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THE POCKET HUNTER
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I remember very well when I first met him. Walking in the evening glow to spy the marriages of the white gilias, I sniffed1 the unmistakable odor of burning sage2. It is a smell that carries far and indicates usually the nearness of a campoodie, but on the level mesa nothing taller showed than Diana's sage. Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub. He sat tailor-wise in the sand, with his coffee-pot on the coals, his supper ready to hand in the frying-pan, and himself in a mood for talk. His pack burros in hobbles strayed off to hunt for a wetter mouthful than the sage afforded, and gave him no concern.
We came upon him often after that, threading the windy passes, or by water-holes in the desert hills, and got to know much of his way of life. He was a small, bowed man, with a face and manner and speech of no character at all, as if he had that faculty4 of small hunted things of taking on the protective color of his surroundings. His clothes were of no fashion that I could remember, except that they bore liberal markings of pot black, and he had a curious fashion of going about with his mouth open, which gave him a vacant look until you came near enough to perceive him busy about an endless hummed, wordless tune5. He traveled far and took a long time to it, but the simplicity6 of his kitchen arrangements was elemental. A pot for beans, a coffee-pot, a frying-pan, a tin to mix bread in—he fed the burros in this when there was need—with these he had been half round our western world and back. He explained to me very early in our acquaintance what was good to take to the hills for food: nothing sticky, for that "dirtied the pots;" nothing with "juice" to it, for that would not pack to advantage; and nothing likely to ferment7. He used no gun, but he would set snares8 by the water-holes for
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v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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n.圣人,哲人;adj.贤明的,明智的 | |
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Ford
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n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过 | |
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n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员 | |
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n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整 | |
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vt.使发酵;n./vt.(使)激动,(使)动乱 | |
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n.陷阱( snare的名词复数 );圈套;诱人遭受失败(丢脸、损失等)的东西;诱惑物v.用罗网捕捉,诱陷,陷害( snare的第三人称单数 ) | |
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quail
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trout
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excellence
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n.优秀,杰出,(pl.)优点,美德 | |
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forage
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labor
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relish
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vocation
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n.职业,行业 | |
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vein
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n.血管,静脉;叶脉,纹理;情绪;vt.使成脉络 | |
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n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁 | |
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outfit
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n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装 | |
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n.铁锨,铲子,一铲之量;v.铲,铲出 | |
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gravel
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n.砂跞;砂砾层;结石 | |
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creek
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n.小溪,小河,小湾 | |
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windings
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(道路、河流等)蜿蜒的,弯曲的( winding的名词复数 ); 缠绕( wind的现在分词 ); 卷绕; 转动(把手) | |
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strata
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itinerary
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n.行程表,旅行路线;旅行计划 | |
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burrowing
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lone
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badger
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hap
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a.饱和的,充满的 | |
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prospectors
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remains
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swirl
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wrath
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mischief
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scorched
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烧焦,烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(植物)枯萎,把…晒枯; 高速行驶; 枯焦 | |
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spout
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v.喷出,涌出;滔滔不绝地讲;n.喷管;水柱 | |
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superstition
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n.迷信,迷信行为 | |
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vi.衰退,减退;n.处于低潮,处于衰退状态 | |
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creeks
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n.小湾( creek的名词复数 );小港;小河;小溪 | |
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cedars
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雪松,西洋杉( cedar的名词复数 ) | |
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cedar
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n.雪松,香柏(木) | |
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coves
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n.小海湾( cove的名词复数 );家伙 | |
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ascent
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n.陆标( landmark的名词复数 );目标;(标志重要阶段的)里程碑 ~ (in sth);有历史意义的建筑物(或遗址) | |
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juncture
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curiously
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venom
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bourgeois
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adj./n.追求物质享受的(人);中产阶级分子 | |
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bully
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n.恃强欺弱者,小流氓;vt.威胁,欺侮 | |
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pricking
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刺,刺痕,刺痛感 | |
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