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CHAPTER XI. ROUGH WEATHER.
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During the ensuing week nothing particular occurred on board. The breeze still freshened, and the "Pilgrim" made on the average 160 miles every twenty-four hours. The speed was as great as could be expected from a craft of her size.
Dick grew more and more sanguine1 in his anticipations2 that it could not be long before the schooner4 would cross the track of the mail-packets plying5 between the eastern and western hemispheres. He had made up his mind to hail the first passing vessel6, and either to transfer his passengers, or what perhaps would be better still, to borrow a few sailors, and, it might be, an officer to work the "Pilgrim" to shore. He could not help, however, a growing sense of astonishment7, when day after day passed, and yet there was no ship to be signalled. He kept the most vigourous look-out, but all to no purpose. Three voyages before had he made to the whale-fisheries, and his experience made him sure that he ought now to be sighting some English or American vessel on its way between the Equator and Cape8 Horn.
Very different, however, was the true position of the "Pilgrim" from what Dick supposed; not only had the ship been carried far out of her direct course by currents, the force of which there were no means of estimating, but from the moment when the compass had been tampered9 with by Negoro, the steering10 itself had put the vessel all astray.
Unconscious of both these elements of disturbance11, Dick Sands was convinced that they were
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sanguine
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adj.充满希望的,乐观的,血红色的 | |
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预期( anticipation的名词复数 ); 预测; (信托财产收益的)预支; 预期的事物 | |
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adv.在前面;adj.先前的;在前部的;n.前部 | |
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schooner
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n.纵帆船 | |
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v.使用(工具)( ply的现在分词 );经常供应(食物、饮料);固定往来;经营生意 | |
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n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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astonishment
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cape
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tampered
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disturbance
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proceeding
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steadily
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eastwards
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conceal
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apprentice
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hull
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barometer
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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concisely
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foretold
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vessels
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descended
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stratum
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indifference
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peril
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prospect
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arduous
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postpone
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alteration
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diligent
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coveted
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spoke
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considerably
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fathoms
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英寻( fathom的名词复数 ) | |
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strands
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entirely
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retired
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apprehensions
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pointed
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