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Chapter Nine
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As night fell upon the city of Castra Sanguinarius, the gloom of the granite1 dungeons2 beneath the city's Colosseum deepened into blackest darkness, which was relieved only by a rectangular patch of starlit sky where barred windows pierced the walls.
Squatting4 upon the rough stone floor, his back against the wall, Tarzan watched the stars moving in slow procession across the window's opening. A creature of the wild, impatient of restraint, the ape-man suffered the mental anguish5 of the caged beast—perhaps, because of his human mind, his suffering was greater than would have been that of one of the lower orders, yet he endured with even greater outward stoicism than the beast that paces to and fro seeking escape from the bars that confine it.
As the feet of the beast might have measured the walls of its dungeon3, so did the mind of Tarzan, and never for a waking moment was his mind not occupied by thoughts of escape.
Lukedi and the other inmates6 of the dungeon slept, but Tarzan still sat watching the free stars and envying them, when he became conscious of a sound, ever so slight, coming from the arena7, the floor of which was about on a level with the sill of the little window in the top of the dungeon wall. Something was moving, stealthily and cautiously, upon the sand of the arena. Presently, framed in the window, silhouetted8 against the sky, appeared a familiar figure. Tarzan smiled and whispered a word so low that a human ear could scarce have heard it, and Nkima slipped between the bars and dropped to the floor of the dungeon. An instant later the little monkey snuggled close to Tarzan, its long, muscular arms clasped tightly about the neck of the ape-man.
"Come home with me," pleaded Nkima. "Why do you stay in this cold, dark hole beneath the ground?"
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victorious
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barbarian
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chambers
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n.(动植物的)膜皮( tunic的名词复数 );束腰宽松外衣;一套制服的短上衣;(天主教主教等穿的)短祭袍 | |
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tunic
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n.束腰外衣 | |
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agility
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indignity
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vi. 妨碍,冲突,干涉 | |
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wring
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n.扭绞;v.拧,绞出,扭 | |
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mortification
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n.耻辱,屈辱 | |
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grumbling
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adj. 喃喃鸣不平的, 出怨言的 | |
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humiliation
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publicity
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n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告 | |
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n.峡谷,溪谷 | |
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gateway
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n.大门口,出入口,途径,方法 | |
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adj.著名的,知名的 | |
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ultimatum
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v.(正式)加入( accede的过去式和过去分词 );答应;(通过财产的添附而)增加;开始任职 | |
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quarry
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pointed
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aloofness
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使人畏缩的,使人害羞的,使人难堪的 | |
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