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BOOK III.—MAIDENS CHOOSING.CHAPTER 19
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“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and say, ‘Tis
all barren’: and so it is: and so is all the world to him who will not
cultivate the fruits it offers.”—STERNE: Sentimental1 Journey.
To say that Deronda was romantic would be to misrepresent him; but under his calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior2 there was a fervor3 which made him easily find poetry and romance among the events of every-day life. And perhaps poetry and romance are as plentiful4 as ever in the world except for those phlegmatic5 natures who I suspect would in any age have regarded them as a dull form of erroneous thinking. They exist very easily in the same room with the microscope and even in railway carriages: what banishes6 them in the vacuum in gentlemen and lady passengers. How should all the apparatus7 of heaven and earth, from the farthest firmament8 to the tender bosom9 of the mother who nourished us, make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe10 and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?
To Deronda this event of finding Mirah was as heart-stirring as anything that befell Orestes or Rinaldo. He sat up half the night, living again through the moments since he had first discerned Mirah on the river-brink, with the fresh and fresh vividness which belongs to emotive memory. When he took up a book to try and dull this urgency of inward vision, the printed words were no more than a network through which he saw and heard everything as clearly as before—saw not only the actual events of two hours, but possibilities of what had been and what might be which those events were enough to feed with the warm blood of
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sentimental
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adj.多愁善感的,感伤的 | |
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exterior
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fervor
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n.热诚;热心;炽热 | |
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plentiful
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adj.富裕的,丰富的 | |
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phlegmatic
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adj.冷静的,冷淡的,冷漠的,无活力的 | |
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v.放逐,驱逐( banish的第三人称单数 ) | |
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apparatus
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firmament
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bosom
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awe
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passionate
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peculiar
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machinery
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transfused
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calamity
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innocence
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yearning
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a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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conspicuous
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merged
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(使)混合( merge的过去式和过去分词 ); 相融; 融入; 渐渐消失在某物中 | |
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adj. 无赖的,恶棍的 adv. 无赖地,卑鄙地 | |
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severance
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virtues
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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缺陷( vice的名词复数 ); 恶习; 不道德行为; 台钳 | |
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refinement
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doorway
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chivalrous
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adj.武士精神的;对女人彬彬有礼的 | |
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dispel
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vt.驱走,驱散,消除 | |
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secrecy
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n.秘密,保密,隐蔽 | |
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