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Chapter 12
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    The crickets were screaming on Thursday and the sky, stripped of blue, was white hot ateleven in the morning. Sethe was badly dressed for the heat, but this being her first social outing ineighteen years, she felt obliged to wear her one good dress, heavy as it was, and a hat. Certainly ahat. She didn't want to meet Lady Jones or Ella with her head wrapped like she was going to work.

  The dress, a good-wool castoff, was a Christmas present to Baby Suggs from Miss Bodwin, thewhitewoman who loved her. Denver and Paul D fared better in the heat since neither felt theoccasion required special clothing. Denver's bonnet1 knocked against her shoulder blades; Paul Dwore his vest open, no jacket and his shirt sleeves rolled above his elbows. They were not holdinghands, but their shadows were. Sethe looked to her left and all three of them were gliding2 over thedust holding hands. Maybe he was right. A life. Watching their hand holding shadows, she wasembarrassed at being dressed for church.

  The others, ahead and behind them, would think she was putting on airs, letting them know thatshe was different because she lived in a house with two stories; tougher, because she could do andsurvive things they believed she should neither do nor survive. She was glad Denver had resistedher urgings to dress up — rebraid her hair at least.

  But Denver was not doing anything to make this trip a pleasure. She agreed to go — sullenly3 —but her attitude was "Go 'head. Try and make me happy." The happy one was Paul D. He saidhowdy to everybody within twenty feet. Made fun of the weather and what it was doing to him,yelled back at the crows, and was the first to smell the doomed4 roses. All the time, no matter whatthey were doing — whether Denver wiped perspiration5 from her forehead or stooped to retie hershoes; whether Paul D kicked a stone or reached over to meddle6 a child's face leaning on its mother's shoulder — all the time the three shadows that shot out of their feet to the left held hands.

  Nobody noticed but Sethe and she stopped looking after she decided7 that it was a good sign. A life.

  Could be.

  Up and down the lumberyard fence old roses were dying. The sawyer who had planted themtwelve years ago to give his workplace a friendly feel — something to take the sin out of slicingtrees for a living — was amazed by their abundance; how rapidly they crawled all over the stakeand-post fence that separated the lumberyard from the open field next to it where homeless menslept, children ran and, once a year, carnival8 people pitched tents. The closer the roses got to death,the louder their scent9, and everybody who attended the carnival associated it with the stench of therotten roses. It made them a little dizzy and very thirsty but did nothing to extinguish the eagernessof the coloredpeople filing down the road. Some walked on the grassy10 shoulders, others dodged11 thewagons creaking down the road's dusty center. All, like Paul D, were in high spirits, which thesmell of dying roses (that Paul D called to everybody's attention) could not dampen. As theypressed to get to the rope entrance they were lit like lamps. Breathless with the excitement ofseeing white people loose: doing magic, clowning, without heads or with two heads, twenty feettall or two feet tall, weighing a ton, completely tattooed12, eating glass, swallowing fire, spittingribbons, twisted into knots, forming pyramids, playing with snakes and beating each other up.

  All of this was advertisement, read by those who could and heard by those who could not, and thefact that none of it was true did not extinguish their appetite a bit. The barker called them and theirchildren names ("Pickaninnies free!") but the food on his vest and the hole in his pants rendered itfairly harmless. In any case it was a small price to pay for the fun they might not ever have again.

  Two pennies and an insult were well spent if it meant seeing the spectacle of whitefolks making aspectacle of themselves. So, although the carnival was a lot less than mediocre13 (which is why itagreed to a Colored Thursday), it gave the four hundred black people in its audience thrill uponthrill upon thrill.

  One-Ton Lady spit at them, but her bulk shortened her aim and they got a big kick out of thehelpless meanness in her little eyes. Arabian Nights Dancer cut her performance to three minutesinstead of the usual fifteen she normally did-earning the gratitude14 of the children, who couldhardly wait for Abu Snake Charmer, who followed her.

  Denver bought horehound, licorice, peppermint15 and lemonade at table manned by a littlewhitegirl in ladies' high-topped shoes. Soothed16 by sugar, surrounded by (a) a crowd of people who didnot find her the main attraction, who, in fact, said, "Hey, Denver," every now and then, pleased herenough to consider the possibility that Paul D wasn't all that bad. In fact there was something abouthim — when the three of them stood together watching Midget dance — that made the stares ofother Negroes kind, gentle, something Denver did not remember seeing in their faces. Several evennodded and smiled at her mother, no one, apparently17, able to withstand sharing the pleasure Paul D.was having. He slapped his knees when Giant danced with Midget; when Two-Headed Mantalked to himself. He bought everything Denver asked for and much she did not. He teased Setheinto tents she was reluctant to enter. Stuck pieces of candy she didn't want between her lips. WhenWild African Savage18 shook his bars and said wa wa, Paul D told everybody he knew him back in Roanoke.

  Paul D made a few acquaintances; spoke19 to them about what work he might find. Sethe returnedthe smiles she got. Denver was swaying with delight. And on the way home, although leadingthem now, the shadows of three people still held hands.

  A FULLY20 DRESSED woman walked out of the water. She barely gained the dry bank of thestream before she sat down and leaned against a mulberry tree. All day and all night she sat there,her head resting on the trunk in a position abandoned enough to crack the brim in her straw hat.

  Everything hurt but her lungs most of all. Sopping21 wet and breathing shallow she spent those hourstrying to negotiate the weight of her eyelids22. The day breeze blew her dress dry; the night windwrinkled it. Nobody saw her emerge or came accidentally by. If they had, chances are they wouldhave hesitated before approaching her. Not because she was wet, or dozing23 or had what soundedlike asthma24, but because amid all that she was smiling. It took her the whole of the next morning tolift herself from the ground and make her way through the woods past a giant temple of boxwoodto the field and then the yard of the slate-gray house. Exhausted25 again, she sat down on the firsthandy place — a stump26 not far from the steps of 124. By then keeping her eyes open was less of aneffort. She could manage it for a full two minutes or more. Her neck, its circumference27 no widerthan a parlor-service saucer, kept bending and her chin brushed the bit of lace edging her dress.

  Women who drink champagne28 when there is nothing to celebrate can look like that: their strawhats with broken brims are often askew29; they nod in public places; their shoes are undone30. Buttheir skin is not like that of the woman breathing near the steps of 124. She had new skin, linelessand smooth, including the knuckles31 of her hands. By late afternoon when the carnival was over,and the Negroes were hitching32 rides home if they were lucky — walking if they were not — thewoman had fallen asleep again. The rays of the sun struck her full in the face, so that when Sethe,Denver and Paul D rounded the curve in the road all they saw was a black dress, two unlaced shoesbelow it, and Here Boy nowhere in sight.

  "Look," said Denver. "What is that?"And, for some reason she could not immediately account for, the moment she got close enough tosee the face, Sethe's bladder filled to capacity. She said, "Oh, excuse me," and ran around to theback of 124. Not since she was a baby girl, being cared for by the eight year-old girl who pointedout her mother to her, had she had an emergency that unmanageable. She never made the outhouse.

  Right in front of its door she had to lift her skirts, and the water she voided was endless. Like ahorse, she thought, but as it went on and on she thought, No, more like flooding the boat whenDenver was born. So much water Amy said, "Hold on, Lu. You going to sink us you keep that up."But there was no stopping water breaking from a breaking womb and there was no stopping now.

  She hoped Paul D wouldn't take it upon himself to come looking for her and be obliged to see hersquatting in front of her own privy33 making a mudhole too deep to be witnessed without shame.

  Just about the time she started wondering if the carnival would accept another freak, it stopped.

  She tidied herself and ran around to the porch. No one was there. All three were insidePaul D andDenver standing34 before the stranger, watching her drink cup after cup of water.

  "She said she was thirsty," said Paul D. He took off his cap. "Mighty35 thirsty look like."The woman gulped36 water from a speckled tin cup and held it out for more. Four times Denverfilled it, and four times the woman drank as though she had crossed a desert. When she wasfinished a little water was on her chin, but she did not wipe it away. Instead she gazed at Sethewith sleepy eyes. Poorly fed, thought Sethe, and younger than her clothes suggested — good laceat the throat, and a rich woman's hat. Her skin was flawless except for three vertical37 scratches onher forehead so fine and thin they seemed at first like hair, baby hair before it bloomed and ropedinto the masses of black yarn38 under her hat.

  "You from around here?" Sethe asked her.

    星期四,蟋蟀鼓噪着,剥去了蓝色的天空在上午十一点是白热的。天气这么热,塞丝的穿着特别不舒服,可这是她十八年来头一回外出社交,她觉得有必要穿上她唯一的一条好裙子,尽管它沉得要命;还要戴上一顶帽子。当然要戴帽子。她不想在遇见琼斯女士或艾拉时还包着头,像是去上班。这条纯羊毛收针的裙子是贝比·萨格斯的一件圣诞礼物,那个热爱她的白女人鲍德温小姐送的。丹芙和保罗·D谁也没觉得这种场合需要特别的衣着,所以在大热天里还好受些。

  丹芙的软帽总是碰着垫肩;保罗·D敞开马甲,没穿外套,把衬衫袖子卷到胳膊肘上。他们并没有彼此拉着手,可是他们的影子却拉着。塞丝朝左看了看,他们三个是手拉着手滑过灰尘的。

  也许他是对的。一种生活。她看着他们携手的影子,为自己这身去教堂的打扮而难为情。前前后后的人会认为她是在摆架子,是让大家知道自己与众不同,因为她住在一栋两层楼房里;让大家知道自己更不屈不挠,因为她既能做又能经受他们认为她不能做也不能经受的事情。她很高兴丹芙拒绝了打扮一番的要求———哪怕重新编一下辫子。然而丹芙不愿付出任何努力,给这次出行增加一点愉快气氛。她同意去了———闷闷不乐地———但她的态度是“去呗。试试哄我高兴起来”。高兴的是保罗·D。他向二十英尺之内的每一个人打招呼,拿天气以及天气对他的影响开玩笑,向乌鸦们呱呱回嘴大叫,并且头一个去嗅凋萎的玫瑰花。自始至终,不论他们在干什么———无论是丹芙在擦额头上的汗、停下来系鞋带,还是保罗·D在踢石子、伸手去捏一个妈妈肩上的娃娃的脸蛋———从他们脚下向左投射的三个人影都一直拉着手。除了塞丝,没有人注意到,而她一旦认定了那是个好兆头,便停下来看了又看。一种生活。也许吧。

  贮木场围栏的上上下下有玫瑰在衰败。十二年前种下它们的那个锯木工———也许是为了让他的工作场所显得友好,为了消除以锯树为生的罪恶感———对它们的繁荣感到震惊;它们如此迅速地爬满了栅栏,把贮木场同旁边开阔的田野隔开;田野上,无家可归的人在那里过夜,孩子们在那里跑来跑去,一年一度,杂耍艺人在那里搭起帐篷。玫瑰愈临近死亡,气味便愈发浓烈,所有参加狂欢节的人都把节日同腐败玫瑰的臭气联系起来。这气味让他们有点头晕,而且异常干渴,却丝毫没有熄灭大路上络绎不绝的黑人们的热情。有的走在路肩的青草上,其余的则躲闪着路中央那些扬起灰尘、吱吱扭扭的大车。所有人都像保罗·D一样情绪高涨,连濒死玫瑰的气味(保罗·D使之引人注目)都不能抑制。他们挤进栏索入口的时候,像灯一样被点着了,都激动得屏住了呼吸,因为就要无拘无束地观看白人了:变魔术的、当小丑的、无头的或是双头的、二十英尺高或是二十英寸高的、一吨重的、全部文身的、吃玻璃的、吞火的、吐出打结的绸带的、筑金字塔的、耍蛇的,还有练把式的。

  这一切都写在广告上,识字的念出来,不识字的就在一旁听着;尽管事实上都是些胡说八道,他们的兴致依然丝毫不减。招徕生意的骂着他们和他们的孩子(“小黑鬼免费!”),然而他马甲上的食物和裤子上的窟窿使得那些叫骂显得无伤大雅。无论如何,为了他们也许再不会得到的乐趣,这个代价太小了。如果是为了观看白人们大出自己的洋相,两分钱加上一次侮辱花得值。所以,虽然这次狂欢节连平庸都够不上(那就是为什么一个“黑星期四”得到认可),它还是给了四百名黑人观众一个一个又一个的刺激。

  “一吨女士”向他们吐唾沫,可她的大块头降低了实际效果,于是她小眼睛里无能的卑劣让他们过足了瘾。

  “天方夜谭舞女”把通常十五分钟的表演减到三分钟———这让孩子们不胜感激,因为他们等不及她下面的那个“阿布蛇魔术师”了。

   在脚蹬女式高靿鞋的白人小姑娘掌管的柜台上,丹芙要了夏至草汁、甘草汁、薄荷汁和柠檬汁。糖水进肚,神清气爽,身旁又围了一群人———那些人并不青睐她,实际上不时地称呼她“喂,丹芙”———丹芙很高兴开始觉得保罗·D或许不算太坏。说实话,他是有点特别之处———他们仨站住一起看侏儒舞的时候———使得其他黑人的目光和蔼、温柔起来,丹芙从不记得在他们脸上见到过那种表情。有几个人甚至冲她妈妈点头、微笑,显然,没有人能够抗拒同保罗·D分享他的快乐。当巨人和侏儒跳舞,还有双头人自言自语的时候,他乐得直拍大腿。他给丹芙买了她要的每一样东西,还有好多她没要的。他好说歹说把塞丝哄进她不愿进的帐篷。把她不想吃的糖果塞满她的嘴。当“非洲野人”舞着棒子哇哇乱叫时,保罗·D告诉每一个人他早在罗厄诺克时就认识这家伙了。

  保罗·D结识了几个人,跟他们谈了他想找什么样的工作。塞丝对她得到的微笑也回之一笑。丹芙沉醉在喜悦中。在回家的路上,尽管投到了他们前面,三个人的影子依然手牵着手。

  一个穿戴齐整的女人从水中走出来。她好不容易才够到干燥的溪岸,上了岸就立即靠着一棵桑树坐下来。整整一天一夜,她就坐在那里,将头自暴自弃地歇在树干上,草帽檐都压断了。身上哪儿都疼,肺疼得最厉害。她浑身精湿,呼吸急促,一直在同自己发沉的眼皮较量。白天的轻风吹干她的衣裙;晚风又把衣裙吹皱。没有人看见她出现,也没有人碰巧从这里经过。即便有人路过,多半也会踌躇不前。不是因为她身上湿淋淋的,也不是因为她打着瞌睡或者发出哮喘似的声音,而是因为她同时一直在微笑。第二天,她花了整整一个上午从地上爬起来,穿过树林,经过一座高大的黄杨木神殿进入田野,向石板色房子的宅院走来。她再一次筋疲力尽,就近坐下———坐在离124号的台阶不远的一个树桩上。这时她睁开双眼已经不那么费劲了,能坚持整整两分钟还要多。她那周长不足一个茶碟的脖子一直弯着,下巴摩擦着她裙衣上镶的花边。

  只有那些在非庆祝场合也喝香槟酒的女人才那副模样:断了檐的草帽总是歪戴着;在公共场所跟人随便点头;鞋带也不系好。但是她们的皮肤可不如这个在124号的台阶附近喘息的女人。她的皮肤是新的,没有皱纹,而且光滑,连手上的指节都一样。

  狂欢节结束时已临近黄昏,黑人们要是走运就搭车回家———不然就得步行。这时那个女人又睡着了。阳光直射在她整个脸颊上,所以塞丝、丹芙和保罗·D在归途中拐过弯来,只看见一条黑裙子和下边两只鞋带散开的鞋,而“来,小鬼”却无影无踪了。

  “瞧,“丹芙道,”那是什么?

  ”

  这时,由于某种一时说不清的缘由,塞丝刚刚走近得能看到那张脸,膀胱就涨满了。她说了句,“噢,请原谅”,便小跑着绕到124号的后面。自打她还是个小女孩、由那个指出她母亲的八岁女孩照看的时候起,她还从来没出过这么难以控制的紧急事故。她没有能够赶到厕所,只好在厕所门前就撩起裙子,没完没了地尿了起来。跟匹马似的,她心想,可是尿着尿着她又想,不对,更像生丹芙时在那只小船上的羊水泛滥。那么多水,急得爱弥说道:

  “憋住,露。你要是没完没了,我们会沉船的。

  ”可是从一个开了口的子宫里涌出的羊水不可能止住,现在的尿也不可能止住。她希望保罗·D不会那么体贴地来找她,以免让他看见她蹲在自己家的厕所门前,滋出一个深得让人不好意思看的泥坑。她正纳闷狂欢节能否添上一个新怪物呢,尿停了。她整好衣服跑回门廊。

  人不见了。三个人都进了屋———保罗·D和丹芙站在那个陌生人面前,看着她一杯接一杯地喝水。

  “她说她渴了,”保罗·D说。他摘下帽子。

  “看来是真渴了。

  ”

  那个女人端着一只带斑纹的锡杯大口吞水,吞完了就递过来再要。丹芙一共给她满了四回,这个女人也一饮而尽了四回,仿佛刚刚穿过了沙漠。她喝完之后下巴上沾了点水,但她没有抹去,而是用惺忪的眼睛盯着塞丝。喂养得很糟,塞丝想,而且比衣着显得更年轻———脖子上的花边挺不错,还戴了顶贵妇人的帽子。她的皮肤上没什么瑕疵,只在脑门上有三竖道精致而纤细的划痕,乍看上去就像头发,婴儿的头发,还没有长浓,没有搓成她帽子底下大团的黑毛线。

  “你是从这儿附近来的吗?”塞丝问她。


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1 bonnet AtSzQ     
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。
2 gliding gliding     
v. 滑翔 adj. 滑动的
参考例句:
  • Swans went gliding past. 天鹅滑行而过。
  • The weather forecast has put a question mark against the chance of doing any gliding tomorrow. 天气预报对明天是否能举行滑翔表示怀疑。
3 sullenly f65ccb557a7ca62164b31df638a88a71     
不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地
参考例句:
  • 'so what?" Tom said sullenly. “那又怎么样呢?”汤姆绷着脸说。
  • Emptiness after the paper, I sIt'sullenly in front of the stove. 报看完,想不出能找点什么事做,只好一人坐在火炉旁生气。
4 doomed EuuzC1     
命定的
参考例句:
  • The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
  • A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
5 perspiration c3UzD     
n.汗水;出汗
参考例句:
  • It is so hot that my clothes are wet with perspiration.天太热了,我的衣服被汗水湿透了。
  • The perspiration was running down my back.汗从我背上淌下来。
6 meddle d7Xzb     
v.干预,干涉,插手
参考例句:
  • I hope he doesn't try to meddle in my affairs.我希望他不来干预我的事情。
  • Do not meddle in things that do not concern you.别参与和自己无关的事。
7 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。
8 carnival 4rezq     
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。
9 scent WThzs     
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。
10 grassy DfBxH     
adj.盖满草的;长满草的
参考例句:
  • They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
  • Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。
11 dodged ae7efa6756c9d8f3b24f8e00db5e28ee     
v.闪躲( dodge的过去式和过去分词 );回避
参考例句:
  • He dodged cleverly when she threw her sabot at him. 她用木底鞋砸向他时,他机敏地闪开了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He dodged the book that I threw at him. 他躲开了我扔向他的书。 来自《简明英汉词典》
12 tattooed a00df80bebe7b2aaa7fba8fd4562deaf     
v.刺青,文身( tattoo的过去式和过去分词 );连续有节奏地敲击;作连续有节奏的敲击
参考例句:
  • He had tattooed his wife's name on his upper arm. 他把妻子的名字刺在上臂上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sailor had a heart tattooed on his arm. 那水兵在手臂上刺上一颗心。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
13 mediocre 57gza     
adj.平常的,普通的
参考例句:
  • The student tried hard,but his work is mediocre. 该生学习刻苦,但学业平庸。
  • Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。
14 gratitude p6wyS     
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。
15 peppermint slNzxg     
n.薄荷,薄荷油,薄荷糖
参考例句:
  • Peppermint oil is very good for regulating digestive disorders.薄荷油能很有效地调节消化系统失调。
  • He sat down,popped in a peppermint and promptly choked to death.他坐下来,突然往嘴里放了一颗薄荷糖,当即被噎死。
16 soothed 509169542d21da19b0b0bd232848b963     
v.安慰( soothe的过去式和过去分词 );抚慰;使舒服;减轻痛苦
参考例句:
  • The music soothed her for a while. 音乐让她稍微安静了一会儿。
  • The soft modulation of her voice soothed the infant. 她柔和的声调使婴儿安静了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
17 apparently tMmyQ     
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
参考例句:
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
18 savage ECxzR     
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。
19 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
20 fully Gfuzd     
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。
21 sopping 0bfd57654dd0ce847548745041f49f00     
adj. 浑身湿透的 动词sop的现在分词形式
参考例句:
  • We are sopping with rain. 我们被雨淋湿了。
  • His hair under his straw hat was sopping wet. 隔着草帽,他的头发已经全湿。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
22 eyelids 86ece0ca18a95664f58bda5de252f4e7     
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》
23 dozing dozing     
v.打瞌睡,假寐 n.瞌睡
参考例句:
  • The economy shows no signs of faltering. 经济没有衰退的迹象。
  • He never falters in his determination. 他的决心从不动摇。
24 asthma WvezQ     
n.气喘病,哮喘病
参考例句:
  • I think he's having an asthma attack.我想他现在是哮喘病发作了。
  • Its presence in allergic asthma is well known.它在过敏性气喘中的存在是大家很熟悉的。
25 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。
26 stump hGbzY     
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。
27 circumference HOszh     
n.圆周,周长,圆周线
参考例句:
  • It's a mile round the circumference of the field.运动场周长一英里。
  • The diameter and the circumference of a circle correlate.圆的直径与圆周有相互关系。
28 champagne iwBzh3     
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。
29 askew rvczG     
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 undone JfJz6l     
a.未做完的,未完成的
参考例句:
  • He left nothing undone that needed attention.所有需要注意的事他都注意到了。
31 knuckles c726698620762d88f738be4a294fae79     
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》
32 hitching 5bc21594d614739d005fcd1af2f9b984     
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。
33 privy C1OzL     
adj.私用的;隐密的
参考例句:
  • Only three people,including a policeman,will be privy to the facts.只会允许3个人,其中包括一名警察,了解这些内情。
  • Very few of them were privy to the details of the conspiracy.他们中很少有人知道这一阴谋的详情。
34 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
35 mighty YDWxl     
adj.强有力的;巨大的
参考例句:
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
36 gulped 4873fe497201edc23bc8dcb50aa6eb2c     
v.狼吞虎咽地吃,吞咽( gulp的过去式和过去分词 );大口地吸(气);哽住
参考例句:
  • He gulped down the rest of his tea and went out. 他把剩下的茶一饮而尽便出去了。
  • She gulped nervously, as if the question bothered her. 她紧张地咽了一下,似乎那问题把她难住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
37 vertical ZiywU     
adj.垂直的,顶点的,纵向的;n.垂直物,垂直的位置
参考例句:
  • The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。
  • Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。
38 yarn LMpzM     
n.纱,纱线,纺线;奇闻漫谈,旅行轶事
参考例句:
  • I stopped to have a yarn with him.我停下来跟他聊天。
  • The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。


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