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CHAPTER 33 THE ART OF SIGNOR TANNI
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THE first Sunday I was in Rome I began my local career with a visit to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, that faces the Via Cavour not far from the Continental1 Hotel where I was stopping, and afterwards San Prassede close beside it. After Canterbury, Amiens, Pisa and St. Peter’s, I confess churches needed to be of great distinction to interest me much; but this church, not so divinely harmonious2, exteriorly3 speaking, left me breathless with its incrustations of marbles, bronzes, carvings4, and gold and silver inlay. There is a kind of beauty, or charm, or at least physical excitation, in contemplating5 sheer gorgeousness which I cannot withstand, even when my sense of proportion and my reason are offended, and this church had that. Many of the churches in Rome have just this and nothing more. At least, what else they may have I am blind to. It did not help me any to learn as I did from Mrs. Barfleur, that it was very old, dating from 352 A. D., and that the blessed Virgin6 herself had indicated just where this basilica in her honor was to be built by having a small, private fall of snow which covered or outlined the exact dimensions of which the church was to be. I was interested to learn that they had here five boards of the original manger at Bethlehem inclosed in an urn7 of silver and crystal which is exposed in the sacristy on Christmas Eve and placed over the high altar on Christmas Day, and that here were the tombs and chapels8 of Sixtus V and Paul V and Clement10 VIII of the Borghese family and, too, a chapel9 of the Sforza family. Nevertheless338 the hodge-podge of history, wealth, illusion and
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continental
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adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的 | |
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深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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clement
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innate
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vileness
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utterly
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marvel
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innocence
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n.(尤指基督)救世,超度,拯救,解困 | |
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subtleties
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细微( subtlety的名词复数 ); 精细; 巧妙; 细微的差别等 | |
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v.畏缩( recoil的过去式和过去分词 );退缩;报应;返回 | |
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recoil
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vi.退却,退缩,畏缩 | |
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n.论坛,讨论会 | |
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delightful
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ponderous
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weird
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worthy
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astonishment
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intoxicated
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喝醉的,极其兴奋的 | |
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artistic
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rosy
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smothering
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(使)窒息, (使)透不过气( smother的现在分词 ); 覆盖; 忍住; 抑制 | |
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plausible
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adj.似真实的,似乎有理的,似乎可信的 | |
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踩( trample的现在分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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villas
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别墅,公馆( villa的名词复数 ); (城郊)住宅 | |
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succinctly
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adv.简洁地;简洁地,简便地 | |
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desecrated
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毁坏或亵渎( desecrate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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molestation
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n.骚扰,干扰,调戏;折磨 | |
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persecution
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sledge
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ERECTED
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formerly
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heyday
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affected
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胡同,小巷( alley的名词复数 ); 小径 | |
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subtlety
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n.工具( implement的名词复数 );家具;手段;[法律]履行(契约等)v.实现( implement的第三人称单数 );执行;贯彻;使生效 | |
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