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Chapter 34
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    The nephew, the one who had nursed her while his brother held her down, didn't know he wasshaking. His uncle had warned him against that kind of confusion, but the warning didn't seem tobe taking. What she go and do that for? On account of a beating? Hell, he'd been beat a milliontimes and he was white. Once it hurt so bad and made him so mad he'd smashed the well bucket.

  Another time he took it out on Samson — a few tossed rocks was all. But no beating ever madehim... I mean no way he could have... What she go and do that for? And that is what he asked thesheriff, who was standing1 there, amazed like the rest of them, but not shaking. He was swallowinghard, over and over again. "What she want to go and do that for?"The sheriff turned, then said to the other three, "You all better go on. Look like your business isover. Mine's started now." Schoolteacher beat his hat against his thigh2 and spit before leaving thewoodshed. Nephew and the catcher backed out with him. They didn't look at the woman in thepepper plants with the flower in her hat. And they didn't look at the seven or so faces that hadedged closer in spite of the catcher's rifle warning. Enough nigger eyes for now. Little nigger-boyeyes open in sawdust; little nigger-girl eyes staring between the wet fingers that held her face soher head wouldn't fall off; little nigger-baby eyes crinkling up to cry in the arms of the old niggerwhose own eyes were nothing but slivers3 looking down at his feet. But the worst ones were thoseof the nigger woman who looked like she didn't have any. Since the whites in them haddisappeared and since they were as black as her skin, she looked blind.

  They unhitched from schoolteacher's horse the borrowed mule4 that was to carry the fugitivewoman back to where she belonged, and tied it to the fence. Then, with the sun straight up overtheir heads, they trotted5 off, leaving the sheriff behind among the damnedest bunch of coons they'dever seen. All testimony6 to the results of a little so-called freedom imposed on people who neededevery care and guidance in the world to keep them from the cannibal life they preferred.

  The sheriff wanted to back out too. To stand in the sunlight outside of that place meant for housingwood, coal, kerosene7 — fuel for cold Ohio winters, which he thought of now, while resisting theurge to run into the August sunlight. Not because he was afraid. Not at all. He was just cold. Andhe didn't want to touch anything. The baby in the old man's arms was crying, and the woman's eyeswith no whites were gazing straight ahead. They all might have remained that way, frozen tillThursday, except one of the boys on the floor sighed. As if he were sunk in the pleasure of a deepsweet sleep, he sighed the sigh that flung the sheriff into action.

  "I'll have to take you in. No trouble now. You've done enough to last you. Come on now."She did not move.

  "You come quiet, hear, and I won't have to tie you up." She stayed still and he had made up hismind to go near her and some kind of way bind8 her wet red hands when a shadow behind him inthe doorway9 made him turn. The nigger with the flower in her hat entered.

  Baby Suggs noticed who breathed and who did not and went straight to the boys lying in the dirt.

  The old man moved to the woman gazing and said, "Sethe. You take my armload and gimme yours."She turned to him, and glancing at the baby he was holding, made a low sound in her throat asthough she'd made a mistake, left the salt out of the bread or something.

  "I'm going out here and send for a wagon10," the sheriff said and got into the sunlight at last.

  But neither Stamp Paid nor Baby Suggs could make her put her crawling-already? girl down. Outof the shed, back in the house, she held on. Baby Suggs had got the boys inside and was bathingtheir heads, rubbing their hands, lifting their lids, whispering, "Beg your pardon, I beg yourpardon," the whole time. She bound their wounds and made them breathe camphor before turningher attention to Sethe. She took the crying baby from Stamp Paid and carried it on her shoulder fora full two minutes, then stood in front of its mother. "It's time to nurse your youngest," she said.

  Sethe reached up for the baby without letting the dead one go. Baby Suggs shook her head. "One ata time," she said and traded the living for the dead, which she carried into the keeping room. Whenshe came back, Sethe was aiming a bloody11 nipple into the baby's mouth. Baby Suggs slammed herfist on the table and shouted, "Clean up! Clean yourself up!"They fought then. Like rivals over the heart of the loved, they fought. Each struggling for thenursing child. Baby Suggs lost when she slipped in a red puddle12 and fell. So Denver took hermother's milk right along with the blood of her sister. And that's the way they were when thesheriff returned, having commandeered a neighbor's cart, and ordered Stamp to drive it.

  Outside a throng13, now, of black faces stopped murmuring. Holding the living child, Sethe walkedpast them in their silence and hers. She climbed into the cart, her profile knife-clean against acheery blue sky. A profile that shocked them with its clarity. Was her head a bit too high? Herback a little too straight? Probably. Otherwise the singing would have begun at once, the momentshe appeared in the doorway of the house on Bluestone Road. Some cape14 of sound would havequickly been wrapped around her, like arms to hold and steady her on the way. As it was, theywaited till the cart turned about, headed west to town. And then no words. Humming. No words atall.

  Baby Suggs meant to run, skip down the porch steps after the cart, screaming, No. No. Don't lether take that last one too. She meant to. Had started to, but when she got up from the floor andreached the yard the cart was gone and a wagon was rolling up. A red-haired boy and a yellow-haired girl jumped down and ran through the crowd toward her. The boy had a half-eaten sweetpepper in one hand and a pair of shoes in the other.

  "Mama says Wednesday." He held them together by their tongues. "She says you got to have thesefixed by Wednesday." Baby Suggs looked at him, and then at the woman holding a twitching15 leadhorse to the road.

  "She says Wednesday, you hear? Baby? Baby?" She took the shoes from him — high-topped and muddy — saying, "I beg your pardon. Lord, I beg your pardon. I sure do." Out of sight, the cartcreaked on down Bluestone Road. Nobody in it spoke16. The wagon rock had put the baby to sleep.

  The hot sun dried Sethe's dress, stiff, like rigor17 morris.

  THAT AIN'T her mouth.

  Anybody who didn't know her, or maybe somebody who just got a glimpse of her through thepeephole at the restaurant, might think it was hers, but Paul D knew better. Oh well, a littlesomething around the forehead — a quietness — that kind of reminded you of her. But there wasno way you could take that for her mouth and he said so. Told Stamp Paid, who was watching himcarefully.

  "I don't know, man. Don't look like it to me. I know Sethe's mouth and this ain't it." He smoothedthe clipping with his fingers and peered at it, not at all disturbed. From the solemn air with whichStamp had unfolded the paper, the tenderness in the old man's fingers as he stroked its creases18 andflattened it out, first on his knees, then on the split top of the piling, Paul D knew that it ought tomess him up. That whatever was written on it should shake him.

  Pigs were crying in the chute. All day Paul D, Stamp Paid and twenty more had pushed andprodded them from canal to shore to chute to slaughterhouse. Although, as grain farmers movedwest, St. Louis and Chicago now ate up a lot of the business, Cincinnati was still pig port in theminds of Ohioans. Its main job was to receive, slaughter19 and ship up the river the hogs20 thatNortherners did not want to live without. For a month or so in the winter any stray man had work,if he could breathe the stench of offal and stand up for twelve hours, skills in which Paul D wasadmirably trained. A little pig shit, rinsed21 from every place he could touch, remained on his boots,and he was conscious of it as he stood there with a light smile of scorn curling his lips. Usually heleft his boots in the shed and put his walking shoes on along with his day clothes in the cornerbefore he went home. A route that took him smack22 dab23 through the middle of a cemetery24 as old assky, rife25 with the agitation26 of dead Miami no longer content to rest in the mounds27 that coveredthem. Over their heads walked a strange people; through their earth pillows roads were cut; wellsand houses nudged them out of eternal rest. Outraged28 more by their folly29 in believing land washoly than by the disturbances30 of their peace, they growled31 on the banks of Licking River, sighed inthe trees on Catherine Street and rode the wind above the pig yards. Paul D heard them but hestayed on because all in all it wasn't a bad job, especially in winter when Cincinnati reassumed itsstatus of slaughter and riverboat capital. The craving32 for pork was growing into a mania33 in everycity in the country. Pig farmers were cashing in, provided they could raise enough and get themsold farther and farther away. And the Germans who flooded southern Ohio brought and developedswine cooking to its highest form. Pig boats jammed the Ohio River, and their captains' holleringat one another over the grunts34 of the stock was as common a water sound as that of the ducksflying over their heads. Sheep, cows and fowl35 too floated up and down that river, and all a Negrohad to do was show up and there was work: poking36, killing37, cutting, skinning, case packing andsaving offal.

  A hundred yards from the crying pigs, the two men stood behind a shed on Western Row and it was clear why Stamp had been eyeing Paul D this last week of work; why he paused when theevening shift came on, to let Paul D's movements catch up to his own. He had made up his mind toshow him this piece of paper — newspaper — with a picture drawing of a woman who favoredSethe except that was not her mouth. Nothing like it.

  Paul D slid the clipping out from under Stamp's palm. The print meant nothing to him so he didn'teven glance at it. He simply looked at the face, shaking his head no. No. At the mouth, you see.

  And no at whatever it was those black scratches said, and no to whatever it was Stamp Paid wantedhim to know. Because there was no way in hell a black face could appear in a newspaper if thestory was about something anybody wanted to hear. A whip of fear broke through the heartchambers as soon as you saw a Negro's face in a paper, since the face was not there because theperson had a healthy baby, or outran a street mob. Nor was it there because the person had beenkilled, or maimed or caught or burned or jailed or whipped or evicted38 or stomped39 or raped40 orcheated, since that could hardly qualify as news in a newspaper. It would have to be something outof the ordinary — something whitepeople would find interesting, truly different, worth a fewminutes of teeth sucking if not gasps41. And it must have been hard to find news about Negroesworth the breath catch of a white citizen of Cincinnati.

  So who was this woman with a mouth that was not Sethe's, but whose eyes were almost as calm ashers? Whose head was turned on her neck in the manner he loved so well it watered his eye to seeit. And he said so. "This ain't her mouth. I know her mouth and this ain't it." Before Stamp Paidcould speak he said it and even while he spoke Paul D said it again. Oh, he heard all the old manwas saying, but the more he heard, the stranger the lips in the drawing became.

  Stamp started with the party, the one Baby Suggs gave, but stopped and backed up a bit to tellabout the berries — where they were and what was in the earth that made them grow like that.

    现在这个侄子,他兄弟按住她时吃她的奶的那个,不由自主地战栗着。他叔叔警告过他,要提防那种慌乱,可是看来这个警告没被采纳。她干吗逃走,还这样做?为了一回打?妈的,他挨过一百万次打,他还是个白人呢。有一回打得特别疼,气得他摔坏了水桶。另一回他把气撒到了参孙身上———也不过扔了几颗石子。可是挨打从来没让他……我是说他不可能会……她干吗逃走,还这样做?他就这样问了警官这个问题,警官正站在那里像其他人一样惊诧不已,但没有战栗。他使劲咽着唾沫,一口接一口地。

  “她干吗想逃走,还这样做?

  ”

   警官转过身,然后对其他三个人说道:

  “你们趁早都走吧。看来没你们什么事了。该我了。

  ”

  “学校老师”用帽子使劲抽打自己的大腿,离开木棚屋之前又啐了一口。侄子和猎奴者跟他一起退了出来。他们没去看胡椒地里那个帽子上戴花的女人。他们也没去看猎奴者的枪没能拦住的七张凑过来的脸。够了,黑鬼的眼睛。黑鬼小男孩的眼睛在锯末里张着;黑鬼小姑娘的眼睛在血淋淋的手指缝里瞪着,那只手扶住她的脑袋,好让它掉不下来;黑鬼小婴儿皱起眼睛在老黑鬼的怀里哭闹,老黑鬼的眼睛只不过是两道裂缝,正盯着自己的脚面。然而最可怕的是那个女黑鬼的,看上去就像她没有眼睛似的。眼白消失了,于是她的眼睛有如她皮肤一般黑,她像个瞎子。

  他们从“学校老师”的马身上解下那匹借来的、本来要运女逃犯回去的骡子,拴在栅栏上。然后,他们顶着烈日骑马走了,把警官留在身后这伙罪该万死的黑熊中间。他们全部目睹了以一点所谓自由来欺骗这帮人的恶果,这些家伙需要世上一切的监督和指导,才能避免他们自己更喜欢的同类相残的生活。

  警官也想退出来。走出这间本该贮藏木料、煤炭、石油———寒冷的俄亥俄冬天的燃料———的棚屋,站到屋外的阳光里。他一边这样想,一边抗拒着跑进八月阳光里的冲动。不是因为害怕。

  根本不是。他只是觉得冷。他也不想碰任何东西。老人怀里的婴儿在哭,那女人没有眼白的一双眼睛直勾勾地瞪着前方。他们都可以就那样一直待下去,冻结到星期四,可是地上一个男孩叹了口气。仿佛沉溺在甜美酣睡的乐趣中,他这一声轻叹叹得警官猛一激灵,立即开始行动。

  “我必须把你抓进去。别再找麻烦了。你已经干得不少了。现在跟我走吧。

  ”

  她没有动。

  “你乖乖地走,听见没有,我就不用把你捆起来了。

  ”

  她还是不动,于是他决定走近她,想个办法捆上她那双血淋淋的手,这时他身后门口的一个人影让他转过头来。帽子上戴花的黑鬼走了进来。

  贝比·萨格斯注意到谁还有气、谁没气了,便径直走向躺在尘土里的男孩们。老头走向那个女人,盯着她,说道:

  “塞丝,抱着我怀里这个,把你的那个给我。

  ”

  她转过头,瞟了一眼他怀里的婴儿,喉咙里低叫了一声,就像她出了个错,面包里忘了放盐什么的。

  “我出去叫辆大车。

  ”警官说着,终于走进了阳光。

  可是无论斯坦普·沛德,还是贝比·萨格斯,都不能让塞丝把她那“都会爬了?

  ”的女孩放下。走出棚屋,走进房子,一直抱着她不放。贝比·萨格斯已经把男孩们带了进来,正在给他们洗头、搓手、扒开眼皮,自始至终嘀咕着:

  “请原谅,请你们原谅。

  ”她包扎好他们的伤口,让他们吸过樟脑,然后才开始对付塞丝。她从斯坦普·沛德手里接过哭闹的婴儿,在肩膀上扛了足足两分钟,然后站到孩子的母亲面前。

  “该喂你的小宝贝了。

  ”她说。

  塞丝接过婴儿,还是没撒开那个死的。

  贝比·萨格斯摇了摇头。

  “一次一个。

  ”她说着用活的换了死的,把死的抱进起居室。她回来时,塞丝正要将一个血淋淋的奶头塞进婴儿的嘴里。贝比·萨格斯一拳砸在桌上,大叫道:“洗干净!你先洗干净!”

  于是她们厮打起来。仿佛在争夺一颗爱心,她们厮打起来。都在抢那个等着吃奶的婴儿。贝比·萨格斯一脚滑倒在血泊之中,输掉了。于是丹芙就着姐姐的血喝了妈妈的奶。她们就那样待着,直到警官征用了一辆邻居的运货马车回来,命令斯坦普来赶车。

  这时,外面的一大群黑脸孔停止了嘀嘀咕咕。塞丝抱着那个活着的孩子,在他们和她自己的静默中走过他们面前。她爬进车厢,刀锋般光洁的侧影映入欢快的蓝天。那侧影的明晰使他们震惊。

  她的头是否昂得有点太高了?她的背是否挺得有点太直了?也许。否则,在她从房子门口出现的那一刻,蓝石路上的歌声就会马上响起来了。某种声音的披肩就会迅速地裹上她,像手臂一样一路搀扶她、稳住她。然而在这样的情形下,他们一直等到货车朝西掉头、向城里开去,才唱起来。然后也没有歌词。哼唱着。一句歌词也没有。

  贝比·萨格斯本来想跑,跳下门廊的台阶去追运货马车,尖叫着:不。不。别让她把那个最小的也带走。她本来要这样做,也已经开始了,可是当她从地上站起来,走进院子,运货马车已经没影了,而一辆大车隆隆而至。一个红发男孩和一个金发女孩跳下车,穿过人群向她跑来。男孩一手拿着吃了一半的甜椒,一手提着一双鞋。

   “妈妈说星期三。

  ”他提着鞋舌头,“她说你得在星期三之前修好。

  ”

  贝比·萨格斯看了他一眼,又看了看大路上拽着缰绳的女人。

  “她说星期三,你听见了吗?贝比?贝比?

  ”

  她从他手里接过鞋———高靿的,沾着泥———说道:

  “请原谅。主啊,我求你原谅。我真的求你了。

  ”

  视线之外,运货马车吱吱呀呀地驶下蓝石路。里面没有人开口。大车已经把婴儿摇晃得睡着了。炎热的太阳晒干了塞丝的裙子,硬挺挺的,仿佛尸僵。

  那不是她的嘴。

  素不相识的人,或者也许只从餐馆的门洞里瞥见过她一眼的人,可能会认为那是她的嘴,但是这事保罗·D更明白。噢,的确,前额上还笼罩着那么一点东西———一种安详———能使你想起她来。可是你单凭这个就说那是她的嘴,那可不行,于是他就这样讲了。告诉了正在审视他的斯坦普·沛德。

  “我不知道,大叔。反正我看着不像。我认识塞丝的嘴,可不是这样。

  ”他用手指抚平那张剪报,凝视着,丝毫不为所动。从斯坦普打开报纸的庄严气氛中,从老人用手指按平折痕,先是在他的膝盖上、然后在树桩劈裂的顶端将它摊平的慎重中,保罗·D知道,它该搅得他不得安宁了。无论那上面写的是什么,都会震动他。

  猪在滑运道里嚎叫着。保罗·D、斯坦普·沛德和另外二十多人一整天都在把它们催来赶去,从运河到岸上到滑运道再到屠宰场。尽管由于粮农迁往西部,圣路易斯和芝加哥现在吞并了许多企业,但辛辛那提在俄亥俄人的印象里仍旧是猪的港口。它的主要职责是接收、屠宰和向上游运去北方人离不开的肉猪。冬天里有一个月左右的时间,所有流浪汉都有活儿干,只要他们能忍受死牲口的恶臭,一连站上十二个小时。这些事,保罗·D都令人惊叹地训练有素。

  他冲洗干净身上所有够得着的地方,还剩一点猪屎粘在他的靴子上;他站在那里,意识到这一点,一丝鄙夷的微笑卷起了他的嘴唇。他通常是把靴子留在棚屋里,回家之前在角落里换上便鞋和便衣。一条路正好把他带进一片天空一样古老的墓地中央,路上充斥着死去的迈阿密人骚动的亡灵,他们已不再满足于在坟堆下面安眠了。他们的头顶上走动着一个陌生的人种;他们的土地枕头被公路切开;水井和房屋将他们从永恒的憩息中撼醒。与其说是由于安宁受到搅扰,不如说是他们对土地之神圣的愚蠢信仰令他们恼羞成怒,于是他们在黎津河畔怒吼,在凯瑟琳大街的树上叹息,并乘风驶过宰猪场的上空。保罗·D听见了他们的声音,但仍旧留了下来,因为无论如何那是个不赖的工作,尤其是在辛辛那提作为屠宰与河运之都的地位得到确立的冬天。在这个国家的每一座城市里,对猪肉的渴望正在演化成一种癫狂。倘若猪农们能养足够的猪,再把它们卖得越来越远,他们是会赚大钱的。在南俄亥俄泛滥的德国人带来了猪肉烹调术,并把它发展到登峰造极的地步。运肉猪的船只阻塞了俄亥俄河;在水上,船长们彼此的吆喝声盖过了牲口的哼叫声,这就像鸭群飞过头顶一样寻常。绵羊、奶牛和家禽也在河上往来辗转,而一个黑人只须露个面,就会有活儿干:捅、杀、割肉、剥皮、装箱,以及储存下脚料。

  距离号叫的猪群一百码远,两个男人站在西线公司的一间棚屋后面。现在清楚了,为什么这一个星期的工作中斯坦普一直盯着保罗·D看;为什么轮到上夜班时他就停下来,好让保罗·D的动作赶上他的。他已经打定主意要向他出示这张纸———报纸———上面有一个女人的肖像,酷似塞丝,只不过那不是她的嘴。一点也不像。

  保罗·D从斯坦普的手掌下抽出那张剪报。上面的铅字他一个也不认得,所以他根本就没瞥上一眼。他只是看了看那张脸,摇头说不是。不是。嘴那儿,你看。不管那些黑道道写的是什么,也不管斯坦普·沛德想让他知道些什么,反正不是。因为即便在地狱里,一张黑脸也不可能上报纸,哪怕那个故事有人想听。你在报上刚看见一张黑人的脸,恐惧的鞭笞就会掠过你的心房,因为那张脸上报,不可能是由于那个人生了个健康的婴儿,或是逃脱了一群暴徒。也不会因为那个人被杀害、被打残、被抓获、被烧死、被拘禁、被鞭打、被驱赶、被蹂躏、被奸污、被欺骗,那些作为新闻报道根本不够资格。它必须是件离奇的事情———白人会感兴趣的事情,确实非同凡响,值得他们回味几分钟,起码够倒吸一口凉气的。而找到一则值得辛辛那提的白人公民屏息咋舌的有关黑人的新闻,肯定非常困难。

  那么这个嘴不像塞丝、但眼睛几乎同样平静的女人是谁呢?她的头以一种令他如此迷恋的姿态从脖子上扭开,看得他热泪盈眶。

   而他还是这句话。

  “这不是她的嘴。我认识她的嘴,可不是这样子。

  ”斯坦普·沛德没来得及开口他就这样说,甚至在斯坦普原原本本娓娓道来的时候,保罗·D又说了一遍。噢,老人的话他全听见了,可听得越多,画像上的嘴就越陌生。

  斯坦普先从宴会讲起,贝比·萨格斯举办的那个,又停下来,倒回去一点,讲起了莓子———它们在哪儿,以及是土里的什么东西让它们长成那样。


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1 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。
2 thigh RItzO     
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。
3 slivers b1fe0d3c032bc08f91b6067bea26bdff     
(切割或断裂下来的)薄长条,碎片( sliver的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Margret had eight slivers of glass removed from her cheek. 从玛格列特的脸颊取出了八片碎玻璃。
  • Eight slivers are drawn together to produce the drawn sliver. 在末道并条机上,八根棉条并合在一起被牵伸成熟条。
4 mule G6RzI     
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。
5 trotted 6df8e0ef20c10ef975433b4a0456e6e1     
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
参考例句:
  • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
  • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
6 testimony zpbwO     
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。
7 kerosene G3uxW     
n.(kerosine)煤油,火油
参考例句:
  • It is like putting out a fire with kerosene.这就像用煤油灭火。
  • Instead of electricity,there were kerosene lanterns.没有电,有煤油灯。
8 bind Vt8zi     
vt.捆,包扎;装订;约束;使凝固;vi.变硬
参考例句:
  • I will let the waiter bind up the parcel for you.我让服务生帮你把包裹包起来。
  • He wants a shirt that does not bind him.他要一件不使他觉得过紧的衬衫。
9 doorway 2s0xK     
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。
10 wagon XhUwP     
n.四轮马车,手推车,面包车;无盖运货列车
参考例句:
  • We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
  • The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。
11 bloody kWHza     
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。
12 puddle otNy9     
n.(雨)水坑,泥潭
参考例句:
  • The boy hopped the mud puddle and ran down the walk.这个男孩跳过泥坑,沿着人行道跑了。
  • She tripped over and landed in a puddle.她绊了一下,跌在水坑里。
13 throng sGTy4     
n.人群,群众;v.拥挤,群集
参考例句:
  • A patient throng was waiting in silence.一大群耐心的人在静静地等着。
  • The crowds thronged into the mall.人群涌进大厅。
14 cape ITEy6     
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。
15 twitching 97f99ba519862a2bc691c280cee4d4cf     
n.颤搐
参考例句:
  • The child in a spasm kept twitching his arms and legs. 那个害痉挛的孩子四肢不断地抽搐。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My eyelids keep twitching all the time. 我眼皮老是跳。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
16 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。
17 rigor as0yi     
n.严酷,严格,严厉
参考例句:
  • Their analysis lacks rigor.他们的分析缺乏严谨性。||The crime will be treated with the full rigor of the law.这一罪行会严格依法审理。
18 creases adfbf37b33b2c1e375b9697e49eb1ec1     
(使…)起折痕,弄皱( crease的第三人称单数 ); (皮肤)皱起,使起皱纹
参考例句:
  • She smoothed the creases out of her skirt. 她把裙子上的皱褶弄平。
  • She ironed out all the creases in the shirt. 她熨平了衬衣上的所有皱褶。
19 slaughter 8Tpz1     
n.屠杀,屠宰;vt.屠杀,宰杀
参考例句:
  • I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
  • Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
20 hogs 8a3a45e519faa1400d338afba4494209     
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
21 rinsed 637d6ed17a5c20097c9dbfb69621fd20     
v.漂洗( rinse的过去式和过去分词 );冲洗;用清水漂洗掉(肥皂泡等);(用清水)冲掉
参考例句:
  • She rinsed out the sea water from her swimming-costume. 她把游泳衣里的海水冲洗掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The clothes have been rinsed three times. 衣服已经洗了三和。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
22 smack XEqzV     
vt.拍,打,掴;咂嘴;vi.含有…意味;n.拍
参考例句:
  • She gave him a smack on the face.她打了他一个嘴巴。
  • I gave the fly a smack with the magazine.我用杂志拍了一下苍蝇。
23 dab jvHzPy     
v.轻触,轻拍,轻涂;n.(颜料等的)轻涂
参考例句:
  • She returned wearing a dab of rouge on each cheekbone.她回来时,两边面颊上涂有一点淡淡的胭脂。
  • She gave me a dab of potatoes with my supper.她给我晚饭时,还给了一点土豆。
24 cemetery ur9z7     
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
参考例句:
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
25 rife wXRxp     
adj.(指坏事情)充斥的,流行的,普遍的
参考例句:
  • Disease is rife in the area.疾病在这一区很流行。
  • Corruption was rife before the election.选举之前腐败盛行。
26 agitation TN0zi     
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。
27 mounds dd943890a7780b264a2a6c1fa8d084a3     
土堆,土丘( mound的名词复数 ); 一大堆
参考例句:
  • We had mounds of tasteless rice. 我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
  • Ah! and there's the cemetery' - cemetery, he must have meant. 'You see the mounds? 啊,这就是同墓,”——我想他要说的一定是公墓,“看到那些土墩了吗?
28 outraged VmHz8n     
a.震惊的,义愤填膺的
参考例句:
  • Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
  • He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
29 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。
30 disturbances a0726bd74d4516cd6fbe05e362bc74af     
n.骚乱( disturbance的名词复数 );打扰;困扰;障碍
参考例句:
  • The government has set up a commission of inquiry into the disturbances at the prison. 政府成立了一个委员会来调查监狱骚乱事件。
  • Extra police were called in to quell the disturbances. 已调集了增援警力来平定骚乱。
31 growled 65a0c9cac661e85023a63631d6dab8a3     
v.(动物)发狺狺声, (雷)作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 );低声咆哮着说
参考例句:
  • \"They ought to be birched, \" growled the old man. 老人咆哮道:“他们应受到鞭打。” 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He growled out an answer. 他低声威胁着回答。 来自《简明英汉词典》
32 craving zvlz3e     
n.渴望,热望
参考例句:
  • a craving for chocolate 非常想吃巧克力
  • She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps. 她不吃正餐,以便满足自己吃巧克力和炸薯片的渴望。
33 mania 9BWxu     
n.疯狂;躁狂症,狂热,癖好
参考例句:
  • Football mania is sweeping the country.足球热正风靡全国。
  • Collecting small items can easily become a mania.收藏零星物品往往容易变成一种癖好。
34 grunts c00fd9006f1464bcf0f544ccda70d94b     
(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。
35 fowl fljy6     
n.家禽,鸡,禽肉
参考例句:
  • Fowl is not part of a traditional brunch.禽肉不是传统的早午餐的一部分。
  • Since my heart attack,I've eaten more fish and fowl and less red meat.自从我患了心脏病后,我就多吃鱼肉和禽肉,少吃红色肉类。
36 poking poking     
n. 刺,戳,袋 vt. 拨开,刺,戳 vi. 戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢
参考例句:
  • He was poking at the rubbish with his stick. 他正用手杖拨动垃圾。
  • He spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops. 他周末都泡在布满尘埃的旧书店里。
37 killing kpBziQ     
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。
38 evicted 17682d2fe623013fd1839f09251d20cf     
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。
39 stomped 0884b29fb612cae5a9e4eb0d1a257b4a     
v.跺脚,践踏,重踏( stomp的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She stomped angrily out of the office. 她怒气冲冲,重步走出办公室。
  • She slammed the door and stomped (off) out of the house. 她砰的一声关上了门,暮暮地走出了屋了。 来自辞典例句
40 raped 7a6e3e7dd30eb1e3b61716af0e54d4a2     
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸
参考例句:
  • A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
  • We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致,不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
41 gasps 3c56dd6bfe73becb6277f1550eaac478     
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》


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