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CHAPTER 21
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CHAPTER 21
“Mouse dung!” Squirrelflight muttered. The starlingshe had just missed fluttered onto a branch above her head, while her empty claws sank into the moss1. How was she supposed to concentrate on hunting when every waking moment was filled with worry about her sister?
“Bad luck,” Ashfur meowed, coming up behind her. “Should we call it a day? We’ve got more than enough to carry back.”
“Okay.” Squirrelflight followed him to the place under a thorn bush where he had scraped earth over their previous kills. Spiderleg joined them, a squirrel dangling3 from his jaws4, and the hunting patrol headed back to camp.
“Come on,” Ashfur murmured to Squirrelflight when they had dropped their catch on the fresh-kill pile. “Leafpool will be fine.”
“How can she be fine, when she’s left everything behind?” Squirrelflight retorted.
“Why don’t you rest for a while?” the gray warrior5 suggested, pointing with his tail at a sunny spot near the wall of the hollow. “You hardly slept at all last night.”
“And I won’t be able to sleep now. I’m going to make sure Cinderpelt has eaten.”
Squirrelflight grabbed a vole from the fresh-kill pile and padded across the clearing to the medicine cat’s den7. Rounding the screen of brambles, she found Cinderpelt crouched8 in the opening of her den with her paws tucked under her. Her blue eyes were fixed9 on nothing. Squirrelflight shivered; it looked as though Cinderpelt were gazing at horrors that only she could see.
The medicine cat blinked and looked up at her. “Squirrelflight—is there any news?”
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moss
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| n.苔,藓,地衣 | |
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| 无望地,阴郁地,苍凉地 | |
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dangling
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| 悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口 | |
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warrior
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disappearance
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verge
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kits
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| 衣物和装备( kit的名词复数 ); 成套用品; 配套元件 | |
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| v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );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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| n.姜,精力,淡赤黄色;adj.淡赤黄色的;vt.使活泼,使有生气 | |
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magpie
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| n.喜欢收藏物品的人,喜鹊,饶舌者 | |
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| vt./vi.大声哀号,恸哭;呼啸,尖啸 | |
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wailing
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apprentice
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twigs
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| 细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 ) | |
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| 踩( trample的现在分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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snarled
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hurl
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badgers
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| n.獾( badger的名词复数 );獾皮;(大写)獾州人(美国威斯康星州人的别称);毛鼻袋熊 | |
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clump
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| 发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 ); 发嘘声表示反对 | |
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bellow
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