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XI. OUR PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED BY THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY
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To explain the miller1’s sudden proposal it is only necessary to go back to that moment when Anne, Festus, and Mrs. Garland were talking together on the down. John Loveday had fallen behind so as not to interfere2 with a meeting in which he was decidedly superfluous3; and his father, who guessed the trumpet-major’s secret, watched his face as he stood. John’s face was sad, and his eyes followed Mrs. Garland’s encouraging manner to Festus in a way which plainly said that every parting of her lips was tribulation4 to him. The miller loved his son as much as any miller or private gentleman could do, and he was pained to see John’s gloom at such a trivial circumstance. So what did he resolve but to help John there and then by precipitating5 a matter which, had he himself been the only person concerned, he would have delayed for another six months.
He had long liked the society of his impulsive6, tractable7 neighbour, Mrs. Garland; had mentally taken her up and pondered her in connexion with the question whether it would not be for the happiness of both if she were to share his home, even though she was a little his superior in antecedents and knowledge. In fact he loved her; not tragically8, but to a very creditable extent for his years; that is, next to his sons, Bob and John, though he knew very well of that ploughed-ground appearance near the corners of her once handsome eyes, and that the little depression in her right cheek was not the lingering dimple it was poetically9 assumed to be, but a result of the abstraction of some worn-out
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1 miller | |
n.磨坊主 | |
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2 interfere | |
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰 | |
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3 superfluous | |
adj.过多的,过剩的,多余的 | |
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4 tribulation | |
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5 precipitating | |
adj.急落的,猛冲的v.(突如其来地)使发生( precipitate的现在分词 );促成;猛然摔下;使沉淀 | |
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6 impulsive | |
adj.冲动的,刺激的;有推动力的 | |
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7 tractable | |
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8 tragically | |
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9 poetically | |
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10 nether | |
adj.下部的,下面的;n.阴间;下层社会 | |
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n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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12 attachment | |
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13 lodge | |
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14 mid | |
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15 regiment | |
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16 ridge | |
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17 gallant | |
adj.英勇的,豪侠的;(向女人)献殷勤的 | |
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18 determined | |
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19 jaunt | |
v.短程旅游;n.游览 | |
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20 virtuous | |
adj.有品德的,善良的,贞洁的,有效力的 | |
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21 guardian | |
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22 retired | |
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23 shutter | |
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24 heartily | |
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25 biding | |
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27 contrived | |
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28 glided | |
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29 piquant | |
adj.辛辣的,开胃的,令人兴奋的 | |
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30 aspiration | |
n.志向,志趣抱负;渴望;(语)送气音;吸出 | |
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31 persevered | |
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32 vibrations | |
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33 presumption | |
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34 broached | |
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36 wager | |
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37 militia | |
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38 tenor | |
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39 distraction | |
n.精神涣散,精神不集中,消遣,娱乐 | |
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40 dignified | |
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41 stammered | |
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42 desperately | |
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44 privately | |
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47 entirely | |
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48 peculiar | |
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49 definitive | |
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50 widower | |
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51 heed | |
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52 kindled | |
(使某物)燃烧,着火( kindle的过去式和过去分词 ); 激起(感情等); 发亮,放光 | |
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53 rattle | |
v.飞奔,碰响;激怒;n.碰撞声;拨浪鼓 | |
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54 ascended | |
v.上升,攀登( ascend的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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55 abreast | |
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56 drawn | |
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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57 pompous | |
adj.傲慢的,自大的;夸大的;豪华的 | |
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58 bucolic | |
adj.乡村的;牧羊的 | |
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59 thither | |
adv.向那里;adj.在那边的,对岸的 | |
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60 salute | |
vi.行礼,致意,问候,放礼炮;vt.向…致意,迎接,赞扬;n.招呼,敬礼,礼炮 | |
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61 isle | |
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