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CHAPTER XVI
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Three months more passed; the north-west monsoon1, after its half-year of breath, had given way to the south-east trade; and Jerry still continued to live in the house of Agno and to have the run of the village. He had put on weight, increased in size, and, protected by the taboo2, had become self-confident almost to lordliness. But he had found no master. Agno had never won a heart-throb from him. For that matter, Agno had never tried to win him. Nor, in his cold-blooded way, had he ever betrayed his hatred3 of Jerry.
Not even the several old women, the two acolytes4, and the fly-flapping maid in Agno’s house dreamed that the devil devil doctor hated Jerry. Nor did Jerry dream it. To him Agno was a neutral sort of person, a person who did not count. Those of the household Jerry recognized as slaves or servants to Agno, and he knew when they fed him that the food he ate proceeded from Agno and was Agno’s food. Save himself, taboo protected, all of them feared Agno, and his house was truly a house of fear in which could bloom no love for a stray puppy dog. The eleven-years’ maid might have placed a bid for Jerry’s affection, had she not been deterred5 at the start by Agno, who reprimanded her sternly for presuming to touch or fondle a dog of such high taboo.
What delayed Agno’s plot against Jerry for the half-year of the monsoon was the fact that the season of egg-laying for the megapodes in Bashti’s private laying-yard did not begin until the period of the south-east trades. And Agno, having early conceived his plot, with the patience that was characteristic of him was content to wait the time.
Now the megapode of the Solomons is a distant cousin to the brush turkey of Australia. No larger than a large pigeon, it lays an egg the size of a domestic duck’s. The megapode, with no sense of fear, is so silly that it would have been annihilated6 hundreds of centuries before had it not been preserved by the
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monsoon
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n.季雨,季风,大雨 | |
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taboos
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禁忌( taboo的名词复数 ); 忌讳; 戒律; 禁忌的事物(或行为) | |
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saliva
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mangrove
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n.跳进,投入vt.使投入,使插入,使陷入vi.投入,跳进,陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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wailing
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v.哭叫,哀号( wail的现在分词 );沱 | |
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wail
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v.(动物)发狺狺声, (雷)作隆隆声( growl的第三人称单数 );低声咆哮着说 | |
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v.吼叫,怒骂,纠缠,混乱;n.混乱,缠结,咆哮 | |
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snarls
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n.(动物的)龇牙低吼( snarl的名词复数 );愤怒叫嚷(声);咆哮(声);疼痛叫声v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的第三人称单数 );咆哮着说,厉声地说 | |
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belligerent
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adj.好战的,挑起战争的;n.交战国,交战者 | |
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deftness
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slaughter
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ignominiously
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趾高气扬地走,高视阔步( strut的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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bedlam
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