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V OLD SPANISH GARDENS
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Dona Ina Manuelita Echivarra had come to the time of life when waists were not to be mentioned. It took all the evidence of her name to convince you that her cheek had once known tints1 of the olive and apricot. Tio Juan, who sunned himself daily in her patio2, had achieved the richness of weathered teak; his moustachios were whitened as with the rime3 that collects on old adobes5 sometimes near the sea-shore. But Dona Ina, who missed by a score of years his mark of the days of mañana por la mañana, was muddily dark, and her moustache—but one does not suggest such things of a lady, and that Dona Ina was a lady could be proved by a foot so delicately arched and pointed6, an ankle so neat that there was not another like it in your acquaintance save the mate to it. [88]
Once you had seen it peeping forth8 from under the black skirt—have not Castilian ladies worn black immemorially?—you did not require the assurance of Tio Juan that there was no one in her day could have danced la jota with Dona Ina Manuelita.
She would clack the castanets for you occasionally still, just to show how it was done, or with the guitar resting on the arm of her chair—laps were no more to be thought of than waists were—she would quaver a song, La Golindrina for choice, or La Noche esta Serena. But unquestionably Dona Ina's time had gone by for shining at anything but conversation. She could talk, and never so fruitfully as when the subject was her garden.
A Spanish garden is a very intimate affair. It is the innermost under-garment of the family life. Dona Ina's was walled away from the world by six feet of adobe4, around the top of which still lingered the curved red tiles of Mission manufacture. It was not spoken of as the garden at all, it was the patio, an integral part of the dwelling
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tints
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色彩( tint的名词复数 ); 带白的颜色; (淡色)染发剂; 痕迹 | |
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n.庭院,平台 | |
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n.白霜;v.使蒙霜 | |
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adobe
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n.泥砖,土坯,美国Adobe公司 | |
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n.风干土坯( adobe的名词复数 );风干砖坯;(制风干砖用的)灰质粘土;泥砖砌成的房屋 | |
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dwelling
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bleaching
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漂白法,漂白 | |
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grill
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n.穗( tassel的名词复数 );流苏状物;(植物的)穗;玉蜀黍的穗状雄花v.抽穗, (玉米)长穗须( tassel的第三人称单数 );使抽穗, (为了使作物茁壮生长)摘去穗状雄花;用流苏装饰 | |
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crimson
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n./adj.深(绯)红色(的);vi.脸变绯红色 | |
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willow
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n.柳树 | |
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crumpled
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scarlet
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n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的 | |
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tempting
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a.诱人的, 吸引人的 | |
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nibbling
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v.啃,一点一点地咬(吃)( nibble的现在分词 );啃出(洞),一点一点咬出(洞);慢慢减少;小口咬 | |
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rosy
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adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的 | |
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musk
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condiment
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喇叭( trumpet的名词复数 ); 小号; 喇叭形物; (尤指)绽开的水仙花 | |
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peddle
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vt.(沿街)叫卖,兜售;宣传,散播 | |
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gathering
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skunk
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v.喋喋不休( babble的过去式和过去分词 );作潺潺声(如流水);含糊不清地说话;泄漏秘密 | |
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cones
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n.(人眼)圆锥细胞;圆锥体( cone的名词复数 );球果;圆锥形东西;(盛冰淇淋的)锥形蛋卷筒 | |
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pellucid
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invaluable
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bruised
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[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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alterative
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adj.(趋于)改变的,变质的,使体质逐渐康复的n.变质剂,体质改善疗法 | |
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gourd
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n.葫芦 | |
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chili
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n.辣椒 | |
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purgative
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pulp
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infusion
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subsist
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vi.生存,存在,供养 | |
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potent
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adj.强有力的,有权势的;有效力的 | |
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bower
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n.凉亭,树荫下凉快之处;闺房;v.荫蔽 | |
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purely
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ornamental
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adj.装饰的;作装饰用的;n.装饰品;观赏植物 | |
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clump
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faucet
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thrift
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gaily
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warriors
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frenzy
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ordeal
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maidens
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scorpion
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virulence
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foliage
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pollen
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acrid
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exterminated
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tinted
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bosoms
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胸部( bosom的名词复数 ); 胸怀; 女衣胸部(或胸襟); 和爱护自己的人在一起的情形 | |
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sentimental
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adj.多愁善感的,感伤的 | |
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cactus
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n.仙人掌 | |
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spiny
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jack
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hybrids
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effulgent
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acquiescence
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hoop
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twitched
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domesticated
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constrains
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commingling
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benefactor
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darted
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