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He awoke in the dark. His awakening1 was simple, easy, without movement save for the eyes that opened and made him aware of darkness. Unlike most, who must feel and grope and listen to, and contact with, the world about them, he knew himself on the moment of awakening, instantly identifying himself in time and place and personality. After the lapsed3 hours of sleep he took up, without effort, the interrupted tale of his days. He knew himself to be Dick Forrest, the master of broad acres, who had fallen asleep hours before after drowsily4 putting a match between the pages of “Road Town” and pressing off the electric reading lamp.
Near at hand there was the ripple5 and gurgle of some sleepy fountain. From far off, so faint and far that only a keen ear could catch, he heard a sound that made him smile with pleasure. He knew it for the distant, throaty bawl6 of King Polo—King Polo, his champion Short Horn bull, thrice Grand Champion also of all bulls at Sacramento at the California State Fairs. The smile was slow in easing from Dick Forrest’s face, for he dwelt a moment on the new triumphs he had destined7 that year for King Polo on the Eastern livestock8 circuits. He would show them that a bull, California born and finished, could compete with the cream of bulls corn-fed in Iowa or imported overseas from the immemorial home of Short Horns.
Not until the smile faded, which was a matter of seconds, did he reach out in the dark and press the first of a row of buttons. There were three rows of such buttons. The concealed10 lighting11 that spilled from the huge bowl under the ceiling revealed a sleeping-porch, three sides of which were fine-meshed
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copper
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barometer
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Fahrenheit
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thermos
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n.保湿瓶,热水瓶 | |
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burnished
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sliver
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preying
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pounced
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sipped
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judgment
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pajamas
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afterward
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thigh
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marred
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wince
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gash
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v.深切,划开;n.(深长的)切(伤)口;裂缝 | |
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curiously
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joyous
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picturesque
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foam
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crest
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trumpet
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n.喇叭,喇叭声;v.吹喇叭,吹嘘 | |
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smitten
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猛打,重击,打击( smite的过去分词 ) | |
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awakened
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jut
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v.突出;n.突出,突出物 | |
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shrubs
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blemish
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v.损害;玷污;瑕疵,缺点 | |
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immediate
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spoke
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queried
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meditated
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appreciation
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exclamation
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shipping
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fumigating
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