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Leatherlegs and Tom Coxswain did not accompany Tatua when he went to the Parisian metropolis1 on a visit to the father of the French pale-faces. Neither the Legs nor the Sailor cared for the gayety and the crowd of cities; the stout2 mariner’s home was in the puttock-shrouds3 of the old “Repudiator.” The stern and simple trapper loved the sound of the waters better than the jargon4 of the French of the old country. “I can follow the talk of a Pawnee,” he said, “or wag my jaw5, if so be necessity bids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Thichimuchimachy; but from the tongue of a Frenchwoman, with white flour on her head, and war-paint on her face, the Lord deliver poor Natty6 Pumpo.”
“Amen and amen!” said Tom Coxswain. “There was a woman in our aft-scuppers when I went a-whalin in the little ‘Grampus’— and Lord love you, Pumpo, you poor land-swab, she WAS as pretty a craft as ever dowsed a tarpauling — there was a woman on board the ‘Grampus,’ who before we’d struck our first fish, or biled our first blubber, set the whole crew in a mutiny. I mind me of her now, Natty — her eye was sich a piercer that you could see to steer8 by it in a Newfoundland fog; her nose stood out like the ‘Grampus’s’ jibboom, and her woice, Lord love you, her woice sings in my ears even now:— it set the Captain a-quarrelin with the Mate, who was hanged in Boston harbor for harpoonin of his officer in Baffin’s Bay; — it set me and Bob Bunting a-pouring broadsides into each other’s old timbers, whereas me and Bob was worth all the women that ever shipped a hawser9. It cost me three years’ pay as I’d stowed away for the old mother, and might have cost me ever so much more, only bad luck to me, she went and married a little tailor out of Nantucket; and I’ve hated women and tailors ever since!” As he
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metropolis
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n.首府;大城市 | |
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n.裹尸布( shroud的名词复数 );寿衣;遮蔽物;覆盖物v.隐瞒( shroud的第三人称单数 );保密 | |
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jargon
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n.术语,行话 | |
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n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训 | |
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adj.整洁的,漂亮的 | |
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n.柏油,焦油;vt.涂或浇柏油/焦油于 | |
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vt.驾驶,为…操舵;引导;vi.驾驶 | |
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hawser
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n.大缆;大索 | |
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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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hardy
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adj.勇敢的,果断的,吃苦的;耐寒的 | |
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tawny
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adj.茶色的,黄褐色的;n.黄褐色 | |
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splice
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v.接合,衔接;n.胶接处,粘接处 | |
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frigate
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gallant
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intrepid
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mighty
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valor
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frigates
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n.快速军舰( frigate的名词复数 ) | |
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foe
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n.敌人,仇敌 | |
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n.血管( vessel的名词复数 );船;容器;(具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的)人 | |
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bloody
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adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染 | |
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lieutenant
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n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员 | |
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杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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vanquished
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v.征服( vanquish的过去式和过去分词 );战胜;克服;抑制 | |
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warrior
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v.贬值,跌价,减价( depreciate的过去式和过去分词 );贬低,蔑视,轻视 | |
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pang
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adj. 预期的 动词contemplate的过去分词形式 | |
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seaman
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n.海员,水手,水兵 | |
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secrecy
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temerity
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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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v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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intoxicated
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喝醉的,极其兴奋的 | |
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swarmed
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密集( swarm的过去式和过去分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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corpse
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conquerors
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征服者,占领者( conqueror的名词复数 ) | |
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