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My next bout1 with John Barleycorn occurred when I was seven. This time my imagination was at fault, and I was frightened into the encounter. Still farming, my family had moved to a ranch2 on the bleak3 sad coast of San Mateo County, south of San Francisco. It was a wild, primitive4 countryside in those days; and often I heard my mother pride herself that we were old American stock and not immigrant Irish and Italians like our neighbours. In all our section there was only one other old American family.
One Sunday morning found me, how or why I cannot now remember, at the Morrisey ranch. A number of young people had gathered there from the nearer ranches5. Besides, the oldsters had been there, drinking since early dawn, and, some of them, since the night before. The Morriseys were a huge breed, and there were many strapping6 great sons and uncles, heavy-booted, big-fisted, rough-voiced.
Suddenly there were screams from the girls and cries of "Fight!" There was a rush. Men hurled7 themselves out of the kitchen. Two giants, flush-faced, with greying hair, were locked in each other's arms. One was Black Matt, who, everybody said, had killed two men in his time. The women screamed softly, crossed themselves, or prayed brokenly, hiding their eyes and peeping through their fingers. But not I. It is a fair presumption8 that I was the most interested spectator. Maybe I would see that wonderful thing, a man killed. Anyway, I would see a man-fight. Great was my disappointment. Black Matt and Tom Morrisey merely held on to each other and lifted their clumsy-booted feet in what seemed a grotesque9, elephantine dance. They were too drunk to fight. Then the peacemakers got hold of them and led them back to cement the new friendship in the kitchen.
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adj. 魁伟的, 身材高大健壮的 n. 皮绳或皮带的材料, 裹伤胶带, 皮鞭 动词strap的现在分词形式 | |
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timorous
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noted
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retaliate
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glimmering
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varieties 变化,多样性,种类 | |
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prodigy
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pickle
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collapse
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automaton
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n.自动机器,机器人 | |
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braggadocio
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n.吹牛大王 | |
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n.少女,处女;adj.未婚的,纯洁的,无经验的 | |
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mimic
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bickering
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suffocating
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vent
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resuscitate
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afterward
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delirium
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n. 神智昏迷,说胡话;极度兴奋 | |
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frightful
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raved
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prodigious
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adj.惊人的,奇妙的;异常的;巨大的;庞大的 | |
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screeching
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iniquity
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subterranean
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gambling
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outrage
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vilest
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filth
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arteries
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威慑,制止; 制止物,制止因素; 挽留的事物; 核威慑 | |
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