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CHAPTER VII. LIVES OF SCHOLARS.
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The forebodings of the Baron1 proved true. In the afternoon the weather changed. The western wind began to blow, and its breath drew a cloud-veil over the face of heaven, as a breath does over the human face in a mirror. Soon the snow began to fall. Athwart the distant landscape it swept like a white mist. The storm-wind came from the Alsatian hills, and struck the dense2 clouds aslant3 through the air. And ever faster fell the snow, a roaring torrent4 from those mountainous clouds. The setting sun glared wildly from the summit of the hills, and sank like a burning ship at sea, wrecked5 in the tempest. Thus the evening set in; and winter stood at the gate wagging his white and shaggy beard, like an old harper, chanting an old rhyme:--"How cold it is! how cold it is!"
"I like such a storm as this," said Flemming, who stood at the window, looking out into the tempest and the gathering6 darkness. "The silent falling of snow is to me one of the most solemn things in nature. The fall of autumnal leaves does not so much affect me. But the driving storm is grand. It startles me; it awakens7 me. It is wild and woful, like my own soul. I cannot help thinking of the sea; how the waves run and toss their arms about,--and the wind plays on those great harps8, made by the shrouds9 and masts of ships. Winter is here in earnest! Whew! How the old churl10 whistles and threshes the snow! Sleet11 and rain are falling too. Already the trees are bearded with icicles; and the two broad branches of yonder pine look like the white mustache of some old German Baron."
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n.男爵;(商业界等)巨头,大王 | |
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a.密集的,稠密的,浓密的;密度大的 | |
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adv.倾斜地;adj.斜的 | |
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torrent
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n.激流,洪流;爆发,(话语等的)连发 | |
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wrecked
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gathering
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churl
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n.吝啬之人;粗鄙之人 | |
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sleet
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n.雨雪;v.下雨雪,下冰雹 | |
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solitary
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tranquillity
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scholastic
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villa
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synopsis
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cloistered
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retired
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labor
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seclusion
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blot
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boisterous
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monks
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broth
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prater
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rusticity
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defiance
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scrap
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languished
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长期受苦( languish的过去式和过去分词 ); 受折磨; 变得(越来越)衰弱; 因渴望而变得憔悴或闷闷不乐 | |
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savage
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rambling
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strutting
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pate
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landlady
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vice
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poetic
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disdain
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