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CHAPTER V
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It was summer-time, six months later, and mowers and haymakers were at work in the meads. The manor-house, being opposite them, frequently formed a peg1 for conversation during these operations; and the doings of the squire2, and the squire’s young wife, the curate’s sister—who was at present the admired of most of them, and the interest of all—met with their due amount of criticism.
Rosa was happy, if ever woman could be said to be so. She had not learnt the fate of her father, and sometimes wondered—perhaps with a sense of relief—why he did not write to her from his supposed home in Canada. Her brother Joshua had been presented to a living in a small town, shortly after her marriage, and Cornelius had thereupon succeeded to the vacant curacy of Narrobourne.
These two had awaited in deep suspense3 the discovery of their father’s body; and yet the discovery had not been made. Every day they expected a man or a boy to run up from the meads with the intelligence; but he had never come. Days had accumulated to weeks and months; the wedding had come and gone: Joshua had tolled4 and read himself in at his new parish; and never a shout of amazement5 over the millwright’s remains6.
But now, in June, when they were mowing7 the meads, the hatches had to be drawn8 and the water let out of its channels for the convenience of the mowers. It was thus that the discovery was made. A man, stooping low with his scythe9, caught a view of the culvert lengthwise, and saw something entangled
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1 peg | |
n.木栓,木钉;vt.用木钉钉,用短桩固定 | |
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2 squire | |
n.护卫, 侍从, 乡绅 | |
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3 suspense | |
n.(对可能发生的事)紧张感,担心,挂虑 | |
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4 tolled | |
鸣钟(toll的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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5 amazement | |
n.惊奇,惊讶 | |
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6 remains | |
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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7 mowing | |
n.割草,一次收割量,牧草地v.刈,割( mow的现在分词 ) | |
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8 drawn | |
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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9 scythe | |
n. 长柄的大镰刀,战车镰; v. 以大镰刀割 | |
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10 entangled | |
adj.卷入的;陷入的;被缠住的;缠在一起的v.使某人(某物/自己)缠绕,纠缠于(某物中),使某人(自己)陷入(困难或复杂的环境中)( entangle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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11 bonnet | |
n.无边女帽;童帽 | |
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12 standing | |
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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14 auspicious | |
adj.吉利的;幸运的,吉兆的 | |
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15 fortified | |
adj. 加强的 | |
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16 regenerator | |
n.收革者,交流换热器,再生器;蓄热器 | |
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17 bent | |
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的 | |
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18 margin | |
n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘 | |
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19 brink | |
n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘,边沿 | |
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20 weir | |
n.堰堤,拦河坝 | |
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21 pebbly | |
多卵石的,有卵石花纹的 | |
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22 pellucid | |
adj.透明的,简单的 | |
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23 flicker | |
vi./n.闪烁,摇曳,闪现 | |
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24 puff | |
n.一口(气);一阵(风);v.喷气,喘气 | |
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25 moodily | |
adv.喜怒无常地;情绪多变地;心情不稳地;易生气地 | |
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26 contingency | |
n.意外事件,可能性 | |
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