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II. SOMEBODY KNOCKS AND COMES IN
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Miller1 Loveday was the representative of an ancient family of corn-grinders whose history is lost in the mists of antiquity2. His ancestral line was contemporaneous with that of De Ros, Howard, and De La Zouche; but, owing to some trifling3 deficiency in the possessions of the house of Loveday, the individual names and intermarriages of its members were not recorded during the Middle Ages, and thus their private lives in any given century were uncertain. But it was known that the family had formed matrimonial alliances with farmers not so very small, and once with a gentleman-tanner, who had for many years purchased after their death the horses of the most aristocratic persons in the county—fiery steeds that earlier in their career had been valued at many hundred guineas.
It was also ascertained4 that Mr. Loveday’s great-grandparents had been eight in number, and his great-great-grandparents sixteen, every one of whom reached to years of discretion5: at every stage backwards6 his sires and gammers thus doubled and doubled till they became a vast body of Gothic ladies and gentlemen of the rank known as ceorls or villeins, full of importance to the country at large, and ramifying throughout the unwritten history of England. His immediate7 father had greatly improved the value of their residence by building a new chimney, and setting up an additional pair of millstones.
Overcombe Mill presented at one end the appearance of a hard-worked house slipping into the river, and at the other of an idle, genteel place, half-cloaked with creepers at this time of the year, and having no visible connexion with flour. It had hips8 instead of gables, giving it a round-shouldered look, four chimneys with no smoke coming out of them, two
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1 miller | |
n.磨坊主 | |
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2 antiquity | |
n.古老;高龄;古物,古迹 | |
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3 trifling | |
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4 ascertained | |
v.弄清,确定,查明( ascertain的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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5 discretion | |
n.谨慎;随意处理 | |
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6 backwards | |
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地 | |
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7 immediate | |
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的 | |
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8 hips | |
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的 | |
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n.曲折,之字形;adj.曲折的,锯齿形的;adv.曲折地,成锯齿形地;vt.使曲折;vi.曲折前行 | |
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adj.反常的;乖戾的;(变)弯曲的;变形的v.弄弯,变歪( warp的过去式和过去分词 );使(行为等)不合情理,使乖戾, | |
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11 draught | |
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12 gaping | |
adj.口的;张口的;敞口的;多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 );张开,张大 | |
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吐 | |
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14 doorway | |
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径 | |
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15 bulging | |
膨胀; 凸出(部); 打气; 折皱 | |
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16 mere | |
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17 wayfarer | |
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18 subtraction | |
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21 larch | |
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22 boughs | |
大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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23 countenance | |
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25 overflowing | |
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28 proceeding | |
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29 kindly | |
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33 earrings | |
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36 buttress | |
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37 tickled | |
(使)发痒( tickle的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)愉快,逗乐 | |
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38 viands | |
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39 glamour | |
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40 verge | |
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41 solicitous | |
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42 lapsing | |
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43 fowls | |
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44 regiments | |
(军队的)团( regiment的名词复数 ); 大量的人或物 | |
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45 regiment | |
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47 disinterested | |
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48 distinguished | |
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50 enlisted | |
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51 jack | |
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52 homely | |
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53 ferment | |
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54 strife | |
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55 embarrassment | |
n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫 | |
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56 superseded | |
[医]被代替的,废弃的 | |
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57 demure | |
adj.严肃的;端庄的 | |
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58 chatter | |
vi./n.喋喋不休;短促尖叫;(牙齿)打战 | |
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59 bonnets | |
n.童帽( bonnet的名词复数 );(烟囱等的)覆盖物;(苏格兰男子的)无边呢帽;(女子戴的)任何一种帽子 | |
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60 underneath | |
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61 stagnate | |
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62 lodgings | |
n. 出租的房舍, 寄宿舍 | |
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63 amiable | |
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64 forth | |
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65 rosy | |
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66 possessed | |
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67 treasury | |
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库 | |
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68 retired | |
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的 | |
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69 ridge | |
n.山脊;鼻梁;分水岭 | |
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70 cones | |
n.(人眼)圆锥细胞;圆锥体( cone的名词复数 );球果;圆锥形东西;(盛冰淇淋的)锥形蛋卷筒 | |
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71 blotted | |
涂污( blot的过去式和过去分词 ); (用吸墨纸)吸干 | |
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72 sentries | |
哨兵,步兵( sentry的名词复数 ) | |
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73 intervals | |
n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 );间隔时间;[数学]区间;(戏剧、电影或音乐会的)幕间休息 | |
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74 shuffling | |
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75 pickets | |
罢工纠察员( picket的名词复数 ) | |
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76 hampered | |
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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77 ebb | |
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78 jutting | |
v.(使)突出( jut的现在分词 );伸出;(从…)突出;高出 | |
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79 promontory | |
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80 boulders | |
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81 infantry | |
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82 tattoo | |
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83 ascending | |
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84 bustle | |
v.喧扰地忙乱,匆忙,奔忙;n.忙碌;喧闹 | |
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85 spokes | |
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