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“I can give you your friend’s name – in a single guess. He is Diedrich Hoffendahl!” They had been strolling more and more slowly, the next morning, and as she made this announcement the Princess stopped altogether, standing1 there under a great beech2 with her eyes upon Hyacinth’s and her hands full of primroses3. He had breakfasted at noon, with his hostess and Madame Grandoni, but the old lady had fortunately not joined them when the Princess afterwards proposed that he should accompany her on her walk in the park. She told him that her venerable friend had let her know, while the day was still very young, that she thought it in the worst possible taste of the Princess not to have allowed Mr Robinson to depart; to which Christina had replied that concerning tastes there was no disputing and that they had disagreed on such matters before without any one being the worse. Hyacinth expressed the hope that they wouldn’t dispute about him – of all thankless subjects in the world; and the Princess assured him that she never disputed about anything. She held that there were other ways than that of arranging one’s relations with people; and Hyacinth guessed that she meant that when a difference became sharp she broke off altogether. On her side, then, there was as little possibility as on his that they should ever quarrel; their acquaintance would be a solid friendship or it would be nothing at all. The Princess gave it from hour to hour more of this quality, and it may be imagined how safe Hyacinth felt by the time he began to tell her that something had happened to him, in London, three months before, one night (or rather in the small hours of the morning), that had altered his life altogether – had, indeed, as he might say, changed the terms on which he held it. He was aware that he didn’t know exactly what he meant by this last phrase; but it expressed sufficiently4 well the new feeling that had come over him since that interminable, tantalising cab-drive in the rain.
The Princess had led to this, almost as soon as they left the house; making up for her avoidance of such topics the day before by saying, suddenly, “Now tell me what is going on among your friends. I don’t mean your worldly acquaintances, but your colleagues, your brothers. Où en êtes-vous, at the present time? Is there anything new, is anything going to be done; I am afraid you are always simply
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n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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n.报春花( primrose的名词复数 );淡黄色;追求享乐(招至恶果) | |
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imputation
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trumpery
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vow
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gaily
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beeches
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sham
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remarkable
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contingency
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n.意外事件,可能性 | |
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consolation
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remains
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地 | |
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delightful
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adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的 | |
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sanctuary
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n.邪恶( iniquity的名词复数 );极不公正 | |
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doomed
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machinery
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n.(总称)机械,机器;机构 | |
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rehearsal
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n.排练,排演;练习 | |
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catching
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sublimity
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touching
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humility
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fermenting
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affiliated
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passionate
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bail
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sincerity
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implicating
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vt.牵涉,涉及(implicate的现在分词形式) | |
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affected
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hesitation
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scruple
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n./v.顾忌,迟疑 | |
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humbug
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n.花招,谎话,欺骗 | |
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aurora
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n.极光 | |
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obedience
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n.服从,顺从 | |
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vows
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誓言( vow的名词复数 ); 郑重宣布,许愿 | |
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organisation
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n.组织,安排,团体,有机休 | |
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mighty
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mightiness
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n.强大 | |
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delicacy
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n.精致,细微,微妙,精良;美味,佳肴 | |
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perfectly
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simultaneously
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adv.同时发生地,同时进行地 | |
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subdivided
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再分,细分( subdivide的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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obstruct
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enjoyment
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conjecture
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detested
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consecration
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lucidity
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dents
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positively
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proprieties
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derive
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exquisite
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irrelevantly
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abruptly
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accounting
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intonation
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tact
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peculiar
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exclamation
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vividly
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adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的 | |
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