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CHAPTER X
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Early in March, 1841, Miss Brontë obtained her second and last situation as a governess. This time she esteemed1 herself fortunate in becoming a member of a kind-hearted and friendly household. The master of it, she especially regarded as a valuable friend, whose advice helped to guide her in one very important step of her life. But as her definite acquirements were few, she had to eke2 them out by employing her leisure time in needlework; and altogether her position was that of “bonne” or nursery governess, liable to repeated and never-ending calls upon her time. This description of uncertain, yet perpetual employment, subject to the exercise of another person’s will at all hours of the day, was peculiarly trying to one whose life at home had been full of abundant leisure. Idle she never was in any place, but of the multitude of small talks, plans, duties, pleasures, &c., that make up most people’s days, her home life was nearly destitute3. This made it possible for her to go through long and deep histories of feeling and imagination, for which others, odd as it sounds, have rarely time. This made it inevitable4 that—later on, in her too short career—the intensity5 of her feeling should wear out her physical health. The habit of “making out,” which had grown with her growth, and strengthened with her strength, had become a part of her nature. Yet all exercise of her strongest and most characteristic faculties6 was now out of the question. She could not (as while she was at Miss W---’s) feel, amidst the occupations of the day, that when evening came, she might employ herself in more congenial ways. No doubt, all who enter upon the career of a governess have to relinquish7 much; no doubt, it must ever be a life of sacrifice; but to Charlotte Brontë it was a perpetual attempt to force all her faculties into a direction for which the whole of her previous life had unfitted them. Moreover, the little Brontës had been brought up motherless; and from knowing nothing of the gaiety and the sportiveness of childhood—from never having experienced
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交出,让给( relinquish的现在分词 ); 放弃 | |
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faculty
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神示所( oracle的名词复数 ); 神谕; 圣贤; 哲人 | |
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speculation
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propound
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perfectly
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random
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inquiry
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prospects
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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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exquisite
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增强( swell的过去式和过去分词 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情) | |
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impatience
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confession
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rebellious
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momentary
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quelled
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vocation
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estrangement
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adoption
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apathetic
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prospectus
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conjecture
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crook
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attaining
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overtures
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