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WHAT HAPPENED TO ME NEXT on the sealing-schooner1 Ghost, as I strove to fit into my new environment, are matters of humiliation2 and pain. The cook, who was called 'the doctor' by the crew, 'Tommy' by the hunters, and 'Cooky' by Wolf Larsen, was a changed personage. The difference worked in my status brought about a corresponding difference in treatment from him. Servile and fawning3 as he had been before, he was now as domineering and bellicose5.
He absurdly insisted upon my addressing him as Mr. Mugridge, and his behavior and carriage were insufferable as he showed me my duties. Besides my work in the cabin, with its four small staterooms, I was supposed to be his assistant in the galley6, and my colossal7 ignorance concerning such things as peeling potatoes or washing greasy8 pots was a source of unending and sarcastic9 wonder to him. This was part of the attitude he chose to adopt toward me; and I confess, before the day was done, that I hated him with more lively feelings than I had ever hated any one in my life before.
This first day was made more difficult for me from the fact that the Ghost, under close reefs (terms such as these I did not learn till later), was plunging10 through what Mr. Mugridge called an ''owlin' sou'easter.' At half-past five, under his directions, I set the table in the cabin, with rough-weather trays in place, and then carried the tea and cooked food down from the galley.
'Look sharp or you'll get doused,' was Mr. Mugridge's parting injunction as I left the galley with a big teapot in one hand and in the hollow of the other arm several loaves of fresh-baked bread. One of the hunters, a tall, loose-jointed chap named Henderson, was going aft at the time from the steerage (the name the hunters
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sarcastic
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plunging
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everlasting
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sling
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foaming
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trepidation
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descending
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suffocating
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bloody
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feigned
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a.假装的,不真诚的 | |
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drawn
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n.不幸的事,不幸;灾祸 | |
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n.似乎矛盾却正确的说法;自相矛盾的人(物) | |
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catching
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adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住 | |
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foundering
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exhausted
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savage
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repression
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murmur
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outrageous
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bellowing
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对立[对抗] 者,对手,敌手( antagonist的名词复数 ); 对抗肌; 对抗药 | |
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caliber
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murky
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malady
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nausea
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exhaustion
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n.耗尽枯竭,疲惫,筋疲力尽,竭尽,详尽无遗的论述 | |
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dilettante
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n.半瓶醋,业余爱好者 | |
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artistic
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adj.艺术(家)的,美术(家)的;善于艺术创作的 | |
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placid
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recluse
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athletic
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dreary
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长条形景色( vista的名词复数 ); 回顾; 展望; (未来可能发生的)一系列情景 | |
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muffled
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brutality
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