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WE have the glorious privilege of being always in hot water if we like. We are a shareholder1 in a Great Parochial British Joint2 Stock Bank of Balderdash. We have a Vestry in our borough3, and can vote for a vestryman — might even BE a vestryman, mayhap, if we were inspired by a lofty and noble ambition. Which we are not.
Our Vestry is a deliberative assembly of the utmost dignity and importance. Like the Senate of ancient Rome, its awful gravity overpowers (or ought to overpower) barbarian4 visitors. It sits in the Capitol (we mean in the capital building erected5 for it), chiefly on Saturdays, and shakes the earth to its centre with the echoes of its thundering eloquence6, in a Sunday paper.
To get into this Vestry in the eminent7 capacity of Vestryman, gigantic efforts are made, and Herculean exertions8 used. It is made manifest to the dullest capacity at every election, that if we reject Snozzle we are done for, and that if we fail to bring in Blunderbooze at the top of the poll, we are unworthy of the dearest rights of Britons. Flaming placards are rife9 on all the dead walls in the borough, public-houses hang out banners, hackney-cabs burst into full-grown flowers of type, and everybody is, or should be, in a paroxysm of anxiety.
At these momentous10 crises of the national fate, we are much assisted in our deliberations by two eminent volunteers; one of whom subscribes11
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1 shareholder | |
n.股东,股票持有人 | |
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adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合 | |
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3 borough | |
n.享有自治权的市镇;(英)自治市镇 | |
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4 barbarian | |
n.野蛮人;adj.野蛮(人)的;未开化的 | |
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5 ERECTED | |
adj. 直立的,竖立的,笔直的 vt. 使 ... 直立,建立 | |
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6 eloquence | |
n.雄辩;口才,修辞 | |
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7 eminent | |
adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的 | |
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8 exertions | |
n.努力( exertion的名词复数 );费力;(能力、权力等的)运用;行使 | |
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9 rife | |
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10 momentous | |
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11 subscribes | |
v.捐助( subscribe的第三人称单数 );签署,题词;订阅;同意 | |
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12 indicting | |
控告,起诉( indict的现在分词 ) | |
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13 utterance | |
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14 admiration | |
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15 rigid | |
adj.严格的,死板的;刚硬的,僵硬的 | |
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16 economist | |
n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人 | |
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17 orator | |
n.演说者,演讲者,雄辩家 | |
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18 orators | |
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19 adverted | |
引起注意(advert的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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20 anonymous | |
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21 assailed | |
v.攻击( assail的过去式和过去分词 );困扰;质问;毅然应对 | |
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22 faction | |
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23 memorable | |
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24 animated | |
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25 eminence | |
n.卓越,显赫;高地,高处;名家 | |
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26 habitually | |
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27 provocation | |
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28 clamorous | |
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29 disorder | |
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调 | |
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30 manifesto | |
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31 misery | |
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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32 orphanage | |
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33 celebrated | |
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34 pestilence | |
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35 oysters | |
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36 kindled | |
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37 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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38 vented | |
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39 unintelligible | |
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40 oracle | |
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41 exigencies | |
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42 forth | |
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44 chapel | |
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45 inquiry | |
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46 honourable | |
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47 petrifies | |
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48 adjourn | |
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49 persevered | |
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50 altercation | |
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51 redoubtable | |
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52 gumption | |
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53 wilderness | |
n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠 | |
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55 rumour | |
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56 refreshment | |
n.恢复,精神爽快,提神之事物;(复数)refreshments:点心,茶点 | |
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57 pint | |
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58 ridicule | |
v.讥讽,挖苦;n.嘲弄 | |
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59 rumours | |
n.传闻( rumour的名词复数 );风闻;谣言;谣传 | |
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60 gallant | |
adj.英勇的,豪侠的;(向女人)献殷勤的 | |
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61 replete | |
adj.饱满的,塞满的;n.贮蜜蚁 | |
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62 deplore | |
vt.哀叹,对...深感遗憾 | |
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63 drawn | |
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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64 belligerents | |
n.交战的一方(指国家、集团或个人)( belligerent的名词复数 ) | |
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65 conspicuous | |
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66 remarkably | |
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67 expressive | |
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68 gunpowder | |
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69 remonstrance | |
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70 obdurate | |
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71 custody | |
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72 bail | |
v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人 | |
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73 beckoned | |
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74 poked | |
v.伸出( poke的过去式和过去分词 );戳出;拨弄;与(某人)性交 | |
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75 determined | |
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76 affected | |
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77 exquisite | |
adj.精美的;敏锐的;剧烈的,感觉强烈的 | |
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78 distinguished | |
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79 concession | |
n.让步,妥协;特许(权) | |
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80 generosity | |
n.大度,慷慨,慷慨的行为 | |
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81 repudiate | |
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82 honourably | |
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83 imperatively | |
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84 proceedings | |
n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报 | |
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85 strictly | |
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86 tack | |
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87 absurdity | |
n.荒谬,愚蠢;谬论 | |
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