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IT DAWNED UPON ME THAT I had never placed a proper valuation upon womankind. For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree, so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now. My mother and sisters were always about me, and I was always trying to escape them, for they worried me to distraction1 with their solicitude2 for my health, and with their periodic inroads on my den3, when my orderly confusion, upon which I prided myself, was turned into worse confusion and less order, though it looked neat enough to the eye. I never could find anything when they had departed. But now, alas4! how welcome would have been the feel of their presence, the frou-frou and swish-swish of their skirts, which I had so cordially detested5! I am sure, if I ever get home, that I shall never be irritable6 with them again. They may dose me and doctor me morning, noon, and night, and dust and sweep and put my den to rights every minute of the day, and I shall only lean back and survey it all and be thankful that I am possessed7 of a mother and some several sisters.
All of which has set me wondering. Where are the mothers of these twenty and odd men on the Ghost? It strikes me as unnatural8 and unhealthful that men should be totally separated from women and herd9 through the world by themselves. Coarseness and savagery10 are the inevitable11 results. These men about me should have sisters and wives and daughters; then would they be capable of softness and tenderness and sympathy. As it is, not one of them is married. In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which
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distraction
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n.精神涣散,精神不集中,消遣,娱乐 | |
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int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等) | |
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detested
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possessed
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unnatural
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savagery
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inevitable
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brute
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atrophied
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superfluous
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meditatively
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steering
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decided
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stuffy
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spoke
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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perturbed
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spokes
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behold
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v.看,注视,看到 | |
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adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地 | |
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lookout
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n.注意,前途,瞭望台 | |
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v.使眼色( wink的过去式和过去分词 );递眼色(表示友好或高兴等);(指光)闪烁;闪亮 | |
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scuttle
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descend
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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whim
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n.一时的兴致,突然的念头;奇想,幻想 | |
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schooner
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bunks
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bunk
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n.(车、船等倚壁而设的)铺位;废话 | |
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群集,纠结( herd的过去式和过去分词 ); 放牧; (使)向…移动 | |
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vessel
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n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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v.重击, (指心脏)急速跳动( thump的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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sleepers
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seaman
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n.海员,水手,水兵 | |
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placidly
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forefinger
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laboriously
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adv.艰苦地;费力地;辛勤地;(文体等)佶屈聱牙地 | |
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sobbing
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<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的 | |
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pony
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adj.小型的;n.小马 | |
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leach
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v.分离,过滤掉;n.过滤;过滤器 | |
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bent
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standing
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erect
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bellow
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v.吼叫,怒吼;大声发出,大声喝道 | |
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snarling
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v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的现在分词 );咆哮着说,厉声地说 | |
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abject
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adj.极可怜的,卑屈的 | |
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deception
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n.欺骗,欺诈;骗局,诡计 | |
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ascend
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vi.渐渐上升,升高;vt.攀登,登上 | |
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labored
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adj.吃力的,谨慎的v.努力争取(for)( labor的过去式和过去分词 );苦干;详细分析;(指引擎)缓慢而困难地运转 | |
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gasps
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v.喘气( gasp的第三人称单数 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要 | |
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conspiracy
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mash
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vividly
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bruised
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[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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bloody
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crafty
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smothered
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(使)窒息, (使)透不过气( smother的过去式和过去分词 ); 覆盖; 忍住; 抑制 | |
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regained
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复得( regain的过去式和过去分词 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地 | |
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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foe
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sprawling
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adj.蔓生的,不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 );蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着) | |
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