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Miss Pynsent, when she found herself alone, felt that she was really quite upside down; for the event that had just occurred had never entered into her calculations: the very nature of the case had seemed to preclude1 it. All she knew, and all she wished to know, was that in one of the dreadful institutions constructed for such purposes her quondam comrade was serving out the sentence that had been substituted for the other (the unspeakable horror) almost when the halter was already round her neck. As there was no question of that concession2 being stretched any further, poor Florentine seemed only a little more dead than other people, having no decent tombstone to mark the place where she lay. Miss Pynsent had therefore never thought of her dying again; she had no idea to what prison she had been committed on being removed from Newgate (she wished to keep her mind a blank about the matter, in the interest of the child), and it could not occur to her that out of such silence and darkness a second voice would reach her, especially a voice that she should really have to listen to. Miss Pynsent would have said, before Mrs Bowerbank’s visit, that she had no account to render to any one; that she had taken up the child (who might have starved in the gutter) out of charity, and had brought him up, poor and precarious3 as her own subsistence had been, without a penny’s help from another source; that the mother had forfeited4 every right and title; and that this had been understood between them – if anything, in so dreadful an hour, could have been said to be understood – when she went to see her at Newgate (that terrible episode, nine years before, overshadowed all Miss Pynsent’s other memories): went to see her because Florentine had sent for her (a name, face and address coming up out of the still recent but sharply separated past of their working-girl years) as the one friend to whom she could appeal with some chance of a pitying answer. The effect of violent emotion, with Miss Pynsent, was not to make her sit with idle hands or fidget about to no purpose; under its influence, on the contrary, she threw herself into little jobs, as a fugitive5 takes to by-paths, and clipped and cut, and stitched and
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1 preclude | |
vt.阻止,排除,防止;妨碍 | |
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n.让步,妥协;特许(权) | |
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3 precarious | |
adj.不安定的,靠不住的;根据不足的 | |
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4 forfeited | |
(因违反协议、犯规、受罚等)丧失,失去( forfeit的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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5 fugitive | |
adj.逃亡的,易逝的;n.逃犯,逃亡者 | |
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6 basted | |
v.打( baste的过去式和过去分词 );粗缝;痛斥;(烤肉等时)往上抹[浇]油 | |
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7 trotted | |
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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8 panorama | |
n.全景,全景画,全景摄影,全景照片[装置] | |
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9 rosy | |
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色彩( hue的名词复数 ); 色调; 信仰; 观点 | |
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11 momentous | |
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12 distinguished | |
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13 appreciation | |
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14 fiddle | |
n.小提琴;vi.拉提琴;不停拨弄,乱动 | |
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15 consecrated | |
adj.神圣的,被视为神圣的v.把…奉为神圣,给…祝圣( consecrate的过去式和过去分词 );奉献 | |
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16 illuminated | |
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17 lame | |
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18 tinkle | |
vi.叮当作响;n.叮当声 | |
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19 embittered | |
v.使怨恨,激怒( embitter的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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20 cynical | |
adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的,不信世道向善的 | |
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21 organisation | |
n.组织,安排,团体,有机休 | |
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22 sterile | |
adj.不毛的,不孕的,无菌的,枯燥的,贫瘠的 | |
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23 condemned | |
adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词 | |
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24 earnings | |
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得 | |
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25 glamour | |
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26 spoke | |
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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27 humble | |
adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低 | |
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28 suburban | |
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29 preoccupied | |
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30 displeased | |
a.不快的 | |
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31 facets | |
n.(宝石或首饰的)小平面( facet的名词复数 );(事物的)面;方面 | |
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32 blasphemous | |
adj.亵渎神明的,不敬神的 | |
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33 radical | |
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34 horrified | |
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35 presumption | |
n.推测,可能性,冒昧,放肆,[法律]推定 | |
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36 resentment | |
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37 placid | |
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38 genial | |
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39 linen | |
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40 diatribes | |
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41 snobbery | |
n. 充绅士气派, 俗不可耐的性格 | |
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42 caterpillar | |
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43 standing | |
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44 superannuated | |
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45 grotesque | |
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46 superstition | |
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47 ward | |
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48 hissing | |
n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视 动词hiss的现在分词形式 | |
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49 plied | |
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50 fumes | |
n.(强烈而刺激的)气味,气体 | |
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51 nostril | |
n.鼻孔 | |
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52 eddies | |
(水、烟等的)漩涡,涡流( eddy的名词复数 ) | |
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53 celebrated | |
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54 mortification | |
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55 rankle | |
v.(怨恨,失望等)难以释怀 | |
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56 majestic | |
adj.雄伟的,壮丽的,庄严的,威严的,崇高的 | |
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57 reposed | |
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58 puffed | |
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59 agitated | |
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60 annoyance | |
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61 dilemma | |
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62 reminder | |
n.提醒物,纪念品;暗示,提示 | |
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63 miserable | |
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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64 ebbing | |
(指潮水)退( ebb的现在分词 ); 落; 减少; 衰落 | |
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65 inquiry | |
n.打听,询问,调查,查问 | |
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66 ascertain | |
vt.发现,确定,查明,弄清 | |
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67 perfectly | |
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地 | |
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68 catching | |
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69 irrelevantly | |
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70 bastard | |
n.坏蛋,混蛋;私生子 | |
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71 groan | |
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72 morbid | |
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73 perseverance | |
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74 remarkable | |
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75 puffs | |
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76 peculiar | |
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77 brute | |
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78 specified | |
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79 insinuated | |
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80 asinine | |
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81 conceit | |
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82 appendage | |
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83 sip | |
v.小口地喝,抿,呷;n.一小口的量 | |
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84 construed | |
v.解释(陈述、行为等)( construe的过去式和过去分词 );翻译,作句法分析 | |
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85 lodgers | |
n.房客,租住者( lodger的名词复数 ) | |
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86 mantles | |
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87 bonnets | |
n.童帽( bonnet的名词复数 );(烟囱等的)覆盖物;(苏格兰男子的)无边呢帽;(女子戴的)任何一种帽子 | |
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88 amiable | |
adj.和蔼可亲的,友善的,亲切的 | |
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89 graceful | |
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90 odious | |
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91 sneak | |
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92 gratitude | |
adj.感激,感谢 | |
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93 demonstration | |
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94 delightful | |
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95 idiotic | |
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96 relegated | |
v.使降级( relegate的过去式和过去分词 );使降职;转移;把…归类 | |
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97 relegation | |
n.驱逐,贬黜;降级 | |
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98 apparently | |
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99 deference | |
n.尊重,顺从;敬意 | |
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100 shuffle | |
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101 philosophic | |
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102 meddled | |
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103 groaning | |
adj. 呜咽的, 呻吟的 动词groan的现在分词形式 | |
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104 penitentiary | |
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105 pang | |
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106 animated | |
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107 sodden | |
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108 stolid | |
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109 density | |
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110 entreaty | |
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111 bent | |
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112 WHIMS | |
虚妄,禅病 | |
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113 luminary | |
n.名人,天体 | |
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114 glimmer | |
v.发出闪烁的微光;n.微光,微弱的闪光 | |
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