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Part 5 Book 3 Chapter 12 The Grandfather
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Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened thither1. Aunt Gillenormand had risen.

Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing3 her hands and incapable4 of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated5 her mind, and took form in the exclamation6: "It was bound to end in this way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips proceeded from his nostrils7, he had him placed flat on the bed, without a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle lower, and with his bust8 bare in order to facilitate respiration9. Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads10 in her own chamber11.

The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs12 with a hideous13 laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not dangerous. The long, underground journey had completed the dislocation of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder14 there was serious. The arms had been slashed15 with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of these wounds on the head? Would they stop short at the hairy cuticle16, or would they attack the brain? As yet, this could not be decided17. A grave symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted18 by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade19 had protected the lower part of the body from injury.

Basque and Nicolette tore up linen20 and prepared bandages; Nicolette sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint21 was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the bed, three candles burned on a table where the case of surgical22 instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle in hand, lighted them.

The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which he had inwardly addressed to himself.

A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor with himself.

At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly touching23 his still closed eyes with his finger, a door opened at the end of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid24 figure made its appearance.

This was the grandfather.

The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated25, enraged26 and engrossed28 the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on the previous night, and he had been in a fever all day long. In the evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze29 through sheer fatigue30.

Old men sleep lightly; M. Gillenormand's chamber adjoined the drawing-room, and in spite of all the precautions that had been taken, the noise had awakened31 him. Surprised at the rift32 of light which he saw under his door, he had risen from his bed, and had groped his way thither.

He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the half-open door, with his head bent33 a little forward and quivering, his body wrapped in a white dressing-gown, which was straight and as destitute34 of folds as a winding-sheet; and he had the air of a phantom35 who is gazing into a tomb.

He saw the bed, and on the mattress36 that young man, bleeding, white with a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping37 mouth, and pallid lips, stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson38 wounds, motionless and brilliantly lighted up.

The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified39 limbs can tremble, his eyes, whose corneae were yellow on account of his great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull40, his arms fell pendent, as though a spring had broken, and his amazement41 was betrayed by the outspreading of the fingers of his two aged27 hands, which quivered all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all bristling42 with white hairs, and he murmured:

"Marius!"

"Sir," said Basque, "Monsieur has just been brought back. He went to the barricade, and . . ."

"He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal43!"

Then a sort of sepulchral44 transformation45 straightened up this centenarian as erect46 as a young man.

"Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He is dead, is he not?"

The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent.

M. Gillenormand wrung47 his hands with an outburst of terrible laughter.

"He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the barricades48! Out of hatred49 to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood-drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery50 of my life, he is dead!"

He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling51, and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the night:

"Pierced, sabred, exterminated52, slashed, hacked53 in pieces! Just look at that, the villain54! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to return and to say:`It is I,' and you would have been the master of the house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! You knew that well, and you said:

"No, he is a Royalist, I will not go! And you went to the barricades, and you got yourself killed out of malice55! To revenge yourself for what I said to you about Monsieur le Duc de Berry. It is infamous56! Go to bed then and sleep tranquilly57!He is dead, and this is my awakening58."

The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed exaggerated in size and bloodshot, and said to him calmly:

"I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of Louis XVI. I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief59. You will have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators60, tribunes, discussions, progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! Marius! It is abominable61! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a dead man. That would be stupid. This is a child whom I have reared. I was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries garden with his little shovel62 and his little chair, and in order that the inspectors63 might not grumble64, I stopped up the holes that he made in the earth with his shovel, with my cane65. One day he exclaimed: Down with Louis XVIII. And off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy66 and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands67 of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I remember when he was no higher than that. He could not manage to pronounce his Ds. He had a way of talking that was so sweet and indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping68. I remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a circle to admire him and marvel69 at him, he was so handsome, was that child! He had a head such as you see in pictures. I talked in a deep voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled70, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats71. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your Benjamin Constants, and your Tirecuir de Corcelles who have killed him? This cannot be allowed to pass in this fashion."

He approached Marius, who still lay livid and motionless, and towhom the physician had returned, and began once more to wring2 his hands. The old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death agony:

"Ah! heartless lad! Ah! clubbist! Ah! wretch72! Ah! Septembrist!"

Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing73 man, addressed to a corpse74.

Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions75 should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other side of an abyss:

"It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down like a brute76! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to dance at the Chaumiere, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly77! Poor mothers, beget78 fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one mad! Just think of it! At twenty! And without so much as turning his head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in your corner, owl79! Well, after all, so much the better, that is what I was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old,I am a hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all is over, what happiness! What is the good of making him inhale80 ammonia and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of a doctor! Come, he's dead, completely dead. I know all about it, I am dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is infamous, infamous and that's what I think of you, of your ideas, of your systems, of your masters, of your oracles81, of your doctors, of your scape-graces of writers, of your rascally82 philosophers, and of all the revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the flocks of crows in the Tuileries! But you were pitiless in getting yourself killed like this, I shall not even grieve over your death, do you understand, you assassin?"

At that moment, Marius slowly opened his eyes, and his glance, still dimmed by lethargic83 wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand.

"Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! My child!My well-beloved son! You open your eyes, you gaze upon me, you are alive, thanks!"

And he fell fainting.


巴斯克和看门人把初到时安放在长沙发上躺着一动不动的马吕斯抬到客厅里。医生,在他们去叫后,也已经赶到,吉诺曼姨妈也已起床了。

吉诺曼姨妈来回走动,慌里慌张,握着自己的双手,做不了什么事,只会说:“上帝呀!这怎么可能呀!”有时,她添上一句:“到处都会沾上血了!”开始时的恐惧过后,对待现实的某种哲学就出现在她的脑海里,她用这样的叫喊来表达:“结果一定是这样的!”她还算没有加上一句:“我早就这样说过!”这是人们在这种场合惯用的一句话。

遵照医生的吩咐,在长沙发旁支起一张帆布床。医生检查了马吕斯,当他知道受伤者的脉搏还在跳,胸部没有重伤,唇角的血来自鼻腔后,医生就让他在床上平卧,不用枕头,头和身体一样平,甚至比身体还稍低一点,上身赤裸,为使呼吸通畅。吉诺曼小姐,看到在脱马吕斯的衣服时就退了出去。她到寝室里去念经。

马吕斯上身没有一点内伤,有颗子弹被皮夹挡住,顺着肋骨偏斜了,造成一个可怕的裂口,但伤口不深,因此没有危险。在地下的长途跋涉使打碎了的锁骨脱了臼,这才是严重的伤。他的两臂有刀伤。脸上没有破相的伤口,可是头上好象布满了刀痕,头上的伤口会产生什么后果呢?伤只停留在头皮的表面吗?还是伤及了头盖骨呢?目前还无法断定。一个严重的症状就是伤口引起了昏迷,这种昏迷不是所有的人都能苏醒过来的。此外,流血已使受伤者极度衰弱。从腰部以下,下半身受到街垒的防护。

巴斯克和妮珂莱特在撕床单和衣衫作绷带,妮珂莱特把布条缝起来,巴斯克把布条卷起来。由于缺少裹伤用的旧布纱团,医生暂用棉花卷止住伤口的血。卧榻旁,三支点燃的蜡烛放在陈列着外科手术用具的桌上。医生用凉水洗净马吕斯的脸和头发。一桶水一会儿就成了红色。看门人手里拿着蜡烛照着亮。

医生好象很忧愁地在思考着。不时摇一下头,仿佛在回答自己心里的问题。医生这种秘密的自问自答对病人来说是不利的表现。

当医生拭着他的面部并用手指轻轻碰碰他一直合着的眼皮时,客厅那头的一扇门打开了,一个苍白的长脸出现了。

这是外祖父。

两天以来,暴动使吉诺曼先生很紧张,他是又气愤又发愁,前晚不能入睡,昨天整天有热度。晚上,他很早就上了床,吩咐家人把屋子都插上插销,他因疲惫而矇眬睡去。

老年人的睡眠,容易惊醒;吉诺曼先生的卧室紧连着客厅,尽管大家很小心,仍有声音把他惊醒了。他看见门缝里漏出烛光,感到很惊奇,他就起床摸着黑出来。

他站在门口,一只手抓住半开的门的把手,头稍向前倾斜而摇晃着,身子裹在一件白晨衣中,直挺挺没有褶子,象件殓衣,他神情惊讶,象一个幽灵在窥视着坟墓。

他看见了床,褥子上鲜血淋淋的年轻人,象白蜡那样惨白,双目紧闭,口张着,嘴唇没有血色,上身赤露着,到处是紫红色的伤口,一动也不动,这一切都被照得清清楚楚。

外祖父骨瘦如柴的躯体从头到脚哆嗦起来,他那因高年而角膜发黄的眼睛,蒙上了一种透明的闪光,整张脸霎时间显出了骷髅般土灰色的棱角,两臂挂下来,好象里面的发条断了似的,他的惊愕表现在两只老而颤抖的手的手指的叉开上。他的膝盖向前弯曲,从打开的晨衣里可以见到他那可怜的白毛耸起的双腿,他低声说:

“马吕斯!”

“老爷,”巴斯克说,“有人把少爷送回来了,他到街垒里去了,而且……”

“他死了!”老人用可怕的声音叫道,“咳!这无赖!”

这时一种阴森森的变态使这个百岁老人象年轻人一样竖直了身子。

“先生,”他说,“您就是医生,先告诉我一件事,他死了,是吗?”

医生,焦急万分,没有回答。

吉诺曼先生扭绞着双手,同时骇人地放声大笑:

“他死了!他死了!他到街垒去让人杀了!为了恨我!为了对付我他才这样干!啊!吸血鬼!这样回来见我!我真是命中遭灾,他死了!”

他走到一扇窗前,把窗打开,好象他感到憋气,面对黑暗站着,向着街对黑夜讲起话来:

“被子弹打穿,被刀刺,割断喉头,毁灭,被撕碎,切成碎块!你们看,这无赖!他明知我在等他,我叫人把他的寝室布置好,我把他小时候的相片放在我床头;他明知他随时都可以回家,他明知多少年来我都在叫他回来,每晚我坐在火炉旁两手放在膝上,不知干什么好,他明知我因而变瘦了!这你全知道,你知道你只要回来,只要说一声‘是我’,你便立刻是家中之主,我就会依从你;你就可以随便摆布你的傻瓜爷爷!这你很清楚,但你说‘不,他是个保王派,我就是不回家!’你就上街垒去,怀着恶意去找死!为了对我曾向你说过的有关德·贝里公爵先生的话进行报复!这是何等的卑鄙!您睡吧,静静地安眠吧!他死了。我醒过来发现的就是这么回事。”

医生开始为这祖孙俩担心了,他离开马吕斯一会儿,走到了吉诺曼先生跟前,挽着他的手臂。外祖父转过身来,用好象睁大而且冲血的眼睛望着他,并且镇静地向他说:

“先生,我谢谢您,我很安静,我是男子汉,我见过路易十六的死,我能忍受事变,有桩事很可怕,就是想到你们的报纸使一切都变坏了,你们可以有拙劣的作家、能说会道的人、律师、演说家、法庭、辩论、进步、光明、人权、出版自由,而结果是别人就这样把你们的孩子送回家来!咳!马吕斯!太惨了!他被杀了!死在我前面!一个街垒!咳!这强盗!医生,我想您是住在这区的吧?啊!我认得您。我从我窗口看见您的车子走过。我告诉您,假如您认为我在发怒,那您就错了。一个人不能对死人发怒。这未免太愚蠢了。他是我抚养大的孩子。那时我已老了,他还很小。他带着他的小椅子和小铲子在杜伊勒里宫花园里玩耍,为了不受看守人员的责备,他一边用小铲在地上挖洞,我就跟着用我的手杖填洞。有一天他叫道‘打倒路易十八!’就走了。这不是我的错呀。他脸色红润,头发金黄。他的母亲已经去世。您有没有注意到所有的小孩都是金黄色的头发?这是什么原因?他是卢瓦尔省一个强盗的孩子。对父辈的罪行孩子是无罪的。我记得当他只有这么一点高的时候,他说不清d字。他说话的声音又温柔又含糊,使人感到象一只小雀。我记得有一次在法尔内斯的《赫拉克勒斯》像前,好些人围着他,大家都在赞叹,都爱慕他,因为这孩子确实很漂亮!他的容貌就象油画里那样。我对他大声嚷嚷,用拐杖吓唬他,但他知道这是闹着玩的。清早,他到我寝室里来,我叱责他,但他使我感到好象被阳光照暖着一样。对这样的孩子大家毫无办法。他们抓住你,缠住你,再也不放你了。确实,再没有比这个孩子更可爱的了。现在,你们认为你们的拉斐德,你们的班加曼·贡斯当,还有你们的狄尔居尔·德·高塞勒①怎么样?是他们杀了我的孩子!这样是不行的。”

①狄尔居尔·德·高塞勒(Tirecuir de Corcelles,1802-1892),法国政治家,曾任驻梵蒂冈大使。

他走近面色惨白仍然一动不动的马吕斯。医生也回到了病人的身边,外祖父又开始扭绞他的手臂。老人家苍白的嘴唇机械地颤动着,吐出一种难以听清的象临终咽气时的话:“咳!没良心的东西!啊!政治集团分子!哼!无赖汉!九月虐杀王党的人!”他用一种临终的人的轻声在责备一个死人。

渐渐地,正如内心的火山总是要爆发一样,外祖父长串的话又开始了,但他好象已无力说出,他的声音已低沉微弱得象来自深渊的底里:

“不管了,我也要死了。你们想想,在巴黎没有一个女人不乐意向这个家伙委身的。这坏蛋不去寻欢作乐,不去尽情享受生活,偏要去打仗,象畜生一样被机枪扫射!究竟是为了谁?为了什么原因?为了共和政府!宁愿不到旭米耶去跳舞,这本该是年轻人的事!二十青春枉然虚度。共和国,好听的卑鄙谬论!可怜的母亲们,你们何苦生下这些美丽的孩子!得了,他死了。大门堂下将会有两起丧事。你被人害成这个模样就是为了博得拉马克将军的欢心!这个拉马克将军给了你什么!一个残暴无知的军人!胡说八道的人!为了一个死人去拼命!怎么不叫人发疯!想想看!才二十岁!也不回头看看身后是否还留下什么!这一下,可怜的老头们只好独自死去。倒毙在你的角落里吧!孤僻鬼!这一下,说实在话,再好没有,正是我所盼望的,也就会把我整死。我已太老了,我已一百岁,我已十万岁。我早就有权死去了。这一下子,成了。一切都完了,好不痛快!何必还要给他闻阿摩尼亚,还有这一大堆药?您是白费力气,傻医生!算了吧,他已死了,完全死了。我是内行,我自己也死了。他于这事倒没有半途而废。说真话,目前这个时代是丑恶的,丑恶的,丑恶的,这是我对你们的看法,对你们的思想,对你们的制度,对你们的主子,对你们的神谕,对你们的医生,对你们的无赖作家,对你们的乞丐哲学家,并对六十年来使杜伊勒里宫的大群乌鸦惊飞四散的所有那些革命的看法。你既毫无怜悯之心,就这样去送死,那我对你的死也毫不感到遗憾,听见了没有,凶手!”

这时,马吕斯慢慢地睁开了眼睛,他的目光仍被昏睡后醒来的惊讶所笼罩,停在吉诺曼先生的脸上。

“马吕斯,”老人大叫,“马吕斯!我的小马吕斯!我的孩子!我亲爱的儿子!你睁开眼了,你望着我,你活回来了,谢谢!”

于是他昏倒了。


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1 thither cgRz1o     
adv.向那里;adj.在那边的,对岸的
参考例句:
  • He wandered hither and thither looking for a playmate.他逛来逛去找玩伴。
  • He tramped hither and thither.他到处流浪。
2 wring 4oOys     
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。
3 wringing 70c74d76c2d55027ff25f12f2ab350a9     
淋湿的,湿透的
参考例句:
  • He was wringing wet after working in the field in the hot sun. 烈日下在田里干活使他汗流满面。
  • He is wringing out the water from his swimming trunks. 他正在把游泳裤中的水绞出来。
4 incapable w9ZxK     
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。
5 penetrated 61c8e5905df30b8828694a7dc4c3a3e0     
adj. 击穿的,鞭辟入里的 动词penetrate的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • The knife had penetrated his chest. 刀子刺入了他的胸膛。
  • They penetrated into territory where no man had ever gone before. 他们已进入先前没人去过的地区。
6 exclamation onBxZ     
n.感叹号,惊呼,惊叹词
参考例句:
  • He could not restrain an exclamation of approval.他禁不住喝一声采。
  • The author used three exclamation marks at the end of the last sentence to wake up the readers.作者在文章的最后一句连用了三个惊叹号,以引起读者的注意。
7 nostrils 23a65b62ec4d8a35d85125cdb1b4410e     
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。
8 bust WszzB     
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。
9 respiration us7yt     
n.呼吸作用;一次呼吸;植物光合作用
参考例句:
  • They tried artificial respiration but it was of no avail.他们试做人工呼吸,可是无效。
  • They made frequent checks on his respiration,pulse and blood.他们经常检查他的呼吸、脉搏和血液。
10 beads 894701f6859a9d5c3c045fd6f355dbf5     
n.(空心)小珠子( bead的名词复数 );水珠;珠子项链
参考例句:
  • a necklace of wooden beads 一条木珠项链
  • Beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. 他的前额上挂着汗珠。
11 chamber wnky9     
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。
12 ribs 24fc137444401001077773555802b280     
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。
13 hideous 65KyC     
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。
14 disorder Et1x4     
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
参考例句:
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
15 slashed 8ff3ba5a4258d9c9f9590cbbb804f2db     
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》
16 cuticle innzc     
n.表皮
参考例句:
  • You'd never puncture the cuticle.你无法刺穿表皮。
  • The reform has hardly made a scratch upon the cuticle of affairs.改革几乎还没有触到事物的表皮。
17 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
18 exhausted 7taz4r     
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。
19 barricade NufzI     
n.路障,栅栏,障碍;vt.设路障挡住
参考例句:
  • The soldiers make a barricade across the road.士兵在路上设路障。
  • It is difficult to break through a steel barricade.冲破钢铁障碍很难。
20 linen W3LyK     
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。
21 lint 58azy     
n.线头;绷带用麻布,皮棉
参考例句:
  • Flicked the lint off the coat.把大衣上的棉绒弹掉。
  • There are a few problems of air pollution by chemicals,lint,etc.,but these are minor.化学品、棉花等也造成一些空气污染问题,但这是次要的。
22 surgical 0hXzV3     
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。
23 touching sg6zQ9     
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。
24 pallid qSFzw     
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。
25 agitated dzgzc2     
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。
26 enraged 7f01c0138fa015d429c01106e574231c     
使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 ); 歜; 激愤
参考例句:
  • I was enraged to find they had disobeyed my orders. 发现他们违抗了我的命令,我极为恼火。
  • The judge was enraged and stroke the table for several times. 大法官被气得连连拍案。
27 aged 6zWzdI     
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。
28 engrossed 3t0zmb     
adj.全神贯注的
参考例句:
  • The student is engrossed in his book.这名学生正在专心致志地看书。
  • No one had ever been quite so engrossed in an evening paper.没人会对一份晚报如此全神贯注。
29 doze IsoxV     
v.打瞌睡;n.打盹,假寐
参考例句:
  • He likes to have a doze after lunch.他喜欢午饭后打个盹。
  • While the adults doze,the young play.大人们在打瞌睡,而孩子们在玩耍。
30 fatigue PhVzV     
n.疲劳,劳累
参考例句:
  • The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
  • I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。
31 awakened de71059d0b3cd8a1de21151c9166f9f0     
v.(使)醒( awaken的过去式和过去分词 );(使)觉醒;弄醒;(使)意识到
参考例句:
  • She awakened to the sound of birds singing. 她醒来听到鸟的叫声。
  • The public has been awakened to the full horror of the situation. 公众完全意识到了这一状况的可怕程度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
32 rift bCEzt     
n.裂口,隙缝,切口;v.裂开,割开,渗入
参考例句:
  • He was anxious to mend the rift between the two men.他急于弥合这两个人之间的裂痕。
  • The sun appeared through a rift in the clouds.太阳从云层间隙中冒出来。
33 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
参考例句:
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
34 destitute 4vOxu     
adj.缺乏的;穷困的
参考例句:
  • They were destitute of necessaries of life.他们缺少生活必需品。
  • They are destitute of common sense.他们缺乏常识。
35 phantom T36zQ     
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。
36 mattress Z7wzi     
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。
37 gaping gaping     
adj.口的;张口的;敞口的;多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 );张开,张大
参考例句:
  • Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
38 crimson AYwzH     
n./adj.深(绯)红色(的);vi.脸变绯红色
参考例句:
  • She went crimson with embarrassment.她羞得满脸通红。
  • Maple leaves have turned crimson.枫叶已经红了。
39 ossified 611727bd59c60d0a1e21880787e35421     
adj.已骨化[硬化]的v.骨化,硬化,使僵化( ossify的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • an ossified political system 僵化的政治制度
  • His thinking has ossified as he's grown older;he won't accept new ideas. 随着年岁的增长,他的思想僵化了,他不接受新观点。 来自《简明英汉词典》
40 skull CETyO     
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。
41 amazement 7zlzBK     
n.惊奇,惊讶
参考例句:
  • All those around him looked at him with amazement.周围的人都对他投射出惊异的眼光。
  • He looked at me in blank amazement.他带着迷茫惊诧的神情望着我。
42 bristling tSqyl     
a.竖立的
参考例句:
  • "Don't you question Miz Wilkes' word,'said Archie, his beard bristling. "威尔克斯太太的话,你就不必怀疑了。 "阿尔奇说。他的胡子也翘了起来。
  • You were bristling just now. 你刚才在发毛。
43 rascal mAIzd     
n.流氓;不诚实的人
参考例句:
  • If he had done otherwise,I should have thought him a rascal.如果他不这样做,我就认为他是个恶棍。
  • The rascal was frightened into holding his tongue.这坏蛋吓得不敢往下说了。
44 sepulchral 9zWw7     
adj.坟墓的,阴深的
参考例句:
  • He made his way along the sepulchral corridors.他沿着阴森森的走廊走着。
  • There was a rather sepulchral atmosphere in the room.房间里有一种颇为阴沉的气氛。
45 transformation SnFwO     
n.变化;改造;转变
参考例句:
  • Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
  • He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。
46 erect 4iLzm     
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。
47 wrung b11606a7aab3e4f9eebce4222a9397b1     
绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水)
参考例句:
  • He has wrung the words from their true meaning. 他曲解这些字的真正意义。
  • He wrung my hand warmly. 他热情地紧握我的手。
48 barricades c0ae4401dbb9a95a57ddfb8b9765579f     
路障,障碍物( barricade的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
  • Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。
49 hatred T5Gyg     
n.憎恶,憎恨,仇恨
参考例句:
  • He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
  • The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。
50 misery G10yi     
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。
51 stifling dhxz7C     
a.令人窒息的
参考例句:
  • The weather is stifling. It looks like rain. 今天太闷热,光景是要下雨。
  • We were stifling in that hot room with all the windows closed. 我们在那间关着窗户的热屋子里,简直透不过气来。
52 exterminated 26d6c11b25ea1007021683e86730eb44     
v.消灭,根绝( exterminate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • It was exterminated root and branch. 它被彻底剪除了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The insects can be exterminated by spraying DDT. 可以用喷撒滴滴涕的方法大量杀死这种昆虫。 来自《用法词典》
53 hacked FrgzgZ     
生气
参考例句:
  • I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
  • I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。
54 villain ZL1zA     
n.反派演员,反面人物;恶棍;问题的起因
参考例句:
  • He was cast as the villain in the play.他在戏里扮演反面角色。
  • The man who played the villain acted very well.扮演恶棍的那个男演员演得很好。
55 malice P8LzW     
n.恶意,怨恨,蓄意;[律]预谋
参考例句:
  • I detected a suggestion of malice in his remarks.我觉察出他说的话略带恶意。
  • There was a strong current of malice in many of his portraits.他的许多肖像画中都透着一股强烈的怨恨。
56 infamous K7ax3     
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
参考例句:
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
57 tranquilly d9b4cfee69489dde2ee29b9be8b5fb9c     
adv. 宁静地
参考例句:
  • He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. 他拿起刷子,一声不响地干了起来。
  • The evening was closing down tranquilly. 暮色正在静悄悄地笼罩下来。
58 awakening 9ytzdV     
n.觉醒,醒悟 adj.觉醒中的;唤醒的
参考例句:
  • the awakening of interest in the environment 对环境产生的兴趣
  • People are gradually awakening to their rights. 人们正逐渐意识到自己的权利。
59 mischief jDgxH     
n.损害,伤害,危害;恶作剧,捣蛋,胡闹
参考例句:
  • Nobody took notice of the mischief of the matter. 没有人注意到这件事情所带来的危害。
  • He seems to intend mischief.看来他想捣蛋。
60 orators 08c37f31715969550bbb2f814266d9d2     
n.演说者,演讲家( orator的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The hired orators continued to pour forth their streams of eloquence. 那些雇来的演说家继续滔滔不绝地施展辩才。 来自辞典例句
  • Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. 人们的耳朵被军号声和战声以及呆在这的演说家们的漂亮言辞塞得太满了。 来自飘(部分)
61 abominable PN5zs     
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。
62 shovel cELzg     
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。
63 inspectors e7f2779d4a90787cc7432cd5c8b51897     
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
参考例句:
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
64 grumble 6emzH     
vi.抱怨;咕哝;n.抱怨,牢骚;咕哝,隆隆声
参考例句:
  • I don't want to hear another grumble from you.我不愿再听到你的抱怨。
  • He could do nothing but grumble over the situation.他除了埋怨局势之外别无他法。
65 cane RsNzT     
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。
66 rosy kDAy9     
adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的
参考例句:
  • She got a new job and her life looks rosy.她找到一份新工作,生活看上去很美好。
  • She always takes a rosy view of life.她总是对生活持乐观态度。
67 brigands 17b2f48a43a67f049e43fd94c8de854b     
n.土匪,强盗( brigand的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • They say there are brigands hiding along the way. 他们说沿路隐藏着土匪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The brigands demanded tribute from passing vehicles. 土匪向过往车辆勒索钱财。 来自辞典例句
68 chirping 9ea89833a9fe2c98371e55f169aa3044     
鸟叫,虫鸣( chirp的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The birds,chirping relentlessly,woke us up at daybreak. 破晓时鸟儿不断吱吱地叫,把我们吵醒了。
  • The birds are chirping merrily. 鸟儿在欢快地鸣叫着。
69 marvel b2xyG     
vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异;n.令人惊异的事
参考例句:
  • The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
  • The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。
70 grumbled ed735a7f7af37489d7db1a9ef3b64f91     
抱怨( grumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 发牢骚; 咕哝; 发哼声
参考例句:
  • He grumbled at the low pay offered to him. 他抱怨给他的工资低。
  • The heat was sweltering, and the men grumbled fiercely over their work. 天热得让人发昏,水手们边干活边发着牢骚。
71 brats 956fd5630fab420f5dae8ea887f83cd9     
n.调皮捣蛋的孩子( brat的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • I've been waiting to get my hands on you brats. 我等着干你们这些小毛头已经很久了。 来自电影对白
  • The charming family had turned into a parcel of brats. 那个可爱的家庭一下子变成了一窝臭小子。 来自互联网
72 wretch EIPyl     
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。
73 agonizing PzXzcC     
adj.痛苦难忍的;使人苦恼的v.使极度痛苦;折磨(agonize的ing形式)
参考例句:
  • I spent days agonizing over whether to take the job or not. 我用了好些天苦苦思考是否接受这个工作。
  • his father's agonizing death 他父亲极度痛苦的死
74 corpse JYiz4     
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。
75 eruptions ca60b8eba3620efa5cdd7044f6dd0b66     
n.喷发,爆发( eruption的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year. 今年火山爆发了好几次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Over 200 people have been killed by volcanic eruptions. 火山喷发已导致200多人丧生。 来自辞典例句
76 brute GSjya     
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。
77 folly QgOzL     
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话
参考例句:
  • Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
  • Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。
78 beget LuVzW     
v.引起;产生
参考例句:
  • Dragons beget dragons,phoenixes beget phoenixes.龙生龙,凤生凤。
  • Economic tensions beget political ones.经济紧张导致政治紧张。
79 owl 7KFxk     
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。
80 inhale ZbJzA     
v.吸入(气体等),吸(烟)
参考例句:
  • Don't inhale dust into your lung.别把灰尘吸进肺里。
  • They are pleased to not inhale second hand smoke.他们很高兴他们再也不会吸到二手烟了。
81 oracles 57445499052d70517ac12f6dfd90be96     
神示所( oracle的名词复数 ); 神谕; 圣贤; 哲人
参考例句:
  • Do all oracles tell the truth? 是否所有的神谕都揭示真理? 来自哲学部分
  • The ancient oracles were often vague and equivocal. 古代的神谕常是意义模糊和模棱两可的。
82 rascally rascally     
adj. 无赖的,恶棍的 adv. 无赖地,卑鄙地
参考例句:
  • They said Kelso got some rascally adventurer, some Belgian brute, to insult his son-in-law in public. 他们说是凯尔索指使某个下贱的冒险家,一个比利时恶棍,来当众侮辱他的女婿。
  • Ms Taiwan: Can't work at all, but still brag and quibble rascally. 台湾小姐:明明不行,还要硬拗、赖皮逞强。
83 lethargic 6k9yM     
adj.昏睡的,懒洋洋的
参考例句:
  • He felt too miserable and lethargic to get dressed.他心情低落无精打采,完全没有心思穿衣整装。
  • The hot weather made me feel lethargic.炎热的天气使我昏昏欲睡。


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