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Chapter 6 A Cry for Help
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The Paper Mill had stopped work for the night, and the paths and roads in its neighbourhood were sprinkled with clusters of people going home from their day’s labour in it. There were men, women, and children in the groups, and there was no want of lively colour to flutter in the gentle evening wind. The mingling1 of various voices and the sound of laughter made a cheerful impression upon the ear, analogous2 to that of the fluttering colours upon the eye. Into the sheet of water reflecting the flushed sky in the foreground of the living picture, a knot of urchins3 were casting stones, and watching the expansion of the rippling4 circles. So, in the rosy5 evening, one might watch the ever-widening beauty of the landscape — beyond the newly-released workers wending home — beyond the silver river — beyond the deep green fields of corn, so prospering6, that the loiterers in their narrow threads of pathway seemed to float immersed breast-high — beyond the hedgerows and the clumps7 of trees — beyond the windmills on the ridge8 — away to where the sky appeared to meet the earth, as if there were no immensity of space between mankind and Heaven.
It was a Saturday evening, and at such a time the village dogs, always much more interested in the doings of humanity than in the affairs of their own species, were particularly active. At the general shop, at the butcher’s and at the public-house, they evinced an inquiring spirit never to he satiated. Their especial interest in the public-house would seem to imply some latent rakishness in the canine9 character; for little was eaten there, and they, having no taste for beer or tobacco (Mrs Hubbard’s dog is said to have smoked, but proof is wanting), could only have been attracted by sympathy with loose
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成功,兴旺( prosper的现在分词 ) | |
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mortification
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n.风湿病 | |
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接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语) | |
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adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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conjuring
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distressed
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helping
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resolutely
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resentment
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contemplating
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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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confession
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inquiry
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