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Chapter 49
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MRS. ELSING cocked her ear toward the hall. Hearing Melanie’s steps die away into the kitchenwhere rattling1 dishes and clinking silverware gave promise of refreshments2, she turned and spokesoftly to the ladies who sat in a circle in the parlor4, their sewing baskets in their laps.

  “Personally, I do not intend to call on Scarlett now or ever,” she said, the chill elegance5 of herface colder than usual.

  The other members of the Ladies’ Sewing Circle for the Widows and Orphans6 of theConfederacy eagerly laid down their needles and edged their rocking chairs closer. All the ladieshad been bursting to discuss Scarlett and Rhett but Melanie’s presence prevented it. Just the daybefore, the couple had returned from New Orleans and they were occupying the bridal suite7 at theNational Hotel.

  “Hugh says that I must call out of courtesy for the way Captain Butler saved his life,” Mrs. Elsing continued. “And poor Fanny sides with him and says she will call too. I said to her ‘Fanny,’

  I said, ‘if it wasn’t for Scarlett, Tommy would be alive this minute. It is an insult to his memory tocall.’ And Fanny had no better sense than to say ‘Mother, I’m not calling on Scarlett. I’m calling onCaptain Butler. He tried his best to save Tommy and it wasn’t his fault if he failed.’ ”

  “How silly young people are!” said Mrs. Merriwether. “Call, indeed!” Her stout8 bosom9 swelledindignantly as she remembered Scarlett’s rude reception of her advice on marrying Rhett. “MyMaybelle is just as silly as your Fanny. She says she and René will call, because Captain Butlerkept René from getting hanged. And I said if it hadn’t been for Scarlett exposing herself, Renéwould never have been in any danger. And Father Merriwether intends to call and he talks like hewas in his dotage11 and says he’s grateful to that scoundrel, even if I’m not. I vow12, since FatherMerriwether was in that Watling creature’s house he has acted in a disgraceful way. Call, indeed! Icertainly shan’t call. Scarlett has outlawed13 herself by marrying such a man. He was bad enoughwhen he was a speculator during the war and making money out of our hunger but now that he ishand in glove with the Carpetbaggers and Scalawags and a friend—actually a friend of that odiouswretch, Governor Bullock— Call, indeed!”

  Mrs. Bonnell sighed. She was a plump brown wren14 of a woman with a cheerful face.

  “They’ll only call once, for courtesy, Dolly. I don’t know that I blame them. I’ve heard that allthe men who were out that night intend to call, and I think they should. Somehow, it’s hard for meto think that Scarlett is her mother’s child. I went to school with Ellen Robillard in Savannah andthere was never a lovelier girl than she was and she was very dear to me. If only her father had notopposed her match with her cousin, Philippe Robillard! There was nothing really wrong with theboy—boys must sow their wild oats. But Ellen must run off and marry old man O’Hara and have adaughter like Scarlett. But really, I feel that I must call once out of memory to Ellen.”

  “Sentimental nonsense!” snorted Mrs. Merriwether with vigor15. “Kitty Bonnell, are you going tocall on a woman who married a bare year after her husband’s death? A woman—”

  “And she really killed Mr. Kennedy,” interrupted India. Her voice was cool but acid. Whenevershe thought of Scarlett it was hard for her even to be polite, remembering, always rememberingStuart Tarleton. “And I have always thought there was more between her and that Butler manbefore Mr. Kennedy was killed than most people suspected.”

  Before the ladies could recover from their shocked astonishment16 at her statement and at aspinster mentioning such a matter, Melanie was standing17 in the doorway18. So engrossed19 had theybeen in their gossip that they had not heard her light tread and now, confronted by their hostess,they looked like whispering schoolgirls caught by a teacher. Alarm was added to consternation20 atthe change in Melanie’s face. She was pink with righteous anger, her gentle eyes snapping fire, hernostrils quivering. No one had ever seen Melanie angry before. Not a lady present thought hercapable of wrath21. They all loved her but they thought her the sweetest, most pliable22 of youngwomen, deferential23 to her elders and without any opinions of her own.

  “How dare you, India?” she questioned in a low voice that shook. “Where will your jealousylead you? For shame!”

  India’s face went white but her head was high.

  “I retract24 nothing,” she said briefly25. But her mind was seething26.

  “Jealous, am I?” she thought. With the memory of Stuart Tarleton and of Honey and Charles,didn’t she have good reason to be jealous of Scarlett? Didn’t she have good reason to hate her,especially now that she had a suspicion that Scarlett had somehow entangled27 Ashley in her web?

  She thought: “There’s plenty I could tell you about Ashley and your precious Scarlett.” India wastorn between the desire to shield Ashley by her silence and to extricate28 him by telling all hersuspicions to Melanie and the whole world. That would force Scarlett to release whatever hold shehad on Ashley. But this was not the time. She had nothing definite, only suspicions.

  “I retract nothing,” she repeated.

  “Then it is fortunate that you are no longer living under my roof,” said Melanie and her wordswere cold.

  India leaped to her feet, red flooding her sallow face.

  “Melanie, you—my sister-in-law—you aren’t going to quarrel with me over that fast piece—”

  “Scarlett is my sister-in-law, too,” said Melanie, meeting India’s eyes squarely as though theywere strangers. “And dearer to me than any blood sister could ever be. If you are so forgetful ofmy favors at her hands, I am not. She stayed with me through the whole siege when she could havegone home, when even Aunt Pitty had run away to Macon. She brought my baby for me when theYankees were almost in Atlanta and she burdened herself with me and Beau all that dreadful trip toTara when she could have left me here in a hospital for the Yankees to get me. And she nursed andfed me, even if she was tired and even if she went hungry. Because I was sick and weak, I had thebest mattress29 at Tara. When I could walk, I had the only whole pair of shoes. You can forget thosethings she did for me, India, but I cannot. And when Ashley came home, sick, discouraged, withouta home, without a cent in his pockets, she took him in like a sister. And when we thought we wouldhave to go North and it was breaking our hearts to leave Georgia, Scarlett stepped in and gave himthe mill to run. And Captain Butler saved Ashley’s life out of the kindness of his heart. CertainlyAshley had no claim on him! And I am grateful, grateful to Scarlett and to Captain Butler. But you,India! How can you forget the favors Scarlett has done me and Ashley? How can you hold yourbrother’s life so cheap as to cast slurs30 on the man who saved him? If you went down on your kneesto Captain Butler and Scarlett, it would not be enough.”

  “Now, Melly,” began Mrs. Merriwether briskly, for she had recovered her composure, “that’s noway to talk to India.”

  “I heard what you said about Scarlett too,” cried Melanie, swinging on the stout old lady withthe air of a duelist who, having withdrawn31 a blade from one prostrate33 opponent, turns hungrilytoward another. “And you too, Mrs. Elsing. What you think of her in your own petty minds, I donot care, for that is your business. But what you say about her in my own house or in my ownhearing, ever, is my business. But how can you even think such dreadful things, much less saythem? Are your men so cheap to you that you would rather see them dead than alive? Have you nogratitude to the man who saved them and saved them at risk of his own life? The Yankees mighteasily have thought him a member of the Klan if the whole truth had come out! They might havehanged him. But he risked himself for your men. For your father-in-law, Mrs. Merriwether, and your son-in-law and your two nephews, too. And your brother, Mrs. Bonnell, and your son andson-in-law, Mrs. Elsing. Ingrates, that’s what you are! I ask an apology from all of you.”

  Mrs. Elsing was on her feet cramming34 her sewing into her box, her mouth set.

  “If anyone had ever told me that you could be so ill bred, Melly— No, I will not apologize.

  India is right Scarlett is a flighty, fast bit of baggage. I can’t forget how she acted during the war.

  And I can’t forget how poor white trashy she’s acted since she got a little money—”

  “What you can’t forget” cut in Melanie, clenching35 her small fists against her sides, “is that shedemoted Hugh because he wasn’t smart enough to run her mill.”

  “Melly!” moaned a chorus of voices.

  Mrs. Elsing’s head jerked up and she started toward the door. With her hand on the knob of thefront door, she stopped and turned.

  “Melly,” she said and her voice softened36, “honey, this breaks my heart. I was your mother’s bestfriend and I helped Dr. Meade bring you into this world and I’ve loved you like you were mine. Ifit were something that mattered it wouldn’t be so hard to hear you talk like this. But about awoman like Scarlett O’Hara who’d just as soon do you a dirty turn as the next of us—”

  Tears had started in Melanie’s eyes at the first words Mrs. Elsing spoke3, but her face hardenedwhen the old lady had finished.

  “I want it understood,” she said, “that any of you who do not call on Scarlett need never, nevercall on me.”

  There was a loud murmur37 of voices, confusion as the ladies got to their feet Mrs. Elsing droppedher sewing box on the floor and came back into the room, her false fringe jerking awry38.

  “I won’t have it!” she cried. “I won’t have it! You are beside yourself, Melly, and I don’t holdyou responsible. You shall be my friend and I shall be yours. I refuse to let this come between us.”

  She was crying and somehow, Melanie was in her arms, crying too, but declaring between sobsthat she meant every word she said. Several of the other ladies burst into tears and Mrs.

  Merriwether, trumpeting39 loudly into her handkerchief, embraced both Mrs. Elsing and Melanie.

  Aunt Pitty, who had been a petrified40 witness to the whole scene, suddenly slid to the floor in whatwas one of the few real fainting spells she had ever had. Amid the tears and confusion and kissingand scurrying41 for smelling salts and brandy, there was only one calm face, one dry pair of eyes.

  India Wilkes took her departure unnoticed by anyone.

  Grandpa Merriwether, meeting Uncle Henry Hamilton in the Girl of the Period Saloon severalhours later, related the happenings of the morning which he had heard from Mrs. Merriwether. Hetold it was relish42 for he was delighted that someone had the courage to face down his redoubtabledaughter-in-law. Certainly, he had never had such courage.

  “Well, what did the pack of silly fools finally decide to do?” asked Uncle Henry irritably43.

  “I dunno for sure,” said Grandpa, “but it looks to me like Melly won hands down on this go-round. I’ll bet they’ll all call, at least once. Folks set a store by that niece of yours, Henry.”

  “Melly’s a fool and the ladies are right. Scarlett is a slick piece of baggage and I don’t see why Charlie ever married her,” said Uncle Henry gloomily. “But Melly was right too, in a way. It’s onlydecent that the families of the men Captain Butler saved should call. When you come right down toit, I haven’t got so much against Butler. He showed himself a fine man that night he saved ourhides. It’s Scarlett who sticks under my tail like a cocklebur. She’s a sight too smart for her owngood. Well, I’ve got to call. Scalawag or not Scarlett is my niece by marriage, after all. I wasaiming to call this afternoon.”

  “I’ll go with you, Henry. Dolly will be fit to be tied when she hears I’ve gone. Wait till I get onemore drink.”

  “No, we’ll get a drink off Captain Butler. I’ll say this for him, he always has good licker.”

  Rhett had said that the Old Guard would never surrender and he was right. He knew how littlesignificance there was to the few calls made upon them, and he knew why the calls were made.

  The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called withobvious infrequency thereafter. And they did not invite the Rhett Butlers to their homes.

  Rhett said they would not have come at all, except for fear of violence at the hands of Melanie,Where he got this idea, Scarlett did not know but she dismissed it with the contempt it deserved.

  For what possible influence could Melanie have on people like Mrs. Elsing and Mrs. Merriwether?

  That they did not call again worried her very little; in fact, their absence was hardly noticed, forher suite was crowded with guests of another type. “New people,” established Atlantians calledthem, when they were not calling them something less polite.

  There were many “new people” staying at the National Hotel who, like Rhett and Scarlett, werewaiting for their houses to be completed. They were gay, wealthy people, very much like Rhett’sNew Orleans friends, elegant of dress, free with their money, vague as to their antecedents. All themen were Republicans and were “in Atlanta on business connected with the state government.”

  Just what the business was, Scarlett did not know and did not trouble to learn.

  Rhett could have told her exactly what it was—the same business that buzzards have with dyinganimals. They smelted44 death from afar and were drawn32 unerringly to it, to gorge45 themselves.

  Government of Georgia by its own citizens was dead, the state was helpless and the adventurerswere swarming46 in.

  The wives of Rhett’s Scalawag and Carpetbagger friends called in droves and so did the “newpeople” she had met when she sold lumber47 for their homes. Rhett said that, having done businesswith them, she should receive them and, having received them, she found them pleasant company.

  They lovely clothes and talked about the or hard times, but confined the conversatio(wore) ntofashions,scandalsand(never) whist.Scarletthadneve(war) r played cards before and she tookto whist with joy, becoming a good player in a short time.

  Whenever she was at the hotel there was a crowd of whist players in her suite. But she was notoften in her suite these days, for she was too busy with the building of her new house to bebothered with callers. These days she did not much care whether she had callers or not. She wantedto delay her social activities until the day when the house was finished and she could emerge as themistress of Atlanta’s largest mansion48, the hostess of the town’s most elaborate entertainments.

  Through the long warm days she watched her red stone and gray shingle49 house rise grandly, totower above any other house on Peachtree Street. Forgetful of the store and the mills, she spent hertime on the lot, arguing with carpenters, bickering50 with masons, harrying51 the contractor52. As the.

  walls went swiftly up she thought with satisfaction that, when finished, it would be larger and finerlooking than any other house in town. It would be even more imposing53 than the near-by Jamesresidence which had just been purchased for the official mansion of Governor Bullock.

  The governor’s mansion was brave with jigsaw54 work on banisters and eaves, but the intricatescrollwork on Scarlett’s house put the mansion to shame. The mansion had a ballroom55, but itlooked like a billiard table compared with the enormous room that covered the entire third floor ofScarlett’s house. In fact, her house had more of everything than the mansion, or any other house intown for that matter, more cupolas and turrets56 and towers and balconies and lightning rods and farmore windows with colored panes57.

  A veranda58 encircled the entire house, and four flights of steps on the four sides of the buildingled up to it. The yard was wide and green and scattered59 about it were rustic60 iron benches, an ironsummerhouse, fashionably called a “gazebo” which, Scarlett had been assured, was of pure Gothicdesign, and two large iron statues, one a stag and the other a mastiff as large as a Shetland pony61. ToWade and Ella, a little dazzled by the size, splendor63 and fashionable dark gloom of their newhome, these two metal animals were the only cheerful notes.

  Within, the house was furnished as Scarlett had desired, with thick red carpeting which ran fromwall to wall, red velvet64 portieres and the newest of highly varnished65 black-walnut furniture, carvedwherever there was an inch for carving66 and upholstered in such slick horsehair that ladies had todeposit themselves thereon with great care for fear of sliding off. Everywhere on the walls weregilt-framed mirrors and long pier67 glasses—as many, Rhett said idly, there were in Belle10 Watling’sestablishment.Interspreadweresteelengravingsinheavyframes(as) , some of them eightfeet long, which Scarlett had ordered especially from New York. The walls were covered with richdark paper, the ceilings high and the house was always dim, for the windows were overdraped with plum-colored p(were) lush hangings that shut out most of the sunlight.

  All in all it was an establishment to take one’s breath away and Scarlett, stepping on the softcarpets and sinking into the embrace of the deep feather beds, remembered the cold floors and thestraw-stuffed bedticks of Tara and was satisfied. She thought it the most beautiful and mostelegantly furnished house she had ever seen, but Rhett said it was a nightmare. However, if it madeher happy, she was welcome to it.

  “A stranger without being told a word about us would know this house was built with ill-gottengains,” he said. “You know, Scarlett, money ill come by never comes to good and this house isproof of the axiom. It’s just the kind of house a profiteer would build.”

  But Scarlett, abrim with pride and happiness and full of plans for the entertainments she wouldgive when they were thoroughly68 settled in the house, only pinched his ear playfully and said:

  “Fiddle-dee-dee! How you do run on!”

  She knew, by now, that Rhett loved to take her down a peg69, and would spoil her fun wheneverhe could, if she lent an attentive70 ear to his jibes71. Should she take him seriously, she would beforced to quarrel with him and she did not care to match swords, for she always came off second best. So she hardly ever listened to anything he said, and what she was forced to hear she tried toturn off as a joke. At least, she tried for a while.

  During their honeymoon72 and for the greater part of their stay at the National Hotel, they hadlived together with amiability73. But scarcely had they moved into the new house and Scarlettgathered her new friends about her, when sudden sharp quarrels sprang up between them. Theywere brief quarrels, short lived because it was impossible to keep a quarrel going with Rhett, whoremained coolly indifferent to her hot words and waited his chance to pink her in an unguardedspot. She quarreled; Rhett did not. He only stated his unequivocal opinion of herself, her actions,her house and her new friends. And some of his opinions were of such a nature that she could nolonger ignore them and treat them as jokes.

  For instance when she decided74 to change the name of “Kennedy’s General Store” to somethingmore edifying75, she asked him to think of a title that would include the word “emporium.” Rhettsuggested “Caveat Emptorium,” assuring her that it would be a title most in keeping with the typeof goods sold in the store. She thought it had an imposing sound and even went so far as to havethe sign painted, when Ashley Wilkes, embarrassed, translated the real meaning. And Rhett hadroared at her rage.

  And there was the way he treated Mammy. Mammy had never yielded an inch from her standthat Rhett was a mule76 in horse harness. She was polite but cold to Rhett. She always called him“Cap’n Butler,” never “Mist’ Rhett.” She never even dropped a curtsy when Rhett presented herwith the red petticoat and she never wore it either. She kept Ella and Wade62 out of Rhett’s waywhenever she could, despite the fact that Wade adored Uncle Rhett and Rhett was obviously fondof the boy. But instead of discharging Mammy or being short and stern with her, Rhett treated herwith the utmost deference77, with far more courtesy than he treated any of the ladies of Scarlett’srecent acquaintance. In fact, with more courtesy than he treated Scarlett herself. He always askedMammy’s permission, to take Wade riding and consulted with her before he bought Ella dolls. AndMammy was hardly polite to him.

  Scarlett felt that Rhett should be firm with Mammy, as became the head of the house, but Rhettonly laughed and said that Mammy was the real head of the house.

  He infuriated Scarlett by saying coolly that he was preparing to be very sorry for her some yearshence, when the Republican rule was gone from Georgia and the Democrats78 back in power.

  “When the Democrats get a governor and a legislature of their own, all your new vulgarRepublican friends will be wiped off the chess board and sent back to minding bars and emptyingslops where they belong. And you’ll be left out on the end of a limb, with never a Democraticfriend or a Republican either. Well, take no thought of the morrow.”

  Scarlett laughed, and with some justice, for at that time, Bullock was safe in the governor’schair, twenty-seven negroes were in the legislature and thousands of the Democratic voters ofGeorgia were disfranchised.

  “The Democrats will never get back. All they do is make Yankees madder and put off the daywhen they could get back. All they do is talk big and run around at night Ku Kluxing.”

  “They will get back. I know Southerners. I know Georgians. They are a tough and bullheaded lot. If they’ve got to fight another war to get back, they’ll fight another war. If they’ve got to buyblack votes like the Yankees have done, then they will buy black votes. If they’ve got to vote tenthousand dead men like the Yankees did, every corpse79 in every cemetery80 in Georgia will be at thepolls. Things are going to get so bad under the benign81 rule of our good friend Rufus Bullock thatGeorgia is going to vomit82 him up.”

  “Rhett, don’t use such vulgar words!” cried Scarlett. “You talk like I wouldn’t be glad to see theDemocrats come back! And you know that isn’t so! I’d be very glad to see them back. Do youthink I like to see these soldiers hanging around, reminding me of—do you think I like— why, I’ma Georgian, too! I’d like to see the Democrats get back. But they won’t. Not ever. And even if theydid, how would that affect my friends? They’d still have their money, wouldn’t they?”

  “If they kept their money. But I doubt the ability of any of them to keep money more than fiveyears at the rate they’re spending. Easy come, easy go. Their money won’t do them any good. Anymore than my money has done you any good. It certainly hasn’t made a horse out of you yet, hasit, my pretty mule?”

  The quarrel which sprang from this last remark lasted for days. After the fourth day of Scarlett’ssulks and obvious silent demands for an apology, Rhett went to New Orleans, taking Wade withhim, over Mammy’s protests, and he stayed away until Scarlett’s tantrum had passed. But the stingof not humbling83 him remained with her.

  When he came back from New Orleans, cool and bland84, she swallowed her anger as best shecould, pushing it into the back of her mind to be thought of at some later date. She did not want tobother with anything unpleasant now. She wanted to be happy for her mind was full of the firstparty she would give in the new house. It would be an enormous night reception with palms and anorchestra and all the porches shrouded85 in canvas, and a collation86 that made her mouth water inanticipation. To it she intended to invite everyone she had ever known in Atlanta, all the old friendsand all the new and charming ones she had met since returning from her honeymoon. Theexcitement of the party banished87, for the most part, the memory of Rhett’s barbs88 and she washappy, happier than she had been in years as she planned her reception.

  Oh, what fun it was to be rich! To give parties and never count the cost! To buy the mostexpensive furniture and dresses and food and never think about the bills! How marvelous to beable to send tidy checks to Aunt Pauline and Aunt Eulalie in Charleston, and to Will at Tara! Oh,the jealous fools who said money wasn’t everything! How perverse89 of Rhett to say that it had donenothing for her!

  Scarlett issued cards of invitation to all her friends and acquaintances, old and new, even thoseshe did not like. She did not except even Mrs. Merriwether who had been almost rude when shecalled on her at the National Hotel or Mrs. Elsing who had been cool to frigidness90. She invitedMrs. Meade and Mrs. Whiting who she knew disliked her and who she knew would beembarrassed because they did not have the proper clothes to wear to so elegant a function. ForScarlett’s housewarming, or “crush,” as it was fashionable to call such evening parties, half-reception, half-ball, was by far the most elaborate affair Atlanta had ever seen.

  That night the house and canvas-covered veranda were filled with guests who drank herchampagne punch and ate her patties and creamed oysters91 and danced to the music of the orchestrathat was carefully screened by a wall of palms and rubber plants. But none of those whom Rhetthad termed the “Old Guard” were present except Melanie and Ashley, Aunt Pitty and Uncle Henry,Dr. and Mrs. Meade and Grandpa Merriwether.

  Many of the Old Guard had reluctantly decided to attend the “crush.” Some had acceptedbecause of Melanie’s attitude, others because they felt they owed Rhett a debt for saving their livesand those of their relatives. But, two days before the function, a rumor92 went about Atlanta thatGovernor Bullock had been invited. The Old Guard signified their disapproval93 by a sheaf of cards,regretting their inability to accept Scarlett’s kind invitation. And the small group of old friends whodid attend took their departure, embarrassed but firm, as soon as the governor entered Scarlett’shouse.

  Scarlett was so bewildered and infuriated at these slights that the party was utterly94 ruined forher. Her elegant “crush”! She had planned it so lovingly and so few old friends and no old enemieshad been there to see how wonderful it was! After the last guest had gone home at dawn, shewould have cried and stormed had she not been afraid that Rhett would roar with laughter, afraidthat she would read “I told you so” in his dancing black eyes, even if he did not speak the words.

  So she swallowed her wrath with poor grace and pretended indifference95.

  Only to Melanie, the next morning, did she permit herself the luxury of exploding.

  “You insulted me, Melly Wilkes, and you made Ashley and the others insult me! You knowthey’d have never gone home so soon if you hadn’t dragged them. Oh, I saw you! Just when Istarted to bring Governor Bullock over to present him to you, you ran like a rabbit!”

  “I did not believe—I could not believe that he would really be present,” answered Melanieunhappily. “Even though everybody said—”

  “Everybody? So everybody’s been clacking and blabbing about me, have they?” cried Scarlettfuriously. “Do you mean to tell me if you’d known the governor was going to be present, youwouldn’t have come either?”

  “No,” said Melanie in a low voice, her eyes on the floor. “Darling, I just wouldn’t have come.”

  “Great balls of fire! So you’d have insulted me like everybody else did!”

  “Oh, mercy!” cried Melly, in real distress96. “I didn’t mean to hurt you. You’re my own sister,darling, my own Charlie’s widow and I—”

  She put a timid hand on Scarlett’s arm. But Scarlett flung it off, wishing fervently97 that she couldroar as loudly as Gerald used to roar when in a temper. But Melanie faced her wrath. And as shelooked into Scarlett’s stormy green eyes, her slight shoulders straightened and a mantle98 of dignity,strangely at variance99 with her childish face and figure, fell upon her.

  “I’m sorry you’re hurt, my dear, but I cannot meet Governor Bullock or any Republican or anyScalawag. I will not meet them, in your house or any other house. No, not even if I have to—if Ihave to—” Melanie cast about her for the worst thing she could think of—“Not even if I have to berude.”

  “Are you criticizing my friends?”

  “No, dear. But they are your friends and not mine.”

  “Are you criticizing me for having the governor at my house?”

  Cornered, Melanie still met Scarlett’s eyes unwaveringly.

  “Darling, what you do, you always do for a good reason and I love you and trust you and it isnot for me to criticize. And I will not permit anyone to criticize you in my hearing. But, oh,Scarlett!” Suddenly words began to bubble out, swift hot words and there was inflexible100 hate in thelow voice. “Can you forget what these people did to us? Can you forget darling Charlie dead andAshley’s health ruined and Twelve Oaks burned? Oh, Scarlett, you can’t forget that terrible manyou shot with your mother’s sewing box in his hands! You can’t forget Sherman’s men at Tara andhow they even stole our underwear! And tried to burn the place down and actually handled myfather’s sword! Oh, Scarlett, it was these same people who robbed us and tortured us and left us tostarve that you invited to your party! The same people who have set the darkies up to lord it overus, who are robbing us and keeping out men from voting! I can’t forget. I won’t forget. I won’t letmy Beau forget and I’ll teach my grandchildren to hate these people—and my grandchildren’sgrandchildren if God lets me live that long! Scarlett, how can you forget?”

  Melanie paused for breath and Scarlett stared at her, startled out of her own anger by thequivering note of violence in Melanie’s voice.

  “Do you think I’m a fool?” she questioned impatiently. “Of course, I remember! But all that’spast, Melly. It’s up to us to make the best of things and I’m trying to do it. Governor Bullock andsome of the nicer Republicans can help us a lot if we handle them right.”

  “There are no nice Republicans,” said Melanie flatly. “And I don’t want their help. And I don’tintend to make the best of things—if they are Yankee things.”

  “Good Heaven, Melly, why get in such a pet?”

  “Oh!” cried Melanie, looking conscience stricken. “How I have run on! Scarlett I didn’t mean tohurt your feelings or to criticize. Everybody thinks differently and everybody’s got a right to theirown opinion. Now, dear, I love you and you know I love you and nothing you could ever do wouldmake me change. And you still love me, don’t you? I haven’t made you hate me, have I? Scarlett, Icouldn’t stand it if anything ever came between us—after all we’ve been through together! Say it’sall right.”

  “Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly, what a tempest you make in a teapot,” said Scarlett grudgingly101, but shedid not throw off the hand that stole around her waist.

  “Now, we’re all right again,” said Melanie pleasedly but she added softly, “I want us to visiteach other just like we always did, darling. Just you let me know what days Republicans andScalawags are coming to see you and I’ll stay at home on those days.”

  “It’s a matter of supreme102 indifference to me whether you come or not,” said Scarlett, putting onher bonnet103 and going home in a huff. There was some satisfaction to her wounded vanity in thehurt look on Melanie’s face.

  In the weeks that followed her first party, Scarlett was hard put to keep up her pretense104 ofsupreme indifference to public opinion. When she did not receive calls from old friends, exceptMelanie and Pitty and Uncle Henry and Ashley, and did not get cards to their modest entertainments,she was genuinely puzzled and hurt. Had she not gone out of her way to bury old hatchetsand show these people that she bore them no ill will for their gossiping and backbiting105? Surelythey must know that she didn’t like Governor Bullock any more than they did but that it wasexpedient to be nice to him. The idiots! If everybody would be nice to the Republicans, Georgiawould get out of the fix she was in very quickly.

  She did not realize then that with one stroke she had cut forever any fragile tie that still boundher to the old days, to old friends. Not even Melanie’s influence could repair the break of thatgossamer thread. And Melanie, bewildered, broken hearted but still loyal, did not try to repair it.

  Even had Scarlett wanted to turn back to old ways, old friends, there was no turning back possiblenow. The face of the town was set against her as stonily106 as granite107. The hate that enveloped108 theBullock regime enveloped her too, a hate that had little fire and fury in it but much coldimplacability. Scarlett had cast her lot with the enemy and, whatever her birth and familyconnections, she was now in the category of a turncoat, a nigger lover, a traitor109, a Republican—anda Scalawag.

  After a miserable110 while, Scarlett’s pretended indifference gave way to the real thing. She hadnever been one to worry long over the vagaries111 of human conduct or to be cast down for long ifone line of action failed. Soon she did not care what the Merriwethers, the Elsings, the Whitings,the Bonnells, the Meades and others thought of her. At least, Melanie called, bringing Ashley, andAshley was the one who mattered the most. And there were other people in Atlanta who wouldcome to her parties, other people far more congenial than those hide-bound old hens. Any time shewanted to fill her house with guests, she could do so and these guests would be far more entertaining,far more handsomely dressed than those prissy, strait-laced old fools who disapproved112 of her.

  These people were newcomers to Atlanta. Some of them were acquaintances of Rhett, someassociated with him in those mysterious affairs which he referred to as “mere business, my pet.”

  Some were couples Scarlett had met when she was living at the National Hotel and some wereGovernor Bullock’s appointees.

  The set with which she was now moving was a motley crew. Among them were the Gelerts whohad lived in a dozen different states and who apparently113 had left each one hastily upon detection oftheir swindling schemes; the Conningtons whose connection with the Freedmen’s Bureau in adistant state had been highly lucrative114 at the expense of the ignorant blacks they were supposed toprotect; the Deals who had sold “cardboard” shoes to the Confederate government until it becamenecessary for them to spend the last year of the war in Europe; the Hundons who had policerecords in many cities but nevertheless were often successful bidders115 on state contracts; theCarahans who had gotten their start in a gambling116 house and now were gambling for bigger stakesin the building of nonexistent railroads with the state’s money; the Flahertys who had bought saltat one cent a pound in 1861 and made a fortune when salt went to fifty cents in 1863, and the Bartswho had owned the largest brothel in a Northern metropolis117 during the war and now were movingin the best circles of Carpetbagger society.

  Such people were Scarlett’s intimates now, but those who attended her larger receptions included others of some culture and refinement118, many of excellent families. In addition to theCarpetbag gentry119, substantial people from the North were moving into Atlanta, attracted by thenever ceasing business activity of the town in this period of rebuilding and expansion. Yankeefamilies of wealth sent young sons to the South to pioneer on the new frontier, and Yankee officersafter their discharge took up permanent residence in the town they had fought so hard to capture.

  At first, strangers in strange town, they were glad to accept invitations to the lavishentertainmentsof the wea(a) lthy and hospitable120 Mrs. Butler, but they soon drifted out of her set. Theywere good people and they needed only a short acquaintance with Carpetbaggers and Carpetbagrule to become as resentful of them as the native Georgians were. Many became Democrats andmore Southern than the Southerners.

  Other misfits in Scarlett’s circle remained there only be-cause they were not welcomeelsewhere. They would have much preferred the quiet parlors121 of the Old Guard, but the Old Guardwould have none of them. Among these were the Yankee schoolmarms who had come South imbuedwith the desire to uplift the Negro and the Scalawags who had been born good Democrats buthad turned Republican after the surrender.

  It was hard to say which class was more cordially hated by the settled citizenry, the impracticalYankee schoolmarms or the Scalawags, but the balance probably fell with the latter, Theschoolmarms could be dismissed with, “Well, what can you expect of nigger-loving Yankees? Ofcourse they think the nigger is just as good as they are!” But for those Georgians who had turnedRepublican for personal gain, there was no excuse.

  “Starving is good enough for us. It ought to be good enough for you,” was the way the OldGuard felt. Many ex-Confederate soldiers, knowing the frantic122 fear of men who saw their familiesin want, were more tolerant of former comrades who had changed political colors in order thattheir families might eat. But not the women of the Old Guard, and the women were the implacableand inflexible power behind the social throne. The Lost Cause was stronger, dearer now in theirhearts than it had ever been at the height of its glory. It was a fetish now. Everything about it wassacred, the graves of the men who had died for it, the battle fields, the torn flags, the crossed sabresin their halls, the fading letters from the front, the veterans. These women gave no aid, comfort orquarter to the late enemy, and now Scarlett was numbered among the enemy.

  In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies123 of the political situation, there was butone thing in common. That was money. As most of them had never had twenty-five dollars at onetime in their whole lives, previous to the war, they were now embarked124 on an orgy of spendingsuch as Atlanta had never seen before.

  With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into era of waste and ostentation,withthetrappingsofrefinementthinlyveneeringtheviceand(an) vulgarity beneath.

  Never before had the cleavage of the very rich and the very poor been so marked. Those on toptook no thought for those less fortunate. Except for the negroes, of course. They must have thevery best. The best of schools and lodgings125 and clothes and amusements, for they were the powerin politics and every negro vote counted. But as for the recently impoverished126 Atlanta people, theycould starve and drop in the streets for all the newly rich Republicans cared.

  On the crest127 of this wave of vulgarity, Scarlett rode triumphantly128, newly a bride, dashingly pretty in her fine clothes, with Rhett’s money solidly behind her. It was an era that suited her, crude,garish, showy, full of overdressed women, overfurnished houses, too many jewels, too manyhorses, too much food, too much whisky. When Scarlett infrequently stopped to think about thematter she knew that none of her new associates could be called ladies by Ellen’s strict standards.

  But she had broken with Ellen’s standards too many times since that far-away day when she stoodin the parlor at Tara and decided to be Rhett’s mistress, and she did not often feel the bite of consciencenow.

  Perhaps these new friends were not, strictly129 speaking, ladies and gentlemen but like Rhett’s NewOrleans friends, they were so much fun! So very much more fun than the subdued130, churchgoing,Shakespeare-reading friends of her earlier Atlanta days. And, except for her brief honeymooninterlude, she had not had fun in so long. Nor had she had any sense of security. Now secure, shewanted to dance, to play, to riot, to gorge on foods and fine wine, to deck herself in silks andsatins, to wallow on soft feather beds and fine upholstery. And she did all these things. Encouragedby Rhett’s amused tolerance131, freed now from the restraints of her childhood, freed even from thatlast fear of poverty, she was permitting herself the luxury she had often dreamed—of doing exactlywhat she pleased and telling people who didn’t like it to go to hell.

  To her had come that pleasant intoxication132 peculiar133 to those whose lives are a deliberate slap inthe face of organized society—the gambler, the confidence man, the polite adventuress, an thosewho succeed by their wits. She said and did exactly what she pleased and, in practically no time,her insolence134 knew no bounds.

  She did not hesitate to display arrogance135 to her new Republican and Scalawag friends but to noclass was she ruder or more insolent136 than the Yankee officers of the garrison137 and their families. Ofall the heterogeneous138 mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone sherefused to receive or tolerate. She even went out of her way to be bad mannered to them. Melaniewas not alone in being unable to forget what a blue uniform meant. To Scarlett, that uniform andthose gold buttons would always mean the fears of the siege, the terror of flight, the looting andburning, the desperate poverty and the grinding work at Tara. Now that she was rich and secure inthe friendship of the governor and many prominent Republicans, she could be insulting to everyblue uniform she saw. And she was insulting.

  Rhett once lazily pointed139 out to her that most of the male guests who assembled under their roofhad worn that same blue uniform not so long ago, but she retorted that a Yankee didn’t seem like aYankee unless he had on a blue uniform. To which Rhett replied: “Consistency, thou art a jewel,”

  and shrugged140.

  Scarlett, hating the bright hard blue they wore, enjoyed snubbing them all the more because it sobewildered them. The garrison families had a right to be bewildered for most of them were quiet,well-bred folk, lonely in a hostile land, anxious to go home to the North, a little ashamed of theriffraff whose rule they were forced to uphold—an infinitely141 better class than that of Scarlett’sassociates. Naturally, the officers’ wives were puzzled that the dashing Mrs. Butler took to herbosom such women as the common red-haired Bridget Flaherty and went out of her way to slightthem.

  But even the ladies whom Scarlett took to her bosom had to endure much from her. However, they did it gladly. To them, she not only represented wealth and elegance but the old regime, withits old names, old families, old traditions with which they wished ardently142 to identify themselves.

  The old families they yearned143 after might have cast Scarlett out but the ladies of the newaristocracy did not know it. They only knew that Scarlett’s father had been a great slave owner, hermother a Robillard of Savannah and her husband was Rhett Butler of Charleston. And this wasenough for them. She was their opening wedge into the old society they wished to enter, the societywhich scorned them, would not return calls and bowed frigidly144 in churches. In fact, she wasmore than their wedge into society. To them, fresh from obscure beginnings, she was society.

  Pinchbeck ladies themselves, they no more saw through Scarlett’s pinchbeck pretensions145 than sheherself did. They took her at her own valuation and endured much at her hands, her airs, hergraces, her tempers, her arrogance, her downright rudeness and her frankness about theirshortcomings.

  They were so lately come from nothing and so uncertain of themselves they were doublyanxious to appear refined and feared to show their temper or make retorts in kind, lest they beconsidered unladylike. At all costs they must be ladies. They pretended to great delicacy146, modestyand innocence147. To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions orknowledge of the wicked world. No one would have thought that red-haired Bridget Flaherty, whohad a sun-defying white skin and a brogue that could be cut with a butter knife, had stolen herfather’s hidden hoard148 to come to America to be chambermaid in a New York hotel. And to observethe delicate vapors149 of Sylvia (formerly Sadie Belle) Connington and Mamie Bart, no one wouldhave suspected that the first grew up above her father’s saloon in the Bowery and waited on the barat rush times, and that the latter, so it was said, had come out of one of her husband’s own brothels.

  No, they were delicate sheltered creatures now.

  The men, though they had made money, learned new ways less easily or were, perhaps, lesspatient with the demands of the new gentility. They drank heavily at Scarlett’s parties, far tooheavily, and usually after a reception there were one or more unexpected guests who stayed thenight. They did not drink like the men of Scarlett’s girlhood. They became sodden150, stupid, ugly orobscene. Moreover, no matter how many spittoons she might put out in view, the rugs alwaysshowed signs of tobacco juice on the mornings after.

  She had a contempt for these people but she enjoyed them. Because she enjoyed them, she filledthe house with them. And because of her contempt, she told them to go to hell as often as theyannoyed her. But they stood it.

  They even stood Rhett, a more difficult matter, for Rhett saw through them and they knew it. Hehad no hesitation151 about stripping them verbally, even under his own roof, always in a manner thatleft them no reply. Unashamed of how he came by his fortune, he pretended that they, too, wereunashamed of their beginnings and he seldom missed an opportunity to remark upon matterswhich, by common consent, everyone felt were better left in polite obscurity.

  There was never any knowing when be would remark affably, over a punch cup: “Ralph, if I’dhad any sense I’d have made my money selling gold-mine stocks to widows and orphans, like you,instead of blockading. It’s so much safer.” “Well, Bill, I see you have a new span of horses. Beenselling a few thousand more bonds for nonexistent railroads? Good work, boy!” “Congratulations,Amos, on landing that state contract. Too bad you had to grease so many palms to get it.”

  The ladies felt that he was odiously152, unendurably vulgar. The men said, behind his back, that hewas a swine and a bastard153. New Atlanta liked Rhett no better than old Atlanta had done and hemade as little attempt to conciliate the one as he had the other. He went his way, amused,contemptuous, impervious154 to the opinions of those about him, so courteous155 that his courtesy wasan affront156 in itself. To Scarlett, he was still an enigma157 but an enigma about which she no longerbothered her head. She was convinced that nothing ever pleased him or ever would please him thathe either wanted something badly and didn’t have it, or never had wanted anything and so didn’tcare about anything. He laughed at everything she did, encouraged her extravagances andinsolences, jeered158 at her pretenses—and paid the bills.

  埃尔辛太太竖起耳朵听了听过道里的动静,她听见媚兰的脚步声逐渐消失在厨里,厨房里碟子和银器的碰撞声说明正在准备点心,她就回过头来悄悄地对在场的几位太太说起话来。当时这几位太太正在客厅里围坐在一起做活,针线筐子就搁在腿上。
  “就我个人而言,我现在不想,永远也不想去拜访思嘉,"她说,脸上高傲的神气显得特别冷酷。
  联盟赈济孤寡缝纫会的其他面员一听这话,都连忙放下手中的活计,拉了拉摇椅,凑得更近了。这几位太太早就想议论思嘉和瑞德,只是因为媚兰在场,不便开口,就在两天以前,这对夫妇从新奥尔良回来了。现在就住在民族饭店的新婚套间里。
  “休说出于礼貌也要去拜访一下,因为巴特勒船长救过他的命,"埃尔辛太太继续说。”可怜的范妮也同意他的意见,说她也要去拜访。我对她说:'范妮,要不是思嘉,托米现在也还活得好好的。你要是拜访,这岂不是对死者的侮辱吗?'范妮没有头脑,竟然说:“我不是去拜访思嘉,我是去拜访巴特勒船长。他为救托米尽了力,没有救成,也不是他的过错过呀。'"“年轻人就是这样糊涂!"梅里韦瑟太太说。"真是的!还要拜访。"她曾劝思嘉不要和瑞德结婚。思嘉对她态度非常粗暴,她想起这件事,气得她那宽厚的胸脯一起一伏。”我们家的梅贝和你们家的范妮一样地糊涂。她说要和雷内一块儿去拜访,因为巴特勒船长出了力。雷内才没有被绞死,我说要不是思嘉出去乱跑,雷内根本就没有危险。梅里韦瑟爷爷也要去拜访他真是老糊涂了,竟然说即便我不去感谢,他也要感谢那个大流氓。我敢说,自从梅里韦瑟爷爷到沃特琳这狗东西那里去了一趟之后,就干起丢人现眼的现来了。还说去拜访呢!真是的!我可不去。思嘉真是作孽竟然嫁给这样一个人。他在战争期间做投机生意,刮我们的钱,让我们挨饿,真是坏透了。现在他又和北方冒险家和投靠北方的南方人勾结在一起,他还是----是那臭名远扬的布洛克州长的朋友呢----。
  还说要去拜访,真是的!”
  邦内尔太太叹了一口气,她是个皮肤黝黑的胖女人,总是笑眯眯的。
  “他们只去拜访一次,为了礼貌嘛,多丽,我不想责怪他们。
  听说那天晚上参加活动的人都想去拜访他,我觉得这也是应该的,不知怎的,我总难以想像思嘉是她母亲的孩子。我在萨凡纳和她母亲爱伦·罗毕拉德是同学。当时没有比她更可爱的姑娘了,我跟她也很要好。当时她想嫁给菲利普·罗毕拉德,她父亲要是不反对就好了。其实那孩子也没有什么不好----年轻人难免干些荒唐事,可是后来爱伦就不得不和奥哈拉老头儿逃走了,结了婚,生了思嘉这么一个女儿。真的,看在爱伦的份上,我也得去拜访他们一次。"“婆婆妈妈的,简直是胡扯!"梅里韦瑟太太婆呼呼地说。
  “基蒂·邦内尔,丈夫死了刚一年就又嫁人了,这样一个女人,你也要去拜访吗?这个女人----"“肯尼迪先生实际上也是她杀害的,"英迪亚插言说。她的语调冷淡而尖刻。她一想到思嘉,就想起斯图尔特·塔尔顿,就连礼貌也顾不上了。“肯尼迪先生还没死的时候,我就总觉得她和那个叫巴特勒的人有特殊关系,一般人没注意就是了。"几位太太一听这话,特别是听一位老处女说这样一件事,都感到非常惊讶。她们惊魂未定,媚兰就在门口出现了。她们刚才专心致志地在那里叽咕议论,没有听见媚兰轻盈的脚步,现在看见女主人站在面前,她们就像小学生咬耳朵,被老师当场抓住了一样。媚兰的脸色一变,她们不但惊愕,而且害怕了。她生气是理所当然的。她气得满脸通红,温柔的眼睛冒起火来,鼻翅也不停地颤抖。过去谁也没有见媚兰生过气。在场的人谁也没想到她也是会生气的。她们都很喜欢她,但是她们都认为她是一个最温柔最随和的女人,尊敬长辈,从来不谈个人的看法。
  “你怎么敢这这样的话,英迪亚?"她用颤抖的声音小声说,"你这样妒忌,会走到哪一步田地呢?真可耻!"英迪亚的脸色变得煞白,头倒还抬得高高的。
  “我说的话,决不收回,"她的话很简短,但心情极不平静的。
  “我妒忌吗?"她问自己。她想到斯图尔特·塔尔顿,想到霍妮和查尔斯,难道她没有理由妒忌思嘉吗?难道她没有理由恨她吗?特别现在她怀疑思嘉已经设法使艾希礼落入了她的罗网。她想:“关于艾希礼和你那宝贝思嘉,我还有许多话要对你说。"英迪亚一方面想保持沉默,借以保护艾希礼,一方面又想把自己的一切怀疑告诉媚兰,告诉所有的人,借以把艾希礼解脱出来,她还在犹豫不决。她要是一说出来,就会迫使思嘉彻底放弃她对艾希礼的控制。不过现在时机还没有成熟。因为她还没真其实据,只怀疑而已。
  “我说过的话,决不收回,"她又重复说。
  “那么,值得庆幸的是你不再和我们一起过日子了,"媚兰语气非常冷淡地说。
  英迪亚一听这话,马上站起来,发黄的面孔海涨得通红。
  “媚兰,你----你是我的嫂子----不会为了这件小事和我争吵吧----"“思嘉还是我的嫂子呢,"媚兰说,她和英迪亚互相瞪着眼,好像陌生人一样。
  “而且对我比亲姐妹还要亲。我从她那里得到的好处。你能这么容易就忘了,我可一辈子忘不了。围城的时候,她一直陪着我,而她本来是可以回家去的,当时就连皮蒂姑妈都跑到梅肯去了。北方佬眼看就到亚特兰大了,她还亲自张罗为我接生。而且不辞劳苦地把我和小博送到塔拉,她当时完全可以把我丢在这里的一所医院里,让北方佬把我抓去。她照料我,给我喂饭,而她自己又累又饿。因为我身体不好,又有病,我睡的是塔拉最好的床垫。后来我能走路了,仅有一双像样的鞋也给我穿上。她为我做的这些事,英迪亚,你忘了,我可忘不了。后来艾希礼回来了,生着病,心灰意懒,无家可归,口袋里一文钱也没有,她像姐姐一样收留他。后来我们觉得非去北方不可,而又舍不得离开佐治亚,这时候又是思嘉出来,让他经营木材厂。巴特勒船长还救了艾希礼的命,这也是他的一片好心,人家又不欠艾希礼什么情分。所以感激他们,既感激思嘉又感激巴特勒船长。而你,英迪亚!
  你怎么能忘了思嘉对我和艾希礼的好处呢?你怎么能把你哥哥的生命看得无足轻重,反而用恶言中伤救过他命的人呢?你就是在巴特勒船长和思嘉面前下跪,也不为过呀。"“得了,媚兰,"梅里韦瑟太太用尖刻的语调说,这时她的心情已经平静下来。"别这样对英迪亚说这些。"“你说思嘉的那番话,我也听见了,"媚兰说,她转过身来对付这位胖老太太,神气就像一个参加格斗的人,刚从一个倒下的对手身上拔也剑来,又猛烈地朝另一个对刺去。“还有你,埃尔辛太太。你们那些可爱的脑袋瓜里对她是怎么想的,我不管,因为那是你们自己的事。但是你们在我家里议论她,或者让我听见,我就得管。可是你们怎么会有那样可怕的想法呢,而且还说得出来?难道你们的丈夫就那么不值得爱护,你们愿意让他们活着,宁愿让他们死掉。对于救了他们的人,对于冒着生命危险救了他们的人,你们就一点也不感激吗?事实真相要是一暴露,北方佬当时很可能就认为他也是三K党的成员了。那样,他们就会把他绞死。然而他还是冒着生命危险救了你们家里的人。他救了你公公,梅里韦瑟太太,还救了你的女婿和两个侄儿。邦内尔太太,他救了你的兄弟;埃尔辛太太,他还救了你的儿子和女婿。你们这一帮忘恩负义的人!我要求你们每一个人都道歉。"埃尔辛太太站起来,顺手把活计塞到筐里,嘴唇紧闭,显出很坚决的样子。
  “真没想到你也这么没有教养,媚兰----我决不道歉。英迪亚说得对。思嘉是个轻浮放荡的女人。我不会忘记在战争期间的所作所为。也不会忘记她有了几个钱之后,做起事来有多么下贱----"“我真正不会忘记的是,"媚兰打断她的话,握起两只小拳头插在腰间,说,“她不让休管木材厂了,因为他太无能。"“媚兰!“大家一起发出了抱怨声。
  埃尔辛太太把头一扬,朝门口走去。她抓着门把,停住脚步,转过身来说:“媚兰,”她的语气变得温和了,"亲爱的,这件事让我太伤心了。我是你母亲最要好的朋友,是我帮着米德大夫把你接到这个世界上来的。我把你当自己的孩子一样疼爱。要是为了什么要紧的事,你这样说倒也罢了。可是我样说的是思嘉·奥哈拉这样一个女人,她马上就会坑害你,就像对待我们一样—-"埃尔辛太太开始说这番话时,媚兰的眼睛还有些湿润,等这位老妇人说完,媚兰的脸色反而显得坚定了。
  “请各位注意,"她说,"如果谁不拜访思嘉,谁就永远不要再来看我。"大家一听这话,顿时嚷嚷起来,混乱之中,她们站起身来。埃尔辛太太把针线筐往地上一扔,走了回来,假发也歪到一边去了。
  “这我不干!"她说。"这我不干。你是发昏了,媚兰,不过我不责怪你。你我仍然是朋友,不能让这件事影响咱们的关系。"她说着说着哭起来。不知怎的,媚兰也在她怀里哭起来了,不过她还抽抽搭搭地说她刚才的话是当真的,还有几位妇女也放声大哭。梅里韦瑟太太一边用手绢语着脸痛哭,一边把埃尔辛太太和媚兰都搂起来了,皮蒂姑妈原来只是呆呆地在一旁看着,这时忽然瘫在地上。她过去也常晕倒,有时是真晕倒,这一次可的确是晕倒了。有人哭泣,有人亲吻,有人忙着找嗅盐,有人跑着去拿白兰地,就在这一片混乱之中,只有一个人脸色沉静,两眼不湿。英迪亚·威尔克斯趁着无人注意,溜走了。
  过了几个钟头,梅里韦瑟爷爷在时代少女酒馆见到亨利·汉密尔顿叔叔,就把他从儿媳妇那里听来的上午发生的事,津津有味,一五一十地述说了一遍。现在总算有个人能镇住他那凶狠的儿媳,他自己可没那勇气。
  “那么这一伙没有头脑的傻瓜最后打算怎么办呢?"亨利叔叔不耐烦地问。
  “我也说不清楚,"梅里韦瑟爷爷说:“不过据我看,这场争论,媚兰没怎么费劲就占了上风。我敢说,她们都会去拜访的,至少也得去一次。你那侄女,大家是很看重的,亨利。"“媚兰是个傻瓜,倒是另外那些女人说得对。思嘉是个滑头女人,不知道查尔斯当时怎么会娶她做老婆,"亨利叔叔闷闷不乐地说。"不过媚兰的话也有一定的道理。巴特勒船长救的所有的人,是应当和家属一起去拜访,要不就太不像话。说实在的,我对巴特勒并不怎么反感。那天晚上他像个男子汉救了我们的命,思嘉才是眼中钉,肉中刺。这个女太聪明,反而害了她自己。反正我是要去拜访他们的。管他是不是投靠了北方佬,思嘉总还是我的侄媳妇。我想今天下午就去拜访他们的。"“我和你一块儿去,亨利。多丽要是听说我去了,非得发疯不可。等我再喝一杯就走。"“别喝了,咱们去喝巴特勒船长的酒吧。说句公道话,他那里总是有好酒喝的。"瑞德早就说那顽固派是不会认输的,他这话还真都说对了。有些人来拜访他们,他知道这是没有什么意义,他也知道他们为什么来看他们。参加三K党那次不成功的行动的人,他们的家属起初是来拜访过,但是很明显,后来就很少来了。而且他们也不邀请瑞德·巴特勒夫妇到他们家里去做客。
  瑞德说,这些人要不是怕冒犯媚兰,是不会来看望他们的。他为什么会这么想,思嘉也不知道,只觉得这个想法很无聊,也的确是很无聊。因为思嘉为什么能影响埃尔辛太太和梅里韦瑟太太这样的人呢?他们来过一次就不再来了,思嘉并不怎么在意,其实,她几乎就没有发现,因为他们这套房子里常常挤满了另一种类型的客人。期住在亚特兰大的本地人管他们叫"外来户,"这还不是最客气的称呼呢。
  民族饭店里住着很多"外来户",他们和瑞德和思嘉一样,也是因为自己的房子还没盖好。他们既活跃,又很阔气,很像瑞德在新奥尔良结交的那些朋友。他们的衣服很考究,花起钱来大手大脚,至于来历,就不清楚了。这些人之中,男的都是共和党人,都是"因与州政府有关的公务而到亚特兰大来的。"究竟是什么有关的公务,思嘉既不知道,也不想费心思去了解。
  其实瑞德可以把确切的情况告诉她----他们所要干的和秃鹰对快死的动物所要


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1 rattling 7b0e25ab43c3cc912945aafbb80e7dfd     
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。
2 refreshments KkqzPc     
n.点心,便餐;(会议后的)简单茶点招 待
参考例句:
  • We have to make a small charge for refreshments. 我们得收取少量茶点费。
  • Light refreshments will be served during the break. 中间休息时有点心供应。
3 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。
4 parlor v4MzU     
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅
参考例句:
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店?
5 elegance QjPzj     
n.优雅;优美,雅致;精致,巧妙
参考例句:
  • The furnishings in the room imparted an air of elegance.这个房间的家具带给这房间一种优雅的气氛。
  • John has been known for his sartorial elegance.约翰因为衣着讲究而出名。
6 orphans edf841312acedba480123c467e505b2a     
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。
7 suite MsMwB     
n.一套(家具);套房;随从人员
参考例句:
  • She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
  • That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。
9 bosom Lt9zW     
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。
10 belle MQly5     
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。
11 dotage NsqxN     
n.年老体衰;年老昏聩
参考例句:
  • Even in his dotage,the Professor still sits on the committee.即便上了年纪,教授仍然是委员会的一员。
  • Sarah moved back in with her father so that she could look after him in his dotage.萨拉搬回来与父亲同住,好在他年老时照顾他。
12 vow 0h9wL     
n.誓(言),誓约;v.起誓,立誓
参考例句:
  • My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday.我父母许愿,每星期日都去做礼拜。
  • I am under a vow to drink no wine.我已立誓戒酒。
13 outlawed e2d1385a121c74347f32d0eb4aa15b54     
宣布…为不合法(outlaw的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • Most states have outlawed the use of marijuana. 大多数州都宣布使用大麻为非法行为。
  • I hope the sale of tobacco will be outlawed someday. 我希望有朝一日烟草制品会禁止销售。
14 wren veCzKb     
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。
15 vigor yLHz0     
n.活力,精力,元气
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。
  • She didn't want to be reminded of her beauty or her former vigor.现在,她不愿人们提起她昔日的美丽和以前的精力充沛。
16 astonishment VvjzR     
n.惊奇,惊异
参考例句:
  • They heard him give a loud shout of astonishment.他们听见他惊奇地大叫一声。
  • I was filled with astonishment at her strange action.我对她的奇怪举动不胜惊异。
17 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。
18 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。
19 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。
20 consternation 8OfzB     
n.大为吃惊,惊骇
参考例句:
  • He was filled with consternation to hear that his friend was so ill.他听说朋友病得那么厉害,感到非常震惊。
  • Sam stared at him in consternation.萨姆惊恐不安地注视着他。
21 wrath nVNzv     
n.愤怒,愤慨,暴怒
参考例句:
  • His silence marked his wrath. 他的沉默表明了他的愤怒。
  • The wrath of the people is now aroused. 人们被激怒了。
22 pliable ZBCyx     
adj.易受影响的;易弯的;柔顺的,易驾驭的
参考例句:
  • Willow twigs are pliable.柳条很软。
  • The finely twined baskets are made with young,pliable spruce roots.这些编织精美的篮子是用柔韧的云杉嫩树根编成的。
23 deferential jmwzy     
adj. 敬意的,恭敬的
参考例句:
  • They like five-star hotels and deferential treatment.他们喜欢五星级的宾馆和毕恭毕敬的接待。
  • I am deferential and respectful in the presence of artists.我一向恭敬、尊重艺术家。
24 retract NWFxJ     
vt.缩回,撤回收回,取消
参考例句:
  • The criminals should stop on the precipice, retract from the wrong path and not go any further.犯罪分子应当迷途知返,悬崖勒马,不要在错误的道路上继续走下去。
  • I don't want to speak rashly now and later have to retract my statements.我不想现在说些轻率的话,然后又要收回自己说过的话。
25 briefly 9Styo     
adv.简单地,简短地
参考例句:
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
26 seething e6f773e71251620fed3d8d4245606fcf     
沸腾的,火热的
参考例句:
  • The stadium was a seething cauldron of emotion. 体育场内群情沸腾。
  • The meeting hall was seething at once. 会场上顿时沸腾起来了。
27 entangled e3d30c3c857155b7a602a9ac53ade890     
adj.卷入的;陷入的;被缠住的;缠在一起的v.使某人(某物/自己)缠绕,纠缠于(某物中),使某人(自己)陷入(困难或复杂的环境中)( entangle的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The bird had become entangled in the wire netting. 那只小鸟被铁丝网缠住了。
  • Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another war. 一些军事观察家担心美国会卷入另一场战争。 来自《简明英汉词典》
28 extricate rlCxp     
v.拯救,救出;解脱
参考例句:
  • How can we extricate the firm from this trouble?我们该如何承救公司脱离困境呢?
  • She found it impossible to extricate herself from the relationship.她发现不可能把自己从这种关系中解脱出来。
29 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。
30 slurs f714abb1a09d3da4d64196cc5701bd6e     
含糊的发音( slur的名词复数 ); 玷污; 连奏线; 连唱线
参考例句:
  • One should keep one's reputation free from all slurs. 人应该保持名誉不受责备。
  • Racial slurs, racial jokes, all having to do with being Asian. 种族主义辱骂,种族笑话,都是跟亚裔有关的。
31 withdrawn eeczDJ     
vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出
参考例句:
  • Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
  • All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。
32 drawn MuXzIi     
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
33 prostrate 7iSyH     
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。
34 cramming 72a5eb07f207b2ce280314cd162588b7     
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》
35 clenching 1c3528c558c94eba89a6c21e9ee245e6     
v.紧握,抓紧,咬紧( clench的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • I'll never get used to them, she thought, clenching her fists. 我永远也看不惯这些家伙,她握紧双拳,心里想。 来自飘(部分)
  • Clenching her lips, she nodded. 她紧闭着嘴唇,点点头。 来自辞典例句
36 softened 19151c4e3297eb1618bed6a05d92b4fe     
(使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰
参考例句:
  • His smile softened slightly. 他的微笑稍柔和了些。
  • The ice cream softened and began to melt. 冰淇淋开始变软并开始融化。
37 murmur EjtyD     
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。
38 awry Mu0ze     
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。
39 trumpeting 68cf4dbd1f99442d072d18975013a14d     
大声说出或宣告(trumpet的现在分词形式)
参考例句:
  • She is always trumpeting her son. 她总是吹嘘她儿子。
  • The wind is trumpeting, a bugle calling to charge! 风在掌号。冲锋号! 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
40 petrified 2e51222789ae4ecee6134eb89ed9998d     
adj.惊呆的;目瞪口呆的v.使吓呆,使惊呆;变僵硬;使石化(petrify的过去式和过去分词)
参考例句:
  • I'm petrified of snakes. 我特别怕蛇。
  • The poor child was petrified with fear. 这可怜的孩子被吓呆了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
41 scurrying 294847ddc818208bf7d590895cd0b7c9     
v.急匆匆地走( scurry的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • We could hear the mice scurrying about in the walls. 我们能听见老鼠在墙里乱跑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • We were scurrying about until the last minute before the party. 聚会开始前我们一直不停地忙忙碌碌。 来自辞典例句
42 relish wBkzs     
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。
43 irritably e3uxw     
ad.易生气地
参考例句:
  • He lost his temper and snapped irritably at the children. 他发火了,暴躁地斥责孩子们。
  • On this account the silence was irritably broken by a reproof. 为了这件事,他妻子大声斥责,令人恼火地打破了宁静。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
44 smelted 8283b7839396aafcdfe326c23f97b5e2     
v.熔炼,提炼(矿石)( smelt的过去式和过去分词 );合演( costar的过去式和过去分词 );闻到;嗅出
参考例句:
  • The lead paste is smelted in a blast furnace. 铅团在鼓风炉中被溶解。 来自互联网
  • Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. 铁从地里挖出,铜从石中熔化。 来自互联网
45 gorge Zf1xm     
n.咽喉,胃,暴食,山峡;v.塞饱,狼吞虎咽地吃
参考例句:
  • East of the gorge leveled out.峡谷东面地势变得平坦起来。
  • It made my gorge rise to hear the news.这消息令我作呕。
46 swarming db600a2d08b872102efc8fbe05f047f9     
密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去
参考例句:
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。
  • The beach is swarming with bathers. 海滩满是海水浴的人。
47 lumber a8Jz6     
n.木材,木料;v.以破旧东西堆满;伐木;笨重移动
参考例句:
  • The truck was sent to carry lumber.卡车被派出去运木材。
  • They slapped together a cabin out of old lumber.他们利用旧木料草草地盖起了一间小屋。
48 mansion 8BYxn     
n.大厦,大楼;宅第
参考例句:
  • The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
  • The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
49 shingle 8yKwr     
n.木瓦板;小招牌(尤指医生或律师挂的营业招牌);v.用木瓦板盖(屋顶);把(女子头发)剪短
参考例句:
  • He scraped away the dirt,and exposed a pine shingle.他刨去泥土,下面露出一块松木瓦块。
  • He hung out his grandfather's shingle.他挂出了祖父的行医招牌。
50 bickering TyizSV     
v.争吵( bicker的现在分词 );口角;(水等)作潺潺声;闪烁
参考例句:
  • The children are always bickering about something or other. 孩子们有事没事总是在争吵。
  • The two children were always bickering with each other over small matters. 这两个孩子总是为些小事斗嘴。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
51 harrying 07d9a16ae3509c802dfeb4dd637e6af5     
v.使苦恼( harry的现在分词 );不断烦扰;一再袭击;侵扰
参考例句:
  • The tax authorities have been harrying her for repayment. 税务局一直在催她补交税款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He is increasingly active in harrying the government in late-night debates. 他越来越活跃,在深夜辩论中不断攻击政府。 来自辞典例句
52 contractor GnZyO     
n.订约人,承包人,收缩肌
参考例句:
  • The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
  • The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样,有几分要看地势而定。
53 imposing 8q9zcB     
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。
54 jigsaw q3Gxa     
n.缕花锯,竖锯,拼图游戏;vt.用竖锯锯,使互相交错搭接
参考例句:
  • A jigsaw puzzle can keep me absorbed for hours.一副拼图就能让我沉醉几个小时。
  • Tom likes to work on jigsaw puzzles,too.汤姆也喜欢玩拼图游戏。
55 ballroom SPTyA     
n.舞厅
参考例句:
  • The boss of the ballroom excused them the fee.舞厅老板给他们免费。
  • I go ballroom dancing twice a week.我一个星期跳两次交际舞。
56 turrets 62429b8037b86b445f45d2a4b5ed714f     
(六角)转台( turret的名词复数 ); (战舰和坦克等上的)转动炮塔; (摄影机等上的)镜头转台; (旧时攻城用的)塔车
参考例句:
  • The Northampton's three turrets thundered out white smoke and pale fire. “诺思安普敦号”三座炮塔轰隆隆地冒出白烟和淡淡的火光。
  • If I can get to the gun turrets, I'll have a chance. 如果我能走到炮塔那里,我就会赢得脱险的机会。
57 panes c8bd1ed369fcd03fe15520d551ab1d48     
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。
58 veranda XfczWG     
n.走廊;阳台
参考例句:
  • She sat in the shade on the veranda.她坐在阳台上的遮荫处。
  • They were strolling up and down the veranda.他们在走廊上来回徜徉。
59 scattered 7jgzKF     
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
参考例句:
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
60 rustic mCQz9     
adj.乡村的,有乡村特色的;n.乡下人,乡巴佬
参考例句:
  • It was nearly seven months of leisurely rustic living before Michael felt real boredom.这种悠闲的乡村生活过了差不多七个月之后,迈克尔开始感到烦闷。
  • We hoped the fresh air and rustic atmosphere would help him adjust.我们希望新鲜的空气和乡村的氛围能帮他调整自己。
61 pony Au5yJ     
adj.小型的;n.小马
参考例句:
  • His father gave him a pony as a Christmas present.他父亲给了他一匹小马驹作为圣诞礼物。
  • They made him pony up the money he owed.他们逼他还债。
62 wade nMgzu     
v.跋涉,涉水;n.跋涉
参考例句:
  • We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
  • We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。
63 splendor hriy0     
n.光彩;壮丽,华丽;显赫,辉煌
参考例句:
  • Never in his life had he gazed on such splendor.他生平从没有见过如此辉煌壮丽的场面。
  • All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
64 velvet 5gqyO     
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。
65 varnished 14996fe4d70a450f91e6de0005fd6d4d     
浸渍过的,涂漆的
参考例句:
  • The doors are then stained and varnished. 这些门还要染色涂清漆。
  • He varnished the wooden table. 他给那张木桌涂了清漆。
66 carving 5wezxw     
n.雕刻品,雕花
参考例句:
  • All the furniture in the room had much carving.房间里所有的家具上都有许多雕刻。
  • He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.他在老家学会了木雕手艺。
67 pier U22zk     
n.码头;桥墩,桥柱;[建]窗间壁,支柱
参考例句:
  • The pier of the bridge has been so badly damaged that experts worry it is unable to bear weight.这座桥的桥桩破损厉害,专家担心它已不能负重。
  • The ship was making towards the pier.船正驶向码头。
68 thoroughly sgmz0J     
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。
69 peg p3Fzi     
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。
70 attentive pOKyB     
adj.注意的,专心的;关心(别人)的,殷勤的
参考例句:
  • She was very attentive to her guests.她对客人招待得十分周到。
  • The speaker likes to have an attentive audience.演讲者喜欢注意力集中的听众。
71 jibes 49506cd35213aebe9bb100d2fdf507b1     
n.与…一致( jibe的名词复数 );(与…)相符;相匹配v.与…一致( jibe的第三人称单数 );(与…)相符;相匹配
参考例句:
  • He made several cheap jibes at his opponent during the interview. 在采访中他好几次对他的对手粗俗地加以嘲讽。
  • The report jibes with the facts. 报告与事实相符。 来自辞典例句
72 honeymoon ucnxc     
n.蜜月(假期);vi.度蜜月
参考例句:
  • While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
  • The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。
73 amiability e665b35f160dba0dedc4c13e04c87c32     
n.和蔼可亲的,亲切的,友善的
参考例句:
  • His amiability condemns him to being a constant advisor to other people's troubles. 他那和蔼可亲的性格使他成为经常为他人排忧解难的开导者。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • I watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness. 我瞧着老师的脸上从和蔼变成严峻。 来自辞典例句
74 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。
75 edifying a97ce6cffd0a5657c9644f46b1c20531     
adj.有教训意味的,教训性的,有益的v.开导,启发( edify的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • Young students are advised to read edifying books to improve their mind. 建议青年学生们读一些陶冶性情的书籍,以提高自己的心智。 来自辞典例句
  • This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball. 这个有启发性的表演便是省长的舞会的最后一个节目了。 来自辞典例句
76 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。
77 deference mmKzz     
n.尊重,顺从;敬意
参考例句:
  • Do you treat your parents and teachers with deference?你对父母师长尊敬吗?
  • The major defect of their work was deference to authority.他们的主要缺陷是趋从权威。
78 democrats 655beefefdcaf76097d489a3ff245f76     
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
79 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。
80 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。
81 benign 2t2zw     
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。
82 vomit TL9zV     
v.呕吐,作呕;n.呕吐物,吐出物
参考例句:
  • They gave her salty water to make her vomit.他们给她喝盐水好让她吐出来。
  • She was stricken by pain and began to vomit.她感到一阵疼痛,开始呕吐起来。
83 humbling 643ebf3f558f4dfa49252dce8143a9c8     
adj.令人羞辱的v.使谦恭( humble的现在分词 );轻松打败(尤指强大的对手);低声下气
参考例句:
  • A certain humbling from time to time is good. 不时受点儿屈辱是有好处的。 来自辞典例句
  • It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-buildingexperience. 据说天文学是一种令人产生自卑、塑造人格的科学。 来自互联网
84 bland dW1zi     
adj.淡而无味的,温和的,无刺激性的
参考例句:
  • He eats bland food because of his stomach trouble.他因胃病而吃清淡的食物。
  • This soup is too bland for me.这汤我喝起来偏淡。
85 shrouded 6b3958ee6e7b263c722c8b117143345f     
v.隐瞒( shroud的过去式和过去分词 );保密
参考例句:
  • The hills were shrouded in mist . 这些小山被笼罩在薄雾之中。
  • The towers were shrouded in mist. 城楼被蒙上薄雾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
86 collation qW9yG     
n.便餐;整理
参考例句:
  • It was in this retreat that Mr. Quilp ordered a cold collation to be prepared.奎尔普先生就是在这个别墅里预定冷点的。
  • I was quite taken with your line of photocopiers with collation and stapling capability.我被贵公司能够自动整理和装订的系列复印机吸引住了。
87 banished b779057f354f1ec8efd5dd1adee731df     
v.放逐,驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚,五年后在那里去世。
  • He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. 他被放逐到一个无人居住的荒岛一年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
88 barbs 56032de71c59b706e1ec6d4b8b651f33     
n.(箭头、鱼钩等的)倒钩( barb的名词复数 );带刺的话;毕露的锋芒;钩状毛
参考例句:
  • She slung barbs at me. 她说了些讥刺我的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I would no longer uncomplainingly accept their barbs or allow their unaccountable power to go unchallenged. 我不会再毫无怨言地洗耳恭听他们带刺的话,或让他们的不负责任的权力不受到挑战。 来自辞典例句
89 perverse 53mzI     
adj.刚愎的;坚持错误的,行为反常的
参考例句:
  • It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend.阻止这种健康发展的趋势是没有道理的。
  • She gets a perverse satisfaction from making other people embarrassed.她有一种不正常的心态,以使别人难堪来取乐。
90 frigidness 3b0ba0c95263945f2fe943869a584499     
n.寒冷,冷漠
参考例句:
91 oysters 713202a391facaf27aab568d95bdc68f     
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。
92 rumor qS0zZ     
n.谣言,谣传,传说
参考例句:
  • The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
  • The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。
93 disapproval VuTx4     
n.反对,不赞成
参考例句:
  • The teacher made an outward show of disapproval.老师表面上表示不同意。
  • They shouted their disapproval.他们喊叫表示反对。
94 utterly ZfpzM1     
adv.完全地,绝对地
参考例句:
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
95 indifference k8DxO     
n.不感兴趣,不关心,冷淡,不在乎
参考例句:
  • I was disappointed by his indifference more than somewhat.他的漠不关心使我很失望。
  • He feigned indifference to criticism of his work.他假装毫不在意别人批评他的作品。
96 distress 3llzX     
n.苦恼,痛苦,不舒适;不幸;vt.使悲痛
参考例句:
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
  • Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。
97 fervently 8tmzPw     
adv.热烈地,热情地,强烈地
参考例句:
  • "Oh, I am glad!'she said fervently. “哦,我真高兴!”她热烈地说道。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • O my dear, my dear, will you bless me as fervently to-morrow?' 啊,我亲爱的,亲爱的,你明天也愿这样热烈地为我祝福么?” 来自英汉文学 - 双城记
98 mantle Y7tzs     
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。
99 variance MiXwb     
n.矛盾,不同
参考例句:
  • The question of woman suffrage sets them at variance. 妇女参政的问题使他们发生争执。
  • It is unnatural for brothers to be at variance. 兄弟之间不睦是不近人情的。
100 inflexible xbZz7     
adj.不可改变的,不受影响的,不屈服的
参考例句:
  • Charles was a man of settled habits and inflexible routine.查尔斯是一个恪守习惯、生活规律不容打乱的人。
  • The new plastic is completely inflexible.这种新塑料是完全不可弯曲的。
101 grudgingly grudgingly     
参考例句:
  • He grudgingly acknowledged having made a mistake. 他勉强承认他做错了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Their parents unwillingly [grudgingly] consented to the marriage. 他们的父母无可奈何地应允了这门亲事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
102 supreme PHqzc     
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
参考例句:
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
103 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。
104 pretense yQYxi     
n.矫饰,做作,借口
参考例句:
  • You can't keep up the pretense any longer.你无法继续伪装下去了。
  • Pretense invariably impresses only the pretender.弄虚作假欺骗不了真正的行家。
105 backbiting d0736e9eb21ad2d1bc00e3a309b2f35c     
背后诽谤
参考例句:
  • You should refrain your tongue from backbiting. 你不要背后诽谤人。
  • Refrain your tongue from backbiting. 不要在背后中伤人家。
106 stonily 940e31d40f6b467c25c49683f45aea84     
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)
107 granite Kyqyu     
adj.花岗岩,花岗石
参考例句:
  • They squared a block of granite.他们把一块花岗岩加工成四方形。
  • The granite overlies the older rocks.花岗岩躺在磨损的岩石上面。
108 enveloped 8006411f03656275ea778a3c3978ff7a     
v.包围,笼罩,包住( envelop的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She was enveloped in a huge white towel. 她裹在一条白色大毛巾里。
  • Smoke from the burning house enveloped the whole street. 燃烧着的房子冒出的浓烟笼罩了整条街。 来自《简明英汉词典》
109 traitor GqByW     
n.叛徒,卖国贼
参考例句:
  • The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.那个卖国贼终于被人发现并被监禁了起来。
  • He was sold out by a traitor and arrested.他被叛徒出卖而被捕了。
110 miserable g18yk     
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。
111 vagaries 594130203d5d42a756196aa8975299ad     
n.奇想( vagary的名词复数 );异想天开;异常行为;难以预测的情况
参考例句:
  • The vagaries of fortune are indeed curious.\" 命运的变化莫测真是不可思议。” 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • The vagaries of inclement weather conditions are avoided to a certain extent. 可以在一定程度上避免变化莫测的恶劣气候影响。 来自辞典例句
112 disapproved 3ee9b7bf3f16130a59cb22aafdea92d0     
v.不赞成( disapprove的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • My parents disapproved of my marriage. 我父母不赞成我的婚事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She disapproved of her son's indiscriminate television viewing. 她不赞成儿子不加选择地收看电视。 来自《简明英汉词典》
113 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。
114 lucrative dADxp     
adj.赚钱的,可获利的
参考例句:
  • He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
  • It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。
115 bidders 6884ac426d80394534eb58149d20c202     
n.出价者,投标人( bidder的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Bidders should proceed only if they intend on using a PayPal account to complete payment. Bidders的唯一形式,应继续只当他们在使用贝宝帐户,以完成付款打算。 来自互联网
  • The other bidders for the contract complained that it had not been a fair contest. 其他竞标人抱怨说该合同的竞标不公平。 来自《简明英汉词典》
116 gambling ch4xH     
n.赌博;投机
参考例句:
  • They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
  • The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。
117 metropolis BCOxY     
n.首府;大城市
参考例句:
  • Shanghai is a metropolis in China.上海是中国的大都市。
  • He was dazzled by the gaiety and splendour of the metropolis.大都市的花花世界使他感到眼花缭乱。
118 refinement kinyX     
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。
119 gentry Ygqxe     
n.绅士阶级,上层阶级
参考例句:
  • Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.来自土地的收入是衡量是否士绅阶层的真正标准。
  • Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.宁做自由民之首,不居贵族之末。
120 hospitable CcHxA     
adj.好客的;宽容的;有利的,适宜的
参考例句:
  • The man is very hospitable.He keeps open house for his friends and fellow-workers.那人十分好客,无论是他的朋友还是同事,他都盛情接待。
  • The locals are hospitable and welcoming.当地人热情好客。
121 parlors d00eff1cfa3fc47d2b58dbfdec2ddc5e     
客厅( parlor的名词复数 ); 起居室; (旅馆中的)休息室; (通常用来构成合成词)店
参考例句:
  • It had been a firm specializing in funeral parlors and parking lots. 它曾经是一个专门经营殡仪馆和停车场的公司。
  • I walked, my eyes focused into the endless succession of barbershops, beauty parlors, confectioneries. 我走着,眼睛注视着那看不到头的、鳞次栉比的理发店、美容院、糖果店。
122 frantic Jfyzr     
adj.狂乱的,错乱的,激昂的
参考例句:
  • I've had a frantic rush to get my work done.我急急忙忙地赶完工作。
  • He made frantic dash for the departing train.他发疯似地冲向正开出的火车。
123 exigencies d916f71e17856a77a1a05a2408002903     
n.急切需要
参考例句:
  • Many people are forced by exigencies of circumstance to take some part in them. 许多人由于境况所逼又不得不在某种程度上参与这种活动。
  • The people had to accept the harsh exigencies of war. 人们要承受战乱的严酷现实。
124 embarked e63154942be4f2a5c3c51f6b865db3de     
乘船( embark的过去式和过去分词 ); 装载; 从事
参考例句:
  • We stood on the pier and watched as they embarked. 我们站在突码头上目送他们登船。
  • She embarked on a discourse about the town's origins. 她开始讲本市的起源。
125 lodgings f12f6c99e9a4f01e5e08b1197f095e6e     
n. 出租的房舍, 寄宿舍
参考例句:
  • When he reached his lodgings the sun had set. 他到达公寓房间时,太阳已下山了。
  • I'm on the hunt for lodgings. 我正在寻找住所。
126 impoverished 1qnzcL     
adj.穷困的,无力的,用尽了的v.使(某人)贫穷( impoverish的过去式和过去分词 );使(某物)贫瘠或恶化
参考例句:
  • the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
  • They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
127 crest raqyA     
n.顶点;饰章;羽冠;vt.达到顶点;vi.形成浪尖
参考例句:
  • The rooster bristled his crest.公鸡竖起了鸡冠。
  • He reached the crest of the hill before dawn.他于黎明前到达山顶。
128 triumphantly 9fhzuv     
ad.得意洋洋地;得胜地;成功地
参考例句:
  • The lion was roaring triumphantly. 狮子正在发出胜利的吼叫。
  • Robert was looking at me triumphantly. 罗伯特正得意扬扬地看着我。
129 strictly GtNwe     
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。
130 subdued 76419335ce506a486af8913f13b8981d     
adj. 屈服的,柔和的,减弱的 动词subdue的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • He seemed a bit subdued to me. 我觉得他当时有点闷闷不乐。
  • I felt strangely subdued when it was all over. 一切都结束的时候,我却有一种奇怪的压抑感。
131 tolerance Lnswz     
n.宽容;容忍,忍受;耐药力;公差
参考例句:
  • Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
  • Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。
132 intoxication qq7zL8     
n.wild excitement;drunkenness;poisoning
参考例句:
  • He began to drink, drank himself to intoxication, till he slept obliterated. 他一直喝,喝到他快要迷糊地睡着了。
  • Predator: Intoxication-Damage over time effect will now stack with other allies. Predator:Intoxication,持续性伤害的效果将会与队友相加。
133 peculiar cinyo     
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的
参考例句:
  • He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
  • He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
134 insolence insolence     
n.傲慢;无礼;厚颜;傲慢的态度
参考例句:
  • I've had enough of your insolence, and I'm having no more. 我受够了你的侮辱,不能再容忍了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • How can you suffer such insolence? 你怎么能容忍这种蛮横的态度? 来自《简明英汉词典》
135 arrogance pNpyD     
n.傲慢,自大
参考例句:
  • His arrogance comes out in every speech he makes.他每次讲话都表现得骄傲自大。
  • Arrogance arrested his progress.骄傲阻碍了他的进步。
136 insolent AbGzJ     
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。
137 garrison uhNxT     
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。
138 heterogeneous rdixF     
adj.庞杂的;异类的
参考例句:
  • There is a heterogeneous mass of papers in the teacher's office.老师的办公室里堆满了大批不同的论文。
  • America has a very heterogeneous population.美国人口是由不同种族组成的。
139 pointed Il8zB4     
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。
140 shrugged 497904474a48f991a3d1961b0476ebce     
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》
141 infinitely 0qhz2I     
adv.无限地,无穷地
参考例句:
  • There is an infinitely bright future ahead of us.我们有无限光明的前途。
  • The universe is infinitely large.宇宙是无限大的。
142 ardently 8yGzx8     
adv.热心地,热烈地
参考例句:
  • The preacher is disserveing the very religion in which he ardently believe. 那传教士在损害他所热烈信奉的宗教。 来自辞典例句
  • However ardently they love, however intimate their union, they are never one. 无论他们的相爱多么热烈,无论他们的关系多么亲密,他们决不可能合而为一。 来自辞典例句
143 yearned df1a28ecd1f3c590db24d0d80c264305     
渴望,切盼,向往( yearn的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The people yearned for peace. 人民渴望和平。
  • She yearned to go back to the south. 她渴望回到南方去。
144 frigidly 3f87453f096c6b9661c44deab443cec0     
adv.寒冷地;冷漠地;冷淡地;呆板地
参考例句:
145 pretensions 9f7f7ffa120fac56a99a9be28790514a     
自称( pretension的名词复数 ); 自命不凡; 要求; 权力
参考例句:
  • The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class. 这出戏讽刺了新中产阶级的装模作样。
  • The city has unrealistic pretensions to world-class status. 这个城市不切实际地标榜自己为国际都市。
146 delicacy mxuxS     
n.精致,细微,微妙,精良;美味,佳肴
参考例句:
  • We admired the delicacy of the craftsmanship.我们佩服工艺师精巧的手艺。
  • He sensed the delicacy of the situation.他感觉到了形势的微妙。
147 innocence ZbizC     
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。
148 hoard Adiz0     
n./v.窖藏,贮存,囤积
参考例句:
  • They have a hoard of food in the basement.地下室里有他们贮藏的食物。
  • How many curios do you hoard in your study?你在你书房里聚藏了多少古玩?
149 vapors 94a2c1cb72b6aa4cb43b8fb8f61653d4     
n.水汽,水蒸气,无实质之物( vapor的名词复数 );自夸者;幻想 [药]吸入剂 [古]忧郁(症)v.自夸,(使)蒸发( vapor的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • His emotions became vague and shifted about like vapors. 他的心情则如同一团雾气,变幻无常,捉摸不定。 来自辞典例句
  • They have hysterics, they weep, they have the vapors. 他们歇斯底里,他们哭泣,他们精神忧郁。 来自辞典例句
150 sodden FwPwm     
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。
151 hesitation tdsz5     
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。
152 odiously db872913b403542bebc7e471b5d8fcd7     
Odiously
参考例句:
  • Your action so odiously is very strange. 你的行为如此恶劣是很奇怪的。 来自辞典例句
153 bastard MuSzK     
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。
154 impervious 2ynyU     
adj.不能渗透的,不能穿过的,不易伤害的
参考例句:
  • He was completely impervious to criticism.他对批评毫不在乎。
  • This material is impervious to gases and liquids.气体和液体都透不过这种物质。
155 courteous tooz2     
adj.彬彬有礼的,客气的
参考例句:
  • Although she often disagreed with me,she was always courteous.尽管她常常和我意见不一,但她总是很谦恭有礼。
  • He was a kind and courteous man.他为人友善,而且彬彬有礼。
156 affront pKvy6     
n./v.侮辱,触怒
参考例句:
  • Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.你的行为有伤风化。
  • This remark caused affront to many people.这句话得罪了不少人。
157 enigma 68HyU     
n.谜,谜一样的人或事
参考例句:
  • I've known him for many years,but he remains something of an enigma to me.我与他相识多年,他仍然难以捉摸。
  • Even after all the testimonies,the murder remained a enigma.即使听完了所有的证词,这件谋杀案仍然是一个谜。
158 jeered c6b854b3d0a6d00c4c5a3e1372813b7d     
v.嘲笑( jeer的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The police were jeered at by the waiting crowd. 警察受到在等待的人群的嘲弄。
  • The crowd jeered when the boxer was knocked down. 当那个拳击手被打倒时,人们开始嘲笑他。 来自《简明英汉词典》


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