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CHAPTER XVIII Borrow’s Spanish Circle
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There are many interesting personalities1 that pass before us in Borrow’s three separate narratives3, as they may be considered, of his Spanish experiences. We would fain know more concerning the two excellent secretaries of the Bible Society—Samuel Brandram and Joseph Jowett. We merely know that the former was rector of Beckenham and was one of the Society’s secretaries until his death in 1850; that the latter was rector of Silk Willoughby in Lincolnshire, and belonged to the same family as Jowett of Balliol. But there are many quaint6 characters in Borrow’s own narrative4 to whom we are introduced. There is Maria Diaz, for example, his landlady7 in the house in the Calle de Santiago in Madrid, and her husband, Juan Lopez, also assisted Borrow in his Bible distribution. Very eloquent8 are Borrow’s tributes to the pair in the pages of The Bible in Spain. “Honour to Maria Diaz, the quiet, dauntless, clever, Castilian female! I were an ingrate9 not to speak well of her.” We get a glimpse of Maria and her husband long years afterwards—a pensioner10 in a Spanish almshouse revealing himself as the son of Borrow’s friends. Eduardo Lopez was only eight years of age when Borrow was in Madrid, and he really adds nothing to our knowledge. Then there were those two incorrigible12 vagabonds—Antonio Buchini, his Greek servant with an Italian name, and Benedict Mol, the Swiss of Lucerne, who turns up in all sorts of improbable circumstances as the seeker of treasure in the Church of St. James of Compostella—only a masterly imagination could have made him so interesting. Concerning these there is nothing to supplement Borrow’s own story. But we have attractive glimpses of Borrow in the frequently quoted narrative of Colonel Napier, and this is so
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记叙文( narrative的名词复数 ); 故事; 叙述; 叙述部分 | |
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n.反对的观点,反对者,反对票,肺病;vt.精读,学习,默记;adv.反对地,从反面;adj.欺诈的 | |
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pensioner
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unity
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complexion
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perfectly
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conversed
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v.交谈,谈话( converse的过去式 ) | |
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n.论文,演说;谈话;话语;vi.讲述,著述 | |
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motives
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proceeding
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raven
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countenance
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supplication
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n.恳求,祈愿,哀求 | |
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savage
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adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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abode
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fissure
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怒视,生气地皱眉( scowl的现在分词 ) | |
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blessings
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n.(上帝的)祝福( blessing的名词复数 );好事;福分;因祸得福 | |
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broached
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v.预定( bespeak的第三人称单数 );订(货);证明;预先请求 | |
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lustre
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superstition
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testament
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piazza
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philologist
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