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CHAPTER I. THE WELL-FLAVOURED EARTH
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“Sweet as Eden is the air
And Eden-sweet the ray.
No Paradise is lost for them
Who foot by branching root and stem,
And lightly with the woodland share
The change of night and day.”
For these many years, since I have lived here in the country, I have had it in my mind to write something about the odour and taste of this well-flavoured earth. The fact is, both the sense of smell and the sense of taste; have been shabbily treated in the amiable1 rivalry2 of the senses. Sight and hearing have been the swift and nimble brothers, and sight especially, the tricky3 Jacob of the family, is keen upon the business of seizing the entire inheritance, while smell, like hairy Esau, comes late to the blessing4, hungry from the hills, and willing to trade its inheritance for a mess of pottage.
I have always had a kind of errant love for the improvident5 and adventurous6 Esaus of the Earth. I think they smell a wilder fragrance7 than I do, and taste sweeter things, and I have thought, therefore, of beginning a kind of fragrant8 autobiography9, a chronicle of all the good odours and flavours that ever I have had in my life.
As I grow older, a curious feeling comes often to me in the spring, as it comes this spring more poignantly10 than ever before, a sense of the temporariness of all things, the swiftness of life, the sadness of a beauty that vanishes so soon, and I long to lay hold upon it as it passes by all the handles that I can. I would not only see it and hear it, but I would smell it and taste it and touch it, and all with a new kind of
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amiable
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adj.和蔼可亲的,友善的,亲切的 | |
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n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿 | |
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fragrance
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fragrant
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autobiography
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poignantly
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intensity
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sniff
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purgatory
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awareness
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avid
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marshes
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marsh
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noted
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cavalryman
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sniffing
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n.探查法v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的现在分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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muskrats
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nostrils
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鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 ) | |
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enjoyment
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clump
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lucrative
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inviting
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scent
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poignancy
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memorable
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exquisite
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mere
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perfectly
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penetrate
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instinctively
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槭树,枫树( maple的名词复数 ); 槭木 | |
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intensify
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vt.加强;变强;加剧 | |
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gatherings
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聚集( gathering的名词复数 ); 收集; 采集; 搜集 | |
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afterward
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formerly
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varied
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deliberately
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doorways
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spacious
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monotonous
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toil
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disdain
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scout
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drudgery
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cannily
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impractical
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boundless
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obstinately
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aromatically
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rascal
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