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CHAPTER XI
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Black Forest House: and the sociability1 therein—Its perfume—George positively2 declines to remain in bed after four o’clock in the morning—The road one cannot miss—My peculiar3 extra instinct—An ungrateful party—Harris as a scientist—His cheery confidence—The village: where it was, and where it ought to have been—George: his plan—We promenade4 à la Français—The German coachman asleep and awake—The man who spreads the English language abroad.
There was one night when, tired out and far from town or village, we slept in a Black Forest farmhouse5. The great charm about the Black Forest house is its sociability. The cows are in the next room, the horses are upstairs, the geese and ducks are in the kitchen, while the pigs, the children, and the chickens live all over the place.
“Good-morning! Don’t happen to have any potato peelings in here? No, I see you haven’t; good-bye.”
Next there is a cackle, and you see the neck of an old hen stretched round the corner.
“Fine morning, isn’t it? You don’t mind my bringing this worm of mine in here, do you? It is so difficult in this house to find a room where one can enjoy one’s food with any quietness. From a chicken I have always been a slow eater, and when a dozen—there, I thought they wouldn’t leave me alone. Now they’ll all want a bit. You don’t mind my getting on the bed, do you? Perhaps here they won’t notice me.”
While you are dressing various shock heads peer in at the door; they evidently regard the room as a temporary menagerie. You cannot tell whether the heads belong to boys or girls; you can only hope they are all male. It is of no use shutting the door, because there is nothing to fasten it by, and the moment you are gone they push it open again. You breakfast as the
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sociability
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n.好交际,社交性,善于交际 | |
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adv.明确地,断然,坚决地;实在,确实 | |
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peculiar
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adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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farmhouse
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n.农场住宅(尤指主要住房) | |
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dressing
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n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料 | |
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v.嘟哝;作呼噜声;n.呼噜声,嘟哝 | |
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prodigal
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din
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criticise
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distinctive
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scent
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corpse
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frugal
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pertinently
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virtue
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n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力 | |
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precipices
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n.悬崖,峭壁( precipice的名词复数 ) | |
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abruptly
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wasps
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黄蜂( wasp的名词复数 ); 胡蜂; 易动怒的人; 刻毒的人 | |
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vacancy
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n.(旅馆的)空位,空房,(职务的)空缺 | |
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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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adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的 | |
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adj.古雅的,离奇有趣的,奇怪的 | |
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vi.抱怨;咕哝;n.抱怨,牢骚;咕哝,隆隆声 | |
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抱怨( grumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 发牢骚; 咕哝; 发哼声 | |
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n.策略,调动;v.用策略,调动 | |
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adj.争论不休的;(指问题等)棘手的;争论不休的问题;烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论 | |
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originality
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aplomb
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recollect
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v.回忆,想起,记起,忆起,记得 | |
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n.绕,缠,绕组,线圈 | |
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proceeding
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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adroit
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复得( regain的过去式和过去分词 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地 | |
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strapping
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peculiarity
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n.独特性,特色;特殊的东西;怪癖 | |
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n.呻吟,叹息( groan的名词复数 );呻吟般的声音v.呻吟( groan的第三人称单数 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦 | |
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细微( subtlety的名词复数 ); 精细; 巧妙; 细微的差别等 | |
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miserable
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elucidation
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叮当声( jingle的名词复数 ); 节拍十分规则的简单诗歌 | |
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