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BOOK I.—THE SPOILED CHILD.CHAPTER 1.
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Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even
science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe
unit, and must fix on a point in the stars’ unceasing journey when his
grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle;
but on reflection it appears that her proceeding3 is not very different
from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward,
divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought
really sets off in medias res. No retrospect4 will take us to
it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our
story sets out.
Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance? Was the good or the evil genius dominant6 in those beams? Probably the evil; else why was the effect that of unrest rather than of undisturbed charm? Why was the wish to look again felt as coercion7 and not as a longing8 in which the whole being consents?
She who raised these questions in Daniel Deronda’s mind was occupied in gambling9: not in the open air under a southern sky, tossing coppers
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proceeding
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gambling
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coppers
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gilt
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automaton
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doorway
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itinerant
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gentry
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patronage
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providence
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vice
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mumbling
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emaciated
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libertine
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induction
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impulsiveness
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a.正当的,有理的 | |
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graceful
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admiration
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indifference
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n.不感兴趣,不关心,冷淡,不在乎 | |
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scrutiny
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steadily
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taper
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exultation
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防止,避免( avert的现在分词 ); 转移 | |
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resentment
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