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CHAPTER II
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It is no doubt owing to the habit of life in Higgleston being so little differentiated1 from Taylorville that I was never able to get any other impression of it than as a place one put up at on the way to some other; always it bore to my mind the air of a traveller's room in one of those stops where it is necessary to open the trunks but not worth while to unpack2 them. Nor do I think it was altogether owing to what I left there that my recollection of it centres paganly about the cemetery3. In Taylorville, love and birth, though but scantily4 removed from the savour of impropriety, were still the salient facts of existence, but in Higgleston a funeral was your real human occasion. It was as if the rural fear of innovation had thrown them back for a pivotal centre upon the point of continuity with their past.
It was a generous rolling space set aside for the dead, abutting6 on two sides on the boardwalks of the town, stretching back by dips and hollows to the wooded pastures. Near the gates which opened from the walk, it was divided off in single plots and family allotments, scattering7 more and more to the farthest neglected mounds9 that crept obscurely under the hazel thickets10 and the sapling oaks, happiest when named the least, assimilated quickliest to their native earth. It was this that rendered the pagan touch, for though nearly all Higgleston was church-going and looked forward to a hymn-book heaven, they seemed to me never quite dissevered from the untutored pastures to which their whole living and dying was a process of being reabsorbed.
Higgleston, until this junction11 of railroads occurred, had been a close settled farming community, and a vague notion of
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differentiated
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区分,区别,辨别( differentiate的过去式和过去分词 ); 区别对待; 表明…间的差别,构成…间差别的特征 | |
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cemetery
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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mounds
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junction
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civic
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dwellings
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premises
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lodgings
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odds
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factions
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generically
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lasting
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breach
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cowering
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engulfing
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nausea
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gulping
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hysterical
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awry
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justified
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habitually
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corrosion
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lore
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imperative
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exigencies
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vitality
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exterior
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maternity
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homely
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twigs
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细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 ) | |
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swelling
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obliviousness
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expectancy
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n.期望,预期,(根据概率统计求得)预期数额 | |
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pertinent
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realization
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eminently
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adv.突出地;显著地;不寻常地 | |
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rending
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v.撕碎( rend的现在分词 );分裂;(因愤怒、痛苦等而)揪扯(衣服或头发等);(声音等)刺破 | |
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credible
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concealed
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delicacy
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n.精致,细微,微妙,精良;美味,佳肴 | |
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scraps
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confidential
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adj.秘(机)密的,表示信任的,担任机密工作的 | |
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ridicule
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v.讥讽,挖苦;n.嘲弄 | |
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fortify
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v.强化防御,为…设防;加强,强化 | |
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privately
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adv.以私人的身份,悄悄地,私下地 | |
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softened
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(使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰 | |
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torment
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n.折磨;令人痛苦的东西(人);vt.折磨;纠缠 | |
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onlooker
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exasperation
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quiescent
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distress
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confinement
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competence
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accomplishments
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concocted
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alacrity
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momentary
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afterward
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pang
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joyful
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obligatory
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irises
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aged
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sedulous
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wan
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(wide area network)广域网 | |
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inquiry
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