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CHAPTER IX. I GO TO THE CITY
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“Surely man is a wonderfull divers1 and varying subject: It is very hard to ground and directly constant and uniforme judgement upon him.”
Though I live most of the time in the country, as I love best to do, sometimes I go to the city and find there much that is strange and amusing. I like to watch the inward flow of the human tide in the morning, and the ebb2 at evening, and sometimes in the slack tide of noon I drift in one of the eddies3 where the restless life of the city pauses a moment to refresh itself. One of the eddies I like best of all is near the corner of Madison Square, where the flood of Twenty-third Street swirls4 around the bulkhead of the Metropolitan5 tower to meet the transverse currents of Madison Avenue. Here, of a bright morning when Down-at-Heels is generously warming himself on the park benches, and Old Defeat watches Young Hurry striding by, one has a royal choice of refreshment6: a “red-hot” enfolded in a bun from the dingy7 sausage wagon8 at the curb9, or a plum for a penny from the Italian with the trundle cart, or news of the world in lurid10 gulps11 from the noon edition of the paper—or else a curious idea or so flung out stridently over the heads of the crowd by a man on a soap box.
I love this corner of the great city; I love the sense of the warm human tide flowing all about me. I love to look into the strange, dark, eager, sensitive, blunt faces.
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divers
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| vi.衰退,减退;n.处于低潮,处于衰退状态 | |
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| (水、烟等的)漩涡,涡流( eddy的名词复数 ) | |
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metropolitan
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refreshment
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wagon
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eddy
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eminence
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| n.卓越,显赫;高地,高处;名家 | |
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jaw
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flannel
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veins
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perspiration
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slant
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logic
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wares
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adroit
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| 通过叫卖主动兜售(hawk的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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longings
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orator
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perspiring
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boxer
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poised
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psychology
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loft
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perfectly
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porcupine
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quills
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shrill
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languished
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| 长期受苦( languish的过去式和过去分词 ); 受折磨; 变得(越来越)衰弱; 因渴望而变得憔悴或闷闷不乐 | |
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compliant
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suffrage
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woes
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| 困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉 | |
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orchard
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| n.果园,果园里的全部果树,(美俚)棒球场 | |
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