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The fine, three-topmast schooner1 Ariel, on a cruise around the world, had already been out a year from San Francisco when Jerry boarded her. As a world, and as a white-god world, she was to him beyond compare. She was not small like the Arangi, nor was she cluttered2 fore3 and aft, on deck and below, with a spawn4 of niggers. The only black Jerry found on her was Johnny; while her spaciousness5 was filled principally with two-legged white-gods.
He met them everywhere, at the wheel, on lookout6, washing decks, polishing brass-work, running aloft, or tailing on to sheets and tackles half a dozen at a time. But there was a difference. There were gods and gods, and Jerry was not long in learning that in the hierarchy7 of the heaven of these white-gods on the Ariel, the sailorizing, ship-working ones were far beneath the captain and his two white-and-gold-clad officers. These, in turn, were less than Harley Kennan and Villa8 Kennan; for them, it came quickly to him, Harley Kennan commanded. Nevertheless, there was one thing he did not learn and was destined9 never to learn, namely, the supreme10 god over all on the Ariel. Although he never tried to know, being unable to think to such a distance, he never came to know whether it was Harley Kennan who commanded Villa, or Villa Kennan who commanded Harley. In a way, without vexing11 himself with the problem, he accepted their over-lordship of the world as
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spaciousness
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subconsciously
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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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反馈,回授,自旋挠痒法 | |
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erase
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a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 );间隔时间;[数学]区间;(戏剧、电影或音乐会的)幕间休息 | |
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