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CHAPTER16
Lionblaze heard panic in his apprentice1’swail and saw the fear in her eyes. Quietly he padded over to her and rested his tail on her shoulders. “Calm down,” he murmured. “It’ll be okay.”
Rippletail was looking around. “Water doesn’t run uphill,” the RiverClan cat meowed, “so the stream must be somewhere over there.” He pointed3 with his tail to a line of long grass at the bottom of a green slope.
“Let’s check it out,” Toadfoot suggested.
He let Rippletail take the lead as the cats trotted4 in single file alongside the silver fence. Before they had covered many fox-lengths, Lionblaze heard loud Twoleg voices coming from the other side of the field. A group of Twoleg kits6 erupted into the open, shouting noisily and kicking what looked like a smooth, round boulder7 with their hind8 paws.
“Hurry!” he called to his companions as the young Twolegs ran across the grass toward them.
Every cat picked up the pace until they were racing9 with their tails streaming out. Lionblaze felt the ground shake under his paws as the young Twolegs came nearer, still yowling and kicking the boulder-thing back and forth10 between them. With a gasp11 of relief he plunged12 into the cover of the long grass at the bottom of the slope, but his gasp changed to a screech13 of alarm as the ground gave way under his paws. He rolled and bumped down a shallow cliff, paws and tail thrashing, and landed with a
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pointed
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kits
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thump
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scattered
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growled
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pelt
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spotted
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crouch
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crouching
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jutting
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glazed
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gravel
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scents
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scent
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misery
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bent
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reassured
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| v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 );暂住;埋入;(权利、权威等)归属 | |
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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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scramble
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| v.爬行,攀爬,杂乱蔓延,碎片,片段,废料 | |
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scrambled
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| v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 );攀登;争夺;(军事飞机)紧急起飞 | |
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lighter
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| n.打火机,点火器;驳船;v.用驳船运送;light的比较级 | |
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twig
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hissed
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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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crouched
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perfectly
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bristling
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| a.竖立的 | |
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mumbled
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stammered
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screeching
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| v.发出尖叫声( screech的现在分词 );发出粗而刺耳的声音;高叫 | |
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shrug
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onward
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belly
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pricked
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withering
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| 使人畏缩的,使人害羞的,使人难堪的 | |
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nostrils
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twitching
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clumps
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intercept
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astonishment
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spat
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tangle
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exhaustion
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snail
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| 密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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quarry
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foliage
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scrambling
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jigsaw
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| n.缕花锯,竖锯,拼图游戏;vt.用竖锯锯,使互相交错搭接 | |
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exhausted
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| v.刺,戳( prod的现在分词 );刺激;促使;(用手指或尖物)戳 | |
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