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Chapter 19 Shadow on the Sun–Dial
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Again Miss Twinkleton has delivered her valedictory1 address, with the accompaniments of white-wine and pound-cake, and again the young ladies have departed to their several homes. Helena Landless has left the Nuns’ House to attend her brother’s fortunes, and pretty Rosa is alone.
Cloisterham is so bright and sunny in these summer days, that the Cathedral and the monastery-ruin show as if their strong walls were transparent2. A soft glow seems to shine from within them, rather than upon them from without, such is their mellowness3 as they look forth4 on the hot corn-fields and the smoking roads that distantly wind among them. The Cloisterham gardens blush with ripening5 fruit. Time was when travel-stained pilgrims rode in clattering6 parties through the city’s welcome shades; time is when wayfarers7, leading a gipsy life between haymaking time and harvest, and looking as if they were just made of the dust of the earth, so very dusty are they, lounge about on cool door-steps, trying to mend their unmendable shoes, or giving them to the city kennels8 as a hopeless job, and seeking others in the bundles that they carry, along with their yet unused sickles9 swathed in bands of straw. At all the more public pumps there is much cooling of bare feet, together with much bubbling and gurgling of drinking with hand to spout10 on the part of these Bedouins; the Cloisterham police meanwhile looking askant from their beats with suspicion, and manifest impatience
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1 valedictory | |
adj.告别的;n.告别演说 | |
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2 transparent | |
adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的 | |
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3 mellowness | |
成熟; 芳醇; 肥沃; 怡然 | |
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4 forth | |
adv.向前;向外,往外 | |
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5 ripening | |
v.成熟,使熟( ripen的现在分词 );熟化;熟成 | |
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6 clattering | |
发出咔哒声(clatter的现在分词形式) | |
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7 wayfarers | |
n.旅人,(尤指)徒步旅行者( wayfarer的名词复数 ) | |
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8 kennels | |
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9 sickles | |
n.镰刀( sickle的名词复数 ) | |
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10 spout | |
v.喷出,涌出;滔滔不绝地讲;n.喷管;水柱 | |
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11 impatience | |
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12 civic | |
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13 quaint | |
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14 boughs | |
大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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15 veal | |
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16 possessed | |
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17 shudders | |
n.颤动,打颤,战栗( shudder的名词复数 )v.战栗( shudder的第三人称单数 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动 | |
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18 shriek | |
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19 watchfulness | |
警惕,留心; 警觉(性) | |
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20 avenge | |
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21 bent | |
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22 abhorrence | |
n.憎恶;可憎恶的事 | |
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23 touching | |
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24 fixed | |
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25 guardian | |
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26 determined | |
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27 admiration | |
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28 animation | |
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29 affront | |
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30 opposition | |
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31 mighty | |
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32 ardently | |
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33 devoted | |
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34 traduced | |
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35 feigned | |
a.假装的,不真诚的 | |
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36 torment | |
n.折磨;令人痛苦的东西(人);vt.折磨;纠缠 | |
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37 misery | |
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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38 sordid | |
adj.肮脏的,不干净的,卑鄙的,暗淡的 | |
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39 hideous | |
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40 mere | |
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41 kindling | |
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42 preservation | |
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43 rendering | |
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44 diabolical | |
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45 repose | |
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46 hatred | |
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47 enchanting | |
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48 undone | |
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49 quails | |
鹌鹑( quail的名词复数 ); 鹌鹑肉 | |
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50 remains | |
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51 bosom | |
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52 confession | |
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53 hawked | |
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54 inquiries | |
n.调查( inquiry的名词复数 );疑问;探究;打听 | |
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55 entangle | |
vt.缠住,套住;卷入,连累 | |
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56 winding | |
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57 pointed | |
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58 slay | |
v.杀死,宰杀,杀戮 | |
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59 perseverance | |
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60 guilt | |
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61 peril | |
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62 renounce | |
v.放弃;拒绝承认,宣布与…断绝关系 | |
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63 gallows | |
n.绞刑架,绞台 | |
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64 vilest | |
adj.卑鄙的( vile的最高级 );可耻的;极坏的;非常讨厌的 | |
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65 savage | |
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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66 fidelity | |
n.忠诚,忠实;精确 | |
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67 adoration | |
n.爱慕,崇拜 | |
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68 spurn | |
v.拒绝,摈弃;n.轻视的拒绝;踢开 | |
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69 vengeance | |
n.报复,报仇,复仇 | |
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70 toiling | |
长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的现在分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉 | |
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71 frightful | |
adj.可怕的;讨厌的 | |
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72 vehemence | |
n.热切;激烈;愤怒 | |
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73 constrainedly | |
不自然地,勉强地,强制地 | |
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74 salute | |
vi.行礼,致意,问候,放礼炮;vt.向…致意,迎接,赞扬;n.招呼,敬礼,礼炮 | |
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75 agitation | |
n.搅动;搅拌;鼓动,煽动 | |
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76 effigy | |
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77 stifling | |
a.令人窒息的 | |
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