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CHAPTER XLIII. SHOT OUT OF A VOLCANO AT LAST!
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Yes: our compass was no longer a guide; the needle flew from pole to pole with a kind of frenzied1 impulse; it ran round the dial, and spun2 hither and thither3 as if it were giddy or intoxicated4.
I knew quite well that according to the best received theories the mineral covering of the globe is never at absolute rest; the changes brought about by the chemical decomposition6 of its component7 parts, the agitation8 caused by great liquid torrents9, and the magnetic currents, are continually tending to disturb it—even when living beings upon its surface may fancy that all is quiet below. A phenomenon of this kind would not have greatly alarmed me, or at any rate it would not have given rise to dreadful apprehensions11.
But other facts, other circumstances, of a peculiar12 nature, came to reveal to me by degrees the true state of the case. There came incessant13 and continuous explosions. I could only compare them to the loud rattle14 of a long train of chariots driven at full speed over the stones, or a roar of unintermitting thunder.
Then the disordered compass, thrown out of gear by the electric currents, confirmed me in a growing conviction. The mineral crust of the globe threatened to burst up, the
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din
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decomposition
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component
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torrent
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apprehensions
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granite
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annihilated
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eruption
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shaft
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lavas
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lava
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volcanic
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uproar
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crater
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craters
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radius
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latitude
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perfectly
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ascending
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locomotion
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lurid
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penetrate
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vertical
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sputtered
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crevice
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unbearable
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perspiration
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suffocated
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(使某人)窒息而死( suffocate的过去式和过去分词 ); (将某人)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气 | |
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projection
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dungeon
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doomed
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