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CHAPTER XIX
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And had Bashti hastened delivery of the wives by one day, or by even two days, Nalasu would have entered the feared, purgatory1 of matrimony. But Bashti kept his word, and on the third day was too busy, with a more momentous2 problem, to deliver Bubu and Nena to the blind old man who apprehensively3 waited their coming. For the morning of the third day all the summits of leeward4 Malaita smoked into speech. A warship5 was on the coast—so the tale ran; a big warship that was heading in through the reef islands at Langa-Langa. The tale grew. The warship was not stopping at Langa-Langa. The warship was not stopping at Binu. It was directing its course toward Somo.
Nalasu, blind, could not see this smoke speech written in the air. Because of the isolation6 of his house, no one came and told him. His first warning was when shrill7 voices of women, cries of children, and wailings of babes in nameless fear came to him from the main path that led from the village to the upland boundaries of Somo. He read only fear and panic from the sounds, deduced that the village was fleeing to its mountain fastnesses, but did not know the cause of the flight.
He called Jerry to him and instructed him to scout8 to the great banyan9 tree, where Nalasu’s path and the main path joined, and to observe and report. And Jerry sat under the banyan tree and observed the flight of all Somo. Men, women, and children, the young and the aged10, babes at breast and patriarchs leaning on sticks and staffs passed before his eyes, betraying the greatest haste and alarm. The village dogs were as frightened, whimpering and
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leeward
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adj.背风的;下风的 | |
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warship
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n.军舰,战舰 | |
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isolation
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scout
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n.童子军,侦察员;v.侦察,搜索 | |
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banyan
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apprehensions
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apprehension
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loyalty
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fend
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punitive
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avenge
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exodus
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prodigiousness
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abruptly
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catastrophe
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n.大灾难,大祸 | |
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shriek
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使泛起涟漪(ripple的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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doorway
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volcanic
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eruption
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stifling
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a.令人窒息的 | |
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nostrils
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鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 ) | |
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frantically
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wheezed
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v.喘息,发出呼哧呼哧的喘息声( wheeze的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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dabbing
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石面凿毛,灰泥抛毛 | |
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suffocation
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n.窒息 | |
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tottered
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debris
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descended
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immediate
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doomed
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awareness
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trotted
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dignified
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a.可敬的,高贵的 | |
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deserted
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adj.荒芜的,荒废的,无人的,被遗弃的 | |
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glutted
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affected
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narrative
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herding
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coconut
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behold
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northward
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infested
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coconuts
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n.椰子( coconut的名词复数 );椰肉,椰果 | |
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slain
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