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CHAPTER XIII A STRANGE, FLAT TOWER
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TARZAN, turning, discovered the man standing1 behind him on the top level of the ivy3-covered east tower of the Palace of Diamonds. His knife leaped from its sheath at the touch of his quick fingers. But almost simultaneously4 his hand dropped to his side, and he stood contemplating5 the other, with an expression of incredulity upon his face that but reflected a similar emotion registered upon the countenance6 of the stranger. For what Tarzan saw was no Bolgani, nor a Gomangani, but a white man, bald and old and shriveled, with a long, white beard—a white man, naked but for barbaric ornaments7 of gold spangles and diamonds.
“God!” exclaimed the strange apparition8.
Tarzan eyed the other quizzically. That single English word opened up such tremendous possibilities for conjecture9 as baffled the mind of the ape-man.
“What are you? Who are you?” continued the old man, but this time in the dialect of the great apes.
“You used an English word a moment ago,” said Tarzan. “Do you speak that language?” Tarzan himself spoke10 in English.
“Ah, dear God!” cried the old man, “that I should have lived to hear that sweet tongue again.” And he, too, now spoke in English, halting English, as might one who was long unaccustomed to voicing the language.
“Who are you?” asked Tarzan, “and what are you doing here?”
“It is the same question that I asked you,” replied the old man. “Do not be afraid to answer me. You are evidently an Englishman, and you have nothing to fear from me.”
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深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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shaft
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quartz
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thwart
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subservient
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incarcerated
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prey
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descended
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subterranean
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chambers
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undoing
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nostrils
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superstition
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whatsoever
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fumes
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descending
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doorways
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inadequate
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rigidity
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forth
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devour
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下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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lashing
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futilely
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futile(无用的)的变形; 干 | |
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