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CHAPTER 24 THE SPATTS
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The house of the Spatts was large, imposing1 and variegated2. It had turrets3, balconies, and architectural nooks in such quantity that the unaided individual eye could not embrace it all at once. It overlooked, from a height, the grounds of the Frinton Sports Club, and a new member of this club, upon first beholding4 the residence, had made the immortal5 remark: “It wants at least fourteen people to look at it.” The house stood in the middle of an unfinished garden, which promised ultimately to be as heterogeneous6 as itself, but which at present was merely an expanse of sorely wounded earth.
The time was early summer, and therefore the summer dining-room of the Spatts was in use. This dining-room consisted of one white, windowed wall, a tiled floor, and a roof of wood. The windows gave into the winter dining-room, which was a white apartment, sparsely7 curtained and cushioned with chintz, and containing very few pieces of furniture or pictures. The Spatts considered, rightly, that furniture and pictures were unhygienic and the secret lairs8 of noxious9 germs. Had the Spatts flourished twenty-five years earlier their dining-room would have been covered with brown paper upon which would have hung permanent photographs of European masterpieces of graphic10 art, and there would have been a multiplicity of draperies and specimens11 of
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imposing
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adj.使人难忘的,壮丽的,堂皇的,雄伟的 | |
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turrets
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(六角)转台( turret的名词复数 ); (战舰和坦克等上的)转动炮塔; (摄影机等上的)镜头转台; (旧时攻城用的)塔车 | |
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v.看,注视( behold的现在分词 );瞧;看呀;(叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现)哎哟 | |
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immortal
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heterogeneous
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graphic
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adj.生动的,形象的,绘画的,文字的,图表的 | |
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trophies
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twilight
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(通常指灯光)闪烁,摇曳( flicker的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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remains
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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moths
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v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心 | |
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outskirts
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middle-aged
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simplicity
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reminder
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intervals
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elasticity
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meandering
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蜿蜒的河流,漫步,聊天 | |
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semblance
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vitality
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vigour
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stimulate
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purely
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mentality
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pointed
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pier
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n.码头;桥墩,桥柱;[建]窗间壁,支柱 | |
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judgment
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attachment
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militancy
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n.warlike behavior or tendency | |
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imprisonment
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peccadillo
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magistrate
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celebrated
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thither
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ingratitude
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n.忘恩负义 | |
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imprisoned
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下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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discretion
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privately
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circuitous
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adj.迂回的路的,迂曲的,绕行的 | |
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abrogating
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废除(法律等)( abrogate的现在分词 ); 取消; 去掉; 抛开 | |
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withdrawn
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vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出 | |
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irrationally
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blandness
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automobile
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utterance
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rubicundity
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enchanting
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