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Tropic of Capricorn 06
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Nothing of this which I am now recording1 was known to me at the time that I was going through the great change. Everything I endured was in the nature of a preparation for that moment when, putting on my hat one evening, I walked out of the office, out of my hitherto private life, and sought the woman who was to liberate2 me from a living death. In the light of this I look back now upon my nocturnal rambles3 through the streets of New York, the white nights when I walked in my sleep and saw the city in which I was born as one sees things in a mirage4. Often it was O'Rourke, the company detective, whom I accompanied through the silent streets. Often the snow was on the ground and the air chill frost. And O'Rourke talking interminably about thefts, about murders, about love, about human nature, about the Golden Age. He had a habit, when he was well launched upon a subject of stopping suddenly in the middle of the street and planting his heavy foot between mine so that I couldn't budge6. And then, seizing the lapel of my coat, he would bring his face dose to mine and talk into my eyes, each word boring in like the turn of a gimlet. I can see again the two of us standing7 in the middle of a street at four in the morning, the wind howling, the snow blowing down, and O'Rourke oblivious8 of everything but the story he had to get off his chest. Always as he talked I remember taking in the surroundings out of the comer of my eye, being aware not of what he was saying but of the two of us standing in Yorkville or on Alien Street or on Broadway. Always it seemed a little crazy to me, the earnestness with which he recounted his banal9 murder stories in the midst of the greatest muddle10 of architecture that man had ever created. While he was talking about finger-prints I might be taking stock of a coping or a cornice on a little red brick building just back of his black hat, I would get to thinking of the day the cornice had been installed, who might be the man who had designed it and why had he made it so ugly, so like every other lousy, rotten cornice which we passed from the East Side up to Harlem and beyond Harlem, if we wanted to push on, beyond New York, beyond the Mississippi, beyond the Grand
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recording
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| n.录音,记录 | |
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liberate
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| v.解放,使获得自由,释出,放出;vt.解放,使获自由 | |
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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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mirage
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| n.海市蜃楼,幻景 | |
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kin
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| n.家族,亲属,血缘关系;adj.亲属关系的,同类的 | |
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budge
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standing
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oblivious
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| adj.易忘的,遗忘的,忘却的,健忘的 | |
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banal
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muddle
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canyon
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| n.峡谷,溪谷 | |
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distress
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| n.苦恼,痛苦,不舒适;不幸;vt.使悲痛 | |
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yearning
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| a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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woe
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| n.悲哀,苦痛,不幸,困难;int.用来表达悲伤或惊慌 | |
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morsel
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| n.一口,一点点 | |
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inundated
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| v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 );(洪水般地)涌来;充满;给予或交予(太多事物)使难以应付 | |
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strata
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| n.地层(复数);社会阶层 | |
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pinpoint
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| vt.准确地确定;用针标出…的精确位置 | |
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emanating
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forth
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itching
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unravel
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| v.弄清楚(秘密);拆开,解开,松开 | |
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misery
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| n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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stark
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skyscrapers
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rape
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sewers
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| n.阴沟,污水管,下水道( sewer的名词复数 ) | |
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lash
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| v.系牢;鞭打;猛烈抨击;n.鞭打;眼睫毛 | |
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belly
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goad
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| n.刺棒,刺痛物;激励;vt.激励,刺激 | |
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goaded
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| v.刺激( goad的过去式和过去分词 );激励;(用尖棒)驱赶;驱使(或怂恿、刺激)某人 | |
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redoubtable
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arson
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motif
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| n.(图案的)基本花纹,(衣服的)花边;主题 | |
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abortions
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| n.小产( abortion的名词复数 );小产胎儿;(计划)等中止或夭折;败育 | |
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amnesia
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| n.健忘症,健忘 | |
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tribulations
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| n.苦难( tribulation的名词复数 );艰难;苦难的缘由;痛苦 | |
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relish
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monstrous
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| adj.巨大的;恐怖的;可耻的,丢脸的 | |
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| adv.违反习俗地;不自然地;勉强地;不近人情地 | |
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hideous
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| adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的 | |
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sullen
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| adj.愠怒的,闷闷不乐的,(天气等)阴沉的 | |
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bankruptcy
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| n.破产;无偿付能力 | |
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reverence
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| n.敬畏,尊敬,尊严;Reverence:对某些基督教神职人员的尊称;v.尊敬,敬畏,崇敬 | |
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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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bellies
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velocity
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chaos
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chaotic
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| adj.混沌的,一片混乱的,一团糟的 | |
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peripheral
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| adj.周边的,外围的 | |
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shreds
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| v.撕碎,切碎( shred的第三人称单数 );用撕毁机撕毁(文件) | |
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gutter
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| n.沟,街沟,水槽,檐槽,贫民窟 | |
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colossal
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edifice
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imprisoned
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| 下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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rippling
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| 起涟漪的,潺潺流水般声音的 | |
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deducted
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seething
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applicant
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applicants
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| 申请人,求职人( applicant的名词复数 ) | |
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crook
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ledger
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aliases
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stinks
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vaudeville
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| n.歌舞杂耍表演 | |
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massages
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| 按摩,推拿( massage的名词复数 ) | |
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| vt.吞咽,大口地吸(气);vi.哽住;n.吞咽 | |
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| v.(在政治方面)游说( canvass的过去式和过去分词 );调查(如选举前选民的)意见;为讨论而提出(意见等);详细检查 | |
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| v.援引( invoke的过去式和过去分词 );行使(权利等);祈求救助;恳求 | |
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vile
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| adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的 | |
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| adv.照字母顺序排列地 | |
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| n.指纹( fingerprint的名词复数 )v.指纹( fingerprint的第三人称单数 ) | |
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| n.一批(组,群);一批生产量 | |
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brats
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| n.调皮捣蛋的孩子( brat的名词复数 ) | |
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heartily
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| n.矫饰,做作,借口 | |
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| 鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 ) | |
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| adv.无法抵抗地,不能自持地;极为诱惑人地 | |
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| adj.冷静的,冷淡的,冷漠的,无活力的 | |
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| 铆接( rivet的过去式和过去分词 ); 把…固定住; 吸引; 引起某人的注意 | |
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| 走遍(某地)搜寻(人或物)( scour的过去式和过去分词 ); (用力)刷; 擦净; 擦亮 | |
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| n.能力( faculty的名词复数 );全体教职员;技巧;院 | |
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