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When Death is present in a household on a Christmas Day, the very contrast between the time as it now is, and the day as it has often been, gives a poignancy1 to sorrow—a more utter blankness to the desolation. James Leigh died just as the far-away bells of Rochdale Church were ringing for morning service on Christmas Day, 1836. A few minutes before his death, he opened his already glazing2 eyes, and made a sign to his wife, by the faint motion of his lips, that he had yet something to say. She stooped close down, and caught the broken whisper, “I forgive her, Annie! May God forgive me!”
“Oh, my love, my dear! only get well, and I will never cease showing my thanks for those words. May God in heaven bless thee for saying them. Thou’rt not so restless, my lad! may be—Oh, God!”
They had been two-and-twenty years man and wife; for nineteen of those years their life had been as calm and happy as the most perfect uprightness on the one side, and the most complete confidence and loving submission4 on the other, could make it. Milton’s famous line might have been framed and hung up as the rule of their married life, for he was truly the interpreter, who stood between God and her; she would have considered herself wicked if she had ever dared even to think him austere5, though as certainly as he was an upright man, so surely was he hard, stern, and inflexible6. But for three years the moan and the murmur7 had never been out of her heart; she had rebelled against her husband as against a tyrant8, with a hidden, sullen
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poignancy
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n.玻璃装配业;玻璃窗;上釉;上光v.装玻璃( glaze的现在分词 );上釉于,上光;(目光)变得呆滞无神 | |
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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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anguish
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estrangement
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condole
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v.同情;慰问 | |
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furrows
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ad.不停地 | |
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moor
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moors
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hearth
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humiliation
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repentant
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savings
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scrupulously
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dread
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applied
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buckle
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beseeching
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moss
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sobbing
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<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的 | |
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undone
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a.未做完的,未完成的 | |
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latch
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n.门闩,窗闩;弹簧锁 | |
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parable
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blessing
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n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿 | |
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aged
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bereaved
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adj.刚刚丧失亲人的v.使失去(希望、生命等)( bereave的过去式和过去分词);(尤指死亡)使丧失(亲人、朋友等);使孤寂;抢走(财物) | |
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sobs
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啜泣(声),呜咽(声)( sob的名词复数 ) | |
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schooling
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n.教育;正规学校教育 | |
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craving
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n.渴望,热望 | |
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fretting
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n. 微振磨损 adj. 烦躁的, 焦虑的 | |
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nought
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outlet
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n.出口/路;销路;批发商店;通风口;发泄 | |
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heeded
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countenance
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deferred
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folly
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entreaty
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catching
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momentary
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likeness
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perseverance
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yearning
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woe
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virtues
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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dignified
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exquisitely
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hospitable
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unwilling
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distress
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liking
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vigour
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maidenly
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refinement
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