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BOOK TENTH I
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"Then it has been—what do you say? a whole fortnight?—without your making a sign?"
Kate put that to him distinctly, in the December dusk of Lancaster Gate and on the matter of the time he had been back; but he saw with it straightway that she was as admirably true as ever to her instinct—which was a system as well—of not admitting the possibility between them of small resentments1, of trifles to trip up their general trust. That by itself, the renewed beauty of it, would at this fresh sight of her have stirred him to his depths if something else, something no less vivid but quite separate, hadn't stirred him still more. It was in seeing her that he felt what their interruption had been, and that they met across it even as persons whose adventures, on either side, in time and space, of the nature of perils2 and exiles, had had a peculiar3 strangeness. He wondered if he were as different for her as she herself had immediately appeared: which was but his way indeed of taking in, with his thrill, that—even going by the mere4 first look—she had never been so handsome. That fact bloomed for him, in the firelight and lamplight that glowed their welcome through the London fog, as the flower of her difference; just as her difference itself—part of which was her striking him as older in a degree for which no mere couple of months could account—was the fruit of their intimate relation. If she was different it was because they had chosen together that she should be, and she might now, as a proof of their wisdom, their success, of the reality of what had happened—of what in fact, for the spirit of each, was still happening—been showing it to him for pride. His having returned and yet kept, for numbered days, so still, had been, he was quite aware, the first point he should have to tackle; with which consciousness indeed he had made a clean breast of it in finally addressing Mrs. Lowder a note that had led to his present visit. He had written to Aunt Maud as the finer way; and it would doubtless have been to be noted5 that he needed no effort not to write to Kate. Venice was three weeks behind him—he had come up slowly; but it was still as if even in London he must conform to her law. That was exactly how he was able, with his faith in her steadiness, to appeal to her feeling for the situation and explain his stretched
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(因受虐待而)愤恨,不满,怨恨( resentment的名词复数 ) | |
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极大危险( peril的名词复数 ); 危险的事(或环境) | |
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adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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delicacy
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n.精致,细微,微妙,精良;美味,佳肴 | |
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syllable
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premium
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n.加付款;赠品;adj.高级的;售价高的 | |
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rebound
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v.弹回;n.弹回,跳回 | |
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contingencies
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renewal
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adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的 | |
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n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废 | |
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withdrawal
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proscription
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propriety
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discretion
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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demur
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v.表示异议,反对 | |
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affected
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loyalty
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vt.分摊,分配(apportion的现在分词形式) | |
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prodigious
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adj.惊人的,奇妙的;异常的;巨大的;庞大的 | |
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odious
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v.弄清,确定,查明( ascertain的现在分词 ) | |
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n.前奏曲、序曲,提议,提案,初步交涉 | |
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adj.拉牢的v.支住( brace的过去式和过去分词 );撑牢;使自己站稳;振作起来 | |
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perfectly
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adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地 | |
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pointed
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adj.尖的,直截了当的 | |
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mutual
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adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的 | |
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vaguely
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apparently
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adv.显然地;表面上,似乎 | |
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inveterate
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adj.积习已深的,根深蒂固的 | |
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abruptly
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adv.突然地,出其不意地 | |
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glide
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n./v.溜,滑行;(时间)消逝 | |
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alienated
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adj.感到孤独的,不合群的v.使疏远( alienate的过去式和过去分词 );使不友好;转让;让渡(财产等) | |
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liking
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n.爱好;嗜好;喜欢 | |
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hissing
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n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视 动词hiss的现在分词形式 | |
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brute
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n.野兽,兽性 | |
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reverting
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恢复( revert的现在分词 ); 重提; 回到…上; 归还 | |
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ironic
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adj.讽刺的,有讽刺意味的,出乎意料的 | |
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interceding
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v.斡旋,调解( intercede的现在分词 );说情 | |
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interceded
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v.斡旋,调解( intercede的过去式和过去分词 );说情 | |
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awfully
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adv.可怕地,非常地,极端地 | |
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lucid
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adj.明白易懂的,清晰的,头脑清楚的 | |
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assent
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v.批准,认可;n.批准,认可 | |
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hideous
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adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的 | |
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wince
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