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When the train arrived at Glen Ellen, in the Valley of the Moon, it was Harley Kennan himself, at the side-door of the baggage-car, who caught hold of Michael and swung him to the ground. For the first time Michael had performed a railroad journey uncrated. Merely with collar and chain had he travelled up from Oakland. In the waiting automobile2 he found Villa3 Kennan, and, chain removed, sat beside her and between her and Harley
As the machine purred along the two miles of road that wound up the side of Sonoma Mountain, Michael scarcely looked at the forest-trees and vistas4 of wandering glades5. He had been in the United States three years, during which time he had been kept a close prisoner. Cage and crate1 and chain had been his portion, and narrow rooms, baggage cars, and station platforms. The nearest he had come to the country was when chained to benches in the various parks while Jacob Henderson studied Swedenborg. So that trees and hills and fields had ceased to mean anything. They were something inaccessible6, as inaccessible as the blue of the sky or the drifting cloud-fleeces. Thus did he regard the trees and hills and fields, if the negative act of not regarding a thing at all can be considered a state of mind.
He looked up at sound of his old name, and made acknowledgment by flattening8 his ears a quivering trifle and by touching9 his nose against Harley’s shoulder.
“Nor does he seem demonstrative,” was Villa’s
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crate
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vt.(up)把…装入箱中;n.板条箱,装货箱 | |
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villa
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n.别墅,城郊小屋 | |
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长条形景色( vista的名词复数 ); 回顾; 展望; (未来可能发生的)一系列情景 | |
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ranch
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flattening
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judgment
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anticipation
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caressing
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爱抚的,表现爱情的,亲切的 | |
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limousine
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n.豪华轿车 | |
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snarling
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growling
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sniffed
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v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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stunned
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steward
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friendliness
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racing
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pageant
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spotted
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moths
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follower
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mariner
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bungalow
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ponies
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mischievous
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taboo
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averring
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resolutely
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schooners
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scrambling
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canyons
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forth
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jack
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quail
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