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Chapter 5 Wedding at the Marsh
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It was a beautiful sunny day for the wedding, a muddy earth but a bright sky. They had three cabs and two big closed-in vehicles. Everybody crowded in the parlour in excitement. Anna was still upstairs. Her father kept taking a nip of brandy. He was handsome in his black coat and grey trousers. His voice was hearty1 but troubled. His wife came down in dark grey silk with lace, and a touch of peacock- blue in her bonnet2. Her little body was very sure and definite. Brangwen was thankful she was there, to sustain him among all these people.
The carriages! The Nottingham Mrs. Brangwen, in silk brocade, stands in the doorway3 saying who must go with whom. There is a great bustle4. The front door is opened, and the wedding guests are walking down the garden path, whilst those still waiting peer through the window, and the little crowd at the gate gorps and stretches. How funny such dressed-up people look in the winter sunshine!
They are gone-another lot! There begins to be more room. Anna comes down blushing and very shy, to be viewed in her white silk and her veil. Her mother-in-law surveys her objectively, twitches5 the white train, arranges the folds of the veil and asserts herself.
Loud exclamations6 from the window that the bridegroom’s carriage has just passed.
“Where’s your hat, father, and your gloves?” cries the bride, stamping her white slipper7, her eyes flashing through her veil. He hunts round-his hair is ruffled8. Everybody has gone but the bride and her father. He is ready-his face very red and daunted9. Tilly dithers in the little porch, waiting to open the door. A waiting woman walks round Anna, who asks:
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hearty
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adj.热情友好的;衷心的;尽情的,纵情的 | |
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bonnet
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n.无边女帽;童帽 | |
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bustle
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exclamations
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n.呼喊( exclamation的名词复数 );感叹;感叹语;感叹词 | |
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使(某人)气馁,威吓( daunt的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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bridles
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约束( bridle的名词复数 ); 限动器; 马笼头; 系带 | |
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bouquet
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foamy
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ecstasies
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狂喜( ecstasy的名词复数 ); 出神; 入迷; 迷幻药 | |
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bliss
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solicitously
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vaguely
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crimson
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veins
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pang
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无把握( uncertainty的名词复数 ); 不确定; 变化不定; 无把握、不确定的事物 | |
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shimmered
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meshes
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网孔( mesh的名词复数 ); 网状物; 陷阱; 困境 | |
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blotted
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scrawled
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conspicuous
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recurrence
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hoary
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holly
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yew
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descended
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impudence
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hearth
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tongs
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swelling
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marsh
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oblivious
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darted
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v./n.猜想,推测 | |
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adv.讽刺地,冷嘲地 | |
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haranguing
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conundrum
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judgment
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jeering
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wafts
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bluebell
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n.风铃草 | |
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fiddles
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n.小提琴( fiddle的名词复数 );欺诈;(需要运用手指功夫的)细巧活动;当第二把手v.伪造( fiddle的第三人称单数 );篡改;骗取;修理或稍作改动 | |
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thumping
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adj.重大的,巨大的;重击的;尺码大的;极好的adv.极端地;非常地v.重击(thump的现在分词);狠打;怦怦地跳;全力支持 | |
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(声音)尖锐的,刺耳的,高频率的( shrill的现在分词 ); 凄厉 | |
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