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When Forrest went through the French windows from his sleeping-porch, he crossed, first, a comfortable dressing1 room, window-divaned, many-lockered, with a generous fireplace, out of which opened a bathroom; and, second, a long office room, wherein was all the paraphernalia3 of business—desks, dictaphones, filing cabinets, book cases, magazine files, and drawer-pigeonholes that tiered to the low, beamed ceiling.
Midway in the office room, he pressed a button and a series of book-freightened shelves swung on a pivot4, revealing a tiny spiral stairway of steel, which he descended5 with care that his spurs might not catch, the bookshelves swinging into place behind him.
At the foot of the stairway, a press on another button pivoted6 more shelves of books and gave him entrance into a long low room shelved with books from floor to ceiling. He went directly to a case, directly to a shelf, and unerringly laid his hand on the book he sought. A minute he ran the pages, found the passage he was after, nodded his head to himself in vindication7, and replaced the book.
A door gave way to a pergola of square concrete columns spanned with redwood logs and interlaced with smaller trunks of redwood, all rough and crinkled velvet8 with the ruddy purple of the bark.
It was evident, since he had to skirt several hundred feet of concrete walls of wandering house, that he had not taken the short way out. Under wide-spreading ancient oaks, where the long hitching-rails, bark-chewed, and the hoof9-beaten gravel10 showed the stamping place of many horses, he found a pale-golden, almost tan-golden, sorrel
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点缀(gem的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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rotation
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barley
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n.大麦,大麦粒 | |
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旋转( rotation的名词复数 ); 转动; 轮流; 轮换 | |
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