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THE GRAVE BY THE HANDPOST
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I never pass through Chalk-Newton without turning to regard the neighbouring upland, at a point where a lane crosses the lone1 straight highway dividing this from the next parish; a sight which does not fail to recall the event that once happened there; and, though it may seem superfluous2, at this date, to disinter more memories of village history, the whispers of that spot may claim to be preserved.
It was on a dark, yet mild and exceptionally dry evening at Christmas-time (according to the testimony3 of William Dewy of Mellstock, Michael Mail, and others), that the choir4 of Chalk-Newton—a large parish situate about half-way between the towns of Ivel and Casterbridge, and now a railway station—left their homes just before midnight to repeat their annual harmonies under the windows of the local population. The band of instrumentalists and singers was one of the largest in the county; and, unlike the smaller and finer Mellstock string-band, which eschewed7 all but the catgut, it included brass8 and reed performers at full Sunday services, and reached all across the west gallery.
On this night there were two or three violins, two ‘cellos, a tenor9 viol, double bass10, hautboy, clarionets, serpent, and seven singers. It was, however, not the choir’s labours, but what its members chanced to witness, that particularly marked the occasion.
They had pursued their rounds for many years without meeting with any incident of an unusual kind, but to-night, according to the assertions of several, there prevailed, to begin with, an exceptionally solemn and thoughtful mood among two or three of the oldest in the band, as if they were thinking they might be joined by the phantoms
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1 lone | |
adj.孤寂的,单独的;唯一的 | |
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2 superfluous | |
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3 testimony | |
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4 choir | |
n.唱诗班,唱诗班的席位,合唱团,舞蹈团;v.合唱 | |
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5 ridge | |
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7 eschewed | |
v.(尤指为道德或实际理由而)习惯性避开,回避( eschew的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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8 brass | |
n.黄铜;黄铜器,铜管乐器 | |
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9 tenor | |
n.男高音(歌手),次中音(乐器),要旨,大意 | |
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10 bass | |
n.男低音(歌手);低音乐器;低音大提琴 | |
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11 phantoms | |
n.鬼怪,幽灵( phantom的名词复数 ) | |
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12 flattening | |
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13 mound | |
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14 zest | |
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15 stump | |
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16 astronomically | |
天文学上 | |
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17 decided | |
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18 ascended | |
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19 monotonous | |
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25 junction | |
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26 corpse | |
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27 thither | |
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29 sergeant | |
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30 engrossed | |
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31 regiment | |
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32 lamentable | |
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35 judgment | |
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37 distinguished | |
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38 indirectly | |
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39 embark | |
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45 deliberately | |
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51 professed | |
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52 retraced | |
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54 drawn | |
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56 rein | |
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57 apparently | |
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58 standing | |
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59 miserable | |
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60 amends | |
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61 worthy | |
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62 Christian | |
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63 honourable | |
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64 undertaking | |
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65 privately | |
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67 reverent | |
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68 formerly | |
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69 smacked | |
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70 vowed | |
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71 opposition | |
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72 stipulated | |
vt.& vi.规定;约定adj.[法]合同规定的 | |
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73 exhumation | |
n.掘尸,发掘;剥璐 | |
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74 implored | |
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75 forth | |
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76 misgiving | |
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77 coffin | |
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78 inscription | |
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80 incumbent | |
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81 inquiry | |
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82 embarked | |
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83 rumoured | |
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84 inertness | |
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85 repose | |
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86 inquiries | |
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89 deviously | |
弯曲地,绕道地 | |
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90 degradation | |
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91 retrieve | |
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92 propitiate | |
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93 liking | |
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94 hermit | |
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95 abode | |
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96 resounded | |
v.(指声音等)回荡于某处( resound的过去式和过去分词 );产生回响;(指某处)回荡着声音 | |
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