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Hawaii is a queer place. Everything socially is what I may call topsy-turvy. Not but what things are correct. They are almost too much so. But still things are sort of upside down. The most ultra-exclusive set there is the “Missionary1 Crowd.” It comes with rather a shock to learn that in Hawaii the obscure martyrdom-seeking missionary sits at the head of the table of the moneyed aristocracy. But it is true. The humble2 New Englanders who came out in the third decade of the nineteenth century, came for the lofty purpose of teaching the kanakas the true religion, the worship of the one only genuine and undeniable God. So well did they succeed in this, and also in civilizing3 the kanaka, that by the second or third generation he was practically extinct. This being the fruit of the seed of the Gospel, the fruit of the seed of the missionaries4 (the sons and the grandsons) was the possession of the islands themselves,—of the land, the ports, the town sites, and the sugar plantations: The missionary who came to give the bread of life remained to gobble up the whole heathen feast.
But that is not the Hawaiian queerness I started out to tell. Only one cannot speak of things Hawaiian without mentioning the missionaries. There is Jack5 Kersdale, the man I wanted to tell about; he came of missionary stock. That is, on his grandmother’s side. His grandfather was old Benjamin Kersdale, a Yankee trader, who got his start for a million in the old days by selling cheap whiskey and square-face gin. There’s another queer thing. The old missionaries and old traders were mortal enemies. You see, their interests conflicted. But their children made it up by intermarrying and dividing the island between them.
Life in Hawaii is a song. That’s the way Stoddard put it in his “Hawaii Noi”:—
“Thy life is music—Fate the notes prolong!
Each isle6 a
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missionary
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adj.教会的,传教(士)的;n.传教士 | |
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adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低 | |
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v.使文明,使开化( civilize的现在分词 ) | |
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missionaries
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n.传教士( missionary的名词复数 ) | |
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jack
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n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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ranch
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crammed
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区( ward的名词复数 ); 病房; 受监护的未成年者; 被人照顾或控制的状态 | |
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writhing
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(因极度痛苦而)扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 ) | |
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bungle
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gaily
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悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口 | |
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vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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n.驱逐,放逐 | |
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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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soda
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n.苏打水;汽水 | |
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wharf
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n.不幸的人( wretch的名词复数 );可怜的人;恶棍;坏蛋 | |
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v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的现在分词 );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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superintendent
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embarkation
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woe
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使受痛苦,折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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ulcer
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descended
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amplitude
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prominence
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