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JIMVILLE A BRET HARTE TOWN
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When Mr. Harte found himself with a fresh palette and his particular local color fading from the West, he did what he considered the only safe thing, and carried his young impression away to be worked out untroubled by any newer fact. He should have gone to Jimville. There he would have found cast up on the ore-ribbed hills the bleached1 timbers of more tales, and better ones.
You could not think of Jimville as anything more than a survival, like the herb-eating, bony-cased old tortoise that pokes2 cheerfully about those borders some thousands of years beyond his proper epoch3. Not that Jimville is old, but it has an atmosphere favorable to the type of a half century back, if not "forty-niners," of that breed. It is said of Jimville that getting away from it is such a piece of work that it encourages permanence in the population; the fact is that most have been drawn4 there by some real likeness5 or liking6. Not however that I would deny the difficulty of getting into or out of that cove7 of reminder8, I who have made the journey so many times at great pains of a poor body. Any way you go at it, Jimville is about three days from anywhere in particular. North or south, after the railroad there is a stage journey of such interminable monotony as induces forgetfulness of all previous states of existence.
The road to Jimville is the happy hunting ground of old stage-coaches bought up from superseded9 routes the West over, rocking, lumbering10, wide vehicles far gone in the odor of romance, coaches that Vasquez has held up, from whose high seats express messengers have shot or been shot as their luck held. This is to comfort you when the driver stops to
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v.伸出( poke的第三人称单数 );戳出;拨弄;与(某人)性交 | |
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n.(新)时代;历元 | |
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v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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likeness
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n.相像,相似(之处) | |
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liking
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n.爱好;嗜好;喜欢 | |
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cove
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n.小海湾,小峡谷 | |
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n.提醒物,纪念品;暗示,提示 | |
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[医]被代替的,废弃的 | |
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rummage
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lava
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n.熔岩,火山岩 | |
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n.火山口( crater的名词复数 );弹坑等 | |
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shrubs
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灌木( shrub的名词复数 ) | |
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lizards
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lizard
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gulch
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n.深谷,峡谷 | |
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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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adv.稀疏地;稀少地;不足地;贫乏地 | |
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n.灌木丛( thicket的名词复数 );丛状物 | |
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solitary
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adj.孤独的,独立的,荒凉的;n.隐士 | |
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人行小径,人行道( footpath的名词复数 ) | |
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proprietor
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n.所有人;业主;经营者 | |
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v.打听,刺探(他人的私事)( pry的过去式和过去分词 );撬开 | |
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baker
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n.面包师 | |
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(使)发痒( tickle的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)愉快,逗乐 | |
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aurora
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vt.品尝,欣赏;n.味道,风味;情趣,趣味 | |
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prospecting
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n.探矿 | |
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poking
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n. 刺,戳,袋 vt. 拨开,刺,戳 vi. 戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢 | |
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humbly
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dealer
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penetration
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发 | |
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standing
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equity
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rumor
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defiance
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n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗 | |
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sect
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cardinal
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demesne
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n.领域,私有土地 | |
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smacked
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拍,打,掴( smack的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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smack
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profane
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vessels
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austerely
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smoothly
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adv.平滑地,顺利地,流利地,流畅地 | |
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fret
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v.(使)烦恼;(使)焦急;(使)腐蚀,(使)磨损 | |
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desolate
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prospects
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gape
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repose
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