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Henry James: 2. The Old Order ** Written in 1917
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With this small volume,* which brings us down to about the year 1870, the memories of Henry James break off. It is more fitting to say that they break off than that they come to an end, for although we are aware that we shall hear his voice no more, there is no hint of exhaustion1 or of leave-taking; the tone is as rich and deliberate as if time were unending and matter infinite; what we have seems to be but the prelude3 to what we are to have, but a crumb4, as he says, of a banquet now forever withheld5. Someone speaking once incautiously in his presence of his “completed” works drew from him the emphatic6 assertion that never, never so long as he lived could there be any talk of completion; his work would end only with his life; and it seems in accord with this spirit that we should feel ourselves pausing, at the end of a paragraph, while in imagination the next great wave of the wonderful voice curves into fullness.
* THE MIDDLE YEARS. By Henry James.
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the great general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of separate excellence7. For ourselves Henry James seems most entirely8 in his element, doing that is to say what everything favours his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow9 light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses10 even the commonest little figures of that time, the shadow in which the detail of so many things can be discerned which the glare of day
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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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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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变平,使(某物)变平( flatten的第三人称单数 ); 彻底打败某人,使丢脸; 停止增长(或上升); (把身体或身体部位)紧贴… | |
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teem
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vi.(with)充满,多产 | |
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tempted
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benignity
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solicitude
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exquisite
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adj.精美的;敏锐的;剧烈的,感觉强烈的 | |
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(使)混合( merge的第三人称单数 ); 相融; 融入; 渐渐消失在某物中 | |
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v.区别,辨别,区分;有区别地对待 | |
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v.推销,招徕;兜售;吹捧,劝诱 | |
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perfectly
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perch
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worthy
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survivors
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幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 ) | |
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chaos
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lasting
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fabric
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impersonal
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adj.无个人感情的,与个人无关的,非人称的 | |
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intimacies
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亲密( intimacy的名词复数 ); 密切; 亲昵的言行; 性行为 | |
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cosmopolitan
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adj.世界性的,全世界的,四海为家的,全球的 | |
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undoubtedly
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memoirs
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n.回忆录;回忆录传( mem,自oir的名词复数) | |
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n.简单,简易;朴素;直率,单纯 | |
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epoch
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generosities
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tragic
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innocence
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rosy
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gale
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averted
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防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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gathering
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privately
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aspiration
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