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A Fragment of Stained Glass
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Beauvale is, or was, the largest parish in England. It is thinly populated, only just netting the stragglers from shoals of houses in three large mining villages. For the rest, it holds a great tract1 of woodland, fragment of old Sherwood, a few hills of pasture and arable2 land, three collieries, and, finally, the ruins of a Cistercian abbey. These ruins lie in a still rich meadow at the foot of the last fall of woodland, through whose oaks shines a blue of hyacinths, like water, in May-time. Of the abbey, there remains3 only the east wall of the chancel standing4, a wild thick mass of ivy5 weighting one shoulder, while pigeons perch6 in the tracery of the lofty window. This is the window in question.
The vicar of Beauvale is a bachelor of forty-two years. Quite early in life some illness caused a slight paralysis7 of his right side, so that he drags a little, and so that the right corner of his mouth is twisted up into his cheek with a constant grimace8, unhidden by a heavy moustache. There is something pathetic about this twist on the vicar’s countenance9: his eyes are so shrewd and sad. It would be hard to get near to Mr Colbran. Indeed, now, his soul had some of the twist of his face, so that, when he is not ironical10, he is satiric11. Yet a man of more complete tolerance12
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tract
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n.传单,小册子,大片(土地或森林) | |
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countenance
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satiric
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adj.讽刺的,挖苦的 | |
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tolerance
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n.宽容;容忍,忍受;耐药力;公差 | |
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accusation
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renaissance
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covetous
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glower
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wretch
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n.可怜的人,不幸的人;卑鄙的人 | |
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chapel
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manor
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tightening
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上紧,固定,紧密 | |
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叫喊( whoop的过去式和过去分词 ); 高声说; 唤起 | |
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taut
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ragged
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miller
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beech
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grunted
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(猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说 | |
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v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 );鞭打;割破;削减 | |
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v.长声尖叫,用长而尖锐的声音说( squeal的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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squealing
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grunting
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Ford
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outlaws
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