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BOOK FIFTH XVI
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The idea of the National Gallery had been with her from the moment of her hearing from Sir Luke Strett about his hour of coming. It had been in her mind as a place so meagrely visited, as one of the places that had seemed at home one of the attractions of Europe and one of its highest aids to culture, but that—the old story—the typical frivolous1 always ended by sacrificing to vulgar pleasures. She had had perfectly2, at those whimsical moments on the Brünig, the half-shamed sense of turning her back on such opportunities for real improvement as had figured to her, from of old, in connection with the continental3 tour, under the general head of "pictures and things"; and now she knew for what she had done so. The plea had been explicit—she had done so for life, as opposed to learning; the upshot of which had been that life was now beautifully provided for. In spite of those few dips and dashes into the many-coloured stream of history for which of late Kate Croy had helped her to find time, there were possible great chances she had neglected, possible great moments she should, save for to-day, have all but missed. She might still, she had felt, overtake one or two of them among the Titians and the Turners; she had been honestly nursing the hour, and, once she was in the benignant halls, her faith knew itself justified5. It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers6, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened out round her and made her presently say "If I could lose myself here!" There were people, people in plenty, but, admirably, no personal question. It was immense, outside, the personal question; but she had blissfully left it outside, and the nearest it came, for a quarter of an hour, to glimmering7 again into sight was when she watched for a little one of the more earnest of the lady-copyists. Two or three in particular, spectacled, aproned, absorbed, engaged her sympathy to an absurd extent, seemed to show her for the time the right way to live. She should have been a lady copyist—it met so the case. The case was the case of escape, of living under water, of being at once
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frivolous
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adj.轻薄的;轻率的 | |
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continental
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compassion
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长条形景色( vista的名词复数 ); 回顾; 展望; (未来可能发生的)一系列情景 | |
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promptly
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collapse
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glamour
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apparently
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generically
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bent
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n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的 | |
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marital
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adj.婚姻的,夫妻的 | |
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paternal
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n.兜帽( hood的名词复数 );头巾;(汽车、童车等的)折合式车篷;汽车发动机罩v.兜帽( hood的第三人称单数 );头巾;(汽车、童车等的)折合式车篷;汽车发动机罩 | |
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margin
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allusion
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n.暗示,间接提示 | |
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literally
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n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫 | |
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recur
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vi.复发,重现,再发生 | |
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insistently
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flare
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v.闪耀,闪烁;n.潮红;突发 | |
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smoothly
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adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地 | |
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高尚地,卓越地 | |
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yearning
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a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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supreme
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adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的 | |
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draught
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agitation
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n.搅动;搅拌;鼓动,煽动 | |
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adjourn
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luncheon
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n.午宴,午餐,便宴 | |
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precisely
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adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地 | |
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conveyance
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n.(不动产等的)转让,让与;转让证书;传送;运送;表达;(正)运输工具 | |
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v.引,领,陪同( usher的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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prospect
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凄惨地; 绝望地; 糟透地; 悲惨地 | |
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deviation
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[医]被代替的,废弃的 | |
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