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Chapter 12 The Sweat of an Honest Man's Brow
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Mr Mortimer Lightwood and Mr Eugene Wrayburn took a coffeehouse dinner together in Mr Lightwood’s office. They had newly agreed to set up a joint1 establishment together. They had taken a bachelor cottage near Hampton, on the brink2 of the Thames, with a lawn, and a boat-house; and all things fitting, and were to float with the stream through the summer and the Long Vacation.
It was not summer yet, but spring; and it was not gentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomson’s Seasons, but nipping spring with an easterly wind, as in Johnson’s, Jackson’s, Dickson’s, Smith’s, and Jones’s Seasons. The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit. Every street was a sawpit, and there were no top-sawyers; every passenger was an under-sawyer, with the sawdust blinding him and choking him.
That mysterious paper currency which circulates in London when the wind blows, gyrated here and there and everywhere. Whence can it come, whither can it go? It hangs on every bush, flutters in every tree, is caught flying by the electric wires, haunts every enclosure, drinks at every pump, cowers3 at every grating, shudders4 upon every plot of grass, seeks rest in vain behind the legions of iron rails. In Paris, where nothing is wasted, costly5 and luxurious6 city though it be, but where wonderful human ants creep out of holes and pick up every scrap7, there is no such thing. There, it blows nothing but dust. There, sharp eyes and sharp stomachs reap even the east wind, and get something out of it.
The wind sawed, and the sawdust whirled. The shrubs8 wrung9 their many hands,
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1 joint | |
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合 | |
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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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7 scrap | |
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8 shrubs | |
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9 wrung | |
绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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10 bemoaning | |
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11 repented | |
对(自己的所为)感到懊悔或忏悔( repent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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12 nibbled | |
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13 rife | |
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14 shrill | |
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15 canopy | |
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16 beleaguered | |
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17 marsh | |
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18 blight | |
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19 isolated | |
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20 precedent | |
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21 precedents | |
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22 wrecks | |
n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 );(事故中)遭严重毁坏的汽车(或飞机等);(身体或精神上)受到严重损伤的人;状况非常糟糕的车辆(或建筑物等)v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 );使(船舶)失事,使遇难,使下沉 | |
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24 acquiesced | |
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25 eel | |
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26 eels | |
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27 assented | |
同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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28 twilight | |
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29 spoke | |
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30 parental | |
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31 tautology | |
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32 devoted | |
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33 sufficiently | |
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34 eminence | |
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35 deference | |
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36 eldest | |
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37 embarrassments | |
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39 embodied | |
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40 touching | |
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41 worthy | |
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42 dwelling | |
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43 drowsily | |
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44 disposition | |
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45 underlying | |
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46 exalt | |
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47 apparently | |
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48 phantom | |
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49 likeness | |
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50 irrelevant | |
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51 inquiry | |
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52 hoarse | |
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53 hoarsely | |
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54 fully | |
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55 squinting | |
斜视( squint的现在分词 ); 眯着眼睛; 瞟; 从小孔或缝隙里看 | |
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56 fumbled | |
(笨拙地)摸索或处理(某事物)( fumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 乱摸,笨拙地弄; 使落下 | |
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57 sodden | |
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58 furry | |
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59 wheedling | |
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60 doggedly | |
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61 contemplating | |
深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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62 affidavit | |
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63 discomfited | |
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64 decided | |
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65 tilted | |
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66 smacked | |
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67 proceedings | |
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68 deferring | |
v.拖延,延缓,推迟( defer的现在分词 );服从某人的意愿,遵从 | |
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69 binding | |
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70 notary | |
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71 stipulated | |
vt.& vi.规定;约定adj.[法]合同规定的 | |
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72 ascertained | |
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73 glib | |
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74 negligently | |
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75 mere | |
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76 triumphantly | |
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77 determined | |
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78 determinedly | |
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79 askew | |
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80 watchfully | |
警惕地,留心地 | |
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81 auditors | |
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82 liar | |
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83 rogue | |
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84 foul | |
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85 smearing | |
污点,拖尾效应 | |
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86 propitiating | |
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87 undo | |
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88 shuns | |
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89 glowering | |
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90 conjecture | |
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91 extravagant | |
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92 intervals | |
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93 interval | |
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94 lawful | |
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95 confession | |
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96 imperturbable | |
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97 rascal | |
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98 feigning | |
假装,伪装( feign的现在分词 ); 捏造(借口、理由等) | |
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99 implicate | |
vt.使牵连其中,涉嫌 | |
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100 sullen | |
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101 persistent | |
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102 aslant | |
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103 pelted | |
(连续地)投掷( pelt的过去式和过去分词 ); 连续抨击; 攻击; 剥去…的皮 | |
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104 disorder | |
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105 reigning | |
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106 tumults | |
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107 recollect | |
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108 abrupt | |
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(使)倾斜,歪斜( slant的第三人称单数 ); 有倾向性地编写或报道 | |
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112 confirmation | |
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113 beckoned | |
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115 inspector | |
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116 propound | |
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117 pretence | |
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118 landlady | |
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119 peg | |
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122 reticence | |
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123 jointly | |
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