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The court was roofed with glass; the April air was mild; the cry of women selling violets came in from the street and, mingling1 with the rich hum of Paris, seemed to bring with it faintly the odour of the flowers. There were other odours in the place, warm succulent and Parisian, which ranged from fried fish to burnt sugar; and there were many things besides: little tables for the post-prandial coffee; piles of luggage inscribed2 (after the initials or frequently the name) R. P. Scudamore or D. Jackson Hodge, Philadelphia Pa., or St. Louis Mo.; rattles3 of unregarded bells, flittings of tray-bearing waiters, conversations with the second-floor windows of admonitory landladies4, arrivals of young women with coffinlike bandboxes covered with black oil-cloth and depending from a strap5, sallyings-forth6 of persons staying and arrivals just afterwards of other persons to see them; together with vague prostrations on benches of tired heads of American families. It was to this last element that Mr. Dosson himself in some degree contributed, but it must be added that he had not the extremely bereft7 and exhausted8 appearance of certain of his fellows. There was an air of ruminant resignation, of habitual9 accommodation in him; but you would have guessed that he was enjoying a holiday rather than aching for a truce10, and he was not so enfeebled but that he was able to get up from time to time and stroll through the porte cochere to have a look at the street.
He gazed up and down for five minutes with his hands in his pockets, and then came back; that appeared to content him; he asked for little and had no restlessness that these small excursions wouldn’t
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v.写,刻( inscribe的过去式和过去分词 );内接 | |
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landladies
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n.女房东,女店主,女地主( landlady的名词复数 ) | |
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truce
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tinkling
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repudiated
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sociability
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delicacies
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providence
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dangle
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droll
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remarkably
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faculty
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tenor
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tune
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speculation
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contented
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ravenous
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discord
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n.不和,意见不合,争论,(音乐)不和谐 | |
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lulls
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gales
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intervals
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inhale
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prow
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affected
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placidity
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landlady
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n.女房东,女地主 | |
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disinterestedly
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jaded
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solicitude
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languor
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enquiring
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a.爱打听的,显得好奇的 | |
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friendliness
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n.友谊,亲切,亲密 | |
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celestial
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feat
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trifling
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proceeding
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n.行动,进行,(pl.)会议录,学报 | |
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profuse
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adj.很多的,大量的,极其丰富的 | |
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celebrities
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n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉 | |
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n. 备忘录, 便条 名词memorandum的复数形式 | |
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elastic
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n.橡皮圈,松紧带;adj.有弹性的;灵活的 | |
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straps
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n.带子( strap的名词复数 );挎带;肩带;背带v.用皮带捆扎( strap的第三人称单数 );用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带 | |
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exasperated
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adj.恼怒的 | |
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alluded
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提及,暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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tiresome
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adj.令人疲劳的,令人厌倦的 | |
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fatigue
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suburban
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circumvent
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sufficiently
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prostrate
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boundless
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incapable
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humility
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propriety
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descry
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postures
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satiety
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panorama
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copious
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prospects
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reverberator
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反射器,反射灯,反射炉 | |
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celebrity
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interpretation
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peril
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humiliation
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