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Chapter 12
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THE LAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS have witnessed a carnival1 of brutality2. From cabin to forecastle it seems to have broken out like a contagion4. I scarcely know where to begin. Wolf Larsen was really the cause of it. The relations among the men, strained and made tense by feuds5, quarrels, and grudges6, were in a state of unstable7 equilibrium8. Wolf Larsen disturbed the equilibrium, and evil passions flared9 up like flame in prairie-grass.
Thomas Mugridge was proving himself a sneak10, a spy, an informer. He attempted to curry11 favor and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward. He it was, I know, that carried some of Johnson's hasty talk to Wolf Larsen. Johnson, it seems, had bought a suit of oilskins from the slop-chest and found them to be of greatly inferior quality. Nor was he slow in advertising12 the fact. The slop-chest is a sort of miniature dry-goods store which is carried by all sealing-schooners and which is stocked with articles peculiar14 to the needs of the sailors. Whatever a sailor purchases is taken from his subsequent earnings15 on the sealing-grounds; for, as it is with the hunters, so it is with the boat-pullers and steerers: in the place of wages, they receive a 'lay,' a rate of so much per skin for every skin captured in their particular boat.
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carnival
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brutality
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| n.野蛮的行为,残忍,野蛮 | |
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contagion
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feuds
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| n.长期不和,世仇( feud的名词复数 ) | |
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| 不满,怨恨,妒忌( grudge的名词复数 ) | |
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equilibrium
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sneak
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| vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝);偷偷摸摸做;n.潜行;adj.暗中进行 | |
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curry
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| n.咖哩粉,咖哩饭菜;v.用咖哩粉调味,用马栉梳,制革 | |
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advertising
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schooner
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peculiar
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earnings
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grumbling
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sweeping
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inveigled
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descended
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embarrassment
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revolving
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appreciable
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queried
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ponderous
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slur
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courageously
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positively
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malignantly
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| 怀恶意地; 恶毒地; 有害地; 恶性地 | |
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imperatively
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posture
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avalanche
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fend
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resounding
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expiration
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wielding
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| 手持着使用(武器、工具等)( wield的现在分词 ); 具有; 运用(权力); 施加(影响) | |
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frightful
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immortality
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| n.不死,不朽 | |
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fleeting
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demolish
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rampant
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apparently
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hurled
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cork
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stunned
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| adj. 震惊的,惊讶的 动词stun的过去式和过去分词 | |
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brutes
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| 兽( brute的名词复数 ); 畜生; 残酷无情的人; 兽性 | |
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imperturbably
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leach
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dressing
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repose
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hoarse
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standing
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galley
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| n.(飞机或船上的)厨房单层甲板大帆船;军舰舰长用的大划艇; | |
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clenched
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curiously
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indicting
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| 控告,起诉( indict的现在分词 ) | |
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indicted
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scuttle
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tirade
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| n.冗长的攻击性演说 | |
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levity
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audacity
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admiration
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| n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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condemn
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condemnation
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invective
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savored
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gamut
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wrath
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exhaustion
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whim
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ecstasy
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reiterating
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erratic
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scraps
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killing
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greasily
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dwindled
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farce
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shuffling
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interfered
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vengeance
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prostrate
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foe
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wailing
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foul
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acrid
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cleansed
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slumbered
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