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N. B. When I first came to New York, and for years afterward1, it was a whim2 of the New York newspapers to dub3 that region on the West Side which lies between Thirty-sixth and Forty-first Streets and Ninth Avenue and the Hudson River as Hell’s Kitchen. There was assumed to be operative there, shooting and killing4 at will, a gang of young roughs that for savagery6 and brutality7 was not to be outrivaled by any of the various savage5 groups of the city. Disturbances8, murders, riots, were assumed to be common; the residents of this area at once sullen9 and tempestuous10. Interested by the stark11 pictures of a slum life so often painted, I finally went to reside there for a period. What follows is from notes or brief pictures made at the time.
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It is nine o’clock of a summer’s evening. Approaching my place at this hour, suddenly I encounter a rabble12 issuing out of Thirty-ninth Street into Tenth Avenue. It is noisy, tempestuous, swirling13. A frowsy-headed man of about thirty-eight, whose face is badly lacerated and bleeding and whose coat is torn and covered with dust, as though he had been rolling upon the ground, leads the procession. He is walking with that reckless abandon which characterizes the movements of the angry. A slatternly woman of doughy185
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vt.(以某种称号)授予,给...起绰号,复制 | |
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killing
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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savagery
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brutality
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n.野蛮的行为,残忍,野蛮 | |
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adj.愠怒的,闷闷不乐的,(天气等)阴沉的 | |
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adj.狂暴的 | |
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adj.荒凉的;严酷的;完全的;adv.完全地 | |
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n.乌合之众,暴民;下等人 | |
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v.旋转,打旋( swirl的现在分词 ) | |
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complexion
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demonstration
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sergeant
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savagely
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(random access memory)随机存取存储器 | |
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tirade
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ardently
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v.给予,赐予( vouchsafe的第三人称单数 );允诺 | |
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bastard
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n.坏蛋,混蛋;私生子 | |
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metropolitan
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hubbub
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n.嘈杂;骚乱 | |
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tenants
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n.房客( tenant的名词复数 );佃户;占用者;占有者 | |
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landlady
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labor
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peculiar
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clatter
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v./n.(使)发出连续而清脆的撞击声 | |
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wrangles
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绞( wring的第三人称单数 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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labors
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dubiously
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toil
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制定(法律),通过(法案)( enact的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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