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Not being favored by chance in getting acquainted with Dede Mason, Daylight's interest in her slowly waned1. This was but natural, for he was plunged2 deep in hazardous3 operations, and the fascinations4 of the game and the magnitude of it accounted for all the energy that even his magnificent organism could generate.
Such was his absorption that the pretty stenographer5 slowly and imperceptibly faded from the forefront of his consciousness. Thus, the first faint spur, in the best sense, of his need for woman ceased to prod6. So far as Dede Mason was concerned, he possessed7 no more than a complacent8 feeling of satisfaction in that he had a very nice stenographer. And, completely to put the quietus on any last lingering hopes he might have had of her, he was in the thick of his spectacular and intensely bitter fight with the Coastwise Steam Navigation Company, and the Hawaiian, Nicaraguan, and Pacific-Mexican Steamship9-Company. He stirred up a bigger muss than he had anticipated, and even he was astounded10 at the wide ramifications11 of the struggle and at the unexpected and incongruous interests that were drawn12 into it. Every newspaper in San Francisco turned upon him. It was true, one or two of them had first intimated that they were open to subsidization, but Daylight's
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fascinations
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n.魅力( fascination的名词复数 );有魅力的东西;迷恋;陶醉 | |
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stenographer
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n.速记员 | |
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steamship
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n.汽船,轮船 | |
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judgment
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sensational
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virulent
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scrupulousness
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malicious
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frankly
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interpretation
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accomplished
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bully
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liar
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n.说谎的人 | |
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bucked
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adj.快v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的过去式和过去分词 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃 | |
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mighty
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backbone
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rustle
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utterance
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scattering
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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dodgers
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rancor
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savageness
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martyr
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ferocious
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brutality
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n.野蛮的行为,残忍,野蛮 | |
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statistical
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treacherous
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violation
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fomenter
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wasteful
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anarchist
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dire
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fervent
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obstinately
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gritted
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continental
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adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的 | |
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justified
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a.正当的,有理的 | |
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gambling
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n.赌博;投机 | |
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allied
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adj.协约国的;同盟国的 | |
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peculiar
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adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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doomed
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civic
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labor
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prolific
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adj.丰富的,大量的;多产的,富有创造力的 | |
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warfare
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prosecuted
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Christian
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adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒 | |
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wrangle
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vi.争吵 | |
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potent
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adj.强有力的,有权势的;有效力的 | |
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insignificant
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adj.无关紧要的,可忽略的,无意义的 | |
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federation
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destined
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laborers
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bakers
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wagon
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n.四轮马车,手推车,面包车;无盖运货列车 | |
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turmoil
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intrigues
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steadily
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vessels
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vessel
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cargoes
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ultimatum
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ashore
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seamen
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noted
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rumor
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colossal
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persistent
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shareholders
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squeal
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gouging
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gouged
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v.凿( gouge的过去式和过去分词 );乱要价;(在…中)抠出…;挖出… | |
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mollycoddles
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v.娇养,宠坏( mollycoddle的第三人称单数 ) | |
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corpse
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corpses
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