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It followed soon on my father's death that we gave up the yellow house with the chocolate trimmings and took another near the high school, and that very summer my mother lengthened1 my skirts halfway2 to my shoe tops and began to find fault with my behaviour "for a girl of your age." We saw no more of the McGees after that except as Ellen managed to keep on in the same class at school with me; and Pauline and I found ourselves with a bosom3 friendship on our hands.
I went on missing my father terribly, but in a child's inarticulate fashion, and it is only lately that I have realized how much of my life went at loose ends for the loss out of it of a man's point of view and the appreciable4 standards which grow out of his relation to the community. Ever since the Snockerty episode there had been glimmers5 on my horizon of the sort of rightness owing from a daughter of Henry Lattimore, but now that I had no longer the use of the personal instance, I lost all notion of what those things might be; for though I have often heard my mother spoken of as one of the best women in the world, she was the last to have provided me with a definite pattern of behaviour.
Pauline had struck out a sort of social balance for herself grounded on the fear of what was "common." Her mother had a day at home, from which seemed to flow an orderly perspective of social observances, for which my mother, never having arrived at the pitch of visiting cards, afforded me no criterion whatever.
She had been a farmer's daughter in another part of the state, and had done something for herself in the way of school teaching before she married my father. My grandparents I never saw, but I seem to recall at such public occasions as county fairs and soldiers' reunions, certain tall, farmer-looking men and their badly dressed wives, who called her cousin and were answered by their Christian6 names, whom I understand to be my mother's relatives without accepting them as mine. They were all soldiers though, the men of our family; you saw it at once in the odd stiffness sitting on their farmer carriage like the firm strokes of a master on a pupil's smudged drawing. I think I got my first notion of the quality of experience in the way they
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(时间或空间)延长,伸长( lengthen的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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glimmers
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Christian
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roster
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economists
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kindle
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realization
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virtue
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chafed
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gilt
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temperament
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instinctive
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rehearsal
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odds
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veering
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n.改变的;犹豫的;顺时针方向转向;特指使船尾转向上风来改变航向v.(尤指交通工具)改变方向或路线( veer的现在分词 );(指谈话内容、人的行为或观点)突然改变;(指风) (在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向)逐渐转向;风向顺时针转 | |
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relevance
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adolescence
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n.青春期,青少年 | |
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[医](水)平扁的,弄平的 | |
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perfectly
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bower
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extenuation
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resentment
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enjoyment
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shutterless
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hymns
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n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌( hymn的名词复数 ) | |
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drawn
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savage
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penetrated
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prohibition
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aptitude
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afterward
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salvation
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tremor
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flora
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recess
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probation
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