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CHAPTER IV
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I WENT away hastily, down a cross-street, and at the first corner I saw another tragedy. Two men of the working class had caught a man and a woman with two children, and were robbing them. I knew the man by sight, though I had never been introduced to him. He was a poet whose verses I had long admired. Yet I did not go to his help, for at the moment I came upon the scene there was a pistol shot, and I saw him sinking to the ground. The woman screamed, and she was felled with a fist-blow by one of the brutes3. I cried out threateningly, whereupon they discharged their pistols at me and I ran away around the corner. Here I was blocked by an advancing conflagration4. The buildings on both sides were burning, and the street was filled with smoke and flame. From somewhere in that murk came a woman's voice calling shrilly5 for help. But I did not go to her. A man's heart turned to iron amid such scenes, and one heard all too many appeals for help.
“Returning to the corner, I found the two robbers were gone. The poet and his wife lay dead on the pavement. It was a shocking sight. The two children had vanished—whither I could not tell. And I knew, now, why it was that the fleeing persons I encountered slipped along so furtively6 and with such white faces. In the midst of our civilization, down in our slums and labor-ghettos, we had bred a race of barbarians7, of savages8; and now, in the time of our calamity9, they turned upon us like the wild beasts they were and destroyed us. And they destroyed themselves as well.
“They inflamed10 themselves with strong drink and committed a thousand atrocities11, quarreling and
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兽( brute的名词复数 ); 畜生; 残酷无情的人; 兽性 | |
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conflagration
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n.建筑物或森林大火 | |
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shrilly
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尖声的; 光亮的,耀眼的 | |
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barbarians
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n.野蛮人( barbarian的名词复数 );外国人;粗野的人;无教养的人 | |
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savages
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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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atrocities
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n.邪恶,暴行( atrocity的名词复数 );滔天大罪 | |
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killing
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remonstrance
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n抗议,抱怨 | |
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scarlet
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n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的 | |
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doorway
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adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染 | |
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filthy
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filth
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n.肮脏,污物,污秽;淫猥 | |
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dwelling
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isolation
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contagion
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n.(通过接触的疾病)传染;蔓延 | |
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disillusioned
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a.不再抱幻想的,大失所望的,幻想破灭的 | |
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conflagrations
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n.大火(灾)( conflagration的名词复数 ) | |
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conjecture
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conjectured
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precipitated
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corpses
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sanitary
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sentimental
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adj.多愁善感的,感伤的 | |
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wringing
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淋湿的,湿透的 | |
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segregate
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adj.分离的,被隔离的;vt.使分离,使隔离 | |
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segregated
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分开的; 被隔离的 | |
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v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 );(洪水般地)涌来;充满;给予或交予(太多事物)使难以应付 | |
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survivors
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幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 ) | |
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survivor
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n.生存者,残存者,幸存者 | |
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ammunition
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n.军火,弹药 | |
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scout
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n.童子军,侦察员;v.侦察,搜索 | |
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wagons
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n.四轮的运货马车( wagon的名词复数 );铁路货车;小手推车 | |
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v.努力赶上或超越,与…竞争;效仿 | |
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scouts
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侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员 | |
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scouted
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寻找,侦察( scout的过去式和过去分词 ); 物色(优秀运动员、演员、音乐家等) | |
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grassy
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miscreant
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slash
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vi.大幅度削减;vt.猛砍,尖锐抨击,大幅减少;n.猛砍,斜线,长切口,衣衩 | |
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nauseating
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specimen
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degradation
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pony
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faculty
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orb
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ominous
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nostrils
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swells
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veering
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