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CHAPTER XXX. A NEW MARE INTERNUM
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At first I could hardly see anything. My eyes, unaccustomed to the light, quickly closed. When I was able to reopen them, I stood more stupefied even than surprised.
"The sea!" I cried.
"Yes," my uncle replied, "the Liedenbrock Sea; and I don't suppose any other discoverer will ever dispute my claim to name it after myself as its first discoverer."
A vast sheet of water, the commencement of a lake or an ocean, spread far away beyond the range of the eye, reminding me forcibly of that open sea which drew from Xenophon's ten thousand Greeks, after their long retreat, the simultaneous cry, "Thalatta! thalatta!" the sea! the sea! The deeply indented1 shore was lined with a breadth of fine shining sand, softly lapped by the waves, and strewn with the small shells which had been inhabited by the first of created beings. The waves broke on this shore with the hollow echoing murmur2 peculiar3 to vast inclosed spaces. A light foam4 flew over the waves before the breath of a moderate breeze, and some of the spray fell upon my face. On this slightly inclining shore, about a hundred fathoms5 from the limit of the waves, came down the foot of a huge wall of vast cliffs, which rose majestically6 to an enormous height. Some of these, dividing the beach with their sharp spurs, formed capes7 and promontories8, worn away by the ceaseless action of the surf. Farther on the eye discerned their massive outline sharply defined against the hazy9 distant horizon.
It was quite an ocean, with the irregular shores of earth, but desert and frightfully wild in appearance.
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majestically
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cavern
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condensation
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Pluto
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excavation
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density
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Uranus
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convalescence
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windings
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titanic
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brawling
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gliding
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mighty
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promontory
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n.海角;岬 | |
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clump
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petrified
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cedars
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雪松,西洋杉( cedar的名词复数 ) | |
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flora
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stature
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(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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attains
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circumference
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botanist
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