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CHAPTER XIII
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The boy’s name, as Jerry was to learn, was Lamai, and to Lamai’s house Jerry was carried. It was not much of a house, even as cannibal grass-houses go. On an earthen floor, hard-packed of the filth1 of years, lived Lamai’s father and mother and a spawn2 of four younger brothers and sisters. A thatched roof that leaked in every heavy shower leaned to a wabbly ridge-pole over the floor. The walls were even more pervious to a driving rain. In fact, the house of Lamai, who was the father of Lumai, was the most miserable3 house in all Somo.
Lumai, the house-master and family head, unlike most Malaitans, was fat. And of his fatness it would seem had been begotten4 his good nature with its allied5 laziness. But as the fly in his ointment6 of jovial7 irresponsibility was his wife, Lenerengo—the prize shrew of Somo, who was as lean about the middle and all the rest of her as her husband was rotund; who was as remarkably8 sharp-spoken as he was soft-spoken; who was as ceaselessly energetic as he was unceasingly idle; and who had been born with a taste for the world as sour in her mouth as it was sweet in his.
The boy merely peered into the house as he passed around it to the rear, and he saw his father and mother, at opposite corners, sleeping without covering, and, in the middle of the floor, his four naked brothers and sisters curled together in a tangle10 like a litter of puppies. All about the house, which in truth was scarcely more than an animal lair11
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filth
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allied
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jovial
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n.纠缠;缠结;混乱;v.(使)缠绕;变乱 | |
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lair
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spicily
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scent
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ripening
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delightful
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brooklet
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n. 细流, 小河 | |
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brook
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n.小河,溪;v.忍受,容让 | |
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conservatory
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squatted
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v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的过去式和过去分词 );非法擅自占用(土地或房屋);为获得其所有权;而占用某片公共用地。 | |
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coconut
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轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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chirped
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鸟叫,虫鸣( chirp的过去式 ) | |
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eldest
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beget
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v.引起;产生 | |
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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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prick
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v.刺伤,刺痛,刺孔;n.刺伤,刺痛 | |
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nostrils
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鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 ) | |
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sliver
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n.裂片,细片,梳毛;v.纵切,切成长片,剖开 | |
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v.嘎吱嘎吱地咬嚼( crunch的过去式和过去分词 );嘎吱作响;(快速大量地)处理信息;数字捣弄 | |
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caressing
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爱抚的,表现爱情的,亲切的 | |
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reciprocate
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v.往复运动;互换;回报,酬答 | |
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heartily
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渴望,切盼,向往( yearn的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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deserted
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vexed
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trotted
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小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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Founder
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scented
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