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Nobody could have slept more soundly than I in the midst of this nightmare. The war, when it came along, made only a sort of faint rumble1 in my ears. Like my compatriots, I was pacifistic and cannibalistic. The millions who were put away in the carnage passed away in a cloud, much like the Aztecs passed away, and the Incas and the red Indians and the buffaloes3. People pretended to be profoundly moved, but they weren't. They were simply tossing fitfully in their sleep. No one lost his appetite, no one got up and rang the fire alarm. The day I first realized that there had been a war was about six months or so after the armistice4. It was in a street car on the 14th Street crosstown line. One of our heroes, a Texas lad with a string of medals across his chest, happened to see an officer passing on the sidewalk. The sight of the officer enraged5 him. He was a sergeant6 himself and he probably had good reason to be sore. Anyway, the sight of the officer enraged him so that he got up from his seat and began to bawl7 the shit out of the government, the army, the civilians8, the passengers in the. car, everybody and everything. He said if there was ever another war they couldn't drag him to it with a twenty mule9 team. He said he'd see every son of a bitch killed before he'd go again himself; he said he didn't give a fuck about the medals they had decorated him with and to show that he meant it he ripped them off and threw them out the window; he said if he was ever in a trench10 with an officer again he'd shoot him in the back like a dirty dog, and that held good for General Pershing or any other general. He said a lot more, with some fancy cuss words that he'd picked up over there, and nobody opened his trap to
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| n.隆隆声;吵嚷;v.隆隆响;低沉地说 | |
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buffaloes
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| n.水牛(分非洲水牛和亚洲水牛两种)( buffalo的名词复数 );(南非或北美的)野牛;威胁;恐吓 | |
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armistice
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| n.休战,停战协定 | |
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enraged
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| 使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 ); 歜; 激愤 | |
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sergeant
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bawl
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civilians
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trench
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| n./v.(挖)沟,(挖)战壕 | |
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gainsay
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killing
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guts
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farce
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stinking
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regiments
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trenches
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revolved
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ammunition
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sobbing
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amazement
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spunk
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collaboration
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cosmos
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bastards
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| 私生子( bastard的名词复数 ); 坏蛋; 讨厌的事物; 麻烦事 (认为别人走运或不幸时说)家伙 | |
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humiliated
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utterly
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vaguely
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daze
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miraculous
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bum
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fleeting
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twilight
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prospect
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rambles
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| (无目的地)漫游( ramble的第三人称单数 ); (喻)漫谈; 扯淡; 长篇大论 | |
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texture
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remains
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renounced
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extraordinarily
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depressed
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melancholy
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extravagant
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| adj.奢侈的;过分的;(言行等)放肆的 | |
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anonymous
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miller
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trolley
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precisely
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tragic
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| adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的 | |
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germinated
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heterogeneous
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assortment
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tenaciously
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tedium
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skyscrapers
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tugging
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| n.牵引感v.用力拉,使劲拉,猛扯( tug的现在分词 ) | |
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delusions
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gutter
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isolated
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densest
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slay
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tightrope
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ledger
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gales
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kaleidoscopic
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wilderness
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molecule
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