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CHAPTER 34 AN AUDIENCE AT THE VATICAN
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THE remainder of my days in Rome were only three or four. I had seen much of it that has been in no way indicated here. True to my promise I had looked up at his hotel my traveling acquaintance, the able and distinguished1 Mr. H., and had walked about some of the older sections of the city hearing him translate Greek and Latin inscriptions2 of ancient date with the ease with which I put my ordinary thought into English. Together we visited the Farnese Palace, the Mamertine Prison, the Temple of Vesta, Santa Maria in Cosmedin and other churches too numerous and too pointless to mention. It was interesting to me to note the facility of his learning and the depth of his philosophy. In spite of the fact that life, in the light of his truly immense knowledge of history and his examination of human motives3, seemed a hodge-podge of contrarieties and of ethical4 contradictions, nevertheless he believed that through all the false witness and pretense5 and subtlety6 of the ages, through the dominating and apparently7 guiding impulses of lust8 and appetite and vanity, seemingly untrammeled by mercy, tenderness or any human consideration, there still runs a constructive9, amplifying10, art-enlarging, life-developing tendency which is comforting, dignifying11, and purifying, making for larger and happier days for each and all. It did not matter to him that the spectacle as we read it historically is always one of the strong dominating the weak, of the strong battling with the strong, of greed,
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distinguished
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inscriptions
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(作者)题词( inscription的名词复数 ); 献词; 碑文; 证劵持有人的登记 | |
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放大,扩大( amplify的现在分词 ); 增强; 详述 | |
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dignifying
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使显得威严( dignify的现在分词 ); 使高贵; 使显赫; 夸大 | |
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hypocrisy
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diffused
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散布的,普及的,扩散的 | |
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stipulated
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subservience
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turmoil
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delightful
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vt.谴责,指责;宣判(罪犯),判刑 | |
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长[发展] 得超过(某物)的范围( outgrow的过去式 ); 长[发展]得不能再要(某物); 长得比…快; 生长速度超过 | |
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adherence
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continental
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modernization
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waning
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follies
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罪恶,时事讽刺剧; 愚蠢,蠢笨,愚蠢的行为、思想或做法( folly的名词复数 ) | |
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persistent
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vestige
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ascend
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vi.渐渐上升,升高;vt.攀登,登上 | |
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privately
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dreary
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determined
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obstreperous
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velvet
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abode
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disapproval
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sardonic
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bent
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soothing
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restive
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