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The Wisdom of the Trail
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Sitka Charley had achieved the impossible. Other Indians might have known as much of the wisdom of the trail as he did; but he alone knew the white man's wisdom, the honor of the trail, and the law. But these things had not come to him in a day. The aboriginal1 mind is slow to generalize, and many facts, repeated often, are required to compass an understanding. Sitka Charley, from boyhood, had been thrown continually with white men, and as a man he had elected to cast his fortunes with them, expatriating himself, once and for all, from his own people. Even then, respecting, almost venerating2 their power, and pondering over it, he had yet to divine its secret essence—the honor and the law. And it was only by the cumulative3 evidence of years that he had finally come to understand. Being an alien, when he did know, he knew it better than the white man himself; being an Indian, he had achieved the impossible.
And of these things had been bred a certain contempt for his own people—a contempt which he had made it a custom to conceal4, but which now burst forth5 in a polyglot6 whirlwind of curses upon the heads of Kah-Chucte and Gowhee. They cringed before him like a brace7 of snarling8 wolf dogs, too cowardly to spring, too wolfish to cover their fangs9. They were not handsome creatures. Neither was Sitka Charley. All three were frightful-looking. There was no flesh to their faces; their cheekbones were massed with hideous10 scabs which had cracked and frozen alternately under the intense frost; while their eyes burned
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aboriginal
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adj.(指动植物)土生的,原产地的,土著的 | |
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adj.通晓数种语言的;n.通晓多种语言的人 | |
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v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的现在分词 );咆哮着说,厉声地说 | |
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n.(尤指狗和狼的)长而尖的牙( fang的名词复数 );(蛇的)毒牙;罐座 | |
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situated
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outfit
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sullenly
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不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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gathering
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catching
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定量( ration的名词复数 ); 配给量; 正常量; 合理的量 | |
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ego
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n.自我,自己,自尊 | |
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thawed
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解冻 | |
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longing
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stiffen
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stimulant
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wont
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concealing
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impartially
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分配,拨给,摊派( allot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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helping
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deserted
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lurking
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puny
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v.畏缩( recoil的过去式和过去分词 );退缩;报应;返回 | |
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leash
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crouched
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v.屈膝,蹲伏( crouch的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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devoured
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吞没( devour的过去式和过去分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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salmon
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n.鲑,大马哈鱼,橙红色的 | |
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onward
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adj.向前的,前进的;adv.向前,前进,在先 | |
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expended
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miraculous
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delirium
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venting
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acme
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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 | |
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烧焦,烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(植物)枯萎,把…晒枯; 高速行驶; 枯焦 | |
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