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CHAPTER 13
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CHAPTER 13
Leafpaw shifted uneasily in a poolof moonlight and listened to the soft sighing of the wind in the oaks at Fourtrees. She and Cinderpelt were on their way to meet with the other medicine cats at Mothermouth, and already the half-moon was high in the sky.
“They’re late,” Cinderpelt meowed. “We’re wasting moonlight.”
Littlecloud, the ShadowClan medicine cat, settled himself more comfortably in a hollow in the grass. “They’ll be along soon.”
Cinderpelt’s tail-tip twitched3. “We need all the time we have at the Moonstone, especially tonight. We have to find out what we should do about the Twolegs.”
Leafpaw tried to curb4 her own impatience5 with the RiverClan medicine cats, who should have met them long before now. Perhaps sharing tongues with StarClan wasn’t so important to them, when their own territory hadn’t been invaded by the Twoleg monsters. Everything was quiet now; the Twoleg monsters slept at night, but Leafpaw knew they were still there, squatting6 on the scarred ground among the trees they hadn’t destroyed yet. The silence in the forest was unnatural7, without the small sounds of prey8 that always seemed louder at night.
Her belly9 rumbled10 at the thought of prey. Cinderpelt had given her traveling herbs to quell11 her appetite before they set out, but they didn’t help her hunger when she couldn’t remember the last time she had been full-fed. All the Clan2 cats were suffering; lack of food had begun to weaken them so that they couldn’t run as fast and catch what prey there was. With leaf-bare
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| v.投掷,剥皮,抨击,开火 | |
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| n.氏族,部落,宗族,家族,宗派 | |
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| vt.& vi.(使)抽动,(使)颤动(twitch的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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squatting
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prey
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belly
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| 发出隆隆声,发出辘辘声( rumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 轰鸣着缓慢行进; 发现…的真相; 看穿(阴谋) | |
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looming
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warrior
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warriors
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| 武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 ) | |
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carrion
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apprentice
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pang
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sleek
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rogue
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devastation
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| n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤 | |
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gorged
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mentor
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amber
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clans
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| 宗族( clan的名词复数 ); 氏族; 庞大的家族; 宗派 | |
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scent
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| (人)喋喋不休( chatter的过去式 ); 唠叨; (牙齿)打战; (机器)震颤 | |
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pointed
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shrugged
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fussy
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warily
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sniffed
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apprentices
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| 学徒,徒弟( apprentice的名词复数 ) | |
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compassion
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killing
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frustration
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muzzle
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wry
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snarl
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drooping
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cavern
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nagged
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flickering
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kits
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