN (Removes her boot to throw it at Bloom.) You beast! You abominable⁷⁰⁸ person!

NOSEY FLYNN Give us a tune⁷⁰⁹, Bloom. One of the old sweet songs.

BLOOM (With rollicking humour.)

I vowed⁷¹⁰ that I never would leave her,
She turned out a cruel deceiver.
With my tooraloom tooraloom tooralcom tooraloom.
HOPPY⁷¹¹ HOLOHAN Good old Bloom! There's nobody like him after all.
PADDY LEONARD Stage Irishman!

BLOOM What railway opera is like a tramline in Gibraltar? The Rows of Casteele. (Laughter.)

LENEHAN Plagiarist! Down with Bloom!

THE VEILED SIBYL (Enthusiastically.) I'm a Bloomite and I glory in it. I believe in him in spite of all. I'd give my life for him, the funniest man on earth.

BLOOM (Winks⁷¹² at the bystanders.) I bet she's a bonny lassie.

THEODORE PUREFOY (In fishing cap and oilskin jacket.) He employs a mechanical device to frustrate⁷¹³ the sacred ends of nature.

THE VEILED SIBYL (Stabs herself.) My hero god! (She dies.)

(Many most attractive and enthusiastic women also commit suicide by stabbing, drowning, drinking prussic acid, aconite, arsenic⁷¹⁴, opening their veins⁷¹⁵, refusing food, casting themselves under steamrollers, from the top of Nelson's Pillar, into the great vat⁴⁶ of Guinness's brewery⁷¹⁶, asphyxiating⁷¹⁷ themselves by placing their heads in gas ovens, hanging themselves in stylish⁷¹⁸ garters, leaping from windows of different storeys.)

ALEXANDER J. DOWIE (Violently.) Fellowchristians and antiBloomites, the man called Bloom is from the roots of hell, a disgrace to christian men. A fiendish libertine⁷¹⁹ from his earliest years this stinking⁷²⁰ goat of Mendes gave precocious⁷²¹ signs of infantile debauchery recalling the cities of the plain, with a dissolute granddam. This vile⁶⁷⁶ hypocrite, bronzed with infamy⁷²³, is the white bull mentioned in the Apocalypse. A worshipper of the Scarlet Woman, intrigue⁷²⁴ is the very breath of his nostrils. The stake faggots and the caldron of boiling oil are for him. Caliban!

THE MOB Lynch him! Roast him! He's as bad as Parnell was. Mr Fox!

(Mother Grogan throws her boot at Bloom. Several shopkeepers from upper and lower Dorset street throw objects of little or no commercial value, hambones, condensed milk tins, unsaleable cabbage, stale bread, sheeps' tails, odd pieces of fat.)

BLOOM (Excitedly.) This is midsummer madness, some ghastly joke again. By heaven, I am guiltless as the unsunned snow! It was my brother Henry. He is my double. He lives in number 2 Dolphin's Barn. Slander⁷²⁶, the viper⁷²⁷, has wrongfully accused me. Fellowcountrymen, sgenl inn ban bata coisde gan capall. I call on my old friend, Dr Malachi Mulligan, sex specialist to give medical testimony⁷²⁸ on my behalf.

DR MULLIGAN (In motor jerkin, green motoroggles on his brow.) Dr Bloom is bisexually abnormal. He has recently escaped from Dr Eustace's private asylum for demented gentlemen. Born out of bedlock hereditary epilepsy is present, the consequence of unbridled lust. Traces of elephantiasis have been discovered among his ascendants. There are marked symptoms of chronic⁷²⁹ exhibitionism. Ambidexterity⁷³⁰ is also latent. He is prematurely⁷³¹ bald from selfabuse, perversely⁷³² idealistic in consequence, a reformed rake, and has metal teeth. In consequence of a family complex he has temporarily lost his memory and I believe him to be more sinned against than sinning. I have made a pervaginal examination and, after application of the acid test to 5427 anal, axillary, pectoral and pubic hairs, I declare him to be virgo intacta.

(Bloom holds his high grade hat over his genital organs.)

DR MADDEN Hypsospadia is also marked. In the interest of coming generations I suggest that the parts affected⁷³³ should be preserved in spirits of wine in the national teratological museum.

DR CROTTHERS I have examined the patient's urine. It is albuminoid. Salivation is insufficient⁷³⁴, the patellar reflex intermittent⁷³⁵.

DR PUNCH COSTELLO The fetor judaicus is most perceptible.

DR DIXON (Reads a bill of health.) Professor Bloom is a finished example of the new womanly man. His moral nature is simple and lovable. Many have found him a dear man, a dear person. He is a rather quaint⁷³⁶ fellow on the whole, coy though not feeble-minded in the medical sense. He has written a really beautiful letter, a poem in itself, to the court missionary⁷³⁷ of the Reformed Priests' Protection Society which clears up everything. He is practically a total abstainer⁷³⁸ and I can affirm that he sleeps on a straw litter and eats the most Spartan⁷³⁹ food, cold dried grocer's peas. He wears a hairshirt winter and summer and scourges⁷⁴⁰ himself every Saturday. He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. Another report states that he was a very posthumous⁷⁴¹ child. I appeal for clemency⁷⁴² in the name of the most sacred word our vocal⁷⁴³ organs have ever been called upon to speak. He is about to have a baby.

(General commotion⁷⁴⁴ and compassion⁷⁴⁵. Women faint. A wealthy American makes a street collection for Bloom. Gold and silver coins, bank cheques, banknotes, jewels, treasury⁷⁴⁶ bonds, maturing bills of exchange, I.O.U.s, wedding rings' watch-chains, lockets, necklaces and bracelets⁷⁴⁷ are rapidly collected.)

BLOOM O, I so want to be a mother.

MRS THORNTON (In nursetender's gown.) Embrace me tight, dear. You'll be soon over it. Tight, dear.

(Bloom embraces her tightly and bears eight male yellow and white children. They appear on a redcarpeted staircase adorned⁷⁴⁸ with expensive plants. All are handsome, with valuable metallic⁷⁴⁹ faces, wellmade, respectably dressed and wellconducted, speaking five modern languages fluently and interested in various arts and sciences. Each has his name printed in legible letters on his shirtfront: Nasodoro, Goldfinger, Chrysostomos, Maindorée, Silversmile, Silberselber Vifargent, Panargros. They are immediately appointed to positions of high public trust in several different countries as managing directors of banks, traffic managers of railways, chairmen of limited liability companies, vice¹⁶⁷ chairmen of hotel syndicates.)

A VOICE Bloom, are you the Messiah ben Joseph or ben David?

BLOOM (Darkly.) You have said it.

BROTHER BUZZ Then perform a miracle.

BANTAM LYONS Prophesy⁷⁵⁰ who will win the Saint Leger.

(Bloom walks on a net, covers his left eye with his left ear, passes through several walls, climbs Nelson's Pillar, hangs from the the ledge⁷⁵¹ by his eyelids⁷⁵², eats twelve dozen oysters (shells included), heals several sufferers from kings evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, lord Beaconsfield, lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Rossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron⁷⁵⁴ Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously⁷⁵⁵ in different directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.)

BRINI, PAPAL NUNCIO (In papal zouave's uniform, steel cuirasses as breastplate, armplates, thighplates, legplates, large profane⁷⁵⁶ moustaches and brown paper mitre.) Leopoldi autem generatio. Moses begat Noah and Noah begat Eunuch and Eunuch begat O'Halloran and O'Halloran begat Guggenheim and Guggenheim begat Agendath and Agendath begat Netaim and Netaim begat Le Hirsch and Le Hirsch begat Jesurum and Jesurum begat MacKay and MacKay begat Ostrolopsky and Ostrolopsky begat Smerdoz and Smerdoz begat Weiss and Weiss begat Schwarz and Schwarz begat Adrianopoli and Adrianopoli began Aranjuez and Aranjuez begat Lewy Lawson and Lewy Lawson begat Ichabudonosor and Ichabudonosor begat O'Donnell Magnus and O'Donnell Magnus begat Christbaum and Christbaum begat Ben Maimun and Ben Maimun begat Dusty Rhodes and Dusty Rhodes begat Benamor and Benamor begat Jones-Smith and Jones-Smith begat Savorgnanovich and Savorgnanovich begat Jasperstone and Jasperstone begat Vingtetunieme and Vingtetunieme begat Szombathely and Szombathely begat Virag and Virag begat Bloom et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel.

A DEADHAND (Writes on the wall.) Bloom is a cod⁴²². A CRAB⁷⁵⁷ (In bush ranger's kit¹².) What did you do in the cattlecreep behind Kilbarrack?

A FEMALE INFANT (Shakes a rattle.) And under Ballybough bridge?

A HOLLYBUSH And in the devil's glen?

BLOOM (Blushes furiously all over from front to nates, three tears falling from his left eye.) Spare my past.

THE IRISH EVICTED⁷⁵⁸ TENANTS⁷⁵⁹ (In bodycoats, kneebreeches, with Donnybrook fair shillelaghs.) Sjambok him!

(Bloom with asses¹⁰²' ears seats himself in the pillory⁷⁶⁰ with crossed arms, his feet protruding⁷⁶¹. He whistles Don Giovanni, a cenar teco. Artane orphans⁷⁶², joining hands, caper⁷⁶³ round him. Girls of the Prison Gate Mission, joining hands, caper round in the opposite direction.)

THE ARTANE ORPHANS

You big, you bog³⁸², you dirty dog!
You think the ladies love you!
THE PRISON GATE GIRLS
If you see kay
Tell him he may
See you in tea
Tell him from me.
HORNBLOWER (In ephod and huntingcap, announces.) And he shall carry the sins of the people to Azazel, the spirit which is in the wilderness⁷⁶⁴, and to Lilith, the nighthag. And they shall stone him and defile him, yea, all from Agendath Netaim and from Mizraim, the land of Ham.
(All the people cast soft pantomime stones at Bloom. Many bonafide travellers and ownerless dogs come near him and defile him. Mastiansky and Citron approach in gaberdines, wearing long earlocks. They wag their beards at Bloom.)

MASTIANSKY AND CITRON Belial! Laemlein of Istria! the false Messiah! Abulafia!

(George S. Mesias, Bloom's tailor, appears, a tailor's goose under his arm, presenting a bill.)

MESIAS To alteration⁷⁶⁵ one pair trousers eleven shillings.

BLOOM (Rubs his hands cheerfully.) Just like old times. Poor Bloom!

(Reuben J. Dodd, black bearded Iscariot, bad shepherd, bearing on his shoulders the drowned corpse⁷⁶⁶ of his son, approaches the pillory.)

REUBEN J. (Whispers hoarsely.) The squeak is out. A split is gone for the flatties. Nip the first rattler.

THE FIRE BRIGADE Pflaap!

BROTHER BUZZ (Invests Bloom in a yellow habit with embroidery⁷⁶⁷ of painted flames and high pointed⁵⁴⁹ hat. He places a bag of gunpowder⁷⁶⁸ round his neck and hands him over to the civil power, saying.) Forgive him his trespasses⁷⁶⁹.

(Lieutenant⁷⁷⁰ Myers of the Dublin Fire Brigade by general request sets fire to Bloom. Lamentations.)

THE CITIZEN Thank heaven!

BLOOM (In a seamless garment marked I. H. S. stands upright amid phoenix⁷⁷¹ flames.) Weep not for me, O daughters of Erin.

(He exhibits to Dublin reporters traces of burning. The daughters of Erin, in black garments with lace prayerbooks and long lighted candles in their hands, kneel down and pray.)

THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIN Kidney of Bloom, pray for us. Flower of the Bath, pray for us. Mentor⁷⁷² of Menton, pray for us. Canvasser for the Freeman, pray for us. Charitable Mason, pray for us. Wandering Soap, pray for us. Sweets of Sin, pray for us. Music without Words, pray for us. Reprover of the Citizen, pray for us. Friend of all Frillies, pray for us. Midwife Most Merciful, pray for us. Potato Preservative⁶⁷³ against Plague and Pestilence, pray for us.

(A choir⁷⁷³ of six hundred voices, conducted by Mr Vincent O'Brien, sings the Alleluia chorus, accompanied on the organ by Joseph Glynn. Bloom becomes mute, shrunken, carbonised.)

ZOE Talk away till you're black in the face.

BLOOM (In caubeen with clay pipe stuck in the band, dusty brogues, an emigrant's red handkerchief bundle in his hand, leading a black bogoak pig by a sugaun, with a smile in his eye.) Let me be going now, woman of the house, for by all the goats in Connemara I'm after having the father and mother of a bating. (With a tear in his eye.) All insanity⁷⁷⁴. Patriotism, sorrow for the dead, music, future of the race. To be or not to be. Life's dream is o'er. End it peacefully. They can live on. (He gazes far away mournfully.) I am ruined. A few pastilles of aconite. The blinds drawn. A letter. Then lie back to rest. (He breathes softly.) No more. I have lived. Fare. Farewell.

ZOE (Stiffly, her finger in her neckfillet.) Honest? Till the next time. (She sneers⁷⁷⁵.) Suppose you got up the wrong side of the bed or came too quick with your best girl. O, I can read your thoughts.

BLOOM (Bitterly.) Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and bottle.

ZOE (In sudden sulks.) I hate a rotter that's insincere. Give a bleeding whore a chance.

BLOOM (Repentantly.) I am very disagreeable. You are a necessary evil. Where are you from? London?

ZOE (Glibly.) Hog¹³'s Norton where the pigs play the organs. I'm Yorkshire born. (She holds his hand which is feeling for her nipple.) I say, Tommy Tittlemouse. Stop that and begin worse. Have you cash for a short time? Ten shillings?

BLOOM (Smiles, nods slowly.) More, houri, more.

ZOE And more's mother? (She pats him offhandedly⁷⁷⁷ with velvet paws.) Are you coming into the musicroom to see our new pianola? Come and I'll peel off.

BLOOM (Feeling his occiput dubiously⁷⁷⁸ with the unparalleled embarrassment⁷⁷⁹ of a harassed⁷⁸⁰ pedlar gauging⁷⁸¹ the symmetry of her peeled pears.) Somebody would be dreadfully jealous if she knew. The greeneyed monster. (Earnestly.) You know how difficult it is. I needn't tell you.

ZOE (Flattered.) What the eye can't see the heart can't grieve for. (She pats him.) Come.

BLOOM Laughing witch! The hand that rocks the cradle.

ZOE Babby!

BLOOM (In babylinen and pelisse, bigheaded, with a caul of dark hair, fixes big eyes on her fluid slip and counts its bronze buckles with a chubby⁷⁸⁴ finger, his moist tongue tolling⁷⁸⁵ and lisping.) One two tlee: tlee tlwo tlone.

THE BUCKLES Love me. Love me not. Love me.

ZOE Silent means consent. (With little parted talons she captures his hand, her forefinger giving to his palm the pass touch of secret monitor, luring⁷⁸⁶ him to doom⁷⁸⁷.) Hot hands cold gizzard.

(He hesitates amid scents⁷⁸⁸, music, temptations. She leads him towards the steps, drawing him by the odour of her armpits, the vice of her painted eyes, the rustle of her slip in whose sinuous⁷⁸⁹ folds lurks⁷⁹⁰ the lion reek⁷⁹¹ of all the male brutes⁷⁹² that have possessed⁷⁹³ her.)

THE MALE BRUTES (Exhaling sulphur of rut and dung and ramping⁷⁹⁴ in their loosebox, faintly roaring, their drugged heads swaying to and fro.) Good!

(Zoe and Bloom reach the doorway where two sister whores are seated. They examine him curiously from under their pencilled brows and smile to his hasty bow. He trips awkwardly.)

ZOE (Her lucky hand instantly saving him.) Hoopsa! Don't fall upstairs.

BLOOM The just man falls seven times. (He stands aside at the threshold.) After you is good manners.

ZOE Ladies first, gentlemen after.

(She crosses the threshold. He hesitates. She turns and, holding out her hands, draws him over. He hops¹⁰⁵. On the an tiered rack of the hall hang a man's hat and waterproof⁷⁹⁵ Bloom uncovers himself but, seeing them, frowns, then smiles, preoccupied⁷⁹⁶. A door on the return landing is thrown open. A man in purple shirt and grey trousers, brownsocked, passes with an apes gait, his bald head and goatee beard upheld, hugging a full waterjugjar his twotailed black braces⁶⁵⁷ dangling⁷⁹⁷ at heels. Averting⁷⁹⁸ his face quickly Bloom bends to examine on the halltable the spaniel eyes of a running fox: then, his lifted head sniffing, follows Zoe into the musicroom. A shade of mauve tissuepaper dims the light of the chandelier. Round and round a moth¹⁵⁷ flies, colliding, escaping. The floor is covered with an oilcloth mosaic of jade⁷⁹⁹ and azure⁸⁰⁰ and cinnabar rhomboids. Footmarks are stamped over it in all senses, heel to heel, heel to hollow, toe to toe, feet locked, a morris of shuffling⁸⁰¹ feet without body phantoms⁸⁰², all in a scrimmage higgledypiggledy. The walls are tapes-tried with a paper of yewfronds and clear glades⁸⁰⁴. In the grate is spread a screen of peacock feathers. Lynch squats⁸⁰⁵ crosslegged on the hearth⁸⁰⁶ rug of matted hair, his cap back to the front. With a wand he beats time slowly. Kitty Ricketts, a bony pallid⁸⁰⁷ whore in navy costume, doeskin gloves rolled back from a coral wristlet, a chain purse in her hand, sits perched on the edge of the table swinging her leg and glancing at herself in the gilt⁸⁰⁸ mirror over the mantelpiece. A tag of her corset lace hangs slightly below her jacket. Lynch indicates mockingly the couple at the piano.)

KITTY (Coughs behind her hand.) She's a bit imbecilic. (She signs with a waggling forefinger.) Blemblem. (Lynch lifts up her skirt and white petticoat with the wand. She settles them down quickly.) Respect yourself. (She hiccups, then bends quickly her sailor hat under which her hair glows, red with henna.) O, excuse!

ZOE More limelight, Charley. (She goes to the chandelier and turns the gas full cock.)

KITTY (Peers at the gasjet.) What ails⁴² it tonight?

LYNCH (Deeply.) Enter a ghost and hobgoblins.

ZOE Clap on the back for Zoe.

(The wand in Lynch's hand flashes: a brass poker⁸⁰⁹. Stephen stands at the pianola on which sprawl²⁰ his hat and ashplant. With two fingers he repeats once more the series of empty fifths. Florry Talbot, a blond feeble goosefat whore in a tatterdemalion gown of mildewed⁸¹⁰ strawberry, lolls spreadeagle in the sofa corner, her limp forearm pendent over the bolster⁸¹¹, listening. A heavy stye droops over her sleepy eyelid⁷⁵³.)

KITTY (Hiccups again with a kick of her horsed foot.) O, excuse!

ZOE (Promptly.) Your boy's thinking of you. Tie a knot on your shift.

(Kitty Ricketts bends her head. Her boa uncoils, slides, glides⁸¹² over her shoulder, back, arm, chair to the ground. Lynch lifts the curled caterpillar⁸¹³ on his wand. She snakes her neck, nestling. Stephen glances behind at the squatted⁸¹⁴ figure with its cap back to the front.)

STEPHEN As a matter of fact it is of no importance whether Benedetto Marcello found it or made it. The rite⁷⁶ is the poet's rest. It may be an old hymn⁸¹⁵ to Demeter or also illustrate Cla enarrant gloriam Domini. It is susceptible⁸¹⁶ of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres' altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about his almightiness. Mais, nom de nom, that is another pair of trousers. Jetez la gourme. Faut que jeunesse se passe. (He stops, points at Lynch's cap, smiles, laughs.) Which side is your knowledge bump?

THE CAP (With saturnine⁸¹⁷ spleen.) Bah! It is because it is. Woman's reason. Jewgreek is greekjew. Extremes meet. Death is the highest form of life. Bah!

STEPHEN You remember fairly accurately⁸¹⁸ all my errors, boasts, mistakes. How long shall I continue to close my eyes to disloyalty? Whetstone!

THE CAP Bah!

STEPHEN Here's another for you. (He frowns.) The reason is because the fundamental and the dominant⁸¹⁹ are separated by the greatest possible interval⁸²⁰ which .

THE CAP Which? Finish. You can't.

STEPHEN (With on effort.) Interval which. Is the greatest possible ellipse. Consistent with. The ultimate return. The octave. Which.

THE CAP Which? (Outside the gramophone begins to blare The Holy City.)

STEPHEN (Abruptly⁸²¹.) What went forth to the ends of the world to traverse not itself. God, the sun, Shakespeare, a commercial traveller, having itself traversed in reality itself, becomes that self. Wait a moment. Wait a second. Damn that fellow's noise in the street. Self which it itself was ineluctably preconditioned to become. Ecco!

LYNCH (With a mocking whinny of laughter grins at Bloom and Zoe Higgins.) What a learned speech, eh?

ZOE (Briskly.) God help your head, he knows more than you have forgotten.

(With obese stupidity Florry Talbot regards Stephen.)

FLORRY They say the last day is coming this summer.

KITTY No!

ZOE (Explodes in laughter.) Great unjust God!

FLORRY (Offended.) Well, it was in the papers about Anti christ. O, my foot's tickling⁸²².

(Ragged barefoot newsboys, jogging a wagtail kite, patterpast, yelling.)

THE NEWSBOYS Stop press edition. Result of the rockinghorse races. Sea serpent in the royal canal. Safe arrival of Antichrist.

(Stephen turns and sees Bloom.)

STEPHEN A time, times and half a time.

(Reuben J. Antichrist, wanderingjew, a clutching hand open on his spine, stumps⁸²³ forward. Across his loins is slung a pilgrims wallet from which protrude promissory notes and dishonoured⁸²⁴ bills. Aloft over his shoulder he bears a long boatpole from the hook of which the sodden huddled⁸²⁶ mass of his only son, saved from Liffey waters, hangs from the slack of its breeches. A hobgoblin in the image of Punch Costello, hipshot, crookbacked, hydrocephalic, prognathic with receding⁸²⁷ forehead and Ally Sloper nose, tumbles in somersaults through the gathering⁸²⁸ darkness.)

ALL What?

THE HOBGOBLIN (His jaws⁸²⁹ chattering⁸³⁰, capers⁸³¹ to and fro, goggling⁸³² his eyes, squeaking⁸³³, kangaroohopping, with outstretched clutching arms, then all at once thrusts his lipless face through the fork of his thighs⁸³⁴.) Il vient! C'est moi! L'homme qui rit! L'homme primigene! (He whirls round and round with dervish howls.) Sieurs et dames, faites vos jeux! (He crouches juggling⁸³⁵. Tiny roulette planets fly from his hands.) Les jeux son! faits! (The planets rush together, uttering crepitant cracks.) Rien n'va plus. (The planets, buoyant balloons, sail swollen⁸³⁶ up and away. He springs off into vacuum.)

FLORRY (Sinking into torpor⁸³⁷, crosses herself secretly.) The end of the world!

(A female tepid⁸³⁸ effluvium leaks out from her. Nebulous obscurity occupies space. Through the drifting fog without the gramophone blares over coughs and feetshuffling.)

THE GRAMOPHONE Jerusalem! Open your gates and sing Hosanna...

(A rocket rushes up the sky and bursts. A white star falls from it, proclaiming the consummation of all things and second coming of Elijah. Along an infinite invisible tight-rope taut⁸³⁹ from zenith to nadir⁸⁴⁰ the End of the World, a two headed octopus⁸⁴¹ in gillies kilts, busby and tartan filibegs, whirls through the murk, head over heels, in the fob of the Three Lugs⁸⁴² of Man.)

THE END OF THE WORLD (With a Scotch accent.) Wha'll dance the keel row, the keel row, the keel row?

(Over the passing drift and choking breathcoughs, Elijah's voice, harsh as a corncrakes, jars on high. Perspiring⁸⁴³ in a loose lawn surplice with funnel⁸⁴⁴ sleeves he is seen, vergefaced above a rostrum about which the banner of old glory is draped. He thumps⁸⁴⁵ the parapet.)

ELIJAH No yapping, if you please, in this booth. Jake Crane, Creole Sue, Dave Campbell, Abe Kirschner, do your coughing with your mouths shut. Say, I am operating all this trunk line. Boys, do it now. God's time is 12.25. Tell mother you'll be there. Rush your order and you play a slick ace. Join on right here! Book through to eternity⁸⁴⁶ junction⁸⁴⁷, the nonstop run. Just one word more. Are you a god or a doggone clod? If the second advent⁸⁴⁸ came to Coney Island are we ready? Florry Christ, Stephen Christ, Zoe Christ, Bloom Christ, Kitty Christ, Lynch Christ, it's up to you to sense that cosmic force. Have we cold feet about the cosmos⁸⁴⁹? No. Be on the side of the angels. Be a prism. You have that something within, the higher self. You can rub shoulders with a Jesus, a Gautama, an Ingersoll. Are you all in this vibration⁸⁵⁰? I say you are. You once nobble that, congregation, and a buck joyride to heaven becomes a back number. You got me? It's a lifebrightener, sure. The hottest stuff ever was. It's the whole pie with jam in. It's just the cutest snappiest line out. It is immense, supersumptuous. It restores. It vibrates. I know and I am some vibrator. Joking apart and getting down to bedrock, A. J. Christ Dowie and the harmonial philosophy, have you got that? O.K. Seventyseven west sixtyninth street. Got me? That's it. You call me up by sunphone any old time. Bumboosers, save your stamps. (He shouts.) Now then our glory song. All join heartily⁸⁵¹ in the singing. Encore! (He sings.) Jeru...

THE GRAMOPHONE (Drowning his voice.) Whorusalaminyour highhohhhh.

(The disc rasps gratingly against the needle.)

THE THREE' WHORES (Covering their ears, squawk.) Ahhkkk!

ELIJAH (In rolledup shirtsleeves, black in the face, shouts at the top of his voice, his arms uplifted.) Big Brother up there, Mr President, you hear what I done just been saying to you. Certainly, I sort of believe strong in you, Mr President. I certainly am thinking now Miss Higgins and Miss Ricketts got religion way inside them. Certainly seems to me I don't never see no wusser scared female than the way you been, Miss Florry, just now as I done seed you. Mr President, you come long and help me save our sisters dear. (He winks at his audience.) Our Mr President, he twig⁸⁵² the whole lot and he ain't saying nothing.

KITTY-KATE I forgot myself. In a weak moment I erred⁶⁶⁴ and did what I did on Constitution hill. I was confirmed by the bishop. My mother's sister married a Montmorency. It was a working plumber⁸⁵³ was my ruination when I was pure.

ZOE-FANNY I let him larrup it into me for the fun of it.

FLORRY-TERESA It was in consequence of a portwine beverage⁸⁵⁴ on top of Hennessy's three stars I was guilty with Whelan when he slipped into the bed.

STEPHEN In the beginning was the word, in the end the world without end. Blessed be the eight beatitudes.

(The beatitudes, Dixon, Madden, Crotthers, Costello, Lenehan, Bannon, Mulligan and Lynch in white surgical⁸⁵⁵ students' gowns, four abreast⁸⁵⁷, goosestepping, tramp fast past in noisy marching.)

THE BEATITUDES (Incoherently.) Beer beef battledog buybull businum barnum buggerum bishop.

LYSTER (In quakergrey kneebreeches and broadbrimmed hat, says discreetly⁸⁵⁸.) He is our friend. I need not mention names. Seek thou the light.

(He corantos by. Best enters in hairdresser attire⁸⁵⁹, shinily laundered⁸⁶⁰, his locks in curlpapers. He leads John Eglinton who wears a mandarin's kimono of Nankeen yellow, lizard-lettered, and a high pagoda⁸⁶¹ hat.)

BEST (Smiling, lifts the hat and displays a shaven poll from the crown of which bristles a pigtail toupee⁸⁶² tied with an orange topknot.) I was just beautifying him, don't you know. A thing of beauty, don't you know. Yeats says, or I mean, Keats says. (Produces a greencapped dark lantern and flashes it towards a corner; with carping accent.) Esthetics and cosmetics⁸⁶³ are for the boudoir. I am out for truth. Plain truth for a plain man. Tanderagee wants the facts and means to get them.

(In the cone⁴⁵¹ of the search light behind the coalscuttle, ollave, holyeyed, the bearded figure of Mananaan MacLir broods, chin on knees. He rises slowly. A cold seawind blows from his druid mantle. About his head writhe⁸⁶⁴ eels¹²³ and elvers. He is encrusted with weeds and shells. His right hand holds a bicycle pump. His left hand grasps a huge crayfish by its two talons.)

MANANAAN MACLIR (With a voice of waves.) Aum! Hek! Wal! Ak! Lub! Mor! Ma! White yoghin of the Gods. Occult pimander of Hermes Trismegistos. (With a voice of whistling seawind.) Punarjanam patsypunjaub! I won't have my leg pulled. It has been said by one: beware the left, the cult⁷⁸² of Shakti. (With a cry of stormbirds.) Shakti, Shiva! Dark hidden Father! (He smites⁸⁶⁵ with his bicycle pump the crayfish in his left hand. On its co-operative dial glow the twelve signs of the zodiac. He wails with the vehemence⁸⁶⁶ of the ocean.) Aum! Baum! Pyjaum! I am the light of the homestead, I am the dreamery creamery butter.

(A skeleton judas hand strangles the light. The green light wanes⁸⁶⁷ to mauve. The gasjet wails whistling.)

THE GASJET Pooah! Pfuiiiiii!

(Zoe runs to the chandelier and, crooking⁸⁶⁸ her leg, adjusts the mantle.)

ZOE Who has a fag as I'm here?

LYNCH (Tossing a cigarette on to the table.) Here.

ZOE (Her head perched aside in mock pride.) Is that the way to hand the pot to a lady? (She stretches up to light the cigarette over the flame, twirling it slowly, showing the brown tufts of her armpits. Lynch with his poker lifts boldly a side of her slip. Bare from her garters up her flesh appears under the sapphire a nixie's green. She puffs⁸⁶⁹ calmly at her cigarette.) Can you see the beauty spot of my behind?

LYNCH I'm not looking.

ZOE (Makes sheep's eyes.) No? You wouldn't do a less thing. Would you suck a lemon?

(Squinting in mock shame she glances with sidelong meaning at Bloom, then twists round towards him, pulling her slip free of the poker. Blue fluid again flows over her flesh. Bloom stands, smiling desirously, twirling his thumbs. Kitty Ricketts licks her middle finger with her spittle and gazing in the mirror, smooths both eyebrows⁸⁷⁰. Lipoti Virag, basilicogrammate, chutes rapidly down through the chimneyflue and struts⁸⁷¹ two steps to the left on gawky pink stilts⁸⁷². He is sausaged into several overcoats and wears a brown macintosh under which he holds a roll of parchment. In his left eye flashes the monocle of Cashel Boyle O'Connor Fitzmaurice Tisdall Farrell. On his head is perched an Egyptian pshent. Two quills⁸⁷³ project over his ears.)

VIRAG (Heels together bows.) My name is Virag Lipoti, of Szombathely. (He coughs thoughtfully, drily.) Promiscuous⁸⁷⁴ nakedness is much in evidence hereabouts, eh? Inadvertently her backview revealed the fact that she is not wearing those rather intimate garments of which you are a particular devotee. The injection mark on the thigh I hope you perceived? Good.

BLOOM Granpapachi. But...

VIRAG Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge⁸⁷⁵ and coiffeuse white, whose hair owes not a little to our tribal⁸⁷⁶ elixir⁸⁷⁷ of gopherwood, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I should opine. Backbone⁸⁷⁸ in front, so to say. Correct me but I always understood that the act so performed by skittish⁸⁷⁹ humans with glimpses of lingerie appealed to you in virtue of its exhibitionististicicity. In a word. Hippogriff. Am I right?

BLOOM She is rather lean.

VIRAG (Not unpleasantly.) Absolutely! Well observed and those pannier pockets of the skirt and slightly pegtop effect are devised to suggest bunchiness of hip³¹¹. A new purchase at some monster sale for which a gull³⁰² has been mulcted. Meretricious⁸⁸⁰ finery to deceive the eye. Observe the attention to details of dustspecks. Never put on you tomorrow what you can wear today. Parallax! (With a nervous twitch⁸⁸¹ of his head.) Did you hear my brain go snap? Pollysyllabax!

BLOOM (An elbow resting in a hand, a forefinger against his cheek.) She seems sad.

VIRAG (Cynically, his weasel teeth bared yellow, draws down his left eye with a finger and barks hoarsely.) Hoax⁸⁸³! Beware of the flapper and bogus mournful. Lily of the alley⁸⁸⁴. All possess bachelor's button discovered by Rualdus Colombus. Tumble her. Columble her. Chameleon⁸⁸⁵. (More genially⁸⁸⁶.) Well then, permit me to draw your attention to item number three. There is plenty of her visible to the naked eye. Observe the mass of oxygenated vegetable matter on her skull. What ho, she bumps! The ugly duckling of the party, longcasted and deep in keel.

BLOOM (Regretfully.) When you come out without your gun.

VIRAG We can do you all brands, mild, medium and strong. Pay your money, take your choice. How happy could you be with either...

BLOOM With?...

VIRAG (His tongue upcurling.) Lyum! Look. Her beam is broad. She is coated with quite a considerable layer of fat. Obviously mammal in weight of bosom you remark that she has in front well to the fore¹ two protuberances of very respectable dimensions, inclined to fall in the noonday soupplate, while on her rere lower down are two additional protuberances, suggestive of potent rectum and tumescent for palpation which leave nothing to be desired save compactness. Such fleshy parts are the product of careful nurture³⁸⁶. When coopfattened their livers reach an elephantine size. Pellets of new bread with fennygreek and gumbenjamin swamped down by potions of green tea endow them during their brief existence with natural pincushions of quite colossal blubber. That suits your book, eh? Fleshhotpots of Egypt to hanker after. Wallow in it. Lycopodium. (His throat twitches⁸⁸⁷.) Slapbang! There he goes again.

BLOOM The stye I dislike.

VIRAG (Arches his eyebrows.) Contact with a goldring, they say. Argumentum ad feminam, as we said in old Rome and ancient Greece in the consulship⁸⁸⁸ of Diplodocus and Ichthyo saurus. For the rest Eve's sovereign remedy. Not for sale. Hire only. Huguenot. (He twitches.) It is a funny sound.

(He coughs encouragingly.) But possibly it is only a wart⁸⁸⁹. I presume you shall have remembered what I will have taught you on that head? Wheatenmeal with honey and nutmeg.

BLOOM (Reflecting.) Wheatenmeal with lycopodium and syllabax. This searching ordeal⁸⁹⁰. It has been an unusually fatiguing⁸⁹¹ day, a chapter of accidents. Wait. I mean, wartsblood spreads warts⁸⁹², you said .

VIRAG (Severely, his nose hardhumped, his side eye winking.) Stop twirling your thumbs and have a good old thunk. See, you have forgotten. Exercise your mnemotechnic. La causa è santa. Tara. Tara. (Aside.) He will surely remember.

BLOOM Rosemary also did I understand you to say or will power over parasitic⁸⁹³ tissues. Then nay no I have an inkling. The touch of a deadhand cures. Mnemo?

VIRAG (Excitedly.) I say so. I say so. E'en so. Technic. (He taps his parchmentroll energetically.) This book tells you how to act with all descriptive particulars. Consult index for agitated⁸⁹⁴ fear of aconite, melancholy⁸⁹⁵ of muriatic, priapic pulsatilla. Virag is going to talk about amputation⁸⁹⁶. Our old friend caustic⁸⁹⁷. They must be starved. Snip⁸⁹⁸ off with horsehair under the denned⁸⁹⁹ neck. But, to change the venue⁹⁰⁰ to the Bulgar and the Basque, have you made up your mind whether you like or dislike women in male habiliments? (With a dry snigger.) You intended to devote an entire year to the study of the religious problem and the summer months of 1882 to square the circle and win that million. Pomegranate! From the sublime⁹⁰¹ to the ridiculous is but a step. Pyjamas⁹⁰², let us say? Or stockingette gusseted knickers, closed? Or, put we the case, those complicated combinations, camiknickers? (He crows derisively.) Keekeereekee!

(Bloom surveys uncertainly the three whores, then gazes at the veiled mauve light, hearing the everflying moth.)

BLOOM I wanted then to have now concluded. Nightdress was never. Hence this. But tomorrow is a new day will be. Past was is today. What now is will then tomorrow as now was be past yester.

VIRAG (Prompts into his ear in a pig's whisper.) Insects of the day spend their brief existence in reiterated⁹⁰³ coition, lured⁹⁰⁴ by the smell of the inferiorly pulchritudinous⁹⁰⁵ female possessing extendified pudendal verve in dorsal⁹⁰⁶ region. Pretty Poll! (His yellow parrotbeak gabbles nasally.) They had a proverb in the Carpathians in or about the year five thousand five hundred and fifty of our era. One tablespoonful of honey will attract friend Bruin more than half a dozen barrels of first choice malt vinegar. Bear's buzz bothers bees. But of this apart. At another time we may resume. We were very pleased, we others. (He coughs and, bending his brow, rubs his nose thoughtfully with a scooping⁹⁰⁷ hand.) You shall find that these night insects follow the light. An illusion for remember their complex unadjustable eye. For all these knotty⁹⁰⁸ points see the seventeenth book of my Fundamentals of Sexology or the Love Passion which Doctor L. B. says is the book sensation of the year. Some, to example, there are again whose movements are automatic. Perceive. That is his appropriate sun. Nightbird nightsun nighttown. Chase me, Charley! Buzz!

BLOOM Bee or bluebottle too other day butting⁴²⁷ shadow on wall dazed self then me wandered dazed down shirt good job I...

VIRAG (His face impassive, laughs in a rich feminine key.) Splendid! Spanish fly in his fly or mustard plaster on his dibble. (He gobbles gluttonously⁹⁰⁹ with turkey wattles.) Bubbly jock! Bubbly jock! Where are we? Open Sesame! Cometh forth! (He unrolls his parchment rapidly and reads, his glowworm's nose running backwards⁹¹⁰ over the letters which he claws.) Stay, good friend. I bring thee thy answer Redbank oysters will shortly be upon us. I'm the best o'cook. Those succulent bivalves may help us and the truffles of Perigord, tubers dislodged through mister omnivorous⁹¹¹ porker, were unsurpassed in cases of nervous debility or viragitis. Though they stink²⁹³ yet they sting. (He wags head with cackling raillery.) Jocular. With my eyeglass in my ocular.

BLOOM (Absently.) Ocularly woman's bivalve case is worse. Always open sesame. The cloven sex. Why they fear vermin, creeping things. Yet Eve and the serpent contradict. Not a historical fact. Obvious analogy to my idea. Serpents too are gluttons⁹¹² for woman's milk. Wind their way through miles of omnivorous forest to sucksucculent her breast dry. Like those bubblyjocular Roman matrons one reads of in Elephantuliasis.

VIRAG (His mouth projected in hard wrinkles, eyes stonily⁹¹³ forlornly closed, psalms⁹¹⁴ in outlandish monotone.) That the cows with their those distended⁹¹⁵ udders that they have been the known...

BLOOM I am going to scream. I beg your pardon. Ah? So. (He repeats.) Spontaneously to seek out the saurian's lair in order to entrust⁹¹⁶ their teats to his avid⁶⁴⁴ suction. Ant milks aphis. (Profoundly.) Instinct rules the world. In life. In death.

VIRAG (Head askew, arches his back and hunched⁹¹⁷ wing- shoulders, peers at the moth out of blear bulged⁹¹⁸ eyes, points a homing claw and cries.) Who's Ger Ger? Who's dear Gerald? O, I much fear he shall be most badly burned. Will some pleashe pershon not now impediment so catastrophics mit agitation of firstclass tablenumpkin? (He mews.) Luss puss puss puss! (He sighs, draws back and stares sideways down with dropping underjaw.) Well, well. He doth rest anon.

I'm a tiny tiny thing
Ever flying in the spring
Round and round a ringaring.
Long ago I was a king,
Now I do this kind of thing
On the wing, on the wing!
Bing!
(He rushes against the mauve shade flapping noisily.) Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty petticoats.
(From left upper entrance with two sliding steps Henry Flower comes forward to left front centre. He wears a dark mantle and drooping⁹¹⁹ plumed⁹²⁰ sombrero. He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacobs pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head. He wears dark velvet hose and silverbuckled pumps. He has the romantic Saviour's face with flowing locks, thin beard and moustache. His spindlelegs and sparrow feet are those of the tenor⁹²² Mario, prince of Candia. He settles down his goffered ruffs and moistens his lips with a passage of his amorous⁹²³ tongue.)

HENRY (In a low dulcet⁹²⁴ voice, touching⁹²⁵ the strings⁹²⁶ of his guitar.) There is a flower that bloometh.

(Virag truculent, his jowl set, stares at the lamp. Grave Bloom regards Zoe's neck. Henry gallant turns with pendent dewlap to the piano.)

STEPHEN (To himself.) Play with your eyes shut. Imitate pa. Filling my belly with husks of swine. Too much of this. I will arise and go to my. Expect this is the. Steve, thou art in a parlous⁹²⁷ way. Must visit old Deasy or telegraph. Our interview of this morning has left on me a deep impression. Though our ages. Will write fully¹¹³ tomorrow. I'm partially drunk, by the way. (He touches the keys again.) Minor chord comes now. Yes. Not much however.

(Almidano Artifoni holds out a batonroll of music with vigorous moustachework.)

ARTIFONI Ci rifletta. Lei rovina tutto.

FLORRY Sing us something. Love's old sweet song.

STEPHEN No voice. I am a most finished artist. Lynch, did I show you the letter about the lute¹⁵?

FLORRY (Smirking.) The bird that can sing and won't sing.

(The Siamese twins, Philip Drunk and Philip Sober two Oxford dons with lawnmowers, appear in the window embrasure. Both are masked with Matthew Arnold's face.)

PHILIP SOBER Take a fool's advice. All is not well. Work it out with the buttend of a pencil, like a good young idiot. Three pounds twelve you got, two notes, one sovereign, two crowns, if youth but knew. Mooney's en ville, Mooney's sur mer, the Moira, Larchet's, Holles street hospital, Burke's. Eh? I am watching you.

PHILIP DRUNK (Impatiently.) Ah, bosh, man. Go to hell! I paid my way. If I could only find out about octaves. Reduplication of personality. Who was it told me his name?

(His lawnmower begins to purr.) Aha, yes. Zoe mou sas agapo. Have a notion I was here before. When was it not Atkinson his card I have somewhere? Mac somebody. Unmack I have it. He told me about, hold on, Swinburne, was it, no?

FLORRY And the song?

STEPHEN Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

FLORRY Are you out of Maynooth? You're like someone I knew once.

STEPHEN Out of it now. (To himself.) Clever.

PHILIP DRUNK AND PHILIP SOBER (Their lawnmowers purring with a rigadoon of grasshalms.) Clever ever. Out of it. Out of it. By the by have you the book, the thing, the ashplant? Yes, there it, yes. Cleverever outofitnow. Keep in condition. Do like us.

ZOE There was a priest down here two nights ago to do his bit of business with his coat buttoned up. You needn't try to hide, I says to him. I know you've a Roman collar.

VIRAG Perfectly logical from his standpoint. Fall of man. (Harshly, his pupils waxing.) To hell with the pope! Nothing new under the sun. I am the Virag who disclosed the sex secrets of monks⁹²⁸ and maidens⁹²⁹. Why I left the Church of Rome. Read the Priest, the Woman and the Confessional. Penrose. Flipperty Jippert. (He wriggles.) Woman, undoing⁹³⁰ with sweet pudor her belt of rushrope, offers her allmoist yoni to man's lingam. Short time after man presents woman with pieces of jungle meat. Woman shows joy and covers herself with featherskins. Man loves her yoni fiercely with big lingam, the stiff one. (He cries.) Coactus volui. Then giddy woman will run about. Strong man grasps woman's wrist. Woman squeals⁹³¹, bites, spucks. Man, now fierce angry, strikes woman's fat yadgana. (He chases his tail.) Piffpaff! Popo! (He stops, sneezes.) Pchp! (He worries his butt¹⁶⁰.) Prrrrrht!

LYNCH I hope you gave the good father a penance⁹³³. Nine glorias for shooting a bishop.

ZOE (Spouts walrus⁹³⁴ smoke through her nostrils.) He couldn't get a connection. Only, you know, sensation. A dry rush.

BLOOM Poor man!

ZOE (Lightly.) Only for what happened him.

BLOOM How?

VIRAG (A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward. He lifts a mooncalf nozzle and howls.) Verfluchte Goim! He had a father, forty fathers. He never existed. Pig God! He had two left feet. He was Judas Iacchias, a Libyan eunuch, the pope's bastard⁹³⁶. (He leans out on tortured forepaws, elbows bent rigid⁹³⁷, his eye agonising in his flat skullneck and yelps⁹³⁸ over the mute world.) A son of a whore. Apocalypse.

KITTY And Mary Shortall that was in the lock with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the blue caps had a child off him that couldn't swallow and was smothered⁹³⁹ with the convulsions in the mattress⁹⁴⁰ and we all subscribed⁹⁴¹ for the funeral.

PHILIP DRUNK (Gravely.) Qui vous a mis dans cette fichue position, Philippe?

PHILIP SOBER (Gaily.) C'était le sacré pigeon, Philippe.

(Kitty unpins her hat and sets it down calmly, patting her henna hair. And a prettier, a daintier head of winsome⁹⁴³ curls was never seen on a whores shoulders. Lynch puts on her hat. She whips it off.)

LYNCH (Laughs.) And to such delights has Metchnikoff inoculated⁹⁴⁴ anthropoid⁹⁴⁵ apes.

FLORRY (Nods.) Locomotor ataxy.

ZOE (Gaily.) O, my dictionary.

LYNCH Three wise virgins⁹⁴⁶.

VIRAG (Agueshaken, profuse⁹⁴⁷ yellow spawn⁹⁴⁸ foaming⁹⁴⁹ over his bony epileptic lips.) She sold lovephiltres, whitewax, orange flower. Panther, the Roman centurion⁹⁵⁰, polluted her with his genitories. (He sticks out a flickering⁹⁵¹ phosphorescent scorpion⁹⁵² tongue, his hand on his fork.) Messiah! He burst her tympanum. (With gibbering baboon's cries he jerks his hips⁶¹⁶ in the cynical⁸⁸² spasm.) Hik! Hek! Hak! Hok! Huk! Kok! Kuk!

(Ben Jumbo Dollard, rubicund⁹⁵³, musclebound, hairynostrilled, hugebearded, cabbageeared, shaggychested, shockmaned, fatpapped, stands forth, his loins and genitals tightened⁹⁵⁴ into a pair of black bathing bagslops.)

BEN POLLARD (Nakkering castanet bones in his huge padded paws, yodels jovially⁹⁵⁵ in base barreltone.) When love absorbs my ardent⁹⁵⁶ soul.

(The virgins, Nurse Callan and Nurse Quigley, burst through the ringkeepers and the ropes and mob him with open arms.)

THE VIRGINS (Gushingly.) Big Ben! Ben MacChree!

A VOICE Hold that fellow with the bad breeches.

BEN DOLLARD (Smites his thigh in abundant laughter.) Hold him now.

HENRY (Caressing on his breast a severed⁹⁵⁷ female head, murmurs.) Thine heart, mine love. (He plucks his lutestrings.) When first I saw.

VIRAG (Sloughing his skins, his multitudinous plumage moulting.) Rats! (He yawns; showing a coalblack throat and closes his jaws by an upward push of his parchment roll.) After having said which I took my departure. Farewell. Fare thee well. Dreck!

(Henry Flower combs his moustache and beard rapidly with a pocketcomb and gives a cows lick to his hair. Steered⁹⁵⁸ by his rapier, he glides to the door his wild had slung behind him. Virag reaches the door in two ungainly stilthops, his tail cocked, and deftly claps sideways on the wall a pusyellow flybill, butting it with his head.)

THE FLYBILL K. 11. post no bills. Strictly⁹⁶⁰ confidential³²⁹. Dr Hy Franks.

HENRY All is lost now.

(Virag unscrews his head in a trice and holds it under his arm.)

VIRAG'S HEAD Quack⁹⁶¹!

(Exeunt severally.)

STEPHEN (Over his shoulder to Zoe.) You would have preferred the fighting parson who founded the protestant error. But beware Antisthenes, the dog sage¹³², and the last end of Anus Heresiarchus. The agony in the closet.

LYNCH All one and the same God to her.

STEPHEN (Devoutly.) And Sovereign Lord of all things.

FLORRY (To Stephen.) I'm sure you are a spoiled priest. Or a monk⁵²⁴.

LYNCH He is. A Cardinal's son.

STEPHEN Cardinal sin. Monks of the screw.

(His Eminence, Simon Stephen Cardinal Dedalus, Primate of all Ireland, appears in the doorway, dressed in red soutane, sandals and socks. Seven dwarf⁹⁶² simian⁹⁶³ acolytes⁹⁶⁴, also in red, cardinal sins, uphold his train, peeping under it. He wears a battered silk hat sideways on his head. His thumbs are stuck in his armpits and his palms outspread. Round his neck hangs a rosary of corks⁹⁶⁵ ending on his breast in a corkscrew cross. Releasing his thumbs, he invokes⁹⁶⁶ grace from on high with lace wave gestures and proclaims with bloated pomp.)

THE CARDINAL

Conservio lies captured.
He lies in the lowest dungeon⁹⁶⁷
With manacles and chains around his limbs
Weighing upwards⁹⁶⁸ of three tons.
(He looks at all for a moment, his right eye closed tight, his left cheek puffed⁹⁶⁹ out. Then, unable to repress his merriment, he rocks to and fro, ads akimbo, and sings with broad rollicking humour.) O, the poor little fellow Hi-hi-hi-hi-his legs they were yellow He was plump, fat and heavy and brisk as a snake But some bloody savage⁵⁰¹ To graize his white cabbage He murdered Nell Flaherty's duckloving drake.
(A multitude of midges swarms⁹⁷⁰ over his robe. He scratches himself with crossed arms at his ribs⁹⁷¹, grimacing⁹⁷², and exclaims.) I'm suffering the agony of the damned. By the hoky fiddle⁹⁷³, thanks be to Jesus those funny little chaps are not unanimous. If they were they'd walk me off the face of the bloody globe.

(His head aslant⁹⁷⁴, he blesses curtly⁹⁷⁵ with fore and middle fingers, imparts the Easter kiss and doubleshuffles off comically, swaying his hat from side to side, shrinking quickly to the size of his train bearers. The dwarf acolytes, giggling⁹⁷⁶, peeping, nudging, ogling, Easterkissing, zigzag⁹⁷⁷ behind him. His voice is heard mellow⁹⁷⁸ from afar, merciful, male, melodious⁹⁷⁹.) Shall carry my heart to thee, Shall carry my heart to thee, And the breath of the balmy night Shall carry my heart to thee.

(The trick doorhandle turns.)

THE DOORHANDLE Theeee.

ZOE The devil is in that door.

(A male form passes down the creaking staircase and is heard taking the waterproof and hat from the rack. Bloom starts forward involuntarily and, half closing the door as he passes, takes the chocolate from his pocket and offers it nervously⁹⁸⁰ to Zoe.)

ZOE (Sniffs⁹⁸¹ his hair briskly.) Hum. Thank your mother for the rabbits. I'm very fond of what I like.

BLOOM (Hearing a male voice in talk with the whores on the doorstep, pricks⁹⁸² his ears.) If it were he? After? Or because not? Or the double event?

ZOE (Tears open the silverfoil.) Fingers was made before forks. (She breaks off and nibbles⁹⁸³ a piece, gives a piece to Kitty Ricketts and then turns kittenishly to Lynch.) No objection to French lozenges? (He nods. She taunts⁹⁸⁴ him.) Have it now or wait till you get it? (He opens his mouth, his head cocked. She whirls the prize in left circle. His head follows. She whirls it back in right circle. He eyes her.) Catch.

(She tosses a piece. With an adroit⁹⁸⁵ snap he catches it and bites it through with a crack.)

KITTY (Chewing.) The engineer I was with at the bazaar does have lovely ones. Full of the best liqueurs. And the viceroy was there with his lady. The gas we had on the Toft's hobbyhorses. I'm giddy still.

BLOOM (In Svengali's fur overcoat, with folded arms and Napoleonic forelock, frowns in ventriloquial exorcism with piercing eagle glance towards the door. Then, rigid, with left foot advanced, he makes a swift pass with impelling⁹⁸⁶ fingers and gives the sign of past master, drawing his right arm downwards⁹⁸⁷ from his left shoulder.) Go, go, go, I conjure you, whoever you are.

(A male cough and tread are heard passing through the mist outside. Blooms features relax. He places a hand in his waistcoat, posing calmly. Zoe offers him chocolate.)

BLOOM (Solemnly.) Thanks.

ZOE Do as you're bid. Here.

(A firm heelclacking is heard on the stairs.)

BLOOM (Takes the chocolate.) Aphrodisiac? But I thought it. Vanilla⁹⁸⁸ calms or? Mnemo. Confused light confuses memory. Red influences lupus. Colours affect women's characters, any they have. This black makes me sad. Eat and be merry for tomorrow. (He eats.) Influence taste too, mauve. But it is so long since I. Seems new. Aphro. That priest. Must come. Better late than never. Try truffles at Andrews.

(The door opens. Bella Cohen, a massive whoremistress enters. She is dressed in a threequarter ivory gown, fringed round the hem with tasselled selvedge, and cools herself flirting⁹⁸⁹ a black horn fan like Minnie Hauck in Carmen. On her left hand are wedding and keeper rings. Her eyes are deeply carboned. She has a sprouting⁹⁹⁰ moustache. Her olive face is heavy, slightly sweated and fullnosed, with orangetainted nostrils. She has lace pendant beryl eardrops.)

BELLA My word! I'm all of a mucksweat.

(She glances around her at the couples. Then her eyes rest on Bloom with hard insistence⁹⁹¹. Her lace fan winnows⁹⁹² wind towards her heated face, neck and embonpoint. Her falcon⁹⁹³ eyes glitter.)

THE FAN (Flirting quickly, then slowly.) Married, I see.

BLOOM Yes... Partly, I have mislaid .

THE FAN (Half opening, then closing.) And the missus is master. Petticoat government.

BLOOM (Looks down with a sheepish grin.) That is so.

THE FAN (Folding together, rests against her eardrop.) Have you forgotten me?

BLOOM Yes. No.

THE FAN (Folded akimbo against her waist.) Is me her was you dreamed before? Was then she him you us since knew? Am all them and the same now we? (Bella approaches, gently tapping with the fan.)

BLOOM (Wincing.) Powerful being. In my eyes read that slumber⁹⁹⁴ which women love.

THE FAN (Tapping.) We have met. You are mine. It is fate.

BLOOM (Cowed.) Exuberant⁹⁹⁵ female. Enormously I desiderate your domination. I am exhausted⁹⁹⁶, abandoned, no more young. I stand, so to speak, with an unposted letter bearing the extra regulation fee before the too late box of the general postoffice of human life. The door and window open at a right angle cause a draught⁹⁹⁷ of thirtytwo feet per second according to the law of falling bodies. I have felt this instant a twinge of sciatica in my left glutear muscle. It runs in our family. Poor dear papa, a widower⁹⁹⁸, was a regular barometer⁹⁹⁹ from it. He believed in animal heat. A skin of tabby lined his winter waistcoat. Near the end, remembering king David and the Sunamite, he shared his bed with Athos, faithful after death. A dog's spittle, as you probably... (He winces.) Ah!

RICHIE GOULDING (Bagweighted, passes the door.) Mocking is catch. Best value in Dub. Fit for a prince's liver and kidney.

THE FAN (Tapping.) All things end. Be mine. Now.

BLOOM (Undecided.) All now? I should not have parted with my talisman. Rain, exposure at dewfall on the sea rocks, a peccadillo¹⁰⁰⁰ at my time of life. Every phenomenon has a natural cause.

THE FAN (Points downwards slowly.) You may.

BLOOM (Looks downwards and perceives her unfastened bootlace. ) We are observed.

THE FAN (Points downwards quickly.) You must.

BLOOM (With desire, with reluctance¹⁰⁰¹.) I can make a true black knot. Learned when I served my time and worked the mail order line for Kellet's. Experienced hand. Every knot says a lot. Let me. In courtesy. I knelt once before today. Ah!

(Bella raises her gown slightly and, steadying her pose, lifts to the edge of a chair a plump buskined hoof and a full pastern, silksocked. Bloom, stifflegged ageing, bends over her hoof and with gentle fingers draws out and in her laces.)

BLOOM (Murmurs lovingly.) To be a shoefitter in Mansfield's was my love's young dream, the darling joys of sweet buttonhooking, to lace up crisscrossed to kneelength the dressy kid footwear satinlined, so incredibly small, of Clyde Road ladies. Even their wax model Raymonde I visited daily to admire her cobweb hose and stick of rhubarb toe, as worn in Paris.

THE HOOF Smell my hot goathide. Feel my royal weight.

BLOOM (Crosslacing.) Too tight?

THE HOOF If you bungle¹⁰⁰², Handy Andy, I'll kick your football for you.

BLOOM Not to lace the wrong eyelet as I did the night of the bazaar dance. Bad luck. Nook in wrong tache of her... person you mentioned. That night she met... Now!

(He knots the lace. Bella places her foot on the floor. Bloom raises his head. Her heavy face, her eyes strike him in mid-brow. His eyes grow dull, darker and pouched¹⁰⁰³, his nose thickens.)

BLOOM (Mumbles.) Awaiting your further orders, we remain, gentlemen.

BELLO (With a hard basilisk stare, in a baritone voice.) Hound of dishonour⁸²⁵!

BLOOM (Infatuated.) Empress!

BELLO (His heavy cheekchops sagging¹⁰⁰⁴.) Adorer of the adulterous rump!

BLOOM (Plaintively.) Hugeness!

BELLO Dungdevourer!

BLOOM (With sinews semiflexed.) Magnificence.

BELLO Down! (He taps her on the shoulder with his fan.) Incline feet forward! Slide left foot one pace back. You will fall. You are falling. On the hands down!

BLOOM (Her eyes upturned in the sign of admiration¹⁰⁰⁵, closing.) Truffles!

(With a piercing epileptic cry she sinks on all fours, grunting, snuffling, rooting at his feet, then lies, shamming¹⁰⁰⁶ dead with eyes shut tight, trembling eyelids, bowed upon the ground in the attitude of most excellent master.)

BELLO (With bobbed hair purple gills, fat moustache rings round his shaven mouth, in mountaineer's puttees, green silverbuttoned coat, sport skirt and alpine hat with moor¹⁷⁹ cock's feather, his hands stuck deep in his breeches pockets, places his heel on her neck and grinds it in.) Feel my entire weight. Bow, bondslave, before the throne of your despot's glorious heels, so glistening¹⁰⁰⁷ in their proud erectness¹⁰⁰⁸.

BLOOM (Enthralled, bleats¹⁰⁰⁹.) I promise never to disobey.

BELLO (Laughs loudly.) Holy smoke! You little know what's in store for you. I'm the tartar to settle your little lot and break you in! I'll bet Kentucky cocktails¹⁰¹⁰ all round I shame it out of you, old son. Cheek me, I dare you. If you do tremble in anticipation¹⁰¹¹ of heel discipline to be inflicted¹⁰¹² in gym costume.

(Bloom creeps under the sofa and peers out through the fringe.

ZOE (Widening her slip to screen her.) She's not here.

BLOOM (Closing her eyes.) She's not here.

FLORRY (Hiding her with her gown.) She didn't mean it, Mr Bello. She'll be good, sir.

KITTY Don't be too hard on her, Mr Bello. Sure you won't, ma'amsir.

BELLO (Coaxingly.) Come, ducky dear. I want a word with you, darling, just to administer correction. Just a little heart to heart talk, sweety. (Bloom puts out her timid head.) There's a good girly now. (Bello grabs her hair violently and drags her forward.) I only want to correct you for your own good on a soft safe spot. How's that tender behind? O, ever so gently, pet. Begin to get ready.

BLOOM (Fainting.) Don't tear my.

BELLO (Savagely.) The nosering, the pliers, the bastinado, the hanging hook, the knout I'll make you kiss while the flutes¹⁰¹³ play like the Nubian slave of old. You're in for it this time. I'll make you remember me for the balance of your natural life. (His forehead veins swollen, his face congested.) I shall sit on your ottoman saddleback every morning after my thumping¹⁰¹⁴ good breakfast of Matterson's fat ham rashers and a bottle of Guinness's porter. (He belches¹⁰¹⁵.) And suck my thumping good Stock Exchange cigar while I read the Licensed¹⁰¹⁶ Victualler's Gazette. Very possibly I shall have you slaughtered¹⁰¹⁷ and skewered¹⁰¹⁸ in my stables and enjoy a slice Of you with crisp crackling from the baking tin basted¹⁰¹⁹ and baked like sucking pig with rice and lemon or currant sauce. It will hurt you.

(He twists her arm. Bloom squeaks, turning turtle.)

BLOOM Don't be cruel, nurse! Don't!

BELLO (Twisting.) Another!

BLOOM (Screams.) O, it's hell itself! Every nerve in my body aches like mad!

BELLO (Shouts.) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you. (He slaps her face.)

BLOOM (Whimpers.) You're after hitting me. I'll tell...

BELLO Hold him down, girls, till I squat³¹ on him.

ZOE Yes. Walk on him! I will.

FLORRY I will. Don't be greedy.

KITTY No, me. Lend him to me.

(The brothel cook, Mrs Keogh, wrinkled, greybearded, in a greasy¹⁰²⁰ bib, men's grey and green socks and brogues, flour-smeared, a rollingpin stuck with raw pastry¹⁰²¹ in her bare red arm and hand, appears at the door.)

MRS KEOCH (Ferociously.) Can I help? (They hold and pinion¹⁰²³ Bloom.)

BELLO (Squats, with a grunt¹⁷⁸, on Bloom's upturned face, puffing cigar-smoke, nursing a fat leg.) I see Keating Clay is elected chairman of the Richmond Asylum and bytheby Guinness's preference shares are at sixteen three quarters. Curse me for a fool that I didn't buy that lot Craig and Gardner told me about. Just my infernal luck, curse it. And that Goddamned outsider Throwaway at twenty to one. (He quenches¹⁰²⁴ his cigar angrily on Bloom's ear.) Where's that Goddamned cursed ashtray¹⁰²⁵?

BLOOM (Goaded, buttocksmothered.) O! O! Monsters! Cruel one!

BELLO Ask for that every ten minutes. Beg, pray for it as you never prayed before. (He thrusts out a figged fist and foul cigar.) Here, kiss that. Both. Kiss. (He throws a leg astride and, pressing with horseman's knees, calls in a hard voice.) Gee⁴¹⁸ up! A cockhorse to Banbury cross. I'll ride him for the Eclipse stakes. (He bends sideways and squeezes his mount's testicles roughly, shouting.) Ho! off we pop! I'll nurse you in proper fashion. (He horserides cockhorse, leaping in the saddle.) The lady goes a pace a pace and the coachman goes a trot¹⁰⁹ a trot and the gentleman goes a gallop⁴³⁸ a gallop a gallop a gallop.

FLORRY (Pulls at Bello.) Let me on him now. You had enough. I asked before you.

ZOE (Pulling at Florry.) Me. Me. Are you not finished with him yet, suckeress?

BLOOM (Stifling.) Can't.

BELLO Well, I'm not. Wait. (He holds in his breath.) Curse it. Here. This bung's about burst. (He uncorks himself behind: then, contorting his features, farts loudly.) Take that! (He recorks himself) Yes, by Jingo, sixteen three quarters.

BLOOM (A sweat breaking out over him.) Not man. (He sniffs.) Woman.

BELLO (Stands up.) No more blow hot and cold. What you longed for has come to pass. Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest, a thing under the yoke¹⁰²⁶. Now for your punishment frock. You will shed your male garments, you understand, Ruby Cohen? and don the shot silk luxuriously¹⁰²⁷ rustling¹⁰²⁸ over head and shoulders and quickly too.

BLOOM (Shrinks.) Silk, mistress said! O crinkly! scrapy! Must I tip-touch it with my nails?

BELLO (Points to his whores.) As they are now, so will you be, wigged¹⁰²⁹, singed¹⁰³⁰, perfumesprayed, ricepowdered, with smoothshaven armpits. Tape measurements will be taken next your skin. You will be laced with cruel force into vicelike corsets of soft dove coutille, with whalebone busk, to the diamond trimmed pelvis, the absolute outside edge, while your figure, plumper than when at large, will be restrained in nettight frocks, pretty two ounce petticoats and fringes and things stamped, of course, with my houseflag, creations of lovely lingerie for Alice and nice scent⁶⁵⁶ for Alice. Alice will feel the pullpull. Martha and Mary will be a little chilly¹⁰³¹ at first in such delicate thighcasing but the frilly flimsiness of lace round your bare knees will remind you...

BLOOM (A chafing¹⁰³² soubrette with dauby cheeks, mustard hair and lace male hands and nose, leering mouth.) I tried her things on only once, a small prank¹⁰³³, in Holles street. When we were hardup I washed them to save the laundry bill. My own shirts I turned. It was the purest thrift¹⁰³⁴.

BELLO (Jeers.) Little jobs that make mother pleased, eh! and showed off coquettishly in your domino at the mirror behind close-drawn blinds your unskirted thighs and hegoat's udders, in various poses of surrender, eh? Ho! Ho! I have to laugh! That secondhand black operatop shift and short trunk leg naughties all split up the stitches at her last rape⁵³⁹ that Mrs Miriam Dandrade sold you from the Shelbourne Hotel, eh?

BLOOM Miriam, Black. Demimondaine.

BELLO (Guffaws¹⁰³⁵.) Christ Almighty¹⁰³⁶, it's too tickling, this! You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade, about to be violated by Lieutenant Smythe Smythe, Mr Philip Augustus Blockwell, M.P., Signor Laci Daremo, the robust¹⁰³⁷ tenor, blueeyed Bert, the liftboy, Henry Fleury of Gordon Bennett fame, Sheridan, the quadroon Cr&Aelig;sus, the varsity wetbob eight from old Trinity, Ponto, her splendid Newfoundland and Bobs, dowager duchess of Manorhamilton. (He guffaws again.) Christ, wouldn't it make a Siamese cat laugh?

BLOOM (Her hands and features working.) It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female impersonator in the High School play Vice Versa. It was dear Gerald. He got that kink, fascinated by sister's stays. Now dearest Gerald uses pinky greasepaint and gilds¹⁰³⁸ his eyelids. Cult of the beautiful.

BELLO (With wicked glee.) Beautiful! Give us a breather! When you took your seat with womanish care, lifting your billowy flounces, on the smoothworn throne.

BLOOM Science. To compare the various joys we each enjoy. (Earnestly.) And really it's better the position... because often I used to wet.

BELLO (Sternly.) No insubordination. The sawdust is there in the corner for you. I gave you strict instructions, didn't I? Do it standing, sir! I'll teach you to behave like a jinkleman! If I catch a trace on your swaddles. Aha! By the ass of the Dorans you'll find I'm a martinet¹⁰⁴⁰. The sins of your past are rising against you. Many. Hundreds.

THE SINS OF THE PAST (In a medley¹⁰⁴¹ of voices.) He went through a form of clandestine¹⁰⁴² marriage with at least one woman in the shadow of the Black Church. Unspeakable messages he telephoned mentally to Miss Dunn at an address in d'Olier Street while he presented himself indecently to the instrument in the callbox. By word and deed he encouraged a nocturnal strumpet to deposit fecal and other matter in an unsanitary outhouse attached to empty premises. In five public conveniences he wrote pencilled messages offering his nuptial¹⁰⁴³ partner to all strongmembered males. And by the offensively smelling vitriol works did he not pass night after night by loving courting couples to see if and what and how much he could see? Did he not lie in bed, the gross boar, gloating over a nauseous fragment of wellused toilet paper presented to him by a nasty harlot, stimulated¹⁰⁴⁴ by gingerbread and a postal¹⁰⁴⁵ order?

BELLO (Whistles loudly.) Say! What was the most revolting piece of obscenity in all your career of crime? Go the whole hog. Puke it out. Be candid¹⁰⁴⁶ for once.

(Mute inhuman¹⁰⁴⁷ faces throng forward, leering, vanishing, gibbering, Eooloohoom. Poldy Hock, Bootlaces a penny, cassidy's hag, blind stripling, Larry Rhinoceros¹⁰⁴⁸, the girl, the woman, the whore, the other the... )

BLOOM Don't ask me. Our mutual faith. Pleasants street. I only thought the half of the... I swear on my sacred oath...

BELLO (Peremptorily.) Answer. Repugnant wretch¹⁰⁴⁹! I insist on knowing. Tell me something to amuse me, smut or a bloody good-ghoststory or a line of poetry, quick, quick, quick! Where? How? What time? With how many? I give you just three seconds. One! Two! Thr... !

BLOOM (Docile, gurgles.) I rererepugnosed in rerererepugnant...

BELLO (Imperiously.) O get out, you skunk¹⁰⁵⁰! Hold your tongue! Speak when you're spoken to.

BLOOM (Bows.) Master! Mistress! Mantamer!

(He lifts his arms. His bangle bracelets fall.)

BELLO (Satirically.) By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes, also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail. Won't that be nice? (He places a ruby ring on her finger.) And there now! With this ring I thee own. Say, thank you, mistress.

BLOOM Thank you, mistress.

BELLO You will make the beds, get my tub ready, empty the pisspots in the different rooms, including old Mrs Keogh's the cook's, a sandy one. Ay, and rinse¹⁰⁵¹ the seven of them well, mind, or lap it up like champagne. Drink me piping hot. Hop¹⁰⁶! you will dance attendance or I'll lecture you on your misdeeds, Miss Ruby, and spank⁴⁹⁰ your bare bot right well, miss, with the hairbrush. You'll be taught the error of your ways. At night your wellcreamed braceleted hands will wear fortythreebutton gloves newpowdered with talc and having delicately scented¹⁰⁵² fingertips. For such favours knights¹⁰⁵⁴ of old laid down their lives. (He chuckles¹⁰⁵⁵.) My boys will be no end charmed to see you so ladylike, the colonel, above all. When they come here the night before the wedding to fondle my new attraction in gilded¹⁰⁵⁶ heels. First, I'll have a go at you myself. A man I know on the turf named Charles Alberta Marsh⁶¹⁵ (I was in bed with him just now and another gentleman out of the Hanaper and Petty Bag office) is on the lookout¹⁰⁵⁷ for a maid of all work at a short knock. Swell⁴⁶⁹ the bust¹⁵⁹. Smile. Droop¹⁸² shoulders. What offers? (He points.) For that lot trained by owner to fetch and carry, basket in mouth. (He bares his arm and plunges it elbowdeep in Bloom's vulva.) There's fine depth for you! What, boys? That give you a hardon? (He shoves his arm in a bidder¹⁰⁵⁸'s face.) Here, wet the deck and wipe it round!

A BIDDER A florin!

(Dillon's lacquey rings his handbell.)

A VOICE One and eightpence too much.

THE LACQUEY Barang!

CHARLES ALBERTA MARSH Must be virgin. Good breath. Clean.

BELLO (Gives a rap with his gavel.) Two bar. Rockbottom figure and cheap at the price. Fourteen hands high. Touch and examine his points. Handle him. This downy skin, these soft muscles, this tender flesh. If I had only my gold piercer here! And quite easy to milk. Three newlaid gallons a day. A pure stock getter, due to lay within the hour. His sire's milk record was a thousand gallons of whole milk in forty weeks. Whoa, my jewel! Beg up! Whoa! (He brands his initial Con Bloom's croup.) So! Warranted Cohen! What advance on two bob, gentlemen?

A DARKVISAGED MAN (In disguised accent.) Hoondert punt sterlink.

VOICES (Subdued.) For the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid.

BELLO (Gaily.) Right. Let them all come. The scanty¹⁰⁵⁹, daringly short skirt, riding up at the knee to show a peep of white pantalette, is a potent weapon and transparent¹⁰⁶¹ stockings, emeraldgartered, with the long straight seam trailing up beyond the knee, appeal to the better instincts of the blasé man about town. Learn the smooth mincing¹⁰⁶² walk on four inch Louis XV heels, the Grecian bend with provoking croup, the thighs fluescent, knees modestly kissing. Bring all your power of fascination¹⁰⁶³ to bear on them. Pander¹⁰⁶⁴ to their Gomorrahan vices¹⁰⁶⁵.

BLOOM (Bends his blushing face into his armpit and simpers with forefinger in mouth.) O, I know what you're hinting at now.

BELLO What else are you good for, an impotent thing like you? (He stoops and, peering, pokes with his fan rudely under the fat suetfolds of Bloom's haunches.) Up! Up! Manx cat! What have we here? Where's your curly teapot gone to or who docked it on you, cockyolly? Sing, birdy, sing. It's as limp as a boy of six's doing his pooly behind a cart. Buy a bucket or sell your pump. (Loudly.) Can you do a man's job?

BLOOM Eccles Street.

BELLO (Sarcastically.) I wouldn't hurt your feelings for the world but there's a man of brawn¹⁰⁶⁶ in possession there. The tables are turned, my gay young fellow! He is something like a fullgrown outdoor man. Well for you, you muff, if you had that weapon with knobs and lumps and warts all over it. He shot his bolt, I can tell you! Foot to foot, knee to knee, belly to belly, bubs to breast! He's no eunuch. A shock of red hair he has sticking out of him behind like a furzebush! Wait for nine months, my lad! Holy ginger, it's kicking and coughing up and down in her guts¹⁰⁶⁷ already! That makes you wild, don't it? Touches the spot? (He spits in contempt.) Spittoon!

BLOOM I was indecently treated, I... inform the police. Hundred pounds. Unmentionable. I.

BELLO Would if you could, lame⁴⁴⁸ duck. A downpour we want, not your drizzle¹⁰⁶⁸.

BLOOM To drive me mad! Moll! I forgot! Forgive! Moll!... We... Still...

BELLO (Ruthlessly.) No, Leopold Bloom, all is changed by woman's will since you slept horizontal in Sleepy Hollow your night of twenty years. Return and see.

(Old Sleepy Hollow calls over the wold.)

SLEEPY HOLLOW Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!

BLOOM (In tattered¹⁰⁶⁹ moccasins with a rusty¹⁰⁷⁰ fowlingpiece, tip toeing, fingertipping, his haggard bony bearded face peering through the diamond panes¹⁰⁷¹, cries out.) I see her! It's she! The first night at Mat Dillon's! But that dress, the green! And her hair is dyed gold and he.

BELLO (Laughs mockingly.) That's your daughter, you owl⁷, with a Mullingar student.

(Milly Bloom, fairhaired, greenvested, slimsandalled, her bluescab in the seawind simply swirling¹⁰⁷², breaks from the arms of her lover and calls, her young eyes wonderwide.)

MILLY My! It's Papli! But. O Papli, how old you've grown!

BELLO Changed, eh? Our whatnot, our writing table where we never wrote, Aunt Hegarty's armchair, our classic reprints of old masters. A man and his men friends are living there in clover. The Cuckoos' Rest! Why not? How many women had you, say? Following them up dark streets, flatfoot, exciting them by your smothered grunts¹⁰⁷³. What, you male prostitute? Blameless dames with parcels of groceries. Turn about. Sauce for the goose, my gander, O.

BLOOM They... I

BELLO (Cuttingly.) Their heelmarks will stamp the Brusselette carpet you bought at Wren's auction¹⁰⁷⁴. In their horseplay with Moll the romp³⁵⁹ to find the buck flea¹⁰⁷⁵ in her breeches they will deface the little statue you carried home in the rain for art for art's sake. They will violate the secrets of your bottom drawer. Pages will be torn from your handbook of astronomy to make them pipespills. And they will spit in your ten shilling brass fender from Hampton Leedom's.

BLOOM Ten and six. The act of low scoundrels. Let me go. I will return. I will prove...

A VOICE Swear!

(Bloom clenches¹⁰⁷⁶ his fists and crawls forward, a bowie knife between his teeth.)

BELLO As a paying guest or a kept man? Too late. You have made your secondbest bed and others must lie in it. Your epitaph is written. You are down and out and don't you forget it, old bean.

BLOOM Justice! All Ireland versus one! Has nobody... ?

(He bites his thumb.)

BELLO Die and be damned to you if you have any sense of decency¹⁰⁷⁷ or grace about you. I can give you a rare old wine that'll send you skipping to hell and back. Sign a will and leave us any coin you have. If you have none see you damn well get it, steal it, rob it! We'll bury you in our shrubbery jakes where you'll be dead and dirty with old Cuck Cohen, my stepnephew I married, the bloody old gouty procurator and sodomite with a crick in his neck, and my other ten or eleven husbands, what ever the buggers' names were, suffocated¹⁰⁷⁸ in the one cess pool. (He explodes in a loud phlegmy laugh.) We'll manure¹⁰⁷⁹ you, Mr Flower! (He pipes scoffingly¹⁰⁸⁰.) Byby, Poldy! Byby, Papli!

BLOOM (Clasps his head.) My will power! Memory! I have sinned! I have suff... (He weeps tearlessly.)

BELLO (Sneers.) Crybabby! Crocodile tears!

(Bloom, broken, closely veiled for the sacrifice, sobs¹⁰⁸², his face to the earth. The passing bell is heard. Darkshawled figures of the circumcised, in sackcloth and ashes, stand by the wailing¹⁰⁸³ wall. M. Shulomowitz, Joseph Goldwater Moses Herzog, Harris Rosenberg, M. Moisel, J. Citron, Minnie Watchman, 0. Mastiansky, the Reverend Leopold Abramovitz, Chazen. With swaying arms they wail⁴⁰ in pneuma over the recreant¹⁰⁸⁴ Bloom.)

THE CIRCUMCISED (In a dark guttural chant as they cast dead sea fruit upon him, no flowers.) Shema Israel Adonai Elohenu Adonai Echad.

VOICES (Sighing.) So he's gone. Ah, yes. Yes, indeed. Bloom? Never heard of him. No? Queer kind of chap. There's the widow. That so? Ah, yes.

(From the suttee pyre the flame of gum camphire ascends. The pall of incense¹⁰⁸⁵ smoke screens and disperses¹⁰⁸⁶. Out of her oak frame a nymph with hair unbound, lightly clad in teabrown art colours, descends from her grotto¹⁰⁸⁷ and passing under interlacing yews¹⁰⁸⁸, stands over Bloom.)

THE YEWS (Their leaves whispering.) Sister. Our sister. Ssh.

THE NYMPH (Softly.) Mortal! (Kindly.) Nay, dost not weepest!

BLOOM (Crawls jellily forward under the boughs¹⁰⁸⁹, streaked¹⁰⁹⁰ by sunlight, with dignity.) This position. I felt it was expected of me. Force of habit.

THE NYMPH Mortal! You found me in evil company, high kickers, coster picnic makers⁶²⁶, pugilists, popular generals, immoral¹⁰⁹¹ panto boys in flesh tights and the nifty shimmy dancers, La Aurora and Karini, musical act, the hit of the century. I was hidden in cheap pink paper that smelt¹⁰⁹² of rock oil. I was surrounded by the stale smut of clubmen, stories to disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary¹⁰⁹³ articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured¹⁰⁹⁴ gentleman. Useful hints to the married.

BLOOM (Lifts a turtle head towards her lap.) We have met before. On another star.

THE NYMPH (Sadly.) Rubber goods. Neverrip. Brand as sup plied¹⁰⁹⁵ to the aristocracy. Corsets for men. I cure fits or money refunded¹⁰⁹⁶. Unsolicited testimonials for Professor Waldmann's wonderful chest exuber. My bust developed four inches in three weeks, reports Mrs Gus Rublin with photo.

BLOOM You mean Photo Bits?

THE NYMPH I do. You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch. Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame.

BLOOM (Humbly kisses her long hair.) Your classic curves, beautiful immortal¹⁰⁹⁷. I was glad to look on you, to praise you, a thing of beauty, almost to pray.

THE NYMPH During dark nights I heard your praise.

BLOOM (Quickly.) Yes, yes. You mean that I... Sleep reveals the worst side of everyone, children perhaps excepted. I know I fell out of my bed or rather was pushed. Steel wine is said to cure snoring. For the rest there is that English invention, pamphlet of which I received some days ago, incorrectly addressed. It claims to afford a noiseless inoffensive vent⁸⁵. (He sighs.) 'Twas ever thus. Frailty¹⁰⁹⁸, thy name is marriage.

THE NYMPH (Her fingers in her ears.) And words. They are not in my dictionary.

BLOOM You understood them?

THE YEWS Ssh.

THE NYMPH (Covers her face with her hand.) What have I not seen in that chamber? What must my eyes look down on?

BLOOM (Apologetically.) I know. Soiled personal linen⁷⁸³, wrong side up with care. The quoits are loose. From Gibraltar by long sea, long ago.

THE NYMPH (Bends her head.) Worse! Worse!

BLOOM (Reflects precautiously.) That antiquated¹⁰⁹⁹ commode. It wasn't her weight. She scaled just eleven stone nine. She put on nine pounds after weaning. It was a crack and want of glue. Eh? And that absurd orangekeyed utensil¹¹⁰⁰ which has only one handle.

(The sound of a waterfall is heard in bright cascade¹¹⁰¹.)

THE WATERFALL

Poulaphouca Poulaphouca
Poulaphouca Poulaphouca.
THE YEWS (Mingling their boughs.) Listen. Whisper. She is right, our sister. We grew by Poulaphouca waterfall. We gave shade on languorous¹¹⁰² summer days.
JOHN WYSE NOLAN (In the background, in Irish National For ester's uniform, doffs¹¹⁰³ his plumed hat.) Prosper¹¹⁰⁴! Give shade on languorous days, trees of Ireland!

THE YEWS (Murmuring.) Who came to Poulaphouca with the high school excursion? Who left his nutquesting classmates to seek our shade?

BLOOM (Pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript juvenile¹¹⁰⁵ grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings with turnover¹¹⁰⁶ tops, and a red school cap with badge.) I was in my teens, a growing boy. A little then sufficed, a jolting¹¹⁰⁷ car, the mingling odours of the ladies' cloakroom and lavatory¹¹⁰⁸, the throng penned tight on the old Royal stairs, for they love crushes, instincts of the herd²⁵⁹, and the dark sexsmelling theatre unbridles vice. Even a pricelist of their hosiery. And then the heat. There were sunspots that summer. End of school. And tipsycake. Halcyon¹¹⁰⁹ days.

(Halcyon Days, high school boys in blue and white football jerseys¹¹¹¹ and shorts, Master Donald Turnbull, Master Abraham Chatterton, Master Owen Goldberg, Master Jack Meredith, Master Percy Apjohn, stand in a clearing of the trees and shout to Master Leopold Bloom.)

THE HALCYON DAYS Mackerel! Live us again. Hurray!

(They cheer.)

BLOOM (Hobbledehoy, warmgloved, mammamufflered, stunned¹¹¹² with spent snowballs, struggles to rise.) Again! I feel sixteen! What a lark¹¹¹³! Let's ring all the bells in Montague Street. (He cheers feebly.) Hurray for the High School!

THE ECHO Fool!

THE YEWS (Rustling.) She is right, our sister. Whisper. (Whispered kisses are heard in all the wood. Faces of hamadryads peep out from the boles and among the leaves and break blossoming into bloom.) Who profaned¹¹¹⁴ our silent shade?

THE NYMPH (Coyly through parting fingers.) There! In the open air?

THE YEWS (Sweeping downward.) Sister, yes. And on our virgin sward.

THE WATERFALL

Poulaphouca Poulaphouca
Phoucaphouca Phoucaphouca.
THE NYMPH (With wide fingers.) O! Infamy!
BLOOM I was precocious. Youth. The fauns. I sacrificed to the god of the forest. The flowers that bloom in the spring. It was pairing time. Capillary¹¹¹⁵ attraction is a natural phenomenon. Lotty Clarke, flaxenhaired, I saw at her night toilette through ill-closed curtains, with poor papa's operaglasses. The wanton ate grass wildly. She rolled downhill at Rialto Bridge to tempt¹⁵⁶ me with her flow of animal spirits. She climbed their crooked²¹¹ tree and I... A saint couldn't resist it. The demon¹¹¹⁶ possessed me. Besides, who saw?

(Staggering Bob, a whitepolled calf⁹³⁵ thrusts a ruminating¹¹¹⁷ head with humid nostrils through the foliage¹¹¹⁸.)

STAGGERING BOB Me. Me see.

BLOOM Simply satisfying a need. (With pathos¹¹¹⁹.) No girl would when I went girling. Too ugly. They wouldn't play.

(High on Ben Howth through rhododendrons a nannygoat passes, plumpuddered, buttytailed, dropping curvants.)

THE NANNYGOAT (Bleats.) Megegaggegg! Nannannanny!

BLOOM (Hatless, flushed, covered with burn of thistledown and gotrepine.) Regularly engaged. Circumstances alter cases. (He gazes intently downwards on the water.) Thirtytwo head over heels per second. Press nightmare. Giddy Elijah. Fall from cliff. Sad end of government printer's clerk. (Through silversilent summer air the dummy¹¹²⁰ of Bloom, rolled in a mummy, rolls rotatingly from the Lion's Head cliff into the purple Waiting waters.)

THE DUMMYMUMMY Bbbbblllllbbblblodschbg?

(Far out in the bay between Bailey and Kish lights the Erin's King sails, sending a broadening plume⁹²¹ of coalsmoke from her funnel towards the land.)

COUNCILLOR NANNETI (Alone on deck, in dark alpaca, yellow kitefaced, his hand in his waistcoat opening, declaims.) When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then let my epitaph be written. I have...

BLOOM Done. Prff.

THE NYMPH (Loftily.) We immortals¹¹²¹, as you saw today, have not such a place and no hair there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light. (She arches her body in lascivious¹¹²² crispation, placing her forefinger in her mouth.) Spoke¹²⁸ to me. Heard from behind. How then could you... ?

BLOOM (Pacing the heather abjectly¹¹²³.) O, I have been a perfect pig. Enemas too I have administered. One third of a pint¹¹²⁴ of quassia, to which add a tablespoonful of rocksalt. Up the fundament. With Hamilton Long's syringe, the ladies' friend.

THE NYMPH In my presence. The powderpuff. (She blushes and makes a knee.) And the rest.

BLOOM (Dejected.) Yes. Peccavi! I have paid homage on that living altar where the back changes name. (With sudden fervour.) For why should the dainty scented jewelled hand, the hand that rules... ?

(Figures wind serpenting in slow woodland pattern around the treestems, cooeeing.)

THE VOICE OF KITTY (In the thicket¹¹²⁵.) Show us one of them cushions.

THE VOICE OF FLORRY Here.

(A grouse¹¹²⁶ wings clumsily through the underwood.)

THE VOICE OF LYNCH (In the thicket.) Whew! Piping hot!

THE VOICE OF ZOE (From the thicket.) Came from a hot place.

THE VOICE OF VIRAG (A birdchief bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply¹¹²⁷ with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns¹¹²⁸.) Hot! Hot! Ware¹³⁷ Sitting Bull!

BLOOM It overpowers me. The warm impress of her warm form. Even to sit where a woman has sat, especially with divaricated thighs, as though to grant the last favours, most especially with previously¹¹²⁹ well uplifted white sateen coatpans. So womanly full. It fills me full.

THE WATERFALL

Phillaphulla Poulaphouca
Poulaphouca Poulaphouca.
THE YEWS Ssh! Sister, speak!
THE NYMPH (Eyeless, in nun¹⁹²'s white habit, coif and huge winged wimple, softly, with remote eyes.) Tranquilia convent. Sister Agatha. Mount Carmel, the apparitions¹¹³⁰ of Knock and Lourdes. No more desire. (She reclines her head, sighing.) Only the ethereal. Where dreamy creamy gull waves o'er the waters dull.

(Bloom half rises. His back trousers button snaps.)

THE BUTTON Bip!

(Two sluts of the Coombe dance rainily by, shawled, yelling flatly.)

THE SLUTS

O Leopold lost the pin of his drawers
He didn't know what to do,
To keep it up,
To keep it up.
BLOOM (Coldly.) You have broken the spell. The last straw. If there were only ethereal where would you all be, postulants and novices¹¹³¹? Shy but willing, like an ass pissing.
THE YEWS (Their silverfoil of leaves precipitating¹¹³², their skinny arms ageing and swaying.) Deciduously!

THE NYMPH Sacrilege! To attempt my virtue! (A large moist stain appears on her robe.) Sully my innocence! You are not fit to touch the garment of a pure woman. (She clutches in her robe.) Wait, Satan. You'll sing no more lovesongs. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. (She draws a poniard and, clad in the sheathmail of an elected knight¹⁰⁵³ of nine, strikes at his loins.) Nekum!

BLOOM (Starts up, seizes her hand.) Hoy! Nebrakada! Cat of nine lives! Fair play, madam. No pruning¹¹³³ knife. The fox and the grapes, is it? What do we lack with your barbed wire? Crucifix not thick enough? (He clutches her veil.) A holy abbot you want or Brophy, the lame gardener, or the spoutless¹¹³⁴ statue of the watercarrier or good Mother Alphonsus, eh Reynard?

THE NYMPH (With a cry, flees from him unveiled, her plaster cast cracking, a cloud of stench escaping from the cracks.) Poli... !

BLOOM (Calls after her.) As if you didn't get it on the double yourselves. No jerks and multiple mucosities all over you. I tried it. Your strength our weakness. What's our stud fee? What will you pay on the nail? You fee men dancers on the Riviera, I read. (The fleeing nymph raises a keen.) Eh! I have sixteen years of black slave labour behind me. And would a jury give me five shillings alimony tomorrow, eh? Fool someone else, not me. (He sniffs.) But. Onions. Stale. Sulphur. Grease.

(The figure of Bella Cohen stands before him.)

BELLA You'll know me the next time.

BLOOM (Composed, regards her.) Passée. Mutton dressed as lamb. Lone²⁰⁶ in the tooth and superfluous¹¹³⁵ hairs. A raw onion the last thing at night would benefit your complexion¹¹³⁶. And take some double chin drill. Your eyes are as vapid¹¹³⁷ as the glass eyes of your stuffed fox. They have the dimensions of your other features, that's all. I'm not a triple screw propeller¹¹³⁸.

BELLA (Contemptuously.) You're not game, in fact. (Her sowcunt barks.) Fohracht!

BLOOM (Contemptuously.) Clean your nailless middle finger first, the cold spunk¹¹³⁹ of your bully¹¹⁴⁰ is dripping from your cockscomb. Take a handful of hay and wipe yourself.

BELLA I know you, canvasser! Dead cod!

BLOOM I saw him, kipkeeper! Pox and gleet vendor¹¹⁴¹!

BELLA (Turns to the piano.) Which of you was playing the dead march from Saul?

ZOE Me. Mind your cornflowers. (She darts to the piano and bangs chords on it with crossed arms.) The cat's ramble³⁵ through the slag¹¹⁴². (She glances back.) Eh? Who's making love to my sweeties? (She darts back to the table.) What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

(Kitty disconcerted coats her teeth with the silver paper. Bloom approaches Zoe.)

BLOOM (Gently.) Give me back that potato, will you? Zoe Forfeits¹¹⁴³, a fine thing and a superfine thing.

BLOOM (With feeling.) It is nothing, but still a relic¹¹⁴⁴ of poor mamma.

ZOE

Give a thing and take it back
God'll ask you where is that
You'll say you don't know
God'll send you down below.
BLOOM There is a memory attached to it. I should like to have it.
STEPHEN To have or not to have, that is the question.

ZOE Here. (She hauls up a reef of her slip, revealing her bare thigh and unrolls the potato from the top of her stocking.) Those that hides knows where to find.

BELLA (Frowns.) Here. This isn't a musical peepshow. And don't you smash that piano. Who's paying here?

(She goes to the pianola. Stephen fumbles in his pocket and, taking out a banknote by its corner, hands it to her.)

STEPHEN (With exaggerated politeness.) This silken purse I made out of the sow's ear of the public. Madam, excuse me. If you allow me. (He indicates vaguely Lynch and Bloom.) We are all in the same sweepstake, Kinch and Lynch. Dans ce bordel où tenons nostre état.

LYNCH (Calls from the hearth.) Dedalus! Give her your blessing¹¹⁴⁶ for me.

STEPHEN (Hands Bella a coin.) Gold. She has it.

BELLA (Looks at the money, then at Zoe, Florry and Kitty.) Do you want three girls? It's ten shillings here.

STEPHEN (Delightedly.) A hundred thousand apologies. (He fumbles again and takes out and hands her two crowns.) Permit, brevi manu, my sight is somewhat troubled.

(Bella goes to the table to count the money while Stephen talks to himself in monosyllables. Zoe bounds over to the table. Kitty leans over Zoe's neck. Lynch gets up, rights his cap and, clasping Kitty's waist, adds his head to the group.)

FLORRY (Strives heavily to rise.) Ow! My foot's asleep. (She limps over to the table. Bloom approaches.)

BELLA, ZOE. KITTY, LYNCH, BLOOM (Chattering and squabbling.) The gentleman... ten shillings... paying for the three allow me a moment... this gentleman pays separate who's touching it?... ow... mind who you're pinching... are you staying the night or a short time? who did?... you're a liar, excuse me... the gentle man paid down like a gentleman... drink... it's long after eleven.

STEPHEN (At the pianola, making a gesture of abhorrence¹¹⁴⁷.) No bottles! What, eleven? A riddle⁶³⁰.

ZOE (Lifting up her pettigown and folding a half sovereign into the top of her stocking.) Hard earned on the flat of my back.

LYNCH (Lifting Kitty from the table.) Come!

KITTY Wait. (She clutches the two crowns.)

FLORRY And me?

LYNCH Hoopla! (He lifts her carries her and bumps her down on the sofa.)

STEPHEN The fox crew, the cocks flew, The bells in heaven Were striking eleven. 'Tis time for her poor soul To get out of heaven.

BLOOM (Quietly lays a half sovereign on the table between Bella and Florry.) So. Allow me. (He takes up the pound note.) Three times ten. We're square.

BELLA (Admiringly.) You're such a slyboots, old cocky. I could kiss you.

ZOE (Points.) Hum? Deep as a drawwell. (Lynch bends Kitty back over the sofa and kisses her. Bloom goes with the poundnote to Stephen.)

BLOOM This is yours.

STEPHEN How is that? Le distrait¹¹⁴⁸ or absentminded beggar. (He fumbles again in his pocket and draws out a handful of coins. An object falls.) That fell.

BLOOM (Stooping, picks up and hands a box of matches.) This.

STEPHEN Lucifer. Thanks.

BLOOM (Quietly.) You had better hand over that cash to me to take care of. Why pay more?

STEPHEN (Hands him all his coins.) Be just before you are generous.

BLOOM I will but is it wise? (He counts.) One, seven, eleven, and five. Six. Eleven. I don't answer for what you may have lost.

STEPHEN Why striking eleven? Proparoxyton. Moment before the next Lessing says. Thirsty fox. (He laughs loudly.) Burying his grandmother. Probably he killed her.

BLOOM That is one pound six and eleven. One pound seven, say.

STEPHEN Doesn't matter a rambling¹¹⁴⁹ damn.

BLOOM No, but...

STEPHEN (Comes to the table.) Cigarette, please. (Lynch tosses a cigarette from the sofa to the table.) And so Georgina Johnson is dead and married. (A cigarette appears on the table. Stephen looks at it.) Wonder. Parlour magic. Married. Hm. (He strikes a match and proceeds to light the cigarette with enigmatic melancholy.)

LYNCH (Watching him.) You would have a better chance of lighting¹¹⁵⁰ it if you held the match nearer.

STEPHEN (Brings the match nearer his eye.) Lynx eye. Must get glasses. Broke them yesterday. Sixteen years ago. Distance. The eye sees all flat. (He draws the match away. It goes out.) Brain thinks. Near: far. Ineluctable modality of the visible. (He frowns mysteriously.) Hm. Sphinx. The beast that has two backs at midnight. Married.

ZOE It was a commercial traveller married her and took her away with him.

FLORRY (Nods.) Mr Lambe from London.

STEPHEN Lamb of London, who takest away the sins of our world.

LYNCH (Embracing Kitty on the sofa, chants deeply.) Dona nobis pacem. (The cigarette slips from Stephens fingers. Bloom picks it up and throws it into the grate.)

BLOOM Don't smoke. You ought to eat. Cursed dog I met. (To Zoe.) You have nothing?

ZOE Is he hungry?

STEPHEN (Extends his hand to her smiling and chants to the air of the bloodoath in the Dusk of the Gods.)

Hangende Hunger,
Fragende Frau,
Macht uns alle kaput.
ZOE (Tragically.) Hamlet, I am thy father's gimlet! (She takes his hand.) Blue eyed beauty, I'll read your hand. (She points to his forehead.) No wit, no wrinkles. (She counts.) Two, three, Mars, that's courage. (Stephen shakes his head.) No kid.
LYNCH Sheet lightning courage. The youth who could not shiver and shake. (To Zoe.) Who taught you palmistry?

ZOE (Turns.) Ask my ballocks that I haven't got. (To Stephen.) I see it in your face. The eye, like that. (She frowns with lowered head.)

LYNCH (Laughing, slaps Kitty behind twice.) Like that. Pandy bat.

(Twice loudly a pandybat cracks, the coffin¹⁰⁸¹ of the pianola flies open, the bald little round jack-in-the-box head of Father Dolan springs up.)

FATHER DOLAN Any boy want flogging? Broke his glasses? Lazy idle little schemer. See it in your eye.

(Mild, benign¹¹⁵², rectorial, reproving, the head of Don John Conmee rises from the pianola coffin.)

DON JOHN CONMEE Now, Father Dolan! Now. I'm sure that Stephen is a very good little boy.

ZOE (Examining Stephen's palm.) Woman's hand.

STEPHEN (Murmurs.) Continue. Lie. Hold me. Caress⁵⁸¹. I never could read His handwriting except His criminal thumbprint on the haddock.

ZOE What day were you born?

STEPHEN Thursday. Today.

ZOE Thursday's child has far to go. (She traces lines on his hand.) Line of fate. Influential¹¹⁵³ friends.

FLORRY (Pointing.) Imagination.

ZOE Mount of the moon. You'll meet with a... (She peers at his hands abruptly.) I won't tell you what's not good for you. Or do you want to know?

BLOOM (Detaches her fingers and offers his palm.) More harm than good. Here. Read mine.

BELLA Show. (She turns up Bloom's hand.) I thought so. Knobby knuckles¹¹⁵⁴, for the women.

ZOE (Peering at Bloom's palm.) Gridiron. Travels beyond the sea and marry money.

BLOOM Wrong.

ZOE (Quickly.) O, I see. Short little finger. Henpecked husband. That wrong?

(Black Liz, a huge rooster hatching in a chalked circle, rises, stretches her wings and clucks.)

BLACK LIZ Gara. Klook. Klook. Klook.

(She sidles from her newlaid egg and waddles¹⁰³⁹ off.)

BLOOM (Points to his hand.) That weal there is an accident. Fell and cut it twenty-two years ago. I was sixteen.

ZOE I see, says the blind man. Tell us news.

STEPHEN See? Moves to one great goal. I am twenty two too. Sixteen years ago I twentytwo tumbled, twentytwo years ago he sixteen fell off his hobbyhorse. (He winces.) Hurt my hand somewhere. Must see a dentist. Money?

(Zoe whispers to Florry. They giggle¹¹⁵⁵. Bloom releases his hand and writes idly on the table in backhand, pencilling slow curves.)

FLORRY What?

(A hackneycar number three hundred and twentyfour, with a gallantbuttocked mare, driven by James Barton, Harmony Avenue, Donnybrook, trots¹¹⁵⁶ past. Blazes Boylan and Lenehan sprawl swaying on the sideseats. The Ormond boots crouches behind on the axle. Sadly over the crossblind Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy gaze.)

THE BOOTS (Jogging, mocks them with thumb and wriggling wormfingers.) Haw, haw, have you the horn?

(Bronze by gold they whisper.)

ZOE (To Florry.) Whisper.

(They whisper again.)

(Over the well of the car Blazes Boylan leans, his boater straw set sideways, a red flower in his mouth. Lenehan, in a yachtsman's cap and white shoes, officiously detaches a long hair from Blazes Boylan s shoulder.)

LENEHAN Ho! What do I here behold¹¹⁵⁷? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?

BOYLAN (Seated, smiles.) Plucking a turkey.

LENEHAN A good night's work.

BOYLAN (Holding up four thick bluntungulated fingers, winks.) Blazes Kate! Up to sample or your money back. (He holds out a forefinger.) Smell that.

LENEHAN (Smells gleefully.) Ah! Lobster¹¹⁵⁸ and mayonnaise. Ah!

ZOE AND FLORRY (Laugh together.) Ha ha ha ha.

BOYLAN bumps surely from the car and calls loudly for all to hear. ) Hello, Bloom! Mrs Bloom up yet?

BLOOM (In a flunkey's plum plush coat and kneebreeches, buff stockings and powdered wig.) I'm afraid not, sir, the last articles...

BOYLAN (Tosses him sixpence.) Here, to buy yourself a gin and splash. (He hangs his hat smartly on a peg³³⁹ of Bloom's antlered head.) Show me in. I have a little private business with your wife. You understand?

BLOOM Thank you, sir. Yes, sir, Madam Tweedy is in her bath, sir.

MARION He ought to feel himself highly honoured. (She plops splashing out of the water.) Raoul, darling, come and dry me. I'm in my pelt¹¹⁵⁹. Only my new hat and a carriage sponge.

BOYLAN (A merry twinkle in his eye.) Topping!

BELLA What? What is it?

(Zoe whispers to her.)

MARION Let him look, the pishogue! Pimp! And scourge himself! I'll write to a powerful prostitute or Bartholomona, the bearded woman, to raise weals out on him an inch thick and make him bring me back a signed and stamped receipt.

BELLA (Laughing.) Ho ho ho ho.

BOYLAN (To Bloom, over his shoulder.) You can apply your eye to the keyhole and play with yourself while I just go through her a few times.

BLOOM Thank you, sir, I will, sir. May I bring two men chums to witness the deed and take a snapshot? (He holds an ointment¹¹⁶⁰ jar.) Vaseline, sir? Orangeflower?... Lukewarm water?...

KITTY (From the sofa.) Tell us, Florry. Tell us. What.

(Florry whispers to her. Whispering lovewords murmur lip-lapping loudly, poppysmic plopslop.)

MINA KENNEDY (Her eyes upturned.) O, it must be like the scent of geraniums and lovely peaches! O, he simply idolises every bit of her! Stuck together! Covered with kisses!

LYDIA DOUCE (Her mouth opening.) Yumyum. O, he's carrying her round the room doing it! Ride a cock horse. You could hear them in Paris and New York. Like mouthfuls of strawberries and cream.

KITTY (Laughing.) Hee hee hee.

BOYLAN'S VOICE (Sweetly, hoarsely, in the pit of his stomach.) Ah! Gooblazqruk brukarchkrasht!

MARION'S VOICE (Hoarsely, sweetly rising to her throat.) O! Weeshwashtkissima, pooisthnapoohuck!

BLOOM (His eyes wildly dilated¹¹⁶¹, clasps himself) Show! Hide! Show! Plough her! More! Shoot!

BELLA, ZOE, FLORRY. KITTY Ho ho! Ha ha! Hee hee!

LYNCH (Points.) The mirror up to nature. (He laughs.) Hu hu hu hu hu hu.

(Stephen and Bloom gaze in the mirror. The face of William Shakespeare, beardless, appears there, rigid in facial paralysis¹¹⁶², crowned by the reflection of the reindeer¹¹⁶³ antlered hatrack in the hall.)

SHAKESPEARE (In dignified¹¹⁶⁴ ventriloquy.) 'Tis the loud laugh bespeaks¹¹⁶⁵ the vacant mind. (To Bloom.) Thou thoughtest as how thou wastest invisible. Gaze. (He crows with a black capon's laugh.) Iagogo! How my Oldfellow chokit his Thursdaymomun. Iagogogo!

BLOOM (Smiles yellowly at the whores.) When will I hear the joke?

ZOE Before you're twice married and once a widower.

BLOOM Lapses are condoned¹¹⁶⁶. Even the great Napoleon, when measurements were taken near the skin after his death...

(Mrs Dignam, widow woman, her snubnose and cheeks flushed with deathtalk, tears and Tunny's tawny sherry, hurries by in her weeds, her bonnet¹¹⁶⁷ awry¹¹⁶⁸, rouging¹¹⁶⁹ and powdering her cheeks, lips and nose, a pen chivvying her brood of cygnets. Beneath her skirt appear her late husband's everyday trousers and turnedup boots, lace eights. She holds a Scottish widow's insurance policy and lace marqueeumbrella under which her brood runs with her, Patsy hopping³⁷⁸ on one short foot, his collar loose, a hank of porksteaks dangling, Freddy whimpering, Susy with a crying cods¹¹⁷⁰ mouth, Alice struggling with the baby. She cuffs⁴⁶⁰ them on, her streamers flaunting¹¹⁷¹ aloft.)

FREDDY Ah, ma, you're dragging me along!

SUSY Mamma, the beeftea is fizzing over!

SHAKESPEARE (With paralytic¹¹⁷² rage.) Weda seca whokilla farst.

(The face of Martin Cunningham, bearded, refeatures Shakespeares beardless face. The marqueeumbrella sways drunkenly, the children run aside. Under the umbrella appears Mrs Cunningham in Merry Widow hat and kimono gown. She glides sidling and bowing, twisting japanesily.)

MRS CUNNINGHAM (Sings.) And they call me the jewel of Asia.

MARTIN CUNNINGHAM

(Gazes on her impassive.) Immense! Most bloody awful demirep!

STEPHEN Et exaltabuntur cornua iusti. Queens lay with prize bulls. Remember Pasiphae for whose lust my grandoldgross father made the first confessionbox. Forget not Madam Grissel Steevens nor the suine scions¹¹⁷³ of the house of Lambert. And Noah was drunk with wine. And his ark was open.

BELLA None of that here. Come to the wrong shop.

LYNCH Let him alone. He's back from Paris.

ZOE (Runs to Stephen and links him.) O go on! Give us some parleyvoo.

(Stephen claps hat on head and leaps over to the fireplace, where he stands with shrugged¹¹⁷⁴ shoulders, finny hands outspread, a painted smile on his face.)

LYNCH (Pommelling on the sofa.) Rmm Rmm Rmm Rrr rrrmmmmm.

STEPHEN (Gobbles, with marionette jerks. ) Thousand places of entertainment to expenses your evenings with lovely ladies saling gloves and other things perhaps her heart beerchops perfect fashionable house very eccentric where lots cocottes beautiful dressed much about princesses like are dancing cancan and walking there parisian clowneries extra foolish for bachelors foreigns the same if talking a poor english how much smart they are on things love and sensations voluptuous¹¹⁷⁵. Misters very selects for is pleasure must to visit heaven and hell show with mortuary candles and they tears silver which occur every night. Perfectly shocking terrific of religion's things mockery seen in universal world. All chic¹¹⁷⁶ womans which arrive full of modesty then disrobe and squeal⁹³² loud to see vampire¹¹⁷⁷ man debauch⁷²² nun very fresh young with dessous troublants. (He clocks his tongue loudly.) Ho, la la! Ce pif qu'il a!

LYNCH Vive le vampire!

THE WHORES Bravo! Parleyvoo!

STEPHEN (Grimacing with head back, laughs loudly, clapping himself) Great success of laughing. Angels much prostitutes like and holy apostles big damn ruffians. Demimondaines nicely handsome sparkling of diamonds very amiable¹¹⁷⁸ cos turned. Or do you are fond better what belongs they moderns pleasure turpitude¹¹⁷⁹ of old mans? (He points about him with grotesque gestures which Lynch and the whores reply to.) Caoutchouc statue woman reversible or lifesize tompeeptoms virgins nudities very lesbic the kiss five ten times. Enter gentlemen to see in mirrors every positions trapezes all that machine there besides also if desire act awfully bestial¹¹⁸⁰ butcher's boy pollutes in warm veal⁵⁰⁴ liver or omelette on the belly pièce de Shakespeare.

BELLA (Clapping her belly, sinks back on the sofa with a shout of laughter.) An omelette on the... Ho! ho! ho! ho!... Omelette on the...

STEPHEN (Mincingly.) I love you, Sir darling. Speak you englishman tongue for double entente¹¹⁸¹ cordiale. O yes, mon loup. How much cost? Waterloo. Watercloset. (He ceases suddenly and holds up a forefinger.)

BELLA (Laughing.) Omelette...

THE WHORES (Laughing.) Encore! Encore!

STEPHEN Mark me. I dreamt of a watermelon.

ZOE Go abroad and love a foreign lady.

LYNCH Across the world for a wife.

FLORRY Dreams go by contraries.

STEPHEN (Extending his arms.) It was here. Street of harlots. In Serpentine¹¹⁸² Avenue Beelzebub showed me her, a fubsy widow. Where's the red carpet spread?

BLOOM (Approaching Stephen.) Look.

STEPHEN No, I flew. My foes¹¹⁸³ beneath me. And ever shall be. World without end. (He cries.) Pater! Free!

BLOOM I say, look...

STEPHEN Break my spirit, will he? O merde alors! (He cries, his vulture talons sharpened.) Hola! Hillyho!

(Simon Dedalus' voice hilloes in answer, somewhat sleepy but ready.)

SIMON That's all right. (He swoops¹¹⁸⁴ uncertainly through the air, wheeling, uttering cries of heartening, on strong ponderous¹¹⁸⁵ buzzard wings.) Ho, boy! Are you going to win? Hoop! Pschatt! Stable with those halfcastes. Wouldn't let them within the bawl¹¹⁸⁶ of an ass. Head up! Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed. Ulster king at arms! hai hoop! (He makes the beagle's call giving tongue.) Bulbul! Burblblbrurblbl! Hai, boy!

(The fronds⁸⁰³ and spaces of the wallpaper file rapidly across country. A stout fox drawn from covert¹¹⁸⁷, brush pointed, having buried his grandmother, runs swift for the open, bright-eyed, seeking badger⁴¹⁹ earth, under the leaves. The pack of staghounds follows, nose to the ground, sniffing their quarry¹¹⁸⁸, beaglebaying, burblbrblng to be blooded. Ward union huntsmen and huntswomen live with them, hot for a kill. From Six Mile Point, Flathouse, Nine Mile Stone follow the footpeople with knotty sticks, salmongaffs, lassos, flockmasters with stockwhips, bearbaiters with tomtoms, toreadors with bullswords, grey negroes waving torches. The crowd bowls of dicers, crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmen. Crows and touts¹¹⁸⁹, hoarse bookies in high wizard hats clamour deafeningly.)

THE CROWD

Card of the races. Racing¹¹⁵¹ card!
Ten to one the field!
Tommy on the clay here!
Tommy on the clay!
Ten to one bar one.
Ten to one bar one.
Try your luck on spinning Jenny!
Ten to one bar one!
Sell the monkey, boys!
Sell the monkey!
I'll give ten to one!
Ten to one bar one!
(A dark horse, riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winningpost, his mane moonfoaming, his eyeballs stars. The field follows, a bunch of bucking mounts. Skeleton horses: Sceptre, Maximum the Second, Zinfandel, the Duke of Westminsters Shotover, Repulse¹¹⁹⁰, the Duke of Beauforts' Ceylon, prix de Paris. Dwarfs¹¹⁹¹ ride them, rusty armoured, leaping, leaping in their saddles. Last in a drizzle of rain, on a broken-winded isabelle nag⁵⁹, Cock of the North, the favourite, honey cap, green jacket, orange sleeves, Garrett Deasy up, gripping the reins¹¹⁹³, a hockey stick at the ready. His nag, stumbling on whitegaitered feet, jogs along the rocky road.)
THE ORANGE LODGES (Jeering.) Get down and push, mister. Last lap! You'll be home the night!

GARRETT DEASY (Bolt upright, his nailscraped face plastered with postage stamps, brandishes¹¹⁹⁴ his hockeystick, his blue eyes flashing in the prism of the chandelier as his mount lopes by at a schooling¹¹⁹⁵ gallop.) Per vias rectas!

(A yoke of buckets leopards²⁶⁴ all over him and his rearing nag, a torrent¹¹⁹⁶ of mutton broth²¹⁹ with dancing coins of carrots, barley¹¹⁹⁷, onions, turnips¹¹⁹⁸, potatoes.)

THE GREEN LODGES Soft day, sir John! Soft day, your honour!

(Private Carr, Private Compton and Cissy Caffrey pass beneath the windows, singing in discord¹¹⁹⁹.)

STEPHEN Hark! Our friend, noise in the street!

ZOE (Holds up her hand.) Stop!

PRIVATE CARR, PRIVATE COMPTON and CISSY CAFFREY

Yet I've a sort a
Yorkshire relish¹²⁰⁰ for...
ZOE That's me. (She claps her hands.) Dance! Dance! (She runs to the pianola.) Who has twopence?
BLOOM Who'll.

LYNCH (Handing her coins.) Here.

STEPHEN (Cracking his fingers impatiently.) Quick! Quick! Where's my augur's rod? (He runs to the piano and takes his ashplant, beating his foot in tripudium.)

ZOE (Turns the drumhandle.) There.

(She drops two pennies in the slot. Glow pink and violet lights start forth. The drum turns purring in low hesitation¹²⁰¹ waltz. Professor Goodwin, in a bowknotted periwig, in court dress, wearing a stained inverness cape³⁷, bent in two from incredible age, totters¹²⁰² across the room, his hands fluttering. He sits tinily on the piano stool and lifts and beats handless sticks of arms on the keyboard, nodding with damsels grace, his bowknot bobbing.)

ZOE (Twirls around herself heeltapping.) Dance. Anybody here for there? Who'll dance?

(The pianola, with changing lights, plays in waltz time the prelude¹²⁰³ to My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl. Stephen throws his ashplant on the table and seizes Zoe around the waist. Florry and Bella push the table towards the fireplace. Stephen, aiming Zoe with exaggerated grace, begins to waltz her around the room. Her sleeve, falling from gracing arms, reveals a white fleshflower of vaccination¹²⁰⁴. Bloom stands aside. Between the curtains, Professor Maginni inserts a leg on the toepoint of which spins a silk hat. With a deft⁵⁸³ kick, he sends it spinning to his crown and jauntyhatted skates in. He wears a slate¹²⁰⁶ frockcoat with claret silk lapels, a go-et of cream tulle, a green lowcut waistcoat, stock collar with white kerchief tight lavender trousers, patent pumps and canary gloves. In his buttonhole is a dahlia. He twirls in reversed directions a clouded cane⁵³⁰, then wedges it tight in his oxter. He places a hand limply on his breastbone, bows and fondles his flower and buttons.)

MAGINNI The poetry of motion, art of callisthenics. No connection with Madam Legget Byrne's or Levinstone's. Fancy dress balls arranged. Deportment. The Katty Lanner steps. So. Watch me! My terpsichorean¹²⁰⁷ abilities. (He minuets forward three paces on tripping bee's feet.) Tout²⁸⁶ le monde an avant! Révérence! Tout le monde en place!

(The prelude ceases. Professor Goodwin, beating vague arms,shrivels, shrinks, his live cape falling about the stool. The air, in firmer waltz time, pounds. Stephen and Zoe circle freely. The lights change, glow, fade, gold, rose, violet.)

THE PIANOLA Two young fellows were talking about their girls, girls, girls, Sweethearts they'd left behind.

(From a corner the morning hours run out, goldhaired, slim, in girlish blue, waspwaisted, with innocent hands. Nimbly they dance, twirling their skipping ropes. The hours of noon follow in amber gold. Laughing linked, high haircombs flashing, they catch the sun in mocking mirrors, lifting their arms.)

MAGINNI (Clipclaps glovesilent hands.) Carré! Avant deux! Breathe evenly! Balance!

(The morning and noon hours waltz in their places, turning, advancing to each other, shaping their curves, bowing vis a vis. Cavaliers behind them arch and suspend their arms, with hands descending¹²⁰⁸ to, touching, rising from their shoulders.)

HOURS You may touch my.

CAVALIERS May I touch your?

HOURS O, but lightly!

CAVALIERS O, so lightly!

THE PIANOLA My little shy little lass has a waist.

(Zoe and Stephen turn boldly with looser swing. The twilight¹²⁰⁹ hours advance, from long landshadows, dispersed¹²¹⁰, lagging, languideyed, their cheeks delicate with cipria and false faint bloom. They are in grey gauze with dark bat sleeves that flutter in the land breeze.)

MAGINNI Avant! huit! Traversé! Salut! Cours de mains! Croisé!

(The eight hours steal to the last place. Morning, noon and twilight hours retreat before them. They are masked, with daggered hair and bracelets of dull bells. Weary, they curchycurchy under veils.)

THE BRACELETS Heigho! Heigho!

ZOE (Twisting, her hand to her brow.) O!

MAGINNI Los tiroirs! Cha?ne de dames! La corbeille! Dos à dos!

(Arabesquing wearily, they weave a pattern on the floor, weaving, unweaving, curtseying, twisting, simply swirling.)

ZOE I'm giddy.

(She frees herself droops on a chair, Stephen seizes Florry and turns with her.)

MAGINNI Boulangère! Los ronds! Los ponts! Chevaux de bois! Escargots!

(Twining, receding, with interchanging hands, the night hours link, each with arching arms, in a mosaic of movements. Stephen and Florry turn cumbrously.)

MAGINNI Dansez avec vos dames! Changes de dames! Donnes le petit bouquet¹²¹² a votre dame! Remerciez!

THE PIANOLA

Best, best of all,
Baraabum!
KITTY (Jumps up.) O, they played that on the hobbyhorses at the Mirus bazaar!
(She runs to Stephen. He leaves Florry brusquely and seizes Kitty. A screaming bit tern's harsh high whistle shrieks¹²¹³. Groangrousegurgling Toft's cumbersome¹²¹⁴ whirligig turns slowly the room right roundabout the room.)

THE PIANOLA My girl's a Yorkshire girl.

ZOE Yorkshire through and through. Come on all!

(She seizes Florry and waltzes her.)

STEPHEN Pas seul!

(He wheels Kitty into Lynch's arm's, snatches up his ashplant from the table and takes the floor. All wheel, whirl, waltz, twirl. Bloombella, Kittylynch, Florryzoe, jujuby women. Stephen with hat ashplant frogsplits in middle highkicks with skykicking mouth shut hand clasp part under thigh, with clang tinkle¹²¹⁵ boomhammer tallyho horn blower blue green yellow flashes. Toft's cumbersome turns with hobbyhorse riders from gilded snakes dangled¹²¹⁶, bowels¹²¹⁷ fandango leaping spurn¹²¹⁸ soil foot and fall again.)

THE PIANOLA

Though she's a factory lass
And wears no fancy clothes.
(Closeclutched swift swifter with glareblareflare scudding¹²¹⁹ they scotlootshoot lumbering¹²²⁰ by. Baraabum!)
TUTTI Encore! Bis! Bravo! Encore!

SIMON Think of your mother's people!

STEPHEN Dance of death.

(Bang fresh barang bang of lacquey's bell, horse, nag, steer⁹⁵⁹ piglings, Conmee on Christass lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching¹²²¹ stamp hornpipe' through and through, Baraabum! On nags¹²²², hogs¹²²³, bellhorses, Gadarene swine, Corny in coffin. Steel shark stone one handled Nelson, two trickies Frauenzimmer plumstained from pram¹²²⁴ falling bawling¹²²⁵. Gum, he's a champion. Fuseblue peer from barrel rev⁵⁵. evensong love on hackney jaunt¹²⁰⁵ Blazes blind coddoubled bicyclers Dilly with snowcake no fancy clothes. Then in last wiswitchback lumbering up and down bump mash¹¹⁴⁵ tub sort of viceroy and reine relish for tublumber bumpshire rose. Baraabum!)

(The couples fall aside. Stephen whirls giddily. Room whirls back. Eyes closed, he totters. Red rails fly spacewards. Stars all around suns turn roundabout. Bright midges dance on wall. He stops dead.)

STEPHEN Ho!

(Stephen's mother, emaciated¹²²⁶, rises stark⁵¹⁰ through the floor in leper grey with a wreath of faded orange blossoms and a torn bridal veil, her face worn and noseless, green with grave mould. Her hair is scant¹⁰⁶⁰ and lank¹²²⁷. She fixes her bluecircled hollow eyesockets on Stephen and opens her toothless mouth uttering a silent word. A choir of virgins and confessors sing voicelessly.)

THE CHOIR

Liliata rutilantium te confessorum...
Iubilantium te virginum...
(From the top of a tower Buck Mulligan, in particoloured jester's dress of puce and yellow and clown's cap with curling bell, stands gaping at her, a smoking buttered split scone¹²²⁸ in his hand.)
BUCK MULLIGAN She's beastly dead. The pity of it! Mulligan meets the afflicted¹²²⁹ mother. (He upturns¹²³⁰ his eyes.) Mercurial³³⁴ Malachi.

THE MOTHER (With the subtle smile of death's madness.) I was once the beautiful May Goulding. I am dead.

STEPHEN (Horrorstruck.) Lemur, who are you? What bogey¹²³¹ man's trick is this?

BUCK MULLIGAN (Shakes his curling capbell.) The mockery of it! Kinch killed her dogsbody bitchbody. She kicked the bucket. (Tears of molten butter fall from his eyes into the scone.) Our great sweet mother! Epi oinopa ponton.

THE MOTHER (Comes nearer, breathing upon him softly her breath of wetted ashes.) All must go through it, Stephen. More women than men in the world. You too. Time will come.

STEPHEN (Choking with fright, remorse¹²³² and horror.) They said I killed you, mother. He offended your memory. Cancer did it, not I. Destiny.

THE MOTHER (A green rill of bile trickling¹²³³ from a side of her mouth.) You sang that song to me. Love's bitter mystery.

STEPHEN (Eagerly.) Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men.

THE MOTHER Who saved you the night you jumped into the train at Dalkey with Paddy Lee? Who had pity for you when you were sad among the strangers? Prayer is all powerful. Prayer for the suffering souls in the Ursuline manual, and forty days' indulgence. Repent⁷⁷⁶, Stephen.

STEPHEN The ghoul! Hyena!

THE MOTHER I pray for you in my other world. Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brain work. Years and years I loved you, O my son, my firstborn, when you lay in my womb.

ZOE (Fanning herself with the grate fan.) I'm melting!

FLORRY (Points to Stephen) Look! He's white.

BLOOM (Goes to the window to open it more.) Giddy.

THE MOTHER (With smouldering eyes.) Repent! O, the fire of hell!

STEPHEN (Panting.) The corpsechewer! Raw head and bloody bones!

THE MOTHER (Her face drawing near and nearer, sending out an ashen breath.) Beware! (She raises her blackened, withered¹²³⁴ right arm slowly towards Stephen's breast with outstretched fingers.) Beware! God's hand! (A green crab with malignant¹²³⁵ red eyes sticks deep its grinning claws in Stephen's heart.)

STEPHEN (Strangled with rage.) Shite! (His features grow drawn and grey and old.)

BLOOM (At the window.) What?

STEPHEN Ah non, par⁵⁴ exemple! The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. Non serviam!

FLORRY Give him some cold water. Wait. (She rushes out.)

THE MOTHER (Wrings her hands slowly, moaning desperately.) O Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on him! Save him from hell, O divine Sacred Heart!

STEPHEN No! No! No! Break my spirit all of you if you can! I'll bring you all to heel!

THE MOTHER (In the agony of her deathrattle.) Have mercy on Stephen, Lord, for my sake! Inexpressible was my anguish¹²³⁷ when expiring with love, grief and agony on Mount Calvary.

STEPHEN Nothung!

(He hits his ashplant high with both hands and smashes the chandelier. Time's livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry¹²³⁸.)

THE GASJET Pwfungg!

BLOOM Stop!

LYNCH (Rushes forward and seizes Stephen's hand.) Here! Hold on! Don't run amok!

BELLA Police!

(Stephen, abandoning his ashplant, his head and arms thrown back stark, beats the ground and flees from the room past the whores at the door.)
BELLA (Screams.) After him!

(The two whores rush to the halldoors. Lynch and Kitty and Zoe stampede from the room. They talk excitedly. Bloom follows, returns.)

THE WHORES (Jammed in the doorway, pointing.) Down there.

ZOE (Pointing.) There. There's something up.

BELLA Who pays for the lamp? (She seizes Bloom's coattail.) There. You were with him. The lamp's broken.

BLOOM (Rushes to the hall, rushes back.) What lamp, woman?

A WHORE He tore his coat.

BELLA (Her eyes hard with anger and cupidity¹²³⁹, points.) Who's to pay for that? Ten Shillings. You're a witness.

BLOOM (Snatches up Stephen's ashplant.) Me? Ten shillings? Haven't you lifted enough off him? Didn't he...

BELLA (Loudly.) Here, none of your tall talk. This isn't a brothel. A ten shilling house.

BLOOM (His hand under the lamp, pulls the chain. Pulling, the gasjet lights up a crushed mauve purple shade. He raises the ashplant.) Only the chimney's broken. Here is all he...

BELLA (Shrinks back and screams.) Jesus! Don't!

BLOOM (Warding off a blow.) To show you how he hit the paper. There's not a sixpenceworth of damage done. Ten shillings!

FLORRY (With a glass of water enters.) Where is he?

BELLA Do you want me to call the police?

BLOOM O, I know. Bulldog on the premises. But he's a Trinity student. Patrons of your establishment. Gentlemen that pay the rent. (He makes a masonic sign.) Know what I mean? Nephew of the vice-chancellor. You don't want a scandal.

BELLA (Angrily.) Trinity! Coming down here ragging after the boat races and paying nothing. Are you my commander here? Where is he? I'll charge him. Disgrace him, I will. (She shouts.) Zoe! Zoe!

BLOOM (Urgently.) And if it were your own son in Oxford! (Warningly.) I know.

BELLA (Almost speechless.) Who are you incog?

ZOE (In the doorway.) There's a row on.

BLOOM What? Where? (He throws a shilling on the table and shouts.) That's for the chimney. Where? I need mountain air. (He hurries out through the hall. The whores point. Florry follows, spilling water from her tilted tumbler. On the doorstep all the whores clustered talk volubly, pointing to the right where the fog has cleared off From the left arrives a jingling hackney car. It slows to in front of the house. Bloom at the halldoor perceives Corny Kelleher who is about to dismount from the car with two silent lechers. He averts¹²⁴⁰ his face. Bella from within the hall uses on her whores. They blow ickylickysticky yumyum kisses. Corny Kelleher replies with a ghostly lewd smile. The silent lechers turn to pay the jarvey. Zoe and Kitty still point right. Bloom, parting them swiftly, draws his caliph's hood¹⁷⁷ and poncho¹²⁴¹ and hurries down the steps with sideways face. Incog Haroun al Baschid, he flits behind the silent lechers and hastens on by the railings with fleet step of a pard strewing¹²⁴² the drag behind him, torn envelopes drenched¹²⁴³ in aniseed. The ashplant marks his stride. A pack of bloodhounds, led by Hornblower of Trinity brandishing¹²⁴⁴ a dogwhip in tallyho cap and an old pair of grey trousers, follows from far, picking up the scent, nearer, baying, panting, at fault, breaking away, throwing their tongues, biting his heels, leaping at his tail. He walks, runs, zigzags¹²⁴⁵, gallops¹²⁴⁶, lugs laid back. He is pelted¹²⁴⁷ with gravel²¹⁵, cabbagestumps, biscuitboxes, eggs, potatoes, dead codfish, womans slipperslappers. After him, freshfound, the hue⁹⁴² and cry zigzag gallops in hot pursuit of follow my leader: 65 C 66 C night watch, John Henry Menton, Wisdom Hely, V.B. Dillon, Councillor Nannetti, Alexander Keyes, Larry O'Rourke, Joe Cuffe, Mrs O'Dowd Pisser Burke, The Nameless One, Mrs Riordan, The Citizen, Garryowen, Whatdoyoucallhim, Strangeface, Fellowthatslike, Sawhimbefore, Chapwith, Chris Callinan, sir Charles Cameron, Benjamin Dollard, Lenehan, Bartell d'Arcy, Joe Hynes, red Murray, editor Brayden, T.M. Healy, Mr Justice Fitzgibbon, John Howard Parnell, the reverend Tinned Salmon, Professor Joly, Mrs Breen, Denis Breen, Theodore Purefoy, Mina Purefoy, the Westland Row postmistress, C.P. M'Coy, friend of Lyons, Hoppy Holohan, man in the street, other man in the street, Footballboots, pugnosed driver rich protestant lady, Davy Byrne, Mrs Ellen M'Guinness, Mrs Joe Gallaher George Lidwell, Jimmy Henry on corns, Superintendent¹²⁴⁸ Laracy, Father Cowley, Crofton out of the Collector Generals, Dan Dawson, dental surgeon Bloom with tweezers¹²⁴⁹, Mrs Bob Doran, Mrs Kennefick, Mrs Wyse Nolan, John Wyse Nolan, handsomemamedwomanrubbed againstwidebehindinClonskeatram, the bookseller of Sweets of Sin, Miss Dubedatandshedidbedad, Mesdames Gerald and Stanislaus Moran of Roebuck, the managing clerk of Drimmies colonel Hayes, Mastiansky, Citron, Penrose, Aaron Figatner, Moses Herzog, Michael E. Geraghty, Inspector Troy, Mrs Galbraith, the constable off Eccles Street corner old doctor Brady with stethoscope, the mystery man on the beach, a retriever Mrs Miriam Dandrade and all her lovers.

THE HUE AND CRY (Helterskelterelterwelter) He's Bloom! Stop Bloom! Stopabloom! Stopperrobber! Hi! Hi! Stop him on the corner!

(At the corner of Beaver Street beneath the scaffolding Bloom panting stops on the fringe of the noisy quarrelling knot, a lot not knowing a jot¹²⁵⁰ what hi! hi! row and wrangle¹²⁵¹ round the whowhat brawlaltogether.)

STEPHEN (With elaborate gestures, breathing deeply and slowly.) You are my guests. The uninvited. By virtue of the fifth of George and seventh of Edward. History to blame. Fabled¹²⁵² by mothers of memory.

PRIVATE CARR (To Cissy Caffrey.) Was he insulting you?

STEPHEN Addressed her in vocative feminine. Probably neuter. Ungenitive.
VOICES No, he didn't. The girl's telling lies. He was in Mrs Cohen's. What's up? Soldiers and civilians¹²⁵³.

CISSY CAFFREY I was in company with the soldiers and they left me to do - you know and the young man ran up behind me. But I'm faithful to the man that's treating me though I'm only a shilling whore.

STEPHEN (Catches sight of Kitty's and Lynch's heads.) Hail, Sisyphus. (He points to himself and the others.) Poetic¹²⁵⁴. Neopoetic.

VOICES She's faithfultheman.

CISSY CAFFREY Yes, to go with him. And me with a soldier friend.

PRIVATE COMPTON He doesn't half want a thick ear, the blighter. Biff him one, Harry.

PRIVATE CARR (To Cissy.) Was he insulting you while me and him was having a piss?

LORD TENNYSON (In union Jack blazer and cricket flannels¹²⁵⁶, bareheaded, flowingbearded.) Their's not to reason why.

PRIVATE COMPTON Biff him, Harry.

STEPHEN (To Private Compton. ) I don't know your name but you are quite right. Doctor Swift says one man in armour¹¹⁹² will beat ten men in their shirts. Shirt is synechdoche. Part for the whole.

CISSY CAFFREY (To the crowd.) No, I was with the private.

STEPHEN (Amiably.) Why not? The bold soldier boy. In my opinion every lady for example...

PRIVATE CARR (His cap awry, advancing to Stephen.) Say, how would it be, governor, if I was to bash in your jaw¹⁵⁴?

STEPHEN (Looks up in the sky.) How? Very unpleasant. Noble art of self-pretence. Personally, I detest¹²⁵⁷ action. (He waves his hand) Hand hurts me slightly. Enfin, ce sont vos oignons.

(To Cissy Caffrey.) Some trouble is on here. What is it, precisely¹²⁵⁸?

DOLLY GRAY (From her balcony waves her handkerchief giving the sign of the heroine of Jericho.) Rahab. Cook's son, goodbye. Safe home to Dolly. Dream of the girl you left behind and she will dream of you.

(The soldiers turn their swimming eyes.)

BLOOM (Elbowing through the crowd plucks Stephen's sleeve vigorously.) Come now, professor, that carman is waiting.

STEPHEN (Turns.) Eh? (He disengages himself) Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange? (He points his finger.) I'm not afraid of what I can talk to if I see his eye. Retaining the perpendicular¹²⁵⁹.

(He staggers a pace back.)

BLOOM (Propping him.) Retain your own.

STEPHEN (Laughs emptily.) My centre of gravity is displaced. I have forgotten the trick. Let us sit down somewhere and discuss. Struggle for life is the law of existence but modern philirenists, notably¹²⁶⁰ the tsar and the king of England, have invented arbitration¹²⁶¹. (He taps his brow.) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.

BIDDY THE CLAP Did you hear what the professor said? He's a professor out of the college.

CUNTY KATE I did. I heard that.

BIDDY THE CLAP He expresses himself with much marked refinement¹²⁶² of phraseology.

CUNTY KATE Indeed, yes. And at the same time with such apposite trenchancy¹²⁶³.

PRIVATE CARR (Pulls himself free and comes forward.) What's that you're saying about my king?

(Edward the Seventh appears in an archway. He wears a white jersey¹¹¹⁰ on which an image of the Sacred Heart is stitched, with the insignia of Garter and Thistle, Golden Fleece, Elephant of Denmark, Skinners' and Probyns' horse, Lincoln's Inn bencher and ancient and honourable artillery¹²⁶⁴ company of Massachusetts. He sucks a red jujube. He is robed as a grand elect perfect and sublime mason with trowel and apron, marked made in Germany. In his left hand he holds a plasterers bucket on which is printed: Défense d'uriner. A roar of welcome greets him.)

EDWARD THE SEVENTH (Slowly, solemnly but indistinctly.) Peace, perfect peace. For identification bucket in my hand. Cheerio, boys. (He turns to his subjects.) We have come here to witness a clean straight fight and we heartily wish both men the best of good luck. Mahak makar a back.

(He shakes hands with Private Carr, Private Compton, Stephen, Bloom and Lynch. General applause. Edward the Seventh lifts the bucket graciously in acknowledgement.)

PRIVATE CARR (To Stephen.) Say it again.

STEPHEN (Nervous, friendly, pulls himself up.) I understand your point of view, though I have no king myself for the moment. This is the age of patent medicine. A discussion is difficult down here. But this is the point. You die for your country, suppose. (He places his arm on Private Carr's sleeve.) Not that I wish it for you. But I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I don't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life!

EDWARD THE SEVENTH (Levitates over heaps of slain¹²⁶⁵ in the garb and with the halo of Joking Jesus, a white jujube in his phosphorescent face.)

My methods are new and are causing surprise.
To make the blind see I throw dust in their eyes.
STEPHEN Kings and unicorns¹²⁶⁶! (He falls back a pace.) Come somewhere and we'll... What was that girl saying?...
PRIVATE COMPTON Eh, Harry, give him a kick in the knackers. Stick one into Jerry.

BLOOM (To the privates, softly.) He doesn't know what he's saying. Taking a little more than is good for him. Absinthe, the greeneyed monster. I know him. He's a gentleman, a poet. It's all right.

STEPHEN (Nods, smiling and laughing.) Gentleman, patriot⁷⁰⁰, scholar and judge of impostors.

PRIVATE CARR I don't give a bugger who he is. PRIVATE COMPTON We don't give a bugger who he is.

STEPHEN I seem to annoy them. Green rag to a bull.

(Kevin Egan of Paris in black Spanish tasselled shirt and peep-o'-day boys hat signs to Stephen.)

KEVIN EGAN H'lo. Bonjour! The vieille ogresse with the dents⁸⁵⁶ jaunes.

(Patrice Egan peeps from behind, his rabbit face nibbling¹²⁶⁷ a quince leaf.)

PATRICE Socialiste!

DON EMILE PATRIZIO FRANZ RUPERT POPE HENNESSY (In medieval hauberk, two wild geese volant on his helm, with noble indignation points a mailed hand against the privates.) Were those eykes to footboden, big grand porcos of johnyellows todos covered of gravy!

BLOOM (To Stephen.) Come home. You'll get into trouble.

STEPHEN (Swaying.) I don't avoid it. He provokes my intelligence.

BIDDY THE CLAP One immediately observes that he is of patrician¹²⁶⁸ lineage.

THE VIRAGO Green above the red, says he. Wolfe Tone.

THE BAWD The red's as good as the green, and better. Up the soldiers! Up King Edward!

A ROUGH (Laughs.) Ay! Hands up to De Wet.

THE CITIZEN (With a huge emerald muffler and shillelagh, calls.)

May the God above
Send down a cove¹⁷²
With teeth as sharp as razors
To slit¹²⁶⁹ the throat
Of the English dogs
That hanged our Irish leaders.
THE CROPPY BOY (The rope noose¹²⁷⁰ round his neck, gripes in his issuing bowels with both hands.)
I bear no hate to a living thing,
But love my country beyond the king.
RUMBOLD, DEMON BARBER (Accompanied by two blackmasked assistants, advances with a gladstone bag which he opens.) Ladies and gents, cleaver¹²⁷¹ purchased by Mrs Pearcy to slay¹²⁷² Mogg. Knife with which Voisin dismembered the wife of a compatriot and hid remains¹²⁷³ in a sheet in the cellar, the unfortunate female's throat being cut from ear to ear. Phial containing arsenic retrieved¹²⁷⁴ from the body of Miss Barrow which sent Seddon to the gallows¹²⁷⁵.
(He jerks the rope, the assistants leap at the victims legs and drag him downward, grunting: the croppy boys tongue protrudes¹²⁷⁶ violently.)

THE CROPPY BOY Horhot ho hray ho rhother's hest.

(He gives up the ghost. A violent erection of the hanged sends gouts of sperm¹²⁷⁷ spouting¹²⁷⁸ through his death clothes on to the cobblestones. Mrs Bellingham, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Honourable Mrs Mervyn Talboys rush forward with their handkerchiefs to sop⁷⁵ it up.)

RUMBOLD I'm near it myself. (He undoes¹²⁷⁹ the noose.) Rope which hanged the awful rebel. Ten shillings a time as applied¹²⁸⁰ to His Royal Highness. (He plunges his head into the gaping belly of the hanged and draws out his head again clotted¹²⁸¹ with coiled and smoking entrails.) My painful duty has now been done. God save the king!

EDWARD THE SEVENTH (Dances slowly, solemnly, rattling his bucket and sings with soft contentment.)

On coronation day, on coronation day,
O, Won't We have a merry time,
Drinking whisky, beer and wine!
PRIVATE CARR Here. What are you saying about my king?
STEPHEN (Throws up his hands.) O, this is too monotonous¹²⁸²! Nothing. He wants my money and my life, though want must be his master, for some brutish empire of his. Money I haven't. (He searches his pockets vaguely.) Gave it to someone.

PRIVATE CARR Who wants your bleeding money?

STEPHEN (Tries to move off.) Will some one tell me where I am least likely to meet these necessary evils? ?a se voit aussi à Paris. Not that I... But by Saint Patrick!...

(The women's heads coalesce¹²⁸³. Old Gummy Granny in sugarloaf hat appears seated on a toadstool, the deathflower of the potato blight¹²⁵⁵ on her breast.)

STEPHEN Aha! I know you, grammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!

OLD GUMMY GRANNY (Rocking to and fro.) Ireland's sweetheart, the king of Spain's daughter, alanna. Strangers in my house, bad manners to them! (She keens with banshee woe.) Ochone! Ochone! Silk of the kine! (She wails.) You met with poor old Ireland and how does she stand?

STEPHEN How do I stand you? The hat trick! Where's the third person of the Blessed Trinity? Soggarth Aroon? The reverend Carrion¹²⁸⁴ Crow.

CISSY CAFFREY (Shrill.) Stop them from fighting!

A ROUGH Our men retreated.

PRIVATE CARR (Tugging at his belt.) I'll wring¹²³⁶ the neck of any bugger says a word against my fucking king.

BLOOM (Terrified.) He said nothing. Not a word. A pure misunderstanding.

THE CITIZEN Erin go bragh!

(Major Tweedy and the Citizen exhibit to each other medals, decorations, trophies¹²⁸⁵ of war wounds. Both salute with fierce hostility¹²⁸⁶.)

PRIVATE COMPTON Go it, Harry. Do him one in the eye. He's a proboer.

STEPHEN Did I? When?

BLOOM (To the redcoats.) We fought for you in South Africa, Irish missile troops. Isn't that history? Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Honoured by our monarch¹²⁸⁷.

THE NAVVY (Staggering past.) O, yes. O, God, yes! O, make the kwawr a krowawr! O! Bo!

(Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted¹²⁸⁸ spear points. Major Tweedy, moustached like Turko the terrible, in bearskin cap with hackle plume and accoutrements, with epaulette, gilt chevrons¹²⁸⁹ and sabretache, his breast bright with medals, toes the line. He gives the pilgrim warrior's sign of the knights templars.)

MAJOR TWEEDY (Growls gruffly.) Rorke's Drift! Up, guards, and at them! Mahal shalal hashbaz.

PRIVATE CARR I'll do him in.

PRIVATE COMPTON (Waves the crowd back.) Fair play, here. Make a bleeding butcher's shop of the bugger.

(Massed bands blare Garryowen and God save the king.)

CISSY CAFFREY They're going to fight. For me!

CUNTY KATE The brave and the fair.

BIDDY THE CLAP Methinks yon sable knight will joust¹²⁹⁰ it with the best.

CUNTY KATE (Blushing deeply.) Nay, Madam. The gules doublet and merry Saint George for me!

STEPHEN The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old Ireland's windingsheet.

PRIVATE CARR (Loosening his belt, shouts.) I'll wring the neck of any fucking bastard says a word against my bleeding fucking king.

BLOOM (Shakes Cissy Caffrey's shoulders.) Speak, you! Are you struck dumb? You are the link between nations and generations. Speak, woman, sacred lifegiver.

CISSY CAFFREY (Alarmed seizes Private Carr's sleeve.) Amn't I with you? Amn't I your girl? Cissy's your girl. (She cries.) Police!

STEPHEN (Ecstatically, to Cissy Caffrey.)

White thy fambles, red thy gan
And thy quarrons dainty is.
VOICES Police!
DISTANT VOICES Dublin's burning! Dublin's burning! On fire, on fire!

(Brimstone fires spring up. Dense⁷²⁵ clouds roll past. Heavy Gatling guns boom. Pandemonium¹²⁹¹. Troops deploy⁶⁵⁹. Gallop of hoofs¹²⁹². Artillery. Hoarse commands. Bells clang. Backers shout. Drunkards bawl. Whores screech¹²⁹³. Foghorns hoot⁶⁰⁶. Cries of valour. Shrieks of dying. Pikes clash on cuirasses. Thieves rob the slain. Birds of prey⁴⁴⁴, winging from the sea, rising from marsh lands, swooping¹²⁹⁴ from eyries, hover¹²⁹⁵ screaming, gannets, connorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlin, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese. The midnight sun is darkened. The earth trembles. The dead of Dublin from Prospect¹²⁹⁶ and Mount Jerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black goat-fell cloaks arise and appear to many. A chasm¹²⁹⁷ opens with a noiseless yawn. Tom Rochford, winner in athletes singlet and breeches, arrives at the head of the national hurdle¹²⁹⁸ handicap and leaps into the void. He is followed by a race of runners and leapers. In wild attitudes they spring from the brink¹²⁹⁹. Their bodies plunge¹⁹⁸. Factory lasses with fancy clothes toss redhot Yorkshire baraabombs. Society ladies lift their skirts above their heads to protect themselves. laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broomsticks. Quakerlyster plasters blisters¹³⁰⁰. It rains dragon's teeth. Armed heroes spring up from furrows¹³⁰¹. They exchange in amity¹³⁰² the pass of knights of the red cross and fight duels¹³⁰³ with cavalry¹³⁰⁴ sabres: Wolfe Tone against Henry Grattan, Smith O'Brien against Daniel O'Connell, Michael Davitt against Isaac Butt, Justin M'Carthy against Parnell, Arthur Griffith against John Redmond John O'Leary against liar O'Johnny, lord Edward Fitzgerald against lord Gerald Fitzedward, The O'Donoghue of the Glens against The Glens of The Donoghue. On an eminence, the centre of the earth, rises the field altar of Saint Barbara. Black candles rise from its gospel and epistle horns. From the high barbicans of the tower two shafts¹³⁰⁵ of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone. On the altarstone Mrs Mina Purefoy, goddess of unreason, lies naked, fettered¹³⁰⁶, a chalice resting on her swollen belly. Father Malachi O'Flynn, in a long petticoat and reversed chasuble, his two left feet back to the front, celebrates camp mash. The Reverend Mr Hugh C. Haines love MA. in a plain cassock and mortar¹³⁰⁷ board, his head and collar back to the front, holds over the celebrants head an open umbrella.)

FATHER MALACHI O'FLYNN Introibo ad altare diaboli.

THE REVEREND MR HAINES LOVE To the devil which hath made glad my young days.

FATHER MALACHI O'FLYNN (Takes from the chalice and elevates a blooddripping host.) Corpus Meum.

THE REVEREND MR HAINES LOVE (Raises high behind the celebrant's petticoats, revealing his grey bare hairy buttocks between which a carrot is stuck.) My body.

THE VOICE OF ALL THE DAMNED Htengier Tnetopinmo Dog Drol eht rot, Aiulella!

(From on high the voice of Adonai calls.)

ADONAI Dooooooooooog!

THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED Alleluia, for the Lord God Omnipotent¹³⁰⁸ reigneth!

(From on high the voice of Adonai calls.)

ADONAI Goooooooooood!

(In strident discord peasants and townsmen of mange and Green factions¹³⁰⁹ sing Kick the Pope and Daily, daily sing to Mary.)

PRIVATE CARR (With ferocious¹⁰²² articulation¹³¹⁰.) I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ! I'll wring the bastard fucker's bleeding blasted fucking windpipe!

OLD GUMMY GRANNY (Thrusts a dagger¹²¹¹ towards Stephen's hand.) Remove him, acushla. At 8.35 a.m. you will be in heaven and Ireland will be free. (She prays.) O good God, take him!

BLOOM (Runs to Lynch.) Can't you get him away?

LYNCH He likes dialectic, the universal language. Kitty! (To Bloom.) Get him away, you. He won't listen to me. (He drags Kitty away.)

STEPHEN (Points.) Exit Judas. Et laqueo se suspendit.

BLOOM (Runs to Stephen.) Come along with me now before worse happens. Here's your stick.

STEPHEN Stick, no. Reason. This feast of pure reason.

CISSY CAFFREY (Pulling Private Carr.) Come on, you're boosed. He insulted me but I forgive him. (Shouting in his ear.) I forgive him for insulting me.

BLOOM (Over Stephen's shoulder.) Yes, go. You see he's incapable¹³¹¹.

PRIVATE CARR (Breaks loose.) I'll insult him.

(He rushes towards Stephen, fists outstretched, and strikes him in the face. Stephen totters, collapses, falls stunned. He lies prone¹³¹², his face to the sky, his hat rolling to the wall. Bloom follows and picks it up.)

MAJOR TWEEDY (Loudly.) Carbine in bucket! cease fire! Salute!

THE RETRIEVER (Barking furiously.) Ute ute ute ute ute ute uteute.

THE CROWD Let him up! Don't strike him when he's down! Air! Who? The soldier hit him. He's a professor. Is he hurted? Don't manhandle him! He's fainted!

(The retriever, nosing on the fringe of the crowd, barks noisily.)

What call had the redcoat to strike the gentleman and he under the influence? Let them go and fight the Boers!

THE BAWD Listen to who's talking! Hasn't the soldier a right to go with his girl? He gave him the coward's blow.

(They grab at each other's hair, claw at each other and spit.)

THE RETRIEVER (Barking.) Wow wow wow.

BLOOM (Shoves them back, loudly.) Get back, stand back!

PRIVATE COMPTON (Tugging his comrade.) Here bugger off, Harry. There's the cops!

(Two raincaped watch, tall, stand in the group)

FIRST WATCH What's wrong here?

PRIVATE COMPTON We were with this lady and he insulted us and assaulted my chum. (The retriever barks.) Who owns the bleeding tyke?

CISSY CAFFREY (With expectation.) Is he bleeding?

A MAN (Rising from his knees.) No. Gone off. He'll come to all right.

BLOOM (Glances sharply at the man.) Leave him to me. I can easily...

SECOND WATCH Who are you? Do you know him?

PRIVATE CARR (Lurches towards the watch.) He insulted my lady friend.

BLOOM (Angrily.) You hit him without provocation¹³¹³. I'm a witness. Constable, take his regimental number.

SECOND WATCH I don't want your instructions in the discharge of my duty. PRIVATE COMPTON (Pulling his comrade.) Here, bugger off, Harry. Or Bennett'll have you in the lockup.

PRIVATE CARR (Staggering as he is pulled away.) God fuck old Bennett! He's a whitearsed bugger. I don't give a shit for him.

FIRST WATCH (Taking out his notebook.) What's his name?

BLOOM (Peering over the crowd.) I just see a car there. If you give me a hand a second, sergeant.

FIRST WATCH Name and address.

(Corny Kelleher weepers round his hat, a death wreath in his hand, appears among the bystanders.)

BLOOM (Quickly.) O, the very man! (He whispers.) Simon Dedalus' son. A bit sprung. Get those policemen to move those loafers back.

SECOND WATCH Night, Mr Kelleher.

CORNY KELLEHER (To the watch, with drawling eye.) That's all right. I know him. Won a bit on the races. Gold cup. Throwaway. (He laughs.) Twenty to one. Do you follow me?

FIRST WATCH (Turns to the crowd.) Here, what are you all gaping at? Move on out of that.

(The crowd disperses slowly, muttering, down the lane.)

CORNY KELLEHER Leave it to me, sergeant. That'll be all right. (He laughs, shaking his head.) We were often as bad ourselves, ay or worse. What? Eh, what?

FIRST WATCH (Laughs.) I suppose so.

CORNY KELLEHER (Nudges the second watch.) Come and wipe your name off the slate. (He lilts, wagging his head.) With my tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom. What, eh, do you follow me?

SECOND WATCH (Genially.) Ah, sure we were too.

CORNY KELLEHER (Winking.) Boys will be boys. I've a car round there.

SECOND WATCH All right, Mr Kelleher. Good night.

CORNY KELLEHER I'll see to that.

BLOOM (Shakes hands with both of the watch in turn.) Thank you very much gentlemen, thank you. (He mumbles confidentially.) We don't want any scandal, you understand. Father is a well known, highly respected citizen. Just a little wild oats, you understand.

FIRST WATCH O, I understand, sir.

SECOND WATCH That's all right, Sir.

FIRST WATCH It was only in case of corporal injuries I'd have had to report it at the station.

BLOOM (Nods rapidly.) Naturally. Quite right. Only your bounden duty.

SECOND WATCH It's our duty.

CORNY KELLEHER Good night, men.

THE WATCH (Saluting together.) Night, gentlemen. (They move off with slow heavy tread.)

BLOOM (Blows.) Providential you came on the scene. You have a car?.

CORNY KELLEHER (Laughs, pointing his thumb over his right shoulder to the car brought up against the scaffolding.) Two commercials that were standing fizz in Jammet's. Like princes, faith. One of them lost two quid on the race. Drowning his grief and were on for a go with the jolly girls. So I landed them up on Behan's car and down to nighttown.

BLOOM I was just going home by Gardiner street when I happened to...

CORNY KELLEHER (Laughs.) Sure they wanted me to join in with the mots. No, by God, says I. Not for old stagers like myself and yourself. (He laughs again and leers with lacklustre eye.) Thanks be to God we have it in the house what, eh, do you follow me? Hah! hah! hah!

BLOOM (Tries to laugh.) He, he, he! Yes. Matter of fact I was just visiting an old friend of mine there, Virag, you don't know him (poor fellow he's laid up for the past week) and we had a liquor together and I was just making my way home...

(The horse neighs.)

THE HORSE Hohohohohohoh! Hohohohome!

CORNY KELLEHER Sure it was Behan, our jarvey there, that told me after we left the two commercials in Mrs Cohen's and I told him to pull up and got off to see. (He laughs.) Sober hearsedrivers a specialty¹³¹⁴. Will I give him a lift home? Where does he hang out? Somewhere in Cabra, what?

BLOOM No, in Sandycove, I believe, from what he let drop.

(Stephen, prone, breathes to the stars. Corny Kelleher asquint, drawls at the horse. Bloom in gloom, looms³⁰¹ down.)

CORNY KELLEHER (Scratches his nape.) Sandycove! (He bends down and calls to Stephen.) Eh! (He calls again.) Eh! He's covered with shavings anyhow. Take care they didn't lift anything off him.

BLOOM No, no, no. I have his money and his hat here and stick.

CORNY KELLEHER Ah well, he'll get over it. No bones broken. Well, I'll shove along. (He laughs.) I've a rendezvous¹³¹⁵ in the morning. Burying the dead. Safe home!

THE HORSE (Neighs.) Hohohohohome.

BLOOM Good night. I'll just wait and take him along in a few...

(Corny Kelleher returns to the outside car and mounts it. The horse harness jingles¹³¹⁶.)

CORNY KELLEHER (From the car, standing.) Night.

BLOOM Night.

(The jarvey chucks the reins and raises his whip encouragingly. The car and horse back slowly, awkwardly and turn. Corny Kelleher on the sideseat sways his head to and fro in sign of mirth at Blooms plight¹³¹⁷. The jarvey joins in the mute pantomimic merriment nodding from the farther seat. Bloom shakes his head in mute mirthful reply. With thumb and palm Corny Kelleher reassures¹³¹⁸ that the two bobbies will allow the sleep to continue for what else is to be done. With a slow nod Bloom conveys his gratitude¹³¹⁹ as that is exactly what Stephen needs. The car jingles tooraloom round the corner of the tooraloom lane. Corny Kelleher again reassuralooms with his hand. Bloom with his hand assuralooms Corny Kelleher that he is reassuraloomtay. The tinkling¹³²⁰ hoofs and jingling harness grow fainter with their tooralooloolooloo lay. Bloom, holding in his hand Stephens hat festooned with shavings and ashplant, stands irresolute¹³²¹. Then he bends to him and shakes him by the shoulder.)

BLOOM Eh! Ho! (There is no answer he bends again.) Mr Dedalus! (There is no answer.) The name if you call. Somnambulist. (He bends again and, hesitating, brings his mouth near the face of the prostrate¹³²² form.) Stephen! (There is no answer. He calls again.) Stephen!

STEPHEN (Groans.) Who? Black panther vampire. (He sighs and stretches himself then murmurs thickly with prolonged vowels¹³²³.) Who... drive... Fergus now. And pierce... wood's woven shade?...

(He turns on his left side, sighing, doubling himself together.)

BLOOM Poetry. Well educated. Pity. (He bends again and undoes the buttons of Stephen's waistcoat.) To breathe. (He brushes the wood shavings from Stephen's clothes with light hands and fingers.) One pound seven. Not hurt anyhow. (He listens.) What!

(Murmurs.)

... shadows... the woods
... white breast... dim...
(He stretches out his arms, sighs again and curls his body. Bloom holding his hat and ashplant stands erect. A dog barks in the distance. Bloom tightens¹³²⁴ and loosens his grip on the ashplant. He looks down on Stephen's face and form.)
BLOOM (Communes with the night.) Face reminds me of his poor mother. In the shady wood. The deep white breast. Ferguson, I think I caught. A girl. Some girl. Best thing could happen him... (He murmurs.)... swear that I will always hail, ever conceal¹³²⁵, never reveal, any part or parts, art or arts... (He murmurs.) in the rough sands of the sea. a cabletow's length from the shore... where the tide ebbs¹³²⁶ ... and flows...

(Silent, thoughtful, alert, he stands on guard, his fingers at his lips in the attitude of secret master. Against the dark wall a figure appears slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a changeling, kidnapped, dressed in an Eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet, holding a book in his hand. He reads from right to left inaudibly, smiling, kissing the page.)

BLOOM (Wonderstruck, calls inaudibly.) Rudy!

RUDY (Gazes unseeing into Bloom's eyes and goes on reading, kissing, smiling. He has a delicate mauveface. On his suit he has diamond and ruby buttons. In his free left hand he holds a slim ivory cane with a violet howknot. A white lambkin peeps out of his waistcoat pocket.)


通向红灯区的马博特街口。路面未铺卵石，骨骼般的电车岔道伸向远方，沿线是像鬼火似的红绿信号灯和危险信号机。一排排简陋的房屋半敞着门。偶有灯火朦朦胧胧地映出彩虹般的扇形光环。一群矮小的男男女女围着停在这里的拉白奥蒂的平底船型冰淇淋车[1] ，争争吵吵。他们抓取夹有煤炭色[2]和紫铜色冰淇淋的薄脆饼。这些孩子们边嘬着，边缓缓地散去。平底车高高抬起鸡冠形天鹅头，穿过灯台下的黑暗前进，依稀浮现出蓝白两色。回荡着口哨的相互呼应声。）

呼声

等一等，亲爱的。我跟你一道去。

应答

到马棚后面来。

（一个又聋又哑的白痴鼓着金鱼眼，松弛的嘴巴淌着口水，因患舞踏病浑身发颤，趔趔趄趄地走过。孩子们手拉着手，把他圈在中间。）

孩子们

左撇子！敬礼！

白痴

（举起麻痹的左臂，发出咯咯声）金立！

孩子们

老爷儿哪儿去啦？

白痴

（结结巴巴地）施边儿。[3]

（他们放开了他。他打着趔趄往前走。一个侏儒女子在两道栏杆之间吊根绳子，坐在上面打秋千，口中数着数。一个男子趴在垃圾箱上，用胳膊和帽子掩着脸，移动一下[4]，呻吟，咯吱咯吱地磨牙齿，接着又打起呼噜。台阶上，一个到处掏垃圾的侏儒，蹲下身去，把一袋破布烂骨扛到肩上。一个老妪手执一盏满是油烟的煤油灯站在一旁，将她那最后一只瓶子塞进他的口袋。男子扛起猎物，将鸭舌帽拽歪，一声不响地蹒跚而去。老妪摇晃着灯，也回到自己的窝。一个罗圈腿娃娃手里拿着纸做的羽毛球，蹲在门口，跟在她后面使劲地横爬着，并抓住她的裙子往上攀。一个喝得醉醺醺的壮工双手握住地窖子前的栅栏，东倒西歪，踉踉跄跄地踱着。拐角处，两个披着短斗篷的夜班巡警，手按着装警棍的皮套，朦朦胧胧中身影显得高大无比。一只盘子打碎了，一个女人尖声嚷叫，接着是娃娃的啼哭声。男人厉声咒骂，嘟嘟囔囔，随后沉默下来。几个人影晃来晃去，忽而潜藏起来，忽而又从破房子里窥伺。一间点燃着嵌在瓶口里的蜡烛的屋中，一个邋里邋遢的女人正替一个长着瘰疠的娃娃梳理着其乱如麻的头发。从一条巷子里传出西茜·卡弗里那依然很年轻的高亢歌声。）

西茜·卡弗里

我把它给了摩莉，

因为她无忧无虑，

把鸭腿儿给了她，

把鸭腿儿给了她。

（士兵卡尔和士兵康普顿[5]，腋下紧紧夹着短棍，摇摇晃晃地走着，向右转，一起放屁。从巷子里传出男人们的一阵朗笑声。一个悍妇嗄声恶言还击。）

悍妇

天打雷霹的，毛屁股蛋儿。卡文妞儿，加油儿。

西茜·卡弗里

我运气好着呢。卡文、库特黑尔和贝尔士尔贝特[6] 。（唱）

我把它给了内莉，

让她戳到肚皮里，

把鸭腿儿给了她，

把鸭腿儿给了她。

（士兵卡尔和士兵康普顿转过身来反唇相讥。他们的军服在灯光映照下鲜艳如血色，凹陷的黑军帽扣在剪得短短的金黄色头发上。斯蒂芬·迪达勒斯和林奇穿过人群，同英国兵擦身而过。）

士兵康普顿

（晃动手指）给牧师[7] 让路。

士兵·卡尔

（转过身来招呼）哦，牧师！

西茜·卡弗里

（嗓音越来越高）

她拿到了鸭腿儿。

不知放在哪儿啦，

把鸭腿儿给了她。

（斯蒂芬左手抡着梣木手杖，快活地唱着复活节“将祭文”。林奇陪伴着她，将骑手帽低低地拉到额下，皱起眉头，面上泛着不悦的冷笑。）

斯蒂芬

我瞧见殿堂右手喷出一股水。哈利路亚。

（一个上了年纪的妓院老鸨从门口龇出饥饿的龅牙。）

老鸨

（嗓音嘶哑地低声说）嘘！过来呀，我告诉你。里面有个黄花姑娘哩。嘘！

斯蒂芬

（略提高嗓音）凡是挨近水的人。

老鸨

（在他们背后恶狠狠地啐了一口）三一学院的医科学生。输卵管咋啦？尽管长了根鸡巴，可一个子儿也不称。

（伊迪·博德曼吸吮着鼻涕，跟伯莎·萨波尔蜷缩在一

起。此刻拉过披肩掩住鼻孔。）

伊迪·博德曼

（骂骂咧咧地）接着，那家伙说：“我瞧见你在弗思富尔广场跟你那个戴睡帽的浪荡汉——铁道涂油工一道鬼混啦。”“你瞧见了又怎么样？”我说。“你这是多管闲事，”我说。“你从来也没见我跟一个有老婆的山地人勾搭过！”我说。瞧她那副德性！一个告密者！顽固得像头骡子！她自己才同时跟两个男人一道溜达呢：火车司机基尔布赖德和一等兵奥利芬特。

斯蒂芬

（得意洋洋地）个个都得到拯救。[8]

（他胡乱木手杖，瓦斯灯的晕轮便抖动起来，那光撒遍世界。一只到处觅食的白色褐斑长毛垂耳狗吼叫着，跟在他后面。林奇踢了它一脚，把它吓跑了。）

林奇

还有呢？

斯蒂芬

（回头望了望）因此，将成为人类共同语言的，乃是手势，而并非音乐或气味。这种传达手段所明确显示的不是通常的意义，而是生命第一原理，结构性的节奏。

林奇

黄色哲学的言语宗教学。梅克伦堡街[ 9] 的形而上学！

斯蒂芬

莎士比亚就受尽了悍妇的折磨，苏格拉底也怕老婆。就连那位绝顶聪明的斯塔基莱特人[10]都被一个荡妇套上嚼子和笼头，骑来骑去。

林奇

哎！

斯蒂芬

不管怎样，谁需要打两次手势来比划面包和瓮呢？在莪默的诗里，这个动作就表示面包和酒瓮。[11]替我拿着手杖。

林奇

让你的黄手杖见鬼去吧。咱们到哪儿去呀？

斯蒂芬

好色的山猫[12]，咱们找无情的美女乔治娜·约翰逊[13]去，走向年少时曾赐与我欢乐的女神。[14]

（斯蒂芬把梣木手杖塞给林奇，缓缓摊开双手，头朝后仰。在距胸部一拃的地方手心向下，十指尖交叉，若即若离。左手举得略高。）

林奇

哪个是面包瓮[15]？简直不中用。究竟是瓮还是海关，你来说明吧。喏，接住你的拐棍儿，走吧。

（他们走过去。汤米·卡弗里爬行到一根瓦斯灯杆跟前，紧紧抱住它，使劲爬上去。接着又从顶上前蹬后踹地哧溜下来。杰基·卡弗里也抱住灯杆要往上爬。一个壮工歪倚着灯杆。双胞胎摸着黑仓皇逃走。工人晃晃悠悠地用食指按住鼻翼的一边，从另一边鼻孔里擤出长长的一条鼻涕。壮工挑着忽明忽暗的号灯，从人丛中脚步蹒跚地踱去。

（河雾宛若一条条的蛇一般徐徐蠕动过来。从阴沟、裂缝、污水坑和粪堆，向四面八方发散出污浊的臭气。南面，在朝海洋流去的河水那边，有红光跳跃着。壮工拨开人群，朝着电车轨道侧线趔趔趄趄地走去。远处，布卢姆出现在铁桥下的彼端，面庞涨得通红，气喘吁吁，正往侧兜里塞面包和巧克力。隔着吉伦理发店的窗户可以瞥见一帧综合照片[ 16] ，映出纳尔逊的潇洒英姿。映在旁边那凹面镜里的是害着相思病、憔悴不堪、阴郁忧伤的布——卢——姆。严峻的格拉顿从正面逼视着他——身为布卢姆的布卢姆。骠悍的威灵顿瞪着双目，吓得他赶紧走过去，然而映在凸面镜里那小猪眼睛肥下巴胖脸蛋儿、快快活活的波尔迪，逗乐的笨蛋，笑嘻嘻的，却丝毫也没让他受惊。

（布卢姆走到安东尼奥·拉白奥蒂的门口时停下脚步。在亮晃晃的弧光灯下淌着汗。他消失了一下，俄而又重新出现，匆匆赶路。）

布卢姆

鱼配土豆，哎，真够呛！

（他消失在正往下撂百叶窗的奥尔豪森猪肉店里。少顷，呼哧呼哧的布——卢——姆，气喘吁吁的波尔迪，又从百叶窗底下钻出来。两只手里各拎着一个包儿。一包是温吞吞的猪脚，另一包是冷羊蹄，上面撒着整粒的胡椒。他喘着气，直挺挺地站在那里。然后歪起身子，用一个包儿顶住肋骨，呻吟着。）

布卢姆

小肚子疼得慌。我何必这么跑呢？

（他小心翼翼地呼吸，慢慢腾腾地朝着点了灯的岔道走去。红灯又跳跃了。）

布卢姆

那是什么？是信号灯吗？是探照灯哩。

（他站在科马克那家店的拐角处，观望着。）

布卢姆

是北极光[17]，还是炼钢厂？啊，当然是消防队喽。不管怎样，是南边。好大一片火焰。说不定是他[18]的房子哩。贝格尔灌木[ 19] 。我们家不要紧。（他愉快地哼唱。）伦敦着火啦，伦敦着火啦！[ 20] 着火啦；着火啦！（他瞥见壮工在塔尔博街另一头拨开人群穿行。）我会跟他失散的。跑！快点儿。不如从这儿穿过去。

（他一个箭步蹿过马路。顽童们喊叫。）

顽童们

当心点儿，大爷！

（两个骑车人，点燃的纸灯晃悠着，丁零零地响着铃，像游泳般地擦身而过。）

铃铛

丁零零，丁零零。

布卢姆

（脚上抽筋，直挺挺的站着）噢！

（他四下里望望，猛地朝前一蹿。穿过朦朦上升的雾，一辆龙头撒沙车[21]谨慎地驶来。它眨巴着巨大的前灯，沉甸甸地朝他压将过来。车顶的触轮嘶嘶地摩擦着电线。驾驶员当当地踩着脚钟。）

警钟

当当布啦吧喀布啦德吧咯布卢。

（制动器猛烈地嘎嘎响。布卢姆举起那只像警察般戴着白手套的手，双腿僵直地跌跌撞撞跳离路轨。长着狮子鼻的电车司机猛地栽到驾驶盘上。他一边滑也似的驶过去，一边从轮锁与销子上面叫喊。）

司机

嘿，你这屎裤子，打算耍帽子把戏[22]吗？

（布卢姆灵巧地跳到边石上，又停下脚步。他伸出一只拿着包包的手，从脸蛋儿上抹掉溅上去的泥点子。）

布卢姆

原来是禁止通行。好险哪，然而这下子疼痛倒是消了，又得重新练练桑道操[23]了。俯卧撑。还得加入交通事故保险才行。天主保佑。（他摸了摸裤兜。）可怜的妈妈的身符。鞋后跟动不动就被轨道卡住，鞋带又容易被车轮勾住。有一天在利奥纳德街的拐角那儿、，警察局的囚车把我一只鞋刮走了。第三回就灵验了。用鞋耍把戏。司机真蛮横。我本该举报他。他们太紧张了，所以弄得神经过敏。今天早晨我瞧马车里那个女人时，跟我捣乱的，兴许就是这个家伙。同一类的美人儿。不管怎么说，他的动作够敏捷的哩。腿脚不灵便了。用打趣的口吻说真心话。在莱德小巷，抽筋抽得好厉害。我大概是食物中毒吧。幸运的征兆。怎么回事呢？那也许是私宰的牛。牲口身上打着烙印。（他闭一会儿眼睛。）头有点儿发晕。每月都闹一次，要么就是另外那档子事的反应。脑袋瓜儿晕晕忽忽的。那种疲倦的感觉。我已经吃不消啦。

噢！

（一个不祥的人影交叉着腿，倚着奥贝恩[24]的墙。这是一张陌生的脸，仿佛注射了发黑的水银。那人影从一顶墨西哥阔帽底下，用凶狠的目光盯着他。）

布卢姆

晚上好，怀特小姐。这是什么街呀？[25]

人影

（面无表情地举起胳膊作为信号）口令。马博特街[26]。

布卢姆

哈哈。谢谢。世界语。再见。[27]（他喃喃地说）是那个爱打架的家伙派来的盖尔语联盟的密探。

（他向前迈步。一个肩上扛着麻袋的拾破烂的拦住他的去路。他朝左边走，拾破烂的也朝左拐。）

布卢姆

劳驾。

（他朝右边跳去，拾破烂的也朝右跳。）

布卢姆

劳驾。

（他转了个弯，侧身而行，躲到一旁，悄悄地溜过去往前走。

布卢姆

一直靠右边、右边、右边走。旅行俱乐部在斯蒂普阿塞德竖起了路标，是谁带来这项公共福利的呢？是由于我迷了路，给《爱尔兰骑车人》的读者来信栏写了封信，题目是《在最黑暗的斯蒂普阿塞德》。靠、靠、靠右边走。半夜里捡着破烂和骨头。更像是买卖贼赃哩。杀人凶手首先会到这种地方来，以便洗涤尘世间的罪恶。

（杰基·卡弗里被汤米·卡弗里追逐着奔来，同布卢姆撞个满怀。）

布卢姆

噢！

（吓了一跳，大腿发软，停了下来。汤米和杰基就在那儿，当场失去踪影。布卢姆双手持包，轻拍着怀表袋，装笔记本的裤兜，装皮夹子的裤兜，那本《偷情的快乐》、土豆和香皂。）

布卢姆

可得当心扒手。小偷儿惯耍的花招：撞你一下，顺手就摸走你的包。

（一只能叼回猎物的狼狗，鼻子贴地嗅着，踱了过来。一个仰卧着的人影打了个喷嚏。出现了一个弯腰驼背、留着胡子的人。他身着锡安的长老所穿的那种长袍，头戴有着深红流苏的吸烟帽。玳瑁框眼镜一直耷拉到鼻翼上。鼻歪嘴斜的脸上是一道道黄色毒药的斑痕。）

鲁道尔夫

今天你是第二次浪费半克朗银市了。我不是跟你说过吗：决不可跟那帮异教徒醉鬼们混在一起。瞧，你就是攒不住钱。

布卢姆

（将猪脚和羊蹄藏在背后，垂头丧气地抚摩着温吞吞的和冰冷的脚肉和蹄肉。）是的，我明白，爹。[28]

鲁道尔夫

你在这儿干些什么名堂啊？你没有灵魂吗？（他伸出虚弱的秃鹫爪子，抚摩着布卢姆那沉默的脸。）你不是我儿子利奥波德吗？不是利奥波德的孙子吗？你不是我那亲爱的儿子利奥波德吗？就是那个离开父亲的家，也离开祖先亚伯拉罕和雅各的上帝的利奥波德吗？

布卢姆

（惶恐地）大概是的，父亲。莫森索尔[ 29] 。这就是他的下场。

鲁道尔夫

（严厉地）那天晚上，你把宝贵的金钱挥霍了一通，喝得烂醉如泥，被他们护送回家。那帮流浪汉究竟是你的一些什么人？

布卢姆

（身着年轻人穿的一套时髦的蓝色牛津服装，白色窄肩背心，头戴褐色登山帽。怀里是一块绅士用的纯银沃特伯里牌转柄表，佩着一条缀有图章的艾伯特双饰链[30]。半边身子满是厚厚一层泥巴。）是越野赛跑的选手，父亲。我就那么一回。

鲁道尔夫

一回！从头到脚都是泥。手上还划破了个口子。会患破伤风的。他们会要你命的，充满生气的利奥波德。对那帮家伙你可得当心啊。

布卢姆

（懦弱地）他们问我敢不敢比比短跑。道路上净是泥，我跌了一跤。

鲁道尔夫

（轻蔑地）不务正业的异教徒。[31]你那可怜的母亲要是看见了该怎么说！

布卢姆

妈妈！

艾琳·布卢姆

（她手里斜端着蜡台，出现在楼梯栏杆上端。头戴哑剧中贵妇人戴的那种下巴上系带子的头巾式软帽，身穿寡妇吐安基[32]那种有衬架和腰垫的裙子；衬衫钮扣钉在背后，袖子是羊脚型的；戴着灰色露指长手套，配以有浮雕的玉石胸针。盘成辫子的头发用绉网罩起。她吃惊地尖声嚷叫。）噢，神圣的救世主，这孩子给糟践成什么样子啦！快给我嗅盐[33]。（她撩起一道裙褶，在那铅灰色条纹衬裙的兜儿里摸索。从兜儿里掉出一只小药瓶、一枚“天主羔羊”[34]、一只干瘪的土豆和一个赛璐璐玩偶。）圣母圣心啊，你到底在哪儿呢，在哪儿呢？

（布卢姆嗫嚅着，两眼垂下，开始把那两个包儿往鼓鼓囊囊的兜儿里塞，却又打消了这个念头，嘴里不知嘟囔些什么。）

声音

（尖锐地）波尔迪！

布卢姆

谁呀？（他急忙弯下腰去，笨拙地搪开什么人打过来的一拳。）有何贵干？

（他抬头看。眼前出现了一位亭亭玉立、身着土耳其装束的美女，旁边是几棵枣椰树的蜃景。丰腴的曲线将她那猩红色长裤与短上衣撑得鼓鼓的，开叉儿处露出金色衬里。她系着一条宽幅黄色腰带，脸上蒙着白色——夜间变为紫罗兰色——面纱，只露出一双乌黑的大眼睛和黑亮的头发。）

布卢姆

摩莉！

玛莉恩

什么呀？亲爱的，打今儿起，你招呼我的时候，就叫我玛莉恩太太吧。（用挖苦口吻）可怜的小丈夫，叫你等了这么半天，脚都冰凉了吧？

布卢姆

（调换了一下双脚的位置）不，不，一点儿都不。（他极其激动地呼吸着，大口大口地吞进空气。有多少话想问，有多少希望，为她的晚餐备下的猪脚，要告诉她的事，解释，欲望，简直着迷了。一枚硬币在她前额上闪烁着。她脚上戴着几枚宝石趾环。踝部戴着纤细的脚镣。她身旁是一只骆驼，缠着塔楼状头巾，伫候着。那上下跳动着的驼桥[35]，垂下一道有着无数阶磴的绸梯。骆驼不大情愿地摆动着它那臀部，慢慢腾腾地凑过来：她猛揍了一下它的屁股，包金的手镯玎玲玲响着，愠怒地用摩尔话骂他：）

玛莉恩

女性的小天堂！[36]

（骆驼举起一只前脚，从树上摘下一枚大芒果，将它夹在偶蹄间，献给女主人。然后它眨巴着眼睛，扬起脖子，耷拉下脑袋，咕哝着，挣扎着跪下。布卢姆像做蛙跳游戏般地弯下腰去。）

布卢姆

我可以给你……我的意思是说：作为你的经纪人……玛莉恩太太……假若你……

玛莉恩

那么，你注意到什么变化了吗？（双手徐徐地抚摩饰着珠宝的三角胸衣，眼中逐渐显出友善的揶揄神色。）哦，波尔迪，波尔迪，你依然是个老古板！去见见世面，到广阔的天地中去[37]开开眼界吧。

布卢姆

我正要折回去取那加了香橙花液的白蜡洗剂呢。每逢星期四，铺子总要提前打烊。可是，明天早晨我首先要办的就是这事儿。（他把身上的几个兜儿都拍了拍。）浮游肾。哎！

（他指指南边，又指指东边。一块洁净、崭新的柠檬肥皂发散出光与芳香，冉冉升起。）

肥皂

布卢姆和我，是般配的一对。

他拭亮地球，我擦光天空。

（药剂师斯威尼那张满是雀斑的脸出现在太阳牌肥皂的圆盘上。）

斯威尼

您哪，三先令一便士。

布卢姆

好的。是为我老婆买的。玛莉恩太太。特制的。

玛莉恩

（柔声）波尔迪！

布卢姆

哦，太太？

玛莉恩

你的心跳得快些了吗？[38]

（她面泛轻蔑神色款款踱开，嘴里哼着《唐乔万尼》中的二重唱。她身材丰满得像只娇养着的胸脯鼓鼓的鸽子。）

布卢姆

关于“沃利奥”[39]，你有把握吗？我指的是发音……

（他尾随于后，四处嗅着的狼狗又跟踪着他。上了年纪的老鸨拽住他的袖子。她下巴上的那颗黑痣上长的毛闪闪发光。）

老鸨

一个处女十先令。黄花姑娘哩，从来没有人碰过。才十五岁。家里除了她那烂醉的爹，啥人也没有。

（她伸手指了指。布赖迪·凯利[40]被雨淋得精湿，站在她那黑洞洞的魔窟裂缝里。）

布赖迪

哈奇街。你心目中有好的吗？

（她尖口叫一声。唿扇着蝙蝠般的披肩，撒腿就跑。一个粗壮的暴徒脚蹬长靴，跨着大步追赶着。他在台阶那儿磕绊了一下，站稳了，纵身一跳，消失在黑暗中。传来一阵微弱的尖笑声，越来越低微了。）

老鸨

（她那狼一般的眼睛贼亮贼亮的）那位老爷找乐子去啦。在妓馆里可弄不到黄花闺女。十先令。可要是整宵泡在这儿，会给便衣警察撞上的。六十六号巡警可真是个狗养的。

（格蒂·麦克道维尔斜瞅着。一瘸一拐地走过来。她一面送秋波，一面从背后抽出血迹斑斑的布片，卖弄风情地拿给他看。）

格蒂

我把在世上的全部财产你和你[41]。（她喃喃地说）是你干的。我恨你。

布卢姆

我？什么时候？你作梦哪，我从来没见过你。

老鸨

你这骗子，放开老爷。还给老爷写什么满纸瞎话的信。满街拉客卖淫。像你这么个荡妇，就欠你妈没把你捆在床柱子上，用皮带抽你一顿。

格蒂

（对布卢姆）我那衬裤的秘密，你统统瞧见了。（她哽咽着，爱抚他的袖子。）你这个下流的有妇之夫！正因为你对我干了那档子事，我爱你。

（她跛着脚溜走了。布林太太身穿有着松垮垮的褶裥口袋的起绒粗呢男大氅，伫立在人行道上。她那双调皮的眼睛睁得老大，笑咪咪地龇着食草动物般的龅牙。）

布林太太

这位先生是……

布卢姆

（庄重地咳嗽着）太太，我荣幸地收到了您本月十六日的大函……

布林太太

布卢姆先生！你竟跑到这罪恶的魔窟来啦！这下狐狸尾巴可给我抓住啦！你这个流氓！

布卢姆

（着了慌）别那么大声喊我的名字。你究竟把我看成什么人啦？可别出卖我。隔墙有耳嘛。你好吗？好久不见啦。你看上去挺好。可不是嘛。这月气候真好。黑色能够折射光。从这儿抄近路就到家啦。这一带蛮有趣。拯救沦落的风尘女子。玛达琳济良所。我是秘书……

布林太太

（翘起一个指头）喏，别瞎扯啦！我知道有人不喜欢这样。哦，等我见了摩莉再说！（狡黠地）你最好马上如实招来，否则就会大难临头！

布卢姆

（回头看看）她时常念叨要来见识见识哩。逛逛这花街柳巷。喏，异国情调嘛。她说要是有钱，还想雇上几名穿号衣的黑皮肤仆役呢。就像黑兽奥瑟罗那样的。[42]尤金·斯特拉顿[43]。连利弗莫尔黑脸合唱团[44]的打拍员和巧辩演员[45]都行。还有博赫弟兄[46]。只要是黑的，连扫烟囱的都成。

（化装成黑脸的汤姆和萨姆，博赫跳了出来，身穿雪白帆布上衣，猩红短袜，浆洗得硬梆梆的萨姆勃[47]高领，扣眼儿里插着大朵的鲜红紫苑花。肩上各挂着一把五弦琴[48]。黑人特有的浅黑小手嘣嘣地拨弄着琴弦。一双白色卡菲尔[49]那样的眼睛和一嘴暴牙闪闪发光。他们脚蹬粗陋的木靴，咯噔咯噔地跳着喧嚣、急促的双人舞。拨弦，歌唱，忽而背对背，忽而脚尖挨后跟，忽而又后跟挨脚尖。用黑人的厚嘴唇吱吱咂咂地鼓噪助威。）

汤姆与萨姆

有人和迪娜一道在家里，

有人呆在家里，我知道的，

有人和迪娜一道在家里，

弹奏那把古老的五弦琴[50 ] 。

（他们猛地摘掉黑人面具，露出那淳朴的娃娃脸。然后哧哧窃笑，哈哈大笑，咚咚、当当地奏着琴，跳着步态舞，扬长而去。）

布卢姆

（面泛着酸溜溜甜蜜蜜的微笑）要是你有兴致的话，咱俩何妨也厮混一阵？也许你肯让我拥抱上那么几分之一秒吧？

布林太太

（快活地尖口叫着）哦，你这个傻瓜！也该去照照镜子！

布卢姆

咱们是老交情嘛。我的意思不过是要在两对不同的小夫妻问再来个杂婚，也就是交老婆。你晓得，在我心窝儿里对你总有点儿意思。（忧郁地）情人节那天，是我把那张可爱的小羚羊图片送给你的。

布林太太

哎呀，天哪，瞧你这副丑样子！简直是滑稽。（她好奇地伸出一只手。）你背后藏着什么？告诉咱，好乖乖。
布卢姆

（用自己空着的那只手攥住她那只手的手腕子。）当年的乔西·鲍威尔[51]是都柏林首屈一指的美人儿。时间过得好快啊！咱们回顾一下吧。你还记得一个圣诞夜，乔治娜·辛普森举行新屋落成宴那次，他们玩欧文·毕晓普游戏[52]：蒙起眼睛找饰针啦，表演测心术什么的。提问：这只鼻烟盒里装着什么？

布林大太

那天晚上你可是明星，表演半滑稽的朗诵，演得维妙维肖。你一向都是妇女们的红人儿。

布卢姆

（装扮成贵妇的随从。身着波纹绸镶边的无尾晚礼服，扣眼上戴着一枚共济会蓝色徽章，系着黑蝴蝶结领带，珍珠领扣，一只手里歪举着棱形的香槟酒杯。）女士们，先生们，为了爱尔兰，为了家园和丽人[53]干杯。

布林太太

那一去不复返的日子令人怀念。那古老甜蜜的情歌[54]。

布卢姆

（有意把嗓门放低）说实在的，我怀着强烈的好奇心想知道，某一位的某物眼下是不是有点儿热热的。

布林太太

（亲昵地）热得厉害！伦敦热热的，我简直浑身热热的！（同他的侧腹相蹭蹬）咱们在客厅里玩猜谜游戏，再从圣诞树上取下摔炮玩它一阵然后就坐在楼梯口的长凳上，檞寄生枝[55]的荫影里。光是咱俩在一起。

布卢姆

（头戴缀有琥珀色半月的紫色拿破仑帽，慢慢地把手指放到她那柔软、湿润、丰腴的手心里。她顺从地任听他摆布。）那是一夜之中最阴森的时候[56] 。我小心翼翼地从这只手里慢慢儿挑出一根刺。（将一枚红玉戒指轻轻地套到她的手指上，并温存他说）手拉着手[57]。

布林太大

（身穿染成月白色的连衣裙式晚礼服，额上戴着一顶华丽灿烂的仙女冠，跳舞卡片落在月白色缎子拖鞋旁边。她温柔地弯起手掌。急促地喘着气。）我要，又[58] ……你发烧哪！你都烫伤啦！左手最挨近心脏啦。

布卢姆

当你做了目前这个选择时，人家都说你们不啻是美女与野兽[59]。对这一点，我永远也不能饶恕你。（他攥起一个拳头，按住前额。）想想看，这对我意味着什么。当年，你对我意味着一切。（沙哑地）女人哪，快要把我毁灭啦！

（丹尼斯·布林头戴白色大礼帽，前后胸挂着威兹德姆·希利的广告牌，吸拉着毡拖鞋，从他们身边磨蹭着踱过去。他那把不起眼的胡子扎煞着，忽而朝左边，忽而朝右边咕哝着。小个子阿尔夫·柏根身穿印有黑桃么[60]的外套，笑弯了腰。忽而朝左忽而朝右地跟踪着他。）

阿尔夫·柏根

（嘲弄地指着广告牌）万事休矣：完蛋。

布林太太

（对布卢姆）楼下在表演天翻地覆[61]。（给他递了个媚眼）你为什么不吻一吻那个部位，好医治创伤呢？你心里直痒痒嘛。

布卢姆

（震惊）你是摩莉最好的朋友啊！怎么能这样？

布林太大

（从嘴唇问伸出果肉般的舌头，想要给他个鸽吻）哼。你问得无聊，没法回答。你那里有什么小礼物送给我吗？

布卢姆

（生硬地）清真食品。当晚饭吃的快餐。家里没有李树商标罐头肉，那就是美中不足[62]。我看了《丽亚》的演出，班德曼·帕默夫人，她演的莎士比亚，真是再精采不过了。可惜我把节目单扔了。要是买猪脚，就数这个地方好。摸摸看。

（里奇·古尔丁用饰针在头上别了三顶女帽，腋下夹着考立斯- 沃德律师事务所的公文包，上面用白灰涂着一副骷髅与交叉的大腿骨。公文包太重，使他的身子往一边坠。打开一看，满是半熟的干香肠，熏曹白鱼、芬顿[63] 黑线鳕和裹得严严实实的药丸。）

里奇

都柏林的东西，货真价实。

（秃头帕特，愁眉苦脸的聋子，站在人行道的边石上，折叠着餐巾，等着服侍客人。）

帕特

（斜端着一只盘子，嘀嘀嗒嗒地洒着肉汁）牛排和腰子。一瓶贮存啤酒[64]。嘻嘻嘻。等着我来上吧。

里奇

老天爷，我从来也没吃过……

（他耷拉着脑袋一个劲儿地往前走。躲藏在左近的壮工用火热的角叉戳了他一下。）

里奇

（伸手按住背部，痛苦地喊叫）啊！布赖特氏病[65]！肺脏！

布卢姆

（指着壮工）一个奸细。别惹人注意。我对愚蠢的人群厌恶透了，我可没有心情去找乐子，我处在严重的困境中。

布林太太

你这是照例用老一套的谎话来骗人。

布卢姆

关于我怎么会来到这儿，我想透露给你个小小的秘密。但是你可别告诉旁人。甚至连对摩莉也不能说。有个特殊的原因。

布林太太

（极度兴奋）哦，无论如何也不会说出去。

布卢姆

咱们去散散步好吗？

布林太太

好的。

（老鸨打了个手势，无人理睬。布卢姆和布林太太一道走起来。骾狗可怜巴巴地呜呜叫着，摇着尾巴跟在后面。）

老鸨

犹大人的脾脏！

布卢姆

（身穿燕麦色运动服，翻领上插着一小枝忍冬草，里面是时髦的浅黄色衬衫，系着印有圣安德鲁十字架的黑白方格花呢领带。白色鞋罩，臂上挎了件鹿毛色风衣，脚蹬赤褐色生皮翻毛皮鞋。将一架双筒望远镜像子弹带那样斜挎在肩上，头戴一顶灰色宽边低顶的毡帽。）你还记得吗，很久很久，多年以前，米莉——我们管她叫玛莉奥内特。刚断奶，我们大家曾一道去看过仙女房赛马会？

布林太太

（穿一身定做的款式新颖的萨克森蓝衣衫，头戴白丝绒帽，脸上蒙着蛛网状面纱。）在利奥波德镇。

布卢姆

对，是利奥波德镇。摩莉把赌注下在一匹名叫“永勿说”的马上，赢了七先令。然后坐那辆有五个座位的双轮破旧马车，沿着福克斯罗克回的家。当时你可风华正茂，戴着镶了一圈鼹鼠皮的白丝绒新帽。那是海斯太太劝你买的，因为价钱降到十九先令十一便士了。其实就是那么一点铜丝支着一些破破烂烂的旧丝绒。我敢跟你打赌，她准是故意的……

布林太太

当然喽，可不是嘛，猫婆子！别说下去啦！真会出馊主意！

布卢姆

比起另外那顶插上极乐鸟翅膀的可爱的宽顶无檐小圆帽来，它连四分之一也跟你般配不上。你戴上那一顶，简直太迷人啦，我十分神往。可惜宰那只乌儿大损了，你这淘气残忍的人儿。那小鸟的心脏只有一个句号那么大呀。

布林太太

（捏他的胳膊，假笑）我确实又淘气又残忍来着！

布卢姆

（低声说悄悄话，语调越来越快）摩莉还从乔·加拉赫太太[66]的午餐篮里拿一块香辣牛肉三明治吃。老实说，尽管她有一批参谋或崇拜者，我一向不喜欢她那派头。她……

布林太太

过于……

布卢姆

是呀。摩莉那时正在笑，因为当我们从一座农舍前面经过的时候，罗杰斯和马戈特·奥里利学起鸡叫来了。茶叶商人马库斯。特蒂乌斯·摩西带上他的女儿乘着轻便二轮马车赶到我们前面去了。她名叫舞女摩西。坐在她腿上的那只长卷毛狗神气活现地昂着头。你问我，可曾听说过、读到过、经历过或遇上过……

布林太太

（起劲地）对呀，对呀，对呀，对呀，对呀，对呀，对呀。（她从他身边倏地消失。他朝地狱门[67]走去，后边跟了一条呜呜叫着的骾狗。一个妇女站在拱道上，弯下身子，叉开双腿，像头母牛那样在撒尿。已经撂下百叶窗的酒吧外面，聚着一群游手好闲的人，倾听着他们那个塌鼻梁的工头用急躁刺耳的沙声讲着妙趣横生的故事。其中一对缺臂者半开玩笑地扭打起来。残疾人之间进行着拙笨的较量，吼叫着，扑通一声倒下去。）

工头

（蹲着，瓮声瓮气地）当凯恩斯从比弗街的脚手架上走下来后，你们猜猜他往什么地方撒来着？竟然往放在刨花上的那桶黑啤酒里撒了一泡，可那是给德尔旺的泥水匠准备的呀！[68]

游手好闲的人们

（从豁嘴唇里发出傻笑）哦，天哪!

（他们摇晃着那满是油漆斑点的帽子，这些无臂者身上沾满了作坊的胶料和石灰，在他周围跳跳蹦蹦。）

布卢姆

也是个巧合。他们还觉得挺可笑哩。其实，一点儿也不。光天化日之下，想试着走走。幸亏没有女人在场。

游手好闲的人们

天哪，真有意思。结晶硫酸钠。哦，天哪，往那些人的黑啤酒里撒了一泡。

（布卢姆走过去。下等窑姐儿，或只身或结伴，裹着披肩，

头发蓬乱，从小巷子、门口和拐角处大声拉客。）

窑姐儿们

去远处吗怪哥哥？

中间那条腿好吗？

身上没带火柴吗？

来吧，我把你那根弄硬了。

（他拖着沉重的脚步穿过她们那片污水坑，走向灯光明亮的大街。鼓着风的窗帘那边，留声机扬起那老掉了牙的黄铜喇叭。阴影里，一家非法出售漏税酒的酒吧老板正跟壮工和两个英国兵在讨价还价。）

壮工

（打嗝）那家该死的小店儿在哪儿？

老板

珀登街。一瓶黑啤酒一先令[69]。还有体面的娘儿们。

壮工

（拽住两个英国兵，跟他们一道脚步蹒跚地往前走。）来呀，你们这些英国兵！

士兵卡尔

（在他背后）这小子一点儿也不傻。

士兵康普顿

（大笑）嗬，可不是嘛！

士兵卡尔

（对壮工）贝洛港营盘[70]的小卖部。找卡尔。光找卡尔就行。

壮工

（大声喊）我们是韦克斯福德的男子汉。[71]

士兵康普顿

喂！你觉得军士长怎么样？

士兵卡尔

贝内特吗？他是我的伙伴。我喜欢亲爱的贝内特。[72]

壮工

（大喊）

……磨人的锁链，

迎来祖国的解放。[ 73]

（他拖着他们，摇摇晃晃地往前走。布卢姆不知所措，停下脚步。骾狗耷拉着舌头，气喘吁吁地靠过来。）

布卢姆

简直就像是在追“野鹅”。[74]乌七八糟的妓院。天晓得他们到哪儿去了。醉汉跑起来要快上一倍。一场热闹的混战。先在韦斯特兰横街车站吵了一通，然后又拿着三等车票跳进头等车厢。一下子被拉得老远。火车头是装在列车后头的。有可能把我拉到马拉海德，要么就在侧线过夜，要么就是两趟列车相撞。都是喝第二遍喝醉的。一遍其实正好。我跟在他后面干什么？不论怎样，他是那帮人当中最像个样儿的。要不是听说了博福伊·普里福伊太太的事儿，我决不会去，那么也就遇不上他了。这都是命中注定的。他会丢失那笔钱的。这里是济贫所[75]。沿街叫卖的小贩和放高利贷的倒是有好生意可做啦。你缺点儿啥？来得容易，去得也快。有一次，几乎给司机开的那辆当啷啷响的锃亮有轨电动讫里什那神像车[76] 轱辘压了。要不是我头脑镇定，早就把命送掉了。不过，并非每一次都能幸免。那天倘若我迟两分钟走过特鲁洛克的窗户，就会给枪杀的。亏得我没在那儿。然而，要是子弹仅仅穿透了我的上衣，我倒是能为了受惊而索取五百英镑的赔偿费哩。他是干什么的来着？基尔代尔街俱乐部的花花公子。替他看守猎场也够不容易的。

（他朝前望着那用粉笔在一面墙上胡乱画着的阴茎图案，下面题着：《梦遗》。）

奇怪！在金斯敦，摩莉也曾往结了一层霜的马车玻璃上画各式各样的图来着。画的是些什么呢？（衣着花哨、像玩偶般的女人懒洋洋地靠在灯光明亮的门口或漏斗状窗口，吸着鸟眼纹理烟卷[77]。令人作呕的甜蜜的烟草气味慢慢形成椭圆形的环，向他飘来。）

烟环

快乐真甜蜜。偷情的快乐[78]。

布卢姆

我的脊骨有点儿酸痛。往前走，还是折回去呢？还有这吃的呢？吃下去，浑身都会粘上猪的味道。我太荒谬了。白糟塌钱。多付了一先令八便士[79]。（狼狗摇着尾巴，流着鼻涕的冰凉鼻子往他手上蹭。）奇怪，它们怎么这么喜欢我。今天连那只猛犬都是这样。不妨先跟它说说话。它们就像女人一样，喜欢逢场作戏[80]。发出一股鸡貂的气味。各有所好。兴许这还是一条疯狗呢。大热天的。脚步也不稳。费多！好小子！加里欧文[81]。（那只狼狗摊开四肢趴在他的背上，伸出长长的黑舌头。用乞讨的前爪作猥亵状，扭动着。）是环境的影响。给它点儿什么，把它打发走吧。只要没有人在场。

（亲切地招呼着，像一个鬼鬼祟祟的偷猎者似的蹒蹒跚跚地蜇回来。在那只塞特种猎狗的跟随下，走进满是尿骚气味的黑暗角落。他打开一个包儿，刚要轻轻地丢掉猪脚，却又停下手来，并摸摸羊蹄。）才三便士，可真不小。但是我只好用左手拿着它。更吃力一些。为什么呢？不大用，所以就抽缩了。哦，给掉拉倒。两先令六便士。

（他打开包，依依不舍地将猪脚羊蹄丢过去。那只皮滑腰短的大看家狗拙笨地撕咬着那摊肉，贪婪地嘷叫着，嘎吱嘎吱啃着骨头。两名披着防雨斗篷的巡警在旁警戒着，默默地走近。他们不约而同地念叨。）

巡警们

布卢姆。布卢姆的。为布卢姆。布卢姆。[ 82]

（他们各伸出一只手，按在布卢姆肩上。）

巡警甲

当场抓获，不许随地小便。

布卢姆

（结巴着）我在替大家做好事哪。

（一群海鸥与海燕饥饿地从利菲河的稀泥里飞起，口中衔着班伯里馅饼。）

海鸥们

嗒噶啦嘣吧哩吓乒。[83]

布卢姆

这是人类的朋友，是用慈爱之心来培养的。

（他指了指。鲍勃·多兰正从酒吧问的高凳上越过嘴里正贪馋地咀嚼着什么的长毛垂耳狗，栽了下来。）

鲍勃·多兰

陶瑟尔。把爪子伸过来。把爪子伸过来。[84]

（那只斗犬竖起颈背，低沉地怒吼着。它用臼齿叨着猪蹄，齿缝间嘀嘀嗒嗒淌着狂犬病那满是泡沫的涎水。鲍勃·多兰静悄悄地跌到地下室前的空地上。）

巡警乙

禁止虐待动物。

布卢姆

（热切地）功德无量！在哈罗德陆桥上，有个车把式正虐待一匹被挽具磨伤了皮肉的可怜的马，我就朝他嚷了一通。结果自废力气，倒招得他用法国话骂了我一顿。当然喽，那天下着霜，又是末班马车。所有关于马戏团生活的故事，全都是极其有伤风化的。

（马菲[85]先生兴奋得脸色苍白，身穿驯狮人的服装，迈步向前。衬衫前胸钉有钻石饰扣，手执马戏团用的大纸圈，马车夫的弯鞭以及一把转轮手枪。他用手枪瞄准大吃大嚼的猎野猪犬。）

马菲先生

（面泛狞笑）女士们，先生们，这是我训练出来的灵猰[86]。用食肉动物专利特许的尖钉鞍，把那匹北美西部平原的野马埃阿斯驯服的，也是我。用满是结子的皮条鞭打它肚子下边。不论多么暴躁的狮子，哪怕是利比亚的食人兽——一头猛狮，只要装个滑车，狠狠地一勒，也会乖乖儿地就范。用烧得通红的铁棍烙过之后，再在烫伤处涂上膏药，便把阿姆斯特丹的弗里茨，会思考的鬣狗造就出来了。（目光炯炯）我掌握印度咒文[87]。靠的是我的两眼和胸前的钻石。（面泛带有魔力的微笑）现在我来介绍一下马戏团的明星鲁碧小姐。

巡警甲

说！姓名和地址。

布卢姆

我一时忘记了。啊，对啦！（他摘下那顶高级帽子，敬礼）布卢姆医生[88]，利奥波德，牙科手术师。你们一定听说过封。布鲁姆·帕夏[89]吧。财产也不知有多少亿英镑。好家伙[90]！他拥有半个奥地利。还有埃及。他是我堂兄。

巡警甲

拿出证据来。

（一张名片从布卢姆那顶帽子的鞣皮圈里掉了下来。）

布卢姆

（头戴红色土耳其帽，身穿穆斯林法官长袍，腰系宽幅绿饰带，胸佩一枚伪造的法国勋级会荣誉军团[91]勋章。他赶紧捡起名片，递上去。）请过目。敝人是陆海军青年军官俱乐部[92]的会员。律师是约翰·亨利·门顿。住在巴切勒步道二十七号。

巡警甲

（读）亨利·弗罗尔。无固定住址。犯有非法埋伏并骚扰罪。

巡警乙

要拿出你不在作案现场的证明。对你是一直提防着的。

布卢姆

（从胸兜里掏出一朵揉皱了的黄花）这就是关键性的那朵花。是一个我连姓名都不晓得的人给我的。（花言巧语地）你知道《卡斯蒂利亚的玫瑰》那个古老的笑话吧。布卢姆。把姓名改改呗。维拉格[93]。（他熟头熟脑他说起贴心话来。）您啊，警官先生，我们是订了婚的。这档子事儿涉及一个女人。爱情纠纷嘛。（他轻轻地拍着巡警乙的肩膀。）真讨厌。我们这些海军里的英俊小 伙子，总是碰上这种事儿。都是这身军服惹出的麻烦。（他一本正经地转向巡警甲。）不过，当然喽，有时也会一败涂地。哪天晚上顺路过来坐坐，咱们喝上一杯陈年的老勃艮第酒吧。（快活地对巡警乙）我来介绍一下，警官先生。她劲头可足啦。不费吹灰之力就能搞到手。

（出现了一张被含汞的药弄得浅黑的脸，后面跟随一个蒙着面纱的身影。）

浅黑水银

都柏林堡正在搜索他呢。他是给军队开除的。

玛莎

（蒙着厚厚的面纱，脖间系着深红色圣巾[94]，手执一份《爱尔兰时报》，以谴责口吻指着说。）亨利！利奥波德！莱昂内尔，迷失的你！[95]替我恢复名誉。

巡警甲

（严峻地）到警察局来一趟吧。

布卢姆

（惊愕，戴上帽子，向后退一步。然后，抓挠胸口，将右臂伸成直角形，做共济会会员的手势和正当防卫的架势。）哪里的话，可敬的师傅[96]，这是个轻佻的女人。她认错人啦。里昂邮件。莱苏尔柯和杜博斯[ 97] 。您该还记得蔡尔兹杀兄案[98]吧。我们是医生。控告我用小斧子把他砍死了，实在是冤枉啊。宁可让一个犯人逃脱法网，也不能错判九十九个无辜者有罪。[99]

玛莎

（蒙着面纱啜泣）他毁弃了誓约。我的真名实姓是佩吉·格里芬。他给我写信说，他很不幸。你这没心肝的专门玩弄女人的家伙，我要告诉我哥哥，他可是贝克蒂夫橄榄球队[100] 的后卫哩。

布卢姆

（用手捂脸）她喝醉啦。这女人喝得酩酊大醉。（他含糊不清地咕哝着以法莲人的口令。）示布罗列[101]。

巡警乙

（泪汪汪地，对布卢姆）你应该感到十分害臊。

布卢姆

陪审团的各位先生，请听我解释一下。真是搞得一塌糊涂啊！我被误解啦。我给当成了替罪羊。我是个体面的有妇之夫，一向品行端正，没有污点。我住在埃克尔斯街，我老婆是赫赫有名的指挥官的女儿，一个豪侠耿直之士，对，叫作布赖恩·特威迪陆军少将。是一位屡次在战役中立过功勋的英国军人，由于英勇地保卫了洛克滩，曾被授予少将头衔。[102]

巡警甲

属于哪个团队？

布卢姆

（转向旁听席）各位，属于举世闻名的都柏林近卫连队，那是社会中坚[103] 啊。我好像瞧见你们当中就有几位他的老战友哩。都柏林近卫步兵连队与首都警察署一道保卫咱们的家园，也是忠于国王陛下的最骁勇精壮的小伙子们。

一个声音

叛徒！谁喊“支持布尔人”来着！谁侮辱了乔·张伯伦？[104]

布卢姆

（一只手扶着巡警甲的肩膀）我老爹也曾当过治安推事。我跟你们一样，也是个忠诚的英国人。正如当时的电讯所报道的那样，为了国王与祖国，我也曾在公园里那位郭富将军麾下，在那场令人心神恍惚的战争中服过役，[105] 转战于斯皮昂·科帕和布隆方丹，受了伤。[106] 战报里还提到过我。凡是白人所能做的，我全做到了。（安洋地，带着感情）吉姆·布卢德索。把船鼻子转向岸边[107]。

巡警甲

报你的职业或行当。

布卢姆

喏，我是耍笔杆子的，作家兼记者。说实在的，我们正在策划出版悬赏短篇小说集，这是我想出来的，是个空前的举动。我跟英国和爱尔兰报纸都有联系。假若你打电话……

（迈尔斯·克劳福德口衔鹅毛笔，跨着大步趔趔趄趄地出现，他那通红的鼻子在草帽的光环中闪闪生辉。他一只手甩着一串西班牙葱头，另一只手将电话机听筒贴着耳朵。）

迈尔斯·克劳福德

（他颈部那公鸡般的垂肉晃来晃去。）喂，七七八四。喂，这里是《自由人尿壶》和《擦臀周刊》。[108] 会使欧洲大吃一惊。[109] 你是哪儿？哦，《蓝袋》[110]吗？由谁执笔？布卢姆吗：

（面色苍白的菲利普·博福伊[111]先生站在证人席上。他身穿整洁的常礼服，胸兜里露出尖尖的一角手绢，笔挺的淡紫色长裤和漆皮靴子。他拎着一只大公事包，上面标着《马查姆的妙举》字样。）

博福伊

（慢腾腾地）不，你不是那样的人。无论怎么看，我也决不认为你是那样的人。一个人只要生来就是个绅士，只要具有绅士那种最起码的素质，就决不会堕落到干下如此令人深恶痛绝的勾当。审判长阁下，他就是那帮人当中的一个。是个剽窃者。戴着文人[112] 面具的油滑而卑怯的家伙。显而易见，他以天生的卑鄙，抄袭了我的几部畅销书。都是些真正了不起的作品，完美的珠玉之作。毫无疑问，他剽窃了其中描绘恋爱的段落。审判长阁下，对以爱情和财富为主题的《博福伊作品集》，您想必是熟悉的，它在王国内也是家喻户晓的。

布卢姆

（羞愧畏缩，低声咕哝）我对那段关于大笑着的魔女手拉着手[113] 的描写有异议，如果我可以……

博福伊

（撇着嘴，目空一切地朝整个法庭狞笑着）你这可笑的笨驴，你呀！简直卑鄙得让人无法形容了！我认为你最好不这么过度地替自己开脱。我的出版代理人J．B. 平克尔[114] 也在座。审判长阁下，我相信会照例付给我们证人出庭费吧？这个讨厌的报人几乎使我们囊空如洗了，这个里姆斯的贼寒鸦[ 115] 连大学都没上过。

布卢姆

（含糊不清地）人生的大学。堕落的艺术。

博福伊

（大声嚷）卑鄙下流的谎话，证明他在道德上的腐败堕落！（打开他的公事包）我这里铁证如山，掌握犯罪事实[116]。审判长阁下，这是我的杰作的样本，可是被这畜生弄上的印记给糟蹋啦。[117]

旁听席上的声音

摩西，摩西，犹太王，

用《日报》把屁股擦。

布卢姆

（勇敢地）太夸张了。

博福伊

你这下流痞子！就该把你丢到洗马池里去，你这无赖！（对法庭）喏，瞧瞧这家伙的私生活吧！他当面一套，背后一套。在外面他是天使，回到家里就成了恶魔。当着妇女的面，他的行为简直不堪入耳！真是当代最大的阴谋家！

布卢姆

（对法庭）可他是个单身汉呀，怎么会……

巡警甲

公诉人控告布卢姆。传妇女德里斯科尔出庭。

庭役

女佣玛丽·德里斯科尔！

（衣着邋遢的年轻女佣玛丽·德里斯科尔走来。臂上挎着一只桶，手持擦地用的刷子。）

巡警乙

又来了一个！你也属于那不幸的阶级吧？

玛丽·德里斯科尔

（愤慨地）我可不是个坏女人。我品行端正，在先前伺候的那一家呆了四个月呢。工钱是每年六英镑，星期五放假。可是这个人调戏我，我就只好辞工不干啦。

巡警甲

你控告他什么？

玛丽·德里斯科尔

他调戏过我。但是我尽管穷，却懂得自重。

布卢姆

（身穿波纹细呢家常短上衣，法兰绒长裤，没有后跟的拖鞋，胡子拉碴，头发稍乱。）我待你蛮好。我送过你纪念品，远远超过你身份的漂亮的鲜棕色袜带。当女主人责备你偷了东西的时候，我轻率地偏袒了你。什么都不要过分，为人得公正。

玛丽·德里斯科尔

（激昂地）今晚当着天主的面发誓。我才不会伸手去拿这样的好处呢！

巡警甲

你控告他什么？发生什么事了吗？

玛丽·德里斯科尔

这个人在房屋后院抽冷子把我吓了一跳，审判长老爷。一天早晨，趁着女主人出门买东西的当儿，他要我摘下一根饰针给他，又搂住了我，害得我身上至今还有四块紫斑。他还两次把手捅进我的衣服里。

布卢姆

她回手打了我。

玛丽·德里斯科尔

（轻蔑地）我更尊重的是擦地的毛刷[118] ，正是这样。审判长老爷，我责备他了。他对我说，可别张扬出去。

（引起一阵哄堂大笑。）

乔治·弗特里尔[119]

（法庭书记。嗓音洪亮地宣布）肃静！现在由被告做他编造的供词。（布卢姆申辩自己无罪。他手持一朵盛开的睡莲花，开始，一场冗长而难以理解的发言。人们将会听取辩护人下面这段对大陪审团所作激动人心的陈说：被告落魄潦倒，尽管被打上害群之马的烙印，他却有决心改邪归正，全然温顺地缅怀过去，作为养得很驯顺的动物回归大自然。他曾经是个七个月就出生的早产儿，由多病并断了弦的老父精心抚养大的。他本人是可能几次误入歧途的父亲，可他渴望翻开新的一页。如今终于面对被绑上去受鞭挞的笞柱，就巴不得周围弥漫着家族的温暖气息，在团聚中度过晚年。他已经被环境熏陶成了英国人。那个夏天的傍晚，当雨住了的时候，他站在环行线铁道公司机丰驾驶室的踏板上，隔着都柏林市内和郊区那些恩爱之家的窗户，瞥见幸福的、地地道道牧歌式的乡间生活，墙上糊的是由多克雷尔[120] 店里买来的每打一先令九便士的墙纸。这里，在英国出生的天真烂漫的娃娃们，口齿不清地对圣婴作着祷告；年轻学子们拼死拼活地用着功；模范的淑女们弹着钢琴，或围着噼噼啪啪燃烧着的那截圣诞夜圆木，阖家念诵玫瑰经。同时，姑娘们和小伙子们沿着绿荫幽径徜徉；随着他们的步调，传来了美国式簧风琴的旋律，音质听来像煞管风琴，用不列颠合金[121] 镶边，有四个挺好使的音栓和十二褶层风箱，售价低廉，最便宜的货色……）

（又爆发了一阵哄笑。他语无伦次地咕噜着。审判记录员们抱怨听不清楚。）

普通记录员和速记员

（依旧低头看着记录册）让他放松一点。

马休教授

（在记者席上咳嗽一声，大声嚷）统统咳出来，伙计，一点一点地。（关于布卢姆和那只桶的盘讯。一只大桶。布卢姆本人。拉肚子。在比弗街。肠绞痛，对。疼得厉害。泥水匠的桶[ 122] 。）两腿发僵，拖着脚步走。忍受难以形容的痛苦。疼得要命。接近晌午的时候。要么是情欲，要么是勃艮第葡萄酒。对，一点儿菠菜。关键时刻。他不曾往桶里看。无人在场。一团糟。没有拉完。一份过期的《珍闻》[123]。

（起哄鼓噪，一片嘘声。布卢姆身穿沾满石灰水、破破烂烂的大礼服，歪戴着瘪下去一块的大礼帽，鼻子上横贴着一条橡皮膏，低声说着话。）

杰·杰·奥莫洛伊

（头戴高级律师的银色假发，身着呢绒长袍，用悲痛的抗议口吻。）本庭并非可以肆意发表猥亵轻率的演说，不惜伤害一个酒后犯罪者的场所。这里既不是斗熊场，也不是可以从事恶作剧的牛津。[124]不能在法庭上表演滑稽戏。我的辩护委托人尚未成年，一个来自外国的可怜的移民。他开头是个偷渡客，如今正竭力靠规规矩矩地工作挣点钱。被诬告的那些不轨行为是幻觉引起偶发的遗传性神经错乱导致的。本案中被控所犯的亲昵举动，在我这位辩护委托人的出生地法老[ 125] 之国，是完全被容许的。我要说的是，据初次印象[126]并没有肉欲的企图。既没发生暧昧关系，而德里斯科尔所指控的对她的调戏，也并没有重犯。我要特别提出隔代遗传的问题。我这位辩护委托人的家族中有着精神彻底崩溃与梦游症的病史。倘若允许被告陈述的话，他就可以诉说一桩事[127]——那是书里所曾叙述过的最奇妙的故事之一。审判长阁下，他在肉体方面是个废人，这是补鞋匠通常患的那种肺病造成的。据他所申诉的，他属于蒙古血统，对自己的行为不负任何责任。事实上，什么问题都不存在。

布卢姆

（赤脚，鸡胸，身着东印度水手的衫裤，歉疚般地将两脚的大趾头摆成内八字。睁开鼹鼠般的眯缝眼儿，茫然四顾，慢腾腾地用一只手抚摩前额。随后按水手的派头把腰带使劲一勒，以东方人的方式耸肩向法庭深打一躬，朝天翘起大拇指。）多、好、的、夜、晚。（天真地欢唱起来。）

可怜小娃子莉莉，

每晚猪脚送来哩，

两个先令付给你……

（众人怪叫，把他轰下台去。）

杰·杰·奥莫洛伊

（愤怒地对起哄者）这是一场匹马单枪的斗争。我对冥王哈得斯发誓，绝不能允许我的辩护委托人像这样被一帮野狗和大笑着的鬣狗所玩弄，而且还不准他发言。《摩西法典》[128] 已经取代了丛林法令。我绝不想损害司法的目的，然而这一点我必须反复强调指出：被告不是事先参与预谋的从犯，而起诉人被玩弄的事实也不存在。被告一直把该年轻女子当作自己的女儿来对待。（布卢姆握住杰·杰·奥莫洛伊的手，把它举到自己的唇边。）我要举出反证，彻底证明那只看不见的手[129] 在玩弄惯用的伎俩了。要是还认为可疑，就尽管迫害布卢姆好了。我这位辩护委托人生性腼腆，决做不出那种被损害贞节者会抗议的非礼举动。当一个理应对姑娘的状况负责的懦夫，在她身上满足了自己的情欲，使她误入歧途之后，他是决不会去朝她扔石头的。他要做个循规蹈矩的人。他是我所认识的人们当中最高尚清白的一位。眼下他的境遇不佳，因为他那份移民垦殖公司的辽阔地产被抵押出去了，那是在遥远的小亚细亚。现在把幻灯片放给你们看。（对布卢姆）我建议你出手大方一些。

布卢姆

每英镑付一便士。[130]

（墙上映出其尼烈湖的影象：朦朦胧胧一片银色的薄雾中，牛群在吃草。长着一双鼹鼠眼的白化病患者摩西·德鲁加茨[131] 从旁听席上站起来。他身穿印度粗蓝斜纹布褂子，双手各持着香橼、桔子和一副猪腰子。）

德鲁加茨

（嘶哑地）柏林西十三区布莱布特留大街[132]。

（杰·杰·奥莫洛伊迈上低矮的台座，一本正经地攥住上衣翻领。他的脸变得长而苍白，胡子拉碴，两眼深陷，像约翰·弗·泰勒[133] 那样出现了结核症的肿疱，颊骨上一片潮红。他用手绢捂着嘴，审视着迸溅出来的一股玫瑰色血液。）

杰·杰·奥莫洛伊

（声音小得几乎听不见）请原谅。我浑身冷得厉害，新近才离开病床。扼要他说几句话。（他模仿那有着鸟一般的头、狐狸似的胡子和宛若大象的鼻子的西摩·布希[ 134] 的雄辩。）当天使的书被打开来的时候，萌生于沉思的胸中那颗净化了的灵魂和正在净化着的灵魂的化身，倘若还有存在下去的任何价值的话[135] ，我就要提出，请对这位刑事被告人所蒙受的嫌疑，给予神圣而有利的裁定。

（一张写了些字的纸条被递交给法庭。）

布卢姆

（身着礼服）我可以提出最好的证人，就是卡伦和科尔曼[136] 二位先生、威兹德姆·希利·J．P。先生、我以前的上司乔·卡夫、前都柏林市长维·B·狄龙[137]先生。我和上流社会富于魅力的人士有交往……都柏林社交界的名媛们。（漫不经心地）今天下午我还在总督官邸的一个招待会上，跟老朋友天文台长罗伯特·鲍尔爵士和夫人聊天来着。我说：鲍勃[138] 爵士……

那尔弗顿·巴里[139] 夫人

（身穿开领低低的乳白色舞衫，戴一副长及臂肘的象牙色手套，罩着用黑貂皮镶边、薄薄地絮了棉花、拍出花纹的砖色披肩式外衣，头发上插着一把嵌着宝石的梳子和白鹭羽饰。）警察，逮捕他吧。当我丈夫参加芒斯特的巡回审判，前往蒂珀雷里[140] 北区的时候，他用反手给我写了一封字体蹩脚的匿名信，署名詹姆斯·洛夫伯奇[141] 。信里说，当我坐在皇家剧场包厢里观看《蚱蜢》的御前公演时，[142]他从楼座看见了我那举世无双的眼珠。他说，我使他的感情像烈火般高涨起来了。他向我作了非礼的表示，邀我下星期四在邓辛克[143] 标准时间下午四点半钟跟他幽会。他还表示要邮寄给我保罗·德·科克先生的一本小说，书名是《系了三条紧身褡的姑娘》。[144]

贝林厄姆夫人

（头戴无边帽，身披仿海豹兔皮斗篷，领子一直围到鼻子上。她走下四轮轿式马车，从她那只袋鼠皮大手笼里掏出一副龟甲框带柄单眼镜。）他对我也曾这样说过。对，这准是那个行为不端的家伙。九三年二月间下雨夹雪的一天，冷得连污水管的铁格子和澡缸的浮球活栓都结了冰。在索恩利·斯托克爵士[145] 的住宅外面，他替我关上了马车门。随后，他在信里附了一朵火绒草，说是为了向我表示敬慕，特地从山丘上采来的。我请一位植物学专家给鉴定一下。原来是他从模范农场的催熟箱里偷来的本地所产马铃薯花。

那尔弗顿·巴里夫人

真不要脸！

（一群妓女与邋遢汉一拥而上。）

妓女与邋遢汉

（尖声喊叫）可别让贼跑啦！好哇，蓝胡子[146] ！犹大佬摩[147] 万岁！

巡警乙

（掏出手铐）放老实点！

贝林厄姆夫人

这家伙用种种笔迹给我写信，肉麻地恭维我是穿皮衣的维纳斯[148] ，说他深切地同情我那冻僵了的马车夫帕尔默，同时又表示羡慕帕尔默的帽子护耳、蓬蓬松松的羊皮外衣以及他能呆在我身边有多么幸运。也就是说，羡慕他身穿印有贝林厄姆家徽的号衣——黑色盾纹面上配以金线绣的雄鹿头。他肆无忌惮地夸奖我的脚尖，严严实实裹在丝袜子里的丰满的腿肚子，还热切地颂扬我那藏在昂贵花边里的另外一些宝贝，说这一切仿佛都历历在目。他怂恿我——还说他感到怂恿我乃是他一生的使命——尽早抓个机会玷污婚姻之床，犯淫乱之罪。

默雯·塔尔博伊贵妇人[ 149]

（身着骑马装，头戴圆顶硬礼帽，脚蹬长统靴——上面装有状似公鸡脚上的距那样的踢马刺；朱红色背心，戴着火枪手用的小鹿皮长手套一手套筒是编织成的。她撩起长长的裙据，不断地甩着猎鞭，抽打鞭子的滚边。）他对我也是这样。因为在凤凰公园的马球赛场上，他瞥见了我。那一次，全爱尔兰队和爱尔兰第二队[150] 举行对抗赛。当英尼斯基林的强手登内希上尉骑着他所宠爱的那匹短腿壮马森特，在最后一局中获胜的时候，我的眼睛发出了圣洁的光。这个平民唐璜[151]从一辆出租马车背后瞅见了我。他把一张淫秽的相片——就是天黑之后在巴黎的大马路上卖的那种——装在双层信封里寄给了我。对任何上流妇女来说，这都是不能容忍的。我至今还保留着哪。相片上是一位半裸的女士，纤弱美丽——他一本正经地告诉我，这是他的老婆，是实地拍的。她正在跟一个壮实的徒步斗牛士[ 152] ——显然是个坏蛋——偷偷干着那种事。他怂恿我也这么做，放荡一下，去跟驻军的军官们干不规矩的事。他央求我用说不出口的方式弄脏他那封信，惩罚他——其实他就欠挨一顿严厉的惩罚——容许他驮着我，把他当马骑，并且狠狠地鞭打他。

贝林厄姆夫人

他对我也是这样。

那尔弗顿·巴里太太

对我也是这样。

（几位都柏林的最上流的夫人都举起布卢姆写给她们的卑鄙龌龊的信给大家看。）

默雯·塔尔博伊贵妇人

（突然发起怒来。她脚下的踢马刺丁当作响。）向天主发誓，我要教训教训他，我要使劲鞭打这条胆小卑劣的野狗。我要活剥他的皮。

布卢姆

（闭上眼睛，自知难以幸免，缩作一团）是当场吗？（窘促不安地蠕动着）又是一次！（战战兢兢地喘着气）我喜欢冒这样的危险。

默雯·塔尔博伊贵妇人

正是这样！我要给你点厉害尝尝。叫你像杰克·拉坦那样跳舞。[153]

贝林厄姆夫人

这个暴发户！使劲揍他的屁股。在那上面划得一道道的，就像星条旗那样。

耶尔弗顿·巴里夫人

丢人现眼！他没有什么可辩解的！一个有妇之夫！

布卢姆

这些人哪。我的意思是拍打拍打而已。热辣辣地一片红，可又不至于流血。文雅地用烨木条抽打几下，还能促进血液循环哩。

默雯·塔尔博伊贵妇人

（嘲笑）咦，真的吗，我的好人儿？那么，当着神圣的天主发誓，我会吓掉你的小命的。我说话算话，准让你挨到一顿最残酷的鞭打。你已经把沉睡在我天性中的那只母老虎激怒了。

贝林厄姆夫人

（咬牙切齿地摇晃着围巾和带柄单眼镜）亲爱的哈纳，让他尝尝滋味。给他块生姜[154] 。用九尾鞭把这杂种狗抽打个半死。把他阉割了。把他劈成八块儿。

布卢姆

（浑身发抖，缩作一团，卑躬屈膝地双手合十）噢，好冷啊！噢，我一个劲儿地打哆嗦！那是因为您美得像天仙似的。忘掉吧，宽恕吧。这都是天命[155] 啊。请饶恕我这一次。（他伸过另一边面颊。）

耶尔弗顿·巴里夫人

（严峻地）塔尔博伊夫人，绝不能饶恕他！应该痛打他一顿！

默雯·塔尔博伊贵妇人

（气势汹汹地解开长手套的钮扣）凭什么宽恕他。狗畜生，而且生下来就是这副德性！他居然敢向我求爱！我要在大街上把他打得黑一块蓝一块的。把踢马刺上的齿轮刺进他的肉里。人人都晓得他是个王八。（她凶猛地凌空甩着猎鞭。）马上扒下他的裤子！过来，你这家伙！快点儿！准备好了吗？

布卢姆

（浑身发抖，开始照她的话做）今天天气还挺暖和。（鬈发的戴维·斯蒂芬斯[156] 跟一群赤足报童一道走过去。〕

戴维·斯蒂芬斯

《圣心使者》[157] 和《电讯晚报》，附有圣帕特里克节日的增刊，上面刊登了都柏林所有那些王八们的地址。

（披着金色斗篷的教长——教堂蒙席奥汉龙举起大理石座钟给众人看。康罗伊神父和耶稣会的约翰·休斯神父低垂着头。）

时钟

（钟门启开。）

咕咕。

咕咕。

咕咕。

（传来床架上的黄铜环丁零当啷的响声。）

铜环

咭咯甲咯。咭嘎唁嘎。咭咯甲咯。[ 158]

（雾做成的镶板急剧地向后滚去，陪审员席上突然出现了一张张的脸：戴大礼帽的首席陪审员马丁·坎宁翰、杰克·鲍尔、西蒙·迪达勒斯、汤姆·克南、内德·兰伯特、约翰·亨利·门顿、迈尔斯·克劳福德、利内翰、帕迪·伦纳德、大鼻子弗林、麦科伊以及一无名氏[159] 的毫无特征的脸。）

无名氏

光着屁股骑裸马。按照年龄规定的负载重量。[160] 混蛋。他把她骗到了手。

陪审员们

（一起朝着声音转过头去）真的吗？

无名氏

（咆哮）还撅起屁股来。我敢打赌，以一百先令博五先令。

陪审员们

（一起低下头去表示同意）我们大多认为大概是这么回事。
巡警甲

这家伙是个嫌疑犯。另一个姑娘的辫子给铰掉了。[ 161] 通缉杀人犯杰克[162] 。

悬奖一千英镑。

巡警乙

（畏惧，低语）还穿着黑衣服。是个一夫多妻主义者。无政府主义者。

庭役

（大声地）没有固定地址的利奥波德·布卢姆是个臭名昭著的使用炸药的盗匪，他还是伪造文书者，重婚犯，猥亵者，又是个王八。他有损都柏林市民的公益。如今在本巡回法庭陪审团面前，经庭长阁下……

（都柏林市记录法官、弗雷德里克·福基纳爵士阁下，身穿灰白石色袍子，蓄着石像[163] 般的胡须，从法官席上站起来。他双臂捧着雨伞状的权杖。前额上直挺挺地长出一双摩西那样的公羊角。）

记录法官

本法官将断然废止这种贩卖白奴的活动，以使都柏林免遭可憎的蠹虫之危害。真是令人发指！（他戴上黑帽子 164] 。）行政司法副长官先生，把站在被告席的这个家伙押下去，关进蒙乔伊监狱里，听候国王陛下的圣旨。然后把他绞死，要做到万无一失。愿天主大发慈悲，保佑你的灵魂。把他带走。

（一顶黑色头盖帽[165] 扣到布卢姆头上。行政司法副长官高个儿约翰·范宁出现了，他吸着一支刺鼻的亨利·克莱。[166] ）

高个儿约翰·范宁

（脸色阴沉，用洪亮、圆润的嗓音说）谁来绞死加略人犹大？

（高级理发师霍·朗博尔德[167] 穿着血红色紧身皮背心，系着揉皮工人的围裙，肩上扛着盘成一圈的绳子，爬上绞刑架。腰带上插着救生用具和一根满是钉子的大头棒。他使劲搓着那双因戴着金属制关节保护套而隆起的手。）

朗博尔德

（用令人发惊的亲昵语气对记录法官说）陛下[168] ，敝人是绞刑吏哈利，默西河[169] 的凶神。每绞死一名，酬金五基尼。脖子不断不要钱。[170]

（乔治教堂的钟缓慢地响着，铁在黑暗中轰鸣着。[171] ）

众钟

丁当！丁当！！

布卢姆

（绝望地）等一等。住手。这是一场骗局。发发善心。我瞧见了。清白无辜。姑娘给关在猴圈里。动物园。淫猥的黑猩猩。（上气不接下气地）骨盆。姑娘天真地羞红了脸，使我浑身瘫软。[172] （激动不已）我离开了那地方。（转向群众中的一个人，哀求地）海因斯，我能跟你说句话吗？你认得我。那三先令，你就留下吧。[173] 假若你还想多要一点的话……

海因斯

（冷漠地）我和你素不相识。

巡警乙

（指着一个角落）炸弹在这儿哪。

巡警甲

一颗可怕的定时炸弹。

布卢姆

不，不。那是只猪脚，我参加葬礼去了。

巡警甲

（抄起警棍）你撒谎！

（猎兔狗抬起鼻子尖儿，露出帕狄·迪格纳穆那张患坏血症的灰脸。他已经吃得一于二净。他吐出一股像是吃了腐肉般的臭气。他长得个头和形状都跟人一样了。那身猎獾狗的黑褐色毛皮成为褐色尸衣。一双绿眼睛杀气腾腾地闪着光。半截耳朵、整个鼻子和双手的大拇指都被食尸鬼吃掉了。）

帕狄·迪格纳穆

（瓮声瓮气地）可不是嘛。是我的葬礼。菲纽肯大夫[174]给开了死亡诊断书。我是因病自然死亡的。

（他把那张残缺不全的死灰般的脸转向月亮，忧伤地吠着。）

布卢姆

（昂然自得地）你们听见了吗？

帕狄·迪格纳穆

布卢姆，我是帕狄·迪格纳穆的鬼魂。听着，听着，啊，听着[ 175] ！

布卢姆

这是以扫的声音。[176]

巡警乙

（画十字）这怎么可能呢？

巡警甲

一便士一本的《要理问答》里可没有。[177]

帕狄·迪格纳穆

是转生[178] 。亡灵。

一个嗓音

哦，别转文啦！

帕狄·迪格纳穆

（诚挚地）我曾经是约·亨·门顿的雇员，他是律师，负责办理宣誓和宣誓书事务，住在巴切勒步道二十七号。如今我因心壁肥大而死了。时运不济啊。我那可怜的老婆可遭了殃。她怎样忍受着这一切呢？可别让她挨近那瓶雪利酒。（他四下里打量着。）给我一盏灯。我得满足一下动物的欲望。那脱脂奶不合我的口味。

（公墓管理员约翰·奥康内尔[179] 那魁梧的身姿出现了。他手持一串系了黑纱的钥匙。站在他身边的是教诲师科菲神父[180]，肚子鼓得像只癞蛤馍，歪脖儿，身穿白色法衣，头戴印花布夜帽，昏昏欲睡地拄着一根用罂粟编成的手杖。）

科菲神父

（打个呵欠，用阴郁的嗄声吟诵）呐咪内。雅各。尔饼干[181] 。啊们。

约翰·奥康内尔

（用喇叭筒像吹雾中警报般大声喊叫）已故迪格纳穆·帕特里克·T。

帕狄·迪格纳穆

（尖起耳朵，畏畏缩缩地）陪音[182]。（挣扎着向前移动，将一只耳朵贴在地面上）

是我主人的声音！[183]

约翰·奥康内尔

埋葬许可证死亡[ 184] 第八万五千号。第十七墓区。钥匙议院。[185] 第一0 一号地域。

（帕狄·迪格纳穆一边沉思默想，一边直挺挺地翘着尾巴尖儿，竖起耳朵，显然在使劲地倾听着。）

帕狄·迪格纳穆

祈求他的灵魂获得永安。

（他沿着地下堆煤场的抛煤口像虫子一般慢慢地向前蠕动，系着褐衣的带子从卵石上拖过去，喳喳作响。一只胖墩墩的老鼠：[186] 爷爷趔趔趄趄地跟在后面。它长着一双蘑菇般的鸟龟爪子和灰色甲壳。从地底下传来迪格纳穆那闷哑的呻吟声：“迪格纳穆已死，并已入葬了。”汤姆·罗赤福特身穿深红色背心和马裤，头戴便帽，从他那有两根圆柱的机器里跳出来。）

汤姆·罗赤福特

（一手接着胸骨，深打一躬）那是吕便·杰。我得从他手里搞到一枚两先令银市。

（他死死地盯着检修口。）[187] 轮到我啦。跟我去卡洛。[188]

（他就像是一条鲁莽的鲑鱼一般纵身跳到空中，被吸入抛煤口。圆柱上的两个圆盘晃了晃，宛如一双眼睛。显示出一对“零”字。一切都消失了。布卢姆拖着沉重的脚步膛着污水继续向前走。众吻在尘雾的空隙间，吱吱响着。传来了钢琴声。他在一座点了灯的房舍前停下脚步，倾听着。众吻从它们藏匿的地方展翼飞出，在他周围翱翔，调哳着，啾唧着，颤颤巍巍地唱着。）

众吻

（颤巍巍地唱着）利奥！（啁哳着）黏糊糊，舔啊舔，腻得得，吧唧唧，跟利奥！（啾唧着）咕咕咕！真好吃，吱吱吱！（颤巍巍地唱着）大呀大！转啊转！利奥波波德！（啁哳着）利奥利！（颤巍巍地唱着）噢，利奥！

（众吻飒飒响着，在他的衣服上拍翅，飞落在上面，成为锃亮得令人眼花缭乱的斑点，化为银光闪闪的圆形金属小饰片。）

布卢姆

准是男人弹的。悲哀的曲子。教堂音乐哩。兴许就在这儿。（年轻妓女佐伊·希金斯[189] 身穿钉有三颗青铜钮扣的蔚蓝色宽松套衫，脖颈上系了一条长长的黑色天鹅绒细带。她点点头，轻盈飞快地跑下台阶，勾引他。）

佐伊

你在找什么人吗？他正在里面跟他的朋友在一道哪。

布卢姆

这里是麦克太太[190]家吗？

佐伊

不，她住八十一号。这里是科恩大大家。你走得越远，可能越倒媚。斯利珀斯莱珀老妈妈[191] 。（亲昵地）今儿晚上她自个儿在跟兽医搞着哪。他就是那个向她透露消息的人，告诉她哪些马会获胜，还接济她儿子在牛津读书。打了烊她照样接客。可是今天她并不走运。（觉得蹊跷地）你该不是他爹吧？

布卢姆

我可不是！

佐伊

你们两个人都穿黑衣服哩。今儿晚上小耗子儿痒痒吗，

（他的皮肤敏锐地感觉出她的指尖儿挨近了。一只手沿着他的左边大腿滑动。）

佐伊

球球儿好吗？

布卢姆

在另一边。可怪啦，我的长在右边儿。想必份量更重一些。我的裁缝梅西雅斯[192]

说，每一百万人当中才有一个。

佐伊

（猛地大吃一惊）你患了硬下疳啦。

布卢姆

不会吧。

佐伊

我摸出来啦。

（她把手滑进他左边的裤兜，拽出一个又硬又黑、干瘪了的土豆。她紧闭着湿润的嘴唇，打量着土豆和布卢姆。）

布卢姆

是个护身符。传家宝。

佐伊

是给佐伊的吧？留作纪念？我对你多好哇，呃？

（她贪婪地把土豆塞进自己的衣兜，挽住他的臂，柔情谴绪地搂抱着他。他不自在地泛着微笑。东方音乐徐徐奏起，一曲接一曲。他凝视着她那双眼圈涂得黑黑的、像黄褐色水晶般的眼睛。他的微笑变得柔和了。）

佐伊

下次你就是熟客了。

布卢姆

（哀切地）我只要跟可爱的羚羊亲热那么一回，我就永远也不会......（一群羚羊跳跳蹦蹦，在山上吃着草。附近有凡个湖泊。沿着湖畔是一溜杉树丛的黑色阴影。升起一股芳香，树脂发出生发剂般的浓郁气味。东方，蔚蓝的苍穹燃烧着，青铜色的鹰群划破天空，展翅飞去。下面横卧着女都[193] ，赤裸，白皙，纹丝不动，清凉，呈现着豪华气派。淡红色玫瑰丛中，喷泉淙淙响着。巨大的玫瑰咕哝着深红色葡萄的事。耻辱、肉欲与血液之酒，奇妙地私语着，淌了出来。）

佐伊

（她那后宫女奴般的嘴唇上，令人腻味地涂满了猪油与玫瑰香水调成的软膏，配合着音乐，声调平板地低语。）耶路撒冷的女子们哪，我虽然黝黑，却秀美。[194]

布卢姆

（神魂颠倒）从你的发音，我想你的家庭出身必然不错。

佐伊

我心里想些什么，你能知道吗？

（她用镶金小牙轻轻地咬他的耳朵，朝他喷着浓郁的烂蒜气息。那簇玫瑰花分裂开来，露出历代国王的金基和他们那朽骨。）

布卢姆

（犹豫了一下，笨拙地扎煞着手，机械地爱抚她的右乳房）你是个都柏林姑娘吗？

佐伊

（灵巧地握住一根散发，将它和挽起来的头发拢在一起）用不着担心。我是英国人。你有烟卷儿吗？

布卢姆

（继续爱抚着）我难得抽烟卷儿，亲爱的，偶尔倒吸根雪茄烟。哄孩子玩的。（好色地）嘴里与其叼那臭烟草卷成的圆筒，不如派上更好的用场。

佐伊

接下去！用它发表一通政见演说吧、

布卢姆

（身穿工人的灯芯绒工装裤和黑色羊毛衫，系着一条飘扬的红领带，头戴阿帕切[195] 式便帽。）人类是不可救药的。沃尔特·雷利爵士：[196] 从新大陆带回了土豆和烟草。前者能够借吸收作用消灭恶疫[197]后者毒害耳朵、眼睛、心脏、记忆力、意志力、理解力，它毒害一切。也就是说，他带回了毒药，这比我忘记了名字的带回食品来的另一位要早一百年。自杀。谎言。一切我们都习以为常。喏，瞧瞧我们的公共生活吧！

（从远处的尖塔传来了午夜钟声。）

钟声

回来吧，利奥波德！都柏林的市长大人！

布卢姆

（身穿高级市政官的长袍，挂着链子）阿伦码头、英斯码头、圆堂、蒙乔伊和北船坞的选民们，我认为应该从牲畜市场铺设一条电车道，一直通到河边。[198] 这是未来的音乐。是敝人提出的施政方案。谁能获得好处？[ 199] 然而我们这几位搭乘金融界幽灵船的冒险家范德狄肯们[200] ……

一个选民

为我们未来的总督九呼万岁！

（火炬游行队伍中的北极光跳跃着。）

持火炬者

万岁！

（几位大名鼎鼎的议员、本市大亨以及市民们与布卢姆握手，向他祝贺。曾经连任三届都柏林市长的蒂莫西·哈林顿[201] ，身穿市长的猩红色袍子，胸佩金链，系着白丝领带，仪表堂堂，与临时代理洛坎·舍洛克参议员攀谈着。二人频频点头，表示已谈妥。）

哈林顿前市长

（身穿猩红袍子，手执权杖，佩带市长的金链，系着白丝大领带）高级市政官利奥·布卢姆爵士的演说词将付梓，费用由地方纳税者支付。他出生的那所房子用纪念牌装饰起来。科克街尽头的那条原名考·帕勒的通道，今后将改名为布卢姆大街。

参议员洛坎·舍洛克

全场一致通过。

布卢姆

（充满激情地）这些飞行的荷兰人或撒谎的荷兰人，当他们斜倚在布置一新的船尾楼甲板上掷骰子时，他们在乎什么呢？机器是他们的口号，他们的非非之想，他们的万应妙丹。那是节省劳力的设备，是褫夺者，是妖精，是为了互相残杀而制造出来的怪物，是根据一群资本家的欲望，用我们所出售的劳动生产出来的可怕的妖怪。穷人在挨饿。他们却饲养着高贵的牡山鹿，沉溺在目光短浅的虚饰中，利用他们的财富和权势，对庄稼人也罢，鹧鸪也罢，胡乱射杀。然而他们的海盗统治已垮台，永远地，永远地，永……[202]

（经久不息的掌声。五彩缤纷的饰柱、五月柱[203]和节日的牌楼拔地而起。街上张挂起写有“十万个欢迎”和“以色列王多么美好”[204]字样的幡。所有的窗口都簇拥着看热闹的人，大多是妇女。沿途，都柏林近卫步兵连队、苏格兰边防近卫军、卡梅伦高原连队以及威尔士步兵连队的士兵们，以立正的姿势排列着，挡住群众。高中的男生们蹲在街灯柱、电线杆、窗口、檐口檐槽、烟囱顶管、栏杆和排水管上，又是吹口哨，又是欢呼出现了云柱[205] 。远处传来鼓笛队演奏《我们的一切誓约》的声音。先遣队举着帝国的鹰徽[206] ，旗帜随风飘扬，摇着东方的棕桐叶。用黄金与象牙装饰起来的教皇旗帜高高耸起，周围是一面面细长的三角形市旗。队伍的头排出现了，领先的是身穿棋盘花样袍子的市政典礼官约翰，霍华德·巴涅尔[207] ，阿斯隆地方选出来的议员兼阿尔斯特纹章院院长。跟在后面的是都柏林市市长阁下约瑟夫·哈钦森[208] 、科克市市长阁下、利默里克、戈尔韦、斯莱戈和沃特福德等市的市长阁下，二十八位爱尔兰贵族代表[209]，印度的达宫贵人们，西班牙的大公们，佩带着宝座饰布的印度大君，都柏林首都消防队，按照资财顺序排列的一群财界圣徒，唐郡兼康纳主教[210] 、全爱尔兰首席阿马大主教——红衣主教迈克尔·洛格阁下，全爱尔兰首席阿大主教——神学博士威廉·亚历山大阁下，犹太教教长、长老派教会大会主席，浸礼会、再浸礼会、卫理公会以及弟兄会首脑，还有公谊会的名誉干事。走在他们后面的是各种行会、同业工会和民团，打着飘扬的旗帜行进。其中包括桶匠、小鸟商人、水磨匠、报纸推销员、公证人、按摩师、葡萄酒商、疝带制造者、扫烟囱的，提炼猪油的，织波纹塔夫绸和府绸的，钉马掌的铁匠，意大利批发商，教堂装饰师，制造靴拔子的，殡仪事业经营人、绸缎商、宝石商、推销员、制造软木塞的、火灾损失估价员、开洗染行的，从事出口用装瓶业的，毛皮商、印名片的，纹章图章雕刻师、屯马场的工役、金银经纪人、板球与射箭用具商、制造粗筛子的，鸡蛋土豆经销人、经售男袜内衣和针织品商人、手套商、自来水工程承包人。尾随于后的是侍寝官、黑仗侍卫、勋章院副院长、仪仗队队长、主马官、侍从长、纹章局局长，以及手持御剑、圣斯蒂芬铁制王冠、圣爵与《圣经》的侍从武官长。四名司号步兵吹信号。卫兵们答以欢迎的号角。没帽子的布卢姆出现在凯旋门下。他披着镶了白貂皮边的绯红天鹅绒斗篷，手执圣爱德华的权杖、象征王权的宝珠、有着鸽状装饰的王节和慈悲剑[211] 。他骑着一匹乳白色的马，它甩着猩红色的长尾巴，鞍辔装点得十分华丽，马笼头是用金子制成的。狂热的兴奋。显贵的妇女们从阳台上掷下玫瑰花瓣。空气里弥漫着一片馨香气息。男人们喝采。布卢姆的侍童们拿着山楂枝与鹪鹩枝[212] ，在围观的人丛中跑来跑去。）

布卢姆的侍童们

鹪鹩啊，鹪鹩啊，

众鸟之王当推你；

圣斯蒂芬的节日，

你被缠于荆豆枝。

一铁匠

（喃喃地）真了不起！原来这就是布卢姆？看上去还不到三十一岁哪！

石板铺装工

呃，那就是遐迩闻名的布卢姆，世界上最伟大的改革家。向他脱帽致敬！

（众人摘帽。妇女们热切地交头接耳。）

一位女富豪

（阔气地）这个人多么了不起啊！

一位贵妇

（高贵地）他见识该有多么广！

一位女权运动者

（富于男子气概地）而且干了那么多！

一个装铃匠

一张典雅的脸！他有着一位思想家的前额。

（艳阳天[213] 。太阳从西北方向光芒四射。[214]）

唐郡兼康纳主教

毫无疑问，这是我国领土的无比沉着强悍、有权有势的统治者，他集皇帝、大总统、国王、议长于一身。愿天主保佑利奥波德一世！

众人

愿天主保佑利奥波德一世！

布卢姆

（身穿加冕服，披着紫斗篷，威风凛凛地对唐郡兼康纳主教）谢谢你，多少有些名气的阁下。

阿马大主教威廉

（系着紫色宽领带，头戴宽边铲形帽）陛下对爱尔兰及其属地进行审判的时候，会尽力慈悲为怀来施行法律吗？

布卢姆

（将右手放在睾丸上，宣誓[215] 。）愿造物主引导我如此行事。我发誓将这样去做。

阿马大主教迈克尔

（将瓦罐里的发油倒在布卢姆头上）我向你们宣布一桩大喜讯：我们有了一位刽子手[216] 。利奥波德，帕特里克，安德鲁，大卫，乔治。现在我为你涂油！

（布卢姆披上一件金线织成的斗篷，戴上一枚红玉戒指。他拾级而上，站在即位的石台上。贵族代表们也戴上他们那二十八顶王冠。基督教堂、圣帕特里克教堂、乔治教堂与快乐的马拉海德响起一片祝福的钟声。麦拉斯义卖会的焰火从四面八方升上天空，构成辉煌灿烂的象征阴茎的图案。贵族们一个挨一个地走到跟前，屈膝表示敬意。）

贵族们

愿作您的臣民，全心全意捍卫您在地上的尊严。

（布卢姆举起右手，上面闪烁着科- 依- 诺尔钻石[217] 。他的坐骑嘶鸣着。周围立即万籁俱寂。架起州际及行星际的无线电发报机，以接收信息。）

布卢姆

我的臣民们！我特此任命忠实的战马“幸运的纽带”为世袭首相[218]，并且宣布，今天就与前妻离婚，迎娶夜之光辉塞勒涅[219]公主为妻。

（布卢姆那位身份悬殊的前任配偶旋即被警察局的囚车押走。塞勒涅公主穿着月白色衣裳，头戴银色月牙儿，从一辆由两个巨人抬着的轿子里走下来。一阵暴风雨般的喝采声。）

约翰·霍华德·巴涅尔

（举起王旗）卓越的布卢姆！我那遐尔闻名的兄长的继承人！

布卢姆

（拥抱约翰·霍华德·巴涅尔）朕衷心感谢你的厚意。约翰，由于你在我们共同的祖先所许下的土地[220]—— 绿色的爱琳上，给我以对国王的隆重欢迎。

（他被授予体现着宪章的荣誉市民权，呈给他的都柏林市钥匙交叉放在深红色的软垫上。他让大家看他穿的是绿袜子[221]。）

汤姆·克南

陛下啊，您是当之无愧的。

布卢姆

二十年前的今天，我们在莱迪史密斯[222] 击败了宿敌。我们的榴弹炮和轻回旋炮接连击中敌军阵地，给以重创。前进一英里半！[223] 敌军冲过来了！一切都失去啦。[224] 投降吗？绝不！无论如何也要把他们击退！看哪！冲锋啊！我们的轻骑兵队扫荡普列文高地，一路呐喊着：“忠诚的士兵！”[225]把萨拉逊[226] 的炮兵杀得一个也不留。

《自由人报》排字工人工会

说得好！说得好！

约翰·怀斯·诺兰

放跑了詹姆斯·斯蒂芬斯[ 227] 的就是他。

慈善学校学童

真棒！

一个老居民

您是国家的光荣，老爷，不折不扣是这样。

卖苹果的老妪[228]

他正是爱尔兰所需要的人。

布卢姆

亲爱的臣民们，一个新时代即将来临。朕布卢姆，老实告诉你们，它甚至就在我们眼前。是的，朕以布卢姆的名义发誓，不久你们就将进入未来的新爱尔兰的金都新布卢姆撒冷[229] 。

（来自爱尔兰各郡的三十二名工人[230] ，佩带着玫瑰花饰，在营造业者德尔旺[ 231] 的指挥下，建筑起崭新的布卢姆撒冷。那是一座水晶屋顶的广厦，状如巨大的猪肾，内有四万间屋子。在扩建的过程中，曾拆毁了数座建筑物和纪念碑。政府官厅暂时迁移到铁道库房里。大批房屋被夷为平地。居民搬到用红笔标出“利·布”字样的桶里和箱子里。几名贫民从梯子上跌下来。挤满了忠实围观者的都柏林城墙的一部分坍塌下来。）

围观者们

（奄奄一息）行将咽气者向您致敬[232] 。（他们死去。）

（一个穿棕色胶布雨衣的人从活板门里跳出来，用伸长了的手指[233 ］指着布卢姆。）

穿胶布雨衣的人

他的话，你们一句也别信。这个人叫作利奥波德·明托施，是个臭名昭著的纵火犯。

其实，他姓希金斯[234] 。

布卢姆

开枪打死他！像狗一样的基督教徒！管他什么明托施呢！（一声炮响，身穿胶布雨衣的人不见踪影了。布卢姆抡起权杖将一株株罂粟砍倒。有人报告说，众多劲敌、牲畜业者、下院议员、常务委员会委员当即死亡了。布卢姆的卫兵们散发濯足节的贫民抚恤金[ 235] 、纪念章、面包和鱼、戒酒会员徽章、昂贵的亨利．克莱雪茄、煮汤用的免费牛骨、装在密封的信封里并捆着金线的橡胶预防用具、菠萝味硬糖果、黄油糖块、折叠成三角帽形的情书、成衣、一碗碗裹有奶油面糊的烤牛排、一瓶瓶杰那斯溶液、购货券、四十天大赦[236]。）、伪币、奶场饲养的猪做成的香肠、剧场免票、电车季票、匈牙利皇家特许彩票[237] 、一便士食堂的餐券、十二卷世界最劣书的廉价版：《法国佬与德国佬》（政治学）、《怎样育婴》[238]（幼儿学）、《七先令六便士的菜肴五十种》（烹饪学）、《耶稣是太阳神话吗？》（史学）、《止痛法》（医学）、《供幼儿阅读的宇宙概略》（宇宙学）、 《福临笑家门》（乐天生活法）、《广告兜揽员便览》（报业学）、 《助产妇情书》（情欲学）、《宇宙空间人名录》（星辰学）、《动人心弦的歌曲》（旋律学）、《省小钱发财法》（吝啬学）。全场争先恐后地一拥而上。妇女们往前挤，以便触摸布卢姆那件袍子的下摆。格温多林·杜比达特小姐[239]推开人群，跳上他的马，在掌声雷动中吻他的双颊。用镁光灯为他们拍摄了照片。婴儿们与乳儿们被高高举起。）

妇女们

小爹[240]！小爹！

婴儿们与乳儿们

拍拍手等待，波尔迪回家来，

兜里的点心，只给利奥吃。

（布卢姆弯下身，轻轻地戳博德曼娃娃的肚皮。）

娃娃博德曼

（打嗝儿，凝乳从他嘴里往外冒）哈加加加。

布卢姆

（跟一个双目失明的小伙子握手）你比我的兄弟还亲！（伸出双臂搂着一对老夫妻的肩膀）亲爱的老朋友们！（他与衣衫褴褛的少男少女玩抢壁角游戏。）不在！猫儿！（他推着双胞胎所坐的那辆婴儿车。）嘀嗒乖乖俩，你们穿鞋吗？（他变起魔术，从嘴里拽出红、橙、黄、绿、蓝、靛青以及紫罗兰色的丝帕。）罗伊格比夫[241] 每秒三十二英尺。[242] （他安慰一位寡妇。）独居使心灵更加年轻。（他以怪诞的滑稽动作跳起苏格兰高地舞。）跳呀，伙计们！（他吻一位瘫痪老乒的褥疮。）光荣负伤！（他把一位胖警察绊了一跤。）万事休矣：完蛋。[243]万事休矣：完蛋。（他跟一个羞红了脸的女侍咬耳朵，和善地微笑着。）啊，淘气，[244]淘气！（他啃着农民莫里斯·巴特里[245]递给他的一个生芜菁。）不错！好极啦！（他拒绝接受记者约瑟夫·海因斯递过来的三先令。）我亲爱的伙计，这可不行！（他把上衣送给一个乞丐。）请你收下。（他参加上了年岁的男女瘫子的爬行比赛。）来呀，小伙子们！向前爬呀，姑娘们！

市民

（感动得说不出话来，用鲜绿色围巾擦拭眼泪。）愿好天主保佑他！

（山羊角制号角[246]响了，要人们保持肃静。升起了锡安旗[247]。）

布卢姆

（威风凛凛地脱下大笔，露出肥胖的身躯。打开一卷纸，庄严地朗读。）阿列夫、贝特、吉梅尔、达列特[248]，《哈加达》书[249]，门柱圣卷[250]，合礼[251]，赎罪日[252]，再献圣殿节[253]，罗施·哈沙纳[254]，圣约之子会[ 255] ，受诫礼，无酵饼[ 256] ，德系犹太人，梅殊加[257] ，带流苏的围巾[258] 。

（市政府副书记官吉米·亨利[259] 宣读一篇正式译文。）

吉米·亨利

债权法院现在开庭。最宽宏大量的陛下即将举行户外审判。免费提供医学和法律方面的咨询。解答模棱两可的辞句以及其他问题。竭诚欢迎大家光临。乐园历元年于我们忠实的王都都柏林举行。

帕迪·伦纳德

我的地方税和国税怎么办？

布卢姆

朋友，就交纳吧。

帕迪·伦纳德

谢谢您。

大鼻子弗林

我能用火灾保险证书作抵押吗，

布卢姆

（冷漠地）各位先生，请注意，由于你们的侵权行为，应交保释金五英镑，限期六个。

杰·杰·奥莫洛伊

我说过他是个但尼尔[260] 吗? 不！他简直就是彼得·奥布赖恩[ 261] 。

大鼻子弗林

这五英镑，我打哪儿支取呢？

精明鬼[262]伯克

膀眺有毛病怎么办？

布卢姆

稀硝盐酸[263]，二十滴。

酊剂混和催吐剂，[264]五滴。

蒲公英精液[265]，三十滴。

兑上蒸馏水，每日三次。[266]

克里斯·卡利南[ 267]

毕宿五的周年视差是多少？［268]

布卢姆

克里斯，很高兴能见到你。吉11。

乔·海因斯

你为什么不穿制服？

布卢姆

当我那道德崇高的祖先身穿奥地利暴君的制服被关在潮湿的牢房里的时候，你的祖先哪儿去啦？

本·多拉德

三色堇？

布卢姆

装饰（美化）郊区的花园。

本·多拉德

双胞胎到来的时候呢？

布卢姆

父亲（老子、爹）开始思索[269] 。

拉里·奥罗克[270]

为我新开的这家酒吧发个八天的许可证[271] 吧。利奥爵士，还记得我吧？那时你们住在七号来着，我正要给你太太送一打烈性黑啤酒哩。

布卢姆

（冷冰冰地）你的记性比我的好。可布卢姆太太是从来不接受礼物的。

克罗夫顿

这真像是过节。

布卢姆

（庄严地）你说这是过节。我说这是领圣体。

亚历山大·凯斯

我们什么时候才能有自己的钥匙议院[272]呢，

布卢姆

我主张整顿本市的风纪，推行简明浅显的《十诫》。让新的世界取代旧的。犹太教徒、伊斯兰教徒与异教徒都联合起来。每一个大自然之子都将领到三英亩土地和一头母牛。[273] 豪华的殡仪汽车[274] 。强制万民从事体力劳动。所有的公园统统昼夜向公众开放。电动洗盘机。一切肺病、精神病、战争与行乞必须立即绝迹。普遍大赦。每周举行一次准许戴假面具的狂欢会。一律发奖金。推行世界语以促进普天之下的博爱。再也不要酒吧间食客和以治水肿病为幌子来行骗的家伙们的那种爱国主义了。自由货币，豁免房地租，自由恋爱以及自由世俗国家中的一所自由世俗教会。

奥马登·勃克

一个自由鸡窝里的自由狐狸。

戴维·伯恩[275]

（打哈欠）！阿——哧！

布卢姆

混合人种和混合通婚。

利内翰

男女混浴怎样？

（布卢姆向身边的人们阐述了自己的社会改革计划。众人一致表示同意。基尔代尔街博物馆的管理员出现了。他拉着一辆排子车，上面摇摇晃晃地载着儿具裸体女神雕像：美臀维纳斯[276] ，肉欲维纳斯[277] 、轮回维纳斯[278] ，还有九位也是裸体的新缪斯女神石膏像。她们司的是：商业、歌剧、恋爱、广告、工业、言论自由、多重投票权、烹调法、家庭卫生法、海边音乐会、无痛分娩法和通俗天文学。）

法利神父[279]

他是个主教派[280] 教友，一个不可知论者，一个企图推翻我们神圣信仰的无教义者。

赖尔登老太太[281]

（撕碎她的遗嘱）我对你失望啦！你这坏蛋！

葛罗甘老婆婆[ 282]

（脱掉一只长靴子朝布卢姆丢去）你这畜生！可恶的家伙！

大鼻子弗林

给咱们唱个小曲儿吧，布卢姆。唱一支古老甜蜜的情歌[283]。

布卢姆

（欢乐诙谐地逗弄着）

我发誓不离开她，永永远远，

原来她好残忍，把我欺骗，

我的吐啦噜，吐啦噜，吐啦噜。[284]

“独脚”霍罗翰[285]

好样的老布卢姆！不管谁也比不过他。

帕迪·伦纳德

爱尔兰戏子！

布卢姆

哪一出铁道歌剧像一条直布罗陀的电车线路？并排的铸铁。[286] （笑声。）

利内翰

剽窃家！打倒布卢姆！

蒙面纱的女巫

（狂热地）我是布卢姆的信徒，并且以此为荣。不管怎样，我相信他。他是天底下最逗的人，我情愿为他献出自己的生命。

布卢姆

（朝围观者眨眼）我敢断定她准是个漂亮姑娘。

西奥多·普里福伊[287]

（头戴钓鱼帽，身穿防水布前克）他利用机械的设计来阻挠大自然神圣掌画的实现。

蒙面纱的女巫

（用短刀刺胸脯）我英雄的天神啊！（死去。）（众多最富于魅力和狂热的妇女也纷纷自杀。有用匕首刺胸口的，有自溺的，服氢氰酸、附子或砒霜的，割动脉的，绝食的，纵身投到蒸气碾路机轮下的，从纳尔逊纪念柱顶上跳进吉尼斯啤酒公司那巨大酒桶里的，还有把头伸到煤气灶底下气绝身死，用时髦的袜带自缢，或从各层楼窗口跳下的。）

亚历山大·约·道维[288]

（语气激烈地）基督教徒们和反布卢姆主义者，这个名叫布卢姆的家伙是从地狱的底层来的，丢尽了基督教徒的脸。门德斯这只臭山羊[289]从小就是个恶魔似的浪子，露出早熟幼儿的淫荡症状，令人联想到低地各镇[290] 。而且他竟跟一个放荡的老妪勾勾搭搭。这个厚颜无耻、假冒为善的恶棍，简直就是《启示录》里提到的那只白牛。[291] 他是绯红女[292] 的崇拜者。他鼻孔里呼吸的净是阴谋诡计。火刑柱和烧滚了的油锅正是他的去处。凯列班[293 ]！

群氓

用私刑拷打他！把他活活烧死！他跟巴涅尔一样坏。福克斯先生！[294]

（葛罗甘老婆婆把长靴朝布卢姆丢去。上多尔塞特街上方和下方的几家店的老板朝他丢一些廉价的或根本不值一文的物品：火腿骨头、炼乳罐头、卖不出去的卷心菜、陈面包、羊尾和肥猪肉碎片。）

布卢姆

（兴奋地）这简直是中了暑又在发疯了，[295]又开起可怕的玩笑来了。对上苍发誓，我就像没有被太阳照射过的白雪一般皎洁[296]。那是我哥哥亨利干的。我们两个人长得一模一样。他住在海豚仓巷二号。谣言这条毒蛇对我进行了恶意中伤。[ 297] 各位同胞，索然无味的故事犹如没有马的公共马车。[298]我提请我的老友、性病专家玛拉基·穆利根博士对我从医学上做出鉴定。
穆利根博士

（身着驾车穿的皮前克，额上戴着一副绿色防尘眼镜）布卢姆博士是个变态的阴阳人。他是新近从优斯塔斯大夫为神经失常的男病人所设的私立精神病院里逃出来的。他有着遗传性癫痫病征象，这是纵欲所导致的。曾经发现他的祖先有着象皮病迹象。慢性下体裸露狂的征候十分明显。还潜伏着灵巧地使用双手的现象。由于手淫，他过早地歇了顶，结果形成了乖僻的梦想家气质。他是个改邪归正的放荡者，装有金牙。家庭矛盾使他暂时丧失了记忆。我相信他是个并没有犯多大罪，却受了很大冤屈的人[299] 我曾对他做过全面检查，对肛门、腋窝、胸部和阴部的五千四百二十六根毛做了酸性试验。我敢断言，他是个处女膜未受损的童贞女[300]。

（布卢姆用高级礼帽遮住自己的生殖器。）

马登[301] 大夫

泌尿生殖器高度畸型也很显著。为了禆益后世，我建议把患部用酒精浸泡，保存在国立畸形博物馆里。

克罗瑟斯大夫

我检查了患者的尿。含有硬蛋白。唾液的分泌不充分，膝反射是间歇性的。

潘趣·科斯特洛大夫

犹太人气味[302]也挺显著。

迪克森大夫

（宣读健康诊断书）布卢姆先生是新型阴性男人的最佳典型。他的品行淳朴可爱。许多人认为他是个和蔼可亲的男子，和蔼可亲的人。整个说来，他挺古怪。从医学上看，他虽腼腆，但不低能。他曾经给改革派牧师保护协会的法庭委员写过一封措词优美的信，堪称是一首诗，它把一切都解释得一清二楚。他简直是个绝对戒酒的人。我敢断言，他睡在稻草褥子上，吃的是最俭朴的食物——菜店里那冰凉的干豌豆。不论冬夏，穿的都是爱尔兰制造的马尾毛织的衬衫。每星期六鞭打自己一顿。我听说他曾经是格伦克里感化院[303]里品行最坏的少年犯。据另一份报告，他还是个地地道道的遗腹子。我以人类的发声器官所发出过的最神圣的言辞，恳请对他宽大处理。他眼看就要生娃娃啦。

（全场骚动，一致表示同情。妇女们晕倒。一位美国富翁为布卢姆在街头募款。转眼之间就募到金币与银币、空白支票、钞票、宝石、债券、已到期的汇票、借据、结婚戒指、表链、小金盒、项链和手镯。）

布卢姆

噢，我多么想做妈妈呀。

桑顿太太[204]

（身穿护士服）亲爱的，紧紧地搂住我。很快就结束了。紧紧地，亲爱的。（布卢姆紧紧搂住她，并生下八个黄种和白种男娃。他们出现在铺了红地毯的楼梯上。装饰着珍贵花草的楼梯上。这八胞胎个个相貌英俊，有着贵重金属般的脸，身材匀称，衣着体面，举止端庄，能够流利地操五种现代语言，对各种艺术与科学饶有兴趣。每个人的名字都清晰地印在衬衫前襟上：金鼻[305] 、金指、金口[306] 、金手[307] 、银微笑、银本身[308]、水银[309]、全银[310]他们当即被委以几国的重要公职，诸如银行总裁、铁路运输经理、股份有限公司董事长、饭店联合组织的副主席。）

一个声音

布卢姆，你是救世主本·约瑟夫还是本·大卫[311]？

布卢姆

（阴郁地）你说的是。[312]

巴茨修士[ 313]

那么，就像查尔斯神父那样创造奇迹吧。

班塔姆·莱昂斯

你预言一下哪一匹马将在圣莱杰赛场上获胜。[314]（布卢姆在一张网上踱步。他用左耳遮住左眼，穿越凡堵墙，爬上纳尔逊纪念柱，用眼睑勾住柱顶横梁，悬空吊在那里。他吃掉十打牡蛎（连同外壳），治好了几名瘰疠患者，颦蹙起鼻子眼来模仿众多历史人物：贝肯斯菲尔德勋爵[ 315]、拜伦勋爵、沃特·泰勒[316]、埃及的摩西、摩西·迈蒙尼德[317]、摩西·门德尔松[318]、亨利·欧文[319] 、瑞普·凡·温克尔[320] 、科苏特[321] 、冉- 雅克·卢梭[322] 、利奥波德·罗思柴尔德男爵[323]、鲁滨孙·克鲁索、夏洛克·福尔摩斯、巴斯德[324]。他将两条腿同时朝不同的方向掉换，吩咐潮水倒流，伸出小指，导致日蚀[325]。）

罗马教皇的大使布利尼[ 326]

（身穿教皇军的祖亚沃军服，披着钢制皑甲，包括胸甲、臂甲、护腿具、护胫具；蓄着亵渎神明的大胡子，头戴褐色纸制主教冠。）利奥波德的家谱如下[327] ：摩西生挪亚[328] ，挪亚生尤尼克[329]，尤尼克生奥哈罗汉，奥哈罗汉生古根海姆[330] ，古根海姆生阿根达斯，阿根达斯生内泰穆[331] ，内泰穆生勒·希尔施[332]，勒·希尔施生耶书仑[333] ，耶书仑生麦凯，麦凯生奥斯特罗洛普斯基，奥斯特罗洛普斯基生斯梅尔多兹[334] ，斯梅尔多兹生韦斯，韦斯生施瓦茨[335] ，施瓦茨生阿德里安堡[336] ，阿德里安堡生阿兰胡埃斯[337] ，阿兰胡埃斯生卢维·劳森，卢维．劳森生以迦博多诺索[ 338]，以迦博多诺索生奥唐奈·马格纳斯[339]，奥唐奈·马格纳斯生克里斯特鲍默[340] ，克里斯特鲍默生本·迈默[ 341] ，本·迈默生达斯蒂·罗兹[342] ，达斯蒂·罗兹生本阿莫尔[ 343]，本阿莫尔生琼斯- 史密斯[344] ，琼斯- 史密斯生萨沃楠奥维奇[345]，萨沃楠奥维奇生贾斯珀斯通[346]，贾斯珀斯通生万图尼耶姆，万图尼耶姆生松博特海伊[347] ，松博特海伊生维拉格，维拉格生布卢姆，给他起名叫以马内利。[348]

一只死者的手[349]

（在墙上写着）布卢姆是个傻瓜。

克雷布[350]

（土匪装束）你在基尔巴拉克后面的牛洞里干啥来着？[351]

一个女娃

（摇着拔浪鼓）在巴利鲍桥[352] 下又干了些什么？

冬青树[353]

在魔鬼谷[354] 里呢？

布卢姆

（从前额一直涨红到臀部，左眼落下三滴泪）我那些往事，请不要去提啦。

被赶出去的爱尔兰房客们

（穿着紧身衣和短裤，手持顿尼溪集市[355] 上使用的那种橡树棒。）用犀牛鞭[356]抽他一顿！

（布卢姆长着一副驴耳朵[357] ，交抱着胳膊，伸出两脚，坐在示众台上。他用口哨吹起《唐乔万尼》中的“今晚同你”[358] 。阿尔坦[359] 的孤儿们手拉着手在他周围跳跳蹦蹦。狱门救济会[360] 的姑娘们也手拉着手，朝相反的方向跳跳蹦蹦。）

阿尔坦的孤儿们

你是猪猡，你是脏狗！

娘儿们咋会爱上你！

狱门救济会的姑娘们

你若遇凯伊，

告诉他可以

喝茶时见你，

替我捎此语。[361]

霍恩布洛尔[362]

（身罩祭披[363] ，头戴猎帽，宣布说）他将为众人负罪，前往住在荒野里的恶魔阿撒泻勒[364] 以及夜妖利利斯[365]那里，对，来自阿根达斯·内泰穆[366] 和属于含的土地麦西[367]的人们，全都朝他扔石头，羞辱他。

（众人朝布卢姆做掷石状。许多真正的旅客[368]的丧家之犬凑近他，羞辱他。马斯羌斯基和西特伦穿着宽大长外套，耳后垂着长长的鬈发，走了过来。他们朝布卢姆摇着大胡子。）

马斯羌斯基和西特伦

恶魔！伊斯特拉的莱姆兰[369] ，伪救世主！阿布拉非亚[ 370]！叛教者！

（布卢姆的裁缝乔治·R·梅西雅斯[371]腋下夹个弯把熨斗出现，他出示一张帐单。）

梅西雅斯

改一条裤子的工钱：十一先令。

布卢姆

（快快活活地搓着两只手）还是老样子。布卢姆一文不名！

（黑胡子叛徒吕便·杰·多德，坏心眼的牧羊人，将其子的溺尸扛在肩上，走近示众台跟前。）

吕便·杰·多德

（嗄声悄悄地说）事情败露了。奸细向警察告了密。一见到出租马车立刻就给拦截住。

消防队

呜呜呜！

巴茨修士

（给布卢姆穿上一件黄袍，上面绣着色彩鲜明的火焰，并给他戴上一顶高尖帽。还在布卢姆的脖颈上挂起一口袋火药，把他交到市政当局手里，并且说：）赦免他的罪过[372] 。
（根据众人的要求，都柏林市消防队的迈尔斯[373] 中尉在布卢姆身上点了火。一片悲叹声。）

“市民”[374]

谢天谢地！

布卢姆

（身穿标有I．H.S[375]字样的无缝衣，直挺挺地站在火凤凰[376] 的火焰中）爱琳的女儿们啊！别为我哭泣。[377]

（他向都柏林的新闻记者们出示自己身上烧的的伤痕。爱琳的女子们身穿黑衣，手持巨大的祈祷书和点起的长蜡烛，跪下来祷告。）

爱琳的女儿们

布卢姆之腰子，为我等祈。[378]

浴槽之花，为我等祈。

门顿之导师，为我等祈。

《自由人报》的广告兜揽员，为我等祈。

仁慈之共济会会员，为我等祈。

漂泊之肥皂，为我等祈。

《偷情的快乐》，为我等祈。

《无言之歌》，为我等祈。

“市民”之训斥者，为我等祈。

褶边之友，为我等祈。

最仁慈之产婆，为我等祈。

驱灾避邪之土豆，为我等祈。

（由文森特·奥布赖恩[379] 先生指挥的六百人的唱诗班，在约瑟夫·格林[380] 的风琴伴奏下，齐唱叠句《弥赛亚》中的“哈利路亚”叠句。布卢姆沉默下来，逐渐缩小，焦化了。）

佐伊

一直聊到脸上发黑吧。

布卢姆

头戴一顶破旧帽子，帽带上插着一支陶制烟斗。脚蹬一双满是尘埃的生皮翻毛鞋[381] 手执移民的红手绢包，拽着一口用稻草绳拴着的黑泥炭色的猪，眼中含笑。）现在放我走吧，大姐，因为凭着康尼马拉[382] 有的山羊发誓，我刚刚挨的那顿毒打真够呛。（眼里噙着一滴泪）一切都是疯狂的。爱国主义也罢，哀悼死者也罢，音乐或民族的未来也罢。生存还是毁灭。[383]人生之梦结束了。但求一个善终。他们可以活下去。（他哀痛地望着远方。）我完蛋啦。服上几片附子。拉下百叶窗。留一封信。然后躺下来安息。（他轻轻地呼吸。）不过如此而已。我曾经生活过。去了。再见。

佐伊

（把手指插到缠在脖颈上的缎带里，板起面孔）你说的是老实话吗？下次再说吧。（她冷笑）我猜你是从不同于往日的那边下的床[384]，要么就是跟你相好的姑娘操之过急。噢，你转些什么念头，我都一清二楚！

布卢姆

（惨痛地）男女，作爱，算什么？塞子和瓶子罢了。[ 385]

佐伊

（佛然作色）我就恨口是心非的无赖。你去嫖下等窑姐儿好啦。

布卢姆

（表示反悔）我知道自己着实叫人厌烦。你固然邪恶，可我没你还真不行。你是从哪儿来的？伦敦吗？

佐伊

（伶牙俐齿地）连猪都弹风琴的霍格斯·诺顿[386] 。我是在约克郡[387] 出生的。（她握住他那只正在抚摩她乳房的手。）喂，汤米·小耗子儿[388] 。别这样，来点更带劲儿的。你身上有够干一会儿的钱吗？十先令？

布卢姆

（微笑，慢慢点头）有更多的，霍丽[389] ，更多的。

佐伊

有更多的吗？（她用天鹅绒般柔嫩的手不在意地拍着他。）你要到音乐室里去瞧瞧我们那架新的自动钢琴吗？来吧，我会脱光的。

布卢姆

（像一个焦虑不安的行商那样打量她那对削了皮的梨有多么匀称，感到无比困惑[390]，迟迟疑疑地摸着后脑勺。）要是给某人知道了，她吃起醋来可厉害哩。一个绿眼的恶魔[391]。（一本正经地）不用说你也晓得会有多么棘手。

佐伊

（受宠若惊）眼不见心不烦。（她拍拍他。）来吧。

布卢姆

大笑着的魔女！推摇篮的手[392]。

佐伊

娃娃呀！

布卢姆

（裹着襁褓和斗篷，脑袋挺大，乌黑的头发恰似胎膜。一双大眼睛盯着她那晃来晃去的衬裙，用胖嘟嘟的指头数着上面的青铜扣子。他伸出湿漉漉的舌头，口齿不清他说：）一、二、山[三] 、山［三］、儿[二]、咦［一]。

扣子们

爱我，不爱我，爱我[393]。

佐伊

沉默就表示同意喽。（扎煞着小小指头，抓住他的手，用食指尖戳戳他的掌心，悄悄地给他暗示，[394] 把他诱向毁灭。）手热证明内脏冷。

（他在香气、乐声与诱惑中犹豫不决。她把他领向台阶，用她腋下的气味、描了眼线的双目的魅力以及套裙的窸窣声吸引着他，荷叶边的裙褶还遗留着所有那些曾经占有过她的雄兽如狮子般的臭气。）

雄兽们

（散发出发情、粪便和硫黄的气味，在饲养场里横冲直撞，低声吼叫，摇晃着服了麻醉药的脑袋。）真够味儿！

（佐伊和布卢姆来到门口，两个姐妹妓女坐在那里。她们画了眉，抬起眼睛好奇地打量着他。他连忙鞠了一躬，她们报以微笑。他狼狈地差点儿栽倒。）

佐伊

（亏得她立即伸出一只手扶住了他。）哎呀！可别栽到楼上去。[395]

布卢姆

正直的人可以摔七个跟头。（他在门口让路。）照规矩，请您先走。

佐伊

夫人先走，先生随后。

（她迈门坎。他迟疑着。她转过身，伸出双手，将他往里拽。他跳了进去。门厅里那个多叉鹿角状衣帽架上，挂着一顶男帽和一件雨衣。布卢姆摘下帽子，然而一眼瞥见那些，就皱起眉头，微笑着出起神来。楼梯平台处一扇门猛地打开。一个穿紫衫灰裤褐色袜子的男人迈着猴子般的步子走过。他扬着秃头和山羊胡，紧紧抱着一只装满了水的罐子，一副黑背带一直耷拉到脚后跟那儿。布卢姆赶紧扭过脸去，弯下身，端详起放在门厅里桌子上的那只剥制狐狸：它做着跑路的姿势，有着一双长毛垂耳狗那样的眼睛。随后，他抬起头嗅着，跟着佐伊走进音乐室。红紫色的薄纸罩子把枝形吊灯的光线遮暗了。一只蛾子正围在那里飞来飞去，东冲西撞地想逃出去。地板上铺着翡翠、天蓝、朱红三色扁菱形拼花图案的漆布，上面布满了形形色色的脚印：脚跟顶着脚跟，脚跟对着脚心，脚尖顶着脚尖，交叉起来的脚以及没有身子的幽灵拖着脚步在跳莫利斯舞的脚，都乱七八糟地扭在一起。四壁上糊着的墙纸图案是：紫杉木和明亮的林中小径。壁炉格子前展开一扇孔雀毛花样的屏风。反戴着便帽的林奇盘腿坐在用兽毛编织的炉毯上。他用一根细棍缓慢地打着拍子。基蒂·里凯茨，一个身着海军服、瘦骨磷峋、面色苍白的妓女，把鹿皮手套翻过来，露出珊瑚镯子。她拿着麻花式样的手提包，高高地坐在桌边上，悠荡着一条腿，对着壁炉台上端那面镀金的镜子，顾影自怜。她上衣底下略微露出一点垂下来的胸衣饰穗。林奇嘲笑般地指了指坐在钢琴对面的一对男女。）

基蒂

（用手捂着嘴，咳嗽。）她有点傻头傻脑。（她晃着食指，打手势。）布噜布噜。（林奇用他那根细棍挑起她的裙子和白衬裙。她连忙又拽好。）放规矩点儿。（她打个嗝儿，然后赶快低下她那水手帽，她那用散沫花染料染红了的头发在帽檐底下闪着光。）噢，对不起！

佐伊

再弄亮点儿，查理。（她走到枝形吊灯跟前，将煤气开关拧到头。）

基蒂

（瞅着煤气灯的火苗）今天晚上出了什么毛病？

林奇

（声音低沉地）亡灵和妖怪上场。

佐伊

替佐伊捶捶背吧。

（林奇晃了一下手里的细棍：这是一根黄铜拨火棍。斯蒂芬站在自动钢琴旁边，琴上胡乱丢着他的帽子和梣木手杖。他用两个手指再一次重复空五度[396] 的音程。弗洛莉·塔尔博特，一个虚弱，胖得像鹅一样的金发娼妇，身穿发霉的草莓色褴褛衣衫，摊开四肢躺在沙发的一角，一只前臂从长枕上耷拉下来，倾听着。困倦的眼皮患了严重的麦粒炎。）

基蒂

（又打了个嗝儿，同时用悬空的脚一踢）噢，对不起！

佐伊

（赶紧说）你的心上人在想你哪。把汗衫带子系好吧。（基蒂·里凯茨低下头去。她那圆筒形皮毛围巾松开了，哧溜哧溜地顺着肩、背、臂、椅子，一直滑落到地上。林奇用他手里的细棍挑起那卷曲的毛毛虫般的东西。她扭着脖子，做小鸟依人状。斯蒂芬掉过头去，朝那个反戴着便帽、盘腿而坐的身影瞥了一眼。）

斯蒂芬

事实上，究竟是本尼迪多·马尔切罗[397] 所发现的，还是他创作的，那无关紧要。仪式是诗人的安息。那也许是献给得墨忒耳[398] 的一首古老赞歌，要么就是为“诸天宣布上帝的荣耀”[399]谱的曲。它的音节或音阶可能迥乎不同，正如高于弗里吉亚调式与混合吕底亚[400]调式之间的差别很大似的。歌词也可能很不一样，犹如围绕着大卫——不，刻尔吉[401]，我在说些什么呀，我指的是刻瑞斯[402]——的祭坛，祭司们所发出的喧嚣声不同于大卫从马房里得来又讲给首席巴松管吹奏者[403]听的有关神之全能的那些话。哎呀，说实在的，这完全是风马牛不相及的两码事。趁着年轻干荒唐勾当吧，青春一去不复返嘛。[404]（他住了口，指着林奇的便帽，始而微笑，继而大笑起来。）你的智慧瘤子长在哪边？

便帽

（忧郁消沉）呸！正因为才所以。这是妇道人家的歪理。犹太裔希腊人是希腊裔犹太人。物极必反。死亡是生命的最高形式。算了

斯蒂芬

我所有的错误、自负、过失，你都记得相当准确。对于你的不忠诚，我还要继续闭眼睛到什么时候呢？砺石[ 405] ！

便帽

哎！

斯蒂芬

我还有句活跟你说。（他皱起眉头。）原因是基音和全音阶第五音被最大限度的音程[406] 分割开来了，它……

便帽

它？说完呀。你说不完。

斯蒂芬

（竭力说下去）音程分割开来了，它就是最大限度的省略。两极相通。八度。它。

便帽

它？

（外面，留声机喧嚣地奏起《圣城》[ 407]。）

斯蒂芬

（唐突地）为了不从自我内部穿行[408] ，一直跋涉到世界尽头。天主，太阳，莎士比亚[409] ，推销员，走遍了现实，方成为自我本身。且慢。等一等。街上那家伙的喊叫[410] 真该死。预先就安排好不可避免地会成为这个样子。瞧！[411]

林奇

（发出哀鸣般的嘲笑声，朝着布卢姆和佐伊·希金斯咧嘴一笑。）多么渊博的一番演说啊，呃？

佐伊

（刻薄地）你的脑袋空空如也，他知道的比你忘掉的还多哩。

（弗洛莉·塔尔博特又胖又蠢地望着斯蒂芬。）

弗洛莉

人家说，世界未日[412]今年夏天就到了。

吉蒂

不会的。

佐伊

（哈哈大笑）伟大的天主好不公道啊！

弗洛莉

（不悦）喏，是报纸上登伪基督[413]的事时提到的。哦，我的脚好痒啊。

（破衣褴衫的赤足报童放着一只尾巴摆来摆去的风筝[414]，啪嗒啪嗒地跑过去，大声嚷着。）

报童们

最新消息。摇木马比赛的结果出来啦。皇家运河里出现了一条海蛇[415] 。伪基督平安抵达。

（斯蒂芬掉过身去，瞥见了布卢姆。）

斯蒂芬

一拍子、多拍子和半拍子。[416]

（吕便·杰·伪基督，一个流浪的犹太人，张开紧握着的手，接着脊梁骨，脚步蹒跚地走来。他腰上系着一只香客的行囊，露出约定支付的期票和遭到拒付的票据。肩上高高地扛着长长的船篙，一头钩着他那湿透了缩作一团的独子的裤裆，是刚从利菲河里救上来的。暮色苍茫中，跟潘趣·科斯特洛长得一模一样的妖怪翻着跟头滚了过来。他瘸腿，驼背，患有脑水肿，下巴突出，前额凹陷，长着阿里·斯洛珀[417] 式的鼻子。）

众人

哦？

妖怪

（下颚卡嗒卡嗒响着，蹿来蹿去，转动着眼珠，尖声叫着，像只大袋鼠般地跳跳蹦蹦，摊开双臂，仿佛要一把抓住什么似的。随即猛地从叉开的两腿间伸出他那张缺嘴唇的脸。）出来啦！笑面人。原始人！[418]（他发出苦修教士那种哀号，打转转。）先生们，女士们，请下赌注！[419]（他蹲下来，变戏法。从他手里飞出轮盘赌用的小行星。）来，赌个输赢！[420]（行星们相互碰撞，发出脆亮的噼噼啪啪声。）到此为止。[421]（行星们化为轻飘飘的气球，涨大并飞走。他跳进虚空，消失了。）

弗洛莉

（茫然失措，悄悄地连连画十字。）世界未日到了！

（从她身上散发出女性温吞吞的臭气。周围星云弥漫，一片朦朦。穿过飘浮在外面的雾，留声机的轰鸣压住了咳嗽声和嚓嚓的脚步声。）

留声机

耶路撒冷呀！

敞开城门唱吧：

和散那[ 422] …·

（焰火冲上天空，爆炸开。一颗白星从中坠下，宣告万物的终结和以利亚的再度来临。[423]从天顶到天底，紧紧绷着一根肉眼看不见的、没有尽头的绳子。“世界末日”——身穿苏格兰高地游猎侍从的百褶格子呢短裙和格子花呢服、头戴熊皮鸟缨高顶帽的双头章鱼[424] ，以“人的三条腿”[425] 的姿势头朝下顺着此绳在黑暗中旋转着。）

世界未日

（用苏格兰口音）谁来跳划船舞，划船舞，划船舞？[426]

（以利亚的嗓音像秧鸡般刺耳，在天际回荡，压住了一阵过堂风和哽噎般的咳嗽声。他身穿有着漏斗形袖子、宽宽松松的上等细麻布白色法衣，以执牧杖者的神气，汗涔涔地出现在悬挂着古老光荣之旗[ 427] 的讲坛上。他砰砰地敲着栏秆。）

以利亚

请不要在这间小屋子里吵吵嚷嚷。杰克·克兰、克雷奥利·休[428] 、达夫·坎贝尔、阿贝·基尔施内尔，你们要闭着嘴咳嗽。喏，这条干线完全由我来操纵。伙计们，现在就登记吧。上帝的时间[429] 是十二点二十五分。告诉母亲你们将会在那儿[430] 。赶紧去订，那才是捷足先登哪。就在这儿当场参加吧。买一张通往来世联轨点的直达票，一路上不停车。再说一句。你们是神呢，还是该死的傻瓜？基督一旦再度来到科尼艾兰[431] ，咱们准备好了吗？弗洛莉·基督、斯蒂芬·基督、佐伊·基督、布卢姆·基督、吉蒂·基督、林奇·基督，宇宙的力量应该由你们去感觉。我们害怕宇宙吗？不。要站在天使这边。[ 432] 当一面棱镜[433] 。你们内心里有那么一种更崇高的自我。你们能够跟耶稣、跟乔答摩[434] 、跟英格索尔[435] 平起平坐。你们统统处在这样的震颤中吗？我认为是这样。各位会众，你们一旦有所领悟，前往天堂的起劲愉快的兜风，就不赶趟儿了。你们明白我的意思吗？这确实是回春灵药。最强烈的玩艺儿。完整的果酱馅儿饼。再也没有比这更乖巧、伶俐的货色了。它是无穷无尽，无比豪华的。它使人恢复健康，生气勃勃。我知道，我也是个使人振奋者。且别开玩笑，归根结底，就是亚·约·基督·道维以及调和的哲学。诸位明白了吗？好的。六十九街西七十六号。明白我的意思了吗？对啦。随时都可以给我挂太阳电话。烂醉如泥的酒徒们，省下那邮票吧。（大嚷）那么，现在唱赞美歌吧。大伙儿都一道热情地唱吧。再来一个！（他唱起来。）耶路……

唱片

（压住他的声音）和路撒拉米牛亥和……（唱针磨擦唱片，吱吱嘎嘎响。）

三名妓女

（捂住耳朵，粗声喊着）啊咯咯咯！

以利亚

（挽起衬衫袖子，满脸乌黑[436]，高举双臂，声嘶力竭地嚷着）天上的大哥啊，总统先生，我刚才跟你说的话，你该听见了吧。我当然坚决相信你，总统先生。现在我确实认为，希金斯小姐和里凯茨小姐虔心信着教。说实在的，我从来也没见过像你这般吓得战战兢兢的女子，弗洛莉小姐，正如我刚才瞧见的那样。总统先生，你来帮我拯救咱们亲爱的姐妹们吧。（他朝听众眨巴眼睛。）咱们的总统先生对一切都了如指掌，可是他啥也不说。

吉蒂- 凯特

我一时控制不住自己，脆弱失足，在宪法山[ 437] 干下了那样的事，是主教为我行的坚振礼[438] ，［我还参加了褐色肩衣组织[439] 。] 我姨妈嫁给了蒙莫朗西[440] 家的人。我原是纯洁的，可一个管子工破坏了我的贞操。

佐伊- 范妮

为了逗趣儿，我让他把那物儿像鞭子似的塞到我里面。

弗洛莉一德肋撒

都是由于喝了亨尼西的三星[441] ，再掺上葡萄酒的缘故。当维兰[442] 溜进我的被窝之后，我就失了身。

斯蒂芬

太初有道[443] ，以迨永远，及世之世[444]。保佑八福[ 445] 。

（迪克森、马登、克罗瑟斯、科斯特洛、利内翰、班农、穆利根与林奇等八福，身穿外科医学生的白大褂，排成四路纵队，喧嚣地快步走过去。）

八福

（语无伦次地）啤酒，牛肉，斗犬，牛贩子，生意、酒吧、鸡奷，主教[446] 。

利斯特[447]

（身穿公谊会教徒的灰色短裤，头戴宽檐帽，慎重地）他是我们的朋友。我用不着提名道姓。你去寻求光[ 448] 吧。

（他踩着“科兰多”舞步[449] 过去了。贝斯特[450] 身穿理发师那浆洗得发亮的罩衣，鬈发上缠着卷发纸。他领着约翰·埃格林顿[451]走进来，后者穿的是印有蜥蜴形文字的黄色中国朝服，头戴宝塔式高帽。）

贝斯特

（笑吟吟地摘下帽子，露出剃过的头，脑顶翘起一条根部扎着橙黄蝴蝶结的辫子。）你们知道吗，我正在打扮他哪。美丽的事物[452] ，你们知道吗？这是叶芝说的——不，是济慈说的。

约翰·埃格林顿

（取出一盏绿罩暗灯，把灯光朝屋角晃。用挑剔的口吻）美学和化妆品是为闺房而设的。我要寻求的则是真理。朴素人的朴素真理。但德拉吉[453] 人要的是事实，而且非得到不可。

（在投射到煤篓后面的探照灯那圆锥形光束里，马南南·麦克李尔将下颚托在膝盖上，沉思默想着。[454] 他长着圣者的眼睛，奥拉夫般的脸上胡子拉碴的。他慢腾腾地站起来。从他那活像是德鲁伊特[455] 的嘴里冒出凛冽的海风，鳝鱼与小鳗鱼在他头部周围翻腾着。他身上覆满海藻和贝壳。右手握着一只自行车[456]打气筒。左手攥着一只巨大的蝲蛄的双爪。）

马南南·麦克李尔

（用波浪声）噢姆！嘿喀！哇嚕！啊喀！噜哺！摩啊！嘛！[457] 诸神的白色瑜咖僧。赫尔墨斯·特里斯美吉斯托斯的玄妙的《派曼德尔》[458]。（ 发出海风呼啸声）普纳尔甲纳穆·帕齐·潘·贾乌布！[459] 我决不受人愚弄。有人说：当心左边，对萨克蒂的膜拜。[460] （发出预告暴风雨的海燕的叫声）萨克蒂、湿婆、黑暗神秘之父！（他用打气筒敲打左手捏着的蝲蛄。他那只合作社的表盘上，黄道十二宫图在灼灼发光。他以海洋汹涌澎湃的势头大声哭号。）噢姆！咆姆！毗噍姆！我是家园的光！[461] 我是梦幻般的奶油状黄油[462] 。

（一只瘦骨嶙峋的犹大的手压住了光。绿光越来越淡。变成红紫色。煤气灯在吱吱地哀鸣。）

煤气灯

噗啊！噗咿咿咿咿咿咿！

（佐伊跑到枝形吊灯跟前，弯起一条腿，把灯罩摆摆正。）

佐伊

谁给我支烟抽？

林奇

（轻轻地往桌上丢一支烟）拿去。

佐伊

（佯装作傲慢地把头一歪）怎么能这样递东西给一位女士呢？（她不慌不忙地把烟卷捻松探过身去，就着火苗把它点上，露出腋窝里那簇褐色毛毛。林奇大胆地用拨火棍撩起她那半边套裙。袜带上边裸露出的肉，在天蓝色套裙的遮掩下，呈现出水中精灵的绿色。她安详地喷着烟雾。）你瞧见我屁股后头那颗美人痣了吗？


林奇

我没在看。

佐伊

（送着秋波）没看吗？光看还不过瘾哩。你要咂个柠檬吗？

（她装出一副羞答答的样子，斜眼望着布卢姆，朝他扭过身去，把被拨火棍勾住的套裙拽开。一片天蓝色液体重新流到她身上。布卢姆站在那儿，眼里露出贪馋的神色微笑着，摆弄两手的拇指。吉蒂·里凯茨用唾沫舔湿中指，对着镜子抹平双眉。皇家文书利波蒂·维拉格沿着壁炉烟囱的槽敏捷地滑下来，踩着粗糙的粉红色高跷，趾高气扬地朝左边迈两步。他身上紧紧地裹着几件大氅，外面罩着棕色胶布雨衣。雨衣下面，手里拿着个羊皮纸书卷。左眼上戴着卡什尔·博伊尔·奥康内尔·菲茨莫里斯·蒂斯代尔·法雷尔[463] 那闪闪发光的单片眼镜。他头顶埃及双冠[464] 。两耳上伸出两支鹅毛笔。）

维拉格

（脚跟并拢，鞠躬）我叫作维拉格·利波蒂，松博特海伊人。[465]（他若有所思地干咳了几声。）这里男女混杂，赤身露体，触目皆是，呃？我无意中瞥见了她的后身，说明她并没有穿你特别喜爱的那种贴身内衣。我希望你已瞅见了她大腿上注射的痕迹，呃？好吧。

布卢姆

爷爷[466] 。可是……

维拉格

另一方面，第二个姑娘，那涂了樱桃红唇膏，戴着白色头饰，头发上抹了不少咱们犹太族传统的侧柏[467] 灵液的，穿着散步衣。从她坐的姿势来看，想必是胸罩勒得紧紧的。也可以说是把脊梁骨掉到前面来了。如果我理解错了，请指出来。可我一向认为，那些轻佻女子隐隐约约地让你瞥见内衣。这种下体裸露狂患者的表现，正投你的所好。一句话，是半鹰半马的怪兽[468]。我说得对吗，

布卢姆

她太瘦啦。

维拉格

（不无愉快地）正是这样！观察得很细。裙子上撑出两个兜儿，略作陀螺形，是为了让屁股显得格外丰满。想必是刚从专门敲诈的大甩卖摊子上买的。钱也是从哪个冤大头手里骗来的。那是用来糊弄人的俗不可耐的玩艺儿。瞧她们怎样留意细小的斑点。今天能穿的，决不要拖到明天。视差！（神经质地扭动一下脑袋）你听见我的头卡嗒一声响了吗？多音节的绕嘴词！[469]

布卢姆

（手托臂肘，食指杵着面颊）她好像挺悲哀的。

维拉格

（讥消地，龇着鼬鼠般的黄板牙，用手指翻开左眼皮，扯着嘶哑的嗓音吼叫）骗子！当心这轻佻丫头和她假装出的悲伤。巷子里的百合[470] 。人人都有鲁亚尔杜斯·科隆博所发现的矢车菊。压翻她。[471] 让她变得像只鸽子。水性杨花的女人。（口吻温和了一些）喏，请你注意第三位吧。她的大部分身于都展现在眼前。仔细观察她脑壳上那簇用氧处理过的植物质吧。嗨哟，她撞着了[472] 。长腿大屁股，伙伴中的丑小鸭。

布卢姆

（懊悔不迭）偏偏我没带枪出来。

维拉格

不论是什么号的——宽松的，中等的，紧的，都能提供。只要出钱，随便挑。哪一个都能使你快乐[473] ……

布卢姆

哪一个……？

维拉格

（卷着舌头）利姆！[ 474] ）瞧，她可真丰满，浑身长了好厚的一层脂肪。从胸脯的份量看，她显然是个哺乳动物。你能看到她身子前面突出两个尺寸可观的大肉疙瘩，大得几乎垂进午饭的汤盆里。背后下身也有两个隆起的东西，看来直肠必是结实的。那两个鼓包摸着会给人以快感，唯一的美中不足是不够紧。注意保养就能使这个部位的肉厚实。要是关起来喂，肝脏就会长得像象那么大[475] 。把掺了胡芦巴[476] 和安息香的新鲜面包搓成小丸，浸泡在一剂绿茶里吞服，就能在短暂的一生中，自自然然长出一身肥膘，活像是个球形针插。这样该中你的意了吧，呃？使人馋涎欲滴的热腾腾的埃及肉锅[477] 。尽情享受吧。石松粉[ 478] 。（他的喉咙抽搐着。）恰好，他又干起来啦。[479]

布卢姆

我讨厌麦粒肿。

维拉格

（扬扬眉毛）他们说，用金戒指碰一下就好了。[480] 利用女性的弱点来辩论[481]这是旧日时罗马和古代希腊的狄普罗多库斯和伊赤泰欧扫罗斯[482] 担任执政官时所说的。此外，单靠夏娃的灵药就够了。非卖品。只供租借。胡格诺派[483] 。（抽动一下喉咙）好古怪的声音。（像是为了振作起来般地咳嗽）然而，这也许只不过是个瘊子。我想你还记得我曾经教过你的一个处方吧？小麦粉里掺上蜂蜜和肉豆蔲。

布卢姆

（仔细琢磨）小麦粉里搀上石松粉和希拉巴克斯[484] 。这可是个严峻的考验啊。

今天是个格外劳累的日子，一连串的灾难。且慢，我的意思是，您说过，瘊子血能使瘊子传播开来。……

维拉格

（鹰钩鼻子，眨巴着眼睛，严厉地）别再摆弄你那大拇指了，好好想想吧。瞧，你已经忘记了。运用一下你的记忆术吧。事业是神圣的。咯啦。嗒啦[485]。（旁白）他准会想起来的。

布卢姆

记得您提到过迷迭香和抑制寄生组织的意志力的事。那么，不，不，我想起来啦。让死者的手摸一下就能痊愈。记得吗？

维拉格

（兴奋地）可不是嘛。可不是嘛。正是这样。记忆术。（使劲拍打他那个羊皮纸书卷）此书详尽地告诉你该怎样处置。查查索引吧。用附子来治错乱性恐怖，用盐酸来治忧郁症，用白头翁来炼制春药。下面维拉格还要谈谈截肢术。我们的老友腐蚀剂。对瘊子要采取饥饿疗法。等它于瘪成空壳之后，用马鬃齐根勒掉。然而把论点移到保加利亚人和巴斯克人身上。关于喜不喜欢女扮男装，你究竟拿定主意了没有？[486]（干涩地窃笑）你曾打算花上一整年的时间来研究宗教问题。一八八六年夏季，你曾试图绘制一幅与圆形面积相等的正方形[487]，赢得那一百万英镑。石榴[488]！崇高和荒谬只有一步之差。[489]比方说，睡衣睡裤。或者垫有三角形布料的针织扎口死裆短裤？要么就是那种复杂的混合物——连裤女衬衣？（他嘲弄般地学鸡叫。）咯、咯尔、咯！

（布卢姆迟迟疑疑地环顾三名妓女，然后又盯着蒙了罩子的红紫色灯光，听着那飞个不停的蛾声。）

布卢姆

那么现在就该做出结论了。睡衣是从来也不。所以是这个样儿。不过，明天将是新的一天。过去曾经是今日。因此，到了明天，现在也会成为过去的昨天。

维拉格

（像是提词般地低声私语）蜉蝣在不断地交媾中度过短暂的一生。雌性的体态虽逊于雄性，背后那外阴部却是精美绝伦的，它被其气味所引诱。美丽的鹦鹉！[490] （他那鹦鹉的黄嘴用鼻音急促不清他说着）犹太历五五五0 年前后，喀尔巴阡山脉[491] 有过一句谚语。一大调羹蜂蜜要比六桶最高级的麦芽醋更能吸引熊先生。熊直哼哼，蜜蜂嫌吵。且慢。这容别的时候再接着说吧。我们这些局外人很高兴。（他咳嗽一声，低下头，用掏挖的手势若有所思地搓着鼻子）你会发现这些夜虫总是跟踪着灯光。这是错觉。要记住，它们长着无法调节的复眼。关于这些棘手的论点，可参看我著的《性科学原理，或爱的情欲》第十七卷。利·布·博士说，这是本年度最为轰动的一部书。举例来说，有些人的动作是自发的。深入领会。那是适合于他的太阳。夜鸟，夜阳，夜镇。追我吧，查理！（他朝布卢姆的耳朵嚷。）嗡嗡！

布卢姆

那天不知是蜜蜂还是青蝇，撞着了墙上的影子，撞晕了。于是迷迷糊糊地冲进了我的衬衫，害得我好苦……

维拉格

（面无表情，以圆润、女声女气的腔调笑着）妙极了！他的裤裆里藏着斑蟊，或者阴茎上贴着芥未软膏。（晃动着颈上那火鸡般的垂肉，并像火鸡似的贪婪地咯咯叫着）火鸡！火鸡！咱们说到哪儿来着？芝麻，开门！[492] 出来吧！（他麻利地打开那个羊皮纸书卷，读起来。他牢牢抓住书卷，萤火虫般的鼻于沿那文字倒着迅速地移动。[493]）且慢，好朋友，我给你带来了答案。咱们很快就能吃上红沙洲的牡蛎[494]了。我是手艺最高的厨师。这种有滋味的双壳贝对身体有好处，让无所不吃的猪先生去挖掘佩里戈尔[495]的块菌，那对神经衰弱和悍妇炎患者有着奇效。尽管发臭，却富于刺激性。（摇头晃脑，尖声讥笑着）滑稽啊。眼睛里塞进单片眼镜。[496] （他打了个喷嚏。）啊们！

布卢姆

（心不在焉地）妇女患的双壳贝病更厉害。什么时候都是开着的芝麻[497] 。裂开的女性[498] 。所以她们害怕虫子啦，爬虫动物什么的。然而夏娃和蛇却不然。这并不是史实吧。依我看，显然是以此类推。蛇对女人的奶也贪得无厌。它们从包罗万象的森林里婉蜒爬行好几英里前来，吱吱地把她的乳房吮干。就像在艾里芳图利亚里斯[499] 的作品中所读到的那些雄火鸡般滑稽的罗马婆娘似的。

维拉格

（嘴上吸出深深的皱纹，两眼像石头般绝望地紧闭着，以异国情调。用单音咏诵圣歌。）那些乳房胀鼓鼓的母牛，它们四远驰名……

布卢姆

我想要大声喊叫。请您原谅。哦？那么，（他重复一遍。）主动地去找到蜥蜴窝，以便供其贪婪地吸吮自己的乳房。蚂蚁吸蚜虫的奶水。（意味深长地）本能支配着世界。[500]不论生前，还是死后。

维拉格

（歪着头，脊背与隆起如翼状的肩膀，弯作弓形，鼓起昏花的两眼凝视着蛾，用触角股的指头指指点点，喊叫。）谁是蛾，蛾？谁是亲爱的杰拉尔德[501] ？亲爱的杰，是你吗？哦，哎呀，他就是杰拉尔德。哦，我非常担心他会被严重地烧伤。有人肯摇摇高级餐巾来防止这场灾难吗？（学猫叫）猫咪猫咪猫咪猫咪！（他叹口气，朝后退，下颚低垂，朝两旁斜晚着。）好的，好的。这家伙等下就会安静下来的。（望空猛地咬了一口。）

飞蛾

我是个小小东西，

永远翱翔在春季，

兜着圈子且嬉戏。

想当年，我曾登基，

到如今展开双翼，

天地间飞来飞去！

砰！（他冲向红紫色灯罩，喧噪地拍着翅膀。）漂亮、漂亮、漂亮、漂亮、漂亮、漂亮的衬裙。

（亨利·弗罗尔从左首上端的入口登场。他溜着脚步悄悄走了两步，来到左前方中央。他披着深色斗篷，头戴一顶垂着羽毛饰的墨西哥宽边帽。手执一把嵌了花纹的银弦大扬琴和一支有着长竹管的雅各烟斗[502] ，陶制的烟袋锅作女头状。他穿着深色天鹅绒紧身裤，浅口无带轻舞鞋有着银质饰扣。他的脸像是一位充满浪漫主义色彩的救世主，鬈发飘垂、胡子和口髭稀稀疏疏。一双细长的腿和麻雀脚活脱儿像是男高音歌手坎迪亚亲王马里奥[503]。 他理了理皱领的褶子，伸出好色的舌头舔湿了嘴唇。）

亨利

（一面拨弄吉他琴弦，一面以低沉动听的嗓音唱道）有一朵盛开的花[504]。

（蛮横的维拉格收拢起下巴，盯着灯。庄重的布卢姆端详着佐伊的脖颈。风流的亨利颈部的肉耷拉着，转向钢琴。）

斯蒂芬

（自言自语）闭上眼睛弹琴吧，学爸爸的样儿。把我的肚子填满猪食。这已经够受的了。我要起身，回到我的[505]。想必这就是。斯蒂夫，你可陷入了窘境。得去看望老迪希，要么就给他打个电报。我们今天早晨的会见给我留下了深刻的印象。尽管我们的年龄。明天我将尽情地写出来。说起来，我真有点儿醉啦。（他又碰一下键盘。）这一次是小三和弦。是的。醉得还不厉害。

（阿尔米达诺·阿尔蒂弗尼一边精神抖擞地抨着口鹿，一边伸出用乐谱卷成的指挥棒。）

阿尔蒂弗尼

好好考虑一下吧。你毁掉了一切。[506]

弗洛莉

给咱唱点什么吧。《古老甜蜜的情歌》。[ 507]

斯蒂芬

没有嗓子。我是个最有才能的艺术家。林奇，我给你看过关于古琵琶[508] 的那封信了吗？

弗洛莉

（假笑）一只会唱可是不肯唱的鸟儿呗。

（在牛津大学做特别研究员的一对连体双胞胎：醉汉菲利普和清醒菲利普[509] 拿着推草机出现在漏斗状斜面墙上的窗口。两个人都戴着马修·阿诺德[510]的假面具。）

清醒菲利普

接受一个傻子的忠告吧。有点不对头。用铅笔头数数看，像个乖乖的小傻瓜那样。你有三镑十二先令。两张纸币，一英镑的金币，两克朗。倘若年轻人有经验。[511] 城里的穆尼酒馆，海岸上的穆尼，莫伊拉那一家，拉切特那一家，[512] 霍尔街医院，伯克[513]。呃？我在盯着你哪。

醉汉菲利普

（不耐烦地）啊，瞎说，你这家伙。下地狱去吧！我没欠过债。我要是能够弄明白八音度是怎么回事就好了。双重人格。是谁把他的名字告诉我的呢？（他的推草机开始嗡嗡地响起来。）啊哈，对啦。我的在命，我爱你。[514] 我觉得先前到这儿来过。是什么时候来着？他不姓阿特金森[515] ，我有他的名片，不知放在哪儿啦。叫作麦克什么的。想起来了，叫昂马克。他跟我谈起过——且慢，是斯温伯恩[516]吧，对吗？

弗洛莉

那么，歌儿呢？

斯蒂芬

心灵固然愿意，肉体却是软弱的。[ 517]

弗洛莉

你是梅努斯毕业的吗？你跟我过去认识的一个人长得可像哩。

斯蒂芬

如今已经毕业啦。（自言自语）脑袋瓜儿挺灵。

醉汉菲利普与清醒菲利普

（他们的推草机嗡嗡响着，草茎随之轻快地跳跃起来。）脑袋瓜儿一向挺灵。已经毕业啦，已经毕业啦。顺便问一声，你可有那本书，那玩艺儿，那根梣木手杖吗？对，就在那儿。脑袋瓜儿一向挺灵，如今已经毕业了。要保持下去。像我们这样。

佐伊

前天晚上有个教士到这儿来办点事。他把上衣钮扣扣得严严实实的。我对他说，你用不着那么躲躲闪闪的。我认得出你那脖领是天主教教士的。

维拉格

从他的角度来说，这完全是理所当然的。人的堕落。（愤怒地瞪大眼睛，厉声地）让教皇下地狱去！太阳底下没有新鲜事。[518] 我就是曾经揭露出僧侣与处女的性之秘密的那个维拉格。因此，我脱离了罗马教会。读读那本《神父、女人与忏悔阁子》[519] 吧。彭罗斯[520] 。弗力勃铁·捷贝待[521]。（他扭动身子。）女人带着甜蜜的羞涩解开灯心草编的腰带，将湿透了的阴部献给男子的阳物。少顷，男子赠与女人丛林之中的几片兽肉。女悦，以带羽之皮遮身。男人用大而硬的阳物热烈爱抚女人之阴部。（他大喊。）我是被迫首肯的。[522] 于是，轻浮的女人四处乱跑。强壮的男人抓住女人的手脖子。女人尖声呼叫，又咬又啐[ 523]。此刻，男人怒气冲天，揍女人那肥胖的臀部[524]。（他追逐自己的屁股。）唏噼！啵啵！（他停下脚步，打喷嚏。）哈哧！（他咬住自己的屁股，晃悠着。）噗噜噜！

林奇

我希望你让那位好神父用苦行来赎罪。飞个主教[525]，就要罚他念九遍《荣耀颂》。

佐伊

（从鼻孔中喷出海象般的烟雾）他根本搞不了。你知道，仅仅兴奋一阵。干巴巴地摩擦一通罢了。

布卢姆

可怜的人哪！

佐伊

（满不在意地）他就能这样嘛。

布卢姆

怎样呢？

维拉格

（龇牙咧嘴，冒出恶魔般的黑光，歪扭着脸，朝前伸着骨瘦如柴的脖子。他仰起妖精[526] 般的鼻子眼，怒吼。）可恶的基督教徒们！[527] 他有个父亲，四十个父亲[528] 。他从来也没存在过。猪神！他长着两只左脚[529] 。他是犹大·伊阿其阿[530] ，一个利比亚的宦官，教皇的私生子。（他身倚扭曲了的前爪，僵硬地弯着臂，扁平的骷髅脖颈上端是一双神色痛苦的眼睛，朝沉默的世界叫喊。）婊子的儿子。《启示录》。

吉蒂

玛丽·肖特尔被蓝帽[531] 吉米·皮金传染上了梅毒，住进了花柳病医院。她还跟那家伙生了个娃娃，连奶都不会咽。因惊风在被窝里憋死了。我们大家捐钱，给办的葬事。

醉汉菲利普

（严肃地）谁使你落到这步田地的呢，菲利普？[532]

清醒菲利普

（快活地）是由于神圣的鸽子，菲利普[533] 。

（吉蒂摘下帽子上的饰针，安详地把帽子撂下，拍了拍她那用散沫花染过的头发。从没见过一个娼妓肩上披散着这么一头秀美漂亮、光艳动人的鬈发呢。林奇把她的帽子戴在自己的头上。她把它扒拉下去。）

林奇

（笑）令人高兴的是，梅奇尼科夫[534] 在类人猴身上接了种。

弗洛莉

（点头）运动机能失调了。

佐伊

（快活地）哦，我得翻翻字典。

林奇

三位聪明的处女[535] 。

维拉格

（因疟疾犯了打起冷颤，喷出大量的淡黄色鱼卵。他那皮包骨的患癫痫的嘴唇上冒着泡。）她贩卖春药、白蜡、香橙花。一个名叫“豹”的罗马百人队长[536]用自己的生殖器把她玷污了。（他手按在胯间，伸出闪烁着光的蝎子般的舌头。）救世主啊！他弄破了她的膜[537] 。（他叽叽喳喳地发出狒狒的叫声，玩世不恭地抽搐着，扭动着屁股。）嘻咳！嘿咳！哈咳！嗬咳！呼咳！喀咳！咕咳！

（本·大象·多拉德走向前来。他生得红脸膛，肌肉僵硬，鼻孔里毛茸茸的，大胡子，白菜耳朵，胸脯多毛，头发蓬乱，奶头肥大。腰部和生殖器紧紧地箍在黑色的游泳裤里。）

本·多拉德

（肥胖的大手奏着骨制响板，愉快地用约德尔唱法发出低沉的桶音）。当狂恋使我神魂颠倒之际。

（两个处女——卡伦护士与奎格利护士猛地冲过竞技场的管理员和拦绳，张开双臂朝他扑来。）

处女们

（极度热情地）大本钟！本，我的心肝儿[538] ！

一个声音

抓住那个穿不像样子的裤子的家伙。

本·多拉德

（拍着大腿哈哈大笑）马上把他抓住。

亨利

（怀里抱着一具砍下来的女头，边爱抚着边喃喃自语）你的心，我的爱。（拨弄着古琵琶弦）当我初见……[539]

维拉格

（蜕皮，大量羽毛脱落下来）混蛋！（他打个哈欠，露出漆黑的喉咙，用羊皮书卷卷成的圆筒朝上一顶，闭上口腔。）说完这些，我就告辞了。再见。多多保重。狗屁！[540]

（亨利·弗罗尔用随身携带的梳子迅速地梳理口髭和胡于，并蘸着唾沫抹平头发。他用长剑掌舵，疾步向门口走去，背后挎着荒腔走调的竖琴。[541] 维拉格翘起尾巴，像踩高跷般笨拙地跳了两下，来到门边。他熟练地在墙上斜贴了一张黄脓液色的传单，用头顶着按紧。）

传单

吉·11。禁止招贴。严加保密。亨利·弗兰克斯大夫：[542] 。

亨利

现在一切都失去啦。[543]

（维拉格转瞬间取下螺丝，摘掉自己的头，夹在腋下。）

维拉格的头

庸医！

（二人分别退场。）

斯蒂芬

（侧过头来对佐伊说）你大概会更喜欢创立了新教异端邪说的那个好斗的牧师[544] 吧。但是要当心犬儒学派的安提西尼[545]和异教祖师爷阿里乌的最后下场。在厕所里所受的死的痛苦。[546]

林奇

对她来说，是同一个神。

斯蒂芬

（虔诚地）而且是支配万物的至高无上的主。

弗洛莉

（对斯蒂芬）你准是个酒肉神父。要么就是个修士。

林奇

可不是嘛。一位红衣主教的儿子。

斯蒂芬

犯了大罪[547] 。不守清规的修士们[548] 。

（全爱尔兰首席红衣主教、西蒙·斯蒂芬·迪达勒斯大人在门口出现。他身着红色法衣、短袜便鞋。担任助祭的小人猿——即七样大罪，也穿红衣，捧着他的衣裾，从下面窥伺。他头上歪戴着一顶压扁了的大礼帽。他张开手掌，把大拇指戳在腋窝里，脖子上挂着一串软木塞制成的念珠，末端是一把十字架形的螺丝锥，垂在胸前。他撒开大拇指，从高处以波浪状大摇大摆的姿势祈求神灵保佑，并趾高气扬、装模作样地宣告。）

红衣主教

康瑟维奥陷囹囿，

躺在地牢深又深，

手铐脚镣戴在身，

重量又何止三吨。[549]

（他右眼紧闭，鼓起左颊，朝众人望了片刻。然后抑制不住内心的快乐，就双手叉腰，浑身晃来晃去，嘻嘻哈哈地畅怀唱着。）

噢，可怜的小东西，

它、它的脚那么黄，

蹿动如蛇身宽胖，

可该死的野蛮人，

为了给白菜添油荤，

竟把内莉·弗莱厄蒂的爱鸭屠宰[550] 。

（大群小虫白糊糊地簇拥在他的法衣上。他交抱着胳膊，抓挠着双肋，愁眉苦脸地叫唤。）

我正在受着被打入地狱的苦难。凭着这把廉价的提琴发誓，感谢耶稣，这帮可笑的小家伙还没有一起出动。不然的话，它们就会使我离开这该死的地球啦。

（他歪着头，用食指和中指敷敷衍衍地祝福众人，并给予复活节的亲吻。他边来回晃动着帽子，边拖着滑稽的双舞步溜走。转瞬间他的个子就缩到捧衣裾者那么小了。那些助祭的侏儒哧哧地笑着，窥伺着，用肘轻捅着，挤眉弄眼，或给予复活节之吻，跟在他后面走成“之”字形。从远处传来他那圆润嗓音，慈祥而充满阳刚之气，优美动听。）

把我的心带给你，

把我的心带给你，

馨香微风夜飘溢，

把我的心带给你！[551]

（魔门的把手转了一下。）

门把手

吱咿——！

佐伊

门里有魔鬼。

（一个男子的身影走下咯吱作响的楼梯。传来他从挂钩上取下雨衣和帽子的声音。布卢姆不由自主地冲向前，顺便把门半掩上，从兜里掏出巧克力，怯生生地朝佐伊递过去。）

佐伊

（起劲地嗅他的头发）唔！谢谢你母亲送给我的兔子。我喜欢什么东西，简直就着了迷。

布卢姆

（听见一个男人在门阶上同妓女们交谈的声音，便竖起两耳。）假若是他呢？干完了吗？要么是没搞？要么就是吃回头草？

佐伊

（撒开银纸）没有叉子以前就有指头了。（她掰下一截，啃起来，递给吉蒂·里凯茨一截，又像只小猫咪似的转向林奇。）不讨厌法国菱形糖果吧？（他点点头。她吊他的胃口）。是现在要，还是等把它弄到手呢？（他扬起头，张开嘴。她把奖赏朝左边转，他的头跟着转过去。她又把它朝右边转过来。他盯着她。）接住！

（她抛起一截巧克力。他敏捷地叼住它，嘎吱一声咬下一块。）

吉蒂

（咀嚼着）在义卖会[ 552] 上跟我在一道的那位工程师有好吃的巧克力。里面满是高级甜露酒。总督也带着夫人去啦[553] 。我们骑上托夫特的旋转木马，好开心哪。至今我还发晕呢。

布卢姆

（身穿斯文加利[ 554] 式的皮大衣，交抱双肘，前额上垂着拿破仑式鬈发。他双眉紧皱，念着腹语术的驱邪咒文，用老鹰般锐利的目光凝视着门。然后僵直地迈出左脚，右臂顺着左肩滑下来，用咄咄逼人的指头在空中迅速地一划，做了老练的师傅[555] 的暗号。）不管你是谁，我借着法术命令你：走，走，走！

（穿过外面的雾，传来一个男子边咳嗽边逐渐走远的脚步声。布卢姆的表情变得松弛了。他一只手插迸背心，安详地摆好姿势。佐伊将巧克力朝他递过去。）

布卢姆

（一本正经地）谢谢。

佐伊

叫你怎么做，你就怎么做吧。给！

（从楼梯上传来坚定的脚步橐橐声。）

布卢姆

（接巧克力）是春药吗？艾菊与薄荷。可这是我买的呀。香子兰是镇静剂呢，还是？能够增进记忆。光线混乱，连记忆都混乱了。红色对狼疮有效。[ 556] 颜色能够左右女人的性格，倘若她们有性格的话。这黑色使我难过。为了明天，吃喝玩乐吧。[557]（他吃起来。）淡紫色也对口味产生影响。可已经过了那么久啦，自从我。所以觉得那么新鲜。春。那个教士。准会来的。晚来总比不来强。我在安德鲁斯试试块菌吧。[558]

（门开了。贝拉·科恩，一个大块头老鸨走了进来。她身穿半长不短的象牙色袍子，褶边上镶着流苏。像《卡门》中的明妮·豪克[559]那样扇起一把黑色角质柄扇子来凉快一下。左手上戴着结婚戒指和护圈。眼线描得浓浓的。她长着淡淡的口髭，那橄榄色的脸蛋厚厚实实，略有汗意。鼻子老大，鼻子、是橙色的。她戴着一副绿玉的大坠子。）

贝拉

唉呀！我浑身出着臭汗。

（她环顾一对对男女。然后，日光停在布卢姆身上，一个劲儿地端详着他。她手中那把大扇子不住地朝她那热腾腾的脸、脖子和富富态态的身躯上扇着。她那双鹰隼般的眼睛发出锐利的光。）

扇子

（起先迅速地，接着又缓慢地挥动[560] 。）喔，结过婚的。

布卢姆

是的。并不完全，阴错阳差的……

扇子

（先打开一半，然后一边阖上一边说）太太当家。夫人统治。

布卢姆

（垂下两眼，怯懦地咧嘴笑着）可不是嘛。

扇子

（折叠起来，托着她左边的耳坠子）你忘记我了吗？

市卢姆

没。哦。[561]

扇子

（阖拢，斜顶着腰肢）你原先梦想过的她，就是我吗？那么，她和他是在你跟咱们相识之后吗？我现在是所有的女人，又是同一个女人吗？

（贝拉走过来，轻轻地用扇子拍打着。）

布卢姆

（畏缩）好厉害的人儿。她看到了我眼中那种睡意，那正是使女人们着迷的。[562]

扇子

（轻轻拍打着）咱们相遇了。你是我的。这是命运。

布卢姆

（被吓退）精力充沛的女人。我非常渴望受你的统治。我已精疲力竭，心灰意懒，不再年轻了。我像是手持一封尚未投递的信函，上面按规章贴着特别的邮资[563]， 站在人生这所邮政总局所设的迟投函件邮筒前。按照物体坠落的规律，门窗开成直角形便导致每秒钟三十二英尺的穿堂风。这会儿我感到左臀肌的坐骨神经痛。这是我们这个家族的遗传。可怜亲爱的爸爸，一个鳏夫，每逢犯病就能预知天气的变化。他相信动物能保暖。冬天他穿的背心是用斑猫皮做里子的。快死的时候，他想起大卫王和舒念的故事[564]，就跟阿索斯睡在一起。他去世后，这条狗也一直忠于他。狗的唾沫，你大概[565] ……（他退缩）啊！

里奇·古尔丁

（挟着沉重的文件包，从门口经过）弄假成真。在都柏林说得上是最实惠的。足可以招待一位王爷。[566] 肝和腰子。

扇子

（轻轻拍打）什么事都得有个结局。做我的心上人吧。现在。

布卢姆

（犹豫不决）现在就？那个避邪物我不该撒手。雨啦，曝露在海边岩石上的露水里啦。到了我这把年纪，竟还闹了那么个过失。所有的现象都是自然的原因造成的。

扇子

（慢慢地朝下指着）你可以动手了。

布卢姆

（朝下望去，瞧见她把靴带松开了）咱们可是在众目睽睽之下。

扇子

（迅速地朝下指着）你非动手不可。

布卢姆

（既有意，又忸怩）我会打地道的黑花结。是在凯利特的店[567] 里当伙计，管发送邮购货物的时候学的。熟练着呢。每个结子都各有各的名堂。我来吧。算是尽一片心意。今天我已经跪过一回啦。啊！

（贝拉略提起衣据，摆好架势，把蹬着半高腰靴的胖蹄子和穿丝袜的丰满的骹举到椅边。上了岁数的布卢姆腿脚僵硬，伏在她的蹄子上，用柔和的手指替她把靴带穿出穿进。）

布卢姆

（温柔地咕哝着）我年轻时候做的一个心爱的梦，就是在曼菲尔德[568]当上一名替人试鞋的伙计。克莱德街[ 569] 的太太们那缎子衬里的考究的小山羊皮靴简直小得出奇，令人难以置信。我为那靴子扣上钮扣，把带子十字交叉地一直系到齐膝盖，那就别提有多么快活啦。我甚至曾每天去参观雷蒙德的蜡人，欣赏妇人脚上穿的那种巴黎式蛛网状长筒袜和大黄茎般光滑的脚趾尖。

蹄子

闻闻我这热腾腾的山羊皮气味吧。掂掂我这沉甸甸的份量。

布卢姆

（十字交叉地系着活扣儿）太紧了吧？

蹄子

你要是弄不好，可就汉迪·安迪[570] ，我朝你的要害处踢上一脚。

布卢姆

可别像那个晚上在义卖会的舞会上似的，穿错了眼儿。倒楣。穿到她——就是您说的那一位——的鞋扣环里去了……当天晚上她遇到了……好啦！

（他系好了靴带。贝拉将脚撂到地板上。布卢姆抬起头来。她那胖脸，她的两眼从正面逼视着他。他的目光呆滞，暗淡下来，眼皮松弛，鼻翼鼓起。）

布卢姆

（嗫嚅着）先生们，听候各位的吩咐……

贝洛

（像怪物小王[571]那样恶狠狠地瞪着他，然后用男中音[572] 说）不要脸的狗！

布卢姆

（神魂颠倒地）女皇！

贝洛

（他那胖嘟嘟的腮颊松垂下来。）通奸的臀部的崇拜者！

布卢姆

（可怜巴巴地）硕大无比！

贝洛

贪吃大粪的人！

布卢姆

（半屈膝）庄严崇高！

贝洛

弯下身去！（他用扇子拍打她的肩膀）。双脚向前屈！左脚向后退一步！你会倒下的。正在倒。手扶地，趴下！

布卢姆

（眼睛往上翻，表示仰慕，边闭眼边大叫）块菌！

（随着一声癫痫性的喊叫，她趴了下来，呼噜呼噜直喘，喷着鼻子，刨着脚跟前的地。然后双目紧闭，眼睑颤动，以无比娴熟的技巧把身子弯成弓形，装死躺下。）

贝洛

（头发剪得短短的，紫色的肉垂了下来。剃过的唇边是一圈浓密的口髭。打着登山家的绑腿，身穿有着银钮扣的绿色上衣和运动裙，头戴饰有公赤松鸡羽毛的登山帽。双手深深插进裤兜，将脚后跟放在她的脖颈上，嘎吱嘎吱地踩着。）脚凳！让你知道一下我的份量。奴才，你的暴君那灿烂的脚后跟骄傲地翘立着，闪闪发光。你在这王座前叩拜吧。

布卢姆

（慑服，颤声说）我发誓，永远不违背您的旨意。

贝洛

（朗笑）天哪！你还不知道会落到什么样的下场哪。我就是那个决定你这贱人的命运、要你就范的鞑靼人！老儿子，我敢打赌，要是不能把你收拾出个样子，就情愿请大家喝一通肯塔基鸡尾酒。你敢顶撞我一下试试。那你就穿上运动服浑身打着哆嗦等挨一顿脚后跟的惩罚吧。

（布卢姆钻到沙发底下，偷偷从缘饰的缝隙间窥伺。）

佐伊

（摊开裙裾，遮住布卢姆）她不在这儿。

布卢姆

（阖上眼睛）她不在这儿。

弗洛莉

（用长衫藏起布卢姆）贝洛先生，她不是故意的。老爷，她会放乖的。

吉蒂

不要对她太凶狠啦，贝洛先生。老爷，您准不会的。

贝洛

（用好话引逗着）来呀，好乖乖，我有话跟你说，亲爱的，我不过是训斥你两句罢了。咱们说点儿知心话吧，心肝儿。（布卢姆胆怯地探出头来。）这才是个好姑娘。（贝洛粗暴地一把揪住她的头发，把她硬往前边拽。）我只是为你好，才想在那个又软和又安全的地方来整治你一下。你那嫩屁股怎样啦？哦，宝贝儿，我只不过轻轻儿地爱抚一下。开始准备吧。

布卢姆

（快晕过去了）可别把我劈成两半……

贝洛

（狂暴地）笛子吹奏起来的当儿，我要让你像努比亚奴隶[573] 似的，把套鼻圈、用老虎钳来夹、打脚掌、吊钩、鞭打的滋味，全都尝个够。这回可叫你赶上啦。我得让你至死也忘不了我。（他额上暴起青筋，脸上充血。）每天早晨我先进一顿包括马特森[574] 的煎肥火腿片和一瓶吉尼斯黑啤酒的讲究的早餐，接着就跨在你的背上，只当那是铺了绒垫的鞍子。（他打个嗝。）然后，我一边读《特许饮食业报》[575]，一边吸着证券交易所的高级雪茄烟。我很可能会叫人在我的马房里把你宰掉，把你的肉用扦子串起来，涂上油，放在马口铁罐里，烤得像乳猪似的又松又脆；配上米饭、柠檬或蘸着醋栗酱，津津有味地吃它一片。够你受的吧。

（贝洛拧布卢姆的胳膊，把她摔个仰八脚儿。布卢姆尖声呼叫。）

布卢姆

别这么残忍，护士！别这么样！

贝洛

（拧着）再来一遍！

布卢姆

（尖叫）哦，简直是活地狱啊！我浑身疼得发狂！

贝洛

（大喊）好哇！凭着扭屁股跳跳蹦蹦的将军！这可是六个星期以来我听到的最好的消息。混蛋！别耽搁我的工夫。（他掴了她个耳光。）

布卢姆

抽噎地诉说）你打我啦。我要去告你……

贝洛

按住这家伙，姑娘们，我要跨在这家伙身上。

佐伊

对。踩这家伙吧！我给你按住。

弗洛莉

我来按。别那么贪心。

吉蒂

不，我来。把这家伙借给我。

（妓院厨娘基奥大妈在门口出现。她满脸皱纹，胡子花白，系着满是油垢的围裙，脚穿男人的灰绿相间的短袜和生皮翻毛鞋，裸露着通红的胳膊，手里攥着一根巴满生面的擀面杖。）

基奥大妈

（凶狠地）我能帮上忙吗？

（众人抓住布卢姆，紧紧按住。）

贝洛

（咕哝一声，一屁股坐在布卢姆那仰着的脸上，一口口猛喷着雪茄烟，揉着胖胖的小腿。）我晓得基廷·克莱被选作里奇蒙精神病院[576]副院长啦。顺便说一句，吉尼斯的特惠股份是十六镑四分之三[577]。我真是个笨蛋，竟没把克雷格和加德纳[578] 同我谈起的那一股买下来。真是倒楣透顶，他们的。可是那匹该死的没有希望赢的“丢掉”[579]，居然以二十博一获胜了。（他气冲冲地在布卢姆的耳朵上掐灭雪茄烟。）那只该死的混帐烟灰缸哪儿去啦？

布卢姆

（受尽折磨，被屁股压得透不过气来。）唉！唉！禽兽！残酷的家伙！

贝洛

叫你每隔十分钟就央告一次。乞求吧。使出吃奶的劲儿来祈求吧。（他攥起拳头，然后把臭哄哄的雪茄烟夹在指间[580]，表示轻蔑地伸过来。）喂，吻一吻。两样都吻。（他迈开一条腿，跨坐在布卢姆身上，像骑士那样用双膝紧紧夹着布卢姆，厉声喊。）驾！骑上木马摇啊摇，摇到班伯里十字路口。[581]我要骑着这家伙到埃克里普斯的有奖赛马场上去。（他把身子弯向一边，粗暴地攥住坐骑的睾丸，喊着。）嗬！向前冲呀。我要照正规方式训练你。（他像是跨坐在木马上似的，在鞍上蹦蹦跳跳。）小姐碎步款款行，马夫驾车快步走，老爷骑马直奔跑，奔跑，奔跑、奔跑。

弗洛莉

（指指贝洛）该让我骑了。你已经骑够啦。我比你先开的口。

佐伊

（拽拽弗洛莉）我。我。你还没够吗，吸血鬼！

布卢姆

（奄奄一息）不行啦。

贝洛

唔，我还没够呢。慢着。（他屏住气。）混帐。喏。这只塞子快要崩掉了。（他拔掉屁股后头的塞子，然后，扭歪着脸，放个响屁。）接着！（重新塞好）是啊，天哪，十六镑四分之三。

布卢姆

（浑身淌满汗水）不是男人。（嗅着。）是个女人哩。

贝洛

（站起来）别这么三心二意的。你所梦寐以求的，终于实现啦。从此，你不再是男人，却真正属于我了，并被套上了轭。[582] 这会儿穿上你的惩戒服吧。你得脱掉你那男人衣服，明白吗，鲁碧·科恩？你要穿上这身闪光绸，头上和肩上都窸窣作响，雍容华贵。而且马上就换！

布卢姆

（畏缩起来）太大说是绸子！哦，窸窸窣窣、沙啦沙啦的！难道我得用指尖悄悄地摸吗？

贝洛

（指着他那帮妓女）看到她们现在的样子了吧，你也将跟她们一样。[583] 戴上假发，用火剪卷边，洒香水，擦香粉，腋窝剃得光光溜溜的。用卷尺贴身替你量尺寸。你将被狠狠地塞进胸部有着鲸骨架、活像老虎钳子的淡红灰色斜纹帆布紧身衣里，带子一直勒到尽头——装饰着钻石的骨盆那儿。你的身材比放任自流的时候要来得丰满，将把它束缚在网眼的紧身衣里，另外还有那二英两重的漂亮衬裙和流苏什么的，上面当然都标着我家的徽记。为艾丽斯做的漂亮亚麻布衬衣，和为她准备的上等香水。艾丽斯会伸手去摸摸吊袜带。玛莎和玛丽亚[584]腿上穿得那么薄，起先会觉得有儿凉。可你那光着的膝盖周围一旦用薄丝带镶起褶边，就会使你想到……

布卢姆

（一个娇媚的女仆，双颊厚厚地涂了脂粉，芥未色头发，长着一双男人的手和鼻子，眼睛斜睨着。）在霍利斯街的时候，我只半开玩笑地试穿过两次她的衣服。那阵子我们手头紧，为了省下洗衣店那笔开销，我都是亲自洗。我还翻改自己的衬衫。过的是最节省不过的日子。

贝洛

（嘲笑）是为了让妈妈高兴才做的吧，呃？然后把百叶窗拉严，身上只穿件化装舞衣，对着镜子，轻佻地卖弄你那脱了裙子的大腿和公山羊的乳房，做出各种委身的姿势，呃？哈哈，我不得不笑。米莉亚姆·丹德拉德太太[585]在谢尔本饭店卖给你的那件黑色旧高级敞领衬衣和短裤，上次被她[586]强奸的时候全都绽线了吧，呃？

布卢姆

米莉亚姆。黑色的。名声不好的女人。

贝洛

（大笑）伟大的基督，这简直太逗啦！你把后门的毛剃干净，盖上那玩艺儿，晕倒在床上的时候，可真成了美人儿米莉亚姆啦。活像是即将被下面这些人强奸的丹德拉德太大。他们是：斯迈思- 斯迈思陆军中尉、下院议员菲利普·奥古斯塔斯·布洛克维尔先生、健壮的男高音拉西·达列莫[587]先生、开电梯的蓝眼睛伯特、因获得戈登·贝纳特奖杯[588]而扬名的亨利·弗勒里、曾在三一学院的大学代表队做过滑艇第八号选手的黑白混血大富豪谢里登、她那只漂亮的纽芬兰狗庞托，以及马诺汉密尔顿[589]公爵遗孀鲍勃斯。（他又大笑一阵。）哎呀，连暹罗猫都给招笑了。


布卢姆

（她活动着双手和五官。）当我念高中的时候，曾在《颠倒》[590]这出戏里扮演过女角。那回，杰拉尔德[591] 使我真正变成一个胸衣爱好者，对，就是亲爱的杰拉尔德。他对姐妹的紧身褡着了迷，养成了这么个怪毛病。如今可爱的杰拉尔德擦粉红色的油彩，还把眼睑涂成金色的。这是对美的崇拜。

贝洛

（不正经地嘻笑着）美！当你撩起裙子巨浪式的荷叶边，以女人特有的细心坐到打磨得光光滑滑的宝座上的时候，连气儿都喘不过来了！

布卢姆

这是一门科学。把我们各自享受的形形色色的快乐比较一下。（热切地）说实在的，还是那个姿势好一些……因为过去我常常弄湿……

贝洛

（严厉地）不许顶嘴！角落里为你准备好锯末了。我不是严格地指示过你吗？站着干，老兄！我要教你像个骗子那样干！你敢在襁褓上留点污痕试试。哎嘿！凭着多兰的驴[592] 发誓，你会发现我是个纪律严明的人。你过去的罪恶会起来声讨你。很多。好几百桩。

过去的罪恶

（声音混杂中）他在黑教堂[ 593] 的阴影中，至少跟一个女人偷偷举行了婚礼。他一边对公共电话阁子的电话机做猥亵的举动，一边在精神上给居住在多利尔某号的邓恩小姐[594] 打电话，说些不堪入耳的话。他还公然用言语和行动来怂恿暗娼把粪便和其他污物丢到空房旁边龌龊的厕所里。在五个公共厕所里，他都用铅笔写道，愿为一切身体强壮之男子提供本人的妻子。难道他不曾每夜在发散异臭的硫酸工厂[ 595] 附近，从一对对热恋着的情侣身边走过，想碰碰运气，巴不得多少能看到点儿什么吗？难道这头肥公猪不曾躺在床上，用姜汁饼和邮政汇票来鼓励一个讨厌的妓女，让她提供用过好多遍令人作呕的草纸，并躺在床上馋涎欲滴地盯视它吗？

贝洛

（大声吹口哨）喂！在你这罪恶的生涯中，最使人恶心的淫荡行为是什么？统统说出来。吐个干净！这回可要老老实实他讲。

一张张沉默、冷酷的脸拥过来，有的斜眼瞅着，有的在逐渐消失，有的在嘲笑着。波尔迪·德·科克[596] ，靴子带儿一便士[597] ，卡西迪的老妪[598] ，盲青年[599] ，拉里·莱诺塞罗斯[600]，姑娘，妇女，娼妓，另外还有……）

布卢姆

不要问我！咱们共同的信仰。[601] 普莱曾茨街。我只转了一半念头……我凭着神圣的誓约保证……

贝洛

（断然地）回答！你这讨人嫌的下贱货！我非知道不可。给我讲点开心的事：不论是猥亵的，还是血淋淋、顶刮刮的鬼故事，要么就来上一行诗。快，快，快！在哪儿发生的？用什么方法？什么时候？跟多少人？我只给你三秒钟。一！二！三！……

布卢姆

（俯首贴耳，喉咙里发出咯咯声）我下、下、下作地嗅了讨、讨、讨厌的东西……

贝洛

（专横地）哦，给我滚出去，你这贱人！住口！问到你，再回答。

布卢姆

（鞠躬）老爷！太太！驯服男子的人！

（他举起双臂。手镯落地。）

贝洛

（刻薄地）白天，你把我们那一套套臭哄哄的内衣衬裤泡在水里捶打。我们这些夫人们不舒服的时候，也得你来伺候。你还得撩起衣服，屁股后头拴块搌布，替我们擦茅房。那该有多么称心啊！（他把一枚红玉戒指套在她的手指上。）这就好啦！戴上这戒指，你就属于我啦。说：谢谢您，太太。

布卢姆

谢谢您，太太。

贝洛

你得为我们叠被铺床，替我准备澡水，倒各间房里的尿罐，包括老厨娘基奥那只沙色的。对，你还得记住把七只尿罐都好好涮一遍，或当作香槟酒那样舔个干净。把我撒的尿趁热喝下去。你得麻麻利利、低三下四地伺候着，不然的话，我就训斥你不懂规矩。鲁碧[602]小姐，我要用头发刷子狠狠地揍你的光屁股。这样，你就会懂得怎样循规蹈矩了。晚上，你那双擦足了雪花膏、套上镯子的手，还得戴上一副有着四十三个钮扣、刚涂过滑石粉的手套，指尖上考究地洒了香水。为了能得到这些好处，从前的骑士不惜献出生命。（他咯咯笑着。）我手下那些小伙子看到你这副贵妇人的风度一定会神魂颠倒，尤其是那位上校，当他们在婚礼前夕来这儿爱抚我这个靴子后跟镀了金的新招牌姑娘的时候。首先，我得亲自试试你。我在赛马场上结识的查尔斯·艾伯塔·马什——我刚刚跟他睡过觉。还有一位文件筐与小包保管科[603] 的先生，正在物色一个百依百顺的女仆。挺起胸脯来。笑一笑。垂下肩去。肯出多少钱？（指着）现货就在这里。经过雇主的训练，能嘴里叼着水桶，搬呀运呀。（他挽起袖管，将前臂整个儿伸进布卢姆的阴户。）够深的吧！怎样，小伙子们？见了这，你们还能不挺起来吗？（他把胳膊伸到一个竞买者脸前。）喏，搞吧，挨着个儿地来！

一个竞买者

两先令银市。

（狄龙[604] 的伙计摇着手铃。）

伙计

当啷！

一个声音

多付了一先令八便士。[605]

查尔斯·艾伯塔·马什

想必是个处女。气儿挺足。蛮干净。

贝洛

（抡起拍卖槌重重地敲了一下）两先令。低到了家的价钱，这简直跟白扔似的。有十四个举手的，摸一摸，检查一下她的部位。尽管用手摆弄。这长了茸毛的皮肤，这么柔软的筋，这么嫩的肉。要是我那把金锥子在手头就好了！而且奶水也挺足。一天能挤三加仑新鲜的奶。是多产的纯种，不出一个小时就能下崽。她老子的产奶纪录是四十周之内产两千加仑纯奶。嗬，我的宝贝儿！央求一下！嗬！（他把自己姓氏的首字C刺在布卢姆的臀部。）行啦！地地道道的科恩牌[606]！两先令还给涨多少，先生们？

浅黑脸男子

（用假嗓子）一百英镑整。

众声

（放低嗓门）拍卖结果归哈利发了。哈伦·拉施德[607] 。

贝洛

（兴高采烈地）好吧。让他们统统都来吧。窄小而毫无顾忌，只及膝盖的短裙，裙裾掀起，露出一抹白色宽松裤子，乃是强有力的武器。还有那透明的长袜，笔直的长长的棱线直伸到膝盖上端，再系上鲜绿色袜带，很投合城里玩厌了的人那种想别开生面的本能。要学会穿路易十五式后跟足有四英寸高的鞋，[608] 走路时忸忸怩怩，装腔作势。还得会行希腊式的屈膝礼，挑逗地撅起屁股，大腿丰腴匀称，双膝端庄地并着。朝他们发挥出你的全部魅力吧。勾引他们去沉溺在蛾摩拉的恶习中[609] 。

布卢姆

（把羞得通红的脸藏在腋窝里，口叼食指，傻笑。）哦，我现在好容易才明白你暗示的是什么了！

贝洛

像你这么个阳萎的家伙，除此而外还能做什么？（他弯下身去，边盯视边用扇子粗暴地戳布卢姆臀部那脂肪很厚的褶皱下面。）起来！起来！曼克斯猫[610] ！这是怎么啦？你那卷毛的茶壶哪儿去啦？要么就是什么人把它铰掉了吗，你这鸟儿？唱吧，鸟儿，唱呀。软搭拉的，就跟在马车后面撒尿的六岁娃娃那物儿一样。买只桶或卖掉水泵。（大声）你起得了男人的作用吗？

布卢姆

在埃克尔斯街……

贝洛

（讽刺地）我绝不想伤害你的感情，可有个肌肉发达的男人在那儿顶替了你。这叫作形势逆转，你这年轻的相公！他可是个粗壮有力的剽悍男子。咳，你这窝囊废，要是你也有那么个满是疙瘩、瘤子和瘊子的物儿就好啦。告诉你吧，他把浑身的劲头全使出来啦。脚对脚，膝对膝，肚子对肚子，乳房对胸脯！他可不是个阉人。屁股后头像荆豆丛似的扎煞着一簇红毛毛！小伙子，等上九个月吧！哎呀呀，它已经在她肚子里上下翻腾，蹬蹬踹踹，又咳嗽什么的！难道这还不使你气得火冒三丈吗？碰到痛处了吧？（他轻蔑地朝布卢姆啐口唾沫。）你这痰盂！

布卢姆

我深深受了凌辱，我……要去告警察。索赔一百英镑。竟然说得出口！我……

贝洛

有能耐你就去告吧，瘸鸭子。我们要的是瓢泼大雨，不是你那毛毛细雨。

布卢姆

会把我逼疯的！摩尔[611] ！我忘记了！饶恕我吧！摩尔……我们……还……

贝洛

（冷酷无情地）不行，利奥波德·布卢姆。自从你趴在睡谷里，在睡眠中度过长达二十年的夜晚[ 612] ，一切都按女人的意志改变了。回去瞧瞧吧。

（老睡谷隔着荒原呼唤。）

睡谷

瑞普·凡·温克尔！瑞普·凡·温克尔！

布卢姆

（脚上穿着破破烂烂的鹿皮靴，手里拿着一杆锈迹斑斑的鸟枪。他踮起脚尖，用手指摸索着。面容憔悴，骨瘦如柴而胡子拉碴的脸，对着菱形窗玻璃凝视，然后喊道）我看见她啦！是她！在马特·狄龙家第一次见到她的那个夜晚！可那件衣裳，绿色的！她的头发染成了金色的，而他……

贝洛

（愚弄地笑着）你这猫头鹰，那是你闺女哩，正跟穆林加尔的一名学生在一起。

（米莉·布卢姆，一头金发，身着绿衫，足蹬细长的凉鞋[613] ，听任蓝色头巾被海风吹拂得翻卷，甩开情人的双臂，惊奇地睁大眼睛叫着。）

米莉

天哪！这是爹爹啊。可是，哦，爹爹，你怎么苍老成这个样子啦！

贝洛

变啦，对吧？咱们的什锦柜，咱们那张从没在上边写过字的书桌，姨姥姥哈格蒂的扶手椅，是按古代大师的作品仿制的。一个男人和他的男友们在那儿养尊处优。王八窝[614] 。这也好嘛。你有过多少女人，呃，在黑咕隆咚的街上拖着脚步走，跟在她们后面，瓮声瓮气地咕哝着，使她们兴奋起来。怎样啊，你这男妓？跟踪那些捧着一包包食品杂货的规规矩矩的太太。向后转吧。我的公鹅啊，你和母鹅是半斤八两。[615]

布卢姆

她们……我……

贝洛

（尖酸刻薄地）我们的鞋后跟将踩着你从雷恩[616] 拍卖行买的那条仿制的布鲁塞尔地毯。他们跟顽皮的莫尔胡闹一气，捉她裤子里的雄跳蚤，把你为艺术而艺术冒雨抱回家的那座小小雕像[617] 一下子砸个粉碎。他们把你收藏在尽底下那只抽屉里的秘密全暴露出来。他们将把你那本天文学手册扯碎，搓成擦烟斗用的纸捻儿。他们还往你从汉普顿·利德姆[618] 那家店里花十先令买来的黄铜炉档里啐唾沫。

布卢姆

是十先令六便士。卑鄙无赖干下的勾当。放我走吧。我要回去。我要证明……

一个声音

宣誓！[619]

（布卢姆攥紧拳头，口叼长猎刀，匍匐前进。）

贝洛

是作为一名房客，还是一个男妾呢？太迟啦[620] 。你既然做了那张次好的床[621]，其他人就得睡在上面。你的墓志铭[622] 已经写好了。老家伙，可不要忘记，你已经完蛋了，被逐出去啦。

布卢姆

正义啊！整个爱尔兰在跟一个人作对！难道谁都……”

（他啃自己的大拇指。）

贝洛

要是你还有一点点自尊心或体面感的话，就死掉并下地狱去吧。我可以给你点珍藏的陈年老酒，你喝了就能跳跳蹦蹦地往返一趟地狱。签下一份遗嘱，将现钱统统留给我们！要是你一文不名，那么就偷也罢，抢也罢，横竖你这混蛋就非得把钱弄到手不可！我们把你葬在灌木丛中的茅坑里。那儿有我嫁过的继侄老卡克·科恩——一个该死的老痛风患者，诉讼代理人，颈部不断抽筋儿的鸡奸者。还有我另外十个或十一个丈夫，不管这帮鸡奸者叫什么名字，反正你都将跟他们死在一起，浑身龌龊，窒息在同一个粪坑里。（他爆发出含痰的朗笑声。）我们会把你沤成肥料的，弗罗尔先生！（他嘲弄地吹口哨。）拜拜，波尔迪！拜拜，爹爹！

布卢姆

（紧紧抱着自己的头）我的意志力！记忆！我犯了罪！我受了苦！[623]

（他于哭起来。）

贝洛

（讥笑）哭娃娃！鳄鱼的眼泪！

（布卢姆丧魂落魄，紧紧地蒙起眼睛，脸伏在地上哽咽着，等待着当牺牲品。这时，传来丧钟声。行过割礼者披着黑围巾的身姿，着麻蒙灰，伫立在饮位墙[624] 旁。M·舒勒莫雏茨、约瑟夫·戈德华特、摩西·赫佐格、哈里斯·罗森堡、M·莫伊塞尔、J．西特伦、明尼·沃赤曼、P·马斯添斯基，以及领唱者利奥波德。阿布拉莫维茨导师[625] 。他们摇着手臂，呼唤着圣灵，为哀悼叛教者布卢姆之死而恸哭。）

行过割礼者

（他们边以阴郁的喉音唱着，边往他身上撒死海之果，没有鲜花[626]。）以色列人哪，你们要留心听！上主是我们的上帝；惟有他是上主。[627]

众声

（叹息）那么，他走啦。啊，对。对，正是这样。布卢姆？从来没有听说过他。没有？是个古怪家伙。还有个寡妇。是吗？啊，对。

（从寡妇殉夫自焚的柴堆里，升起橡胶樟脑的火焰。香烟像棺衣一般遮住周围，逐渐消散。一位宁芙[628] 从栎木镜框里走了出来。她披散着头发，身上轻飘飘地穿着人工着色的茶褐色衣服，钻出她的洞穴，从枝叶交错的几棵紫杉下经过，站在布卢姆旁边。）

紫杉们

（叶子叽叽喳喳）是姐姐。咱们的姐姐。嘘！（柔声）凡人！（亲切地）不，可不要哭！

布卢姆

（软绵绵地在枝叶下匍匐前进，浴着透过枝叶缝隙射进来的阳光，威严地）落到这么个境地。我早就觉出会是这样的。习惯势力。

宁芙

凡人！你在一堆歹徒当中找到了我。跳大腿舞的，沿街叫卖水果蔬菜的小贩，拳师，得人心的将军。穿肉色紧身衣、道德败坏的哑剧演员，在本世纪最叫座儿的歌舞节目《曙光女神和卡利尼》中跳希米舞[629] 的俏皮漂亮的舞女。我藏在散发着石油味的粉红色廉价纸页当中。周围是俱乐部的男人们那些老掉牙的猥亵之谈，扰乱乳臭未干的小青年心情的话语，以及各种广告：透明装饰图片，按照几何图形制造的骰子，护胸，专利品，经疝气患者试用证明合格的疝带。有益于已婚者的须知。

布卢姆

（朝她的膝盖抬起海龟头）咱们曾经见过面。在另一个星球上。

宁芙

（悲戚地）橡胶制品。永远不会破的品种，专供贵族人士使用。男用胸衣。保治惊厥，无效退款。沃尔德曼教授神奇胸部扩大器使用者主动寄来的感谢信。据格斯·鲁布林太太来信说：我的胸围在三周内扩大了四英寸，并附照片。

布卢姆

你指的是《摄影点滴》吗？

宁芙

是啊。你带走了我，将我镶在装饰着金属箔的栎木镜框里，把我挂在你们夫妻的床上端。一个夏日傍晚，当没人看到时，你还吻了我身上的四个部位，并怀着爱慕心情用铅笔把我的眼睛、乳房和阴部都涂黑了。

布卢姆

（谦卑地吻她的长发）美丽的不朽的人儿啊，你有着何等古典的曲线。你是美的化身。我曾经仰慕你，赞颂你，几乎向你祷告。

宁芙

在漫漫黑夜，我听见了你的赞美…

布卢姆

（急促地）是啊，是啊。你指的是我……睡眠把每个人的最坏的一面暴露出来，也许孩子们是例外。我晓得我曾从床上滚了下去，或者毋宁说是被推下去了。据说浸过铁屑的葡萄酒能够治疗打鼾。另外，还有那个英国人的发明。尽管地址写错了，几天前我还是收到了关于医治打鼾的那份小册子。它说，能使人打一种不出声、不妨碍任何人的鼾。（叹息）一向都是这样的：脆弱啊，你的名字就是婚姻。[630]

宁芙

（用手指堵住耳朵）还有话。我的字典里可没有那些话。

布卢姆

你听得懂那些话吗？

紫杉们

嘘！

宁芙

（用手捂住脸）在那间屋子里，我什么没见到呀？我不得不瞧些什么呀！

布卢姆

（抱歉地）我晓得。贴身穿的脏衬衣，还特意给翻了过来。床架上的环儿也松了，是老早以前由海上从直布罗陀运来的。

宁芙

（垂下头去）比那还糟糕，比那还糟糕！

布卢姆

（仔细审慎地想）是那个陈旧的尿盆吧？那不怪她的体重。她刚好是一百六十七磅。断奶后，增加了九镑。尿盆上有个碴儿，胶也脱落了。呃？那只有一个把儿的、布满回纹的蹩脚用具。

（传来瀑布晶莹地倾泻而下的声音。）

瀑布

噗啦呋咔[631] ，噗啦呋咔。

噗啦呋咔，噗啦呋咔。

紫杉们

（枝条交叉）听啊。小点儿声。姐姐说得对。我们是在噗啦呋咔瀑布旁边生长的。在令人倦怠的夏日，我们供大家遮荫。

约翰·怀思·诺兰

（身穿国民林务员制服，出现在后方。摘下那顶插了饰毛的帽子。）在令人倦怠的日子，遮荫吧，爱尔兰的树木！

紫杉们

（低语）是谁随同高中生的郊游到噗啦呋咔来啦？是谁丢下寻觅坚果的同学们，到我们树底下找荫凉儿来啦？[632]

布卢姆

（鸡胸，瓶状肩膀，身穿不三不四的黑灰条纹相间、尺寸太小的童装，脚蹬白网球鞋，滚边的翻筒长袜，头上是一顶带着徽章的红色学生帽。）我当时才十几岁，是个正在发育的男孩儿。看什么都有趣儿。颠簸的车啦，妇人衣帽间和厕所混淆在一起的气味啦，密密匝匝地拥塞在古老的皇家剧场[633] 楼梯上的人群啦。因为他们喜欢你拥我挤，这是群体的本能，而且散发出淫荡气味的黑洞洞的剧场更使邪恶猖獗起来。我甚至喜欢看袜子的价目表。还有那股暑气。那个夏季，太阳上出现了黑点。学期结束。还有浸了葡萄酒的醉饼。多么宁静幸福的日子啊。

（宁静幸福的日子：高中男生穿着蓝白相间的足球运动衫和短裤。唐纳德·特恩布尔、亚伯拉罕·查特顿、欧文·戈德堡、杰克·梅雷迪思和珀西·阿普约翰[634] 站在林间空地上，朝着少年利奥波德·布卢姆喊叫。）

宁静幸福的日子

青花鱼[635]！咱们再一道玩玩吧。好得很！（他们喝彩。）

布卢姆

（一个笨拙的小伙子，戴着暖和的手套，裹着妈妈的围巾，朝他丢来的松软的雪球像星星般地沾在身上。他挣扎着要站起来。）再一道！我觉得又回到十六岁啦！真有趣儿！咱们把蒙塔古街[636]上所有的钟都敲响吧。（他有气无力地欢呼。）好得很，高中时代！

回声

傻瓜！

紫杉们

（飒飒作响）咱们的姐姐说得对。小声些。（整座树林子里，遍处都是喊喊喳喳的接吻声。树精从树干与枝叶间露出脸来窥伺，猛地绽开一朵朵的花。）是谁玷污了咱们这寂静的树荫儿？

宁芙

（羞答答地，从扎煞开的指缝间）那儿吗？在光天化日之下？

紫杉们

（朝下弯曲）是啊，姐姐。而且是在咱们这纯洁的草地上。

瀑布

噗啦呋咔，噗啦呋咔，

噗咔呋咔，噗咔呋咔。

宁芙

（扎煞着手指）哦，不要脸！

布卢姆

我曾经是个早熟的孩子。青春时期，法乌娜[637] 。我向森林之神献了祭。春季开的花儿[638] 。那是交尾的季节。毛细管引力是自然现象。我用可怜的爸爸那架小望远镜，从没拉严的窗帘缝儿偷看了亚麻色头发的洛蒂·克拉克在化晚妆。那个轻浮丫头吃起草来可野啦。在里亚托桥[639] ，她滚下山去，用她那旺盛的血气来勾引我。她爬上了弯弯曲曲的树，而我呢。连个圣徒也抑制不住自己。恶魔附在我身上啦。而且，谁也不曾看见呀。

（一头打着趔趄的无角白色小牛崽[640] 从叶丛间伸出头来。它蠕动着嘴，鼻孔湿漉漉的。）

刚生下的小牛崽

（大滴大滴的泪珠子从鼓起的眼睛里滚滚而下，吸溜着鼻涕。）我。我瞧。

布卢姆

仅仅是为了满足一阵欲望，我……（凄楚地）我追求姑娘，却没有一个理睬我。太丑啦。她们不肯跟我玩……

（在高高的霍斯山顶儿上，一只大奶、短尾母山羊缓步走在杜鹃花丛中，醋栗一路坠落着。[641] ）

母山羊

（鸣叫）咩 、咩、咩、咩！呐喃呐呢！

布卢姆

（无帽，涨红着脸，浑身沾满蓟冠毛和荆豆刺）正式订了婚。境遇迁，情况变[642] 。（目不转睛地俯视水面）每秒三十二英尺，[643] 倒栽葱跌下去。印刷品的恶梦。发晕的以利亚。[644] 从断崖上坠落。政府印刷公司职员[645] 的悲惨下场。

（裹成木乃伊状的布卢姆木偶，穿过夏日静穆的银色空气，从狮子岬角的崖上旋转着滚进等待着他的紫水。）

木偶木乃伊

布鲁布鲁布鲁布鲁布罗施布！

（远远地在海湾的水面上，爱琳王号[646] 从贝利灯塔与基什灯塔之间穿行。烟囱吐出羽毛状煤烟，扩散开来，朝岸边飘浮。）

市政委员南尼蒂[647]

（独自站在甲板上。身着黑色羊驼呢衣服，面作黄褐色，手插进背心敞口，口若悬河地演说着。）当我的祖国在世界各国之间占有了一席之地，直到那时，只有到了那时，方为我写下墓志铭，我的话……

布卢姆

完了。噗噜呋！

宁芙

（高傲地）我们这些神明，正如你今天所瞧见的那样，身上没有那个部位，也没长着毛。[648] 我们像石头一样冰凉而纯洁。我们吃电光。（她把身子淫荡地弯成弓形，咬着食指。）你对我说话来着吧。声音是从背后传来的，你怎么竟能这样……？

布卢姆

（沮丧地用脚踢着石南丛）哎，我真是地地道道的一头猪猡。我甚至还灌了肠。从苦树采下的苦味液三分之一品脱，兑上一汤匙岩盐。插进肛门。用的是妇女之友牌汉密尔顿·朗[ 649] 的灌肠器。

宁芙

当着我的面。粉扑。（飞红了脸，屈膝）还不只这一桩呢！

布卢姆

（垂头丧气）对。我犯了罪！[650] 我已经向不再这么叫的后背那个部位——一座活生生的祭坛致了敬。（突然以热切的口吻）为什么那双馥郁秀丽、珠光宝气的手，支配……的手[ 651] ？

（一个个身影缓缓地勾勒出森林图案，像蛇一般缠到树干上，柔声呼唤着。）

吉蒂的声音

（在矮树丛里）拿出个靠垫给咱瞧瞧。

弗洛莉的声音

喏。

（一只松鸡笨拙地从乱丛棵子中扑扇而过。）

林奇的声音

（在矮树丛里）哎唷！热得快开锅啦！

佐伊的声音

（在矮树丛里）从热地儿来的嘛。

维拉格的声音

（百鸟首领，披戴着饰以蓝竖纹羽毛的全副甲胄，手执标枪，踩着山毛榉果和橡子，大踏步穿过僻僻啪啪响的藤丛。）好热啊！好热！可得提防着坐牛[652] ！

布卢姆

我受不了啦。她那热呼呼的身子留下的热烘烘的烙印。就连在女人坐过的地方坐坐都受不了，尤其在那叉开大腿仿佛要最后开恩的地方，甚至还留下把圆盘般的白棉缎衬裙高高撩起来的痕迹。充满了女人气息。我已经满得饱和啦。

瀑布

啡啦噗啦，噗啦呋咔，

噗啦呋咔，噗啦呋咔。

紫杉们

嘘！姐姐，说呀！

宁芙

（双目失明，身穿修女的白袍，包着两边张出翼状大折裥的头巾，望着远处，安详地）特兰奎拉女修道院。阿加塔修女。迦密山。[653] 诺克和卢尔德的显圣。[654] 没有了欲望。（她垂下头去叹气。）只剩下苍穹的灵气了。梦幻一般浓郁的海鸥，在沉滞的水上飞翔。[655]

（布卢姆欠起身来。他的后裤兜儿上的钮扣崩掉了。）

钮扣

嘣！

（库姆[656] 的两个婊子身披围巾，淋着雨，边跳着舞过去，边用呆板的音调嚷着。）

哦，利奥波德丢了衬裤的饰针。

他不知道怎么办，

才能不让它脱落，

才能不让它脱落。

布卢姆

（冷漠地）你们把符咒给破了。这可是最后一根稻草[657] 啊。倘若只有天上的灵气，该把你们这些圣职申请者和见习修女往哪儿摆呢？羞涩而心甘情愿，就像一头撒尿的驴。

紫杉们

（银纸叶子坠落，骨瘦如柴的胳膊老迈而摇来摆去。）虚幻无常！

宁芙[ 658]

这简直是亵渎神明！竟敢试图破坏我的贞操！（她的衣服上出现一大片湿渡渡的污痕。）玷污我的清白！你不配摸一位纯洁女子的衣服。（她重新把衣服拢紧。）且慢。魔鬼，不许你再唱情歌。啊们。啊们。啊们。啊们。（她拔出短剑，披着从九名中选拔出来的骑士[ 659] 的锁子甲，朝布卢姆的腰部扎去。）你这个孽障！

布卢姆

（大吃一惊，攥住她的手。）嗬！受保佑的！[ 660］有九条命的猫！太太，要讲讲公道，用刀子割可使不得。是狐狸和酸葡萄吧，呃？你已经有了铁蒺藜[661] ，还缺什么？难道十字架还不够粗吗？（一把抓住她的头巾）你究竟想要可敬的男修道院院长呢，还是瘸腿园丁布罗菲；要么就是没有出水口的送水人[662] 雕像，或是好母亲阿方萨斯，呃，列那[663] ？

宁芙

（大叫一声，丢下头巾，逃出他的手掌。她那用石膏塑成的壳子出现裂纹，从裂缝里冒出一股臭气[664] 。）警……！

布卢姆

（从她背后喊）倒好像你自己井没有加倍地享乐似的。连动也不动一下就浑身糊满各种各样的黏液了。我试了一下。你的长处就是我们的弱点。你给我多少配种费呀？马上付多少现款？我读过关于你们在里维埃拉雇舞男的事。[665]（正在逃跑的宁芙哭了一声。）呃？我像黑奴般地干了十六年的苦役。难道明天陪审员会给我五先令的赡养费吗，呃，去愚弄旁人吧，我可不上这个当。（嗅着。）动情。葱头。酸臭的气味[666] 。硫磺。脂肪。

（贝拉·科恩[667] 的身影站在他面前。）

贝拉

下次你就认得我啦。

布卢姆

（安详地打量着她）容颜衰退。[ 668] 老婊子装扮成少妇的样子。牙齿长，头发密。晚上临睡吃生葱头，可以滋润容颜。通过锻炼，能消除双下巴颏。你那两眼就像你那只剥制狐狸的玻璃眼睛那么呆滞。它门跟你的胸腰臀尺寸也相当。就是这样。我可不是一架三翼螺旋桨。

贝拉

（轻蔑地）其实你已经不行啦。（她那母猪的阴部吼叫着。）吹牛皮！

布卢姆

（轻蔑地）先把你那没有指甲的中指擦干净吧。你那情人的冰凉精液正在从你的鸡冠上嘀嗒着哪。抓把干草自己擦擦吧。

贝拉

我晓得你是个拉广告的！阳萎！

布卢姆

我瞧见你的情人啦：窑子老板！贩卖梅毒和后淋症的！

贝拉

（转向钢琴）你们之间是谁弹《扫罗》中的送葬曲[669] 来着？

佐伊

是我。当心你的鸡眼儿吧。[670]（ 她一个箭步蹿到钢琴跟前，交抱着胳膊使劲碰琴键。）平板、机械、单调、生硬的旋律。（她回过头来瞟一眼。）呃？谁在向我的情人儿献殷勤？（她一个箭步蹿回到桌边。）你的就是我的，我的就是我自己的。（吉蒂仓皇失措，用银纸遮住牙齿。布卢姆走近佐伊。）

布卢姆

（用柔和的声调）把那个土豆还给我好吗？

佐伊

没收啦。好东西，非常好的东西。

布卢姆

（深情地）那玩艺儿什么价值也没有，但毕竟是我可怜的妈妈的遗物。

佐伊

给人东西又索讨，

天主问哪儿去了，

你就推说不知道，

天主送你下地狱。[ 671]

布卢姆

这是有纪念意义的。我想拥有它。

斯蒂芬

拥有还是没有，这是一个值得考虑的问题。[672]

佐伊

喏。（她撩起衬裙褶子，露出裸着的大腿，然后往下卷了卷长袜口，掏出土豆。）藏的人自然知道上哪儿去找。

贝拉

（皱眉）喂，这儿可不是有音乐伴奏、透过小孔看的那种下流表演。可别把那架钢琴砸烂啦。帐由谁付呀？

（她走到自动钢琴旁边。斯蒂芬掏兜，捏着一张纸币的角儿，提拎出来递给她。）

斯蒂芬

（故作夸张的彬彬有礼）这个丝制钱包我是用酒吧间的猪耳朵做的[673] 大太，请原谅。要是您允许的话。（他含含糊糊地指林奇和布卢姆。）金赤和林奇，我们同赌共济。[674] 在我们“开庭”的这家窑子里[675]。

林奇

（从炉边招呼）迪达勒斯！替我祝福她吧。[676]

斯蒂芬

（递给贝洛一枚硬币）喏，还是金的哩。她已经被祝福过啦。

贝拉

（瞧瞧钱，[ 677] 然后看看佐伊、弗洛莉和吉蒂。）你们要三个姑娘吗？这里是十先令。

斯蒂芬

（欣喜地）十万个对不起。（他又掏兜，并摸出两枚克朗递给她。）请原谅，少给了[ 678] ，我的眼神儿有点毛病。

（贝拉走到桌边去数钱，斯蒂芬用单音节词喃喃自语。佐伊朝桌子弯下身去。吉蒂偎倚着佐伊的脖颈。林奇站起来，把便帽扶正，紧紧搂住吉蒂的腰肢，把头凑到众人当中。）

弗洛莉

（使劲挣扎着站起来）噢！我的脚发麻。（她一瘸一拐地来到桌边。布卢姆挨了过去。）

贝拉、佐伊、吉蒂、林奇、布卢姆

（叽哩叭啦，拌嘴）那位先生……十先令……付了三份……稍等一等……这位先生的帐另外算……谁在碰它？……噢！……掐我，可饶不了你……你是过夜呢，还是只泡一会儿？……谁干的？……你撒谎，对不起……这位先生已经像个上等人那样结清了帐……喝酒……早就过十一点啦。

斯蒂芬

（在自动钢琴旁边，做表示厌恶的手势）不要酒啦！什么，十一点？一个谜语[679] ！

佐伊

（撩起裙裾，将那枚半克朗金市夹在长袜口里）这是躺在床上好不容易才挣到的哪。

林奇

（把吉蒂从桌旁抱起）来呀！

吉蒂

等一等。（她一把抓住两枚克朗。）

弗洛莉

还有我哪？

林奇

呼啦！

（他举起她，把她抱到沙发跟前，咕咯一声撂下去。）

狐狸叫，公鸡飞，

天堂钟声响，

整整十一点。

她可怜的灵魂，

该离开天堂啦。[680]

布卢姆

（不动声色地把一枚半英镑金币放在贝洛与弗洛莉之间的桌子上。）就这样，请允许我。（他拿起那张一英镑纸币。）十乘三。咱们两不欠。[681]

贝拉

（钦佩地）你可真狡猾，翘尾巴的老家伙。我都想吻吻你啦。

佐伊

（指着）他吗？深得像口吊桶井。

（林奇弯下身去吻着仰面躺在沙发上的吉蒂。布卢姆拿着那张一英镑钞票，走到斯蒂芬跟前。）

布卢姆

这是你的。

斯蒂芬

这是怎么回事？心神恍惚的男子[682]或心神恍惚的乞丐[ 683] 。（他又掏兜，摸出一把硬币。掉了一样东西。）掉啦。

布卢姆

（蹲下去，捡起一盒火柴，递给斯蒂芬。）这个。

斯蒂芬

晓星[684] 。谢谢。

布卢姆

（温和地）你不如把那笔现款交给我来保管。凭什么多付呢？

斯蒂芬

（把硬币统统交给他。）先公正再慷慨。[685]

布卢姆

我要这么做，可这是个明智的办法吗？（他数着。）一，七，十一，再加上五。六。十一。你可能已经丢失的，我就不负责任了。

斯蒂芬

为什么说是敲了十一点呢？从语尾倒数第二音节上有重音。莱辛说：“动作中的某一顷刻[ 686] 。”口渴的狐狸。（他大笑。）埋葬它的奶奶。[687} 兴许她还是死在他手里的呢[688] 。

布卢姆

统共是一英镑六先令十一便士。就算是一英镑七先令吧。

斯蒂芬

管它呢，没关系。

布卢姆

那倒也是，不过……

斯蒂芬

（来到桌旁）给我根香烟。（从沙发那儿往桌上丢了一支香烟。）于是，乔治娜。约翰逊[689]死去了，并且结过婚。（一支香烟出现在桌上。斯蒂芬瞅着它。）奇怪。客厅里的魔术。结过婚。哼。（他划着一根火柴，沉浸在神秘的忧郁中，试图点燃香烟。）

林奇

（注视着他）要是把火柴挨近一点，就更容易点着了。

斯蒂芬

（把火柴凑到眼前）山猫般锐利的目光。得配副眼镜。昨天把眼镜打碎了。十六年前[690]。距离。一眼望去，都是平面。（他把火柴移开。熄灭了。）脑子在思索。是近还是远。[691] 无可避免的视觉认知形态。[692] （他故作玄虚地皱皱眉头。）哼。斯芬克斯。双背禽兽[693] 在半夜里结了婚。

佐伊

娶她的是一个行商，把她带走啦。

弗洛莉

（点点头）伦敦的兰姆先生。

斯蒂芬

伦敦的羔羊，带走世人罪孽的。[694]

林奇

（在沙发上搂抱着吉蒂，用深沉的嗓音吟诵。）赐我等平安。[ 695]

（香烟从斯蒂芬的手指问滑落下去。布卢姆拾起，投到炉格子后面。）

布卢姆

别抽烟啦。你得吃。我碰上的那条狗真可恶。（对佐伊）你们这儿什么都没有吗？

佐伊

他饿了吗？

斯蒂芬

（笑吟吟地朝她伸出一只手，用《众神的黄昏）中“血誓[696] 的曲调诵着。）

腹中难耐的饥饿，

刨根问底的老婆，

我们全都休想活。[ 697]

佐伊

（悲剧味十足）哈姆莱特，我是你父亲的手锥！[698] （她抓住他的手。）蓝眼睛的美男子，我要替你看着手相。（她指着他的前额。）缺智慧，没皱纹。（她数着。）二，三，战神丘[699]表明有勇气。（斯蒂芬摇摇头。）不骗你。

林奇

这是片状闪电的勇气。小伙子不会惊恐颤栗。（对佐伊）是谁教会你看手相的？

佐伊

（转过身来）问问我压根儿就没有的睾丸吧。（对斯蒂芬）从你脸上就看得出来。眼神儿，像这样。（她低下头去，皱皱眉。）

林奇

（边笑边啪啪地打了两下吉蒂的屁股。）像这样吧。戒尺。

（戒尺啪啪地大声响了两下。自动钢琴这口棺材的盖儿飞快地打开，多兰神父那又小又圆的秃头就像玩具匣里的木偶一般蹿了上来。）

多兰神父

哪个孩子想要挨顿打？打碎了他的眼镜？游手好闲、吊儿郎当的小懒虫！从你的眼神儿就看得出来。

（唐约翰·康米的头从自动钢琴这口棺村里伸了出来：温厚，慈祥，一副校长派头，用训诫口吻。）

唐约翰·康米

喏，多兰神父！喏，我保证斯蒂芬是个非常乖的小男孩儿。[700]

佐伊

（仔细看斯蒂芬的掌心）是只女人的手。

斯蒂芬

（咕哝）说下去。躺下。搂着我。爱抚。除了留在黑线鳕身上的他那罪恶的大拇指印，我永远也辨认不出他的笔迹。[701]

佐伊

你的生日是星期几？

斯蒂芬

星期四。[702]今天。

佐伊

星期四生的孩子前程远大。[703] （她追踪着他的掌纹。）命运纹。结交有权有势的朋友。

弗洛莉

（指着）富于想象。

佐伊

月丘。你会遇上一个……（突然端详起他的双手来）对你不利的兆头，我就不告诉你啦。难道你想要知道吗？

布卢姆

（拽开她的手指，摊开自己的手掌）凶多吉少。这儿，替我瞧瞧。

贝洛

让我来瞧。（把布卢姆的手翻过来）不出我的所料：骨节突起，为了女人。

佐伊

（凝视布卢姆的手心）活像个铁丝格子。飘洋过海，为钱结婚。

布卢姆

不对。

佐伊

（快嘴快舌地）哦，我明白啦。小指短短的。怕老婆。不对吗？

（大母鸡黑丽泽[70 4]在粉笔画的圈儿里孵着蛋。这时站了起来，扑扇着翅膀鸣叫。）

黑丽泽

嘎啦。喀噜呵。喀噜呵。喀噜呵。（它离开刚下的蛋，摇摇摆摆地走掉。）

布卢姆

（指着自己的手）这疤痢是个伤痕。二十二年前跌了个跤划破的。当时我十六岁。

佐伊

瞎子说：我明白啦，告诉咱点消息。

斯蒂芬

明白吗？朝着一个伟大的目标前进。[705]我二十二岁。十六年前，我在二十二岁上跌了个跤。二十二年前，十六岁的他从摇马上跌了下去。（他畏缩。）我手上的什么地方伤着了。得去找牙医瞧瞧。钱呢？

（佐伊跟弗洛莉交头接耳。二人吃吃地笑。布卢姆把手抽回来，用铅笔在桌上反手信意写着字，形成舒缓的曲线。）

弗洛莉

怎么？

（家住多尼布鲁克-哈莫尼大街的詹姆斯·巴顿赶的第三百二十四号出租马车，由一匹扭着壮实的屁股小跑的母马拉着驰过。博伊兰和利内翰摊开手脚躺在两侧的座席上，晃来晃去。[706]奥蒙德的擦鞋侍役蜷缩在后面的车轴上边。莉迪亚·杜丝和米娜·肯尼迪隔着半截儿窗帘悲哀地凝望着。）

擦鞋侍役

（颠簸着，伸出大拇指和像虫子般扭动的另外几个指头，嘲弄女人们。）嗬，嗬，你们长了角吗？

（金发女侍和褐发女侍窃窃私语。）

佐伊

（对弗洛莉）交头接耳。

（布莱泽斯·博伊兰倚着马车座席靠背。他歪戴硬壳平顶草帽，口衔红花。利内翰头戴游艇驾驶人的便帽，脚蹬白鞋，爱管闲事地从布莱泽斯·博伊兰的大衣肩上摘掉一根长发。）

利内翰

嗬！我看见的是什么呀？难道你从几个阴道上掸掉蜘蛛网来着吗？

博伊兰

（心满意足，微笑）我在薅火鸡毛哪。[707]

利内翰

够你于个整宿的。

博伊兰

（伸出形成钝角的四个粗手指，挤了挤眼。）让凯特狂热起来[708]！倘若和样品不同，就照样退款。（他把小指伸过去。）闻一闻。

利内翰

（开心地嗅着）啊！像是浇了蛋黄酱的龙虾。啊！

佐伊和弗洛莉

（一道笑着）哈哈哈哈。

博伊兰

（矫健地跳下马车，用人人都听得见的大嗓门嚷着）嘿，布卢姆！布卢姆太太穿好衣服了吗？

布卢姆

（身着仆役穿的那种深紫红色长毛绒上衣和短裤，浅黄色长袜，头戴撒了粉的假发。）好像还没有，老爷。还差几样东西……

博伊兰

（丢给他一枚六便士硬币）喂，去买杯兑苏打水的杜松子酒喝吧。（灵巧地把帽子挂在布卢姆头上长的多叉鹿角尖儿上。）给我引路。我跟你妻子之间有件小小的私事要办，你懂吗，

布卢姆

谢谢，老爷。是的，老爷。特威迪太太正在洗澡呢，老爷。

玛莉恩

他应该感到非常荣幸才是。（她噗噜噜地飞溅着澡水，走了出来。）拉乌尔[709] 亲爱的，来替我擦干了。我光着身子哪。除了一顶新帽子和随身携带的海绵，我可一丝不挂。

博伊兰

（眼睛快乐地一闪）再好不过啦！

贝拉

什么？怎么回事？

（佐伊跟她打耳喳。）

玛莉恩

让他看着，邪魔附体[710] ！男妓！他该鞭打自己一顿！我要写信给有势力的妓女巴托罗莫娜，一个长胡子的女人，叫她在他身上留下一英寸厚的鞭痕，并且要他给我带回一张签字盖章的字据。[711]

贝拉

（嘲笑）呵呵呵呵。

博伊兰

（侧过身来对布卢姆）我去跟她干几回。这当儿，你可以把眼睛凑在钥匙孔上，自己跟自己干干。

布卢姆

谢谢您，老爷，我一定遵命，老爷。我可不可以带上两个伙伴来见识见识，并且拍张快照？（捧上一罐软膏）要凡士林吗，老爷？橙花油呢？……温水？

吉蒂

（从沙发上）告诉咱，弗洛莉，告诉咱。什么……

（弗洛莉跟她打耳喳。悄悄他说着情话，啪嚓啪嚓地大声咂着嘴唇，吧唧吧唧，噼嚓唧嚓）

米娜·肯尼迪

（两眼朝上翻着）噢，准是像天竺葵和可爱的桃子那样的气味！噢，他简直把她每个部位都膜拜到了，紧紧鳔在一块儿[712] ！浑身都吻遍了！

莉迪亚·杜丝

（张着嘴）真好吃，真好吃。[713] 噢，他一边搞，一边抱着她满屋子转！骑着一匹摇木马。他们这样搞法，甚至在巴黎和纽约，你都听得见。就像是嘴里塞满了草莓和奶油似的。

吉蒂

（大笑）嘻嘻嘻。

博伊兰的嗓音

（既甜蜜又嘶哑，发自胸口窝）啊！天主布莱泽咯噜喀哺噜咔哧喀啦施特！

玛莉恩的嗓音

（既嘶哑又甜蜜，从嗓子眼儿里涌出来）喂施哇施特吻呐噗咿嘶呐噗唿喀！

布卢姆

（狂热地圆睁双目，抱着肘）露出来！藏起来！露出来！耕她！加把劲儿！射！

贝洛、佐伊、弗洛莉、吉蒂

嗬嗬！哈哈！嘿嘿！

林奇

（指着）一面反映自然[714]的镜子。（他笑着。）哧哧哧哧！

（斯蒂芬和布卢姆朝镜中凝望。威廉·莎士比亚那张没有胡子的脸在那里出现。面部麻痹僵硬，头上顶着大厅里那个多叉驯鹿角形帽架的反影。）

莎士比亚

（作庄严的腹语）高声大笑是心灵空虚的反映。[715] （对布卢姆）你以为人们瞧不见你的形影。瞧瞧吧。（他发出黑色阉鸡[716] 的笑声，啼鸣。）伊阿古古！我的老伙伴怎样勒死了他的星期四莫娜[717] 。伊阿古古古！

布卢姆

（懦怯地朝三个婊子微笑）什么时候我才能听听这个笑话呢？

佐伊

在你两度结婚并做一次鳏夫之前。

布卢姆

对过失要宽容。就连伟大的拿破仑，当他死后赤身露体地被人量尺寸的时候[718] ……

（守了寡的迪格纳穆太太由于谈论死者而流了泪，并饮滕尼[719] 的黄褐色雪利酒，使她那狮子鼻和面颊泛红起来。她身着丧服，歪戴软帽，涂了口红，脸上抹着粉，匆匆赶路，活像一只母天鹅赶着成群的小天鹅。[720] 裙子底下露出她的亡夫家常穿的长裤和那双帮口翻过来的八英寸大号靴子。她手持苏格兰遗孀保险公司[721] 的保险单，打着一把大阳伞。她那窝小雏在伞下跟着她跑。帕齐用穿着单帮鞋的那只脚在前边跳跳蹿蹿，脖领松开来，手里提拎着一块猪排。弗雷迪啜泣着。苏茜那张嘴活像是哭着的鳕。艾丽斯吃力地抱着个娃娃。她啪啪地打着孩子们，催他们往前走，黑纱高高地飘扬着。）

弗雷迪

啊，妈，别这么拽我呀！

苏茜

妈妈，牛肉茶[722] 都噗出来啦！

莎士比亚

（带着中风患者的愤怒）先把头一个丈夫杀了，然后嫁给第二个[723] 。

（莎士比亚那张没有胡子的脸，变成马丁·坎宁翰的胡子拉碴的脸。阳伞仿佛喝得酩酊大醉，晃晃悠悠。孩子们都躲闪开来。坎宁翰太太头戴风流寡妇帽[724]，身穿和服式晨衣，出现在伞下。她像日本人那样滴溜溜地旋转，鞠着躬，滑也似地侧身走过。）

坎宁翰大太

（唱）

他们称我作亚洲的珍宝。[725]

马丁·坎宁翰

（冷漠地凝视着她）好家伙！最恶毒、最令人讨厌的婆娘！

斯蒂芬

惟有义人之角，必被高抬。[726]皇后们跟优良公牛们一道睡觉。要记住：由于帕西菲的荒淫，我那肥胖的老祖父修建了第一间忏悔阁子。[727] 不要忘记格莉塞尔·斯蒂文斯夫人[728] ，也不要忘记兰伯特家的猪子猪孙[729] 。挪亚喝醉了酒[730] 。他的方舟[731]敞着盖儿。

贝拉

可别在这儿来这一套。你认错门儿啦。

林奇

随他去吧。他是从巴黎回来的。

佐伊

（跑到斯蒂芬身边，挽住他的臂。）哦，说下去！说几句法国话给咱们听。

（斯蒂芬急忙戴上帽子，一个箭步蹿到壁炉跟前，耸肩伫立在那里。他摊开鱼鳍般的一双手，脸上勉强微笑着。）

林奇

（用拳头连擂沙发）噜哞噜哞噜哞，噜呜哞呜。

斯蒂芬

（像牵线木偶股地颤悠着身子，唠叨着）有千百家娱乐场所供你和可爱的仕女们消磨夜晚。她们把手套和其他东西，也许甚至连心都卖给你。在应有尽有的时髦而又非常新奇的啤酒厅里，许多穿得漂漂亮亮的公主般的高等妓女跳着康康舞[732] ，给外国单身汉表演特别荒唐的巴黎式滑稽舞蹈。尽管英国话讲得蹩脚，然而风骚淫荡起来，她们可真是驾轻就熟。凡是对冶游格外挑剔的老爷们，可务必去观赏一下她们在流银色泪水的葬仪蜡烛映照下的天堂地狱表演[733] 。那是每天晚上都举行的。普天之下再也没有比这更加阴森可怕、触目惊心的对宗教的嘲弄了。所有那些时髦潇洒的妇道人家，端庄淑静地走来，随即脱光衣服，尖声大叫起来，观看那个扮成吸血鬼的男人奸污衬衣凌乱[734] 的非常年轻鲜嫩的尼姑。（大声砸舌）哎呀呀！瞧他那大鼻子！

林奇

吸血鬼万岁！[735]

妓女们

法国话说得好！

斯蒂芬

（仰面朝天地大笑，作怪相，为自已鼓掌喝采）笑得大获成功。既有很像窑姐儿的天使，又有大恶棍式的神圣使徒。有些高级娼妇衣着极其可人，佩带着一颗颗璀璨晶莹、闪闪发光的钻石。要么，你更喜欢老人们那种说得上是现代派快乐的猥亵吗？（他以怪诞的手势向周围指指点点，林奇和妓女们回应着。）把可以翻转的弹性橡皮女偶或非常肉感的等身大处女裸体像吻上五遍十遍。进来吧，先生们，瞧瞧镜子里的这些偶人扭着身子的各种姿势。要是想看更加过瘾的，还有肉铺小徒弟把温吞吞的牛肚或莎士比亚的剧作[736] 煎蛋饼[737] 放在肚子上手淫的场面。

贝拉

（拍着肚子，深深地往沙发上一躺，放开嗓门大笑着。）煎蛋饼放在……嗬！嗬！嗬！嗬！……煎蛋饼放在……

斯蒂芬

（吞吞吐吐地）我爱你，亲爱的先生。为了相互间达成真诚的谅解[738]，我讲你们的英国话吧。哦，对，我的狼。[739]得花多少钱。滑铁卢。抽水马桶。（他突然止住，伸出个小指。）

贝洛

（笑着）煎蛋饼……

妓女们

（笑着）再来一个！再来一个！

斯蒂芬

注意听着。我梦见一个西瓜。

佐伊

那就意味着到海外去，爱上一个外国女人。

林奇

为了讨个老婆，去周游世界。

弗洛莉

梦和现实正相反。

斯蒂芬

（摊开双臂）就在这儿。娼妓街。[740]在蛇根木林荫路上，魔王让我看到了她——一个矮胖寡妇。[741] 红地毯铺在哪儿呢？

布卢姆

（挨近斯蒂芬）瞧……

斯蒂芬

不，我飞了。我的仇敌在我下面。[742] 以迨永远，及世之世。[743]父亲[744] ！

自由！

布卢姆

喂，你呀……

斯蒂芬

他想要使我意气消沉吗？哦，他妈的！[745]（他那秃鹫爪子磨得尖尖的，喊叫着。）喂，呵，呵！[746]

（西蒙·迪达勒斯的嗓音。虽昏昏欲睡，却及时“呵，呵”地回应着。）

西蒙

好的。（他展开结实、沉重的秃鹰翅膀，雄赳赳地啼叫着，边兜圈子边从空中笨拙地飞下来。）呵，儿子！你将要赢吗？嗬！呸！净跟那些杂种厮混在一起。不许他们挨近你。抬起头来！让咱们的旗帜飘扬！图案是银白地上，一只展翅飞翔的赤鹰。周身披甲的阿尔斯特王！咳嗬！（他学猎兔犬发现猎物时的吠叫声。）哺儿哺儿！哺儿哺噜哺噜哺儿噜哺噜！嘿，儿子！

（墙纸上的叶子图案和底色排成队迅速地越过田野。一只肥壮的狐狸，从隐匿处被赶出来，刚刚埋葬完奶奶[747]，翘起尾巴，两眼发出锐利的光，在树叶底下寻觅獾的洞穴。一群猎鹿犬跟随着。鼻子贴在地面上，嗅着猎物的气味，哺儿哺噜哺儿哺噜地发出嗜血的吠声。医院俱乐部[ 748] 的男女猎人跟它们一道活动，起劲地捕杀猎物。尾随于后的是来自“六英里小岬”、“平屋”[749] 和“九英里石标”[750] 的助猎者，拿着满是节疤的棍子、干草叉、鮭鱼钩和套索；还有手执牧鞭的羊倌，挎着长筒鼓的耍熊师，携带头牛剑的斗牛士，摇晃着火把的老练的黑人。成群的赌徒、掷冕锚游戏的[751]、 玩杯艺的[752]和玩牌时作弊的，大喊大叫。替盗贼把风者和头戴魔术师高帽、嗓子嘶哑的赌注经纪人，震耳欲聋地吵吵嚷嚷。）

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以十博一，除了一匹！[753]

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我来个以十博一！

以十博一，除了一匹！

（一匹没有骑手的黑马，鬃毛在月光下汗水淋漓，眼珠子像星宿似的闪着光，宛若幽灵般冲过决胜终点。冷门马成群地弓背猛跳着，跟在后面。精瘦的马匹们，“权仗”、“马克西姆二世”、“馨芳葡萄酒”，威斯敏斯特公爵的“跨越”、“挫败”、波弗特公爵那匹获巴黎奖的“锡兰”。[756] 侏儒们披戴锈迹斑斑的铠甲，骑在马上，并在鞍上跳跃，跳跃。在淅淅沥沥的雨中，殿后的是骑着热门马“北方的科克”[757][呼吸急促的灰黄色驽马］的加勒特·迪希。他头戴蜂蜜色便帽，身穿绿茄克衫，橙色袖子。他一手紧攥缰绳，一手执曲棍球棒，摆好了姿势。驽马那一跛一跛的四肢上打着白色绑腿，一路险巘[758] ，缓步前进。）

橙带党[759] 分支成员们

（嘲笑着）老爷，下来推推吧。最后一圈儿啦！晚上您才能到家呢！

加勒特·迪希

（直挺挺地骑在马上，被指甲抓破了的脸上贴满邮票，抡着曲棍球棒，在枝形吊灯灿烂光辉的照耀下，一双蓝眼闪烁着，以练马的步调飞跑过去。）走正路！[760]

（一对桶整个儿翻在他和用后脚站起的驽马身上，漂浮着硬币般的胡萝卜、大麦、葱头、芜菁、土豆的羊肉汁倾泻而下。）

绿党[761] 分支成员们

雨天儿，约翰爵士！雨天儿！阁下！

（士兵卡尔、士兵康普顿和西茜·卡弗里从窗下走过，荒腔走板地唱着。）

斯蒂芬

听哪！咱们的朋友，街上的喊叫[ 762] 。

佐伊

（举起一只手）站住！

士兵卡尔、士兵康普顿和西茜·卡弗里

可是我有种偏爱，

对约克郡……[ 763]

佐伊

那指的是我。（她拍着手。）跳舞！跳舞！（她跑到自动钢琴跟前。）

谁有两便士？

布卢姆

谁要……？

林奇

（递给她硬币）喏。

斯蒂芬

（不耐烦地撅着手指发出声音）快！快！我那占卜师的手杖呢[764]？（跑到钢琴跟前，拿起他那梣木手杖，踏着拍子跳起庄严的祭神舞[765] 。）

佐伊

（转着自动钢琴的把手）来吧。

（她往投钱口里丢进两便士。金色、桃红色和紫罗兰色的光束射了出来。圆筒咕噜咕噜转动，迟迟疑疑地以低音调奏出华尔兹舞曲。古德温教授[766]戴着挽成活结的假发，大礼服外面披着污迹斑斑、带护肩的斗篷。他年迈得惊人，身子已经弯成两半截，双手发颤，脚步蹒跚地踱到房间另一端。小得可怜的他端坐在钢琴凳上，像个少女似的娴雅地点点头，活结一颤一颤的，用无手的、棒槌般的双臂敲着琴键。）

佐伊

（用脚后跟打着拍子，滴溜溜地旋转身子。）跳舞吧。这儿有什么人要跳？谁跳舞，把桌子清一清。

（在变幻莫测的灯光下，自动钢琴以华尔兹舞曲的拍子演奏起《我的意中人是位约克郡姑娘》的序曲。斯蒂芬将他的梣木手杖丢到桌上，一把搂住佐伊的腰。弗洛莉和贝洛把桌子朝壁炉推了推。斯蒂芬以夸张的高雅风度搂着佐伊，在室内旋转着跳起华尔兹舞。她的袖子从动作优雅的臂上滑落下来，露出种痘留下的白肉花。布卢姆站在一旁。马金尼[ 767] 教师从帷幕间伸出一只脚来，大礼帽在脚趾尖上滴溜溜旋转。他熟练地一踢，那帽子便旋转着飞到他的头顶上了。他春风得意，滑也似地溜进了屋子。他身穿有着紫红色绸翻领的暗蓝灰色长礼服，系着奶油色护颈胸薄纱，背心的领口开得低低的，打成蝴蝶结的雪白宽饰领，淡紫色紧腿裤，脚蹬浅口无带的漆皮轻舞鞋，手上戴着鲜黄色手套。扣眼里插着一大朵大丽花。他朝相反的方向旋转着一根有云状花纹的手杖，随后又把它紧紧夹在腋下。他将一只手轻轻接着胸骨，深打一躬，把玩着花儿和钮扣。）

马金尼

运动的诗，健美体操的艺术。跟莱格特·伯恩夫人或利文斯顿[ 768] 毫无关系。还安排了化装舞会。举止端庄[769]。凯蒂·兰内尔[ 770]舞步。那么，好好看着我！注意我的舞蹈本领。（他以蜜蜂般轻快的步伐向前迈出三个小碎步。）大家向前走！鞠躬！各就各位！[ 771]

（序曲终止。古德温教授出神地用臂打着拍子，逐渐缩小、干瘪下去，他那斗篷像活物一般垂落到钢琴凳周围。主旋律越发清晰了，是华尔兹舞曲的节奏。斯蒂芬和佐伊自由自在地旋转着。灯光忽而金色，忽而玫瑰色，忽而紫罗兰色，渐明渐暗地变幻着。）

自动钢琴

两个小伙子谈着他们的姑娘，姑娘，姑娘，

他们留下的心上人……[772]

（早晨的时光们[773] 从角落里跑了出来。金发，足蹬细长的凉鞋，身穿女孩儿气的蓝衣，马蜂腰，清白的手。她们矫健地跳着舞，抡着跳绳。晌午的时光们穿的是呈琥珀色的金黄衣裳。她们笑着，手挽着手，高高地插在头上的梳子闪闪发光，举起双臂，用嘲讽的镜子[774] 捕捉阳光。）

马金尼

（轻轻拍着戴了手套发不出声音的手）摆好方阵！一对儿一对儿地前进！[775] 呼吸要平稳！身体保持平衡！[776]

（早晨的时光们与晌午的时光们各自就地跳起华尔兹舞，旋转着，相互挨近，身子扭来扭去，互行鞠躬礼。站在她们身后的舞伴把胳膊弯成弓形，支撑着，忽而又把手落到她们的肩上，抚摩一下，再抬起来。）

时光们

你可以摸我的……

献殷勤的男舞伴们

我可以摸你的……吗？

时光们

哦，可要轻点儿！

献殷勤的舞伴们

啊，轻轻儿地！

自动钢琴

我那羞答答的小妞儿的腰肢……[777]

（佐伊和斯蒂芬更舒缓地晃着身子，奔放地旋转着。黄昏的时光们出现在投到地上的长长的影子里，向前移动。拖拖拉拉，散散漫漫，眼神呆滞，脸颊上淡雅地涂着散沫花染料，呈现出一抹人为的红润。她们身穿灰色网纱衣服，在从陆地吹向海上的微风中，扑扇着黑不溜秋的蝙蝠袖。）

马金尼

四对儿前进！面对面！点头致意！交换手！互换方向！[ 778]

（夜晚的时光们一个挨一个地悄悄来到最后的那个地方。早晨、晌午和黄昏的时光们从她们面前退下去。她们戴着假面具，头发上插着匕首，套着铃铛串成的音色低沉的手镯。她们精疲力竭，隔着面纱行屈膝礼。）

手镯们

嗨嗬！嗨嗬！

佐伊

（滴溜溜地旋转着，手搭凉棚）哦！

马金尼

排在中间！女人手拉手作链条！呈篮子状！背对背！[ 779]

（她们疲倦地将身体屈向前，一足落地，一足后伸，两手前后平伸，在地板上组成图案。织毕又拆开，行屈膝礼，打着转转翩翩起舞，简直构成漩涡形。）

佐伊

我发晕啦！

（她挣脱开，瘫倒在一把椅子上。斯蒂芬一把抓住弗洛莉，跟她一道旋转起来。）

马金尼

揉面包！兜圈子！手搭桥！摇木马！螺旋形！[780]

（夜晚的时光们忽而扭在一起，忽而松开，相互拉着的手来回交替，将胳膊弯成弓形，用动作构成拼花图样。斯蒂芬和弗洛莉笨拙地旋转着。）

马金尼

跟女伴跳舞！调换舞伴！送小小的花束给女伴！互相道谢！[ 781]

自动钢琴

美极了，美极了，

吧啦蹦！

吉蒂

（跳起来）哦，在迈勒斯义卖会的旋转木马上，就奏这个曲子来着！

（她朝斯蒂芬奔去。他唐突地撇下弗洛莉，又抓住吉蒂。一只苍鸻的尖叫声像哨子般地刺耳。托夫特那笨重的旋转木马，呻吟抱怨咯咯响，朝右慢腾腾地旋转，在室内兜着圈子。）

自动钢琴

我的妞儿是个约克郡姑娘。

佐伊

地地道道的约克郡姑娘！[ 782]

都来跳吧！

（她抓住弗洛莉，同她跳起华尔兹舞。）

斯蒂芬

独舞！

（他把吉蒂旋转到林奇的怀抱中，从桌上抓起他那根梣木手杖，参加跳舞。大家滴溜溜地旋转着，翩翩跳起华尔兹舞：布卢姆与贝洛，吉蒂与林奇，弗洛莉与佐伊，嚼着枣味胶糖的女人们。斯蒂芬头戴帽子，手执梣木杖，脚像青蛙似的叉开，对准半空，不高不低地踢着脚。他闭着嘴，半撂着的手放在大腿下。槌子丁当铿锵咚咚乱响，吹号角的嗬嗬地吹着。蓝、绿、黄色的闪光。托夫特那笨重的木马旋转着，骑手们晃来晃去地悬挂在镀金蛇上。腑脏跳方登戈舞[783] ，踢起泥土，用脚踩拍子，随即停了下来。）

自动钢琴

她虽是工厂姑娘。

却不穿花哨衣裳。[784]

（他们紧紧地搂抱着，在眩目、灿烂、摇曳的光芒中，迅速、愈益迅速，嗖嗖嗖，飞也似地走过，脚步声沉重而响亮。吧啦嘣！）

全体

再来一个！再来一个！[785] 妙啊！再来一个！

西蒙

替你妈妈娘家的人想一想！

斯蒂芬

死亡的舞蹈。

（当啷，伙计的手铃又当啷一声。马、驽马、阉牛、猪仔，康米神父骑着基督驴[786] ，拄着拐的独脚瘸腿水兵在小艇上交抱着胳膊，拉纤，跛行，跺脚，跳的整个儿是号笛舞[787] 。吧啦嘣！骑着驽马、阉猪、系着铃裆的马、加大拉[ 788] 猪，科尼[ 789] 在棺材里。钢铁鲨鱼[790] 、石头独臂纳尔逊，两个狡猾的婆娘[791] 身上满是李子汁，大声喊着从婴儿车[792] 里滚下来。天啊，他是无与伦比的。[793] 酒桶出贵族[794] ，蓝色的引线[795] ，洛夫神父[796] 晚祷，布莱泽斯乘轻便二轮马车，盲人[797] ，恰似鳕鱼那样蜷缩着身子[798] 骑自行车的人们，迪丽拿着雪酥糕[799] ，不穿花哨衣裳。最后，是一场“之”字形舞，动作迟缓，步子沉重，一上一下，酿酒桶[800] 嘎噔嘎噔的。合乎总督和王后[801]的口味，呱嗒呱嗒噼通扑通玫瑰花。吧拉嘣！）

（一对对舞伴退到一旁去。斯蒂芬跳得眩晕起来，屋子朝后旋转。他双目紧闭，脚步蹒跚。红栅栏朝着宇宙飞去。太阳周围的全部星辰绕着大圈子旋转。亮的蠓虫在墙上跳舞。他猛地停了下来。）

斯蒂芬

嗬！

（斯蒂芬的母亲憔悴不堪，僵直地穿过地板出现了。她身穿癞病患者的灰衣服，手执枯谢的桔花环，披着扯破的婚纱。面容枯槁，没有鼻子，坟里的霉菌使她浑身发绿。她披散着稀疏的长发，用眼圈发蓝的凹陷的眼窝凝视斯蒂芬，张开牙齿掉光了的嘴，说了句无音的话。童贞女和听忏悔的神父组成的唱诗班唱着无声之歌。）

唱诗班

饰以百合的光明的是司铎群……

极乐圣童贞之群……[802]

（勃克·穆利根身穿深褐与浅黄色相问的小丑服，头戴装有旋涡形铃铛的丑角帽，站在那里目瞪口呆地凝视着她。他手里拿着掰开来涂了黄油、热气腾腾的甜烤饼。）

勃克·穆利根

她死得怪惨的。真可怜！穆利根遇见了那位不幸的母亲。（他把两眼朝上一翻。）墨丘利·玛拉基！[803]

母亲

（脸上泛着难以捉摸的微笑，显示出死亡带来的疯狂）我曾经是美丽的梅·古尔丁。我死啦。

斯蒂芬

（吓得发抖）狐猴[804] ，你是谁？不。这是什么妖魔耍的鬼把戏？

勃克·穆利根

（摇着他帽子上那旋涡形铃铛）真是恶作剧！金赤这小狗[805]杀了那母狗婆娘。她翘辫子啦。（溶化了的黄油泪从他的两眼里滴到甜烤饼上。）我们的伟大而可爱的母亲[806！葡萄紫的大海[ 807] 。

母亲

（挨近了些，轻轻地朝他呼出一股湿灰的气味）斯蒂芬，这是人人都得经受的。世上女人比男人多。[808] 你也一样。时候会到来的。

斯蒂芬

（惊愕、悔恨和恐惧使他喘不上气来。）母亲，他们说是我杀死你的。那家伙亵渎了对你的记忆。是癌症害死你的，不是我。这是命运。

母亲

（嘴的一边嘀嘀嗒嗒地淌下绿色胆汁。）你曾为我唱过那首歌。“爱情那苦涩的奥秘”。[809]

斯蒂芬

（热切地）妈妈，要是你现在知道的话，就告诉我那个字眼吧。那是大家都晓得的字眼。[810]

母亲

那个晚上，当你和帕迪在多基[811] 跳上火车的时候，是谁救的你？当你在陌生人当中感到悲哀的时候，是谁可怜过你？祷告是万能的。念乌尔苏拉祈祷书里那段为受苦灵魂的经文，就可以获得四十天大赦。[812] 悔改吧，斯蒂芬。

斯蒂芬

食尸鬼！鬣狗！

母亲

我在另一个世界[ 813] 为你祷告。每天晚上用完脑子以后，叫迪丽给你煮点大米粥。自打在肚子里怀上你，多少年来我一直爱着你。哦，我的儿子，我的头一胎。

佐伊

（用大扇子扇着自己）我都快融化啦！

弗洛莉

（指着斯蒂芬）瞧！他脸色苍白。

布卢姆

（走到窗边，把它开大一些）叫人发晕。

母亲

（两眼露出闷郁的神色）悔改吧！啊，地狱的火焰！

斯蒂芬

（气喘吁吁）经受永劫之火[814] ！啖尸肉者！刚砍下来的头和鲜血淋漓的骨头[815] 。

母亲

（她的脸越挨越近，发出湿灰气息。）当心哪！（她拾起那变黑了的、干瘪的右臂，扎煞着手指，慢慢伸向斯蒂芬的胸口。）当心天主的 手！[816]

（一只长着一双恶毒的红眼睛的绿螃蟹，将它那龇牙咧嘴 的钳子深深戳进斯蒂芬的心脏。）

斯蒂芬

（怒不可遏，几乎窒息，面容变得灰暗苍老。）狗屎！

布卢姆

（在窗边）怎么啦，

斯蒂芬

天哪，没什么！[817] 理智的想象！对我来说：要么得到一切，要么一无所有。[818] 我不侍奉。[819]

弗洛莉

给他点儿冷水。等一等。（她连忙跑出去。）

母亲

（缓慢地使劲扭着双手）噢，耶稣圣心啊，怜悯他吧！啊，神圣的圣心啊！拯救他免下地狱。

斯蒂芬

不！不！不！你们在家有本事就挫我的锐气吧。我将叫你们一个个屈膝投降！

母亲

（临死时痛苦地挣扎着，发出痰声）主啊，为了我的缘故，可怜可怜斯蒂芬吧！当我在骷髅冈[820] 上怀着爱、悲哀和凄楚咽气的时候，我的痛苦是难以形容的。

斯蒂芬

护身剑！[821]

（他用双手高高举起梣木杖，把枝形吊灯击碎。时光那最后一缕死灰色火焰往上一蹿，紧接着在一片黑暗中，是整个空间的毁灭，玻璃碎成碴儿，砖石建筑坍塌下来。[822] ）

瓦斯灯

卟呋咯！

布卢姆

住手！

林奇

（冲上前去，抓住斯蒂芬的手。）喂！别这样！不要胡闹！

贝拉

警察！

（斯蒂芬丢掉梣木手杖，将头和胳膊僵直地往后一挺，跺着地板，从门口的娼妇们当中穿过，逃出屋子。）

贝拉

（叫嚷）追上他！

（两个妓女奔到大门口。林奇、吉蒂和佐伊从屋里争先恐后地跑出去。他们激动他说着话。布卢姆也跟了出去，又返回来。）

妓女们

（簇拥在大门口，指着）在那儿哪。

佐伊

（指着）哦，准是出了什么事。

贝拉

灯钱归谁赔？（她一把抓住布卢姆的上衣后摆。）嘿，你跟他在一块儿来着，灯被打碎了。

布卢姆

（冲到门厅，又奔跑回来）什么灯呀，大娘？

一个妓女

他的上衣撕破了。

贝拉

（眼神冷酷，充满了愤怒与贪婪，指着）谁来赔这个？十先令。你是见证人。

布卢姆

（抓起斯蒂芬的梣木手杖）我？十先令？难道你还没从他那儿捞够吗？难道他没……？

贝拉

（大声地）喂，别说大话啦。这里可不是窑子。这是十先令的店。

布卢姆

（他把头伸到灯下，拽了一下链子。刚一拽，瓦斯灯光的映照下，一个破碎了的淡紫色罩子便映入眼帘。他举起梣木手杖。）只打碎了灯罩。他不过是……

贝拉

（退缩，尖叫） 唉呀！可别！

布卢姆

（把手杖闪开）我只想让你看看他是怎样打那罩子的。造成的损害还到不了六便士呢。十先令！

弗洛莉

（端着一杯水进来）他哪儿去啦？

贝拉

你要我去喊警察吗？

布卢姆

哦，我知道，宅院里的斗犬[823] 。然而他可是三一学院的学生。那儿净是你们这个店的主顾。替你们出房租的先生们[824] 。（他做了个共济会会员的手势[825] 。）你明白我的意思吗？他是副院长的侄子哩。你不愿意闹出丑闻吧。

贝拉

（愤然）三一学院。赛艇以后闯到这儿来，胡闹一气，连一个便士也不掏。你在这儿是我的长官吗？他在哪儿？我要控告他！让他丢尽了脸！我说到做到！（大声嚷）佐伊！佐伊！

布卢姆

（穷追不舍）这要是你那个在牛津的亲儿子呢？（用警告的口吻）我知道。[826]

贝拉

（几乎说不出话来）您是哪一位？微服私访！

佐伊

（在大门口）那儿有人打架哪。

布卢姆

什么？哪儿，（他往桌子上丢了一枚先令，然后说）这是灯罩钱。在哪儿？我需要吸点山里的空气。[827]

（他匆匆穿过门厅走到外面。娼妓们在指着。弗洛莉跟在后面，从她歪拿着的玻璃酒杯一路洒下水来。所有聚在大门口台阶上的娼妓们都指着雾已消散了的右方，七嘴八舌他说着。从左手辚辚地驶来了一辆出租马车。它逐渐减慢了速度，停在房前。布卢姆在大门口瞅见科尼·凯莱赫正要跟两个闷声不响的淫棍一道走下马车。贝拉在门厅里催促着手下的娼妓们。她们给以黏黏涎涎、吧唧吧唧的飞吻。科尼·凯莱赫报以幽灵般轻薄的微笑。一言不发的淫棍们转身去付钱给马车夫。佐伊和吉蒂还在朝右边指着。布卢姆飞快地从她们二人当中穿过去，把他那哈里发的头巾拉得低低的，整理一下，穗饰披肩，将脸扭向一边，匆忙冲下台阶。布卢姆伊然成了微服出访的哈伦·拉希德[ 828] ，从淫棍们背后穿过去，沿着栏杆，以豹子般的飞毛腿往前冲去，一路抛撒着在大回香籽汁里浸泡过的一个撕破了的信封，留下臭迹[829] 。每迈一步，梣木手杖便戳出一个印儿。三一学院的霍恩布洛尔头戴嗬嗬帽[830] ，身穿灰色长裤，手里抡着一根狗鞭，领着一群警大，远远地跟在后面。它们嗅着那股气味，靠近一些，长吠一声，气喘吁吁，失掉了臭迹，四散奔跑，耷拉着舌头，又咬布卢姆的脚后跟，在他后面跳跳蹦蹦。他忽走忽跑，忽而按“之”字形前进，忽而又飞奔起来，两耳贴着后脑勺。砂砾、白菜帮子、饼干匣、鸡蛋、土豆、死鳕鱼、妇女所趿拉的拖鞋[831]都雨点子般地朝他掷过来。重新嗅到气味的一群“学领袖样儿”[832] 的队伍取“之”字形，大喊大叫，吵吵闹闹地奔跑着追逐他，其中包括夜警丙六十五号和丙六十六号、约翰·亨利·门顿、威兹德姆·希利、维·B·狄龙、参议员南尼蒂、亚历山大·凯斯、拉利·奥鲁尔克、乔·卡夫、奥多德太太、精明鬼伯克、无名氏、赖尔登太太[833] 、“市民”、加里欧文、某人、陌生面孔、似曾相识者、一面之缘者、伙伴、克里斯·卡利南、查尔斯·卡梅伦爵士、[834] 本杰明·多拉德、利内翰、巴特尔·达西、乔·海因斯、红穆雷、编辑布雷顿、蒂·迈·希利、菲茨吉本法官先生[835] 、约翰·霍华德·巴涅尔、可敬的鲑鱼罐头萨蒙、乔利教授[836] 、布林太太、丹尼斯·布林、西奥多·普里福伊、米娜·普里福伊、韦斯特兰横街邮政局女局长[837]、C.P.麦科伊、莱昂斯的朋友、“独脚”霍罗翰[838]、街上的男人、街上的另一男人、足球靴子、狮子鼻汽车司机、新教徒阔太太、戴维·伯恩、艾伦·麦吉尼斯太太[839] 、乔·加拉赫太太[ 840] 、乔治·利德维尔、长了鸡眼的吉米·亨利[841] 、拉拉西校长[842] 、考利神父、曾在税务局任职的克罗夫顿、丹·道森、手持镊子的牙医布卢姆[843] 、鲍勃·多兰太太、肯内菲克太太、怀思·诺兰太太、约翰·怀思·诺兰、在驶往克朗斯基亚的电车里的那位将大屁股蹭过来的漂亮的有夫之妇[844] 、出售《偷情的快乐》的书摊老板、杜比达特小姐——而且她真的吃了[845] 、罗巴克[846] 的杰拉德·莫兰太太和斯但尼斯劳斯·莫兰太太、德里米[847] 的事务员、韦瑟亚普、海斯上校[848] 、马斯添斯基、西特伦[849]、彭罗斯[850]、艾伦·菲加泽尔[851] 、摩西·赫佐格、迈克尔·E。杰拉蒂[852] 、警官特洛伊[853] 、加尔布雷斯太太[854] 、埃克尔斯街拐角处的警官、带着听诊器的老医生布雷迪[855] 、海滨上的神秘人物[856] 、衔回猎物的狗、米莉亚姆·丹德拉德太太[857] 和她所有的情人。）

叫嚣声

（慌慌张张，气恼混乱）他就是布卢姆！拦住布卢姆！把布卢姆截住！截住强盗！

喂！喂！在拐角那儿堵住他！

（布卢姆上气不接下气地来到比弗街[ 858] 的脚手架下，在喧嚣地吵着架的一簇人边上停下脚步。至于是谁在骂骂咧咧地吵着什么，围观者完全不摸头脑。）

斯蒂芬

（以优美的姿态，缓慢地深呼吸）你们是我的客人。不速之客。多亏了乔治五世和爱德华七世。[859]看来这要怪历史。[860] 记忆的母亲们所编的寓言。[861]

士兵卡尔

（对西茜·卡弗里）这家伙是在侮辱你吗？

斯蒂芬

我用女性称呼跟她寒暄来着。也许是中性。不生格。[862]

众人的声音

没有，他没有。我看见他啦，那个姑娘。他去科恩太太那儿了。出了什么事？士兵和市民搅在一起。

西茜·卡弗里

我跟士兵们呆在一块儿来着，后来他们方便去了，你知道，于是这个小伙子从我背后跑了过来。我对在我身上花钱的主顾是讲信用的，尽管我只是个一次一先令的婊子。

众人的声音

她对男人是讲信用的。

斯蒂芬

（瞧见了林奇和吉蒂的头）你们好，西绪福斯[863]。（他指着自己和旁人。）富于诗意。有新诗情趣。

西茜·卡弗里

是啊，谁跟他走。我跟一个当兵的朋友走！

士兵康普顿

这个下贱东西就欠挨个耳光。哈里，揍他一拳。

士兵卡尔

对西茜）当我和他去撒尿的时候，这家伙侮辱你来着吗？

丁尼生勋爵

（一位绅士诗人，身着美国国旗图案的鲜艳夺目的运动上衣，下身是打板球穿的法兰绒裤子。秃头，胡子飘垂着。）他们用不着去问个究竟。[ 864]

士兵康普顿

揍他，哈里。

斯蒂芬

（对士兵康普顿）我叫不出你的名字啦，但你说得很对。斯威夫特博士说过，一个全副武装的能打倒十个穿衬衫的人。[865]衬衫是举隅法。举一反三，举三反一。

西茜·卡弗里

（对群众）不，我曾跟士兵们呆在一起。

斯蒂芬

（和蔼地）为什么不能？勇敢的少年兵[866] 。依我看，比方说，每一位妇女……

士兵卡尔

（歪戴着军帽，朝斯蒂芬走来。）喂，老板，我要是朝你的下巴颏来上一拳，怎么样？

斯蒂芬

（仰望天空）怎么样？非常不舒服。自吹的高尚技艺。[867]就我个人来说，我憎恶行动。（他挥挥手。）我的手有点儿疼。这毕竟是你们的争吵，不是我的。[868]（对西茜·卡弗里）这儿有什么纠纷。究竟是怎么回事呀？

多利·格雷[869]

（从她家的阳台上挥着手绢，做那利哥女杰的记号。）喇合。[870] 再见吧，厨师的儿子。[ 871] 平平安安地回到多利那里吧。在梦中与你撇下的姑娘[872] 相会吧，她也会梦见你。

（士兵们将眩晕的眼睛转向她。）

布卢姆

（用臂肘拨开人群，使劲拽斯蒂芬的袖子。）马上就去吧。老师，车夫在等着哪。

斯蒂芬

（掉过身来）呃？（挣脱开）凭什么不让我跟他或是在这扁圆形桔子[873]上笔直地走着的任何人说话呢？（用指头指着）只要看到对方的眼睛，跟谁说话我都不怕。保持直直地站着的姿势。（他蹒跚地后退一步。）

布卢姆

（扶住他）你自己可要保持平衡。

斯蒂芬

（发出空洞的笑声）我的重心已经移动了。我忘记了窍门儿。咱们找个地方坐下来谈谈吧。生存竞争是人生的规律，然而人类的和平爱好者，尤其是沙皇和英国国王，却发明了仲裁术。[874]（他拍拍自己的前额。）但是在这里，我必须杀死教士和国王。[875]

患淋病的女仆

你们听见教授说的话了吗？他是学院里的教授哩。

坎蒂[876] ·凯特

听见了。我听见啦。

患淋病的女仆

他是用那么极为文雅的语言来表达自己。

坎蒂·凯特

对，可不是嘛。可同时既尖锐锋利，又恰到好处。

士兵卡尔

（甩开拦住他的人，迈步向前。）你在怎么说我的国王来着？ （爱德华七世在拱廊上出现。他身穿绣着圣心[877] 的白色运动衫，胸间佩带着嘉德勋章、蓟花勋章、金羊毛勋章、丹麦的象勋章、[878]斯金纳与普罗宾的骑兵章[879] 、林肯法学团体[880] 主管委员章、古老光荣的马萨诸塞炮兵连队[881] 队徽。他嘴里嘬着红色枣味胶糖[882] ，身穿被推选出来的堂皇完美崇高的共济会会员的衣服，右手拿着袜子，系着围裙，上面标明“德国制造”[883]，左手提着用印刷体写着“禁止小便”字样的泥水匠的桶。人们以雷鸣般的欢呼声来迎接他。）

爱德华七世

（缓慢、庄重，然而含糊不清地）和平，真正的和平。[884] 为了表明身分，朕手里特提着此桶，小伙子们，你们好。（他转向臣民们。）朕来此是为目睹一场光明正大、势均力敌的角斗的。朕衷心祝愿双方好运。你的老于诡计多端[885]。 他同士兵卡尔、士兵康普顿、斯蒂芬、布卢姆和林奇握手。）

（掌声雷动。爱德华七世谦和地举起手中的桶，以表谢意。）

士兵卡尔

（对斯蒂芬）再说一遍。

斯蒂芬

（紧张不安，态度友好，竭力打起精神。）我明白你的见解，尽管眼下我自己没有国王。这是专利成药的时代。在这么个地方很难进行议论。然而要点是：你为你的国家而死。假定是如此。（他把自己的胳膊搭在士兵卡尔的袖子上。）我并不希望你会这样。不过我说：让我的国家为我而亡吧。[886]到目前为止，已经是这样了。我并不曾希望祖国灭亡。灭亡，去他妈的吧。生命永垂不朽！

爱德华七世

（飘浮在成堆的被屠杀者尸体上面。他身穿滑稽的耶稣[887] 的衣裳，头上为耶稣的光晕所环绕。那张散发着磷光的脸上有一颗白色的枣味胶糖。）

我有个新颖办法，人人都称奇：

尘埃丢进盲者眼，立刻就复明。[888]

斯蒂芬

国王们和独角兽们！[889]（他朝后退了一步。）咱们找个地方去……那个姑娘说什么来着？……

士兵康普顿

喂，哈里，朝他的睾丸踢上一脚，给阴茎也来一下子。

布卢姆

（轻声地对士兵们）他自己都不晓得在说些什么。喝得有点过了头，在作怪呢，苦艾酒。绿妖精[890] 。我了解他。他是个有身分的人，一位诗人。不会有什么事的。

斯蒂芬

（点点头，笑逐颜开）有身分的人，爱国主义者，学者，又是审判骗子的法官。

士兵卡尔

我才管不着他是谁呢。

士兵康普顿

我们才管不着他是谁呢。

斯蒂芬

我好像把他们惹恼了，拿绿布给公牛看。[891]

（巴黎的凯文·伊根身穿有着西班牙式流苏的黑色衬衫，头戴晓党[892]式的帽子，对斯蒂芬打了个手势。）

凯文·伊根

喂，早安！[893] 长着黄牙齿[894] 的母夜叉。[895]。

（帕特里克·伊根[ 896] 从后面窥伺，他有着一张兔子般的脸，正在啃着榅桲叶。）

帕特里克

社会主义者[897] ！

堂埃米尔·帕特里吉奥·弗兰兹·

鲁佩尔托·蒲柏，亨尼西[898]

（披戴着中世纪的锁子甲和有着两只野鹅飞翔图案的头盔。出于崇高的义愤，伸出一只戴着连环甲的手，指着士兵们。）把这些犹太佬打趴在脚下，浑身都是肉汁的大肥猪，卑鄙的英国佬们！[899]

布卢姆

（对斯蒂芬）回家来吧。你会惹上麻烦的。

斯蒂芬

（恍恍惚惚地）我才不逃跑呢。是他对我的理智进行挑衅。

患淋病的女仆

一眼就看得出他是贵族出身。

悍妇

绿胜似红。这是沃尔夫·托恩说的。[900]

老鸨

红不比绿差。还更强呢。士兵万岁！爱德华国王万岁！

粗野的人

（笑）唉！向德威特[901] 投降吧。

“市民”

（围着鲜绿色大头巾，手执橡木捧，喊叫着。）

祈愿天主从上苍，

一只鸽子派世上，

牙齿锋利若剃刀，

割破英国狗咽喉，

多少爱尔兰领袖，

被他们送上绞架。

推平头的小伙子[902]

（脖子上套着绞索，用双手按住淌出来的内脏。）

对世人我不仇恨，

爱祖国胜过国王。

恶魔理发师朗博尔德[903]

（在两个戴黑面具的帮助伴随下，提着一只旅行包、边往前走，边掏它打开。）女士们，先生们，这把大菜刀是皮尔西太太为了砍死莫格而买的。[904] 这把餐刀是沃伊辛用来肢解一位同胞的老婆的。他用床单将尸体裹起，藏在地窖里。那个不幸的女人的咽喉被从右耳割断到左耳。这是从巴伦小姐的尸体里提取的砒霜，塞登就因而被送上了绞架[905] 。

（他突然拽了一下绞索。助手们蹿跳到被害者脚下，边咕哝边把他往下拽，推平头的小伙子的舌头猛地耷拉下来。）

推平头的小伙子

忘、记、为、母、祈、冥、福。[906]

（他咽了气。由于被绞死者急剧的勃起[907] ，精液透过尸体进溅到鹅卵石上。贝林厄姆夫人、耶尔弗顿·巴里夫人和默雯·塔尔博伊贵夫人赶紧冲上前，用她们的手绢把精液蘸起。）

朗博尔德

我自己也快轮到了。（他解开绞索。）这是曾经绞死过可怕的反叛者的绳索。经向女王陛下请示，每次是十先令。[908]（他把头扎进被绞死者那剖开的肚子里，等到伸出来时，上面已经粘满了盘绕在一起、热气腾腾的肠子。）我的痛苦的职务已经完成。上帝保佑国王！

爱德华七世

（缓慢、庄严地跳舞，咯咯咯咯地敲打着桶，心满意足地柔声歌唱。）

在加冕日，在加冕日，

啊，咱们快乐一番好吗？

喝威士忌、啤酒和葡萄酒！[909]

士兵卡尔

喂。关于我的国王，你说什么来着？

斯蒂芬

（举起双手）哦，别老说车轱辘话啦！我什么也没说。为了他那野蛮帝国，他要我的钱，还要我的命，而他本来就是伺候“索取”这个主子的。钱，我是没有的。（他面无表情地在兜里掏来掏去。）给了什么人啦。

士兵卡尔

谁希罕你那臭钱？

斯蒂芬

（想走开）有谁能够告诉我，在什么地方最能躲开这种无可避免的灾难呢？在巴黎也有这类事。[910] 并不是我……然而，凭着圣帕特里克的名义[911] ……！

（几个妇女把头凑在一起。缺牙老奶奶戴着一顶塔糖状的帽子，坐在毒菌[912] 上出现，胸前插着一朵生枯萎病凋谢了的土豆花。）

斯蒂芬

哎嘿！我认识你，老奶奶！哈姆莱特，报复！[913] 吃掉自己的猪崽子的老母猪！

[914]

缺牙老奶奶

（来回晃悠）爱尔兰的情入，西班牙国王的女儿，我亲爱的。[915]对我家里的陌生人[9116]可不能讲礼貌！（她像狺女[927] 那样不祥地恸哭着。）哎哟！哎哟！毛皮像绢丝般的牛[918] （她哀号着说。）你遇见了可怜的老爱尔兰，她怎样啦[919] ？

斯蒂芬

我怎么来容忍你好呢？帽子的戏法！[920] 三位一体的第三位在哪儿呢？我热爱的教士[921]吗？可敬的吃腐肉的乌鸦[922] 。

西茜·卡弗里

（尖声尖气）拦住，别让他们打起来！

粗野的人

我们的士兵撤退啦。

士兵卡尔

（勒紧自己的皮带）哪个混帐家伙敢说一句反对我那混蛋国王的话，我就拧断他的脖子！

布卢姆

（害起怕来）他什么也没说。一个字也没说。纯粹是一场误会。

士兵康普顿

干吧，哈里。照他眼睛上给一拳。他是个亲布尔[923]派。

斯蒂芬

我说过吗？什么时候？

布卢姆

（对于红衣兵们）我们为你们在南非打过仗。对，爱尔兰的射击队。这不就是史实吗？都柏林近卫步兵连队。我们的君主曾表彰过[924]。

壮工

（脚步蹒跚地走过去）哦，对啦！哦，夭哪，对！哦，打吧，狠狠地打吧！哦！布[925] ！

（披甲戴铠的戟兵在枪尖上挑着一堆呈斜顶棚状的内脏，伸了过来，特威迪鼓手长留着可怕的土耳克[926] 那样的口髭，头顶插有鸟颈毛的熊皮帽，军服上佩带着肩章和镀金的山形袖章，腰刀带上挂着佩囊，胸前是亮晃晃的勋章，准备进击。他打了个圣殿骑士团[927]的朝圣武士的手势。）

特威迪鼓手长

（粗暴地咆哮）洛克滩[928] ！禁卫军，振奋起来，向他们进攻！快抢，速夺！[929]

士兵卡尔[ 930]

我要干掉他。

士兵康普顿

（让群众往后退。）这里讲究公平合理。把这坏蛋宰得血淋淋的，像在肉店里那样。（多人组成的乐队奏起“加里欧文”和《上帝拯救我们的国王》。[931]）

西茜·卡弗里

他们快要打起来了。为了我！

坎蒂·凯特

勇士与丽人[932]呗。

患淋病的女仆

我认为那位黑衣骑士的马上枪法是首屈一指的。

坎蒂·凯特

（脸上涨得通红）不，太太。我支持的是穿红色紧身上衣的那位快活的圣乔治！[ 933]

斯蒂芬

妓女走街串巷到处高呼，

为老爱尔兰织起裹尸布。[934]

士兵卡尔

（边松开他的皮带边喊 ）哪个他妈的杂种敢说一句反对我那残暴的混蛋国王的话，我就拧断他的脖子！

布卢姆

（摇撼西茜·卡弗里的肩膀）说呀，你！你给吓成哑巴了吗？ 你是国民与国民、世代与世代之间的纽带呀。说吧，女人，神圣的生命之赐与者[935]！

西茜·卡弗里

（惊慌，抓住士兵卡尔的袖子。）我不是跟你呆在一起的吗？我不是你的姑娘吗？西茜是你的姑娘呀。（她喊叫。）警察！

斯蒂芬

（欣喜若狂地对西茜·卡弗里）

双手白净红嘴唇，

你的身子真娇嫩。[936]

众声

警察！

远处，众声

都柏林着火啦！都柏林着火啦！[937] 着火啦，着火啦！

（硫磺火熊熊燃烧。浓云滚滚。重加特林机枪[938] 轰鸣着。魔窟。队伍疏散开来。马蹄飞奔。炮兵队。嘶哑的发号施令声。钟声铿锵。赌客吆喝。醉汉大喊大嚷。娼妓尖叫。雾笛嘟嘟。勇士大吼。临终发出的悲鸣。铁镐丁丁当当地敲着胸甲。[ 939] 盗贼剥走被害者的衣物。猛禽们或从海上飞来，或从沼地腾空而起，或从崖上的巢窝俯冲猛扑，盘旋嘶鸣：成群的塘鹅、鸬鹚、秃骛、苍鹰：山鹬、游隼、灰背隼、黑琴鸡、白尾鹰、鸥、信天翁、北极黑雁。午夜的日头暗了下来。大地震动。[940]来自前景公墓和杰罗姆山公墓[941] 的都柏林死者们复活了。他们有的身着白绵羊皮外套，有的披着黑山羊皮斗篷[942] ，在很多人面前出现。一个裂缝无声地张开了大口。冠军汤姆·罗赤福特身着运动员背心和短裤，在全国跳栏障碍赛中领先，接着纵身跳进真空。参加竞赛的人们或跑或跳地跟在后面。他们狂热地从悬崖边沿往下跳，身子倒载葱地跌下去。穿着花哨衣裳的工厂姑娘[ 943] 掷出一颗颗炽热的约克郡炸弹。社交界的显贵妇女们将裙子撩到头顶上，保护着自己。大笑着的魔女[944] 身穿红色短衬衣，骑着扫帚把腾空而去。公谊会教徒利斯特[945]在水庖上贴了膏药。龙牙如雨注。从垄沟里跳出一批全副武装的英雄们。[946]他们友好地交换红十字骑士团[947] 的口令，用骑兵的军刀比武：沃尔夫·托恩对亨利·格拉顿[948] ，史密斯。奥布赖恩对丹尼尔·奥康内尔[949] ，迈克尔·达维特对伊萨克。巴特[950] ），贾斯廷·麦卡锡对巴涅尔[951] ，阿瑟·格里菲思对约翰·雷德蒙[ 952] ，约翰·奥利里对利尔奥·约翰尼[953]，爱德华·菲茨杰拉德勋爵对杰拉德·菲茨爱德华勋爵[ 954]， 峡谷的奥德诺霍对奥德诺霍的峡谷。[955]大地中央的高处，矗立着圣女芭巴拉[ 956] 的祭台。放福音书和放使徒书信的角上，各竖着一支黑蜡烛。从塔那高高的碉楼，两道光束倾泻至轻烟缭绕的祭台石面上。背理女神·米娜·普里福伊太太套着脚镣，赤条条地躺在祭台石面上，鼓起的肚皮上放着圣爵。玛拉基·奥弗林神父穿着网织衬裙和把里子翻过来的祭披；他有一双反长着的左脚，[957]正在举行露营弥撒。可敬的文学硕士休·C·海恩斯·洛夫教士先生，[958]身穿素净的黑袍，戴学士帽，脑袋和脖领都扭到后面去，）打着一把撑开的雨伞，替神父遮着头。）

玛拉基·奥弗林神父

（我要走向魔鬼的祭台。[ 959] ）

海恩斯·洛夫教士先生

走向年少时曾赐与我欢乐的魔鬼。[ 960]

玛拉基·奥弗林神父

（从圣爵里取出一杯鲜血淋漓的圣体，举扬之。）我的肉体。[961]

海恩斯·洛夫教士先生

（将司铎的衬裙高高撩起，露出他那插着一根胡萝卜的毛茸茸的灰色光屁股。）我的肉体。

全体被咒诅者之声

王了作主天的能全——主的们我为因，亚路利哈！[962]

（阿多奈[963] ）从空中呼唤。）

阿多奈

主——天！[964]

全体受祝福者[ 965] 之声

哈利路亚，因为我们的主——全能的天主作了王！

（阿多奈从空中呼唤。）

阿多奈

天——主！

（橙带党和绿党的农民和市民嘈杂刺耳地唱着《踢教皇》和《每天为玛利亚唱赞歌》[966]。）

士兵卡尔

（以凶猛的口吻）我要干掉他，愿混蛋基督助我！我要扭断这混帐杂种的残暴该死混蛋的气管！[967]

缺牙老奶奶

（将一把匕首朝着斯蒂芬的手递过去。）除掉他，啊，豆豆[ 968] 。上午八点三十五分你就该升天堂了，[969] 爱尔兰将获得自由。[970]（她祷告着。）哦，好天主，接纳他吧！

布卢姆

（跑向林奇）你不能把他弄走吗？

林奇

他喜欢辩证法这一人类共同语言。吉蒂！（对布卢姆）你把他弄走吧。他不听我的话。

（他拽走吉蒂。）

斯蒂芬

（指着）犹大出去。上吊自杀。[ 971]

布卢姆

（奔向斯蒂芬）趁着更坏的情况还没发生，马上就跟我走吧。这儿是你的手杖。

斯蒂芬

不要手杖。要理性。这是一次纯粹理性的筵席。

西茜·卡弗里

（拽着士兵卡尔）来呀，你喝醉啦。那家伙侮辱了我，可我原谅他，（对着卡尔的耳朵嚷）我原谅他对我的侮辱。

布卢姆

（隔着斯蒂芬的肩膀）唉，走吧。你瞧，他已经酩酊大醉啦。

士兵卡尔

（挣脱开）我要侮辱他一顿。

（他冲向斯蒂芬，伸出拳头，朝他的脸揍了一拳。斯蒂芬打了个趔趄，垮下来，倒在地上，昏迷不醒。他仰面朝天直挺挺地躺着，帽子向墙下滚去。布卢姆追在后面，将它拾起。）

特威迪鼓手长

（大声地）把卡宾枪丢开！停火！敬礼！

猎狗

（狂怒地吠着）汪汪汪汪汪汪汪汪。

群众

把他扶起来！不许打已经倒下去的人！人工呼吸！谁干的，大兵揍的他。他是个教授哩。他伤着了吗？不许粗暴地对待他！他昏死过去啦！

一个丑婆子

红衣兵凭什么揍咱们的上等人呀，而且又是喝醉了的。让他们去跟布尔人打仗好啦！

老鸨

听听是谁在说话哪！大兵凭什么就不能带着他的妞儿溜达啊！这家伙卑鄙地给了一拳。[972]

（她们相互揪住头发，用指甲抓，并且朝对方啐唾沫。）

猎狗

（吠着）汪汪汪。

布卢姆

（使劲把她们往后推，大声地）往后退，后面站！

士兵康普顿

（拽他的伙伴）喂。开溜吧，哈里，警察来啦！

（两个头戴雨帽、身材高大的巡警站到人群当中。）

巡警甲

这儿出了什么乱子？

士兵康普顿

我们跟这位小姐在一起来着。他侮辱了我们。还袭击了我的伙伴。（猎狗狂吠。）这只血腥的杂种狗是谁的？

西茜·卡弗里

（以期待口吻）他流血了吗？

一个男人

（原是屈着膝的，这时站了起来。）没有。只是晕过去啦。会缓过气儿来的。

布卢姆

（目光锐利地瞥了那人一眼）把他交给我吧。我能够很容易地就……

巡警乙

你是谁？你认识他吗，

士兵卡尔

（东倒西歪地凑到巡警跟前）是他侮辱了我的女朋友。

布卢姆

（愤怒地）他没招你没惹你，你就揍了他。是我亲眼看到的。警官，请把他的部队番号记下来。

巡警乙

我执行任务，用不着你来指手划脚。

士兵康普顿

（拽他的伙伴）喂，开溜吧，哈里。不然的话，贝内特军士长[973] 会罚你关禁闭。

士兵卡尔

（趔趔趄趄地被拽走）去他妈的老贝内特。他是个白屁股鸡奸者。狗屁不如的家伙！

巡警甲

（取出笔记本）他叫什么名字？

布卢姆

（隔着人群定睛望着）我看见那儿有辆马车。要是您肯为我搭把手，巡官……

巡警甲

姓名和地址。

（科尼·凯莱赫手执送殡的花圈，帽子周围缠着黑纱，出

现在围观者当中。）

布卢姆

（快嘴快舌地）哦，来得正好！（打耳喳）西蒙·迪达勒斯的儿子。有点儿醉啦。让警察们叫这些起哄的往后退一退。

巡警乙

晚安，凯莱赫先生。

科尼·凯莱赫

（对巡警，睡眼惺松地）不要紧的。我认识他。赛马赢了点儿钱。金杯奖。“丢掉”。（他笑了笑。）以二十博一。你明白我的话吗？

巡警甲

（转向人群）喂，你们大家张着嘴在瞧什么哪？快给我躲开。

（群众慢慢地沿着小巷散开，一路上还咕咕哝哝着。）

科尼·凯莱赫

交给我吧，巡官。不要紧的。（他笑着，摇摇头。）咱们自己当年也往往那样荒唐过，可不，也许还更厉害呢。怎么样？呃，怎么样？

巡警甲

（笑）那倒也是。

科尼·凯莱赫

（用臂时轻轻捅捅巡警乙）这事儿就一笔勾销吧。（他摇头晃脑，快活地唱着。）我的吐啦噜，吐啦噜，吐啦噜，吐啦噜。[974]怎么，呃，你明白我的话吗？

巡警乙

（和蔼地）啊，咱们确实是过来人。

科尼·凯莱赫

（眨巴眼儿）小伙子们就是那样的。我有一辆车在那儿。

巡警乙

好吧，凯莱赫先生。晚安。

科尼·凯莱赫

这件事我会处理的。

布卢姆

（轮流与两个巡警握手）非常感激你们，先生们，谢谢你们。（像是在说悄悄话般地咕哝）你们也知道，我们并不愿意引起丑闻。他父亲是一位声望极高、很受尊重的市民。

巡警甲

噢，先生，我明白。

巡警乙

那蛮好，先生。

巡警甲

只有在有人受到伤害的情况下，我才得向局里汇报。

布卢姆

（赶紧点头）敢情。说得对。这只是你们的职责所在。

巡警乙

这是我们的职责。

科尼·凯莱赫

晚安，二位。

巡警们

（一道敬礼）晚安，先生们。

（他们迈着沉重的脚步慢慢离去。）

布卢姆

（喘口气）多亏了你来到现场，这是天意啊。你有辆车吗？……

科尼·凯莱赫

（边笑边隔着右肩用拇指指着停在脚手架旁的马车。）两个推销员在詹米特餐馆[975]请我喝香摈酒来着。简直像王侯一样，真的。他们中间的一个在赛马上输了两英镑。于是借酒浇愁。接着就要去跟姑娘们寻欢作乐。所以我让他们搭贝汉的车到夜街来了。

布卢姆

我正沿着加德纳街回家去，刚好碰上……

科尼·凯莱赫

（笑）他们确实也曾要我去参加冶游。我说：不，可去不得。像你我这样的老马，可使不得。（他又笑了，用呆滞的眼睛斜睨着。）谢天谢地，我们家里的就足够了。怎么样，呃，你明白我的意思吧？哈！哈！哈！

布卢姆

（勉强笑了笑）嘻、嘻、嘻！对。说实在的，我是到那儿拜访一位老朋友去的。姓维拉格，你不认识他（可怜的家伙，整个上星期他都在生病）。我们一道干了一杯，我正往家走……

（马儿嘶鸣。）

马儿

嗬嗬嗬嗬嗬嗬！嗬嗬嗬嗬哞！

科尼·凯莱赫

把两个推销员留在科恩友太的店里后，正是我们的车夫贝汉把这档子事儿告诉了我。他就在那儿哪。我叫他把车停住，下来瞧个究竟。（他笑了笑。）这位车夫没喝醉酒，赶柩车是他的本行。要不要我送他回家去？他住在哪儿？是卡布拉[976]的什么地方吧？

布卢姆

不，根据他无意中说出的，我相信是沙湾。

（斯蒂芬仰面躺在那儿，对着星星呼吸。科尼·凯莱赫慢腾腾地斜眼望着马。布卢姆心情忧郁，在一片朦胧中屈身。）

科尼·凯莱赫

（挠着后颈）沙湾！（他弯下身去，朝斯蒂芬嚷道）呃！（他又嚷）喂！反正他浑身都是刨花哩。查一查他们是不是偷走了他什么东西。

布卢姆

没有，没有，没有。他把钱交给了我。他的帽子和手杖也都在这儿哪。

科尼·凯莱赫

啊，那就好，他总会恢复神智的。喏，我要赶路了。（他笑着。）明儿早晨我还有个约会。是关于出殡的事儿。路上当心点儿！

马儿

（嘶鸣）嗬嗬嗬嗬嗬哞。

布卢姆

晚安。我再等一等，不一会儿就把这个人……

（科尼·凯莱赫回到敞篷二轮马车旁，坐了上去。马具丁当乱响。）

科尼·凯莱赫

（从马车上，站在那儿）晚安。

布卢姆

晚安。

（车夫甩甩疆绳，精神抖擞地扬起鞭子。车和马缓慢笨重地向后倒，拐了个弯。科尼·凯莱赫坐在边沿的座位上，摇晃着脑袋，嘲弄布卢姆的狼狈处境。车夫也参与了这场一言不发的哑剧的欢乐，从另一头的座位上点着头。布卢姆摇摇头，快活地作着无言的回答。科尼·凯莱赫用大拇指和手掌再一次向他保证：两个警察也别无他法，只得允许他继续睡下去。布卢姆慢腾腾地点了一下头，表示谢意，因为这正是斯蒂芬所需要的。马车发出吐啦噜的声响，辚辚地在吐啦噜巷子的尽头拐了弯。科尼·凯莱赫再度摆摆手，让他放心。布卢姆打手势告诉科尼·凯莱赫，他已经十分放心了。嘚嘚的马蹄声和丁丁当当挽具声，随着吐啦噜噜噜噜的音调，逐渐微弱了。布卢姆拿着斯蒂芬那顶挂满了刨花的帽子和梣木手杖，犹豫不决地站在那里。然后他朝斯蒂芬弯下身去，摇晃他的肩膀。）

布卢姆

呃！嗬！（没有回答。他再度弯下身去。）迪达勒斯先生！（没有回答。）得叫他的名字。梦游患者。[977]（他重新弯下身去，迟迟疑疑地把嘴凑近平卧着的斯蒂芬的脸上。）斯蒂芬！（没有回答。他又叫了一遍。）斯蒂芬！

斯蒂芬

（皱皱眉）谁？黑豹。吸血鬼。[978] （他叹了口气，伸开四肢，随即拖长母音，口齿不清地低语。）

而今谁……弗格斯驱车……

穿过……林织成的树荫？……[979]

（他边叹气边朝左边翻身，缩作一团。）

布卢姆

诗。有教养。可怜啊。（他又弯下身去，解开斯蒂芬的背心钮扣。）呼吸吧。（他用手和指头轻轻地把斯蒂芬衣服上的刨花掸掉。）一英镑七先令。好在没受伤。（他尖起耳朵去听。）什么？

斯蒂芬

（嘟喃）

……林…阴影，

……混沌的海洋……雪白的胸脯。[980]

（他摊开双臂，又叹息了一声，蜷缩起身子。布卢姆手持帽子和梣木手杖，站得直直的。一条狗在远处吠着。布卢姆忽紧忽松地握着梣木手杖，他弯下身去俯视斯蒂芬的脸和身姿。）

布卢姆

（与黑夜交谈）这张脸使我想起他那可怜的母亲。树林的阴影。深邃的雪白胸脯。我仿佛听他说是弗格森。是个姑娘。不知是哪儿的一位姑娘。他可能遇上了最大的幸运。（他嘟哝着。）……我发誓。不论是任何工作，任何技艺，我都一概接受，永远守密，绝不泄露。[981] ……（他低语。）……在海边的粗沙里……距岸边有一锚链长[982] ……那里，潮退……潮涨……

（他沉默下来，若有所思，警觉着。他用手指按着嘴唇，俨然是一位共济会师傅。一个人影背对着黑暗的墙壁徐徐出现。这是个十一岁的仙童，被仙女诱拐了去的。身穿伊顿学院的制服，脚蹬玻璃鞋，[983] 头戴小小的青铜盔，手捧一本书。他不出声地自右至左地读着[984] 笑吟吟地吻着书页。）

布卢姆

（惊异万分，不出声地呼唤）鲁迪！

鲁迪

（视而不见地凝望着布卢姆的眼睛，继续阅读，吻着，微笑着。他的脸挺秀气，是紫红色的。衣服上钉着钻石和红宝石钮扣。左手攥着一根系有紫色蝴蝶结的细长象牙手杖。一只小羊羔从他背心兜里探头偷看。）

1 fore   

adv.在前面；adj.先前的；在前部的；n.前部

参考例句：

• Your seat is in the fore part of the aircraft.你的座位在飞机的前部。
• I have the gift of fore knowledge.我能够未卜先知。

2 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》

3 gondola   

n.威尼斯的平底轻舟；飞船的吊船

参考例句：

• The road is too narrow to allow the passage of gondola.这条街太窄大型货车不能通过。
• I have a gondola here.我开来了一条平底船。

4 stunted   

adj.矮小的；发育迟缓的

参考例句：

• the stunted lives of children deprived of education 未受教育的孩子所过的局限生活
• But the landed oligarchy had stunted the country's democratic development for generations. 但是好几代以来土地寡头的统治阻碍了这个国家民主的发展。

5 copper   

n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的

参考例句：

• The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
• Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。

6 scatter   

vt.撒，驱散，散开；散布/播；vi.分散，消散

参考例句：

• You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。
• Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。

7 owl   

n.猫头鹰，枭

参考例句：

• Her new glasses make her look like an owl.她的新眼镜让她看上去像只猫头鹰。
• I'm a night owl and seldom go to bed until after midnight.我睡得很晚，经常半夜后才睡觉。

8 goggle   

n.瞪眼，转动眼珠，护目镜；v.瞪眼看，转眼珠

参考例句：

• His insincerity is revealed by the quick goggle of his eyes.他眼睛的快速转动泄露了他的不诚实。
• His eyes seemed to goggle larger than usual behind the heavy lenses.在厚厚的镜片后面，眼睛瞪得比平时大得多。

9 dribbling   

n.（燃料或油从系统内）漏泄v.流口水( dribble的现在分词 )；（使液体）滴下或作细流；运球，带球

参考例句：

• Basic skills include swimming, dribbling, passing, marking, tackling, throwing, catching and shooting. 个人基本技术包括游泳、带球、传球、盯人、抢截、抛球、接球和射门。 来自互联网
• Carol: [Laurie starts dribbling again] Now do that for ten minutes. 卡罗：（萝莉开始再度运球）现在那样做十分钟。 来自互联网

10 rib   

n.肋骨，肋状物

参考例句：

• He broke a rib when he fell off his horse.他从马上摔下来折断了一根肋骨。
• He has broken a rib and the doctor has strapped it up.他断了一根肋骨，医生已包扎好了。

11 imprisons   

v.下狱，监禁( imprison的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves. 盖茨比深切地体会到财富怎样禁锢和保存着青春与神秘。 来自辞典例句
• And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. 那用伦理道德界定他行为的人就像将他歌唱的鸟儿关进了笼子。 来自互联网

12 kit   

n.用具包，成套工具；随身携带物

参考例句：

• The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
• The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。

13 hog   

n.猪；馋嘴贪吃的人；vt.把…占为己有，独占

参考例句：

• He is greedy like a hog.他像猪一样贪婪。
• Drivers who hog the road leave no room for other cars.那些占着路面的驾驶员一点余地都不留给其他车辆。

14 salute   

vi.行礼，致意，问候，放礼炮；vt.向…致意，迎接，赞扬；n.招呼，敬礼，礼炮

参考例句：

• Merchant ships salute each other by dipping the flag.商船互相点旗致敬。
• The Japanese women salute the people with formal bows in welcome.这些日本妇女以正式的鞠躬向人们施礼以示欢迎。

15 lute   

n.琵琶，鲁特琴

参考例句：

• He idly plucked the strings of the lute.他漫不经心地拨弄着鲁特琴的琴弦。
• He knows how to play the Chinese lute.他会弹琵琶。

16 pals   

n.朋友( pal的名词复数 )；老兄；小子；（对男子的不友好的称呼）家伙

参考例句：

• We've been pals for years. 我们是多年的哥们儿了。
• CD 8 positive cells remarkably increased in PALS and RP(P CD8+细胞在再生脾PALS和RP内均明显增加(P 来自互联网

17 pal   

n.朋友，伙伴，同志；vi.结为友

参考例句：

• He is a pal of mine.他是我的一个朋友。
• Listen,pal,I don't want you talking to my sister any more.听着，小子，我不让你再和我妹妹说话了。

18 slung   

抛( sling的过去式和过去分词 )； 吊挂； 遣送； 押往

参考例句：

• He slung the bag over his shoulder. 他把包一甩，挎在肩上。
• He stood up and slung his gun over his shoulder. 他站起来把枪往肩上一背。

19 sprawled   

v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词)；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）

参考例句：

• He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
• He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。

20 sprawl   

vi.躺卧，扩张，蔓延；vt.使蔓延；n.躺卧，蔓延

参考例句：

• In our garden,bushes are allowed to sprawl as they will.在我们园子里，灌木丛爱怎么蔓延就怎么蔓延。
• He is lying in a sprawl on the bed.他伸开四肢躺在床上。

21 muffled   

adj.（声音）被隔的；听不太清的；（衣服）裹严的；蒙住的v.压抑，捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 )；用厚厚的衣帽包着（自己）

参考例句：

• muffled voices from the next room 从隔壁房间里传来的沉闷声音
• There was a muffled explosion somewhere on their right. 在他们的右面什么地方有一声沉闷的爆炸声。 来自《简明英汉词典》

22 groans   

n.呻吟，叹息( groan的名词复数 )；呻吟般的声音v.呻吟( groan的第三人称单数 )；发牢骚；抱怨；受苦

参考例句：

• There were loud groans when he started to sing. 他刚开始歌唱时有人发出了很大的嘘声。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• It was a weird old house, full of creaks and groans. 这是所神秘而可怕的旧宅，到处嘎吱嘎吱作响。 来自《简明英汉词典》

23 growling   

n.吠声, 咆哮声 v.怒吠, 咆哮, 吼

参考例句：

• We heard thunder growling in the distance. 我们听见远处有隆隆雷声。
• The lay about the deck growling together in talk. 他们在甲板上到处游荡，聚集在一起发牢骚。

24 gnome   

n.土地神；侏儒，地精

参考例句：

• The Swedes do not have Santa Claus.What they have is Christmas Gnome.瑞典人的圣诞节里没有圣诞老人，但他们却有一个圣诞守护神。
• Susan bought a garden gnome to decorate her garden.苏珊买了一个土地神像来装饰她的花园。

25 crouches   

n.蹲着的姿势( crouch的名词复数 )v.屈膝，蹲伏( crouch的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He crouches before rabbit hutch, shed sad tear for the first time. 他蹲在兔窝前，第一次流下了伤心的眼泪。 来自互联网
• A Malaysian flower mantis, which crouches among flowers awaiting unsuspecting prey. 一只马来西亚花螳螂，蜷缩在鲜花中等待不期而遇的猎物。 来自互联网

26 standing   

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。

27 rams   

n.公羊( ram的名词复数 )；(R-)白羊（星）座；夯；攻城槌v.夯实（土等）( ram的第三人称单数 )；猛撞；猛压；反复灌输

参考例句：

• A couple of rams are butting at each other. 两只羊正在用角互相抵触。 来自辞典例句
• More than anything the rams helped to break what should have been on interminable marriage. 那些牡羊比任何东西都更严重地加速了他们那本该天长地久的婚姻的破裂。 来自辞典例句

28 tugs   

n.猛拉( tug的名词复数 )；猛拖；拖船v.用力拉，使劲拉，猛扯( tug的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The raucous sirens of the tugs came in from the river. 河上传来拖轮发出的沙哑的汽笛声。 来自辞典例句
• As I near the North Tower, the wind tugs at my role. 当我接近北塔的时候，风牵动着我的平衡杆。 来自辞典例句

29 askew   

adv.斜地；adj.歪斜的

参考例句：

• His glasses had been knocked askew by the blow.他的眼镜一下子被打歪了。
• Her hat was slightly askew.她的帽子戴得有点斜。

30 lair   

n.野兽的巢穴；躲藏处

参考例句：

• How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?不入虎穴，焉得虎子？
• I retired to my lair,and wrote some letters.我回到自己的躲藏处，写了几封信。

31 squat   

v.蹲坐，蹲下；n.蹲下；adj.矮胖的，粗矮的

参考例句：

• For this exercise you need to get into a squat.在这次练习中你需要蹲下来。
• He is a squat man.他是一个矮胖的男人。

32 spurts   

短暂而突然的活动或努力( spurt的名词复数 )； 突然奋起

参考例句：

• Great spurts of gas shoot out of the sun. 太阳气体射出形成大爆发。
• Spurts of warm rain blew fitfully against their faces. 阵阵温热的雨点拍打在他们脸上。

33 scramble   

v.爬行，攀爬，杂乱蔓延，碎片，片段，废料

参考例句：

• He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.他爬墙摔断了腿。
• It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.到山顶须要爬登一段长路。

34 scrambles   

n.抢夺( scramble的名词复数 )v.快速爬行( scramble的第三人称单数 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• The breaking of symmetry scrambles the underlying order of nature. 对称性的破坏会打乱自然界的根本秩序。 来自互联网
• The move comes as Japan scrambles for ways to persuade women to have more babies. 这一行动的出现正值日本政府想尽各种办法鼓励妇女多生育孩子。 来自互联网

35 ramble   

v.漫步，漫谈，漫游；n.漫步，闲谈，蔓延

参考例句：

• This is the best season for a ramble in the suburbs.这是去郊区漫游的最好季节。
• I like to ramble about the street after work.我下班后在街上漫步。

36 ambles   

v.（马）缓行( amble的第三人称单数 )；从容地走，漫步

参考例句：

• She ambles around the room, coming to rest before Dorothy again. 她在屋子里慢慢转悠，又走到多萝西的照片前站住了。 来自辞典例句

37 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

38 capes   

碎谷； 斗篷( cape的名词复数 )； 披肩； 海角； 岬

参考例句：

• It was cool and they were putting on their capes. 夜里阴冷，他们都穿上了披风。
• The pastor smiled to give son's two Capes five cents money. 牧师微笑着给了儿子二角五分钱。

39 loom   

n.织布机，织机；v.隐现，(危险、忧虑等)迫近

参考例句：

• The old woman was weaving on her loom.那位老太太正在织布机上织布。
• The shuttle flies back and forth on the loom.织布机上梭子来回飞动。

40 wail   

vt./vi.大声哀号，恸哭；呼啸，尖啸

参考例句：

• Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.观众席里，一位老太太伤心地哭起来。
• One of the small children began to wail with terror.小孩中的一个吓得大哭起来。

41 wails   

痛哭，哭声( wail的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The child burst into loud wails. 那个孩子突然大哭起来。
• Through this glaciated silence the white wails of the apartment fixed arbitrary planes. 在这冰封似的沉寂中，公寓的白色墙壁构成了一个个任意的平面。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻

42 ails   

v.生病( ail的第三人称单数 )；感到不舒服；处境困难；境况不佳

参考例句：

• He will not concede what anything ails his business. 他不允许任何事情来干扰他的工作。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Measles ails the little girl. 麻疹折磨着这个小女孩。 来自《简明英汉词典》

43 lurk   

n.潜伏，潜行；v.潜藏，潜伏，埋伏

参考例句：

• Dangers lurk in the path of wilderness.在这条荒野的小路上隐伏着危险。
• He thought he saw someone lurking above the chamber during the address.他觉得自己看见有人在演讲时潜藏在会议厅顶上。

44 bottleneck   

n.瓶颈口，交通易阻的狭口；妨生产流程的一环

参考例句：

• The transportation bottleneck has blocked the movement of the cargo.运输的困难阻塞了货物的流通。
• China's strained railroads already become a bottleneck for the economy.中国紧张的铁路运输已经成为经济增长的瓶颈。

45 shrill   

adj.尖声的；刺耳的；v尖叫

参考例句：

• Whistles began to shrill outside the barn.哨声开始在谷仓外面尖叫。
• The shrill ringing of a bell broke up the card game on the cutter.刺耳的铃声打散了小汽艇的牌局。

46 vat   

n.(=value added tax)增值税，大桶

参考例句：

• The office is asking for the vat papers.办事处要有关增值税的文件。
• His father emptied sacks of stale rye bread into the vat.他父亲把一袋袋发霉的黑面包倒进大桶里。

47 ace   

n.A牌；发球得分；佼佼者；adj.杰出的

参考例句：

• A good negotiator always has more than one ace in the hole.谈判高手总有数张王牌在手。
• He is an ace mechanic.He can repair any cars.他是一流的机械师,什么车都会修。

48 hoarse   

adj.嘶哑的，沙哑的

参考例句：

• He asked me a question in a hoarse voice.他用嘶哑的声音问了我一个问题。
• He was too excited and roared himself hoarse.他过于激动，嗓子都喊哑了。

49 virago   

n.悍妇

参考例句：

• The virago vomited out curses on that tramp.那悍妇怒骂那流浪汉。
• His wife is a virago.他的妻子是母老虎。

50 belly   

n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一样)鼓起的部分，膛

参考例句：

• The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。
• His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼馋肚饱。

51 tunics   

n.（动植物的）膜皮( tunic的名词复数 )；束腰宽松外衣；一套制服的短上衣；（天主教主教等穿的）短祭袍

参考例句：

• After work colourful clothes replace the blue tunics. 下班后，蓝制服都换成了色彩鲜艳的衣服。 来自辞典例句
• The ancient Greeks fastened their tunics with Buttons and loops. 古希腊人在肩部用钮扣与环圈将束腰外衣扣紧。 来自互联网

52 sockets   

n.套接字，使应用程序能够读写与收发通讯协定(protocol)与资料的程序( Socket的名词复数 )；孔( socket的名词复数 )；（电器上的）插口；托座；凹穴

参考例句：

• All new PCs now have USB sockets. 新的个人计算机现在都有通用串行总线插孔。
• Make sure the sockets in your house are fingerproof. 确保你房中的插座是防触电的。 来自超越目标英语 第4册

53 ass   

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。

54 par   

n.标准，票面价值，平均数量；adj.票面的，平常的，标准的

参考例句：

• Sales of nylon have been below par in recent years.近年来尼龙织品的销售额一直不及以往。
• I don't think his ability is on a par with yours.我认为他的能力不能与你的能力相媲美。

55 rev   

v.发动机旋转，加快速度

参考例句：

• It's his job to rev up the audience before the show starts.他要负责在表演开始前鼓动观众的热情。
• Don't rev the engine so hard.别让发动机转得太快。

56 sneer   

v.轻蔑；嘲笑；n.嘲笑，讥讽的言语

参考例句：

• He said with a sneer.他的话中带有嘲笑之意。
• You may sneer,but a lot of people like this kind of music.你可以嗤之以鼻，但很多人喜欢这种音乐。

57 con   

n.反对的观点，反对者，反对票，肺病；vt.精读，学习，默记；adv.反对地，从反面；adj.欺诈的

参考例句：

• We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
• The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票，协议被通过。

58 famished   

adj.饥饿的

参考例句：

• When's lunch?I'm famished!什么时候吃午饭？我饿得要死了！
• My feet are now killing me and I'm absolutely famished.我的脚现在筋疲力尽，我绝对是极饿了。

59 nag   

v.(对…)不停地唠叨；n.爱唠叨的人

参考例句：

• Nobody likes to work with a nag.谁也不愿与好唠叨的人一起共事。
• Don't nag me like an old woman.别像个老太婆似的唠唠叨叨烦我。

60 tusks   

n.（象等动物的）长牙( tusk的名词复数 )；獠牙；尖形物；尖头

参考例句：

• The elephants are poached for their tusks. 为获取象牙而偷猎大象。
• Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of Africa. 非洲的一些地区则使用象牙、猴尾和盐。 来自英语晨读30分（高一）

61 protrude   

v.使突出，伸出，突出

参考例句：

• The tip of her tongue was protruding slightly.她的舌尖微微伸出。
• A huge round mass of smooth rock protruding from the water.一块光滑的巨型圆石露出水面。

62 doorway   

n.门口，(喻)入门；门路，途径

参考例句：

• They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
• Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。

63 den   

n.兽穴；秘密地方；安静的小房间，私室

参考例句：

• There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
• The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。

64 venom   

n.毒液，恶毒，痛恨

参考例句：

• The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey.毒蛇咬住猎物之后马上注入毒液。
• In fact,some components of the venom may benefit human health.事实上，毒液的某些成分可能有益于人类健康。

65 prick   

v.刺伤，刺痛，刺孔；n.刺伤，刺痛

参考例句：

• He felt a sharp prick when he stepped on an upturned nail.当他踩在一个尖朝上的钉子上时，他感到剧烈的疼痛。
• He burst the balloon with a prick of the pin.他用针一戳，气球就爆了。

66 crouched   

v.屈膝，蹲伏( crouch的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He crouched down beside her. 他在她的旁边蹲了下来。
• The lion crouched ready to pounce. 狮子蹲下身，准备猛扑。

67 supple   

adj.柔软的，易弯的，逢迎的，顺从的，灵活的；vt.使柔软，使柔顺，使顺从；vi.变柔软，变柔顺

参考例句：

• She gets along well with people because of her supple nature.她与大家相处很好，因为她的天性柔和。
• He admired the graceful and supple movements of the dancers.他赞扬了舞蹈演员优雅灵巧的舞姿。

68 nostrils   

鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Her nostrils flared with anger. 她气得两个鼻孔都鼓了起来。
• The horse dilated its nostrils. 马张大鼻孔。

69 nostril   

n.鼻孔

参考例句：

• The Indian princess wore a diamond in her right nostril.印弟安公主在右鼻孔中戴了一颗钻石。
• All South American monkeys have flat noses with widely spaced nostril.所有南美洲的猴子都有平鼻子和宽大的鼻孔。

70 highland   

n.(pl.)高地，山地

参考例句：

• The highland game is part of Scotland's cultural heritage.苏格兰高地游戏是苏格兰文化遗产的一部分。
• The highland forests where few hunters venture have long been the bear's sanctuary.这片只有少数猎人涉险的高山森林，一直都是黑熊的避难所。

71 highlander   

n.高地的人，苏格兰高地地区的人

参考例句：

• They call him the highlander, he is Rory McLeod! 他们叫他寻事者，他是罗瑞·麦克劳德！ 来自互联网

72 mule   

n.骡子，杂种，执拗的人

参考例句：

• A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.骡子是母马和公驴的杂交后代。
• He is an old mule.他是个老顽固。

73 rendering   

n.表现，描写

参考例句：

• She gave a splendid rendering of Beethoven's piano sonata.她精彩地演奏了贝多芬的钢琴奏鸣曲。
• His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用。

74 structural   

adj.构造的，组织的，建筑（用）的

参考例句：

• The storm caused no structural damage.风暴没有造成建筑结构方面的破坏。
• The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities.北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。

75 sop   

n.湿透的东西，懦夫；v.浸，泡，浸湿

参考例句：

• I used a mop to sop up the spilled water.我用拖把把泼出的水擦干。
• The playground was a mere sop.操场很湿。

76 rite   

n.典礼，惯例，习俗

参考例句：

• This festival descends from a religious rite.这个节日起源于宗教仪式。
• Most traditional societies have transition rites at puberty.大多数传统社会都为青春期的孩子举行成人礼。

77 bridled   

给…套龙头( bridle的过去式和过去分词 )； 控制； 昂首表示轻蔑（或怨忿等）； 动怒，生气

参考例句：

• She bridled at the suggestion that she was lying. 她对暗示她在说谎的言论嗤之以鼻。
• He bridled his horse. 他给他的马套上笼头。

78 illustrate   

v.举例说明，阐明；图解，加插图

参考例句：

• The company's bank statements illustrate its success.这家公司的银行报表说明了它的成功。
• This diagram will illustrate what I mean.这个图表可说明我的意思。

79 lust   

n.性(淫)欲；渴(欲)望；vi.对…有强烈的欲望

参考例句：

• He was filled with lust for power.他内心充满了对权力的渴望。
• Sensing the explorer's lust for gold, the chief wisely presented gold ornaments as gifts.酋长觉察出探险者们垂涎黄金的欲念，就聪明地把金饰品作为礼物赠送给他们。

80 jug   

n.(有柄，小口，可盛水等的)大壶，罐，盂

参考例句：

• He walked along with a jug poised on his head.他头上顶着一个水罐，保持着平衡往前走。
• She filled the jug with fresh water.她将水壶注满了清水。

81 illustrates   

给…加插图( illustrate的第三人称单数 )； 说明； 表明； （用示例、图画等）说明

参考例句：

• This historical novel illustrates the breaking up of feudal society in microcosm. 这部历史小说是走向崩溃的封建社会的缩影。
• Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had an experience which illustrates this. 阿尔弗莱德 - 阿德勒是一位著名的医生，他有过可以说明这点的经历。 来自中级百科部分

82 lecherous   

adj.好色的；淫邪的

参考例句：

• Her husband was described in court as a lecherous scoundrel.她的丈夫在法庭上被描绘成一个好色的无赖。
• Men enjoy all the beautiful bones,but do not mistake him lecherous.男人骨子里全都喜欢美女，但千万别误以为他好色。

83 belle   

n.靓女

参考例句：

• She was the belle of her Sunday School class.在主日学校她是她们班的班花。
• She was the belle of the ball.她是那个舞会中的美女。

84 dame   

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。

85 vent   

n.通风口，排放口；开衩；vt.表达，发泄

参考例句：

• He gave vent to his anger by swearing loudly.他高声咒骂以发泄他的愤怒。
• When the vent became plugged,the engine would stop.当通风口被堵塞时，发动机就会停转。

86 crutch   

n.T字形拐杖；支持，依靠，精神支柱

参考例句：

• Her religion was a crutch to her when John died.约翰死后，她在精神上依靠宗教信仰支撑住自己。
• He uses his wife as a kind of crutch because of his lack of confidence.他缺乏自信心，总把妻子当作主心骨。

87 spasms   

n.痉挛( spasm的名词复数 )；抽搐；（能量、行为等的）突发；发作

参考例句：

• After the patient received acupuncture treatment,his spasms eased off somewhat. 病人接受针刺治疗后，痉挛稍微减轻了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The smile died, squeezed out by spasms of anticipation and anxiety. 一阵阵预测和焦虑把她脸上的微笑挤掉了。 来自辞典例句

88 spasm   

n.痉挛，抽搐；一阵发作

参考例句：

• When the spasm passed,it left him weak and sweating.一阵痉挛之后，他虚弱无力，一直冒汗。
• He kicked the chair in a spasm of impatience.他突然变得不耐烦，一脚踢向椅子。

89 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

90 scuttle   

v.急赶，疾走，逃避；n.天窗；舷窗

参考例句：

• There was a general scuttle for shelter when the rain began to fall heavily.下大雨了，人们都飞跑着寻找躲雨的地方。
• The scuttle was open,and the good daylight shone in.明朗的亮光从敞开的小窗中照了进来。

91 forefinger   

n.食指

参考例句：

• He pinched the leaf between his thumb and forefinger.他将叶子捏在拇指和食指之间。
• He held it between the tips of his thumb and forefinger.他用他大拇指和食指尖拿着它。

92 flaring   

a.火焰摇曳的，过份艳丽的

参考例句：

• A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls. 墙壁上装饰着廉价的花纸。
• Goebbels was flaring up at me. 戈塔尔当时已对我面呈愠色。

93 clefts   

n.裂缝( cleft的名词复数 )；裂口；cleave的过去式和过去分词；进退维谷

参考例句：

• Clefts are often associated with other more serious congenital defects. 裂口常与其他更严重的先天性异常并发。 来自辞典例句
• Correction of palate clefts is much more difficult and usually not as satisfactory. 硬腭裂的矫正更为困难，且常不理想。 来自辞典例句

94 cleft   

n.裂缝；adj.裂开的

参考例句：

• I hid the message in a cleft in the rock.我把情报藏在石块的裂缝里。
• He was cleft from his brother during the war.在战争期间，他与他的哥哥分离。

95 stagnant   

adj.不流动的，停滞的，不景气的

参考例句：

• Due to low investment,industrial output has remained stagnant.由于投资少，工业生产一直停滞不前。
• Their national economy is stagnant.他们的国家经济停滞不前。

96 fumes   

n.(强烈而刺激的)气味，气体

参考例句：

• The health of our children is being endangered by exhaust fumes. 我们孩子们的健康正受到排放出的废气的损害。
• Exhaust fumes are bad for your health. 废气对健康有害。

97 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

98 cleaves   

v.劈开，剁开，割开( cleave的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• This wood cleaves easily. 这木材好劈。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• The water cleaves the banks away like a knife. 河水象一把刀似的，把两岸削掉。 来自辞典例句

99 wards   

区( ward的名词复数 )； 病房； 受监护的未成年者； 被人照顾或控制的状态

参考例句：

• This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
• It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区，下设三个分区。

100 cramming   

n.塞满，填鸭式的用功v.塞入( cram的现在分词 )；填塞；塞满；（为考试而）死记硬背功课

参考例句：

• Being hungry for the whole morning, I couldn't help cramming myself. 我饿了一上午，禁不住狼吞虎咽了起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She's cramming for her history exam. 她考历史之前临时抱佛脚。 来自《简明英汉词典》

101 gallant   

adj.英勇的，豪侠的；(向女人)献殷勤的

参考例句：

• Huang Jiguang's gallant deed is known by all men. 黄继光的英勇事迹尽人皆知。
• These gallant soldiers will protect our country.这些勇敢的士兵会保卫我们的国家的。

102 asses   

n. 驴，愚蠢的人，臀部 adv. (常用作后置)用于贬损或骂人

参考例句：

• Sometimes I got to kick asses to make this place run right. 有时我为了把这个地方搞得像个样子，也不得不踢踢别人的屁股。 来自教父部分
• Those were wild asses maybe, or zebras flying around in herds. 那些也许是野驴或斑马在成群地奔跑。

103 truculent   

adj.野蛮的，粗野的

参考例句：

• He was seen as truculent,temperamental,too unwilling to tolerate others.他们认为他为人蛮横无理，性情暴躁，不大能容人。
• He was in no truculent state of mind now.这会儿他心肠一点也不狠毒了。

104 vex   

vt.使烦恼，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Everything about her vexed him.有关她的一切都令他困惑。
• It vexed me to think of others gossiping behind my back.一想到别人在背后说我闲话，我就很恼火。

105 hops   

跳上[下]( hop的第三人称单数 )； 单足蹦跳； 齐足（或双足）跳行； 摘葎草花

参考例句：

• The sparrow crossed the lawn in a series of hops. 那麻雀一蹦一跳地穿过草坪。
• It is brewed from malt and hops. 它用麦精和蛇麻草酿成。

106 hop   

n.单脚跳，跳跃；vi.单脚跳，跳跃；着手做某事；vt.跳跃，跃过

参考例句：

• The children had a competition to see who could hop the fastest.孩子们举行比赛，看谁单足跳跃最快。
• How long can you hop on your right foot?你用右脚能跳多远？

107 shutter   

n.百叶窗；(照相机)快门；关闭装置

参考例句：

• The camera has a shutter speed of one-sixtieth of a second.这架照像机的快门速度达六十分之一秒。
• The shutter rattled in the wind.百叶窗在风中发出嘎嘎声。

108 puffing   

v.使喷出( puff的现在分词 )；喷着汽（或烟）移动；吹嘘；吹捧

参考例句：

• He was puffing hard when he jumped on to the bus. 他跳上公共汽车时喘息不已。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• My father sat puffing contentedly on his pipe. 父亲坐着心满意足地抽着烟斗。 来自《简明英汉词典》

109 trot   

n.疾走，慢跑；n.老太婆；现成译本；(复数）trots:腹泻（与the 连用）；v.小跑，快步走，赶紧

参考例句：

• They passed me at a trot.他们从我身边快步走过。
• The horse broke into a brisk trot.马突然快步小跑起来。

110 gasps   

v.喘气( gasp的第三人称单数 )；喘息；倒抽气；很想要

参考例句：

• He leant against the railing, his breath coming in short gasps. 他倚着栏杆，急促地喘气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• My breaths were coming in gasps. 我急促地喘起气来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

111 lash   

v.系牢；鞭打；猛烈抨击；n.鞭打；眼睫毛

参考例句：

• He received a lash of her hand on his cheek.他突然被她打了一记耳光。
• With a lash of its tail the tiger leaped at her.老虎把尾巴一甩朝她扑过来。

112 aurora   

n.极光

参考例句：

• The aurora is one of nature's most awesome spectacles.极光是自然界最可畏的奇观之一。
• Over the polar regions we should see aurora.在极地高空,我们会看到极光。

113 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

114 darts   

n.掷飞镖游戏；飞镖( dart的名词复数 )；急驰，飞奔v.投掷，投射( dart的第三人称单数 )；向前冲，飞奔

参考例句：

• His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece. 他将掷镖奖杯放在壁炉顶上最显著的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I never saw so many darts in a bodice! 我从没见过紧身胸衣上纳了这么多的缝褶！ 来自《简明英汉词典》

115 urchins   

n.顽童( urchin的名词复数 )；淘气鬼；猬；海胆

参考例句：

• Some dozen barefooted urchins ganged in from the riverside. 几十个赤足的顽童从河边成群结队而来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• People said that he had jaundice and urchins nicknamed him "Yellow Fellow." 别人说他是黄胆病，孩子们也就叫他“黄胖”了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

116 rattling   

adj. 格格作响的, 活泼的, 很好的 adv. 极其, 很, 非常 动词rattle的现在分词

参考例句：

• This book is a rattling good read. 这是一本非常好的读物。
• At that same instant,a deafening explosion set the windows rattling. 正在这时，一声震耳欲聋的爆炸突然袭来，把窗玻璃震得当当地响。

117 erect   

n./v.树立，建立，使竖立；adj.直立的，垂直的

参考例句：

• She held her head erect and her back straight.她昂着头，把背挺得笔直。
• Soldiers are trained to stand erect.士兵们训练站得笔直。

118 slews   

n.许多，大量( slew的名词复数 )v.螫伤，刺伤( sting的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

119 winking   

n.瞬眼，目语v.使眼色( wink的现在分词 )；递眼色（表示友好或高兴等）；（指光）闪烁；闪亮

参考例句：

• Anyone can do it; it's as easy as winking. 这谁都办得到，简直易如反掌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The stars were winking in the clear sky. 星星在明亮的天空中闪烁。 来自《简明英汉词典》

120 trolley   

n.手推车，台车；无轨电车；有轨电车

参考例句：

• The waiter had brought the sweet trolley.侍者已经推来了甜食推车。
• In a library,books are moved on a trolley.在图书馆，书籍是放在台车上搬动的。

121 hissing   

n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视 动词hiss的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The steam escaped with a loud hissing noise. 蒸汽大声地嘶嘶冒了出来。
• His ears were still hissing with the rustle of the leaves. 他耳朵里还听得萨萨萨的声音和屑索屑索的怪声。 来自汉英文学 - 春蚕

122 curb   

n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制

参考例句：

• I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
• You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。

123 eels   

abbr. 电子发射器定位系统（=electronic emitter location system）

参考例句：

• Eels have been on the feed in the Lower Thames. 鳗鱼在泰晤士河下游寻食。
• She bought some eels for dinner. 她买回一些鳗鱼做晚餐。

124 panacea   

n.万灵药；治百病的灵药

参考例句：

• Western aid may help but will not be a panacea. 西方援助可能会有所帮助，但并非灵丹妙药。
• There's no single panacea for the country's economic ills. 国家经济弊病百出,并无万灵药可以医治。

125 insolent   

adj.傲慢的，无理的

参考例句：

• His insolent manner really got my blood up.他那傲慢的态度把我的肺都气炸了。
• It was insolent of them to demand special treatment.他们要求给予特殊待遇，脸皮真厚。

126 hem   

n.贴边，镶边；vt.缝贴边；(in)包围，限制

参考例句：

• The hem on her skirt needs sewing.她裙子上的褶边需要缝一缝。
• The hem of your dress needs to be let down an inch.你衣服的折边有必要放长1英寸。

127 balked   

v.畏缩不前，犹豫( balk的过去式和过去分词 )；（指马）不肯跑

参考例句：

• He balked in his speech. 他忽然中断讲演。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• They balked the robber's plan. 他们使强盗的计划受到挫败。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

128 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：

• 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。

129 cramp   

n.痉挛；[pl.](腹)绞痛；vt.限制，束缚

参考例句：

• Winston stopped writing,partly because he was suffering from cramp.温斯顿驻了笔，手指也写麻了。
• The swimmer was seized with a cramp and had to be helped out of the water.那个在游泳的人突然抽起筋来，让别人帮着上了岸。

130 emblem   

n.象征，标志；徽章

参考例句：

• Her shirt has the company emblem on it.她的衬衫印有公司的标记。
• The eagle was an emblem of strength and courage.鹰是力量和勇气的象征。

131 sinister   

adj.不吉利的，凶恶的，左边的

参考例句：

• There is something sinister at the back of that series of crimes.在这一系列罪行背后有险恶的阴谋。
• Their proposals are all worthless and designed out of sinister motives.他们的建议不仅一钱不值，而且包藏祸心。

132 sage   

n.圣人，哲人；adj.贤明的，明智的

参考例句：

• I was grateful for the old man's sage advice.我很感激那位老人贤明的忠告。
• The sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.这位哲人是百代之师。

133 swerves   

n.（使）改变方向，改变目的( swerve的名词复数 )v.（使）改变方向，改变目的( swerve的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The road swerves to the right. 道路向右转弯。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• At the last moment, Nina swerves and slams into a parked car. 在最后关头，尼娜突然转弯，将车猛烈撞入一辆停着的车中。 来自互联网

134 procured   

v.（努力）取得， （设法）获得( procure的过去式和过去分词 )；拉皮条

参考例句：

• These cars are to be procured through open tender. 这些汽车要用公开招标的办法购买。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• A friend procured a position in the bank for my big brother. 一位朋友为我哥哥谋得了一个银行的职位。 来自《用法词典》

135 boon   

n.恩赐，恩物，恩惠

参考例句：

• A car is a real boon when you live in the country.在郊外居住，有辆汽车确实极为方便。
• These machines have proved a real boon to disabled people.事实证明这些机器让残疾人受益匪浅。

136 tilt   

v.(使)倾侧；(使)倾斜；n.倾侧；倾斜

参考例句：

• She wore her hat at a tilt over her left eye.她歪戴着帽子遮住左眼。
• The table is at a slight tilt.这张桌子没放平，有点儿歪.

137 ware   

n.(常用复数)商品，货物

参考例句：

• The shop sells a great variety of porcelain ware.这家店铺出售品种繁多的瓷器。
• Good ware will never want a chapman.好货不须叫卖。

138 pickpockets   

n.扒手( pickpocket的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Crowded markets are a happy hunting ground for pickpockets. 拥挤的市场是扒手大展身手的好地方。
• He warned me against pickpockets. 他让我提防小偷。 来自《简明英汉词典》

139 dodge   

v.闪开，躲开，避开；n.妙计，诡计

参考例句：

• A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪，才没被车从身上辗过。
• The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。

140 retrieve   

vt.重新得到，收回；挽回，补救；检索

参考例句：

• He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
• The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。

141 garbed   

v.（尤指某类人穿的特定）服装，衣服，制服( garb的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The widow was garbed in black. 那寡妇穿着黑衣服。 来自辞典例句
• He garbed himself as a sailor. 他装扮成水手。 来自辞典例句

142 garb   

n.服装，装束

参考例句：

• He wore the garb of a general.他身着将军的制服。
• Certain political,social,and legal forms reappear in seemingly different garb.一些政治、社会和法律的形式在表面不同的外衣下重复出现。

143 magenta   

n..紫红色（的染料）；adj.紫红色的

参考例句：

• In the one photo in which she appeared, Hillary Clinton wore a magenta gown.在其中一张照片中，希拉里身着一件紫红色礼服。
• For the same reason air information is printed in magenta.出于同样的原因，航空资料采用品红色印刷。

144 tassels   

n.穗( tassel的名词复数 )；流苏状物；（植物的）穗；玉蜀黍的穗状雄花v.抽穗， （玉米）长穗须( tassel的第三人称单数 )；使抽穗， （为了使作物茁壮生长）摘去穗状雄花；用流苏装饰

参考例句：

• Tassels and Trimmings, Pillows, Wall Hangings, Table Runners, Bell. 采购产品垂饰，枕头，壁挂，表亚军，钟。 来自互联网
• Cotton Fabrics, Embroidery and Embroiders, Silk, Silk Fabric, Pillows, Tassels and Trimmings. 采购产品棉花织物，刺绣品而且刺绣，丝，丝织物，枕头，流行和装饰品。 来自互联网

145 streaks   

n.（与周围有所不同的）条纹( streak的名词复数 )；（通常指不好的）特征（倾向）；（不断经历成功或失败的）一段时期v.快速移动( streak的第三人称单数 )；使布满条纹

参考例句：

• streaks of grey in her hair 她头上的绺绺白发
• Bacon has streaks of fat and streaks of lean. 咸肉中有几层肥的和几层瘦的。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

146 drawn   

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。

147 crestfallen   

adj. 挫败的，失望的，沮丧的

参考例句：

• He gathered himself up and sneaked off,crushed and crestfallen.他爬起来，偷偷地溜了，一副垂头丧气、被斗败的样子。
• The youth looked exceedingly crestfallen.那青年看上去垂头丧气极了。

148 talons   

n.（尤指猛禽的）爪( talon的名词复数 )；（如爪般的）手指；爪状物；锁簧尖状突出部

参考例句：

• The fingers were curved like talons, but they closed on empty air. 他的指头弯得像鹰爪一样，可是抓了个空。 来自英汉文学 - 热爱生命
• The tiger has a pair of talons. 老虎有一对利爪。 来自辞典例句

149 Oxford   

n.牛津（英国城市）

参考例句：

• At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
• This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。

150 alpine   

adj.高山的；n.高山植物

参考例句：

• Alpine flowers are abundant there.那里有很多高山地带的花。
• Its main attractions are alpine lakes and waterfalls .它以高山湖泊和瀑布群为主要特色。

151 sterling   

adj.英币的(纯粹的，货真价实的)；n.英国货币(英镑)

参考例句：

• Could you tell me the current rate for sterling, please?能否请您告诉我现行英国货币的兑换率？
• Sterling has recently been strong,which will help to abate inflationary pressures.英国货币最近非常坚挺，这有助于减轻通胀压力。

152 stiffen   

v.(使)硬，(使)变挺，(使)变僵硬

参考例句：

• The blood supply to the skin is reduced when muscles stiffen.当肌肉变得僵硬时，皮肤的供血量就减少了。
• I was breathing hard,and my legs were beginning to stiffen.这时我却气吁喘喘地开始感到脚有点僵硬。

153 stiffening   

n. (使衣服等)变硬的材料, 硬化 动词stiffen的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• Her mouth stiffening, she could not elaborate. 她嘴巴僵直，无法细说下去。
• No genius, not a bad guy, but the attacks are hurting and stiffening him. 不是天才，人也不坏，但是四面八方的攻击伤了他的感情，使他横下了心。

154 jaw   

n.颚，颌，说教，流言蜚语；v.喋喋不休，教训

参考例句：

• He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.他给了对方下巴一记右钩拳。
• A strong square jaw is a sign of firm character.强健的方下巴是刚毅性格的标志。

155 sprint   

n.短距离赛跑；vi. 奋力而跑，冲刺；vt.全速跑过

参考例句：

• He put on a sprint to catch the bus.他全速奔跑以赶上公共汽车。
• The runner seemed to be rallied for a final sprint.这名赛跑者似乎在振作精神作最后的冲刺。

156 tempt   

vt.引诱，勾引，吸引，引起…的兴趣

参考例句：

• Nothing could tempt him to such a course of action.什么都不能诱使他去那样做。
• The fact that she had become wealthy did not tempt her to alter her frugal way of life.她有钱了，可这丝毫没能让她改变节俭的生活习惯。

157 moth   

n.蛾，蛀虫

参考例句：

• A moth was fluttering round the lamp.有一只蛾子扑打着翅膀绕着灯飞。
• The sweater is moth-eaten.毛衣让蛀虫咬坏了。

158 bustle   

v.喧扰地忙乱，匆忙，奔忙；n.忙碌；喧闹

参考例句：

• The bustle and din gradually faded to silence as night advanced.随着夜越来越深，喧闹声逐渐沉寂。
• There is a lot of hustle and bustle in the railway station.火车站里非常拥挤。

159 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

160 butt   

n.笑柄；烟蒂；枪托；臀部；v.用头撞或顶

参考例句：

• The water butt catches the overflow from this pipe.大水桶盛接管子里流出的东西。
• He was the butt of their jokes.他是他们的笑柄。

161 mittens   

不分指手套

参考例句：

• Cotton mittens will prevent the baby from scratching his own face. 棉的连指手套使婴儿不会抓伤自己的脸。
• I'd fisted my hands inside their mittens to keep the fingers warm. 我在手套中握拳头来保暖手指。

162 slanted   

有偏见的； 倾斜的

参考例句：

• The sun slanted through the window. 太阳斜照进窗户。
• She had slanted brown eyes. 她有一双棕色的丹凤眼。

163 ransacks   

v.彻底搜查( ransack的第三人称单数 )；抢劫，掠夺

参考例句：

• After giving the data structure article ransacks FEARG using breadth traversal and find the assembly sequence. 在给出有向图的数据结构后，对装配关系图进行了广度遍历得到了装配序列。 来自互联网

164 pouch   

n.小袋，小包，囊状袋；vt.装...入袋中，用袋运输；vi.用袋送信件

参考例句：

• He was going to make a tobacco pouch out of them. 他要用它们缝制一个烟草袋。
• The old man is always carrying a tobacco pouch with him.这老汉总是随身带着烟袋。

165 mumbling   

含糊地说某事，叽咕，咕哝( mumble的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I could hear him mumbling to himself. 我听到他在喃喃自语。
• He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg. 宴会结束时，他仍在咕哝着医院里的事。说着说着，他在一块冰上滑倒，跌断了左腿。

166 bestow   

v.把…赠与，把…授予；花费

参考例句：

• He wished to bestow great honors upon the hero.他希望将那些伟大的荣誉授予这位英雄。
• What great inspiration wiII you bestow on me?你有什么伟大的灵感能馈赠给我？

167 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

168 mirage   

n.海市蜃楼，幻景

参考例句：

• Perhaps we are all just chasing a mirage.也许我们都只是在追逐一个幻想。
• Western liberalism was always a mirage.西方自由主义永远是一座海市蜃楼。

169 scarlet   

n.深红色，绯红色，红衣；adj.绯红色的

参考例句：

• The scarlet leaves of the maples contrast well with the dark green of the pines.深红的枫叶和暗绿的松树形成了明显的对比。
• The glowing clouds are growing slowly pale,scarlet,bright red,and then light red.天空的霞光渐渐地淡下去了，深红的颜色变成了绯红，绯红又变为浅红。

170 slashed   

v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 )；鞭打；割破；削减

参考例句：

• Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
• He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》

171 lashed   

adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
• The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》

172 cove   

n.小海湾，小峡谷

参考例句：

• The shore line is wooded,olive-green,a pristine cove.岸边一带林木蓊郁，嫩绿一片，好一个山外的小海湾。
• I saw two children were playing in a cove.我看到两个小孩正在一个小海湾里玩耍。

173 raven   

n.渡鸟，乌鸦；adj.乌亮的

参考例句：

• We know the raven will never leave the man's room.我们知道了乌鸦再也不会离开那个男人的房间。
• Her charming face was framed with raven hair.她迷人的脸上垂落着乌亮的黑发。

174 agitation   

n.搅动；搅拌；鼓动，煽动

参考例句：

• Small shopkeepers carried on a long agitation against the big department stores.小店主们长期以来一直在煽动人们反对大型百货商店。
• These materials require constant agitation to keep them in suspension.这些药剂要经常搅动以保持悬浮状态。

175 gulps   

n.一大口（尤指液体）( gulp的名词复数 )v.狼吞虎咽地吃，吞咽( gulp的第三人称单数 )；大口地吸（气）；哽住

参考例句：

• He often gulps down a sob. 他经常忍气吞声地生活。 来自辞典例句
• JERRY: Why don't you make a point with your own doctor? (George gulps) What's wrong? 杰瑞：你为啥不对你自个儿的医生表明立场？有啥问题吗？ 来自互联网

176 hooded   

adj.戴头巾的；有罩盖的；颈部因肋骨运动而膨胀的

参考例句：

• A hooded figure waited in the doorway. 一个戴兜帽的人在门口等候。
• Black-eyed gipsy girls, hooded in showy handkerchiefs, sallied forth to tell fortunes. 黑眼睛的吉卜赛姑娘，用华丽的手巾包着头，突然地闯了进来替人算命。 来自辞典例句

177 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

178 grunt   

v.嘟哝；作呼噜声；n.呼噜声，嘟哝

参考例句：

• He lifted the heavy suitcase with a grunt.他咕噜着把沉重的提箱拎了起来。
• I ask him what he think,but he just grunt.我问他在想什麽，他只哼了一声。

179 moor   

n.荒野，沼泽；vt.(使)停泊；vi.停泊

参考例句：

• I decided to moor near some tourist boats.我决定在一些观光船附近停泊。
• There were hundreds of the old huts on the moor.沼地上有成百上千的古老的石屋。

180 moorish   

adj.沼地的，荒野的，生[住]在沼地的

参考例句：

• There was great excitement among the Moorish people at the waterside. 海边的摩尔人一阵轰动。 来自辞典例句
• All the doors are arched with the special arch we see in Moorish pictures. 门户造成拱形，形状独特，跟摩尔风暴画片里所见的一样。 来自辞典例句

181 hoof   

n.(马，牛等的)蹄

参考例句：

• Suddenly he heard the quick,short click of a horse's hoof behind him.突然间，他听见背后响起一阵急骤的马蹄的得得声。
• I was kicked by a hoof.我被一只蹄子踢到了。

182 droop   

v.低垂，下垂；凋萎，萎靡

参考例句：

• The heavy snow made the branches droop.大雪使树枝垂下来。
• Don't let your spirits droop.不要萎靡不振。

183 droops   

弯曲或下垂，发蔫( droop的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• If your abdomen droops or sticks out, the high BMI is correct. 如果你的腹部下垂或伸出，高BMI是正确的。
• Now droops the milk white peacock like a ghost. 乳白色的孔雀幽灵般消沉。

184 grunting   

咕哝的，呼噜的

参考例句：

• He pulled harder on the rope, grunting with the effort. 他边用力边哼声，使出更大的力气拉绳子。
• Pigs were grunting and squealing in the yard. 猪在院子里哼哼地叫个不停。

185 fumbles   

摸索，笨拙的处理( fumble的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Van der Meyde boots the ball to safety after Toldo fumbles a right cross. 因为托尔多在右侧漏球，范得美德把球护到安全的地方。
• The placement shot fumbles the primary cause which into this competition Chinese army loses the game. 定位球失球成为本场比赛汉军输球的主要原因。

186 lotion   

n.洗剂

参考例句：

• The lotion should be applied sparingly to the skin.这种洗液应均匀地涂在皮肤上。
• She lubricates her hands with a lotion.她用一种洗剂来滑润她的手。

187 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

188 diffusing   

（使光）模糊，漫射，漫散( diffuse的现在分词 )； （使）扩散； （使）弥漫； （使）传播

参考例句：

• Compounding this confusion is a diffusing definition of journalist. 新闻和娱乐的掺和扩散了“记者”定义。
• Diffusing phenomena also so, after mix cannot spontaneous separating. 扩散现象也如此，混合之后不能自发的分开。

189 freckled   

adj.雀斑；斑点；晒斑；（使）生雀斑v.雀斑，斑点( freckle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her face was freckled all over. 她的脸长满雀斑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Her freckled skin glowed with health again. 她长有雀斑的皮肤又泛出了健康的红光。 来自辞典例句

190 disdain   

n.鄙视，轻视；v.轻视，鄙视，不屑

参考例句：

• Some people disdain labour.有些人轻视劳动。
• A great man should disdain flatterers.伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。

191 pampered   

adj.饮食过量的，饮食奢侈的v.纵容，宠，娇养( pamper的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The lazy scum deserve worse. What if they ain't fed up and pampered? 他们吃不饱，他们的要求满足不了，这又有什么关系？ 来自飘（部分）
• She petted and pampered him and would let no one discipline him but she, herself. 她爱他，娇养他，而且除了她自己以外，她不允许任何人管教他。 来自辞典例句

192 nun   

n.修女，尼姑

参考例句：

• I can't believe that the famous singer has become a nun.我无法相信那个著名的歌星已做了修女。
• She shaved her head and became a nun.她削发为尼。

193 sniffing   

n.探查法v.以鼻吸气，嗅，闻( sniff的现在分词 )；抽鼻子（尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气）；抱怨，不以为然地说

参考例句：

• We all had colds and couldn't stop sniffing and sneezing. 我们都感冒了，一个劲地抽鼻子，打喷嚏。
• They all had colds and were sniffing and sneezing. 他们都伤风了，呼呼喘气而且打喷嚏。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

194 bristles   

短而硬的毛发，刷子毛( bristle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• the bristles on his chin 他下巴上的胡楂子
• This job bristles with difficulties. 这项工作困难重重。

195 furtive   

adj.鬼鬼崇崇的，偷偷摸摸的

参考例句：

• The teacher was suspicious of the student's furtive behaviour during the exam.老师怀疑这个学生在考试时有偷偷摸摸的行为。
• His furtive behaviour aroused our suspicion.他鬼鬼祟祟的行为引起了我们的怀疑。

196 squeak   

n.吱吱声，逃脱；v.（发出）吱吱叫，侥幸通过；（俚）告密

参考例句：

• I don't want to hear another squeak out of you!我不想再听到你出声！
• We won the game,but it was a narrow squeak.我们打赢了这场球赛，不过是侥幸取胜。

197 plunges   

n.跳进，投入vt.使投入，使插入，使陷入vi.投入，跳进，陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• Even before he plunges into his program, he has his audience in his pocket. 他的节目甚至还没有出场，就已控制住了观众。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• 'Monseigneur, he precipitated himself over the hill-side, head first, as a person plunges into the river.' “大人，他头冲下跳下山坡去了，像往河里跳一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

198 plunge   

v.跳入，(使)投入，(使)陷入；猛冲

参考例句：

• Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
• That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。

199 squeaks   

n.短促的尖叫声，吱吱声( squeak的名词复数 )v.短促地尖叫( squeak的第三人称单数 )；吱吱叫；告密；充当告密者

参考例句：

• The upper-middle-classes communicate with each other in inaudible squeaks, like bats. 那些上中层社会的人交谈起来象是蚊子在哼哼，你根本听不见。 来自辞典例句
• She always squeaks out her ideas when she is excited. 她一激动总是尖声说出自己的想法。 来自互联网

200 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

201 ogling   

v.（向…）抛媚眼，送秋波( ogle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He was not in the habit of ogling women. 他没有盯着女人看个没完的习惯。
• Uncle Geooge got a black eye for ogling a lady in the pub. 乔治叔叔在酒店里对一女士抛媚眼而被打黑了一只眼睛。

202 bloodied   

v.血污的( bloody的过去式和过去分词 )；流血的；屠杀的；残忍的

参考例句：

• his bruised and bloodied nose 他沾满血的青肿的鼻子
• His pants leg was torn and bloodied when he fell. 他跌交时裤腿破了，还染上了血。 来自辞典例句

203 clout   

n.用手猛击；权力，影响力

参考例句：

• The queen may have privilege but she has no real political clout.女王有特权，但无真正的政治影响力。
• He gave the little boy a clout on the head.他在那小男孩的头部打了一下。

204 murmur   

n.低语，低声的怨言；v.低语，低声而言

参考例句：

• They paid the extra taxes without a murmur.他们毫无怨言地交了附加税。
• There was a low murmur of conversation in the hall.大厅里有窃窃私语声。

205 murmurs   

n.低沉、连续而不清的声音( murmur的名词复数 )；低语声；怨言；嘀咕

参考例句：

• They spoke in low murmurs. 他们低声说着话。 来自辞典例句
• They are more superficial, more distinctly heard than murmurs. 它们听起来比心脏杂音更为浅表而清楚。 来自辞典例句

206 lone   

adj.孤寂的，单独的；唯一的

参考例句：

• A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
• She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。

207 soliciting   

v.恳求( solicit的现在分词 )；（指娼妇）拉客；索求；征求

参考例句：

• A prostitute was soliciting on the street. 一名妓女正在街上拉客。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• China Daily is soliciting subscriptions. 《中国日报》正在征求订户。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

208 strap   

n.皮带，带子；v.用带扣住，束牢；用绷带包扎

参考例句：

• She held onto a strap to steady herself.她抓住拉手吊带以便站稳。
• The nurse will strap up your wound.护士会绑扎你的伤口。

209 crook   

v.使弯曲；n.小偷，骗子，贼；弯曲(处)

参考例句：

• He demanded an apology from me for calling him a crook.我骂他骗子，他要我向他认错。
• She was cradling a small parcel in the crook of her elbow.她用手臂挎着一个小包裹。

210 crookedly   

adv. 弯曲地，不诚实地

参考例句：

• A crow flew crookedly like a shadow over the end of the salt lake. 一只乌鸦像个影子般地在盐湖的另一边鬼鬼祟祟地飞来飞去的。

211 crooked   

adj.弯曲的；不诚实的，狡猾的，不正当的

参考例句：

• He crooked a finger to tell us to go over to him.他弯了弯手指，示意我们到他那儿去。
• You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.在这些弯弯曲曲的乡间小路上你得慢慢开车。

212 frieze   

n.(墙上的)横饰带，雕带

参考例句：

• The Corinthian painter's primary ornamental device was the animal frieze.科林斯画家最初的装饰图案是动物形象的装饰带。
• A careful reconstruction of the frieze is a persuasive reason for visiting Liverpool. 这次能让游客走访利物浦展览会，其中一个具有说服力的原因则是壁画得到了精心的重建。

213 bellows   

n.风箱；发出吼叫声，咆哮（尤指因痛苦）( bellow的名词复数 )；（愤怒地）说出（某事），大叫v.发出吼叫声，咆哮（尤指因痛苦）( bellow的第三人称单数 )；（愤怒地）说出（某事），大叫

参考例句：

• His job is to blow the bellows for the blacksmith. 他的工作是给铁匠拉风箱。 来自辞典例句
• You could, I suppose, compare me to a blacksmith's bellows. 我想，你可能把我比作铁匠的风箱。 来自辞典例句

214 buck   

n.雄鹿，雄兔；v.马离地跳跃

参考例句：

• The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
• The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。

215 gravel   

n.砂跞；砂砾层；结石

参考例句：

• We bought six bags of gravel for the garden path.我们购买了六袋碎石用来铺花园的小路。
• More gravel is needed to fill the hollow in the drive.需要更多的砾石来填平车道上的坑洼。

216 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

217 woe   

n.悲哀，苦痛，不幸，困难；int.用来表达悲伤或惊慌

参考例句：

• Our two peoples are brothers sharing weal and woe.我们两国人民是患难与共的兄弟。
• A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so.自认祸是祸，自认福是福。

218 brute   

n.野兽，兽性

参考例句：

• The aggressor troops are not many degrees removed from the brute.侵略军简直象一群野兽。
• That dog is a dangerous brute.It bites people.那条狗是危险的畜牲，它咬人。

219 broth   

n.原(汁)汤(鱼汤、肉汤、菜汤等)

参考例句：

• Every cook praises his own broth.厨子总是称赞自己做的汤。
• Just a bit of a mouse's dropping will spoil a whole saucepan of broth.一粒老鼠屎败坏一锅汤。

220 jingle   

n.叮当声，韵律简单的诗句；v.使叮当作响，叮当响，押韵

参考例句：

• The key fell on the ground with a jingle.钥匙叮当落地。
• The knives and forks set up their regular jingle.刀叉发出常有的叮当声。

221 rattle   

v.飞奔，碰响；激怒；n.碰撞声；拨浪鼓

参考例句：

• The baby only shook the rattle and laughed and crowed.孩子只是摇着拨浪鼓，笑着叫着。
• She could hear the rattle of the teacups.她听见茶具叮当响。

222 breakdown   

n.垮，衰竭；损坏，故障，倒塌

参考例句：

• She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
• The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障，但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。

223 clogs   

木屐； 木底鞋，木屐( clog的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Clogs are part of the Netherlands national costume. 木屐是荷兰民族服装的一部分。
• Clogs are part of the Dutch traditional costume. 木屐是荷兰传统装束的一部分。

224 chuckling   

轻声地笑( chuckle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I could hear him chuckling to himself as he read his book. 他看书时，我能听见他的轻声发笑。
• He couldn't help chuckling aloud. 他忍不住的笑了出来。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

225 gaily   

adv.欢乐地，高兴地

参考例句：

• The children sing gaily.孩子们欢唱着。
• She waved goodbye very gaily.她欢快地挥手告别。

226 mingling   

adj.混合的

参考例句：

• There was a spring of bitterness mingling with that fountain of sweets. 在这个甜蜜的源泉中间，已经掺和进苦涩的山水了。
• The mingling of inconsequence belongs to us all. 这场矛盾混和物是我们大家所共有的。

227 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

228 inquisitively   

过分好奇地； 好问地

参考例句：

• The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but It'said nothing. 这老鼠狐疑地看着她，好像还把一只小眼睛向她眨了眨，但没说话。
• The mouse looked at her rather inquisitively. 那只耗子用疑问的眼光看看她。

229 dub   

vt.（以某种称号）授予，给...起绰号，复制

参考例句：

• I intend to use simultaneous recording to dub this film.我打算采用同期录音的方法为这部影片配音。
• It was dubbed into Spanish for Mexican audiences.它被译制成西班牙语以方便墨西哥观众观看。

230 gem   

n.宝石，珠宝；受爱戴的人 [同]jewel

参考例句：

• The gem is beyond my pocket.这颗宝石我可买不起。
• The little gem is worth two thousand dollars.这块小宝石价值两千美元。

231 bishop   

n.主教，（国际象棋）象

参考例句：

• He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
• Two years after his death the bishop was canonised.主教逝世两年后被正式封为圣者。

232 blindfold   

vt.蒙住…的眼睛；adj.盲目的；adv.盲目地；n.蒙眼的绷带[布等]； 障眼物，蒙蔽人的事物

参考例句：

• They put a blindfold on a horse.他们给马蒙上遮眼布。
• I can do it blindfold.我闭着眼睛都能做。

233 dames   

n.（在英国）夫人（一种封号），夫人（爵士妻子的称号）( dame的名词复数 )；女人

参考例句：

• Dames would not comment any further. Dames将不再更多的评论。 来自互联网
• Flowers, candy, jewelry, seemed the principal things in which the elegant dames were interested. 鲜花、糖果和珠宝看来是那些贵妇人的主要兴趣所在。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

234 champagne   

n.香槟酒；微黄色

参考例句：

• There were two glasses of champagne on the tray.托盘里有两杯香槟酒。
• They sat there swilling champagne.他们坐在那里大喝香槟酒。

235 tilted   

v. 倾斜的

参考例句：

• Suddenly the boat tilted to one side. 小船突然倾向一侧。
• She tilted her chin at him defiantly. 她向他翘起下巴表示挑衅。

236 crackers   

adj.精神错乱的，癫狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名词复数 )；薄脆饼干；（认为）十分愉快的事；迷人的姑娘

参考例句：

• That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪声闹得我简直要疯了。
• We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我们上了些饼干和奶酪作为开胃品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

237 amber   

n.琥珀；琥珀色；adj.琥珀制的

参考例句：

• Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗？
• This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。

238 ruby   

n.红宝石，红宝石色

参考例句：

• She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
• On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。

239 diadem   

n.王冠，冕

参考例句：

• The diadem is the symbol of royalty.王冠就是王权的象征。
• Nature like us is sometimes caught without diadem.自然犹如我等，时常没戴皇冠。

240 slipper   

n.拖鞋

参考例句：

• I rescued the remains of my slipper from the dog.我从那狗的口中夺回了我拖鞋的残留部分。
• The puppy chewed a hole in the slipper.小狗在拖鞋上啃了一个洞。

241 clenched   

v.紧握，抓紧，咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。
• She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上，以掩饰其颤抖。 来自《简明英汉词典》

242 hoarsely   

adv.嘶哑地

参考例句：

• "Excuse me," he said hoarsely. “对不起。”他用嘶哑的嗓子说。
• Jerry hoarsely professed himself at Miss Pross's service. 杰瑞嘶声嘶气地表示愿为普洛丝小姐效劳。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

243 shuffles   

n.洗（纸牌）( shuffle的名词复数 )；拖着脚步走；粗心地做；摆脱尘世的烦恼v.洗（纸牌）( shuffle的第三人称单数 )；拖着脚步走；粗心地做；摆脱尘世的烦恼

参考例句：

• She shuffles cards expertly, all the guys stare in amazement. 她熟练地洗着牌，爷们都看呆了。 来自互联网
• Fortune shuffles cards, but we discard them. 命运负责洗牌，而出牌的是我们自己。 来自互联网

244 slippers   

n. 拖鞋

参考例句：

• a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋
• He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋，倒在床上。

245 pall   

v.覆盖，使平淡无味；n.柩衣，棺罩；棺材；帷幕

参考例句：

• Already the allure of meals in restaurants had begun to pall.饭店里的饭菜已经不像以前那样诱人。
• I find his books begin to pall on me after a while.我发觉他的书读过一阵子就开始对我失去吸引力。

246 jeering   

adj.嘲弄的，揶揄的v.嘲笑( jeer的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Hecklers interrupted her speech with jeering. 捣乱分子以嘲笑打断了她的讲话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He interrupted my speech with jeering. 他以嘲笑打断了我的讲话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

247 pulpy   

果肉状的，多汁的，柔软的； 烂糊； 稀烂

参考例句：

• The bean like seeds of this plant, enclosed within a pulpy fruit. 被包在肉质果实内的这种植物的豆样种子。
• Her body felt bruised, her lips pulpy and tender. 她的身体感觉碰伤了，她的嘴唇柔软娇嫩。

248 trenchant   

adj.尖刻的，清晰的

参考例句：

• His speech was a powerful and trenchant attack against apartheid.他的演说是对种族隔离政策强有力的尖锐的抨击。
• His comment was trenchant and perceptive.他的评论既一针见血又鞭辟入里。

249 exponent   

n.倡导者，拥护者；代表人物；指数，幂

参考例句：

• She is an exponent of vegetarianism.她是一个素食主义的倡导者。
• He had been the principal exponent of the Gallipoli campaign.他曾为加里波利战役的主要代表人物。

250 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

251 erring   

做错事的，错误的

参考例句：

• Instead of bludgeoning our erring comrades, we should help them with criticism. 对犯错误的同志， 要批评帮助，不能一棍子打死。
• She had too little faith in mankind not to know that they were erring. 她对男人们没有信心，知道他们总要犯错误的。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

252 beetle   

n.甲虫，近视眼的人

参考例句：

• A firefly is a type of beetle.萤火虫是一种甲虫。
• He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.我看见树叶上有一只闪闪发光的绿色甲虫。

253 gravy   

n.肉汁；轻易得来的钱，外快

参考例句：

• You have spilled gravy on the tablecloth.你把肉汁泼到台布上了。
• The meat was swimming in gravy.肉泡在浓汁之中。

254 doggedly   

adv.顽强地，固执地

参考例句：

• He was still doggedly pursuing his studies.他仍然顽强地进行着自己的研究。
• He trudged doggedly on until he reached the flat.他顽强地、步履艰难地走着，一直走回了公寓。

255 gores   

n.（动物）用角撞伤，用牙刺破( gore的名词复数 )v.（动物）用角撞伤，用牙刺破( gore的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• This bull gores people. 这牛爱顶人。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Prometheus periodically gores the F ring drawing out streamers of material from the ring. 普罗米修斯周期性的F环触的彩带，从材料的戒指。 来自互联网

256 bent   

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。

257 agog   

adj.兴奋的，有强烈兴趣的； adv.渴望地

参考例句：

• The children were all agog to hear the story.孩子们都渴望着要听这个故事。
• The city was agog with rumors last night that the two had been executed.那两人已被处决的传言昨晚搞得全城沸沸扬扬。

258 whining   

n. 抱怨，牢骚 v. 哭诉，发牢骚

参考例句：

• That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players. 你们这种又爱哭、又软弱、又可怜的赌棍就是这样。
• The dog sat outside the door whining (to be let in). 那条狗坐在门外狺狺叫着（要进来）。

259 herd   

n.兽群，牧群；vt.使集中，把…赶在一起

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见，只是人云亦云。

260 spats   

n.口角( spat的名词复数 )；小争吵；鞋罩；鞋套v.spit的过去式和过去分词( spat的第三人称单数 )；口角；小争吵；鞋罩

参考例句：

• Gasoline is a solvent liquid that removes grease spats. 汽油是一种能脱去油迹的有溶解能力的液体。 来自辞典例句
• Then spats took a catnap, and the bird looked out for dogs. 然后斯派茨小睡了一会儿。小鸟为它站岗放哨，防止狗跑过来。 来自互联网

261 fawn   

n.未满周岁的小鹿；v.巴结，奉承

参考例句：

• A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.树后面一只小鹿好奇地看着我们。
• He said you fawn on the manager in order to get a promotion.他说你为了获得提拔，拍经理的马屁。

262 tawny   

adj.茶色的，黄褐色的；n.黄褐色

参考例句：

• Her black hair springs in fine strands across her tawny,ruddy cheek.她的一头乌发分披在健康红润的脸颊旁。
• None of them noticed a large,tawny owl flutter past the window.他们谁也没注意到一只大的、褐色的猫头鹰飞过了窗户。

263 marionette   

n.木偶

参考例句：

• With this marionette I wish to travel through the world.我希望带着这个木偶周游世界。
• The development of marionette had a great influence on the future development of opera.木偶戏的发展对以后的戏曲有十分重要的影响。

264 leopards   

n.豹( leopard的名词复数 )；本性难移

参考例句：

• Lions, tigers and leopards are all cats. 狮、虎和豹都是猫科动物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• For example, airlines never ship leopards and canaries on the same flight. 例如，飞机上从来不会同时运送豹和金丝雀。 来自英语晨读30分（初三）

265 heyday   

n.全盛时期，青春期

参考例句：

• The 19th century was the heyday of steam railways.19世纪是蒸汽机车鼎盛的时代。
• She was a great singer in her heyday.她在自己的黄金时代是个了不起的歌唱家。

266 velvet   

n.丝绒，天鹅绒；adj.丝绒制的，柔软的

参考例句：

• This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
• The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。

267 vet   

n.兽医，退役军人；vt.检查

参考例句：

• I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
• Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。

268 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

269 mite   

n.极小的东西；小铜币

参考例句：

• The poor mite was so ill.可怜的孩子病得这么重。
• He is a mite taller than I.他比我高一点点。

270 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

271 advisers   

顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
• She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。

272 mimicking   

v.（尤指为了逗乐而）模仿( mimic的现在分词 )；酷似

参考例句：

• She's always mimicking the teachers. 她总喜欢模仿老师的言谈举止。
• The boy made us all laugh by mimicking the teacher's voice. 这男孩模仿老师的声音，逗得我们大家都笑了。 来自辞典例句

273 farmhouse   

n.农场住宅（尤指主要住房）

参考例句：

• We fell for the farmhouse as soon as we saw it.我们对那所农舍一见倾心。
• We put up for the night at a farmhouse.我们在一间农舍投宿了一夜。

274 raucous   

adj.(声音)沙哑的，粗糙的

参考例句：

• I heard sounds of raucous laughter upstairs.我听见楼上传来沙哑的笑声。
• They heard a bottle being smashed,then more raucous laughter.他们听见酒瓶摔碎的声音，然后是一阵更喧闹的笑声。

275 flop   

n.失败(者)，扑通一声；vi.笨重地行动，沉重地落下

参考例句：

• The fish gave a flop and landed back in the water.鱼扑通一声又跳回水里。
• The marketing campaign was a flop.The product didn't sell.市场宣传彻底失败，产品卖不出去。

276 sodden   

adj.浑身湿透的；v.使浸透；使呆头呆脑

参考例句：

• We stripped off our sodden clothes.我们扒下了湿透的衣服。
• The cardboard was sodden and fell apart in his hands.纸板潮得都发酥了，手一捏就碎。

277 beaver   

n.海狸，河狸

参考例句：

• The hat is made of beaver.这顶帽子是海狸毛皮制的。
• A beaver is an animals with big front teeth.海狸是一种长着大门牙的动物。

278 lodge   

v.临时住宿，寄宿，寄存，容纳；n.传达室，小旅馆

参考例句：

• Is there anywhere that I can lodge in the village tonight?村里有我今晚过夜的地方吗？
• I shall lodge at the inn for two nights.我要在这家小店住两个晚上。

279 lodges   

v.存放( lodge的第三人称单数 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• But I forget, if I ever heard, where he lodges in Liverpool. 可是我记不得有没有听他说过他在利物浦的住址。 来自辞典例句
• My friend lodges in my uncle's house. 我朋友寄居在我叔叔家。 来自辞典例句

280 bulge   

n.突出，膨胀，激增；vt.突出，膨胀

参考例句：

• The apple made a bulge in his pocket.苹果把他口袋塞得鼓了起来。
• What's that awkward bulge in your pocket?你口袋里那块鼓鼓囊囊的东西是什么？

281 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

282 brazen   

adj.厚脸皮的，无耻的，坚硬的

参考例句：

• The brazen woman laughed loudly at the judge who sentenced her.那无耻的女子冲着给她判刑的法官高声大笑。
• Some people prefer to brazen a thing out rather than admit defeat.有的人不愿承认失败，而是宁肯厚着脸皮干下去。

283 haggles   

n.讨价还价( haggle的名词复数 )v.讨价还价( haggle的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• An army of buyers haggles furiously with an army of salesmen. 一大群买主在和卖主拼命地讨价还价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He haggles over every ounce for everything. 他什么事都要斤斤计较。 来自互联网

284 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

286 tout   

v.推销，招徕；兜售；吹捧，劝诱

参考例句：

• They say it will let them tout progress in the war.他们称这将有助于鼓吹他们在战争中的成果。
• If your case studies just tout results,don't bother requiring registration to view them.如果你的案例研究只是吹捧结果，就别烦扰别人来注册访问了。

287 sergeant   

n.警官，中士

参考例句：

• His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
• How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？

288 galling   

adj.难堪的,使烦恼的,使焦躁的

参考例句：

• It was galling to have to apologize to a man she hated. 令人恼火的是得向她憎恶的男人道歉。
• The insolence in the fellow's eye was galling. 这家伙的傲慢目光令人恼怒。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

289 scrawled   

乱涂，潦草地写( scrawl的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• I tried to read his directions, scrawled on a piece of paper. 我尽量弄明白他草草写在一片纸上的指示。
• Tom scrawled on his slate, "Please take it -- I got more." 汤姆在他的写字板上写了几个字：“请你收下吧，我多得是哩。”

290 doorways   

n.门口，门道( doorway的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群，从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。 来自辞典例句
• He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。 来自辞典例句

291 spine   

n.脊柱，脊椎；(动植物的)刺；书脊

参考例句：

• He broke his spine in a fall from a horse.他从马上跌下摔断了脊梁骨。
• His spine developed a slight curve.他的脊柱有点弯曲。

292 muzzle   

n.鼻口部；口套；枪(炮)口；vt.使缄默

参考例句：

• He placed the muzzle of the pistol between his teeth.他把手枪的枪口放在牙齿中间。
• The President wanted to muzzle the press.总统企图遏制新闻自由。

293 stink   

vi.发出恶臭；糟透，招人厌恶；n.恶臭

参考例句：

• The stink of the rotten fish turned my stomach.腐烂的鱼臭味使我恶心。
• The room has awful stink.那个房间散发着难闻的臭气。

294 stinks   

v.散发出恶臭( stink的第三人称单数 )；发臭味；名声臭；糟透

参考例句：

• The whole scheme stinks to high heaven—don't get involved in it. 整件事十分卑鄙龌龊——可别陷了进去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The soup stinks of garlic. 这汤有大蒜气味。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

295 sprawls   

n.（城市）杂乱无序拓展的地区( sprawl的名词复数 )；随意扩展；蔓延物v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的第三人称单数 )；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）

参考例句：

• The city sprawls out to the west, north and south. 该市向西、北、南方不规则地扩张[延伸]。 来自互联网
• Explanation: Our magnificent Milky Way Galaxy sprawls across this ambitious all-sky panorama. 说明：我们宏伟的银河系蜿蜒穿过这幅高企图心之全天影像。 来自互联网

296 wriggling   

v.扭动，蠕动，蜿蜒行进( wriggle的现在分词 )；（使身体某一部位）扭动；耍滑不做，逃避（应做的事等）；蠕蠕

参考例句：

• The baby was wriggling around on my lap. 婴儿在我大腿上扭来扭去。
• Something that looks like a gray snake is wriggling out. 有一种看来象是灰蛇的东西蠕动着出来了。 来自辞典例句

297 shambles   

n.混乱之处；废墟

参考例句：

• My room is a shambles.我房间里乱七八糟。
• The fighting reduced the city to a shambles.这场战斗使这座城市成了一片废墟。

298 gluts   

n.供过于求( glut的名词复数 )；过量供应；放纵；尽量v.吃得过多( glut的第三人称单数 )；（对胃口、欲望等）纵情满足；使厌腻；塞满

参考例句：

• As a result there are localised gluts. 因此出现了供过于求的现象。 来自互联网
• Asia is a land of saving gluts flip side to US and European deficits. 亚洲是一个储蓄过剩之地，与美国和欧洲的储蓄不足刚好相反。 来自互联网

299 crunching   

v.嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼( crunch的现在分词 )；嘎吱作响；（快速大量地）处理信息；数字捣弄

参考例句：

• The horses were crunching their straw at their manger. 这些马在嘎吱嘎吱地吃槽里的草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The dog was crunching a bone. 狗正嘎吱嘎吱地嚼骨头。 来自《简明英汉词典》

300 vigilant   

adj.警觉的，警戒的，警惕的

参考例句：

• He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
• The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。

301 looms   

n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙，男的耕田，女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》

302 gull   

n.鸥；受骗的人；v.欺诈

参考例句：

• The ivory gull often follows polar bears to feed on the remains of seal kills.象牙海鸥经常跟在北极熊的后面吃剩下的海豹尸体。
• You are not supposed to gull your friends.你不应该欺骗你的朋友。

303 gulls   

n.鸥( gull的名词复数 )v.欺骗某人( gull的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• A flock of sea gulls are hovering over the deck. 一群海鸥在甲板上空飞翔。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The gulls which haunted the outlying rocks in a prodigious number. 数不清的海鸥在遥远的岩石上栖息。 来自辞典例句

304 beak   

n.鸟嘴，茶壶嘴，钩形鼻

参考例句：

• The bird had a worm in its beak.鸟儿嘴里叼着一条虫。
• This bird employs its beak as a weapon.这种鸟用嘴作武器。

305 beaks   

n.鸟嘴( beak的名词复数 )；鹰钩嘴；尖鼻子；掌权者

参考例句：

• Baby cockatoos will have black eyes and soft, almost flexible beaks. 雏鸟凤头鹦鹉黑色的眼睛是柔和的，嘴几乎是灵活的。 来自互联网
• Squid beaks are often found in the stomachs of sperm whales. 经常能在抹香鲸的胃里发现鱿鱼的嘴。 来自互联网

306 munching   

v.用力咀嚼（某物），大嚼( munch的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He was munching an apple. 他在津津有味地嚼着苹果。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Munching the apple as he was, he had an eye for all her movements. 他虽然啃着苹果，但却很留神地监视着她的每一个动作。 来自辞典例句

307 growls   

v.（动物）发狺狺声， （雷）作隆隆声( growl的第三人称单数 )；低声咆哮着说

参考例句：

• The dog growls at me. 狗向我狂吠。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• The loudest growls have echoed around emerging markets and commodities. 熊嚎之声响彻新兴的市场与商品。 来自互联网

308 knuckle   

n.指节；vi.开始努力工作；屈服，认输

参考例句：

• They refused to knuckle under to any pressure.他们拒不屈从任何压力。
• You'll really have to knuckle down if you want to pass the examination.如果想通过考试，你确实应专心学习。

309 dribbles   

n.涓滴( dribble的名词复数 )；细滴；少量（液体）v.流口水( dribble的第三人称单数 )；（使液体）滴下或作细流；运球，带球

参考例句：

• That faucet dribbles badly. 那个水龙头漏水严重。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Question: How do you make the dribbles like you always do them? 就像你经常做的，你怎么盘带？（估计也是个踢球的）。 来自互联网

310 hoop   

n.（篮球）篮圈，篮

参考例句：

• The child was rolling a hoop.那个孩子在滚铁环。
• The wooden tub is fitted with the iron hoop.木盆都用铁箍箍紧。

311 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

312 bucking   

v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的现在分词 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• a bucking bronco in the rodeo 牛仔竞技表演中一匹弓背跳跃的野马
• That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin's gut. 那就是说咱们要背这一袋袋的谷子，得把五脏都累坏。 来自辞典例句

313 spiked   

adj.有穗的；成锥形的；有尖顶的

参考例句：

• The editor spiked the story. 编辑删去了这篇报道。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They wondered whether their drinks had been spiked. 他们有些疑惑自己的饮料里是否被偷偷搀了烈性酒。 来自辞典例句

314 thong   

n.皮带；皮鞭；v.装皮带

参考例句：

• He fastened the dog to the post with a thong.他用一根皮带把狗拴到柱子上。
• If I switch with Harry,do I have to wear a thong?如果我和哈里调换，我应该穿皮带吗？

315 hyena   

n.土狼，鬣狗

参考例句：

• African hyena noted for its distinctive howl.非洲鬣狗，以其特别的嚎叫而闻名。
• The hyena's public image is not aided by its ridiculous appearance.鬣狗滑稽的外表无助于改善它在公众心中的形象。

316 saluting   

v.欢迎，致敬( salute的现在分词 )；赞扬，赞颂

参考例句：

• 'Thank you kindly, sir,' replied Long John, again saluting. “万分感谢，先生。”高个子约翰说着又行了个礼。 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
• He approached the young woman and, without saluting, began at once to converse with her. 他走近那年青女郎，马上就和她攀谈起来了，连招呼都不打。 来自辞典例句

317 umpteen   

adj.多的，大量的；n.许许多多

参考例句：

• That punk got into umpteen fights.那个混混打斗无数。
• I told him umpteen times,and yet he can't remember.我跟他说过好几百回了，可是他就是记不住。

318 solicitors   

初级律师( solicitor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Most solicitors in England and Wales are in private practice . 英格兰和威尔士的大多数律师都是私人执业者。
• The family has instructed solicitors to sue Thomson for compensation. 那家人已经指示律师起诉汤姆森，要求赔偿。

319 solicitor   

n.初级律师，事务律师

参考例句：

• The solicitor's advice gave me food for thought.律师的指点值得我深思。
• The solicitor moved for an adjournment of the case.律师请求将这个案件的诉讼延期。

320 fixed   

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。

321 abode   

n.住处，住所

参考例句：

• It was ten months before my father discovered his abode.父亲花了十个月的功夫，才好不容易打听到他的住处。
• Welcome to our humble abode!欢迎光临寒舍！

322 lawfully   

adv.守法地，合法地；合理地

参考例句：

• Lawfully established contracts shall be protected by law. 依法成立的合同应受法律保护。 来自口语例句
• As my lawfully wedded husband, in sickness and in health, till death parts us. 当成是我的合法丈夫，无论疾病灾难，直到死亡把我们分开。 来自电影对白

323 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。

324 besetting   

adj.不断攻击的v.困扰( beset的现在分词 )；不断围攻；镶；嵌

参考例句：

• Laziness is my besetting sin. 懒惰是我积重难返的恶习。 来自辞典例句
• His besetting sin is laziness. 他所易犯的毛病就是懒惰。 来自辞典例句

325 alibi   

n.某人当时不在犯罪现场的申辩或证明；借口

参考例句：

• Do you have any proof to substantiate your alibi? 你有证据表明你当时不在犯罪现场吗？
• The police are suspicious of his alibi because he already has a record.警方对他不在场的辩解表示怀疑，因为他已有前科。

326 crumpled   

adj. 弯扭的, 变皱的 动词crumple的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire. 她把那封信揉成一团扔进了火里。
• She flattened out the crumpled letter on the desk. 她在写字台上把皱巴巴的信展平。

327 rumpled   

v.弄皱，使凌乱( rumple的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She rumpled his hair playfully. 她顽皮地弄乱他的头发。
• The bed was rumpled and strewn with phonograph records. 那张床上凌乱不堪，散放着一些唱片。 来自辞典例句

328 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

329 confidential   

adj.秘（机）密的，表示信任的，担任机密工作的

参考例句：

• He refused to allow his secretary to handle confidential letters.他不让秘书处理机密文件。
• We have a confidential exchange of views.我们推心置腹地交换意见。

330 confidentially   

ad.秘密地，悄悄地

参考例句：

• She was leaning confidentially across the table. 她神神秘秘地从桌子上靠过来。
• Kao Sung-nien and Wang Ch'u-hou talked confidentially in low tones. 高松年汪处厚两人低声密谈。

331 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

332 entanglement   

n.纠缠，牵累

参考例句：

• This entanglement made Carrie anxious for a change of some sort.这种纠葛弄得嘉莉急于改变一下。
• There is some uncertainty about this entanglement with the city treasurer which you say exists.对于你所说的与市财政局长之间的纠葛,大家有些疑惑。

333 inspector   

n.检查员，监察员，视察员

参考例句：

• The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
• The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。

334 mercurial   

adj.善变的，活泼的

参考例句：

• He was of a mercurial temperament and therefore unpredictable.他是个反复无常的人，因此对他的行为无法预言。
• Our desires and aversions are mercurial rulers.我们的欲望与嫌恶是变化无常的统治者。

335 crimson   

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。

336 hatchet   

n.短柄小斧；v.扼杀

参考例句：

• I shall have to take a hatchet to that stump.我得用一把短柄斧来劈这树桩。
• Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.别用斧头拍打朋友额头上的苍蝇。

337 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

338 breach   

n.违反，不履行；破裂；vt.冲破，攻破

参考例句：

• We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
• He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。

339 peg   

n.木栓，木钉；vt.用木钉钉，用短桩固定

参考例句：

• Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
• He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。

340 miserable   

adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的

参考例句：

• It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
• Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。

341 flirt   

v.调情，挑逗，调戏；n.调情者，卖俏者

参考例句：

• He used to flirt with every girl he met.过去他总是看到一个姑娘便跟她调情。
• He watched the stranger flirt with his girlfriend and got fighting mad.看着那个陌生人和他女朋友调情，他都要抓狂了。

342 inebriated   

adj.酒醉的

参考例句：

• He was inebriated by his phenomenal success. 他陶醉于他显赫的成功。 来自互联网
• Drunken driver(a driver who is inebriated). 喝醉了的司机（醉酒的司机） 来自互联网

343 vaguely   

adv.含糊地，暖昧地

参考例句：

• He had talked vaguely of going to work abroad.他含糊其词地说了到国外工作的事。
• He looked vaguely before him with unseeing eyes.他迷迷糊糊的望着前面，对一切都视而不见。

344 thoroughly   

adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地

参考例句：

• The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
• The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。

345 mare   

n.母马，母驴

参考例句：

• The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable.那匹母马刚刚在马厩里产下了一只小马驹。
• The mare foundered under the heavy load and collapsed in the road.那母马因负载过重而倒在路上。

346 scapegoat   

n.替罪的羔羊，替人顶罪者；v.使…成为替罪羊

参考例句：

• He has been made a scapegoat for the company's failures.他成了公司倒闭的替罪羊。
• They ask me to join the party so that I'll be their scapegoat when trouble comes.他们想叫我入伙，出了乱子，好让我替他们垫背。

347 distinguished   

adj.卓越的，杰出的，著名的

参考例句：

• Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses.大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
• A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests.宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。

348 regiment   

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。

349 metropolitan   

adj.大城市的，大都会的

参考例句：

• Metropolitan buildings become taller than ever.大城市的建筑变得比以前更高。
• Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.大都市的居民习惯于快节奏。

350 guardians   

监护人( guardian的名词复数 )； 保护者，维护者

参考例句：

• Farmers should be guardians of the countryside. 农民应是乡村的保卫者。
• The police are guardians of law and order. 警察是法律和秩序的护卫者。

351 reign   

n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势

参考例句：

• The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
• The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。

352 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

353 sable   

n.黑貂；adj.黑色的

参考例句：

• Artists' brushes are sometimes made of sable.画家的画笔有的是用貂毛制的。
• Down the sable flood they glided.他们在黑黝黝的洪水中随波逐流。

354 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。

355 quill   

n.羽毛管；v.给（织物或衣服）作皱褶

参考例句：

• He wrote with a quill.他用羽毛笔写字。
• She dipped a quill in ink,and then began to write.她将羽毛笔在墨水里蘸了一下，随后开始书写。

356 dangles   

悬吊着( dangle的第三人称单数 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• A kite dangles from a telephone wire. 一只风筝悬挂在电话线上晃来晃去。
• Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. 她一只手耷拉在一边，闪耀着珠宝的寒光。

357 creased   

（使…）起折痕，弄皱( crease的过去式和过去分词 )； （皮肤）皱起，使起皱纹； 皱皱巴巴

参考例句：

• You've creased my newspaper. 你把我的报纸弄皱了。
• The bullet merely creased his shoulder. 子弹只不过擦破了他肩部的皮肤。

358 portfolio   

n.公事包；文件夹；大臣及部长职位

参考例句：

• He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
• He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。

359 romp   

n.欢闹；v.嬉闹玩笑

参考例句：

• The child went for a romp in the forest.那个孩子去森林快活一把。
• Dogs and little children romped happily in the garden.狗和小孩子们在花园里嬉戏。

360 loathsome   

adj.讨厌的，令人厌恶的

参考例句：

• The witch hid her loathsome face with her hands.巫婆用手掩住她那张令人恶心的脸。
• Some people think that snakes are loathsome creatures.有些人觉得蛇是令人憎恶的动物。

361 plagiarist   

n.剽窃者，文抄公

参考例句：

• Plagiarist is always suspicious of is steal from. 剽窃者老是怀疑自己的东西会被偷走。 来自互联网

362 sneak   

vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝)；偷偷摸摸做；n.潜行；adj.暗中进行

参考例句：

• He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
• I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。

363 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

364 liar   

n.说谎的人

参考例句：

• I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了，一个又偷又骗的家伙！
• She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。

365 meekness   

n.温顺，柔和

参考例句：

• Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk. 阿密阳奉阴违地一直缝到黄昏。 来自辞典例句
• 'I am pretty well, I thank you,' answered Mr. Lorry, with meekness; 'how are you?' “很好，谢谢，”罗瑞先生回答，态度温驯，“你好么？” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

366 superciliously   

adv.高傲地；傲慢地

参考例句：

• Madame Defarge looked superciliously at the client, and nodded in confirmation. 德伐日太太轻蔑地望了望客人，点头同意。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记

367 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

368 considerably   

adv.极大地；相当大地；在很大程度上

参考例句：

• The economic situation has changed considerably.经济形势已发生了相当大的变化。
• The gap has narrowed considerably.分歧大大缩小了。

369 foul   

adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规

参考例句：

• Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
• What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

370 specimen   

n.样本，标本

参考例句：

• You'll need tweezers to hold up the specimen.你要用镊子来夹这标本。
• This specimen is richly variegated in colour.这件标本上有很多颜色。

371 overdrawn   

透支( overdraw的过去分词 )； (overdraw的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The characters in this novel are rather overdrawn. 这本小说中的人物描写得有些夸张。
• His account of the bank robbery is somewhat overdrawn. 他对银行抢案的叙述有些夸张。

372 conspirator   

n.阴谋者，谋叛者

参考例句：

• We started abusing him,one conspirator after another adding his bitter words.我们这几个预谋者一个接一个地咒骂他，恶狠狠地骂个不停。
• A conspirator is not of the stuff to bear surprises.谋反者是经不起惊吓的。

373 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

374 flannel   

n.法兰绒；法兰绒衣服

参考例句：

• She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
• She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子，看上去楚楚动人。

375 pilfering   

v.偷窃（小东西），小偷( pilfer的现在分词 )；偷窃（一般指小偷小摸）

参考例句：

• He was caught pilfering. 他行窃时被抓个正着。
• Pilfering has stopped entirely since they put Angus in charge of the stores. 自从他们让安格斯掌管商店以来，小偷小摸就杜绝了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

376 oysters   

牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
• She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。

377 premises   

n.建筑物，房屋

参考例句：

• According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定，场内不准饮酒。
• All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行，不用送到外面去做。

378 hopping   

n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The clubs in town are really hopping. 城里的俱乐部真够热闹的。
• I'm hopping over to Paris for the weekend. 我要去巴黎度周末。

379 interfered   

v.干预( interfere的过去式和过去分词 )；调停；妨碍；干涉

参考例句：

• Complete absorption in sports interfered with his studies. 专注于运动妨碍了他的学业。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I am not going to be interfered with. 我不想别人干扰我的事情。 来自《简明英汉词典》

380 remonstrated   

v.抗议( remonstrate的过去式和过去分词 )；告诫

参考例句：

• They remonstrated with the official about the decision. 他们就这一决定向这位官员提出了抗议。
• We remonstrated against the ill-treatment of prisoners of war. 我们对虐待战俘之事提出抗议。 来自辞典例句

381 resonantly   

adv.共鸣地，反响地

参考例句：

• Richly scanted dark berry and plum aroma with complex fruitcake, richness and resonantly depth. 浓郁的黑浆果和李子的香味混合糕饼的香味。 来自互联网
• The cow carries on the back boy's piccolo, this time also day long in resonantly sound. 牛背上牧童的短笛，这时候也成天在嘹亮地响。 来自互联网

382 bog   

n.沼泽；室...陷入泥淖

参考例句：

• We were able to pass him a rope before the bog sucked him under.我们终于得以在沼泽把他吞没前把绳子扔给他。
• The path goes across an area of bog.这条小路穿过一片沼泽。

383 unintelligible   

adj.无法了解的，难解的，莫明其妙的

参考例句：

• If a computer is given unintelligible data, it returns unintelligible results.如果计算机得到的是难以理解的数据，它给出的也将是难以理解的结果。
• The terms were unintelligible to ordinary folk.这些术语一般人是不懂的。

384 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

385 nurtured   

养育( nurture的过去式和过去分词 )； 培育； 滋长； 助长

参考例句：

• She is looking fondly at the plants he had nurtured. 她深情地看着他培育的植物。
• Any latter-day Einstein would still be spotted and nurtured. 任何一个未来的爱因斯坦都会被发现并受到培养。

386 nurture   

n.养育，照顾，教育；滋养，营养品；vt.养育，给与营养物，教养，扶持

参考例句：

• The tree grows well in his nurture.在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
• The two sisters had received very different nurture.这俩个姊妹接受过极不同的教育。

387 lapses   

n.失误，过失( lapse的名词复数 )；小毛病；行为失检；偏离正道v.退步( lapse的第三人称单数 )；陷入；倒退；丧失

参考例句：

• He sometimes lapses from good behavior. 他有时行为失检。 来自辞典例句
• He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. 他可以宽恕突然发作的歇斯底里，惊慌失措，恶劣的莫名其妙的动作，各种各样的失误。 来自辞典例句

388 homely   

adj.家常的，简朴的；不漂亮的

参考例句：

• We had a homely meal of bread and cheese.我们吃了一顿面包加乳酪的家常便餐。
• Come and have a homely meal with us,will you?来和我们一起吃顿家常便饭，好吗？

389 permeated   

弥漫( permeate的过去式和过去分词 )； 遍布； 渗入； 渗透

参考例句：

• The smell of leather permeated the room. 屋子里弥漫着皮革的气味。
• His public speeches were permeated with hatred of injustice. 在他对民众的演说里，充满了对不公正的愤慨。

390 bosom   

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。

391 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

392 mumbles   

含糊的话或声音，咕哝( mumble的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He always mumbles when he's embarrassed. 他感到难为情时说话就含糊不清了。
• When the old lady speaks she often mumbles her words. 这位老妇人说起话来常常含糊不清。

393 bowel   

n.肠(尤指人肠)；内部，深处

参考例句：

• Irritable bowel syndrome seems to affect more women than men.女性比男性更易患肠易激综合征。
• Have you had a bowel movement today?你今天有排便吗？

394 untold   

adj.数不清的，无数的

参考例句：

• She has done untold damage to our chances.她给我们的机遇造成了不可估量的损害。
• They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort.他们遭受着黑暗中的难以言传的种种恐怖，因而只好挤在一堆互相壮胆。

395 misery   

n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦

参考例句：

• Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
• He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。

396 spinach   

n.菠菜

参考例句：

• Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
• You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。

397 whitewash   

v.粉刷，掩饰；n.石灰水，粉刷，掩饰

参考例句：

• They tried hard to whitewash themselves.他们力图粉饰自己。
• What he said was a load of whitewash.他所说的是一大堆粉饰之词。

398 wig   

n.假发

参考例句：

• The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
• He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。

399 levity   

n.轻率，轻浮，不稳定，多变

参考例句：

• His remarks injected a note of levity into the proceedings.他的话将一丝轻率带入了议事过程中。
• At the time,Arnold had disapproved of such levity.那时候的阿诺德对这种轻浮行为很看不惯。

400 travesty   

n.歪曲，嘲弄，滑稽化

参考例句：

• The trial was a travesty of justice.这次审判嘲弄了法律的公正性。
• The play was,in their view,a travesty of the truth.这个剧本在他们看来是对事实的歪曲。

401 stowaway   

n.（藏于轮船，飞机中的）偷乘者

参考例句：

• The stowaway masqueraded as a crew member.偷渡者假扮成乘务员。
• The crew discovered the stowaway about two days into their voyage.船员在开船约两天后发现了那名偷乘者。

402 trumped   

v.（牌戏）出王牌赢（一牌或一墩）( trump的过去分词 )；吹号公告，吹号庆祝；吹喇叭；捏造

参考例句：

• That woman trumped up various baseless charges against him. 那个女人捏造种种毫无根据的罪名指控他。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Several of his colleagues trumped up a complaint to get him removed from the job. 他的几位同事诬告他，使他丟掉了工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》

403 momentary   

adj.片刻的，瞬息的；短暂的

参考例句：

• We are in momentary expectation of the arrival of you.我们无时无刻不在盼望你的到来。
• I caught a momentary glimpse of them.我瞥了他们一眼。

404 aberration   

n.离开正路，脱离常规，色差

参考例句：

• The removal of the chromatic aberration is then of primary importance.这时消除色差具有头等重要性。
• Owing to a strange mental aberration he forgot his own name.由于一种莫名的精神错乱，他把自己的名字忘了。

405 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

406 intimacy   

n.熟悉，亲密，密切关系，亲昵的言行

参考例句：

• His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.他声称自己与总统关系密切，这有点言过其实。
• I wish there were a rule book for intimacy.我希望能有个关于亲密的规则。

407 virtue   

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。

408 solicited   

v.恳求( solicit的过去式和过去分词 )；（指娼妇）拉客；索求；征求

参考例句：

• He's already solicited their support on health care reform. 他已就医疗改革问题请求他们的支持。 来自辞典例句
• We solicited ideas from Princeton University graduates and under graduates. 我们从普林斯顿大学的毕业生与大学生中征求意见。 来自辞典例句

409 shipwreck   

n.船舶失事，海难

参考例句：

• He walked away from the shipwreck.他船难中平安地脱险了。
• The shipwreck was a harrowing experience.那次船难是一个惨痛的经历。

410 wreck   

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。

411 narrated   

v.故事( narrate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Some of the story was narrated in the film. 该电影叙述了这个故事的部分情节。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Defoe skilfully narrated the adventures of Robinson Crusoe on his desert island. 笛福生动地叙述了鲁滨逊·克鲁索在荒岛上的冒险故事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

412 submission   

n.服从，投降；温顺，谦虚；提出

参考例句：

• The defeated general showed his submission by giving up his sword.战败将军缴剑表示投降。
• No enemy can frighten us into submission.任何敌人的恐吓都不能使我们屈服。

413 dazedly   

头昏眼花地，眼花缭乱地，茫然地

参考例句：

• Chu Kuei-ying stared dazedly at her mother for a moment, but said nothing. 朱桂英怔怔地望着她母亲，不作声。 来自子夜部分
• He wondered dazedly whether the term after next at his new school wouldn't matter so much. 他昏头昏脑地想，不知道新学校的第三个学期是不是不那么重要。

414 hitches   

暂时的困难或问题( hitch的名词复数 )； 意外障碍； 急拉； 绳套

参考例句：

• He hitches a lift with a long - distance truck. 他搭上了一辆长途卡车。
• One shoulder hitches upward in a shrug. 她肩膀绷紧，然后耸了耸。

415 shrug   

v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等)

参考例句：

• With a shrug,he went out of the room.他耸一下肩，走出了房间。
• I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.我很佩服她能对错误的批评意见不予理会。

416 obeisance   

n.鞠躬，敬礼

参考例句：

• He made obeisance to the king.他向国王表示臣服。
• While he was still young and strong all paid obeisance to him.他年轻力壮时所有人都对他毕恭毕敬。

417 salutes   

n.致敬，欢迎，敬礼( salute的名词复数 )v.欢迎，致敬( salute的第三人称单数 )；赞扬，赞颂

参考例句：

• Poulengey salutes, and stands at the door awaiting orders. 波仑日行礼，站在门口听侯命令。 来自辞典例句
• A giant of the world salutes you. 一位世界的伟人向你敬礼呢。 来自辞典例句

418 gee   

n.马；int.向右！前进！，惊讶时所发声音；v.向右转

参考例句：

• Their success last week will gee the team up.上星期的胜利将激励这支队伍继续前进。
• Gee,We're going to make a lot of money.哇！我们会赚好多钱啦！

419 badger   

v.一再烦扰，一再要求，纠缠

参考例句：

• Now that our debts are squared.Don't badger me with them any more.我们的债务两清了。从此以后不要再纠缠我了。
• If you badger him long enough,I'm sure he'll agree.只要你天天纠缠他，我相信他会同意。

420 hyenas   

n.鬣狗( hyena的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• These animals were the prey of hyenas. 这些动物是鬣狗的猎物。 来自辞典例句
• We detest with horror the duplicity and villainy of the murderous hyenas of Bukharinite wreckers. 我们非常憎恨布哈林那帮两面三刀、杀人破坏，干尽坏事的豺狼。 来自辞典例句

421 mosaic   

n./adj.镶嵌细工的，镶嵌工艺品的，嵌花式的

参考例句：

• The sky this morning is a mosaic of blue and white.今天早上的天空是幅蓝白相间的画面。
• The image mosaic is a troublesome work.图象镶嵌是个麻烦的工作。

422 cod   

n.鳕鱼；v.愚弄；哄骗

参考例句：

• They salt down cod for winter use.他们腌鳕鱼留着冬天吃。
• Cod are found in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.北大西洋和北海有鳕鱼。

423 superseded   

[医]被代替的，废弃的

参考例句：

• The theory has been superseded by more recent research. 这一理论已为新近的研究所取代。
• The use of machinery has superseded manual labour. 机器的使用已经取代了手工劳动。

424 tampered   

v.窜改( tamper的过去式 )；篡改；（用不正当手段）影响；瞎摆弄

参考例句：

• The records of the meeting had been tampered with. 会议记录已被人擅自改动。 来自辞典例句
• The old man's will has been tampered with. 老人的遗嘱已被窜改。 来自辞典例句

425 defendant   

n.被告；adj.处于被告地位的

参考例句：

• The judge rejected a bribe from the defendant's family.法官拒收被告家属的贿赂。
• The defendant was borne down by the weight of evidence.有力的证据使被告认输了。

426 rebutting   

v.反驳，驳回( rebut的现在分词 )；击退

参考例句：

• The union countered with letters rebutting the company's claims. 工会写信驳回了公司的要求。 来自辞典例句

427 butting   

用头撞人（犯规动作）

参考例句：

• When they were talking Mary kept butting in. 当他们在谈话时，玛丽老是插嘴。
• A couple of goats are butting each other. 两只山羊在用角互相顶撞。

428 persecute   

vt.迫害，虐待；纠缠，骚扰

参考例句：

• They persecute those who do not conform to their ideas.他们迫害那些不信奉他们思想的人。
• Hitler's undisguised effort to persecute the Jews met with worldwide condemnation.希特勒对犹太人的露骨迫害行为遭到世界人民的谴责。

429 innately   

adv.天赋地；内在地，固有地

参考例句：

• Innately conservative, Confucius was fascinated by the last of these disciplines. 由于生性保守，孔子特别推崇“礼”。 来自英汉非文学 - 文明史
• Different individuals are innately fitted for different kinds of employment. 不同的人适合不同的职业，这是天生的。 来自互联网

430 modesty   

n.谦逊，虚心，端庄，稳重，羞怯，朴素

参考例句：

• Industry and modesty are the chief factors of his success.勤奋和谦虚是他成功的主要因素。
• As conceit makes one lag behind,so modesty helps one make progress.骄傲使人落后，谦虚使人进步。

431 dastard   

n.卑怯之人，懦夫；adj.怯懦的，畏缩的

参考例句：

• He is nothing but a chicken-hearted dastard.他只是一个胆怯的懦夫。
• "Yes,you pitiful dastard," retorted the lovely damsel.“是的，你这个卑鄙的胆小鬼，”那位美丽的少女反唇相讥。

432 minor   

adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修

参考例句：

• The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
• I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。

433 blurred   

v.（使）变模糊( blur的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）难以区分；模模糊糊；迷离

参考例句：

• She suffered from dizziness and blurred vision. 她饱受头晕目眩之苦。
• Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears. 他们那种慢吞吞、含糊不清的声音在他听起来却很悦耳。 来自《简明英汉词典》

434 haze   

n.霾，烟雾；懵懂，迷糊；vi.(over)变模糊

参考例句：

• I couldn't see her through the haze of smoke.在烟雾弥漫中，我看不见她。
• He often lives in a haze of whisky.他常常是在威士忌的懵懂醉意中度过的。

435 lengthens   

（时间或空间）延长，伸长( lengthen的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• In summer, the daylight hour lengthens. 夏天，白天的时间长。
• Summer lengthens (out) into autumn. 夏去秋来。

436 blotches   

n.（皮肤上的）红斑，疹块( blotch的名词复数 )；大滴 [大片]（墨水或颜色的）污渍

参考例句：

• His skin was covered with unsightly blotches. 他的皮肤上长满了难看的疹块。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His face was covered in red blotches, seemingly a nasty case of acne. 他满脸红斑，像是起了很严重的粉刺。 来自辞典例句

437 hectic   

adj.肺病的；消耗热的；发热的；闹哄哄的

参考例句：

• I spent a very hectic Sunday.我度过了一个忙乱的星期天。
• The two days we spent there were enjoyable but hectic.我们在那里度过的两天愉快但闹哄哄的。

438 gallop   

v./n.(马或骑马等)飞奔；飞速发展

参考例句：

• They are coming at a gallop towards us.他们正朝着我们飞跑过来。
• The horse slowed to a walk after its long gallop.那匹马跑了一大阵后慢下来缓步而行。

439 galloping   

adj. 飞驰的, 急性的 动词gallop的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The horse started galloping the moment I gave it a good dig. 我猛戳了马一下，它就奔驰起来了。
• Japan is galloping ahead in the race to develop new technology. 日本在发展新技术的竞争中进展迅速，日新月异。

440 eloquence   

n.雄辩；口才，修辞

参考例句：

• I am afraid my eloquence did not avail against the facts.恐怕我的雄辩也无补于事实了。
• The people were charmed by his eloquence.人们被他的口才迷住了。

441 pensive   

a.沉思的,哀思的,忧沉的

参考例句：

• He looked suddenly sombre,pensive.他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。
• He became so pensive that she didn't like to break into his thought.他陷入沉思之中,她不想打断他的思路。

442 astronomer   

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。

443 panache   

n.羽饰；假威风，炫耀

参考例句：

• She dresses with great panache.她穿著十分浮华。
• Her panache at dealing with the world's media is quite astonishing.她应付世界媒体的派头非常令人吃惊。

444 prey   

n.被掠食者，牺牲者，掠食；v.捕食，掠夺，折磨

参考例句：

• Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
• The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。

445 constable   

n.(英国)警察，警官

参考例句：

• The constable conducted the suspect to the police station.警官把嫌疑犯带到派出所。
• The constable kept his temper,and would not be provoked.那警察压制着自己的怒气，不肯冒起火来。

446 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

447 inflamed   

adj.发炎的，红肿的v.（使）变红，发怒，过热( inflame的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• His comments have inflamed teachers all over the country. 他的评论激怒了全国教师。
• Her joints are severely inflamed. 她的关节严重发炎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

448 lame   

adj.跛的，(辩解、论据等)无说服力的

参考例句：

• The lame man needs a stick when he walks.那跛脚男子走路时需借助拐棍。
• I don't believe his story.It'sounds a bit lame.我不信他讲的那一套。他的话听起来有些靠不住。

449 improper   

adj.不适当的，不合适的，不正确的，不合礼仪的

参考例句：

• Short trousers are improper at a dance.舞会上穿短裤不成体统。
• Laughing and joking are improper at a funeral.葬礼时大笑和开玩笑是不合适的。

450 overtures   

n.主动的表示，提议；（向某人做出的）友好表示、姿态或提议( overture的名词复数 )；（歌剧、芭蕾舞、音乐剧等的）序曲，前奏曲

参考例句：

• Their government is making overtures for peace. 他们的政府正在提出和平建议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship. 最近他开始主动表示友好，样子笨拙却又招人喜爱。 来自辞典例句

451 cone   

n.圆锥体，圆锥形东西，球果

参考例句：

• Saw-dust piled up in a great cone.锯屑堆积如山。
• The police have sectioned off part of the road with traffic cone.警察用锥形路标把部分路面分隔开来。

452 mantle   

n.斗篷，覆罩之物，罩子；v.罩住，覆盖，脸红

参考例句：

• The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green.大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
• The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow.山上覆盖着一层雪。

453 sleety   

雨夹雪的，下雨雪的

参考例句：

• The sleety frozen earth began to soften under thaw and the rain. 薄冰冻结的土地在春融雨淋之下漫漫地软化了。
• PredictaBly the winter will Be snowy, sleety and slushy. 估计今年冬天将雨雪纷飞、泥泞不堪。

454 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

455 cistern   

n.贮水池

参考例句：

• The cistern is empty but soon fills again.蓄水池里现在没水，但不久就会储满水的。
• The lavatory cistern overflowed.厕所水箱的水溢出来了

456 culled   

v.挑选，剔除( cull的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The herd must be culled. 必须有选择地杀掉部分牧畜。 来自辞典例句
• The facts were culled from various sources. 这些事实是从各方收集到的。 来自辞典例句

457 elicited   

引出，探出( elicit的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Threats to reinstate the tax elicited jeer from the Opposition. 恢复此项征税的威胁引起了反对党的嘲笑。
• The comedian's joke elicited applause and laughter from the audience. 那位滑稽演员的笑话博得观众的掌声和笑声。

458 purloined   

v.偷窃( purloin的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• You have chosen align yourself with those who have purloined the very seat of your existence. 你们选择了将自己与那些盗取了你们存在之真正席位的人相校准。 来自互联网

459 hurrah   

int.好哇，万岁，乌拉

参考例句：

• We hurrah when we see the soldiers go by.我们看到士兵经过时向他们欢呼。
• The assistants raised a formidable hurrah.助手们发出了一片震天的欢呼声。

460 cuffs   

n.袖口( cuff的名词复数 )v.掌打，拳打( cuff的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• a collar and cuffs of white lace 带白色蕾丝花边的衣领和袖口
• The cuffs of his shirt were fraying. 他衬衣的袖口磨破了。

461 fulsome   

adj.可恶的，虚伪的，过分恭维的

参考例句：

• They tried to please him with fulsome compliments and extravagant gifts.他们想用溢美之词和奢华的礼品来取悦他。
• Newspapers have been fulsome in their praise of the former president.报纸上对前总统都是些溢美之词。

462 envious   

adj.嫉妒的，羡慕的

参考例句：

• I don't think I'm envious of your success.我想我并不嫉妒你的成功。
• She is envious of Jane's good looks and covetous of her car.她既忌妒简的美貌又垂涎她的汽车。

463 proximity   

n.接近，邻近

参考例句：

• Marriages in proximity of blood are forbidden by the law.法律规定禁止近亲结婚。
• Their house is in close proximity to ours.他们的房子很接近我们的。

464 garnished   

v.给（上餐桌的食物）加装饰( garnish的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her robes were garnished with gems. 她的礼服上装饰着宝石。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Serve the dish garnished with wedges of lime. 给这道菜配上几角酸橙。 来自《简明英汉词典》

465 lauded   

v.称赞，赞美( laud的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• They lauded the former president as a hero. 他们颂扬前总统为英雄。 来自辞典例句
• The nervy feats of the mountaineers were lauded. 登山者有勇气的壮举受到赞美。 来自辞典例句

466 extravagantly   

adv.挥霍无度地

参考例句：

• The Monroes continued to entertain extravagantly. 门罗一家继续大宴宾客。 来自辞典例句
• New Grange is one of the most extravagantly decorated prehistoric tombs. 新格兰奇是装饰最豪华的史前陵墓之一。 来自辞典例句

467 nether   

adj.下部的，下面的；n.阴间；下层社会

参考例句：

• This terracotta army well represents his ambition yet to be realized in the nether-world.这一批兵马俑很可能代表他死后也要去实现的雄心。
• He was escorted back to the nether regions of Main Street.他被护送回中央大道南面的地方。

468 extremities   

n.端点( extremity的名词复数 )；尽头；手和足；极窘迫的境地

参考例句：

• She was most noticeable, I thought, in respect of her extremities. 我觉得她那副穷极可怜的样子实在太惹人注目。 来自辞典例句
• Winters may be quite cool at the northwestern extremities. 西北边区的冬天也可能会相当凉。 来自辞典例句

469 swell   

vi.膨胀，肿胀；增长，增强

参考例句：

• The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
• His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。

470 swelling   

n.肿胀

参考例句：

• Use ice to reduce the swelling. 用冰敷消肿。
• There is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes. 淋巴结处有明显的肿块。

471 calves   

n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子，腓；腿肚子( calf的名词复数 )；牛犊；腓；小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 )；（冰川）崩解；生（小牛等），产（犊）；使（冰川）崩解

参考例句：

• a cow suckling her calves 给小牛吃奶的母牛
• The calves are grazed intensively during their first season. 小牛在生长的第一季里集中喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》

472 conjure   

v.恳求，祈求；变魔术，变戏法

参考例句：

• I conjure you not to betray me.我恳求你不要背弃我。
• I can't simply conjure up the money out of thin air.我是不能像变魔术似的把钱变来。

473 defile   

v.弄污，弄脏；n.(山间)小道

参考例句：

• Don't defile the land of our ancestors!再不要污染我们先祖们的大地！
• We respect the faith of Islam, even as we fight those whose actions defile that faith.我们尊重伊斯兰教的信仰，并与玷污伊斯兰教的信仰的行为作斗争。

474 honourable   

adj.可敬的；荣誉的，光荣的

参考例句：

• I don't think I am worthy of such an honourable title.这样的光荣称号，我可担当不起。
• I hope to find an honourable way of settling difficulties.我希望设法找到一个体面的办法以摆脱困境。

475 centaur   

n.人首马身的怪物

参考例句：

• His face reminded me somehow of a centaur.他的脸使我想起半人半马的怪物。
• No wonder he had soon been hustled away to centaur school.也难怪父母匆匆忙忙就把他送到了半人马学校。

476 plebeian   

adj.粗俗的；平民的；n.平民；庶民

参考例句：

• He is a philosophy professor with a cockney accent and an alarmingly plebeian manner.他是个有一口伦敦土腔、举止粗俗不堪的哲学教授。
• He spent all day playing rackets on the beach,a plebeian sport if there ever was one.他一整天都在海滩玩壁球，再没有比这更不入流的运动了。

477 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

478 nude   

adj.裸体的；n.裸体者，裸体艺术品

参考例句：

• It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.这是一幅阿尔巴公爵夫人的裸体肖像画。
• She doesn't like nude swimming.她不喜欢裸泳。

479 frail   

adj.身体虚弱的；易损坏的

参考例句：

• Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herself.华纳太太已经九十六岁了，身体虚弱，不便独居。
• She lay in bed looking particularly frail.她躺在床上，看上去特别虚弱。

480 illicit   

adj.非法的，禁止的，不正当的

参考例句：

• He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
• Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。

481 intercourse   

n.性交；交流，交往，交际

参考例句：

• The magazine becomes a cultural medium of intercourse between the two peoples.该杂志成为两民族间文化交流的媒介。
• There was close intercourse between them.他们过往很密。

482 garrison   

n.卫戍部队；驻地，卫戍区；vt.派(兵)驻防

参考例句：

• The troops came to the relief of the besieged garrison.军队来援救被围的守备军。
• The German was moving to stiffen up the garrison in Sicily.德军正在加强西西里守军之力量。

483 implored   

恳求或乞求（某人）( implore的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She implored him to stay. 她恳求他留下。
• She implored him with tears in her eyes to forgive her. 她含泪哀求他原谅她。

484 chastise   

vt.责骂，严惩

参考例句：

• My father used to chastise my brothers with whips.父亲过去常以鞭打惩罚我的兄弟。
• Should I applaud my husband or chastise him?我是该称赞还是责罚我的丈夫呢？

485 jingling   

叮当声

参考例句：

• A carriage went jingling by with some reclining figure in it. 一辆马车叮当驶过，车上斜倚着一个人。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• Melanie did not seem to know, or care, that life was riding by with jingling spurs. 媚兰好像并不知道，或者不关心，生活正马刺丁当地一路驶过去了呢。

486 scourge   

n.灾难，祸害；v.蹂躏

参考例句：

• Smallpox was once the scourge of the world.天花曾是世界的大患。
• The new boss was the scourge of the inefficient.新老板来了以后，不称职的人就遭殃了。

487 flay   

vt.剥皮；痛骂

参考例句：

• You cannot flay the same ox twice.一头牛不能剥两次皮。
• He was going to flay that stranger with every trick known to the law.他要用法律上所有的招数来痛斥那个陌生人。

488 quails   

鹌鹑( quail的名词复数 )； 鹌鹑肉

参考例句：

• Speckled quails rustled in the underbrush. 鹌鹑在矮树丛里沙沙作响。
• I went out to pop some quails. 我出去打几只鹌鹑。

489 cringing   

adj.谄媚，奉承

参考例句：

• He had a cringing manner but a very harsh voice.他有卑屈谄媚的神情，但是声音却十分粗沙。
• She stepped towards him with a movement that was horribly cringing.她冲他走了一步，做出一个低三下四，令人作呕的动作。

490 spank   

v.打，拍打(在屁股上)

参考例句：

• Be careful.If you don't work hard,I'll spank your bottom.你再不好好学习，小心被打屁股。
• He does it very often.I really get mad.I can't help spank him sometimes.他经常这样做。我很气愤。有时候我忍不住打他的屁股。

491 spanking   

adj.强烈的，疾行的；n.打屁股

参考例句：

• The boat is spanking along on the river.船在小河疾驶。
• He heard a horse approaching at a spanking trot.他听到一匹马正在疾步驰近。

492 tingling   

v.有刺痛感( tingle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• My ears are tingling [humming; ringing; singing]. 我耳鸣。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• My tongue is tingling. 舌头发麻。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

493 stimulate   

vt.刺激，使兴奋；激励，使…振奋

参考例句：

• Your encouragement will stimulate me to further efforts.你的鼓励会激发我进一步努力。
• Success will stimulate the people for fresh efforts.成功能鼓舞人们去作新的努力。

494 derisively   

adv. 嘲笑地，嘲弄地

参考例句：

• This answer came derisively from several places at the same instant. 好几个人都不约而同地以讥讽的口吻作出回答。
• The others laughed derisively. 其余的人不以为然地笑了起来。

495 dormant   

adj.暂停活动的；休眠的；潜伏的

参考例句：

• Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.在冬天许多动物都处于睡眠状态。
• This dormant volcano suddenly fired up.这座休眠火山突然爆发了。

496 vindictively   

adv.恶毒地；报复地

参考例句：

• He plotted vindictively against his former superiors. 他策划着要对他原来的上司进行报复。 来自互联网
• His eyes snapped vindictively, while his ears joyed in the sniffles she emitted. 眼睛一闪一闪放出惩罚的光，他听见地抽泣，心里更高兴。 来自互联网

497 ginger   

n.姜，精力，淡赤黄色；adj.淡赤黄色的；vt.使活泼，使有生气

参考例句：

• There is no ginger in the young man.这个年轻人没有精神。
• Ginger shall be hot in the mouth.生姜吃到嘴里总是辣的。

498 mien   

n.风采；态度

参考例句：

• He was a Vietnam veteran with a haunted mien.他是个越战老兵，举止总有些惶然。
• It was impossible to tell from his mien whether he was offended.从他的神态中难以看出他是否生气了。

499 ambrosial   

adj.美味的

参考例句：

• The ambrosial aroma of the roast whetted our appetites.烤肉的美味香气刺激了我们的食欲。
• Are you nostrils a quiver and tingling as well at that delicate,luscious ambrosial smell?您是否感到香气扑鼻、熏人欲醉、垂涎欲滴？

500 savagely   

adv. 野蛮地，残酷地

参考例句：

• The roses had been pruned back savagely. 玫瑰被狠狠地修剪了一番。
• He snarled savagely at her. 他向她狂吼起来。

501 savage   

adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人

参考例句：

• The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
• He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。

502 bevy   

n.一群

参考例句：

• A bevy of bathing beauties appeared on the beach.沙滩上出现了一群游泳的美女。
• Look,there comes a bevy of ladies.看，一群女人来了。

503 brass   

n.黄铜；黄铜器，铜管乐器

参考例句：

• Many of the workers play in the factory's brass band.许多工人都在工厂铜管乐队中演奏。
• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。

504 veal   

n.小牛肉

参考例句：

• She sauteed veal and peppers,preparing a mixed salad while the pan simmered.她先做的一道菜是青椒煎小牛肉，趁着锅还在火上偎着的机会，又做了一道拼盘。
• Marinate the veal in white wine for two hours.把小牛肉用白葡萄酒浸泡两小时。

505 assent   

v.批准，认可；n.批准，认可

参考例句：

• I cannot assent to what you ask.我不能应允你的要求。
• The new bill passed by Parliament has received Royal Assent.议会所通过的新方案已获国王批准。

506 anarchist   

n.无政府主义者

参考例句：

• You must be an anarchist at heart.你在心底肯定是个无政府主义者。
• I did my best to comfort them and assure them I was not an anarchist.我尽量安抚他们并让它们明白我并不是一个无政府主义者。

507 forger   

v.伪造；n.（钱、文件等的）伪造者

参考例句：

• He admitted seven charges including forging passports.他承认了7项罪名，其中包括伪造护照。
• She alleged that Taylor had forged her signature on the form.她声称泰勒在表格上伪造了她的签名。

508 judicial   

adj.司法的，法庭的，审判的，明断的，公正的

参考例句：

• He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
• Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。

509 starkly   

adj. 变硬了的,完全的 adv. 完全,实在,简直

参考例句：

• The city of Befast remains starkly divided between Catholics and Protestants. 贝尔法斯特市完全被处在天主教徒和新教徒的纷争之中。
• The black rocks stood out starkly against the sky. 那些黑色的岩石在天空衬托下十分显眼。

510 stark   

adj.荒凉的；严酷的；完全的；adv.完全地

参考例句：

• The young man is faced with a stark choice.这位年轻人面临严峻的抉择。
• He gave a stark denial to the rumor.他对谣言加以完全的否认。

511 odious   

adj.可憎的，讨厌的

参考例句：

• The judge described the crime as odious.法官称这一罪行令人发指。
• His character could best be described as odious.他的人格用可憎来形容最贴切。

512 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

513 majesty   

n.雄伟，壮丽，庄严，威严；最高权威，王权

参考例句：

• The king had unspeakable majesty.国王有无法形容的威严。
• Your Majesty must make up your mind quickly!尊贵的陛下，您必须赶快做出决定！

514 peril   

n.(严重的)危险；危险的事物

参考例句：

• The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.难民有饿死的危险。
• The embankment is in great peril.河堤岌岌可危。

515 descends   

v.下来( descend的第三人称单数 )；下去；下降；下斜

参考例句：

• This festival descends from a religious rite. 这个节日起源于宗教仪式。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The path descends steeply to the village. 小路陡直而下直到村子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

516 pungent   

adj.（气味、味道）刺激性的，辛辣的；尖锐的

参考例句：

• The article is written in a pungent style.文章写得泼辣。
• Its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts.它的刺激性气味会令恐怖分子窒息，迫使他们从藏身地点逃脱出来。

517 utterance   

n.用言语表达，话语，言语

参考例句：

• This utterance of his was greeted with bursts of uproarious laughter.他的讲话引起阵阵哄然大笑。
• My voice cleaves to my throat,and sob chokes my utterance.我的噪子哽咽，泣不成声。

518 apron   

n.围裙；工作裙

参考例句：

• We were waited on by a pretty girl in a pink apron.招待我们的是一位穿粉红色围裙的漂亮姑娘。
• She stitched a pocket on the new apron.她在新围裙上缝上一只口袋。

519 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

520 jugular   

n.颈静脉

参考例句：

• He always goes for the jugular.他总是直奔要害而去。
• Bilateral internal jugular vein stenting is also a rare procedure.两侧内颈静脉支架置放术也是少见的技术。

521 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

522 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。

523 innocence   

n.无罪；天真；无害

参考例句：

• There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
• The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。

524 monk   

n.和尚，僧侣，修道士

参考例句：

• The man was a monk from Emei Mountain.那人是峨眉山下来的和尚。
• Buddhist monk sat with folded palms.和尚合掌打坐。

525 lewd   

adj.淫荡的

参考例句：

• Drew spends all day eyeing up the women and making lewd comments.德鲁整天就盯着女人看，说些下流话。
• I'm not that mean,despicable,cowardly,lewd creature that horrible little man sees. 我可不是那个令人恶心的小人所见到的下流、可耻、懦弱、淫秽的家伙。

526 orb   

n.太阳；星球；v.弄圆；成球形

参考例句：

• The blue heaven,holding its one golden orb,poured down a crystal wash of warm light.蓝蓝的天空托着金色的太阳，洒下一片水晶般明亮温暖的光辉。
• It is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.它是从远处那个发出不灭之光的天体上放射出来的。

527 gnawed   

咬( gnaw的过去式和过去分词 )； （长时间） 折磨某人； （使）苦恼； （长时间）危害某事物

参考例句：

• His attitude towards her gnawed away at her confidence. 他对她的态度一直在削弱她的自尊心。
• The root of this dead tree has been gnawed away by ants. 这棵死树根被蚂蚁唼了。

528 exhales   

v.呼出，发散出( exhale的第三人称单数 )；吐出（肺中的空气、烟等），呼气

参考例句：

• He shivers, exhales, gets the ball and races back to his friends. 他浑身一颤，舒了口气，捡起球，跑回到他的朋友们那里。 来自互联网
• A smoker exhales in a pub in Richmond, London. 一名吸菸者在伦敦瑞旗蒙一家酒吧吞云吐雾。 来自互联网

529 putrid   

adj.腐臭的；有毒的；已腐烂的；卑劣的

参考例句：

• To eat putrid food is liable to get sick.吃了腐败的食物容易生病。
• A putrid smell drove us from the room.一股腐臭的气味迫使我们离开这房间。

530 cane   

n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的

参考例句：

• This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
• English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。

531 succumbed   

不再抵抗（诱惑、疾病、攻击等）( succumb的过去式和过去分词 )； 屈从； 被压垮； 死

参考例句：

• The town succumbed after a short siege. 该城被围困不久即告失守。
• After an artillery bombardment lasting several days the town finally succumbed. 在持续炮轰数日后，该城终于屈服了。

532 ashen   

adj.灰的

参考例句：

• His face was ashen and wet with sweat.他面如土色，汗如雨下。
• Her ashen face showed how much the news had shocked her.她灰白的脸显示出那消息使她多么震惊。

533 onward   

adj.向前的，前进的；adv.向前，前进，在先

参考例句：

• The Yellow River surges onward like ten thousand horses galloping.黄河以万马奔腾之势滚滚向前。
• He followed in the steps of forerunners and marched onward.他跟随着先辈的足迹前进。

534 lugubriously   

参考例句：

• His mirth hoarse and ghastly, like a raven's and the sick wolf joined him, howling lugubriously. 他的笑声粗厉可怕，跟乌鸦的怪叫一样，而那条病狼也随着他，一阵阵地惨嗥。 来自互联网

535 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

536 affidavits   

n.宣誓书，（经陈述者宣誓在法律上可采作证据的）书面陈述( affidavit的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The woman offered written affidavits proving that she was the widow of Pancho Villa. 这女人提供书面证书，证明自己是庞科·比亚的遗孀。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The appeal was adjourned for affidavits to be obtained. 为获得宣誓证明书，上诉被推迟。 来自口语例句

537 defunct   

adj.死亡的；已倒闭的

参考例句：

• The scheme for building an airport seems to be completely defunct now.建造新机场的计划看来整个完蛋了。
• This schema object is defunct.No modifications are allowed until it is made active again.此架构对象不起作用。在重新激活之前，不能进行任何改动。

538 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

539 rape   

n.抢夺，掠夺，强奸；vt.掠夺，抢夺，强奸

参考例句：

• The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
• He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。

540 toad   

n.蟾蜍，癞蛤蟆

参考例句：

• Both the toad and frog are amphibian.蟾蜍和青蛙都是两栖动物。
• Many kinds of toad hibernate in winter.许多种蟾蜍在冬天都会冬眠。

541 bellied   

adj.有腹的，大肚子的

参考例句：

• That big-bellied fellow was very cruel and greedy. 那个大腹便便的家伙既贪婪又残恶。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The ship's sails bellied in the wind. 船帆在风中鼓得大大的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

542 bandanna   

n.大手帕

参考例句：

• He knotted the bandanna around his neck.他在脖子上系了一条印花大围巾。
• He wiped his forehead with a blue bandanna and smiled again.他用一条蓝色的大手帕擦擦前额，又笑了笑。

543 croak   

vi.嘎嘎叫，发牢骚

参考例句：

• Everyone seemed rather out of sorts and inclined to croak.每个人似乎都有点不对劲，想发发牢骚。
• Frogs began to croak with the rainfall.蛙随着雨落开始哇哇叫。

544 foghorns   

n.（大雾时发出响亮而低沉的声音以警告其他船只的）雾角，雾喇叭( foghorn的名词复数 )

参考例句：

545 pricked   

刺，扎，戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 )； 刺伤； 刺痛； 使剧痛

参考例句：

• The cook pricked a few holes in the pastry. 厨师在馅饼上戳了几个洞。
• He was pricked by his conscience. 他受到良心的谴责。

546 winces   

避开，畏缩( wince的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He winces at the memory of that experience. 他一回想起那番经历就畏缩起来。
• He winces at the memory of that defeat. 一想到那次失败他就畏缩了。

547 wriggles   

n.蠕动，扭动( wriggle的名词复数 )v.扭动，蠕动，蜿蜒行进( wriggle的第三人称单数 )；（使身体某一部位）扭动；耍滑不做，逃避（应做的事等）

参考例句：

• Each tail piece wriggles to wholly confuse and distract an attacker. 但是与其他的蜥蜴不同，玻璃蜥蜴的尾巴会逐段的散成碎片，每段碎片都在扭动，以迷惑攻击者，分散其注意力。 来自互联网
• No turning back. He wriggles into the pipe and starts crawling, plastic bag dragging behind. 没有回头路，安迪钻进下水管开始爬行，塑料袋拖在后面。 来自互联网

548 wriggle   

v./n.蠕动，扭动；蜿蜒

参考例句：

• I've got an appointment I can't wriggle out of.我有个推脱不掉的约会。
• Children wriggle themselves when they are bored.小孩子感到厌烦时就会扭动他们的身体。

549 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

550 repose   

v.(使)休息；n.安息

参考例句：

• Don't disturb her repose.不要打扰她休息。
• Her mouth seemed always to be smiling,even in repose.她的嘴角似乎总是挂着微笑，即使在睡眠时也是这样。

551 pebbles   

[复数]鹅卵石； 沙砾； 卵石，小圆石( pebble的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet. 汽车道上的小石子在他脚底下喀嚓作响。
• Line the pots with pebbles to ensure good drainage. 在罐子里铺一层鹅卵石，以确保排水良好。

552 toddles   

v.（幼儿等）东倒西歪地走( toddle的第三人称单数 )；蹒跚行走；溜达；散步

参考例句：

• She toddles down to the park most afternoons. 多数下午她都溜达着去公园。

553 obese   

adj.过度肥胖的，肥大的

参考例句：

• The old man is really obese,it can't be healthy.那位老人确实过于肥胖了，不能算是健康。
• Being obese and lazy is dangerous to health.又胖又懒危害健康。

554 fungus   

n.真菌，真菌类植物

参考例句：

• Mushrooms are a type of fungus.蘑菇是一种真菌。
• This fungus can just be detected by the unaided eye.这种真菌只用肉眼就能检查出。

555 carapace   

n.（蟹或龟的）甲壳

参考例句：

• The tortoise pulled its head into his carapace.乌龟把头缩进它的壳里。
• He tickled gently at its glossy carapace,but the stubborn beetle would not budge.他轻轻地搔着甲虫光滑的壳，但这只固执的甲虫就是不动。

556 resolute   

adj.坚决的，果敢的

参考例句：

• He was resolute in carrying out his plan.他坚决地实行他的计划。
• The Egyptians offered resolute resistance to the aggressors.埃及人对侵略者作出坚决的反抗。

557 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

558 engulfed   

v.吞没，包住( engulf的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was engulfed by a crowd of reporters. 他被一群记者团团围住。
• The little boat was engulfed by the waves. 小船被波浪吞没了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

559 nought   

n.／adj.无，零

参考例句：

• We must bring their schemes to nought.我们必须使他们的阴谋彻底破产。
• One minus one leaves nought.一减一等于零。

560 recedes   

v.逐渐远离( recede的第三人称单数 )；向后倾斜；自原处后退或避开别人的注视；尤指问题

参考例句：

• For this reason the near point gradually recedes as one grows older. 由于这个原因，随着人渐渐变老，近点便逐渐后退。 来自辞典例句
• Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness. 缄默的、悲哀的、被抛弃的、支离破碎的捷克斯洛伐克，已在黑暗之中。 来自辞典例句

561 bowers   

n.（女子的）卧室( bower的名词复数 )；船首锚；阴凉处；鞠躬的人

参考例句：

• If Mr Bowers is right, low government-bond yields could lose their appeal and equities could rebound. 如果鲍尔斯先生的预计是对的，那么低收益的国债将会失去吸引力同时股价将会反弹。 来自互联网

562 rustle   

v.沙沙作响；偷盗(牛、马等)；n.沙沙声声

参考例句：

• She heard a rustle in the bushes.她听到灌木丛中一阵沙沙声。
• He heard a rustle of leaves in the breeze.他听到树叶在微风中发出的沙沙声。

563 sapphire   

n.青玉，蓝宝石；adj.天蓝色的

参考例句：

• Now let us consider crystals such as diamond or sapphire.现在让我们考虑象钻石和蓝宝石这样的晶体。
• He left a sapphire ring to her.他留给她一枚蓝宝石戒指。

564 buckles   

搭扣，扣环( buckle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She gazed proudly at the shiny buckles on her shoes. 她骄傲地注视着鞋上闪亮的扣环。
• When the plate becomes unstable, it buckles laterally. 当板失去稳定时，就发生横向屈曲。

565 accosts   

v.走过去跟…讲话( accost的第三人称单数 )；跟…搭讪；（乞丐等）上前向…乞讨；（妓女等）勾搭

参考例句：

• Don't have a chat with unknown men, and do not any accosts. 不要和陌生男人聊天和接受他们的搭讪。 来自互联网
• Wyatt accosts Self about his investigation on General Krantz. Self refuses to tell Wyatt anything. 怀亚特跟赛尔夫谈了谈有关他查问“将军”一事，赛尔夫拒绝回答。 来自互联网

566 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

567 tickles   

（使）发痒( tickle的第三人称单数 )； （使）愉快，逗乐

参考例句：

• My foot [nose] tickles. 我的脚[鼻子]痒。
• My nose tickles from the dust and I want to scratch it. 我的鼻子受灰尘的刺激发痒，很想搔它。

568 thigh   

n.大腿；股骨

参考例句：

• He is suffering from a strained thigh muscle.他的大腿肌肉拉伤了，疼得很。
• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。

569 curiously   

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。

570 talisman   

n.避邪物，护身符

参考例句：

• It was like a talisman worn in bosom.它就象佩在胸前的护身符一样。
• Dress was the one unfailling talisman and charm used for keeping all things in their places.冠是当作保持品位和秩序的一种万应灵符。

571 softens   

（使）变软( soften的第三人称单数 )； 缓解打击； 缓和； 安慰

参考例句：

• Iron softens with heat. 铁受热就软化。
• Moonlight softens our faults; all shabbiness dissolves into shadow. 月光淡化了我们的各种缺点，所有的卑微都化解为依稀朦胧的阴影。 来自名作英译部分

572 aroma   

n.香气，芬芳，芳香

参考例句：

• The whole house was filled with the aroma of coffee.满屋子都是咖啡的香味。
• The air was heavy with the aroma of the paddy fields.稻花飘香。

573 resin   

n.树脂，松香，树脂制品；vt.涂树脂

参考例句：

• This allyl type resin is a highly transparent, colourless material.这种烯丙基型的树脂是一种高度透明的、无色材料。
• This is referred to as a thixotropic property of the resin.这种特性叫做树脂的触变性。

574 mammoth   

n.长毛象；adj.长毛象似的，巨大的

参考例句：

• You can only undertake mammoth changes if the finances are there.资金到位的情况下方可进行重大变革。
• Building the new railroad will be a mammoth job.修建那条新铁路将是一项巨大工程。

575 exudes   

v.缓慢流出，渗出，分泌出( exude的第三人称单数 )；流露出对（某物）的神态或感情

参考例句：

• The plant exudes a sticky fluid. 这种植物分泌出一种黏液。
• She exudes sexual magnetism. 她洋溢着女性的魅力。

576 lusciously   

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577 smeared   

弄脏； 玷污； 涂抹； 擦上

参考例句：

• The children had smeared mud on the walls. 那几个孩子往墙上抹了泥巴。
• A few words were smeared. 有写字被涂模糊了。

578 cloying   

adj.甜得发腻的

参考例句：

• Her cheap,cloying scent enveloped him.她那廉价香水甜腻熏人的气味一下子包围了他。
• His particular trademark is a cute and cloying sentimentality.他独特的标志是做作的、让人反感的多愁善感。

579 mouldering   

v.腐朽( moulder的现在分词 )；腐烂，崩塌

参考例句：

• The room smelt of disuse and mouldering books. 房间里有一股长期不用和霉烂书籍的味道。
• Every mouldering stone was a chronicle. 每块崩碎剥落的石头都是一部编年史。 来自辞典例句

580 caressing   

爱抚的，表现爱情的，亲切的

参考例句：

• The spring wind is gentle and caressing. 春风和畅。
• He sat silent still caressing Tartar, who slobbered with exceeding affection. 他不声不响地坐在那里，不断抚摸着鞑靼，它由于获得超常的爱抚而不淌口水。

581 caress   

vt./n.爱抚，抚摸

参考例句：

• She gave the child a loving caress.她疼爱地抚摸着孩子。
• She feasted on the caress of the hot spring.她尽情享受着温泉的抚爱。

582 deftly   

adv.灵巧地，熟练地，敏捷地

参考例句：

• He deftly folded the typed sheets and replaced them in the envelope. 他灵巧地将打有字的纸折好重新放回信封。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• At last he had a clew to her interest, and followed it deftly. 这一下终于让他发现了她的兴趣所在，于是他熟练地继续谈这个话题。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

583 deft   

adj.灵巧的，熟练的（a deft hand 能手）

参考例句：

• The pianist has deft fingers.钢琴家有灵巧的双手。
• This bird,sharp of eye and deft of beak,can accurately peck the flying insects in the air.这只鸟眼疾嘴快，能准确地把空中的飞虫啄住。

584 cylinder   

n.圆筒，柱(面)，汽缸

参考例句：

• What's the volume of this cylinder?这个圆筒的体积有多少？
• The cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.汽缸里汽油太多而空气不足。

585 stump   

n.残株，烟蒂，讲演台；v.砍断，蹒跚而走

参考例句：

• He went on the stump in his home state.他到故乡所在的州去发表演说。
• He used the stump as a table.他把树桩用作桌子。

586 overalls   

n.（复）工装裤；长罩衣

参考例句：

• He is in overalls today.他今天穿的是工作裤。
• He changed his overalls for a suit.他脱下工装裤，换上了一套西服。

587 incorrigible   

adj.难以纠正的，屡教不改的

参考例句：

• Because he was an incorrigible criminal,he was sentenced to life imprisonment.他是一个死不悔改的罪犯，因此被判终生监禁。
• Gamblers are incorrigible optimists.嗜赌的人是死不悔改的乐天派。

588 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

589 pestilence   

n.瘟疫

参考例句：

• They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.他们因那年严冬的饥饿与瘟疫而折磨得发狂。
• A pestilence was raging in that area. 瘟疫正在那一地区流行。

590 alder   

n.赤杨树

参考例句：

• He gave john some alder bark.他给了约翰一些桤木树皮。
• Several coppice plantations have been seeded with poplar,willow,and alder.好几个灌木林场都种上了白杨、柳树和赤杨。

591 quay   

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。

592 rotunda   

n.圆形建筑物；圆厅

参考例句：

• The Capitol at Washington has a large rotunda.华盛顿的国会大厦有一圆形大厅。
• The rotunda was almost deserted today,dotted with just a few tourists.圆形大厅今天几乎没有多少人，只零星散布着几个游客。

593 phantom   

n.幻影，虚位，幽灵；adj.错觉的，幻影的，幽灵的

参考例句：

• I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom.我发现自己瞪大眼睛看着她，好像她是一个幽灵。
• He is only a phantom of a king.他只是有名无实的国王。

594 magistrate   

n.地方行政官，地方法官，治安官

参考例句：

• The magistrate committed him to prison for a month.法官判处他一个月监禁。
• John was fined 1000 dollars by the magistrate.约翰被地方法官罚款1000美元。

595 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

596 mace   

n.狼牙棒，豆蔻干皮

参考例句：

• The sword and mace were favourite weapons for hand-to-hand fighting.剑和狼牙棒是肉搏战的最佳武器。
• She put some mace into the meat.她往肉里加了一些肉豆蔻干皮。

597 ornamented   

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》

598 cork   

n.软木，软木塞

参考例句：

• We heard the pop of a cork.我们听见瓶塞砰的一声打开。
• Cork is a very buoyant material.软木是极易浮起的材料。

599 dice   

n.骰子；vt.把（食物）切成小方块，冒险

参考例句：

• They were playing dice.他们在玩掷骰子游戏。
• A dice is a cube.骰子是立方体。

600 chimera   

n.神话怪物；梦幻

参考例句：

• Religious unity remained as much a chimera as ever.宗教统一仍然和从前一样，不过是个妄想。
• I am fighting against my chimera.我在与狂想抗争。

601 apparatuses   

n.器械； 装置； 设备； 仪器

参考例句：

• That magazine covers all kinds of heating apparatuses. 那本杂志论及所有暖气装置。 来自辞典例句
• Apparatuses and methods for preparing sol-gel solutions are provided. 提供制备溶胶-凝胶溶液的装置和方法。 来自互联网

602 mutual   

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。

603 hideous   

adj.丑陋的，可憎的，可怕的，恐怖的

参考例句：

• The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
• They're not like dogs,they're hideous brutes.它们不像狗，是丑陋的畜牲。

604 horde   

n.群众，一大群

参考例句：

• A horde of children ran over the office building.一大群孩子在办公大楼里到处奔跑。
• Two women were quarrelling on the street,surrounded by horde of people.有两个妇人在街上争吵，被一大群人围住了。

605 lusts   

贪求（lust的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• A miser lusts for gold. 守财奴贪财。
• Palmer Kirby had wakened late blooming lusts in her. 巴穆·柯比在她心中煽动起一片迟暮的情欲。

606 hoot   

n.鸟叫声，汽车的喇叭声； v.使汽车鸣喇叭

参考例句：

• The sudden hoot of a whistle broke into my thoughts.突然响起的汽笛声打断了我的思路。
• In a string of shrill hoot of the horn sound,he quickly ran to her.在一串尖声鸣叫的喇叭声中，他快速地跑向她。

607 purblind   

adj.半盲的；愚笨的

参考例句：

• If an administrator has no access to information,it's as if he was purblind and hard of hearing and had a stuffed nose.做管理工作的人没有信息，就是耳目不灵，鼻子不通。
• Even his most purblind supporters knows this is nonsense.即使他最愚蠢的支持者也知道这是无稽之谈。

608 pelf   

n.金钱；财物（轻蔑语）

参考例句：

• Let him disenslave himself from the pelf of the world.让他从金钱束缚下解放自己。
• Pelf makes friends,adversity tries them.富贵交友易, 患难显真情。

609 throng   

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。

610 thronged   

v.成群，挤满( throng的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Mourners thronged to the funeral. 吊唁者蜂拥着前来参加葬礼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The department store was thronged with people. 百货商店挤满了人。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

611 regiments   

（军队的）团( regiment的名词复数 )； 大量的人或物

参考例句：

• The three regiments are all under the command of you. 这三个团全归你节制。
• The town was garrisoned with two regiments. 该镇有两团士兵驻守。

612 gutters   

（路边）排水沟( gutter的名词复数 )； 阴沟； （屋顶的）天沟； 贫贱的境地

参考例句：

• Gutters lead the water into the ditch. 排水沟把水排到这条水沟里。
• They were born, they grew up in the gutters. 他们生了下来，以后就在街头长大。

613 hoisted   

把…吊起，升起( hoist的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He hoisted himself onto a high stool. 他抬身坐上了一张高凳子。
• The sailors hoisted the cargo onto the deck. 水手们把货物吊到甲板上。

614 civic   

adj.城市的，都市的，市民的，公民的

参考例句：

• I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
• The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。

615 marsh   

n.沼泽，湿地

参考例句：

• There are a lot of frogs in the marsh.沼泽里有许多青蛙。
• I made my way slowly out of the marsh.我缓慢地走出这片沼泽地。

616 hips   

abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯，耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 )；[建筑学]屋脊；臀围（尺寸）；臀部…的

参考例句：

• She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
• They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》

617 grandees   

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

618 plutocratic   

adj.富豪的，有钱的

参考例句：

619 eminence   

n.卓越，显赫；高地，高处；名家

参考例句：

• He is a statesman of great eminence.他是个声名显赫的政治家。
• Many of the pilots were to achieve eminence in the aeronautical world.这些飞行员中很多人将会在航空界声名显赫。

620 cardinal   

n.(天主教的)红衣主教；adj.首要的，基本的

参考例句：

• This is a matter of cardinal significance.这是非常重要的事。
• The Cardinal coloured with vexation. 红衣主教感到恼火，脸涨得通红。

621 primate   

n.灵长类（目）动物，首席主教；adj.首要的

参考例句：

• 14 percent of primate species are highly endangered.14%的灵长类物种处于高度濒危状态。
• The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。

622 chapel   

n.小教堂，殡仪馆

参考例句：

• The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
• She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午，她在小教堂的演出，可以说是登峰造极。

623 chapels   

n.小教堂， （医院、监狱等的）附属礼拜堂( chapel的名词复数 )；（在小教堂和附属礼拜堂举行的）礼拜仪式

参考例句：

• Both castles had their own chapels too, which was incredible to see. 两个城堡都有自己的礼拜堂，非常华美。 来自互联网
• It has an ambulatory and seven chapels. 它有一条走廊和七个小教堂。 来自互联网

624 guilds   

行会，同业公会，协会( guild的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• View list of the guilds that Small has war on. 看目前有哪些公会是我们公会开战的对象及对我们开战的对象。
• Guilds and kingdoms fit more with the Middle Age fantasy genre. （裴）:公会和王国更适合中世纪奇幻类型。

625 canvasser   

n.挨户推销商品的推销员

参考例句：

• It'seems the canvasser was once a general.那位推销员好像原来是一位将军。
• Here was a type of the travelling canvasser for a manufacturing house--a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day drummers.这人是为生产厂家推销产品的旅行推销员,当时刚刚流行把这类人称作皮包客。

626 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

627 weavers   

织工，编织者( weaver的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Navajo are noted as stockbreeders and skilled weavers, potters, and silversmiths. 纳瓦霍人以豢养家禽，技术熟练的纺织者，制陶者和银匠而著名。
• They made out they were weavers. 他们假装是织布工人。

628 lapidaries   

n.宝石匠，玉石雕刻师( lapidary的名词复数 )

参考例句：

629 bullion   

n.金条，银条

参考例句：

• In the London bullion market yesterday,the price of gold was steady.昨天伦敦金银市场黄金价格稳定。
• Police have launched a man-hunt for the bullion robbers.警方已大举搜捕抢劫金条的罪犯。

630 riddle   

n.谜，谜语，粗筛；vt.解谜，给…出谜，筛，检查，鉴定，非难，充满于；vi.出谜

参考例句：

• The riddle couldn't be solved by the child.这个谜语孩子猜不出来。
• Her disappearance is a complete riddle.她的失踪完全是一个谜。

631 plumbing   

n.水管装置；水暖工的工作；管道工程v.用铅锤测量（plumb的现在分词）；探究

参考例句：

• She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche. 她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。
• They're going to have to put in new plumbing. 他们将需要安装新的水管。 来自《简明英汉词典》

632 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》

633 chalice   

n.圣餐杯；金杯毒酒

参考例句：

• He inherited a poisoned chalice when he took over the job as union leader.他接手工会领导职务，看似风光，实则会给他带来很多麻烦。
• She was essentially feminine,in other words,a parasite and a chalice.她在本质上是个女人，换句话说，是一个食客和一只酒杯。

634 winding   

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。

635 hawthorn   

山楂

参考例句：

• A cuckoo began calling from a hawthorn tree.一只布谷鸟开始在一株山楂树里咕咕地呼叫。
• Much of the track had become overgrown with hawthorn.小路上很多地方都长满了山楂树。

636 wren   

n.鹪鹩；英国皇家海军女子服务队成员

参考例句：

• A wren is a kind of short-winged songbird.鹪鹩是一种短翼的鸣禽。
• My bird guide confirmed that a Carolina wren had discovered the thickets near my house.我掌握的鸟类知识使我确信，一只卡罗莱纳州鹪鹩已经发现了我家的这个灌木丛。

637 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

638 serene   

adj. 安详的，宁静的，平静的

参考例句：

• He has entered the serene autumn of his life.他已进入了美好的中年时期。
• He didn't speak much,he just smiled with that serene smile of his.他话不多，只是脸上露出他招牌式的淡定的微笑。

639 potent   

adj.强有力的，有权势的；有效力的

参考例句：

• The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.这药物对你的病疗效很大。
• We must account of his potent influence.我们必须考虑他的强有力的影响。

640 puissant   

adj.强有力的

参考例句：

• The young man has a puissant body.这个年轻人有一副强壮的身体。
• Global shipbuilding industry is puissant in conformity burst forth.全球造船业在整合中强力迸发。

641 eminent   

adj.显赫的，杰出的，有名的，优良的

参考例句：

• We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.我们正期待一位著名科学家的来访。
• He is an eminent citizen of China.他是一个杰出的中国公民。

642 shovel   

n.铁锨，铲子，一铲之量；v.铲，铲出

参考例句：

• He was working with a pick and shovel.他在用镐和铲干活。
• He seized a shovel and set to.他拿起一把铲就干上了。

643 judgments   

判断( judgment的名词复数 )； 鉴定； 评价； 审判

参考例句：

• A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life. 他对现代生活的批评带着一种特殊的苛刻。
• He is swift with his judgments. 他判断迅速。

644 avid   

adj.热心的；贪婪的；渴望的；劲头十足的

参考例句：

• He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他还想贪图更多的钱。
• She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教练的称赞。

645 ascends   

v.上升，攀登( ascend的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The azygos vein ascends in the right paravertebral gutter. 奇静脉在右侧脊柱旁沟内上升。 来自辞典例句
• The mortality curve ascends gradually to a plateau at age 65. 死亡曲线逐渐上升，到65岁时成平稳状态。 来自辞典例句

646 bazaar   

n.集市，商店集中区

参考例句：

• Chickens,goats and rabbits were offered for barter at the bazaar.在集市上，鸡、山羊和兔子被摆出来作物物交换之用。
• We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar.我们在集市通过讨价还价买到了一条很漂亮的地毯。

647 symbolical   

a.象征性的

参考例句：

• The power of the monarchy in Britain today is more symbolical than real. 今日英国君主的权力多为象徵性的，无甚实际意义。
• The Lord introduces the first symbolical language in Revelation. 主说明了启示录中第一个象徵的语言。

648 homage   

n.尊敬，敬意，崇敬

参考例句：

• We pay homage to the genius of Shakespeare.我们对莎士比亚的天才表示敬仰。
• The soldiers swore to pay their homage to the Queen.士兵们宣誓效忠于女王陛下。

649 genuflecting   

v.屈膝（尤指宗教礼节中）( genuflect的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• They refrained from genuflecting to the laws of political economy. 他们拒不向政治经济学定律顶礼膜拜。 来自柯林斯例句

650 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

651 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

652 hereditary   

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。

653 repudiated   

v.（正式地）否认( repudiate的过去式和过去分词 )；拒绝接受；拒绝与…往来；拒不履行（法律义务）

参考例句：

• All slanders and libels should be repudiated. 一切诬蔑不实之词，应予推倒。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The Prime Minister has repudiated racist remarks made by a member of the Conservative Party. 首相已经驳斥了一个保守党成员的种族主义言论。 来自辞典例句

654 spouse   

n.配偶(指夫或妻)

参考例句：

• Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
• What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么？

655 bestowed   

赠给，授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• It was a title bestowed upon him by the king. 那是国王赐给他的头衔。
• He considered himself unworthy of the honour they had bestowed on him. 他认为自己不配得到大家赋予他的荣誉。

656 scent   

n.气味，香味，香水，线索，嗅觉；v.嗅，发觉

参考例句：

• The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
• The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。

657 braces   

n.吊带，背带；托架( brace的名词复数 )；箍子；括弧；（儿童）牙箍v.支住( brace的第三人称单数 )；撑牢；使自己站稳；振作起来

参考例句：

• The table is shaky because the braces are loose. 这张桌子摇摇晃晃，因为支架全松了。
• You don't need braces if you're wearing a belt! 要系腰带，就用不着吊带了。

658 embodied   

v.表现( embody的过去式和过去分词 )；象征；包括；包含

参考例句：

• a politician who embodied the hopes of black youth 代表黑人青年希望的政治家
• The heroic deeds of him embodied the glorious tradition of the troops. 他的英雄事迹体现了军队的光荣传统。 来自《简明英汉词典》

659 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

660 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

661 colossal   

adj.异常的，庞大的

参考例句：

• There has been a colossal waste of public money.一直存在巨大的公款浪费。
• Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal.那座城市里的一些高层建筑很庞大。

662 edifice   

n.宏伟的建筑物(如宫殿，教室)

参考例句：

• The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。
• There is a huge Victorian edifice in the area.该地区有一幢维多利亚式的庞大建筑物。

663 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

664 erred   

犯错误，做错事( err的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He erred in his judgement. 他判断错了。
• We will work on those who have erred and help them do right. 我们将对犯了错误的人做工作，并帮助他们改正。

665 razed   

v.彻底摧毁，将…夷为平地( raze的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The village was razed to the ground . 这座村庄被夷为平地。
• Many villages were razed to the ground. 许多村子被夷为平地。 来自《简明英汉词典》

666 lodged   

v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》

667 paupers   

n.穷人( pauper的名词复数 )；贫民；贫穷

参考例句：

• The garment is expensive, paupers like you could never afford it! 这件衣服很贵，你这穷鬼根本买不起！ 来自互联网
• Child-friendliest among the paupers were Burkina Faso and Malawi. 布基纳法索，马拉维，这俩贫穷国家儿童友善工作做得不错。 来自互联网

668 collapses   

折叠( collapse的第三人称单数 )； 倒塌； 崩溃； （尤指工作劳累后）坐下

参考例句：

• This bridge table collapses. 这张桥牌桌子能折叠。
• Once Russia collapses, the last chance to stop Hitler will be gone. 一旦俄国垮台，抑止希特勒的最后机会就没有了。

669 elongated   

v.延长，加长( elongate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Modigliani's women have strangely elongated faces. 莫迪里阿尼画中的妇女都长着奇长无比的脸。
• A piece of rubber can be elongated by streching. 一块橡皮可以拉长。 来自《用法词典》

670 Christian   

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。

671 bodyguard   

n.护卫，保镖

参考例句：

• She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.她不管到哪儿都得有带武器的保镖跟从。
• The big guy standing at his side may be his bodyguard.站在他身旁的那个大个子可能是他的保镖。

672 preservatives   

n.防腐剂( preservative的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The juice contains no artificial preservatives. 这种果汁不含人工防腐剂。
• Meat spoils more quickly without preservatives. 不加防腐剂，肉会坏得快。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

673 preservative   

n.防腐剂；防腐料；保护料；预防药

参考例句：

• New timber should be treated with a preservative.新采的圆木应进行防腐处理。
• Salt is a common food preservative.盐是一种常用的食物防腐剂。

674 scotch   

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。

675 coupons   

n.礼券( coupon的名词复数 )；优惠券；订货单；参赛表

参考例句：

• The company gives away free coupons for drinks or other items. 公司为饮料或其它项目发放免费赠券。 来自辞典例句
• Do you have any coupons? 你们有优惠卡吗？ 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语

676 vile   

adj.卑鄙的，可耻的，邪恶的；坏透的

参考例句：

• Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢？
• Her talk was full of vile curses.她的话里充满着恶毒的咒骂。

677 lottery   

n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事

参考例句：

• He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
• They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。

678 compendium   

n.简要，概略

参考例句：

• The Compendium of Materia Medica has been held in high esteem since it was first published.“本草纲目”问世之后，深受人们的推重。
• The book is a compendium of their poetry,religion and philosophy.这本书是他们诗歌、宗教和哲学的概略。

679 magnesium   

n.镁

参考例句：

• Magnesium is the nutrient element in plant growth.镁是植物生长的营养要素。
• The water contains high amounts of magnesium.这水含有大量的镁。

680 pokes   

v.伸出( poke的第三人称单数 )；戳出；拨弄；与（某人）性交

参考例句：

• He pokes his nose into everything. 他这人好管闲事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Only the tip of an iceberg pokes up above water. 只有冰山的尖端突出于水面。 来自辞典例句

681 hiccups   

n.嗝( hiccup的名词复数 )；连续地打嗝；暂时性的小问题；短暂的停顿v.嗝( hiccup的第三人称单数 )；连续地打嗝；暂时性的小问题；短暂的停顿

参考例句：

• I cannot find a rhyme to "hiccups". 我不能找到和hiccups同韵的词。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Can we rhyme 'hiccups'with 'pick-ups'? 我们能把‘hiccups’同‘pick－ups’放在一起押韵吗？ 来自辞典例句

682 curdled   

v.（使）凝结( curdle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The milk has curdled. 牛奶凝结了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Terror curdled his blood. 恐惧使他心惊胆颤。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

683 pussy   

n.(儿语)小猫，猫咪

参考例句：

• Why can't they leave my pussy alone?为什么他们就不能离我小猫咪远一点？
• The baby was playing with his pussy.孩子正和他的猫嬉戏。

684 ragged   

adj.衣衫褴褛的，粗糙的，刺耳的

参考例句：

• A ragged shout went up from the small crowd.这一小群人发出了刺耳的喊叫。
• Ragged clothing infers poverty.破衣烂衫意味着贫穷。

685 indigo   

n.靛青，靛蓝

参考例句：

• The sky was indigo blue,and a great many stars were shining.天空一片深蓝，闪烁着点点繁星。
• He slipped into an indigo tank.他滑落到蓝靛桶中。

686 grotesque   

adj.怪诞的，丑陋的；n.怪诞的图案，怪人（物）

参考例句：

• His face has a grotesque appearance.他的面部表情十分怪。
• Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.她对这件事的陈述是荒诞地歪曲了事实。

687 kindly   

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。

688 turnip   

n.萝卜，芜菁

参考例句：

• The turnip provides nutrition for you.芜菁为你提供营养。
• A turnip is a root vegetable.芜菁是根茎类植物。

689 obesity   

n.肥胖，肥大

参考例句：

• One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
• Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。

690 nay   

adv.不；n.反对票，投反对票者

参考例句：

• He was grateful for and proud of his son's remarkable,nay,unique performance.他为儿子出色的，不，应该是独一无二的表演心怀感激和骄傲。
• Long essays,nay,whole books have been written on this.许多长篇大论的文章，不，应该说是整部整部的书都是关于这件事的。

691 progenitor   

n.祖先，先驱

参考例句：

• He was also a progenitor of seven presidents of Nicaragua.他也是尼加拉瓜7任总统的祖先。
• Schoenberg was a progenitor of modern music.勋伯格是一位现代音乐的先驱。

692 embellish   

v.装饰，布置；给…添加细节，润饰

参考例句：

• I asked him not to embellish the truth with ideas of his own.我要他不对事实添油加醋。
• Can you embellish your refusal just a little bit?你可以对你的婉拒之辞略加修饰吗？

693 suburban   

adj.城郊的，在郊区的

参考例句：

• Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
• There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。

694 Moslem   

n.回教徒，穆罕默德信徒；adj.回教徒的，回教的

参考例句：

• Moslem women used to veil their faces before going into public.信回教的妇女出门之前往往用面纱把脸遮起来。
• If possible every Moslem must make the pilgrimage to Mecca once in his life.如有可能，每个回教徒一生中必须去麦加朝觐一次。

695 compulsory   

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。

696 tuberculosis   

n.结核病，肺结核

参考例句：

• People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
• Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。

697 mendicancy   

n.乞丐，托钵，行乞修道士

参考例句：

• They were reduced to mendicancy. 他们沦落成了乞丐。 来自互联网

698 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。

699 brotherhood   

n.兄弟般的关系，手中情谊

参考例句：

• They broke up the brotherhood.他们断绝了兄弟关系。
• They live and work together in complete equality and brotherhood.他们完全平等和兄弟般地在一起生活和工作。

700 patriot   

n.爱国者，爱国主义者

参考例句：

• He avowed himself a patriot.他自称自己是爱国者。
• He is a patriot who has won the admiration of the French already.他是一个已经赢得法国人敬仰的爱国者。

701 patriotism   

n.爱国精神，爱国心，爱国主义

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• They obtained money under the false pretenses of patriotism.他们以虚伪的爱国主义为借口获得金钱。

702 muses   

v.沉思，冥想( muse的第三人称单数 )；沉思自语说（某事）

参考例句：

• We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. 欧洲那种御用的诗才，我们已经听够了。 来自辞典例句
• Shiki muses that this is, at least, probably the right atmosphere. 志贵觉得这至少是正确的气氛。 来自互联网

703 publicity   

n.众所周知，闻名；宣传，广告

参考例句：

• The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
• He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。

704 plural   

n.复数；复数形式；adj.复数的

参考例句：

• Most plural nouns in English end in's '.英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
• Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。

705 gastronomy   

n.美食法；美食学

参考例句：

• He studied gastronomy but cannot make a living as a cook.他学习了烹饪但却无法靠厨艺过活。
• Burgundy has always been considered a major centre of gastronomy.勃艮第大区一向被视为重要的美食中心。

706 hygiene   

n.健康法，卫生学 （a.hygienic）

参考例句：

• Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
• He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。

707 overthrow   

v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆

参考例句：

• After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
• The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。

708 abominable   

adj.可厌的，令人憎恶的

参考例句：

• Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.他们虐待犯人的做法令人厌恶。
• The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.这家饭馆的卫生状况糟透了。

709 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

710 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

711 hoppy   

（指海洋）波浪起伏的

参考例句：

• The sea began getting choppy. 大海开始变得波涛起伏。
• The choppy waves made handling the boats a tricky operation that day. 那天在滔滔的波浪里驾驶小舟着实费了一番手脚。

712 winks   

v.使眼色( wink的第三人称单数 )；递眼色（表示友好或高兴等）；（指光）闪烁；闪亮

参考例句：

• I'll feel much better when I've had forty winks. 我打个盹就会感到好得多。
• The planes were little silver winks way out to the west. 飞机在西边老远的地方，看上去只是些很小的银色光点。 来自辞典例句

713 frustrate   

v.使失望；使沮丧；使厌烦

参考例句：

• But this didn't frustrate Einstein.He was content to go as far as he could.但这并没有使爱因斯坦灰心，他对能够更深入地研究而感到满意。
• They made their preparations to frustrate the conspiracy.他们作好准备挫败这个阴谋。

714 arsenic   

n.砒霜，砷；adj.砷的

参考例句：

• His wife poisoned him with arsenic.他的妻子用砒霜把他毒死了。
• Arsenic is a poison.砒霜是毒药。

715 veins   

n.纹理；矿脉( vein的名词复数 )；静脉；叶脉；纹理

参考例句：

• The blood flows from the capillaries back into the veins. 血从毛细血管流回静脉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I felt a pleasant glow in all my veins from the wine. 喝过酒后我浑身的血都热烘烘的，感到很舒服。 来自《简明英汉词典》

716 brewery   

n.啤酒厂

参考例句：

• The brewery had 25 heavy horses delivering beer in London.啤酒厂有25匹高头大马在伦敦城中运送啤酒。
• When business was good,the brewery employed 20 people.在生意好的时候，这家酿造厂曾经雇佣过20人。

717 asphyxiating   

v.渴望的，有抱负的，追求名誉或地位的( aspirant的现在分词 )；有志向或渴望获得…的人

参考例句：

718 stylish   

adj.流行的，时髦的；漂亮的，气派的

参考例句：

• He's a stylish dresser.他是个穿着很有格调的人。
• What stylish women are wearing in Paris will be worn by women all over the world.巴黎女性时装往往会引导世界时装潮流。

719 libertine   

n.淫荡者；adj.放荡的，自由思想的

参考例句：

• The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.一个酒徒色鬼竟然摇身一变就成了道学先生。
• I believe John is not a libertine any more.我相信约翰不再是个浪子了。

720 stinking   

adj.臭的，烂醉的，讨厌的v.散发出恶臭( stink的现在分词 )；发臭味；名声臭；糟透

参考例句：

• I was pushed into a filthy, stinking room. 我被推进一间又脏又臭的屋子里。
• Those lousy, stinking ships. It was them that destroyed us. 是的！就是那些该死的蠢猪似的臭飞船！是它们毁了我们。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻

721 precocious   

adj.早熟的；较早显出的

参考例句：

• They become precocious experts in tragedy.他们成了一批思想早熟、善写悲剧的能手。
• Margaret was always a precocious child.玛格丽特一直是个早熟的孩子。

722 debauch   

v.使堕落，放纵

参考例句：

• He debauched many innocent girls.他诱使许多清白的女子堕落了。
• A scoffer，a debauched person,and,in brief，a man of Belial.一个玩世不恭的人，一个生活放荡的家伙，总而言之，是个恶棍。

723 infamy   

n.声名狼藉，出丑，恶行

参考例句：

• They may grant you power,honour,and riches but afflict you with servitude,infamy,and poverty.他们可以给你权力、荣誉和财富，但却用奴役、耻辱和贫穷来折磨你。
• Traitors are held in infamy.叛徒为人所不齿。

724 intrigue   

vt.激起兴趣，迷住；vi.耍阴谋；n.阴谋，密谋

参考例句：

• Court officials will intrigue against the royal family.法院官员将密谋反对皇室。
• The royal palace was filled with intrigue.皇宫中充满了勾心斗角。

725 dense   

a.密集的，稠密的，浓密的；密度大的

参考例句：

• The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
• The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。

726 slander   

n./v.诽谤，污蔑

参考例句：

• The article is a slander on ordinary working people.那篇文章是对普通劳动大众的诋毁。
• He threatened to go public with the slander.他威胁要把丑闻宣扬出去。

727 viper   

n.毒蛇；危险的人

参考例句：

• Envy lucks at the bottom of the human heart a viper in its hole.嫉妒潜伏在人心底，如同毒蛇潜伏在穴中。
• Be careful of that viper;he is dangerous.小心那个阴险的人，他很危险。

728 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

729 chronic   

adj.(疾病)长期未愈的，慢性的；极坏的

参考例句：

• Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
• Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。

730 ambidexterity   

n.怀二心

参考例句：

731 prematurely   

adv.过早地，贸然地

参考例句：

• She was born prematurely with poorly developed lungs. 她早产，肺部未发育健全。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His hair was prematurely white, but his busy eyebrows were still jet-black. 他的头发已经白了，不过两道浓眉还是乌黑乌黑的。 来自辞典例句

732 perversely   

adv. 倔强地

参考例句：

• Intelligence in the mode of passion is always perversely. 受激情属性控制的智力，总是逆着活动的正确方向行事。
• She continue, perversely, to wear shoes that damaged her feet. 她偏偏穿那双挤脚的鞋。

733 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

734 insufficient   

adj.(for，of)不足的，不够的

参考例句：

• There was insufficient evidence to convict him.没有足够证据给他定罪。
• In their day scientific knowledge was insufficient to settle the matter.在他们的时代，科学知识还不能足以解决这些问题。

735 intermittent   

adj.间歇的，断断续续的

参考例句：

• Did you hear the intermittent sound outside?你听见外面时断时续的声音了吗？
• In the daytime intermittent rains freshened all the earth.白天里，时断时续地下着雨，使整个大地都生气勃勃了。

736 quaint   

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。

737 missionary   

adj.教会的，传教(士)的；n.传教士

参考例句：

• She taught in a missionary school for a couple of years.她在一所教会学校教了两年书。
• I hope every member understands the value of missionary work. 我希望教友都了解传教工作的价值。

738 abstainer   

节制者，戒酒者，弃权者

参考例句：

• Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. 戒酒者：一个意志薄弱的人，经不起拒绝享受的诱惑。
• Abstainer: a weak person who yield to the temptation of deny himself a pleasure. 戒酒（烟）者，是经不起要他放弃某一乐趣的诱惑而屈服的弱者。

739 spartan   

adj.简朴的，刻苦的；n.斯巴达；斯巴达式的人

参考例句：

• Their spartan lifestyle prohibits a fridge or a phone.他们不使用冰箱和电话，过着简朴的生活。
• The rooms were spartan and undecorated.房间没有装饰，极为简陋。

740 scourges   

带来灾难的人或东西，祸害( scourge的名词复数 )； 鞭子

参考例句：

• Textile workers suffer from three scourges -- noise, dust and humidity. 纱厂工人的三大威胁，就是音响、尘埃和湿气。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
• Believe, if Internet remains great scourges, also won't have present dimensions. 相信，如果互联网仍然是洪水猛兽，也不会有现在的规模。

741 posthumous   

adj.遗腹的；父亡后出生的；死后的，身后的

参考例句：

• He received a posthumous award for bravery.他表现勇敢，死后受到了嘉奖。
• The legendary actor received a posthumous achievement award.这位传奇男星在过世后获得终身成就奖的肯定。

742 clemency   

n.温和，仁慈，宽厚

参考例句：

• The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题，将由国王决定。
• They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。

743 vocal   

adj.直言不讳的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]声乐节目

参考例句：

• The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
• Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。

744 commotion   

n.骚动，动乱

参考例句：

• They made a commotion by yelling at each other in the theatre.他们在剧院里相互争吵，引起了一阵骚乱。
• Suddenly the whole street was in commotion.突然间，整条街道变得一片混乱。

745 compassion   

n.同情，怜悯

参考例句：

• He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
• Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。

746 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

747 bracelets   

n.手镯，臂镯( bracelet的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The lamplight struck a gleam from her bracelets. 她的手镯在灯光的照射下闪闪发亮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• On display are earrings, necklaces and bracelets made from jade, amber and amethyst. 展出的有用玉石、琥珀和紫水晶做的耳环、项链和手镯。 来自《简明英汉词典》

748 adorned   

[计]被修饰的

参考例句：

• The walls were adorned with paintings. 墙上装饰了绘画。
• And his coat was adorned with a flamboyant bunch of flowers. 他的外套上面装饰着一束艳丽刺目的鲜花。

749 metallic   

adj.金属的；金属制的；含金属的；产金属的；像金属的

参考例句：

• A sharp metallic note coming from the outside frightened me.外面传来尖锐铿锵的声音吓了我一跳。
• He picked up a metallic ring last night.昨夜他捡了一个金属戒指。

750 prophesy   

v.预言；预示

参考例句：

• He dares to prophesy what will happen in the future.他敢预言未来将发生什么事。
• I prophesy that he'll be back in the old job.我预言他将重操旧业。

751 ledge   

n.壁架，架状突出物；岩架，岩礁

参考例句：

• They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
• Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上，摔倒了。

752 eyelids   

n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 )；眼睛也不眨一下；不露声色；面不改色

参考例句：

• She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了，眼睑开始往下垂。
• Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

753 eyelid   

n.眼睑，眼皮

参考例句：

• She lifted one eyelid to see what he was doing.她抬起一只眼皮看看他在做什么。
• My eyelid has been tumid since yesterday.从昨天起，我的眼皮就肿了。

754 baron   

n.男爵；(商业界等)巨头，大王

参考例句：

• Henry Ford was an automobile baron.亨利·福特是一位汽车业巨头。
• The baron lived in a strong castle.男爵住在一座坚固的城堡中。

755 simultaneously   

adv.同时发生地，同时进行地

参考例句：

• The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
• The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。

756 profane   

adj.亵神的，亵渎的；vt.亵渎，玷污

参考例句：

• He doesn't dare to profane the name of God.他不敢亵渎上帝之名。
• His profane language annoyed us.他亵渎的言语激怒了我们。

757 crab   

n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气

参考例句：

• I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
• The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。

758 evicted   

v.（依法从房屋里或土地上）驱逐，赶出( evict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
• They had evicted their tenants for non-payment of rent. 他们赶走了未交房租的房客。

759 tenants   

n.房客( tenant的名词复数 )；佃户；占用者；占有者

参考例句：

• A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
• Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。

760 pillory   

n.嘲弄；v.使受公众嘲笑；将…示众

参考例句：

• A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press.一人因为受到一些媒体的抨击已被迫辞职。
• He was pilloried,but she escaped without blemish.他受到公众的批评，她却名声未损地得以逃脱。

761 protruding   

v.（使某物）伸出，（使某物）突出( protrude的现在分词 )；凸

参考例句：

• He hung his coat on a nail protruding from the wall. 他把上衣挂在凸出墙面的一根钉子上。
• There is a protruding shelf over a fireplace. 壁炉上方有个突出的架子。 来自辞典例句

762 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。

763 caper   

v.雀跃，欢蹦；n.雀跃，跳跃；续随子，刺山柑花蕾；嬉戏

参考例句：

• The children cut a caper in the yard.孩子们在院子里兴高采烈地乱蹦乱跳。
• The girl's caper cost her a twisted ankle.小姑娘又蹦又跳，结果扭伤了脚踝。

764 wilderness   

n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

765 alteration   

n.变更，改变；蚀变

参考例句：

• The shirt needs alteration.这件衬衣需要改一改。
• He easily perceived there was an alteration in my countenance.他立刻看出我的脸色和往常有些不同。

766 corpse   

n.尸体，死尸

参考例句：

• What she saw was just an unfeeling corpse.她见到的只是一具全无感觉的尸体。
• The corpse was preserved from decay by embalming.尸体用香料涂抹以防腐烂。

767 embroidery   

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。

768 gunpowder   

n.火药

参考例句：

• Gunpowder was introduced into Europe during the first half of the 14th century.在14世纪上半叶，火药传入欧洲。
• This statement has a strong smell of gunpowder.这是一篇充满火药味的声明。

769 trespasses   

罪过( trespass的名词复数 )； 非法进入

参考例句：

• If you forgive men their trespasses,your Heavenly Father will also forgive you. 如果你们饶恕他们的过失，你们的天父也必将饶恕你们的过失。
• Forgive us our trespasses! 宽恕我们的罪过吧！

770 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

771 phoenix   

n.凤凰，长生(不死)鸟；引申为重生

参考例句：

• The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
• The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。

772 mentor   

n.指导者，良师益友；v.指导

参考例句：

• He fed on the great ideas of his mentor.他以他导师的伟大思想为支撑。
• He had mentored scores of younger doctors.他指导过许多更年轻的医生。

773 choir   

n.唱诗班，唱诗班的席位，合唱团，舞蹈团；v.合唱

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。

774 insanity   

n.疯狂，精神错乱；极端的愚蠢，荒唐

参考例句：

• In his defense he alleged temporary insanity.他伪称一时精神错乱，为自己辩解。
• He remained in his cell,and this visit only increased the belief in his insanity.他依旧还是住在他的地牢里，这次视察只是更加使人相信他是个疯子了。

775 sneers   

讥笑的表情（言语）( sneer的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You should ignore their sneers at your efforts. 他们对你的努力所作的讥笑你不要去理会。
• I felt that every woman here sneers at me. 我感到这里的每一个女人都在嘲笑我。

776 repent   

v.悔悟，悔改，忏悔，后悔

参考例句：

• He has nothing to repent of.他没有什么要懊悔的。
• Remission of sins is promised to those who repent.悔罪者可得到赦免。

777 offhandedly   

adv.立即地；即席地；未经准备地；不客气地

参考例句：

• She had made these remarks offhandedly. 她即席做了这些评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She threw him over offhandedly without even a dear-john letter. 她随即就把他甩了，甚至连封分手信都没有写。 来自互联网

778 dubiously   

adv.可疑地，怀疑地

参考例句：

• "What does he have to do?" queried Chin dubiously. “他有什么心事？”琴向觉民问道，她的脸上现出疑惑不解的神情。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
• He walked out fast, leaving the head waiter staring dubiously at the flimsy blue paper. 他很快地走出去，撇下侍者头儿半信半疑地瞪着这张薄薄的蓝纸。 来自辞典例句

779 embarrassment   

n.尴尬；使人为难的人(事物)；障碍；窘迫

参考例句：

• She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
• Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。

780 harassed   

adj. 疲倦的，厌烦的 动词harass的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He has complained of being harassed by the police. 他投诉受到警方侵扰。
• harassed mothers with their children 带着孩子的疲惫不堪的母亲们

781 gauging   

n.测量[试]，测定，计量v.（用仪器）测量( gauge的现在分词 )；估计；计量；划分

参考例句：

• The method is especially attractive for gauging natural streams. 该方法对于测量天然的流注具有特殊的吸引力。 来自辞典例句
• Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind. 由于他不爱说话，我过了一些时候才有机会探测他的心灵。 来自辞典例句

782 cult   

n.异教，邪教；时尚，狂热的崇拜

参考例句：

• Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
• The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。

783 linen   

n.亚麻布，亚麻线，亚麻制品；adj.亚麻布制的，亚麻的

参考例句：

• The worker is starching the linen.这名工人正在给亚麻布上浆。
• Fine linen and cotton fabrics were known as well as wool.精细的亚麻织品和棉织品像羊毛一样闻名遐迩。

784 chubby   

adj.丰满的，圆胖的

参考例句：

• He is stocky though not chubby.他长得敦实，可并不发胖。
• The short and chubby gentleman over there is our new director.那个既矮又胖的绅士是我们的新主任。

785 tolling   

[财]来料加工

参考例句：

• A remote bell is tolling. 远处的钟声响了。
• Indeed, the bells were tolling, the people were trooping into the handsome church. 真的，钟声响了，人们成群结队走进富丽堂皇的教堂。

786 luring   

吸引，引诱（lure的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• Cheese is very good for luring a mouse into a trap. 奶酪是引诱老鼠上钩的极好的东西。
• Her training warned her of peril and of the wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring. 她的教养警告她：有危险，要出错儿，这是微妙、神秘而又诱人的。

787 doom   

n.厄运，劫数；v.注定，命定

参考例句：

• The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
• The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。

788 scents   

n.香水( scent的名词复数 )；气味；（动物的）臭迹；（尤指狗的）嗅觉

参考例句：

• The air was fragrant with scents from the sea and the hills. 空气中荡漾着山和海的芬芳气息。
• The winds came down with scents of the grass and wild flowers. 微风送来阵阵青草和野花的香气。 来自《简明英汉词典》

789 sinuous   

adj.蜿蜒的，迂回的

参考例句：

• The river wound its sinuous way across the plain.这条河蜿蜒曲折地流过平原。
• We moved along the sinuous gravel walks,with the great concourse of girls and boys.我们沿着曲折的石径,随着男孩女孩汇成的巨流一路走去。

790 lurks   

n.潜在，潜伏；（lurk的复数形式）vi.潜伏，埋伏（lurk的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• Behind his cool exterior lurks a reckless and frustrated person. 在冷酷的外表背后，他是一个鲁莽又不得志的人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Good fortune lies within Bad, Bad fortune lurks within good. 福兮祸所倚，祸兮福所伏。 来自互联网

791 reek   

v.发出臭气；n.恶臭

参考例句：

• Where there's reek,there's heat.哪里有恶臭，哪里必发热。
• That reek is from the fox.那股恶臭是狐狸发出的。

792 brutes   

兽( brute的名词复数 )； 畜生； 残酷无情的人； 兽性

参考例句：

• They're not like dogs; they're hideous brutes. 它们不像狗，是丑陋的畜牲。
• Suddenly the foul musty odour of the brutes struck his nostrils. 突然，他的鼻尖闻到了老鼠的霉臭味。 来自英汉文学

793 possessed   

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。

794 ramping   

土堤斜坡( ramp的现在分词 )； 斜道； 斜路； （装车或上下飞机的）活动梯

参考例句：

• The children love ramping about in the garden. 孩子们喜欢在花园里追逐嬉戏，闹着玩。
• Have you ever seen a lion ramping around? 你看到过狮子暴跳吗？

795 waterproof   

n.防水材料；adj.防水的；v.使...能防水

参考例句：

• My mother bought me a waterproof watch.我妈妈给我买了一块防水手表。
• All the electronics are housed in a waterproof box.所有电子设备都储放在一个防水盒中。

796 preoccupied   

adj.全神贯注的，入神的；被抢先占有的；心事重重的v.占据（某人）思想，使对…全神贯注，使专心于( preoccupy的过去式)

参考例句：

• He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. 他只顾想着心事，没注意到有什么不对。
• The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind. 去游泰山的问题盘踞在他心头。 来自《简明英汉词典》

797 dangling   

悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果，那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
• The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上，摇晃着他们的双腿。

798 averting   

防止，避免( avert的现在分词 )； 转移

参考例句：

• The margin of time for averting crisis was melting away. 可以用来消弥这一危机的些许时光正在逝去。
• These results underscore the value of rescue medications in averting psychotic relapse. 这些结果显示了救护性治疗对避免精神病复发的价值。

799 jade   

n.玉石；碧玉；翡翠

参考例句：

• The statue was carved out of jade.这座塑像是玉雕的。
• He presented us with a couple of jade lions.他送给我们一对玉狮子。

800 azure   

adj.天蓝色的，蔚蓝色的

参考例句：

• His eyes are azure.他的眼睛是天蓝色的。
• The sun shone out of a clear azure sky.清朗蔚蓝的天空中阳光明媚。

801 shuffling   

adj. 慢慢移动的, 滑移的 动词shuffle的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• Don't go shuffling along as if you were dead. 别像个死人似地拖着脚走。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• Some one was shuffling by on the sidewalk. 外面的人行道上有人拖着脚走过。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

802 phantoms   

n.鬼怪，幽灵( phantom的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They vanished down the stairs like two phantoms. 他们像两个幽灵似的消失在了楼下。 来自辞典例句
• The horrible night that he had passed had left phantoms behind it. 他刚才度过的恐布之夜留下了种种错觉。 来自辞典例句

803 fronds   

n.蕨类或棕榈类植物的叶子( frond的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You can pleat palm fronds to make huts, umbrellas and baskets. 人们可以把棕榈叶折叠起来盖棚屋，制伞，编篮子。 来自百科语句
• When these breezes reached the platform the palm-fronds would whisper. 微风吹到平台时，棕榈叶片发出簌簌的低吟。 来自辞典例句

804 glades   

n.林中空地( glade的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Maggie and Philip had been meeting secretly in the glades near the mill. 玛吉和菲利曾经常在磨坊附近的林中空地幽会。 来自辞典例句
• Still the outlaw band throve in Sherwood, and hunted the deer in its glades. 当他在沉思中变老了，世界还是照样走它的路，亡命之徒仍然在修武德日渐壮大，在空地里猎鹿。 来自互联网

805 squats   

n.蹲坐，蹲姿( squat的名词复数 )；被擅自占用的建筑物v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的第三人称单数 )；非法擅自占用（土地或房屋）；为获得其所有权；而占用某片公共用地。

参考例句：

• The square squats in the centre of the city. 广场位于市中心。 来自互联网
• Various squats, lunges, jumps and sprints are incorporated for the humans. 主人们还要进行下蹲、弓步、跳跃和短跑等各项训练。 来自互联网

806 hearth   

n.壁炉炉床，壁炉地面

参考例句：

• She came and sat in a chair before the hearth.她走过来，在炉子前面的椅子上坐下。
• She comes to the hearth,and switches on the electric light there.她走到壁炉那里，打开电灯。

807 pallid   

adj.苍白的，呆板的

参考例句：

• The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the pallid face.月亮从云朵后面钻出来，照着尸体那张苍白的脸。
• His dry pallid face often looked gaunt.他那张干瘪苍白的脸常常显得憔悴。

808 gilt   

adj.镀金的；n.金边证券

参考例句：

• The plates have a gilt edge.这些盘子的边是镀金的。
• The rest of the money is invested in gilt.其余的钱投资于金边证券。

809 poker   

n.扑克；vt.烙制

参考例句：

• He was cleared out in the poker game.他打扑克牌，把钱都输光了。
• I'm old enough to play poker and do something with it.我打扑克是老手了，可以玩些花样。

810 mildewed   

adj.发了霉的，陈腐的，长了霉花的v.（使）发霉，（使）长霉( mildew的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Things easily get mildewed in the rainy season. 梅雨季节东西容易发霉。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The colonel was gorgeous, he had a cavernous mouth, cavernous cheeks, cavernous, sad, mildewed eyes. 这位上校样子挺神气，他的嘴巴、双颊和两眼都深深地凹进去，目光黯淡，象发了霉似的。 来自辞典例句

811 bolster   

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。

812 glides   

n.滑行( glide的名词复数 )；滑音；音渡；过渡音v.滑动( glide的第三人称单数 )；掠过；（鸟或飞机 ） 滑翔

参考例句：

• The new dance consists of a series of glides. 这种新舞蹈中有一连串的滑步。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The stately swan glides gracefully on the pond. 天鹅在池面上优美地游动。 来自《简明英汉词典》

813 caterpillar   

n.毛虫，蝴蝶的幼虫

参考例句：

• A butterfly is produced by metamorphosis from a caterpillar.蝴蝶是由毛虫脱胎变成的。
• A caterpillar must pass through the cocoon stage to become a butterfly.毛毛虫必须经过茧的阶段才能变成蝴蝶。

814 squatted   

v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的过去式和过去分词 )；非法擅自占用（土地或房屋）；为获得其所有权；而占用某片公共用地。

参考例句：

• He squatted down beside the footprints and examined them closely. 他蹲在脚印旁仔细地观察。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He squatted in the grass discussing with someone. 他蹲在草地上与一个人谈话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

815 hymn   

n.赞美诗，圣歌，颂歌

参考例句：

• They sang a hymn of praise to God.他们唱着圣歌，赞美上帝。
• The choir has sung only two verses of the last hymn.合唱团只唱了最后一首赞美诗的两个段落。

816 susceptible   

adj.过敏的，敏感的；易动感情的，易受感动的

参考例句：

• Children are more susceptible than adults.孩子比成人易受感动。
• We are all susceptible to advertising.我们都易受广告的影响。

817 saturnine   

adj.忧郁的，沉默寡言的，阴沉的，感染铅毒的

参考例句：

• The saturnine faces of the judges.法官们那阴沉的脸色。
• He had a rather forbidding,saturnine manner.他的举止相当乖戾阴郁。

818 accurately   

adv.准确地，精确地

参考例句：

• It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
• Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。

819 dominant   

adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因

参考例句：

• The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
• She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。

820 interval   

n.间隔，间距；幕间休息，中场休息

参考例句：

• The interval between the two trees measures 40 feet.这两棵树的间隔是40英尺。
• There was a long interval before he anwsered the telephone.隔了好久他才回了电话。

821 abruptly   

adv.突然地，出其不意地

参考例句：

• He gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in the car.他粗鲁地示意弗吉尼亚上车。
• I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。

822 tickling   

反馈，回授，自旋挠痒法

参考例句：

• Was It'spring tickling her senses? 是不是春意撩人呢？
• Its origin is in tickling and rough-and-tumble play, he says. 他说，笑的起源来自于挠痒痒以及杂乱无章的游戏。

823 stumps   

（被砍下的树的）树桩( stump的名词复数 )； 残肢； （板球三柱门的）柱； 残余部分

参考例句：

• Rocks and stumps supplied the place of chairs at the picnic. 野餐时石头和树桩都充当了椅子。
• If you don't stir your stumps, Tom, you'll be late for school again. 汤姆，如果你不快走，上学又要迟到了。

824 dishonoured   

a.不光彩的，不名誉的

参考例句：

• You have dishonoured the name of the school. 你败坏了学校的名声。
• We found that the bank had dishonoured some of our cheques. 我们发现银行拒绝兑现我们的部分支票。

825 dishonour   

n./vt.拒付（支票、汇票、票据等）；vt.凌辱，使丢脸；n.不名誉，耻辱，不光彩

参考例句：

• There's no dishonour in losing.失败并不是耻辱。
• He would rather die than live in dishonour.他宁死不愿忍辱偷生。

826 huddled   

挤在一起（huddle的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
• We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。

827 receding   

v.逐渐远离( recede的现在分词 )；向后倾斜；自原处后退或避开别人的注视；尤指问题

参考例句：

• Desperately he struck out after the receding lights of the yacht. 游艇的灯光渐去渐远，他拼命划水追赶。 来自辞典例句
• Sounds produced by vehicles receding from us seem lower-pitched than usual. 渐渐远离我们的运载工具发出的声似乎比平常的音调低。 来自辞典例句

828 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

829 jaws   

n.口部；嘴

参考例句：

• 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。
• The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。

830 chattering   

n. （机器振动发出的）咔嗒声，(鸟等)鸣，啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的，啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The teacher told the children to stop chattering in class. 老师叫孩子们在课堂上不要叽叽喳喳讲话。
• I was so cold that my teeth were chattering. 我冷得牙齿直打战。

831 capers   

n.开玩笑( caper的名词复数 )；刺山柑v.跳跃，雀跃( caper的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• I like to fly about and cut capers. 我喜欢跳跳蹦蹦闹着玩儿。 来自辞典例句
• He always leads in pranks and capers. 他老是带头胡闹和开玩笑。 来自辞典例句

832 goggling   

v.睁大眼睛瞪视， （惊讶的）转动眼珠( goggle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

833 squeaking   

v.短促地尖叫( squeak的现在分词 )；吱吱叫；告密；充当告密者

参考例句：

• Squeaking floorboards should be screwed down. 踏上去咯咯作响的地板应用螺钉钉住。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Can you hear the mice squeaking? 你听到老鼠吱吱叫吗？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

834 thighs   

n.股，大腿( thigh的名词复数 )；食用的鸡（等的）腿

参考例句：

• He's gone to London for skin grafts on his thighs. 他去伦敦做大腿植皮手术了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The water came up to the fisherman's thighs. 水没到了渔夫的大腿。 来自《简明英汉词典》

835 juggling   

n. 欺骗, 杂耍(=jugglery) adj. 欺骗的, 欺诈的 动词juggle的现在分词

参考例句：

• He was charged with some dishonest juggling with the accounts. 他被指控用欺骗手段窜改账目。
• The accountant went to prison for juggling his firm's accounts. 会计因涂改公司的帐目而入狱。

836 swollen   

adj.肿大的，水涨的；v.使变大，肿胀

参考例句：

• Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
• A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。

837 torpor   

n.迟钝；麻木；（动物的）冬眠

参考例句：

• The sick person gradually falls into a torpor.病人逐渐变得迟钝。
• He fell into a deep torpor.他一下子进入了深度麻痹状态。

838 tepid   

adj.微温的，温热的，不太热心的

参考例句：

• She bent her mouth to the tap and drank the tepid water.她把嘴伸到水龙头底下去喝那微温的水。
• Her feet firmly planted on the tepid rough brick of the floor.她一双脚稳固地立在微温而粗糙的砖地上。

839 taut   

adj.拉紧的，绷紧的，紧张的

参考例句：

• The bowstring is stretched taut.弓弦绷得很紧。
• Scarlett's taut nerves almost cracked as a sudden noise sounded in the underbrush near them. 思嘉紧张的神经几乎一下绷裂了，因为她听见附近灌木丛中突然冒出的一个声音。

840 nadir   

n.最低点，无底

参考例句：

• This failure was the nadir of her career.这次失败是她事业上的低谷。
• The demand for this product will reach its nadir within two years.对此产品的需求在两年内将达到最低点。

841 octopus   

n.章鱼

参考例句：

• He experienced nausea after eating octopus.吃了章鱼后他感到恶心。
• One octopus has eight tentacles.一条章鱼有八根触角。

842 lugs   

钎柄

参考例句：

• "They put on a lot of lugs here, don't they?" “这里的人的架子可不小，是不是？ 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• In this department, hydro-set plates are assembled and joined together at the plate lugs. 在这个工段，组装脱水固化的极板并通过极板耳连在一起。 来自辞典例句

843 perspiring   

v.出汗，流汗( perspire的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He had been working hard and was perspiring profusely. 他一直在努力干活，身上大汗淋漓的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• So they "went it lively," panting and perspiring with the work. 于是他们就“痛痛快快地比一比”了，结果比得两个人气喘吁吁、汗流浃背。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

844 funnel   

n.漏斗；烟囱；v.汇集

参考例句：

• He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.他用一个漏斗把汽油灌入汽车。
• I like the ship with a yellow funnel.我喜欢那条有黄烟囱的船。

845 thumps   

n.猪肺病；砰的重击声( thump的名词复数 )v.重击， （指心脏）急速跳动( thump的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Normally the heart movements can be felt as distinct systolic and diastolic thumps. 正常时，能够感觉到心脏的运动是性质截然不同的收缩和舒张的撞击。 来自辞典例句
• These thumps are replaced by thrills when valvular insufficiencies or stenoses or congenital defects are present. 这些撞击在瓣膜闭锁不全或狭窄，或者有先天性缺损时被震颤所代替。 来自辞典例句

846 eternity   

n.不朽，来世；永恒，无穷

参考例句：

• The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
• Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞，永世相随。

847 junction   

n.连接，接合；交叉点，接合处，枢纽站

参考例句：

• There's a bridge at the junction of the two rivers.两河的汇合处有座桥。
• You must give way when you come to this junction.你到了这个路口必须让路。

848 advent   

n.(重要事件等的)到来，来临

参考例句：

• Swallows come by groups at the advent of spring. 春天来临时燕子成群飞来。
• The advent of the Euro will redefine Europe.欧元的出现将重新定义欧洲。

849 cosmos   

n.宇宙；秩序，和谐

参考例句：

• Our world is but a small part of the cosmos.我们的世界仅仅是宇宙的一小部分而已。
• Is there any other intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos?在宇宙的其他星球上还存在别的有智慧的生物吗？

850 vibration   

n.颤动，振动；摆动

参考例句：

• There is so much vibration on a ship that one cannot write.船上的震动大得使人无法书写。
• The vibration of the window woke me up.窗子的震动把我惊醒了。

851 heartily   

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。

852 twig   

n.小树枝，嫩枝；v.理解

参考例句：

• He heard the sharp crack of a twig.他听到树枝清脆的断裂声。
• The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.细枝突然折断的刺耳声把獾惊跑了。

853 plumber   

n.(装修水管的)管子工

参考例句：

• Have you asked the plumber to come and look at the leaking pipe?你叫管道工来检查漏水的管子了吗？
• The plumber screwed up the tap by means of a spanner.管子工用板手把龙头旋紧。

854 beverage   

n.(水，酒等之外的)饮料

参考例句：

• The beverage is often colored with caramel.这种饮料常用焦糖染色。
• Beer is a beverage of the remotest time.啤酒是一种最古老的饮料。

855 surgical   

adj.外科的，外科医生的，手术上的

参考例句：

• He performs the surgical operations at the Red Cross Hospital.他在红十字会医院做外科手术。
• All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.所有的外科手术器械在使用之前，必须消毒。

856 dents   

n.花边边饰；凹痕( dent的名词复数 )；凹部；减少；削弱v.使产生凹痕( dent的第三人称单数 )；损害；伤害；挫伤（信心、名誉等）

参考例句：

• He hammered out the dents in the metal sheet. 他把金属板上的一些凹痕敲掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Tin dents more easily than steel. 锡比钢容易变瘪。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

857 abreast   

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。

858 discreetly   

ad.(言行)审慎地，慎重地

参考例句：

• He had only known the perennial widow, the discreetly expensive Frenchwoman. 他只知道她是个永远那么年轻的寡妇，一个很会讲排场的法国女人。
• Sensing that Lilian wanted to be alone with Celia, Andrew discreetly disappeared. 安德鲁觉得莉莲想同西莉亚单独谈些什么，有意避开了。

859 attire   

v.穿衣，装扮[同]array；n.衣着；盛装

参考例句：

• He had no intention of changing his mode of attire.他无意改变着装方式。
• Her attention was attracted by his peculiar attire.他那奇特的服装引起了她的注意。

860 laundered   

v.洗（衣服等），洗烫（衣服等）( launder的过去式和过去分词 )；洗（黑钱）（把非法收入改头换面，变为貌似合法的收入）

参考例句：

• Send these sheets to be laundered. 把这些床单送去洗熨。 来自辞典例句
• The air seems freshly laundered. Sydney thinks of good drying weather. 空气似乎被清洗过，让悉妮想起晴朗干爽适合晒衣服的好天气。 来自互联网

861 pagoda   

n.宝塔（尤指印度和远东的多层宝塔），（印度教或佛教的）塔式庙宇

参考例句：

• The ancient pagoda is undergoing repairs.那座古塔正在修缮中。
• The pagoda is reflected upside down in the water.宝塔影子倒立在水里。

862 toupee   

n.假发

参考例句：

• When he grew bald he bought a toupee.头发掉了后，他买了一顶假发。
• While I was writing that last paragraph,the nurse straightened my toupee.我写最后一段的时候，护士正了正我的假发。

863 cosmetics   

n.化妆品

参考例句：

• We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
• Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。

864 writhe   

vt.挣扎，痛苦地扭曲；vi.扭曲，翻腾，受苦；n.翻腾，苦恼

参考例句：

• They surely writhe under this pressure.他们肯定对这种压力感到苦恼。
• Her words made him writhe with shame.她的话使他惭愧地感到浑身不自在。

865 smites   

v.猛打，重击，打击( smite的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The sound smites upon the ear. 声音震耳。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• My conscience smites me. 我良心上过意不去。 来自互联网

866 vehemence   

n.热切；激烈；愤怒

参考例句：

• The attack increased in vehemence.进攻越来越猛烈。
• She was astonished at his vehemence.她对他的激昂感到惊讶。

867 wanes   

v.衰落( wane的第三人称单数 )；（月）亏；变小；变暗淡

参考例句：

• The moon waxes till it becomes full, and then wanes. 月亮渐盈，直到正圆，然后消亏。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The moon waxes and wanes every month. 月亮每个月都有圆缺。 来自《简明英汉词典》

868 crooking   

n.弯曲（木材等的缺陷）v.弯成钩形( crook的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Objective: Observe effect of complex therapy for patients with peritendinitis on the muscle tendon for crooking. 目的：观察综合疗法治疗屈指肌腱腱鞘炎疗效。 来自互联网

869 puffs   

n.吸( puff的名词复数 )；（烟斗或香烟的）一吸；一缕（烟、蒸汽等）；（呼吸或风的）呼v.使喷出( puff的第三人称单数 )；喷着汽（或烟）移动；吹嘘；吹捧

参考例句：

• We sat exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his. 我们坐在那里，轮番抽着他那支野里野气的烟斗。 来自辞典例句
• Puffs of steam and smoke came from the engine. 一股股蒸汽和烟雾从那火车头里冒出来。 来自辞典例句

870 eyebrows   

眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
• His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。

871 struts   

（框架的）支杆( strut的名词复数 )； 支柱； 趾高气扬的步态； （尤指跳舞或表演时）卖弄

参考例句：

• The struts are firmly braced. 那些支柱上得很牢靠。
• The Struts + EJB framework is described in part four. 三、介绍Struts+EJB框架的技术组成：Struts框架和EJB组件技术。

872 stilts   

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》

873 quills   

n.（刺猬或豪猪的）刺( quill的名词复数 )；羽毛管；翮；纡管

参考例句：

• Quills were the chief writing implement from the 6th century AD until the advent of steel pens in the mid 19th century. 从公元6世纪到19世纪中期钢笔出现以前，羽毛笔是主要的书写工具。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Defensive quills dot the backs of these troublesome creatures. 防御性的刺长在这些讨人厌的生物背上。 来自互联网

874 promiscuous   

adj.杂乱的，随便的

参考例句：

• They were taking a promiscuous stroll when it began to rain.他们正在那漫无目的地散步，突然下起雨来。
• Alec know that she was promiscuous and superficial.亚历克知道她是乱七八糟和浅薄的。

875 rouge   

n.胭脂，口红唇膏；v.(在…上)擦口红

参考例句：

• Women put rouge on their cheeks to make their faces pretty.女人往面颊上涂胭脂，使脸更漂亮。
• She didn't need any powder or lip rouge to make her pretty.她天生漂亮，不需要任何脂粉唇膏打扮自己。

876 tribal   

adj.部族的，种族的

参考例句：

• He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
• The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。

877 elixir   

n.长生不老药，万能药

参考例句：

• There is no elixir of life in the world.世界上没有长生不老药。
• Keep your mind awake and active;that's the only youth elixir.保持头脑清醒和灵活便是保持年轻的唯一灵丹妙药。

878 backbone   

n.脊骨，脊柱，骨干；刚毅，骨气

参考例句：

• The Chinese people have backbone.中国人民有骨气。
• The backbone is an articulate structure.脊椎骨是一种关节相连的结构。

879 skittish   

adj.易激动的，轻佻的

参考例句：

• She gets very skittish when her boy-friend is around.她男朋友在场时，她就显得格外轻佻。
• I won't have my son associating with skittish girls.我不准我的儿子与轻佻的女孩交往。

880 meretricious   

adj.华而不实的，俗艳的

参考例句：

• A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.一座漆得像大理石般的木制建筑物外表是美丽的。
• Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour.她的房间刷着俗艳的颜色。

881 twitch   

v.急拉，抽动，痉挛，抽搐；n.扯，阵痛，痉挛

参考例句：

• The smell made my dog's nose twitch.那股气味使我的狗的鼻子抽动着。
• I felt a twitch at my sleeve.我觉得有人扯了一下我的袖子。

882 cynical   

adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的，不信世道向善的

参考例句：

• The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大，他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
• He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。

883 hoax   

v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧

参考例句：

• They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
• They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。

884 alley   

n.小巷，胡同；小径，小路

参考例句：

• We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。

885 chameleon   

n.变色龙，蜥蜴；善变之人

参考例句：

• The chameleon changes colour to match its surroundings.变色龙变换颜色以适应环境。
• The chameleon can take on the colour of its background.变色龙可呈现出与其背景相同的颜色。

886 genially   

adv.亲切地，和蔼地；快活地

参考例句：

• The white church peeps out genially from behind the huts scattered on the river bank. 一座白色教堂从散布在岸上的那些小木房后面殷勤地探出头来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Well, It'seems strange to see you way up here,'said Mr. Kenny genially. “咳，真没想到会在这么远的地方见到你，"肯尼先生亲切地说。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

887 twitches   

n.（使）抽动， （使）颤动， （使）抽搐( twitch的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• No response, just a flutter of flanks and a few ear twitches. 没反应，只有胁腹和耳朵动了几下。 来自互联网
• BCEF(50,100 mg·kg~-1 ) could distinctly increase the head-twitch number in the 5-HTP induced head-twitches test. BCEF50、100mg·kg-1可明显增加5羟色胺酸诱导甩头小鼠的甩头次数。 来自互联网

888 consulship   

领事的职位或任期

参考例句：

889 wart   

n.疣，肉赘；瑕疵

参考例句：

• What does the medicaments with remedial acuteness wet best wart have?治疗尖锐湿疣最好的药物有什么？
• Flat wart is generally superficial,or sometimes a slight itching.扁平疣一般是不痛不痒的，或偶有轻微痒感。

890 ordeal   

n.苦难经历，（尤指对品格、耐力的）严峻考验

参考例句：

• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
• Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。

891 fatiguing   

a.使人劳累的

参考例句：

• He was fatiguing himself with his writing, no doubt. 想必他是拼命写作，写得精疲力尽了。
• Machines are much less fatiguing to your hands, arms, and back. 使用机器时，手、膊和后背不会感到太累。

892 warts   

n.疣( wart的名词复数 )；肉赘；树瘤；缺点

参考例句：

• You agreed to marry me, warts and all! 是你同意和我结婚的，我又没掩饰缺陷。 来自辞典例句
• Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! 用那样糊涂蛋的方法还谈什么仙水治疣子！ 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

893 parasitic   

adj.寄生的

参考例句：

• Will global warming mean the spread of tropical parasitic diseases?全球变暖是否意味着热带寄生虫病会蔓延呢？
• By definition,this way of life is parasitic.从其含义来说，这是种寄生虫的生活方式。

894 agitated   

adj.被鼓动的，不安的

参考例句：

• His answers were all mixed up,so agitated was he.他是那样心神不定，回答全乱了。
• She was agitated because her train was an hour late.她乘坐的火车晚点一个小时，她十分焦虑。

895 melancholy   

n.忧郁，愁思；adj.令人感伤（沮丧）的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
• He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过，他感到很郁闷。

896 amputation   

n.截肢

参考例句：

• In ancient India,adultery was punished by amputation of the nose.在古代印度，通奸要受到剖鼻的处罚。
• He lived only hours after the amputation.截肢后，他只活了几个小时。

897 caustic   

adj.刻薄的，腐蚀性的

参考例句：

• He opened his mouth to make a caustic retort.他张嘴开始进行刻薄的反击。
• He enjoys making caustic remarks about other people.他喜欢挖苦别人。

898 snip   

n.便宜货，廉价货，剪，剪断

参考例句：

• He has now begun to snip away at the piece of paper.现在他已经开始剪这张纸。
• The beautifully made briefcase is a snip at £74.25.这个做工精美的公文包售价才74.25英镑，可谓物美价廉。

899 denned   

vi.穴居（den的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• A fault once denned is twice committed. 一次不认错，必定再犯错。 来自互联网

900 venue   

n.犯罪地点，审判地，管辖地，发生地点，集合地点

参考例句：

• The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
• The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。

901 sublime   

adj.崇高的，伟大的；极度的，不顾后果的

参考例句：

• We should take some time to enjoy the sublime beauty of nature.我们应该花些时间去欣赏大自然的壮丽景象。
• Olympic games play as an important arena to exhibit the sublime idea.奥运会，就是展示此崇高理念的重要舞台。

902 pyjamas   

n.（宽大的）睡衣裤

参考例句：

• This pyjamas has many repairs.这件睡衣有许多修补过的地方。
• Martin was in his pyjamas.马丁穿着睡衣。

903 reiterated   

反复地说，重申( reiterate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• "Well, I want to know about it,'she reiterated. “嗯，我一定要知道你的休假日期，"她重复说。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• Some twenty-two years later President Polk reiterated and elaborated upon these principles. 大约二十二年之后，波尔克总统重申这些原则并且刻意阐释一番。

904 lured   

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。

905 pulchritudinous   

adj.美貌的

参考例句：

906 dorsal   

adj.背部的，背脊的

参考例句：

• His dorsal fin was down and his huge pectorals were spread wide.它的脊鳍朝下耷拉着，巨大的胸鳍大张着。
• The shark's dorsal fin was cut off by the fisherman.鲨鱼的背鳍被渔夫割了下来。

907 scooping   

n.捞球v.抢先报道( scoop的现在分词 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• Heated ice cream scoop is used for scooping really cold ice cream. 加热的冰淇淋勺是用来舀非常凉的冰淇淋的。 来自互联网
• The scoop-up was the key phase during a scooping cycle. 3个区间中，铲取区间是整个作业循环的关键。 来自互联网

908 knotty   

adj.有结的，多节的，多瘤的，棘手的

参考例句：

• Under his leadership,many knotty problems were smoothly solved.在他的领导下，许多伤脑筋的问题都迎刃而解。
• She met with a lot of knotty problems.她碰上了许多棘手的问题。

909 gluttonously   

参考例句：

• This man eats gluttonously! 这个男人吃得非常多！

910 backwards   

adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地

参考例句：

• He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
• All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。

911 omnivorous   

adj.杂食的

参考例句：

• Brown bears are omnivorous,eating anything that they can get their paws on.棕熊是杂食性动物，抓到什么吃什么。
• Man is an omnivorous animal.人是肉类与蔬菜均食用的动物。

912 gluttons   

贪食者( glutton的名词复数 )； 贪图者； 酷爱…的人； 狼獾

参考例句：

• NIV for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags. [和合]因为好酒贪食的，必致贫穷；好17睡觉的，必穿破烂衣服。

913 stonily   

石头地，冷酷地

参考例句：

• She stared stonily at him for a minute. 她冷冷地盯着他看了片刻。
• Proudly lined up on a long bench, they stonily awaited their victims. 轿夫们把花炮全搬出来，放在门房里供人们赏鉴。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

914 psalms   

n.赞美诗( psalm的名词复数 )；圣诗；圣歌；(中的)

参考例句：

• the Book of Psalms 《〈圣经〉诗篇》
• A verse from Psalms knifed into Pug's mind: "put not your trust in princes." 《诗篇》里有一句话闪过帕格的脑海：“不要相信王侯。” 来自辞典例句

915 distended   

v.（使）膨胀，肿胀( distend的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童
• The balloon was distended. 气球已膨胀。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

916 entrust   

v.信赖，信托，交托

参考例句：

• I couldn't entrust my children to strangers.我不能把孩子交给陌生人照看。
• They can be entrusted to solve major national problems.可以委托他们解决重大国家问题。

917 hunched   

（常指因寒冷、生病或愁苦）耸肩弓身的，伏首前倾的

参考例句：

• He sat with his shoulders hunched up. 他耸起双肩坐着。
• Stephen hunched down to light a cigarette. 斯蒂芬弓着身子点燃一支烟。

918 bulged   

凸出( bulge的过去式和过去分词 )； 充满； 塞满（某物）

参考例句：

• His pockets bulged with apples and candy. 他的口袋鼓鼓地装满了苹果和糖。
• The oranges bulged his pocket. 桔子使得他的衣袋胀得鼓鼓的。

919 drooping   

adj. 下垂的，无力的 动词droop的现在分词

参考例句：

• The drooping willows are waving gently in the morning breeze. 晨风中垂柳袅袅。
• The branches of the drooping willows were swaying lightly. 垂柳轻飘飘地摆动。

920 plumed   

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。

921 plume   

n.羽毛；v.整理羽毛，骚首弄姿，用羽毛装饰

参考例句：

• Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
• He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。

922 tenor   

n.男高音（歌手），次中音（乐器），要旨，大意

参考例句：

• The tenor of his speech was that war would come.他讲话的大意是战争将要发生。
• The four parts in singing are soprano,alto,tenor and bass.唱歌的四个声部是女高音、女低音、男高音和男低音。

923 amorous   

adj.多情的；有关爱情的

参考例句：

• They exchanged amorous glances and clearly made known their passions.二人眉来眼去，以目传情。
• She gave him an amorous look.她脉脉含情的看他一眼。

924 dulcet   

adj.悦耳的

参考例句：

• Quickly,in her dulcet voice,Tamara told him what had happened.塔玛拉用她美妙悦耳的声音快速向他讲述了所发生的一切。
• Her laugh was dulcet and throaty.她的笑声低沉悦耳。

925 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

926 strings   

n.弦

参考例句：

• He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上，随意地拨着吉他的弦。
• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。

927 parlous   

adj.危险的，不确定的，难对付的

参考例句：

• They had a parlous journey on stormy seas.他们在风暴海洋上进行了一次危险的旅行。
• English tennis is in a parlous condition.英国网球运动不堪设想。

928 monks   

n.修道士，僧侣( monk的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The monks lived a very ascetic life. 僧侣过着很清苦的生活。
• He had been trained rigorously by the monks. 他接受过修道士的严格训练。 来自《简明英汉词典》

929 maidens   

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

930 undoing   

n.毁灭的原因，祸根；破坏，毁灭

参考例句：

• That one mistake was his undoing. 他一失足即成千古恨。
• This hard attitude may have led to his undoing. 可能就是这种强硬的态度导致了他的垮台。

931 squeals   

n.长而尖锐的叫声( squeal的名词复数 )v.长声尖叫，用长而尖锐的声音说( squeal的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• There was an outburst of squeals from the cage. 铁笼子里传来一阵吱吱的叫声。 来自英汉文学
• There were squeals of excitement from the children. 孩子们兴奋得大声尖叫。 来自辞典例句

932 squeal   

v.发出长而尖的声音；n.长而尖的声音

参考例句：

• The children gave a squeal of fright.孩子们发出惊吓的尖叫声。
• There was a squeal of brakes as the car suddenly stopped.小汽车突然停下来时，车闸发出尖叫声。

933 penance   

n.（赎罪的）惩罪

参考例句：

• They had confessed their sins and done their penance.他们已经告罪并做了补赎。
• She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。

934 walrus   

n.海象

参考例句：

• He is the queer old duck with the knee-length gaiters and walrus mustache.他穿着高及膝盖的皮护腿，留着海象般的八字胡，真是个古怪的老家伙。
• He seemed hardly to notice the big walrus.他几乎没有注意到那只大海象。

935 calf   

n.小牛，犊，幼仔，小牛皮

参考例句：

• The cow slinked its calf.那头母牛早产了一头小牛犊。
• The calf blared for its mother.牛犊哞哞地高声叫喊找妈妈。

936 bastard   

n.坏蛋，混蛋；私生子

参考例句：

• He was never concerned about being born a bastard.他从不介意自己是私生子。
• There was supposed to be no way to get at the bastard.据说没有办法买通那个混蛋。

937 rigid   

adj.严格的，死板的；刚硬的，僵硬的

参考例句：

• She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
• The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严，几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。

938 yelps   

n.（因痛苦、气愤、兴奋等的）短而尖的叫声( yelp的名词复数 )v.发出短而尖的叫声( yelp的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The woman emitted queer regular little snores that sounded like yelps. 她那跟怪叫差不多的鼾声一股一股地从被里冒出来。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
• As the moments passed the yelps grew closer and louder. 一会儿，呼叫声越来越近、越来越响了。 来自互联网

939 smothered   

（使）窒息， （使）透不过气( smother的过去式和过去分词 )； 覆盖； 忍住； 抑制

参考例句：

• He smothered the baby with a pillow. 他用枕头把婴儿闷死了。
• The fire is smothered by ashes. 火被灰闷熄了。

940 mattress   

n.床垫，床褥

参考例句：

• The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
• The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。

941 subscribed   

v.捐助( subscribe的过去式和过去分词 )；签署，题词；订阅；同意

参考例句：

• It is not a theory that is commonly subscribed to. 一般人并不赞成这个理论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I subscribed my name to the document. 我在文件上签了字。 来自《简明英汉词典》

942 hue   

n.色度；色调；样子

参考例句：

• The diamond shone with every hue under the sun.金刚石在阳光下放出五颜六色的光芒。
• The same hue will look different in different light.同一颜色在不同的光线下看起来会有所不同。

943 winsome   

n.迷人的，漂亮的

参考例句：

• She gave him her best winsome smile.她给了他一个最为迷人的微笑。
• She was a winsome creature.她十分可爱。

944 inoculated   

v.给…做预防注射( inoculate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• A pedigree pup should have been inoculated against serious diseases before it's sold. 纯种狗应该在出售前注射预防严重疾病的针。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Disease can be spread by dirty tools, insects, inoculated soil. 疾病也能由不干净的工具，昆虫，接种的土壤传播。 来自辞典例句

945 anthropoid   

adj.像人类的，类人猿的；n.类人猿；像猿的人

参考例句：

• Man evolved from the anthropoid ape.人是从类人猿进化而来的。
• Gorilla are the largest of the anthropoid apes native to the forests of equatorial Africa.大猩猩是栖居在赤道非洲的最大的类人猿。

946 virgins   

处女，童男( virgin的名词复数 )； 童贞玛利亚（耶稣之母）

参考例句：

• They were both virgins when they met and married. 他们从相识到结婚前都未曾经历男女之事。
• Men want virgins as concubines. 人家买姨太太的要整货。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

947 profuse   

adj.很多的，大量的，极其丰富的

参考例句：

• The hostess is profuse in her hospitality.女主人招待得十分周到。
• There was a profuse crop of hair impending over the top of his face.一大绺头发垂在他额头上。

948 spawn   

n.卵，产物，后代，结果；vt.产卵，种菌丝于，产生，造成；vi.产卵，大量生产

参考例句：

• The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进。
• These fish will lay spawn in about one month from now.这些鱼大约一个月内会产卵。

949 foaming   

adj.布满泡沫的；发泡

参考例句：

• He looked like a madman, foaming at the mouth. 他口吐白沫，看上去像个疯子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is foaming at the mouth about the committee's decision. 他正为委员会的决定大发其火。 来自《简明英汉词典》

950 centurion   

n.古罗马的百人队长

参考例句：

• When Jesus had entered Capernaum,a centurion came to him,asking for help.耶稣进了迦百农，有一个百夫长前来求助。
• A centurion was in charge of 100 soldiers.一个百夫长管理100个士兵。

951 flickering   

adj.闪烁的，摇曳的，一闪一闪的

参考例句：

• The crisp autumn wind is flickering away. 清爽的秋风正在吹拂。
• The lights keep flickering. 灯光忽明忽暗。

952 scorpion   

n.蝎子，心黑的人，蝎子鞭

参考例句：

• The scorpion has a sting that can be deadly.蝎子有可以致命的螫针。
• The scorpion has a sting that can be deadly.蝎子有可以致命的螫针。

953 rubicund   

adj.(脸色)红润的

参考例句：

• She watched the colour drain from Colin's rubicund face.她看见科林原本红润的脸渐渐失去了血色。
• His rubicund face expressed consternation and fatigue.他那红通的脸显得又惊惶又疲乏。

954 tightened   

收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 )； （使）变紧； （使）绷紧； 加紧

参考例句：

• The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
• His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。

955 jovially   

adv.愉快地，高兴地

参考例句：

• "Hello, Wilson, old man,'said Tom, slapping him jovially on the shoulder. "How's business?" “哈罗，威尔逊，你这家伙，”汤姆说，一面嘻嘻哈哈地拍拍他的肩膀，“生意怎么样？” 来自英汉文学 - 盖茨比
• Hall greeted him jovially enough, but Gorman and Walson scowled as they grunted curt "Good Mornings." 霍尔兴致十足地向他打招呼，戈曼和沃森却满脸不豫之色，敷衍地咕哝句“早安”。 来自辞典例句

956 ardent   

adj.热情的，热烈的，强烈的，烈性的

参考例句：

• He's an ardent supporter of the local football team.他是本地足球队的热情支持者。
• Ardent expectations were held by his parents for his college career.他父母对他的大学学习抱着殷切的期望。

957 severed   

v.切断，断绝( sever的过去式和过去分词 )；断，裂

参考例句：

• The doctor said I'd severed a vessel in my leg. 医生说我割断了腿上的一根血管。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• We have severed diplomatic relations with that country. 我们与那个国家断绝了外交关系。 来自《简明英汉词典》

958 steered   

v.驾驶( steer的过去式和过去分词 )；操纵；控制；引导

参考例句：

• He steered the boat into the harbour. 他把船开进港。
• The freighter steered out of Santiago Bay that evening. 那天晚上货轮驶出了圣地亚哥湾。 来自《简明英汉词典》

959 steer   

vt.驾驶，为…操舵；引导；vi.驾驶

参考例句：

• If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
• It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。

960 strictly   

adv.严厉地，严格地；严密地

参考例句：

• His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
• The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。

961 quack   

n.庸医；江湖医生；冒充内行的人；骗子

参考例句：

• He describes himself as a doctor,but I feel he is a quack.他自称是医生，可是我感觉他是个江湖骗子。
• The quack was stormed with questions.江湖骗子受到了猛烈的质问。

962 dwarf   

n.矮子，侏儒，矮小的动植物；vt.使…矮小

参考例句：

• The dwarf's long arms were not proportional to his height.那侏儒的长臂与他的身高不成比例。
• The dwarf shrugged his shoulders and shook his head. 矮子耸耸肩膀，摇摇头。

963 simian   

adj.似猿猴的；n.类人猿，猴

参考例句：

• Ada had a wrinkled,simian face.埃达有一张布满皱纹、长得像猿猴的脸。
• Curiosity is the taproot of an intellectual life,the most valuable of our simian traits.好奇是高智生命的根源，也是我们类人猿特征中最有价值的部分。

964 acolytes   

n.助手( acolyte的名词复数 )；随从；新手；（天主教）侍祭

参考例句：

• To his acolytes, he is known simply as 'the Boss'. 他被手下人简称为“老板”。 来自辞典例句
• Many of the acolytes have been in hiding amongst the populace. 许多寺僧都隐藏在平民当中。 来自互联网

965 corks   

n.脐梅衣；软木( cork的名词复数 )；软木塞

参考例句：

• Champagne corks were popping throughout the celebrations. 庆祝会上开香槟酒瓶塞的砰砰声不绝於耳。 来自辞典例句
• Champagne corks popped, and on lace tablecloths seven-course dinners were laid. 桌上铺着带装饰图案的网织的桌布，上面是七道菜的晚餐。 来自飘（部分）

966 invokes   

v.援引( invoke的第三人称单数 )；行使（权利等）；祈求救助；恳求

参考例句：

• The Roundtable statement invokes the principles of the free market system. 企业界圆桌会议的声明援用了自由市场制度的原则。 来自辞典例句
• When no more storage is available, the system invokes a garbage collector. 当没有可用的存贮时，系统就调用无用单元收集程序。 来自辞典例句

967 dungeon   

n.地牢，土牢

参考例句：

• They were driven into a dark dungeon.他们被人驱赶进入一个黑暗的地牢。
• He was just set free from a dungeon a few days ago.几天前，他刚从土牢里被放出来。

968 upwards   

adv.向上，在更高处...以上

参考例句：

• The trend of prices is still upwards.物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
• The smoke rose straight upwards.烟一直向上升。

969 puffed   

adj.疏松的v.使喷出( puff的过去式和过去分词 )；喷着汽（或烟）移动；吹嘘；吹捧

参考例句：

• He lit a cigarette and puffed at it furiously. 他点燃了一支香烟，狂吸了几口。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He felt grown-up, puffed up with self-importance. 他觉得长大了，便自以为了不起。 来自《简明英汉词典》

970 swarms   

蜂群，一大群( swarm的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They came to town in swarms. 他们蜂拥来到城里。
• On June the first there were swarms of children playing in the park. 6月1日那一天，这个公园里有一群群的孩子玩耍。

971 ribs   

n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 )；（船或屋顶等的）肋拱；肋骨状的东西；（织物的）凸条花纹

参考例句：

• He suffered cracked ribs and bruising. 他断了肋骨还有挫伤。
• Make a small incision below the ribs. 在肋骨下方切开一个小口。

972 grimacing   

v.扮鬼相，做鬼脸( grimace的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• But then Boozer drove past Gasol for a rattling, grimacing slam dunk. 可布泽尔单吃家嫂，以一记强有力的扣篮将比分超出。 来自互联网
• The martyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer, said the don at last, grimacing with embarrassment. 最后那位老师尴尬地做个鬼脸，说，这是大主教克莱默的殉道士。 来自互联网

973 fiddle   

n.小提琴；vi.拉提琴；不停拨弄，乱动

参考例句：

• She plays the fiddle well.她小提琴拉得好。
• Don't fiddle with the typewriter.不要摆弄那架打字机了。

974 aslant   

adv.倾斜地；adj.斜的

参考例句：

• The sunlight fell aslant the floor.阳光斜落在地板上。
• He leant aslant against the wall.他身子歪斜着依靠在墙上。

975 curtly   

adv.简短地

参考例句：

• He nodded curtly and walked away. 他匆忙点了一下头就走了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The request was curtly refused. 这个请求被毫不客气地拒绝了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

976 giggling   

v.咯咯地笑( giggle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• We just sat there giggling like naughty schoolchildren. 我们只是坐在那儿像调皮的小学生一样的咯咯地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I can't stand her giggling, she's so silly. 她吃吃地笑，叫我真受不了，那样子傻透了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

977 zigzag   

n.曲折，之字形；adj.曲折的，锯齿形的；adv.曲折地，成锯齿形地；vt.使曲折；vi.曲折前行

参考例句：

• The lightning made a zigzag in the sky.闪电在天空划出一道Z字形。
• The path runs zigzag up the hill.小径向山顶蜿蜒盘旋。

978 mellow   

adj.柔和的；熟透的；v.变柔和；(使)成熟

参考例句：

• These apples are mellow at this time of year.每年这时节，苹果就熟透了。
• The colours become mellow as the sun went down.当太阳落山时，色彩变得柔和了。

979 melodious   

adj.旋律美妙的，调子优美的，音乐性的

参考例句：

• She spoke in a quietly melodious voice.她说话轻声细语，嗓音甜美。
• Everybody was attracted by her melodious voice.大家都被她悦耳的声音吸引住了。

980 nervously   

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。

981 sniffs   

v.以鼻吸气，嗅，闻( sniff的第三人称单数 )；抽鼻子（尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气）；抱怨，不以为然地说

参考例句：

• When a dog smells food, he usually sniffs. 狗闻到食物时常吸鼻子。 来自辞典例句
• I-It's a difficult time [ Sniffs ] with my husband. 最近[哭泣]和我丈夫出了点问题。 来自电影对白

982 pricks   

刺痛( prick的名词复数 )； 刺孔； 刺痕； 植物的刺

参考例句：

• My skin pricks sometimes. 我的皮肤有时感到刺痛。
• You must obey the rule. It is useless for you to kick against the pricks. 你必须遵守规定，对抗对你是无益的。

983 nibbles   

vt.& vi.啃，一点一点地咬（nibble的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• A fish nibbles at the bait. 一条鱼在轻轻地啃鱼饵。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Units of four bits are sometimes referred to as nibbles. 有时将四位数字组成的单元叫做半字节。 来自辞典例句

984 taunts   

嘲弄的言语，嘲笑，奚落( taunt的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He had to endure the racist taunts of the crowd. 他不得不忍受那群人种族歧视的奚落。
• He had to endure the taunts of his successful rival. 他不得不忍受成功了的对手的讥笑。

985 adroit   

adj.熟练的，灵巧的

参考例句：

• Jamie was adroit at flattering others.杰米很会拍马屁。
• His adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers.他对质问者的机敏应答使他赢得了很多追随者。

986 impelling   

adj.迫使性的，强有力的v.推动、推进或敦促某人做某事( impel的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Impelling-binding mechanism is the micro foundation of venture capital operation. 激励约束机制是创业投资运作的微观基础。 来自互联网
• Impelling supervision is necessary measure of administrative ethic construction. 强有力的监督是行政伦理建设的重要保证。 来自互联网

987 downwards   

adj./adv.向下的（地），下行的（地）

参考例句：

• He lay face downwards on his bed.他脸向下伏在床上。
• As the river flows downwards,it widens.这条河愈到下游愈宽。

988 vanilla   

n.香子兰，香草

参考例句：

• He used to love milk flavoured with vanilla.他过去常爱喝带香草味的牛奶。
• I added a dollop of vanilla ice-cream to the pie.我在馅饼里加了一块香草冰激凌。

989 flirting   

v.调情，打情骂俏( flirt的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Don't take her too seriously; she's only flirting with you. 别把她太当真，她只不过是在和你调情罢了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• 'she's always flirting with that new fellow Tseng!" “她还同新来厂里那个姓曾的吊膀子！ 来自子夜部分

990 sprouting   

v.发芽( sprout的现在分词 )；抽芽；出现；（使）涌现出

参考例句：

• new leaves sprouting from the trees 树上长出的新叶
• They were putting fresh earth around sprouting potato stalks. 他们在往绽出新芽的土豆秧周围培新土。 来自名作英译部分

991 insistence   

n.坚持；强调；坚决主张

参考例句：

• They were united in their insistence that she should go to college.他们一致坚持她应上大学。
• His insistence upon strict obedience is correct.他坚持绝对服从是对的。

992 winnows   

v.扬( winnow的第三人称单数 )；辨别；选择；除去

参考例句：

• A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. 智慧的王簸散恶人，用碌碡滚轧他们。 来自互联网
• A wise king winnows the wicked, And drives the threshing wheel over them. 箴20:26智慧的王、簸散恶人、用碌碡辊轧他们。 来自互联网

993 falcon   

n.隼，猎鹰

参考例句：

• The falcon was twice his size with pouted feathers.鹰张开羽毛比两只鹰还大。
• The boys went hunting with their falcon.男孩子们带着猎鹰出去打猎了。

994 slumber   

n.睡眠，沉睡状态

参考例句：

• All the people in the hotels were wrapped in deep slumber.住在各旅馆里的人都已进入梦乡。
• Don't wake him from his slumber because he needs the rest.不要把他从睡眠中唤醒，因为他需要休息。

995 exuberant   

adj.充满活力的；（植物）繁茂的

参考例句：

• Hothouse plants do not possess exuberant vitality.在温室里培养出来的东西，不会有强大的生命力。
• All those mother trees in the garden are exuberant.果园里的那些母树都长得十分茂盛。

996 exhausted   

adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

参考例句：

• It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
• Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

997 draught   

n.拉，牵引，拖；一网（饮，吸，阵)；顿服药量，通风；v.起草，设计

参考例句：

• He emptied his glass at one draught.他将杯中物一饮而尽。
• It's a pity the room has no north window and you don't get a draught.可惜这房间没北窗，没有过堂风。

998 widower   

n.鳏夫

参考例句：

• George was a widower with six young children.乔治是个带著六个小孩子的鳏夫。
• Having been a widower for many years,he finally decided to marry again.丧偶多年后，他终于决定二婚了。

999 barometer   

n.气压表，睛雨表，反应指标

参考例句：

• The barometer marked a continuing fall in atmospheric pressure.气压表表明气压在继续下降。
• The arrow on the barometer was pointing to"stormy".气压计上的箭头指向“有暴风雨”。

1000 peccadillo   

n.轻罪，小过失

参考例句：

• For this peccadillo he was demoted and sent back to pound the beat.由于这次过失,他被降了级,又被打发去干徒步巡警了。
• A fine of ￡5000 is swinging for such a peccadillo.这样的一个小过失，罚款5000英镑太多了吧。

1001 reluctance   

n.厌恶，讨厌，勉强，不情愿

参考例句：

• The police released Andrew with reluctance.警方勉强把安德鲁放走了。
• He showed the greatest reluctance to make a reply.他表示很不愿意答复。

1002 bungle   

v.搞糟；n.拙劣的工作

参考例句：

• If you bungle a job,you must do it again!要是你把这件事搞糟了，你得重做！
• That last stupid bungle of his is the end.他那最后一次愚蠢的错误使我再也无法容忍了。

1003 pouched   

adj.袋形的，有袋的

参考例句：

• He pouched the pack of cigarettes. 他把这包香烟装入口袋中。 来自辞典例句
• His face pouched and seamed. 他的面孔肉松皮皱。 来自辞典例句

1004 sagging   

下垂[沉，陷]，松垂，垂度

参考例句：

• The morale of the enemy troops is continuously sagging. 敌军的士气不断低落。
• We are sagging south. 我们的船正离开航线向南漂流。

1005 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。

1006 shamming   

假装，冒充( sham的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He is not really ill, he is shamming. 他不是生病，他在装病。
• He is only shamming. 他只是假装罢了。

1007 glistening   

adj.闪耀的，反光的v.湿物闪耀，闪亮( glisten的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Her eyes were glistening with tears. 她眼里闪着晶莹的泪花。
• Her eyes were glistening with tears. 她眼睛中的泪水闪着柔和的光。 来自《用法词典》

1008 erectness   

n.直立

参考例句：

1009 bleats   

v.（羊，小牛）叫( bleat的第三人称单数 )；哭诉；发出羊叫似的声音；轻声诉说

参考例句：

• Every time the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful. 羊每叫一次，就少吃一口。 来自互联网
• There is a saying that every time the sheep bleats, it loses a mouthful of hay. 有句古谚曾说，绵羊每叫一声，它就会掉落一口干草。 来自互联网

1010 cocktails   

n.鸡尾酒( cocktail的名词复数 )；餐前开胃菜；混合物

参考例句：

• Come about 4 o'clock. We'll have cocktails and grill steaks. 请四点钟左右来，我们喝鸡尾酒，吃烤牛排。 来自辞典例句
• Cocktails were a nasty American habit. 喝鸡尾酒是讨厌的美国习惯。 来自辞典例句

1011 anticipation   

n.预期，预料，期望

参考例句：

• We waited at the station in anticipation of her arrival.我们在车站等着，期待她的到来。
• The animals grew restless as if in anticipation of an earthquake.各种动物都变得焦躁不安，像是感到了地震即将发生。

1012 inflicted   

把…强加给，使承受，遭受( inflict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team. 他们使主队吃了一场很没面子的败仗。
• Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her. 卓娅英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑。

1013 flutes   

长笛( flute的名词复数 )； 细长香槟杯（形似长笛）

参考例句：

• The melody is then taken up by the flutes. 接着由长笛奏主旋律。
• These flutes have 6open holes and a lovely bright sound. 笛子有6个吹气孔，奏出的声音响亮清脆。

1014 thumping   

adj.重大的，巨大的；重击的；尺码大的；极好的adv.极端地；非常地v.重击(thump的现在分词)；狠打；怦怦地跳；全力支持

参考例句：

• Her heart was thumping with emotion. 她激动得心怦怦直跳。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He was thumping the keys of the piano. 他用力弹钢琴。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

1015 belches   

n.嗳气( belch的名词复数 )；喷吐；喷出物v.打嗝( belch的第三人称单数 )；喷出，吐出；打（嗝）；嗳（气）

参考例句：

• A volcano belches smoke and ashes. 火山喷出黑烟和灰土。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• A volcano belches forth smoke and ashes. 火山喷出烟和尘埃。 来自互联网

1016 licensed   

adj.得到许可的v.许可，颁发执照(license的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• The new drug has not yet been licensed in the US. 这种新药尚未在美国获得许可。
• Is that gun licensed? 那支枪有持枪执照吗？

1017 slaughtered   

v.屠杀，杀戮，屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1018 skewered   

v.（用串肉扦或类似物）串起，刺穿( skewer的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He skewered his victim through the neck. 他用扦子刺穿了受害人的脖子。 来自辞典例句
• He skewered his foot on a nail. 他的脚踩在钉子上了。 来自互联网

1019 basted   

v.打( baste的过去式和过去分词 )；粗缝；痛斥；（烤肉等时）往上抹[浇]油

参考例句：

• The turkey is basted to keep it from drying out. 烤火鸡时润以油脂以免烤干。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Meat is basted to keep it from drying out and to improve its flavour. 烤肉时润以脂油使不致烤焦并可增加香味。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1020 greasy   

adj. 多脂的，油脂的

参考例句：

• He bought a heavy-duty cleanser to clean his greasy oven.昨天他买了强力清洁剂来清洗油污的炉子。
• You loathe the smell of greasy food when you are seasick.当你晕船时，你会厌恶油腻的气味。

1021 pastry   

n.油酥面团，酥皮糕点

参考例句：

• The cook pricked a few holes in the pastry.厨师在馅饼上戳了几个洞。
• The pastry crust was always underdone.馅饼的壳皮常常烤得不透。

1022 ferocious   

adj.凶猛的，残暴的，极度的，十分强烈的

参考例句：

• The ferocious winds seemed about to tear the ship to pieces.狂风仿佛要把船撕成碎片似的。
• The ferocious panther is chasing a rabbit.那只凶猛的豹子正追赶一只兔子。

1023 pinion   

v.束缚；n.小齿轮

参考例句：

• At nine the next morning Bentley was pinioned,hooded and hanged.次日上午9点，本特里被捆住双臂，戴上头罩，然后绞死了。
• Why don't you try tightening the pinion nut first?你为什么不先扭紧小齿轮的螺帽？

1024 quenches   

解（渴）( quench的第三人称单数 )； 终止（某事物）； （用水）扑灭（火焰等）； 将（热物体）放入水中急速冷却

参考例句：

• Water afar quenches not fire. 远水解不了近渴。
• Daylight quenches the candles and the birds begin to sing. 日光压倒了烛光，小鸟开始歌唱。

1025 ashtray   

n.烟灰缸

参考例句：

• He knocked out his pipe in the big glass ashtray.他在大玻璃烟灰缸里磕净烟斗。
• She threw the cigarette butt into the ashtray.她把烟头扔进烟灰缸。

1026 yoke   

n.轭；支配；v.给...上轭，连接，使成配偶

参考例句：

• An ass and an ox,fastened to the same yoke,were drawing a wagon.驴子和公牛一起套在轭上拉车。
• The defeated army passed under the yoke.败军在轭门下通过。

1027 luxuriously   

adv.奢侈地，豪华地

参考例句：

• She put her nose luxuriously buried in heliotrope and tea roses. 她把自己的鼻子惬意地埋在天芥菜和庚申蔷薇花簇中。 来自辞典例句
• To be well dressed doesn't mean to be luxuriously dressed. 穿得好不一定衣着豪华。 来自辞典例句

1028 rustling   

n. 瑟瑟声，沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的

参考例句：

• the sound of the trees rustling in the breeze 树木在微风中发出的沙沙声
• the soft rustling of leaves 树叶柔和的沙沙声

1029 wigged   

adj.戴假发的

参考例句：

• I have wigged him well. 我已给他装好了假发。 来自辞典例句
• He wigged me for being late. 他因我来迟而责骂我。 来自辞典例句

1030 singed   

v.浅表烧焦( singe的过去式和过去分词 )；（毛发）燎，烧焦尖端[边儿]

参考例句：

• He singed his hair as he tried to light his cigarette. 他点烟时把头发给燎了。
• The cook singed the chicken to remove the fine hairs. 厨师把鸡燎一下，以便去掉细毛。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1031 chilly   

adj.凉快的，寒冷的

参考例句：

• I feel chilly without a coat.我由于没有穿大衣而感到凉飕飕的。
• I grew chilly when the fire went out.炉火熄灭后，寒气逼人。

1032 chafing   

n.皮肤发炎v.擦热（尤指皮肤）( chafe的现在分词 )；擦痛；发怒；惹怒

参考例句：

• My shorts were chafing my thighs. 我的短裤把大腿磨得生疼。 来自辞典例句
• We made coffee in a chafing dish. 我们用暖锅烧咖啡。 来自辞典例句

1033 prank   

n.开玩笑，恶作剧；v.装饰；打扮；炫耀自己

参考例句：

• It was thought that the fire alarm had been set off as a prank.人们认为火警报警器响是个恶作剧。
• The dean was ranking the boys for pulling the prank.系主任正在惩罚那些恶作剧的男学生。

1034 thrift   

adj.节约，节俭；n.节俭，节约

参考例句：

• He has the virtues of thrift and hard work.他具备节俭和勤奋的美德。
• His thrift and industry speak well for his future.他的节俭和勤勉预示着他美好的未来。

1035 guffaws   

n.大笑，狂笑( guffaw的名词复数 )v.大笑，狂笑( guffaw的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Harry even had to cover his face duck out of view to hide his uncontrolled guffaws. 哈里王子更是一发不可收拾，捂住脸，狂笑起来。 来自互联网

1036 almighty   

adj.全能的，万能的；很大的，很强的

参考例句：

• Those rebels did not really challenge Gods almighty power.这些叛徒没有对上帝的全能力量表示怀疑。
• It's almighty cold outside.外面冷得要命。

1037 robust   

adj.强壮的，强健的，粗野的，需要体力的，浓的

参考例句：

• She is too tall and robust.她个子太高，身体太壮。
• China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道，中国希望保持经济强势增长，以减少贫困和失业状况。

1038 gilds   

把…镀金( gild的第三人称单数 )； 给…上金色； 作多余的修饰（反而破坏原已完美的东西）； 画蛇添足

参考例句：

• The morning sun gilds the sky. 朝阳把天空染成金色。
• You look green around the gilds. 你看上去病得不轻。

1039 waddles   

v.（像鸭子一样）摇摇摆摆地走( waddle的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• A goose waddles aimlessly. 一只鹅在摇摇摇摆漫无目的地走着。 来自互联网

1040 martinet   

n.要求严格服从纪律的人

参考例句：

• They discover that the new teacher is a martinet.他们发现新来的老师非常严格。
• He's a retired Lieutenant Colonel and a bit of a martinet.他是个退役中校，有点军人作风。

1041 medley   

n.混合

参考例句：

• Today's sports meeting doesn't seem to include medley relay swimming.现在的运动会好象还没有混合接力泳这个比赛项目。
• China won the Men's 200 metres Individual Medley.中国赢得了男子200米个人混合泳比赛。

1042 clandestine   

adj.秘密的，暗中从事的

参考例句：

• She is the director of clandestine operations of the CIA.她是中央情报局秘密行动的负责人。
• The early Christians held clandestine meetings in caves.早期的基督徒在洞穴中秘密聚会。

1043 nuptial   

adj.婚姻的，婚礼的

参考例句：

• Their nuptial day hasn't been determined.他们的结婚日还没有决定。
• I went to the room which he had called the nuptial chamber.我走进了他称之为洞房的房间。

1044 stimulated   

a.刺激的

参考例句：

• The exhibition has stimulated interest in her work. 展览增进了人们对她作品的兴趣。
• The award has stimulated her into working still harder. 奖金促使她更加努力地工作。

1045 postal   

adj.邮政的，邮局的

参考例句：

• A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
• Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。

1046 candid   

adj.公正的，正直的；坦率的

参考例句：

• I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it.我只有希望公正的读者多少包涵一些。
• He is quite candid with his friends.他对朋友相当坦诚。

1047 inhuman   

adj.残忍的，不人道的，无人性的

参考例句：

• We must unite the workers in fighting against inhuman conditions.我们必须使工人们团结起来反对那些难以忍受的工作条件。
• It was inhuman to refuse him permission to see his wife.不容许他去看自己的妻子是太不近人情了。

1048 rhinoceros   

n.犀牛

参考例句：

• The rhinoceros has one horn on its nose.犀牛鼻子上有一个角。
• The body of the rhinoceros likes a cattle and the head likes a triangle.犀牛的形体像牛，头呈三角形。

1049 wretch   

n.可怜的人，不幸的人；卑鄙的人

参考例句：

• You are really an ungrateful wretch to complain instead of thanking him.你不但不谢他，还埋怨他，真不知好歹。
• The dead husband is not the dishonoured wretch they fancied him.死去的丈夫不是他们所想象的不光彩的坏蛋。

1050 skunk   

n.臭鼬，黄鼠狼；v.使惨败，使得零分；烂醉如泥

参考例句：

• That was a rotten thing to do, you skunk!那种事做得太缺德了，你这卑鄙的家伙！
• The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.受到攻击时臭鼬会发出一种难闻的气味。

1051 rinse   

v.用清水漂洗，用清水冲洗

参考例句：

• Give the cup a rinse.冲洗一下杯子。
• Don't just rinse the bottles. Wash them out carefully.别只涮涮瓶子，要仔细地洗洗里面。

1052 scented   

adj.有香味的；洒香水的；有气味的v.嗅到(scent的过去分词)

参考例句：

• I let my lungs fill with the scented air. 我呼吸着芬芳的空气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The police dog scented about till he found the trail. 警犬嗅来嗅去，终于找到了踪迹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1053 knight   

n.骑士，武士；爵士

参考例句：

• He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
• A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。

1054 knights   

骑士； （中古时代的）武士( knight的名词复数 )； 骑士； 爵士； （国际象棋中）马

参考例句：

• stories of knights and fair maidens 关于骑士和美女的故事
• He wove a fascinating tale of knights in shining armour. 他编了一个穿着明亮盔甲的骑士的迷人故事。

1055 chuckles   

轻声地笑( chuckle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Father always chuckles when he reads the funny papers. 父亲在读幽默报纸时总是低声发笑。
• [Chuckles] You thought he was being poisoned by hemlock? 你觉得他中的会是芹叶钩吻毒吗？

1056 gilded   

a.镀金的，富有的

参考例句：

• The golden light gilded the sea. 金色的阳光使大海如金子般闪闪发光。
• "Friends, they are only gilded disks of lead!" "朋友们，这只不过是些镀金的铅饼！ 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡

1057 lookout   

n.注意，前途，瞭望台

参考例句：

• You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
• It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来，公司的前景可就不妙了。

1058 bidder   

n.(拍卖时的)出价人，报价人，投标人

参考例句：

• TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder.电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。
• The bidder withdrew his bid after submission of his bid.投标者在投标之后撤销了投标书。

1059 scanty   

adj.缺乏的，仅有的，节省的，狭小的，不够的

参考例句：

• There is scanty evidence to support their accusations.他们的指控证据不足。
• The rainfall was rather scanty this month.这个月的雨量不足。

1060 scant   

adj.不充分的，不足的；v.减缩，限制，忽略

参考例句：

• Don't scant the butter when you make a cake.做糕饼时不要吝惜奶油。
• Many mothers pay scant attention to their own needs when their children are small.孩子们小的时候，许多母亲都忽视自己的需求。

1061 transparent   

adj.明显的，无疑的；透明的

参考例句：

• The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明，可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
• The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。

1062 mincing   

adj.矫饰的；v.切碎；切碎

参考例句：

• She came to the park with mincing,and light footsteps.她轻移莲步来到了花园之中。
• There is no use in mincing matters.掩饰事实是没有用的。

1063 fascination   

n.令人着迷的事物，魅力，迷恋

参考例句：

• He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
• His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。

1064 pander   

v.迎合；n.拉皮条者，勾引者；帮人做坏事的人

参考例句：

• Don't pander to such people. 要迎合这样的人。
• Those novels pander to people's liking for stories about crime.那些小说迎合读者对犯罪故事的爱好。

1065 vices   

缺陷( vice的名词复数 )； 恶习； 不道德行为； 台钳

参考例句：

• In spite of his vices, he was loved by all. 尽管他有缺点，还是受到大家的爱戴。
• He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court. 他在教堂的讲坛上责骂宫廷的罪恶。

1066 brawn   

n.体力

参考例句：

• In this job you need both brains and brawn.做这份工作既劳神又费力。
• They relied on brains rather than brawn.他们靠的是脑力，而不是体力。

1067 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1068 drizzle   

v.下毛毛雨；n.毛毛雨，蒙蒙细雨

参考例句：

• The shower tailed off into a drizzle.阵雨越来越小，最后变成了毛毛雨。
• Yesterday the radio forecast drizzle,and today it is indeed raining.昨天预报有小雨，今天果然下起来了。

1069 tattered   

adj.破旧的，衣衫破的

参考例句：

• Her tattered clothes in no way detracted from her beauty.她的破衣烂衫丝毫没有影响她的美貌。
• Their tattered clothing and broken furniture indicated their poverty.他们褴褛的衣服和破烂的家具显出他们的贫穷。

1070 rusty   

adj.生锈的；锈色的；荒废了的

参考例句：

• The lock on the door is rusty and won't open.门上的锁锈住了。
• I haven't practiced my French for months and it's getting rusty.几个月不用，我的法语又荒疏了。

1071 panes   

窗玻璃( pane的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The sun caught the panes and flashed back at him. 阳光照到窗玻璃上，又反射到他身上。
• The window-panes are dim with steam. 玻璃窗上蒙上了一层蒸汽。

1072 swirling   

v.旋转，打旋( swirl的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Snowflakes were swirling in the air. 天空飘洒着雪花。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• She smiled, swirling the wine in her glass. 她微笑着，旋动着杯子里的葡萄酒。 来自辞典例句

1073 grunts   

（猪等）作呼噜声( grunt的第三人称单数 )； （指人）发出类似的哼声； 咕哝着说； 石鲈

参考例句：

• With grunts of anguish Ogilvie eased his bulk to a sitting position. 奥格尔维苦恼地哼着，伸个懒腰坐了起来。
• Linda fired twice A trio of Grunts assembling one mortar fell. 琳达击发两次。三个正在组装迫击炮的咕噜人倒下了。

1074 auction   

n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖

参考例句：

• They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
• They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。

1075 flea   

n.跳蚤

参考例句：

• I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.如果他再来打扰的话，我就要对他不客气了。
• Hunter has an interest in prowling around a flea market.亨特对逛跳蚤市场很感兴趣。

1076 clenches   

v.紧握，抓紧，咬紧( clench的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Michael clenches Westmoreland's hand, Give Anna her Poppa's love. Westmoreland紧握Michael的手，给Anna带去她父亲的问候。 来自互联网

1077 decency   

n.体面，得体，合宜，正派，庄重

参考例句：

• His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer.他的正直感和公平竞争意识使他拒绝了这一提议。
• Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.你的行为有伤风化。

1078 suffocated   

（使某人）窒息而死( suffocate的过去式和过去分词 )； （将某人）闷死； 让人感觉闷热； 憋气

参考例句：

• Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars. 许多狗在热烘烘的汽车里给闷死了。
• I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift. 呼吸器上的管子脱落时，我差点给憋死。

1079 manure   

n.粪，肥，肥粒；vt.施肥

参考例句：

• The farmers were distributing manure over the field.农民们正在田间施肥。
• The farmers used manure to keep up the fertility of their land.农夫们用粪保持其土质的肥沃。

1080 scoffingly   

带冷笑地

参考例句：

• County attorney: ( Scoffingly. ) oh. windows! 县检察官：（嘲笑地）噢，窗户！

1081 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

1082 sobs   

啜泣（声），呜咽（声）( sob的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She was struggling to suppress her sobs. 她拼命不让自己哭出来。
• She burst into a convulsive sobs. 她突然抽泣起来。

1083 wailing   

v.哭叫，哀号( wail的现在分词 )；沱

参考例句：

• A police car raced past with its siren wailing. 一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。
• The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。

1084 recreant   

n.懦夫；adj.胆怯的

参考例句：

• How can I overcome recreant psychology?我该如何克服胆小的心理？
• He is a recreant knight.他是个懦弱的骑士。

1085 incense   

v.激怒；n.香，焚香时的烟，香气

参考例句：

• This proposal will incense conservation campaigners.这项提议会激怒环保人士。
• In summer,they usually burn some coil incense to keep away the mosquitoes.夏天他们通常点香驱蚊。

1086 disperses   

v.（使）分散( disperse的第三人称单数 )；疏散；驱散；散布

参考例句：

• With controlled pace and sequence of construction, excess heat disperses. 在对施工进度和程序加以控制之后，多余的热量就能散掉。 来自辞典例句
• Normally, turbulence disperses such pollutants quickly. 正常情况下，湍流将迅速驱散这类污染物。 来自辞典例句

1087 grotto   

n.洞穴

参考例句：

• We reached a beautiful grotto,whose entrance was almost hiden by the vine.我们到达了一个美丽的洞穴，洞的进口几乎被藤蔓遮掩著。
• Water trickles through an underground grotto.水沿着地下岩洞流淌。

1088 yews   

n.紫杉( yew的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We hedged our yard with yews. 我们用紫杉把院子围起。 来自辞典例句
• The trees grew more and more in groves and dotted with old yews. 那里的树木越来越多地长成了一簇簇的小丛林，还点缀着几棵老紫杉树。 来自辞典例句

1089 boughs   

大树枝( bough的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The green boughs glittered with all their pearls of dew. 绿枝上闪烁着露珠的光彩。
• A breeze sighed in the higher boughs. 微风在高高的树枝上叹息着。

1090 streaked   

adj.有条斑纹的，不安的v.快速移动( streak的过去式和过去分词 )；使布满条纹

参考例句：

• The children streaked off as fast as they could. 孩子们拔脚飞跑 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• His face was pale and streaked with dirt. 他脸色苍白，脸上有一道道的污痕。 来自辞典例句

1091 immoral   

adj.不道德的，淫荡的，荒淫的，有伤风化的

参考例句：

• She was questioned about his immoral conduct toward her.她被询问过有关他对她的不道德行为的情况。
• It is my belief that nuclear weapons are immoral.我相信使核武器是不邪恶的。

1092 smelt   

v.熔解，熔炼；n.银白鱼，胡瓜鱼

参考例句：

• Tin is a comparatively easy metal to smelt.锡是比较容易熔化的金属。
• Darby was looking for a way to improve iron when he hit upon the idea of smelting it with coke instead of charcoal.达比一直在寻找改善铁质的方法，他猛然想到可以不用木炭熔炼，而改用焦炭。

1093 proprietary   

n.所有权，所有的；独占的；业主

参考例句：

• We had to take action to protect the proprietary technology.我们必须采取措施保护专利技术。
• Proprietary right is the foundation of jus rerem.所有权是物权法之根基。

1094 ruptured   

v.（使）破裂( rupture的过去式和过去分词 )；（使体内组织等）断裂；使（友好关系）破裂；使绝交

参考例句：

• They reported that the pipeline had ruptured. 他们报告说管道已经破裂了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany. 柏林墙终于倒塌了，预示着德国的重新统一。 来自辞典例句

1095 plied   

v.使用（工具）( ply的过去式和过去分词 )；经常供应（食物、饮料）；固定往来；经营生意

参考例句：

• They plied me with questions about my visit to England. 他们不断地询问我的英国之行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They plied us with tea and cakes. 他们一个劲儿地让我们喝茶、吃糕饼。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1096 refunded   

v.归还，退还( refund的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Postage costs will be refunded (to you). 邮费将退还（给你）。 来自辞典例句
• Yes, it will be refunded to you at the expiration of the lease. 是的，租约期满时，押金退回。 来自无师自通 校园英语会话

1097 immortal   

adj.不朽的；永生的，不死的；神的

参考例句：

• The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal.野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
• The heroes of the people are immortal!人民英雄永垂不朽！

1098 frailty   

n.脆弱；意志薄弱

参考例句：

• Despite increasing physical frailty,he continued to write stories.尽管身体越来越虛弱，他仍然继续写小说。
• He paused and suddenly all the frailty and fatigue showed.他顿住了，虚弱与疲惫一下子显露出来。

1099 antiquated   

adj.陈旧的，过时的

参考例句：

• Many factories are so antiquated they are not worth saving.很多工厂过于陈旧落后，已不值得挽救。
• A train of antiquated coaches was waiting for us at the siding.一列陈旧的火车在侧线上等着我们。

1100 utensil   

n.器皿，用具

参考例句：

• The best carving utensil is a long, sharp, flexible knife.最好的雕刻工具是锋利而柔韧的长刻刀。
• Wok is a very common cooking utensil in every Chinese family.炒菜锅是每个中国人家庭里很常用的厨房食用具。

1101 cascade   

n.小瀑布，喷流；层叠；vi.成瀑布落下

参考例句：

• She watched the magnificent waterfall cascade down the mountainside.她看着壮观的瀑布从山坡上倾泻而下。
• Her hair fell over her shoulders in a cascade of curls.她的卷发像瀑布一样垂在肩上。

1102 languorous   

adj.怠惰的，没精打采的

参考例句：

• For two days he was languorous and esteemed. 两天来，他因身体衰弱无力，受到尊重。 来自辞典例句
• Some one says Fuzhou is a languorous and idle city. 有人说，福州是一个慵懒闲淡的城市。 来自互联网

1103 doffs   

v.脱去，（尤指）脱帽( doff的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• She doffs her garb worn under fire and wears again female attire. 脱我战时袍着我旧时裳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She doffs her garb worn under fire And wears again female attire. 区别于制服、工作服和牧师服装的普通衣服。 来自互联网

1104 prosper   

v.成功，兴隆，昌盛；使成功，使昌隆，繁荣

参考例句：

• With her at the wheel,the company began to prosper.有了她当主管，公司开始兴旺起来。
• It is my earnest wish that this company will continue to prosper.我真诚希望这家公司会继续兴旺发达。

1105 juvenile   

n.青少年，少年读物；adj.青少年的，幼稚的

参考例句：

• For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人，他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
• Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。

1106 turnover   

n.人员流动率，人事变动率；营业额，成交量

参考例句：

• The store greatly reduced the prices to make a quick turnover.这家商店实行大减价以迅速周转资金。
• Our turnover actually increased last year.去年我们的营业额竟然增加了。

1107 jolting   

adj.令人震惊的

参考例句：

• 'she should be all right from the plane's jolting by now. “飞机震荡应该过了。
• This is perhaps the most jolting comment of all. 这恐怕是最令人震惊的评论。

1108 lavatory   

n.盥洗室，厕所

参考例句：

• Is there any lavatory in this building?这座楼里有厕所吗？
• The use of the lavatory has been suspended during take-off.在飞机起飞期间，盥洗室暂停使用。

1109 halcyon   

n.平静的，愉快的

参考例句：

• He yearned for the halcyon day sof his childhood.他怀念儿时宁静幸福的日子。
• He saw visions of a halcyon future.他看到了将来的太平日子的幻境。

1110 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

1111 jerseys   

n.运动衫( jersey的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The maximum quantity of cotton jerseys this year is about DM25,000. 平方米的羊毛地毯超过了以往的订货。 来自口语例句
• The NBA is mulling the prospect of stitching advertising logos onto jerseys. 大意：NBA官方正在酝酿一个大煞风景的计划——把广告标志绣上球服！ 来自互联网

1112 stunned   

adj. 震惊的，惊讶的 动词stun的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The fall stunned me for a moment. 那一下摔得我昏迷了片刻。
• The leaders of the Kopper Company were then stunned speechless. 科伯公司的领导们当时被惊得目瞪口呆。

1113 lark   

n.云雀，百灵鸟；n.嬉戏，玩笑；vi.嬉戏

参考例句：

• He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.他认为把云雀关在笼子里太残忍了。
• She lived in the village with her grandparents as cheerful as a lark.她同祖父母一起住在乡间非常快活。

1114 profaned   

v.不敬( profane的过去式和过去分词 )；亵渎，玷污

参考例句：

• They have profaned the long upheld traditions of the church. 他们亵渎了教会长期沿袭的传统。 来自辞典例句
• Their behaviour profaned the holy place. 他们的行为玷污了这处圣地。 来自辞典例句

1115 capillary   

n.毛细血管；adj.毛细管道；毛状的

参考例句：

• Rapid capillary proliferation is a prominent feature of all early wound healing.迅速的毛细血管增生是所有早期伤口愈合的一个突出表现。
• When pulmonary capillary pressure is markedly elevated,pulmonary edema ensues.当肺毛细血管压力明显升高时，就出现肺水肿。

1116 demon   

n.魔鬼，恶魔

参考例句：

• The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福。
• He has been possessed by the demon of disease for years.他多年来病魔缠身。

1117 ruminating   

v.沉思( ruminate的现在分词 )；反复考虑；反刍；倒嚼

参考例句：

• He sat there ruminating and picking at the tablecloth. 他坐在那儿沉思，轻轻地抚弄着桌布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is ruminating on what had happened the day before. 他在沉思前一天发生的事情。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1118 foliage   

n.叶子，树叶，簇叶

参考例句：

• The path was completely covered by the dense foliage.小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。
• Dark foliage clothes the hills.浓密的树叶覆盖着群山。

1119 pathos   

n.哀婉，悲怆

参考例句：

• The pathos of the situation brought tears to our eyes.情况令人怜悯，看得我们不禁流泪。
• There is abundant pathos in her words.她的话里富有动人哀怜的力量。

1120 dummy   

n.假的东西；(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头

参考例句：

• The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹，只是一个假货。
• The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。

1121 immortals   

不朽的人物( immortal的名词复数 )； 永生不朽者

参考例句：

• Nobody believes in the myth about human beings becoming immortals. 谁也不相信人能成仙的神话。
• Shakespeare is one of the immortals. 莎士比亚是不朽的人物之一。

1122 lascivious   

adj.淫荡的，好色的

参考例句：

• I was there to protect her from the importunities of lascivious men.我在那里保护她,不受那些好色男子的纠缠不休。
• In his old age Cato became lascivious and misconducted himself with a woman slave.到了晚年,卡托沉溺于女色,跟一个女奴私通。

1123 abjectly   

凄惨地； 绝望地； 糟透地； 悲惨地

参考例句：

• She shrugged her shoulders abjectly. 她无可奈何地耸了耸肩。
• Xiao Li is abjectly obedient at home, as both his wife and daughter can "direct" him. 小李在家里可是个听话的顺民，妻子女儿都能“领导”他。

1124 pint   

n.品脱

参考例句：

• I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
• In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。

1125 thicket   

n.灌木丛，树林

参考例句：

• A thicket makes good cover for animals to hide in.丛林是动物的良好隐蔽处。
• We were now at the margin of the thicket.我们现在已经来到了丛林的边缘。

1126 grouse   

n.松鸡；v.牢骚，诉苦

参考例句：

• They're shooting grouse up on the moors.他们在荒野射猎松鸡。
• If you don't agree with me,please forget my grouse.如果你的看法不同，请不必介意我的牢骚之言。

1127 panoply   

n.全副甲胄，礼服

参考例句：

• But all they had added was the trappings and panoply of applied science.但是他们所增添的一切,不过是实用科学的装饰和甲胄罢了。
• The lakes were surrounded By a panoply of mountains.群湖为壮丽的群山所环抱。

1128 acorns   

n.橡子，栎实( acorn的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Great oaks from little acorns grow. 万丈高楼平地起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Welcome to my new website!It may not look much at the moment, but great oaks from little acorns grow! 欢迎来到我的新网站。它现在可能微不足道，不过万丈高楼平地起嘛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1129 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

1130 apparitions   

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

1131 novices   

n.新手( novice的名词复数 )；初学修士（或修女）；（修会等的）初学生；尚未赢过大赛的赛马

参考例句：

• The Russians are such novices in Africa. 在非洲的俄国人简直都是些毫无经验的生手。 来自辞典例句
• Where the primary track all novices, screams everywhere, ha ha good terror. 那里的初级道上全是生手，到处都是尖叫声，哈哈好恐怖的。 来自互联网

1132 precipitating   

adj.急落的，猛冲的v.（突如其来地）使发生( precipitate的现在分词 )；促成；猛然摔下；使沉淀

参考例句：

• Precipitating electrode plate is a key part in electrostatic precipitation equipment. 静电收尘板是静电收尘设备中的关键部件。 来自互联网
• The precipitation bond adopts a sloped tube to enhance the precipitating efficiency. 沉淀池采用斜管，提高了沉降效率。 来自互联网

1133 pruning   

n.修枝，剪枝，修剪v.修剪（树木等）( prune的现在分词 )；精简某事物，除去某事物多余的部分

参考例句：

• In writing an essay one must do a lot of pruning. 写文章要下一番剪裁的工夫。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• A sapling needs pruning, a child discipline. 小树要砍，小孩要管。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1134 spoutless   

adj.无喷口的

参考例句：

1135 superfluous   

adj.过多的，过剩的，多余的

参考例句：

• She fined away superfluous matter in the design. 她删去了这图案中多余的东西。
• That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it.我这样写的时候觉得这个请求似乎是多此一举。

1136 complexion   

n.肤色；情况，局面；气质，性格

参考例句：

• Red does not suit with her complexion.红色与她的肤色不协调。
• Her resignation puts a different complexion on things.她一辞职局面就全变了。

1137 vapid   

adj.无味的；无生气的

参考例句：

• She made a vapid comment about the weather.她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。
• He did the same thing year by year and found life vapid.他每年做着同样的事，觉得生活索然无味。

1138 propeller   

n.螺旋桨，推进器

参考例句：

• The propeller started to spin around.螺旋桨开始飞快地旋转起来。
• A rope jammed the boat's propeller.一根绳子卡住了船的螺旋桨。

1139 spunk   

n.勇气，胆量

参考例句：

• After his death,the soldier was cited for spunk.那位士兵死后因作战勇敢而受到表彰。
• I admired her independence and her spunk.我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。

1140 bully   

n.恃强欺弱者，小流氓；vt.威胁，欺侮

参考例句：

• A bully is always a coward.暴汉常是懦夫。
• The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。

1141 vendor   

n.卖主；小贩

参考例句：

• She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
• He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。

1142 slag   

n.熔渣，铁屑，矿渣；v.使变成熔渣，变熔渣

参考例句：

• Millions of tons of slag now go into building roads each year.每年有数百万吨炉渣用于铺路。
• The slag powder had been widely used as the additive in the cement and concrete.矿渣微粉作为水泥混凝土的掺和料已得到广泛应用。

1143 forfeits   

罚物游戏

参考例句：

• She regretted the forfeits she had to pay for selfassistance. 她为自己为了自助而必须付出的代价感到遗憾。
• They were soon to pay their own forfeits. 他们很快就得交纳他们的罚款了。

1144 relic   

n.神圣的遗物，遗迹，纪念物

参考例句：

• This stone axe is a relic of ancient times.这石斧是古代的遗物。
• He found himself thinking of the man as a relic from the past.他把这个男人看成是过去时代的人物。

1145 mash   

n.麦芽浆，糊状物，土豆泥；v.把…捣成糊状，挑逗，调情

参考例句：

• He beat the potato into a mash before eating it.他把马铃薯捣烂后再吃。
• Whiskey,originating in Scotland,is distilled from a mash of grains.威士忌源于苏格兰，是从一种大麦芽提纯出来的。

1146 blessing   

n.祈神赐福；祷告；祝福，祝愿

参考例句：

• The blessing was said in Hebrew.祷告用了希伯来语。
• A double blessing has descended upon the house.双喜临门。

1147 abhorrence   

n.憎恶；可憎恶的事

参考例句：

• This nation has an abhorrence of terrrorism.这个民族憎恶恐怖主义。
• It is an abhorrence to his feeling.这是他深恶痛绝的事。

1148 distrait   

adj.心不在焉的

参考例句：

• The distrait boy is always losing his books.这个心不在焉的男孩老是丢书。
• The distrait actress fluffed her lines.那位心不在焉的女演员忘了台词。

1149 rambling   

adj.[建]凌乱的，杂乱的

参考例句：

• We spent the summer rambling in Ireland. 我们花了一个夏天漫游爱尔兰。
• It was easy to get lost in the rambling house. 在布局凌乱的大房子里容易迷路。

1150 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

1151 racing   

n.竞赛，赛马；adj.竞赛用的，赛马用的

参考例句：

• I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
• The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。

1152 benign   

adj.善良的，慈祥的；良性的，无危险的

参考例句：

• The benign weather brought North America a bumper crop.温和的气候给北美带来大丰收。
• Martha is a benign old lady.玛莎是个仁慈的老妇人。

1153 influential   

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。

1154 knuckles   

n.（指人）指关节( knuckle的名词复数 )；（指动物）膝关节，踝v.（指人）指关节( knuckle的第三人称单数 )；（指动物）膝关节，踝

参考例句：

• He gripped the wheel until his knuckles whitened. 他紧紧握住方向盘，握得指关节都变白了。
• Her thin hands were twisted by swollen knuckles. 她那双纤手因肿大的指关节而变了形。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1155 giggle   

n.痴笑，咯咯地笑；v.咯咯地笑着说

参考例句：

• Both girls began to giggle.两个女孩都咯咯地笑了起来。
• All that giggle and whisper is too much for me.我受不了那些咯咯的笑声和交头接耳的样子。

1156 trots   

小跑，急走( trot的名词复数 )； 匆匆忙忙地走

参考例句：

• A horse that trots, especially one trained for harness racing. 训练用于快跑特别是套轭具赛跑的马。
• He always trots out the same old excuses for being late. 他每次迟到总是重复那一套藉口。

1157 behold   

v.看，注视，看到

参考例句：

• The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
• The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。

1158 lobster   

n.龙虾，龙虾肉

参考例句：

• The lobster is a shellfish.龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
• I like lobster but it does not like me.我喜欢吃龙虾，但它不适宜于我的健康。

1159 pelt   

v.投掷，剥皮，抨击，开火

参考例句：

• The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。
• Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.人群开始向警车扔石块。

1160 ointment   

n.药膏，油膏，软膏

参考例句：

• Your foot will feel better after the application of this ointment.敷用这药膏后，你的脚会感到舒服些。
• This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly.这种中草药膏会帮助你的伤口很快愈合。

1161 dilated   

adj.加宽的，扩大的v.（使某物）扩大，膨胀，张大( dilate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her eyes dilated with fear. 她吓得瞪大了眼睛。
• The cat dilated its eyes. 猫瞪大了双眼。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1162 paralysis   

n.麻痹(症)；瘫痪(症)

参考例句：

• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。

1163 reindeer   

n.驯鹿

参考例句：

• The herd of reindeer was being trailed by a pack of wolves.那群驯鹿被一只狼群寻踪追赶上来。
• The life of the Reindeer men was a frontier life.驯鹿时代人的生活是一种边区生活。

1164 dignified   

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。

1165 bespeaks   

v.预定( bespeak的第三人称单数 )；订（货）；证明；预先请求

参考例句：

• The tone of his text bespeaks a certain tiredness. 他的笔调透出一种倦意。 来自辞典例句
• His record as mayor of New York bespeaks toughness. 他作为纽约市长态度十分强烈。 来自互联网

1166 condoned   

v.容忍，宽恕，原谅( condone的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Terrorism can never be condoned. 决不能容忍恐怖主义。
• They condoned his sins because he repented. 由于他的悔悟，他们宽恕了他的罪。 来自辞典例句

1167 bonnet   

n.无边女帽；童帽

参考例句：

• The baby's bonnet keeps the sun out of her eyes.婴孩的帽子遮住阳光，使之不刺眼。
• She wore a faded black bonnet garnished with faded artificial flowers.她戴着一顶褪了色的黑色无边帽，帽上缀着褪了色的假花。

1168 awry   

adj.扭曲的，错的

参考例句：

• She was in a fury over a plan that had gone awry. 计划出了问题，她很愤怒。
• Something has gone awry in our plans.我们的计划出差错了。

1169 rouging   

胭脂，口红( rouge的现在分词 )

参考例句：

1170 cods   

n.鳕鱼（cod的复数形式）v.哄骗，愚弄（cod的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• They have bought many cods. 他们买了许多鳕鱼。 来自辞典例句
• Chemical Oxygen Demand -- Settled [CODs] 化学需氧量（沉淀） 来自互联网

1171 flaunting   

adj.招摇的，扬扬得意的，夸耀的v.炫耀，夸耀( flaunt的现在分词 )；有什么能耐就施展出来

参考例句：

• He did not believe in flaunting his wealth. 他不赞成摆阔。
• She is fond of flaunting her superiority before her friends and schoolmates. 她好在朋友和同学面前逞强。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1172 paralytic   

adj. 瘫痪的 n. 瘫痪病人

参考例句：

• She was completely paralytic last night.她昨天晚上喝得酩酊大醉。
• She rose and hobbled to me on her paralytic legs and kissed me.她站起来，拖着她那麻痹的双腿一瘸一拐地走到我身边，吻了吻我。

1173 scions   

n.接穗，幼枝( scion的名词复数 )；（尤指富家）子孙

参考例句：

• Eldritch giants are powerful scions of arcane lore. 邪术巨人是神秘奥术知识的强大传承者。 来自互联网
• Grafting can join scions with desirable qualities to root stock that is strong and resistsand insects. 嫁接能够将理想质量的接穗嫁接到强有力抗病虫害的砧木上。 来自互联网

1174 shrugged   

vt.耸肩（shrug的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀，什么也没说。
• She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩，装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1175 voluptuous   

adj.肉欲的，骄奢淫逸的

参考例句：

• The nobility led voluptuous lives.贵族阶层过着骄奢淫逸的生活。
• The dancer's movements were slow and voluptuous.舞女的动作缓慢而富挑逗性。

1176 chic   

n./adj.别致(的)，时髦(的)，讲究的

参考例句：

• She bought a chic little hat.她买了一顶别致的小帽子。
• The chic restaurant is patronized by many celebrities.这家时髦的饭店常有名人光顾。

1177 vampire   

n.吸血鬼

参考例句：

• It wasn't a wife waiting there for him but a blood sucking vampire!家里的不是个老婆，而是个吸人血的妖精！
• Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of vampire.由于听过许多有关吸血鬼的传说，孩子们晚上不敢去睡觉。

1178 amiable   

adj.和蔼可亲的，友善的，亲切的

参考例句：

• She was a very kind and amiable old woman.她是个善良和气的老太太。
• We have a very amiable companionship.我们之间存在一种友好的关系。

1179 turpitude   

n.可耻；邪恶

参考例句：

• He was considered unfit to hold office because of moral turpitude.因为道德上的可耻行为，他被认为不适担任公务员。
• Let every declamation turn upon the beauty of liberty and virtue,and the deformity,turpitude,and malignity of slavery and vice.让每一篇演讲都来谈自由和道德之美，都来谈奴役和邪恶之丑陋、卑鄙和恶毒。

1180 bestial   

adj.残忍的；野蛮的

参考例句：

• The Roman gladiatorial contests were bestial amusements.罗马角斗是残忍的娱乐。
• A statement on Amman Radio spoke of bestial aggression and a horrible massacre. 安曼广播电台播放的一则声明提到了野蛮的侵略和骇人的大屠杀。

1181 entente   

n.协定；有协定关系的各国

参考例句：

• The French entente with Great Britain had already been significantly extended.法国和英国之间友好协议的范围已经大幅度拓宽。
• Electoral pacts would not work,but an entente cordiale might.选举协定不会起作用，但是政府间的谅解也许可以。

1182 serpentine   

adj.蜿蜒的，弯曲的

参考例句：

• One part of the Serpentine is kept for swimmers.蜿蜒河的一段划为游泳区。
• Tremolite laths and serpentine minerals are present in places.有的地方出现透闪石板条及蛇纹石。

1183 foes   

敌人，仇敌( foe的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They steadily pushed their foes before them. 他们不停地追击敌人。
• She had fought many battles, vanquished many foes. 她身经百战，挫败过很多对手。

1184 swoops   

猛扑，突然下降( swoop的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He fixes his eyes on the greyish spine of the old wolf as he swoops down. 他两眼死死盯住老狼灰黑的脊背。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
• An owl swoops from the ridge top, noiseless but as flame. 蓦地，山脊上一只夜枭飞扑直下，悄无声响而赫然如一道火光。

1185 ponderous   

adj.沉重的，笨重的，(文章)冗长的

参考例句：

• His steps were heavy and ponderous.他的步伐沉重缓慢。
• It was easy to underestimate him because of his occasionally ponderous manner.由于他偶尔现出的沉闷的姿态，很容易使人小看了他。

1186 bawl   

v.大喊大叫，大声地喊，咆哮

参考例句：

• You don't have to bawl out like that. Eeverybody can hear you.你不必这样大声喊叫，大家都能听见你。
• Your mother will bawl you out when she sees this mess.当你母亲看到这混乱的局面时她会责骂你的。

1187 covert   

adj.隐藏的；暗地里的

参考例句：

• We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.我们应学会同敌人做公开和隐蔽的斗争。
• The army carried out covert surveillance of the building for several months.军队对这座建筑物进行了数月的秘密监视。

1188 quarry   

n.采石场；v.采石；费力地找

参考例句：

• Michelangelo obtained his marble from a quarry.米开朗基罗从采石场获得他的大理石。
• This mountain was the site for a quarry.这座山曾经有一个采石场。

1189 touts   

n.招徕( tout的名词复数 )；（音乐会、体育比赛等的）卖高价票的人；侦查者；探听赛马的情报v.兜售( tout的第三人称单数 )；招揽；侦查；探听赛马情报

参考例句：

• Many vouchers are returned for cash, allowing touts and middle men to make a healthy margin. 许多月饼券都被兑换成现金，这让券贩子和中间商赚取了不蜚的利润。 来自互联网
• Spotting prey, the customary crowd of hustlers and touts swarmed around, jostling for my business. 照例有大群的拉客黄牛在寻觅猎物，他们争相过来抢我的生意。 来自互联网

1190 repulse   

n.击退，拒绝；vt.逐退，击退，拒绝

参考例句：

• The armed forces were prepared to repulse any attacks.武装部队已作好击退任何进攻的准备。
• After the second repulse,the enemy surrendered.在第二次击退之后，敌人投降了。

1191 dwarfs   

n.侏儒，矮子（dwarf的复数形式）vt.（使）显得矮小（dwarf的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• Shakespeare dwarfs other dramatists. 莎士比亚使其他剧作家相形见绌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The new building dwarfs all the other buildings in the town. 新大楼使城里所有其他建筑物都显得矮小了。 来自辞典例句

1192 armour   

（=armor）n.盔甲；装甲部队

参考例句：

• His body was encased in shining armour.他全身披着明晃晃的甲胄。
• Bulletproof cars sheathed in armour.防弹车护有装甲。

1193 reins   

感情，激情； 缰( rein的名词复数 )； 控制手段； 掌管； （成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的）保护带

参考例句：

• She pulled gently on the reins. 她轻轻地拉着缰绳。
• The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods. 政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。

1194 brandishes   

v.挥舞( brandish的第三人称单数 )；炫耀

参考例句：

• He never brandishes his intellect. 他从不炫耀自己有多聪明。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She brandishes twin blaster pistols in a pair of hip holsters. 她喜欢在头上戴一朵大红花。 来自互联网

1195 schooling   

n.教育；正规学校教育

参考例句：

• A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.孩子获得学校教育的机会因地区不同而大相径庭。
• Backward children need a special kind of schooling.天赋差的孩子需要特殊的教育。

1196 torrent   

n.激流，洪流；爆发，(话语等的)连发

参考例句：

• The torrent scoured a channel down the hillside. 急流沿着山坡冲出了一条沟。
• Her pent-up anger was released in a torrent of words.她压抑的愤怒以滔滔不绝的话爆发了出来。

1197 barley   

n.大麦，大麦粒

参考例句：

• They looked out across the fields of waving barley.他们朝田里望去,只见大麦随风摇摆。
• He cropped several acres with barley.他种了几英亩大麦。

1198 turnips   

芜青( turnip的名词复数 )； 芜菁块根； 芜菁甘蓝块根； 怀表

参考例句：

• Well, I like turnips, tomatoes, eggplants, cauliflowers, onions and carrots. 噢，我喜欢大萝卜、西红柿、茄子、菜花、洋葱和胡萝卜。 来自魔法英语-口语突破（高中）
• This is turnip soup, made from real turnips. 这是大头菜汤，用真正的大头菜做的。

1199 discord   

n.不和，意见不合，争论，（音乐）不和谐

参考例句：

• These two answers are in discord.这两个答案不一样。
• The discord of his music was hard on the ear.他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳。

1200 relish   

n.滋味，享受，爱好，调味品；vt.加调味料，享受，品味；vi.有滋味

参考例句：

• I have no relish for pop music.我对流行音乐不感兴趣。
• I relish the challenge of doing jobs that others turn down.我喜欢挑战别人拒绝做的工作。

1201 hesitation   

n.犹豫，踌躇

参考例句：

• After a long hesitation, he told the truth at last.踌躇了半天，他终于直说了。
• There was a certain hesitation in her manner.她的态度有些犹豫不决。

1202 totters   

v.走得或动得不稳( totter的第三人称单数 )；踉跄；蹒跚；摇摇欲坠

参考例句：

• Everywhere religious authority totters as the peasant movement develops. 神权的动摇，也是跟着农民运动的发展而普遍。 来自互联网
• It totters when she licks it with her tongue. 当她用舌头舔它时他还在摇晃。 来自互联网

1203 prelude   

n.序言，前兆，序曲

参考例句：

• The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长。
• The German invasion of Poland was a prelude to World War II.德国入侵波兰是第二次世界大战的序幕。

1204 vaccination   

n.接种疫苗，种痘

参考例句：

• Vaccination is a preventive against smallpox.种痘是预防天花的方法。
• Doctors suggest getting a tetanus vaccination every ten years.医生建议每十年注射一次破伤风疫苗。

1205 jaunt   

v.短程旅游；n.游览

参考例句：

• They are off for a day's jaunt to the beach.他们出去到海边玩一天。
• They jaunt about quite a lot,especially during the summer.他们常常到处闲逛，夏天更是如此。

1206 slate   

n.板岩，石板，石片，石板色，候选人名单；adj.暗蓝灰色的，含板岩的；vt.用石板覆盖，痛打，提名，预订

参考例句：

• The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
• What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢？

1207 terpsichorean   

adj.舞蹈的；n.舞蹈家

参考例句：

• His fiancée is a promising young terpsichorean.他的未婚妻是个有前途的青年舞蹈家。
• He is famous as a eximious terpsichorean.他是做为一个杰出的舞蹈家而出名。

1208 descending   

n. 下行 adj. 下降的

参考例句：

• The results are expressed in descending numerical order . 结果按数字降序列出。
• The climbers stopped to orient themselves before descending the mountain. 登山者先停下来确定所在的位置，然后再下山。

1209 twilight   

n.暮光，黄昏；暮年，晚期，衰落时期

参考例句：

• Twilight merged into darkness.夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
• Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth.薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。

1210 dispersed   

adj. 被驱散的, 被分散的, 散布的

参考例句：

• The clouds dispersed themselves. 云散了。
• After school the children dispersed to their homes. 放学后，孩子们四散回家了。

1211 dagger   

n.匕首，短剑，剑号

参考例句：

• The bad news is a dagger to his heart.这条坏消息刺痛了他的心。
• The murderer thrust a dagger into her heart.凶手将匕首刺进她的心脏。

1212 bouquet   

n.花束，酒香

参考例句：

• This wine has a rich bouquet.这种葡萄酒有浓郁的香气。
• Her wedding bouquet consisted of roses and ivy.她的婚礼花篮包括玫瑰和长春藤。

1213 shrieks   

n.尖叫声( shriek的名词复数 )v.尖叫( shriek的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• shrieks of fiendish laughter 恶魔般的尖笑声
• For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings, we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears. 多少年来， 报纸上， 广播里， 舞台上， 会场上的声嘶力竭，装腔做态的高调搞得我们震耳欲聋。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1214 cumbersome   

adj.笨重的，不便携带的

参考例句：

• Although the machine looks cumbersome,it is actually easy to use.尽管这台机器看上去很笨重，操作起来却很容易。
• The furniture is too cumbersome to move.家具太笨，搬起来很不方便。

1215 tinkle   

vi.叮当作响；n.叮当声

参考例句：

• The wine glass dropped to the floor with a tinkle.酒杯丁零一声掉在地上。
• Give me a tinkle and let me know what time the show starts.给我打个电话，告诉我演出什么时候开始。

1216 dangled   

悬吊着( dangle的过去式和过去分词 )； 摆动不定； 用某事物诱惑…； 吊胃口

参考例句：

• Gold charms dangled from her bracelet. 她的手镯上挂着许多金饰物。
• It's the biggest financial incentive ever dangled before British footballers. 这是历来对英国足球运动员的最大经济诱惑。

1217 bowels   

n.肠，内脏，内部；肠( bowel的名词复数 )；内部，最深处

参考例句：

• Salts is a medicine that causes movements of the bowels. 泻盐是一种促使肠子运动的药物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cabins are in the bowels of the ship. 舱房设在船腹内。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1218 spurn   

v.拒绝，摈弃；n.轻视的拒绝；踢开

参考例句：

• They spurn all our offers of help.他们拒绝接受我们提出的一切援助。
• As an armyman,I spurn fearlessly at all danger and the enemy.作为一个军人，一切危险和敌人丝毫不在我的眼。

1219 scudding   

n.刮面v.（尤指船、舰或云彩）笔直、高速而平稳地移动( scud的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Clouds were scudding across the sky. 云飞越天空。 来自辞典例句
• China Advertising Photo Market-Like a Rising Wind and Scudding Clouds. 中国广告图片市场：风起云涌。 来自互联网

1220 lumbering   

n.采伐林木

参考例句：

• Lumbering and, later, paper-making were carried out in smaller cities. 木材业和后来的造纸都由较小的城市经营。
• Lumbering is very important in some underdeveloped countries. 在一些不发达的国家，伐木业十分重要。

1221 hitching   

搭乘； （免费）搭乘他人之车( hitch的现在分词 )； 搭便车； 攀上； 跃上

参考例句：

• The farmer yoked the oxen before hitching them to the wagon. 农夫在将牛套上大车之前先给它们套上轭。
• I saw an old man hitching along on his stick. 我看见一位老人拄着手杖蹒跚而行。

1222 nags   

n.不断地挑剔或批评（某人）( nag的名词复数 )；不断地烦扰或伤害（某人）；无休止地抱怨；不断指责v.不断地挑剔或批评（某人）( nag的第三人称单数 )；不断地烦扰或伤害（某人）；无休止地抱怨；不断指责

参考例句：

• The trouble nags at her. 那件麻烦事使她苦恼不已。 来自辞典例句
• She nags at her husBand aBout their lack of money. 她抱怨丈夫没钱。 来自互联网

1223 hogs   

n.（尤指喂肥供食用的）猪( hog的名词复数 )；（供食用的）阉公猪；彻底地做某事；自私的或贪婪的人

参考例句：

• 'sounds like -- like hogs grunting. “像——像是猪发出的声音。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
• I hate the way he hogs down his food. 我讨厌他那副狼吞虎咽的吃相。 来自辞典例句

1224 pram   

n.婴儿车，童车

参考例句：

• She sat the baby up in the pram. 她把孩子放在婴儿车里坐着。
• She ran in chase of the pram. 她跑着追那婴儿车。

1225 bawling   

v.大叫，大喊( bawl的现在分词 )；放声大哭；大声叫出；叫卖（货物）

参考例句：

• We heard the dulcet tones of the sergeant, bawling at us to get on parade. 我们听到中士用“悦耳”的声音向我们大喊，让我们跟上队伍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Why are you bawling at me? “你向我们吼啥子？ 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

1226 emaciated   

adj.衰弱的，消瘦的

参考例句：

• A long time illness made him sallow and emaciated.长期患病使他面黄肌瘦。
• In the light of a single candle,she can see his emaciated face.借着烛光，她能看到他的被憔悴的面孔。

1227 lank   

adj.瘦削的；稀疏的

参考例句：

• He rose to lank height and grasped Billy McMahan's hand.他瘦削的身躯站了起来，紧紧地握住比利·麦默恩的手。
• The old man has lank hair.那位老人头发稀疏

1228 scone   

n.圆饼，甜饼，司康饼

参考例句：

• She eats scone every morning.她每天早上都吃甜饼。
• Scone is said to be origined from Scotland.司康饼据说来源于苏格兰。

1229 afflicted   

使受痛苦，折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease. 全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。
• A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden. 一阵可怕的、跟饥饿差不多的不安情绪折磨着马丁·伊登。

1230 upturns   

n.好转，上升趋势( upturn的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Oscillators work great in trading ranges, where they catch upturns and downturns. 在横盘时振荡指标表现好，它们能抓住上涨和下跌。 来自互联网

1231 bogey   

n.令人谈之变色之物；妖怪，幽灵

参考例句：

• The universal bogey is AIDS.艾滋病是所有人唯恐避之不及的东西。
• Age is another bogey for actresses.年龄是另一个让女演员头疼的问题。

1232 remorse   

n.痛恨，悔恨，自责

参考例句：

• She had no remorse about what she had said.她对所说的话不后悔。
• He has shown no remorse for his actions.他对自己的行为没有任何悔恨之意。

1233 trickling   

n.油画底色含油太多而成泡沫状突起v.滴( trickle的现在分词 )；淌；使)慢慢走；缓慢移动

参考例句：

• Tears were trickling down her cheeks. 眼泪顺着她的面颊流了下来。
• The engine was trickling oil. 发动机在滴油。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1234 withered   

adj. 枯萎的，干瘪的，（人身体的部分器官）因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The grass had withered in the warm sun. 这些草在温暖的阳光下枯死了。
• The leaves of this tree have become dry and withered. 这棵树下的叶子干枯了。

1235 malignant   

adj.恶性的，致命的；恶意的，恶毒的

参考例句：

• Alexander got a malignant slander.亚历山大受到恶意的诽谤。
• He started to his feet with a malignant glance at Winston.他爬了起来，不高兴地看了温斯顿一眼。

1236 wring   

n.扭绞；v.拧，绞出，扭

参考例句：

• My socks were so wet that I had to wring them.我的袜子很湿，我不得不拧干它们。
• I'll wring your neck if you don't behave!你要是不规矩，我就拧断你的脖子。

1237 anguish   

n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦，烦恼

参考例句：

• She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时，她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
• The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。

1238 masonry   

n.砖土建筑；砖石

参考例句：

• Masonry is a careful skill.砖石工艺是一种精心的技艺。
• The masonry of the old building began to crumble.旧楼房的砖石结构开始崩落。

1239 cupidity   

n.贪心，贪财

参考例句：

• Her cupidity is well known.她的贪婪尽人皆知。
• His eyes gave him away,shining with cupidity.他的眼里闪着贪婪的光芒，使他暴露无遗。

1240 averts   

防止，避免( avert的第三人称单数 )； 转移

参考例句：

• Cautious speech averts eavesdropping. Cautious behavior arrests gossip. 若欲杜人之口，莫若自己谨言；若欲塞人之耳，莫若自己慎行。
• A gift in secret averts anger; and a concealed bribe in the bosom, strong wrath. 暗中送的礼物，挽回怒气；怀中搋的贿赂，止息暴怒。

1241 poncho   

n.斗篷，雨衣

参考例句：

• He yawned and curled his body down farther beneath the poncho.他打了个呵欠，把身子再蜷拢点儿，往雨披里缩了缩。
• The poncho is made of nylon.这雨披是用尼龙制造的。

1242 strewing   

v.撒在…上( strew的现在分词 )；散落于；点缀；撒满

参考例句：

• What a mess! Look at the pajamas strewing on the bed. 真是乱七八糟！看看睡衣乱放在床上。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语

1243 drenched   

adj.湿透的；充满的v.使湿透( drench的过去式和过去分词 )；在某人（某物）上大量使用（某液体）

参考例句：

• We were caught in the storm and got drenched to the skin. 我们遇上了暴雨，淋得浑身透湿。
• The rain drenched us. 雨把我们淋得湿透。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1244 brandishing   

v.挥舞( brandish的现在分词 )；炫耀

参考例句：

• The horseman came up to Robin Hood, brandishing his sword. 那个骑士挥舞着剑，来到罗宾汉面前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He appeared in the lounge brandishing a knife. 他挥舞着一把小刀，出现在休息室里。 来自辞典例句

1245 zigzags   

n.锯齿形的线条、小径等( zigzag的名词复数 )v.弯弯曲曲地走路，曲折地前进( zigzag的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
• History moves in zigzags and by roundabout ways. 历史的发展是曲折的，迂回的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1246 gallops   

（马等）奔驰，骑马奔驰( gallop的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Let me turn the beautiful steed, gallops with you in the horizon. 让我变成美丽的骏马，和你驰骋在天涯。
• When Tao gallops through and Yang, all things come into and thrive. 当道驰骋在阴阳之中时，则万物生焉，万物兴焉。

1247 pelted   

（连续地）投掷( pelt的过去式和过去分词 )； 连续抨击； 攻击； 剥去…的皮

参考例句：

• The children pelted him with snowballs. 孩子们向他投掷雪球。
• The rain pelted down. 天下着大雨。

1248 superintendent   

n.监督人，主管，总监；(英国)警务长

参考例句：

• He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
• He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。

1249 tweezers   

n.镊子

参考例句：

• We simply removed from the cracked endocarp with sterile tweezers.我们简单地用消过毒的镊子从裂开的内果皮中取出种子。
• Bee stings should be removed with tweezers.蜜蜂的螫刺应该用小镊子拔出来。

1250 jot   

n.少量；vi.草草记下；vt.匆匆写下

参考例句：

• I'll jot down their address before I forget it.我得赶快把他们的地址写下来，免得忘了。
• There is not a jot of evidence to say it does them any good.没有丝毫的证据显示这对他们有任何好处。

1251 wrangle   

vi.争吵

参考例句：

• I don't want to get into a wrangle with the committee.我不想同委员会发生争执。
• The two countries fell out in a bitter wrangle over imports.这两个国家在有关进口问题的激烈争吵中闹翻了。

1252 fabled   

adj.寓言中的，虚构的

参考例句：

• For the first week he never actually saw the fabled Jack. 第一周他实际上从没见到传说中的杰克。
• Aphrodite, the Greek goddness of love, is fabled to have been born of the foam of the sea. 希腊爱神阿美罗狄蒂据说是诞生于海浪泡沫之中。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1253 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

1254 poetic   

adj.富有诗意的，有诗人气质的，善于抒情的

参考例句：

• His poetic idiom is stamped with expressions describing group feeling and thought.他的诗中的措辞往往带有描写群体感情和思想的印记。
• His poetic novels have gone through three different historical stages.他的诗情小说创作经历了三个不同的历史阶段。

1255 blight   

n.枯萎病；造成破坏的因素；vt.破坏，摧残

参考例句：

• The apple crop was wiped out by blight.枯萎病使苹果全无收成。
• There is a blight on all his efforts.他的一切努力都遭到挫折。

1256 flannels   

法兰绒男裤； 法兰绒( flannel的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Erik had been seen in flannels and an imitation Panama hat. 人们看到埃里克身穿法兰绒裤，头戴仿制巴拿马草帽。
• He is wearing flannels and a blue jacket. 他穿着一条法兰绒裤子和一件蓝夹克。

1257 detest   

vt.痛恨，憎恶

参考例句：

• I detest people who tell lies.我恨说谎的人。
• The workers detest his overbearing manner.工人们很讨厌他那盛气凌人的态度。

1258 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

1259 perpendicular   

adj.垂直的，直立的；n.垂直线，垂直的位置

参考例句：

• The two lines of bones are set perpendicular to one another.这两排骨头相互垂直。
• The wall is out of the perpendicular.这墙有些倾斜。

1260 notably   

adv.值得注意地，显著地，尤其地，特别地

参考例句：

• Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
• A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。

1261 arbitration   

n.调停，仲裁

参考例句：

• The wage disagreement is under arbitration.工资纠纷正在仲裁中。
• Both sides have agreed that the arbitration will be binding.双方都赞同仲裁具有约束力。

1262 refinement   

n.文雅；高尚；精美；精制；精炼

参考例句：

• Sally is a woman of great refinement and beauty. 莎莉是个温文尔雅又很漂亮的女士。
• Good manners and correct speech are marks of refinement.彬彬有礼和谈吐得体是文雅的标志。

1263 trenchancy   

n.锐利，鲜明，有力

参考例句：

• Symbiosis Cooperation Marketing is trenchancy weapon of Chinese retail enterprise. 建立共生型合作营销模式是中国零售企业迎接挑战的有力武器。 来自互联网
• It has characteristics of variations of form, denseness of distribution, all-sided functions and trenchancy of effect. 其主要特征表现为形式多样化、布密集化、能全面化、果鲜明化。 来自互联网

1264 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

1265 slain   

杀死，宰杀，杀戮( slay的过去分词 )； (slay的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
• His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。

1266 unicorns   

n.（传说中身体似马的）独角兽( unicorn的名词复数 )；一角鲸；独角兽标记

参考例句：

• Unicorns are legendary beasts. 独角兽是传说里的野兽。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Assemble50 Elder Druids, 30 Silver Unicorns and10 Green Dragons do defend it. 募集50个德鲁伊长老，30只银色独角兽和10条绿龙用于防御。 来自互联网

1267 nibbling   

v.啃，一点一点地咬（吃）( nibble的现在分词 )；啃出（洞），一点一点咬出（洞）；慢慢减少；小口咬

参考例句：

• We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives. 我们坐在那儿，喝着葡萄酒嚼着橄榄。
• He was nibbling on the apple. 他在啃苹果。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1268 patrician   

adj.贵族的，显贵的；n.贵族；有教养的人；罗马帝国的地方官

参考例句：

• The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。
• Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham.它的贵族的尊严只是一套华丽的伪装。

1269 slit   

n.狭长的切口；裂缝；vt.切开，撕裂

参考例句：

• The coat has been slit in two places.这件外衣有两处裂开了。
• He began to slit open each envelope.他开始裁开每个信封。

1270 noose   

n.绳套，绞索（刑）；v.用套索捉；使落入圈套；处以绞刑

参考例句：

• They tied a noose round her neck.他们在她脖子上系了一个活扣。
• A hangman's noose had already been placed around his neck.一个绞刑的绳圈已经套在他的脖子上。

1271 cleaver   

n.切肉刀

参考例句：

• In fact,a cleaver is a class of ax.实际上，切肉刀也是斧子的一种。
• The cleaver is ground to a very sharp edge.刀磨得飞快。

1272 slay   

v.杀死，宰杀，杀戮

参考例句：

• He intended to slay his father's murderer.他意图杀死杀父仇人。
• She has ordered me to slay you.她命令我把你杀了。

1273 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

1274 retrieved   

v.取回( retrieve的过去式和过去分词 )；恢复；寻回；检索（储存的信息）

参考例句：

• Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。 来自辞典例句

1275 gallows   

n.绞刑架，绞台

参考例句：

• The murderer was sent to the gallows for his crimes.谋杀犯由于罪大恶极被处以绞刑。
• Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.现在我将在绞刑架上赎我一切的罪过。

1276 protrudes   

v.（使某物）伸出，（使某物）突出( protrude的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• My part that protrudes from the gum has a'skin" of enamel. 在我突出于齿龈的部分有一层珐琅“皮”。 来自辞典例句
• Hyperplasia median lobe of the prostate produces a polypoid mass that protrudes in the bladder lumen. 前列腺中叶异常增生，表现为息肉样肿物，突入膀胱腔内。 来自互联网

1277 sperm   

n.精子，精液

参考例句：

• Only one sperm fertilises an egg.只有一个精子使卵子受精。
• In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。

1278 spouting   

n.水落管系统v.（指液体）喷出( spout的现在分词 )；滔滔不绝地讲；喋喋不休地说；喷水

参考例句：

• He's always spouting off about the behaviour of young people today. 他总是没完没了地数落如今年轻人的行为。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Blood was spouting from the deep cut in his arm. 血从他胳膊上深深的伤口里涌出来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1279 undoes   

松开( undo的第三人称单数 )； 解开； 毁灭； 败坏

参考例句：

• Undoes the last action or a sequence of actions, which are displayed in the Undo list. 撤消上一个操作或者一系列操作，这些操作显示在“撤消”列表中。

1280 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

1281 clotted   

adj.凝结的v.凝固( clot的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• scones and jam with clotted cream 夹有凝脂奶油和果酱的烤饼
• Perspiration clotted his hair. 汗水使他的头发粘在一起。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

1282 monotonous   

adj.单调的，一成不变的，使人厌倦的

参考例句：

• She thought life in the small town was monotonous.她觉得小镇上的生活单调而乏味。
• His articles are fixed in form and monotonous in content.他的文章千篇一律，一个调调儿。

1283 coalesce   

v.联合，结合，合并

参考例句：

• And these rings of gas would then eventually coalesce and form the planets.这些气体环最后终于凝结形成行星。
• They will probably collide again and again until they coalesce.他们可能会一次又一次地发生碰撞，直到他们合并。

1284 carrion   

n.腐肉

参考例句：

• A crow of bloodthirsty ants is attracted by the carrion.一群嗜血的蚂蚁被腐肉所吸引。
• Vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill.兀鹫通常以腐肉和公路上的死伤动物为食。

1285 trophies   

n.（为竞赛获胜者颁发的）奖品( trophy的名词复数 )；奖杯；（尤指狩猎或战争中获得的）纪念品；（用于比赛或赛跑名称）奖

参考例句：

• His football trophies were prominently displayed in the kitchen. 他的足球奖杯陈列在厨房里显眼的位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The hunter kept the lion's skin and head as trophies. 这猎人保存狮子的皮和头作为纪念品。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

1286 hostility   

n.敌对，敌意；抵制［pl.］交战，战争

参考例句：

• There is open hostility between the two leaders.两位领导人表现出公开的敌意。
• His hostility to your plan is well known.他对你的计划所持的敌意是众所周知的。

1287 monarch   

n.帝王，君主，最高统治者

参考例句：

• The monarch's role is purely ceremonial.君主纯粹是个礼仪职位。
• I think myself happier now than the greatest monarch upon earth.我觉得这个时候比世界上什么帝王都快乐。

1288 gutted   

adj.容易消化的v.毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的过去式和过去分词 )；取出…的内脏

参考例句：

• Disappointed? I was gutted! 失望？我是伤心透了！
• The invaders gutted the historic building. 侵略者们将那幢历史上有名的建筑洗劫一空。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1289 chevrons   

n.（警察或士兵所佩带以示衔级的）∧形或∨形标志( chevron的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• When did you sew on these chevrons, Sergeant Lipton? 你何时把这些阶级绣上去的，李普中士？ 来自电影对白
• The eyebrows are incised in the shape of chevrons. 切开的眉毛是在形状的箭头。 来自互联网

1290 joust   

v.马上长枪比武，竞争

参考例句：

• Knights joust and frolic.骑士们骑马比武，嬉戏作乐。
• This a joust for the fate of the kingdom!一场决定王国命运的战斗。

1291 pandemonium   

n.喧嚣，大混乱

参考例句：

• The whole lobby was a perfect pandemonium,and the din was terrific.整个门厅一片嘈杂，而且喧嚣刺耳。
• I had found Adlai unperturbed in the midst of pandemonium.我觉得艾德莱在一片大混乱中仍然镇定自若。

1292 hoofs   

n.（兽的）蹄，马蹄( hoof的名词复数 )v.（兽的）蹄，马蹄( hoof的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The stamp of the horse's hoofs on the wooden floor was loud. 马蹄踏在木头地板上的声音很响。 来自辞典例句
• The noise of hoofs called him back to the other window. 马蹄声把他又唤回那扇窗子口。 来自辞典例句

1293 screech   

n./v.尖叫；(发出)刺耳的声音

参考例句：

• He heard a screech of brakes and then fell down. 他听到汽车刹车发出的尖锐的声音,然后就摔倒了。
• The screech of jet planes violated the peace of the afternoon. 喷射机的尖啸声侵犯了下午的平静。

1294 swooping   

俯冲，猛冲( swoop的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The wind were swooping down to tease the waves. 大风猛扑到海面上戏弄着浪涛。
• And she was talking so well-swooping with swift wing this way and that. 而她却是那样健谈--一下子谈到东，一下子谈到西。

1295 hover   

vi.翱翔，盘旋；徘徊；彷徨，犹豫

参考例句：

• You don't hover round the table.你不要围着桌子走来走去。
• A plane is hover on our house.有一架飞机在我们的房子上盘旋。

1296 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

1297 chasm   

n.深坑，断层，裂口，大分岐，利害冲突

参考例句：

• There's a chasm between rich and poor in that society.那社会中存在着贫富差距。
• A huge chasm gaped before them.他们面前有个巨大的裂痕。

1298 hurdle   

n.跳栏，栏架；障碍，困难；vi.进行跨栏赛

参考例句：

• The weather will be the biggest hurdle so I have to be ready.天气将会是最大的障碍，所以我必须要作好准备。
• She clocked 11.6 seconds for the 80 metre hurdle.八十米跳栏赛跑她跑了十一秒六。

1299 brink   

n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘，边沿

参考例句：

• The tree grew on the brink of the cliff.那棵树生长在峭壁的边缘。
• The two countries were poised on the brink of war.这两个国家处于交战的边缘。

1300 blisters   

n.水疱( blister的名词复数 )；水肿；气泡

参考例句：

• My new shoes have made blisters on my heels. 我的新鞋把我的脚跟磨起泡了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• His new shoes raised blisters on his feet. 他的新鞋把他的脚磨起了水疱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

1301 furrows   

n.犁沟( furrow的名词复数 )；（脸上的）皱纹v.犁田，开沟( furrow的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• I could tell from the deep furrows in her forehead that she was very disturbed by the news. 从她额头深深的皱纹上，我可以看出她听了这个消息非常不安。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dirt bike trails crisscrossed the grassy furrows. 越野摩托车的轮迹纵横交错地布满条条草沟。 来自辞典例句

1302 amity   

n.友好关系

参考例句：

• He lives in amity with his neighbours.他和他的邻居相处得很和睦。
• They parted in amity.他们很友好地分别了。

1303 duels   

n.两男子的决斗( duel的名词复数 )；竞争，斗争

参考例句：

• That's where I usually fight my duels. 我经常在那儿进行决斗。” 来自英语晨读30分（初三）
• Hyde Park also became a favourite place for duels. 海德公园也成了决斗的好地方。 来自辞典例句

1304 cavalry   

n.骑兵；轻装甲部队

参考例句：

• We were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 我们翼侧受到一队骑兵的袭击。
• The enemy cavalry rode our men down. 敌人的骑兵撞倒了我们的人。

1305 shafts   

n.轴( shaft的名词复数 )；（箭、高尔夫球棒等的）杆；通风井；一阵（疼痛、害怕等）

参考例句：

• He deliberately jerked the shafts to rock him a bit. 他故意的上下颠动车把，摇这个老猴子几下。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
• Shafts were sunk, with tunnels dug laterally. 竖井已经打下，并且挖有横向矿道。 来自辞典例句

1306 fettered   

v.给…上脚镣，束缚( fetter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it. 我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Many people are fettered by lack of self-confidence. 许多人都因缺乏自信心而缩手缩脚。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

1307 mortar   

n.灰浆，灰泥；迫击炮；v.把…用灰浆涂接合

参考例句：

• The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
• The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。

1308 omnipotent   

adj.全能的，万能的

参考例句：

• When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science.我们达到万能以后就不需要科学了。
• Money is not omnipotent,but we can't survive without money.金钱不是万能的，但是没有金钱我们却无法生存。

1309 factions   

组织中的小派别，派系( faction的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
• rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别

1310 articulation   

n.（清楚的）发音；清晰度，咬合

参考例句：

• His articulation is poor.他发音不清楚。
• She spoke with a lazy articulation.她说话慢吞吞的。

1311 incapable   

adj.无能力的，不能做某事的

参考例句：

• He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.他不会做出这么残忍的事。
• Computers are incapable of creative thought.计算机不会创造性地思维。

1312 prone   

adj.(to)易于…的，很可能…的；俯卧的

参考例句：

• Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
• He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.人家一不同意他的意见,他就发脾气。

1313 provocation   

n.激怒，刺激，挑拨，挑衅的事物，激怒的原因

参考例句：

• He's got a fiery temper and flares up at the slightest provocation.他是火爆性子，一点就着。
• They did not react to this provocation.他们对这一挑衅未作反应。

1314 specialty   

n.(speciality)特性，特质；专业，专长

参考例句：

• Shell carvings are a specialty of the town.贝雕是该城的特产。
• His specialty is English literature.他的专业是英国文学。

1315 rendezvous   

n.约会，约会地点，汇合点；vi.汇合，集合；vt.使汇合，使在汇合地点相遇

参考例句：

• She made the rendezvous with only minutes to spare.她还差几分钟时才来赴约。
• I have a rendezvous with Peter at a restaurant on the harbour.我和彼得在海港的一个餐馆有个约会。

1316 jingles   

叮当声( jingle的名词复数 )； 节拍十分规则的简单诗歌

参考例句：

• Can I give Del and Mr. Jingles some? 我可以分一点给戴尔和金格先生吗？
• This story jingles bells for many of my clients. 这个故事对我许多客户来说都耳熟能详。

1317 plight   

n.困境，境况，誓约，艰难；vt.宣誓，保证，约定

参考例句：

• The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
• She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。

1318 reassures   

v.消除恐惧或疑虑，恢复信心( reassure的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• A significant benefit of Undo is purely psychological: It reassures users. 撤销的一个很大好处纯粹是心理上的，它让用户宽心。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
• Direct eye contact reassures the person that you are confident and honest. 直接的目光接触让人相信你的自信和诚实。 来自口语例句

1319 gratitude   

adj.感激，感谢

参考例句：

• I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him.我向他表示了深切的谢意。
• She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face.她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。

1320 tinkling   

n.丁当作响声

参考例句：

• I could hear bells tinkling in the distance. 我能听到远处叮当铃响。
• To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical-box. 跟他说话，犹如听一架老掉牙的八音盒子丁冬响。 来自英汉文学

1321 irresolute   

adj.无决断的，优柔寡断的，踌躇不定的

参考例句：

• Irresolute persons make poor victors.优柔寡断的人不会成为胜利者。
• His opponents were too irresolute to call his bluff.他的对手太优柔寡断,不敢接受挑战。

1322 prostrate   

v.拜倒，平卧，衰竭；adj.拜倒的，平卧的，衰竭的

参考例句：

• She was prostrate on the floor.她俯卧在地板上。
• The Yankees had the South prostrate and they intended to keep It'so.北方佬已经使南方屈服了,他们还打算继续下去。

1323 vowels   

n.元音，元音字母( vowel的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants. 元音比辅音响亮。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Note the various sounds of vowels followed by r. 注意r跟随的各种元音的发音。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

1324 tightens   

收紧( tighten的第三人称单数 )； （使）变紧； （使）绷紧； 加紧

参考例句：

• One set of provisions tightens emission standards. 一套使排放标准更加严格的规定。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• Requires no special tools or fittings; hand tightens to relief valve outlet. 不需要专用工具或管件；用手将其紧固到安全阀上即可。

1325 conceal   

v.隐藏，隐瞒，隐蔽

参考例句：

• He had to conceal his identity to escape the police.为了躲避警方，他只好隐瞒身份。
• He could hardly conceal his joy at his departure.他几乎掩饰不住临行时的喜悦。

1326 ebbs   

退潮( ebb的名词复数 )； 落潮； 衰退

参考例句：

• When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans. 退潮时，它便成为甲壳动物居住的岩石区潮水潭。
• The new Russia steadily ebbs away drive out of Moscow. 驶离莫斯科愈来愈远以后，俄罗斯崭新的景象也逐渐消失。