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The summer passed away, and autumn, with its infinite suite1 of tints2, came creeping on. Darker grew the evenings, tearfuller the moonlights, and heavier the dews. Meanwhile the comet had waxed to its largest dimensions — so large that not only the nucleus3 but a portion of the tail had been visible in broad day. It was now on the wane4, though every night the equatorial still afforded an opportunity of observing the singular object which would soon disappear altogether from the heavens for perhaps thousands of years.
But the astronomer5 of the Rings-Hill Speer was no longer a match for his celestial6 materials. Scientifically he had become but a dim vapour of himself; the lover had come into him like an armed man, and cast out the student, and his intellectual situation was growing a life-and-death matter.
The resolve of the pair had been so far kept: they had not seen each other in private for three months. But on one day in October he ventured to write a note to her:—
‘I can do nothing! I have ceased to study, ceased to observe. The equatorial is useless to me. This affection I have for you absorbs my life, and outweighs7 my intentions. The power to labour in this grandest of fields has left me. I struggle against the weakness till I think of the cause, and then I bless her. But the very desperation of my circumstances has suggested a remedy; and this I would inform you of at once.
‘Can you come to me, since I must not come to you? I will wait tomorrow night at the edge of the plantation8 by which you would enter to the column. I will not detain you; my plan can be told in ten words.’
The night after posting this missive to her he waited at the spot mentioned.
It was a
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1 suite | |
n.一套(家具);套房;随从人员 | |
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2 tints | |
色彩( tint的名词复数 ); 带白的颜色; (淡色)染发剂; 痕迹 | |
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3 nucleus | |
n.核,核心,原子核 | |
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4 wane | |
n.衰微,亏缺,变弱;v.变小,亏缺,呈下弦 | |
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5 astronomer | |
n.天文学家 | |
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6 celestial | |
adj.天体的;天上的 | |
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7 outweighs | |
v.在重量上超过( outweigh的第三人称单数 );在重要性或价值方面超过 | |
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8 plantation | |
n.种植园,大农场 | |
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9 melancholy | |
n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的 | |
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10 watchful | |
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11 muffled | |
adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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12 embodied | |
v.表现( embody的过去式和过去分词 );象征;包括;包含 | |
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13 ascend | |
vi.渐渐上升,升高;vt.攀登,登上 | |
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14 dome | |
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15 dread | |
vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧 | |
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16 distraction | |
n.精神涣散,精神不集中,消遣,娱乐 | |
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17 misery | |
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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18 apprehension | |
n.理解,领悟;逮捕,拘捕;忧虑 | |
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19 privately | |
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20 coaxing | |
v.哄,用好话劝说( coax的现在分词 );巧言骗取;哄劝,劝诱;“锻炼”效应 | |
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21 artifice | |
n.妙计,高明的手段;狡诈,诡计 | |
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22 vigour | |
(=vigor)n.智力,体力,精力 | |
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23 agitated | |
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24 deferential | |
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25 supplication | |
n.恳求,祈愿,哀求 | |
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26 maligns | |
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27 seduces | |
诱奸( seduce的第三人称单数 ); 勾引; 诱使堕落; 使入迷 | |
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28 sages | |
n.圣人( sage的名词复数 );智者;哲人;鼠尾草(可用作调料) | |
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29 stimulus | |
n.刺激,刺激物,促进因素,引起兴奋的事物 | |
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30 toil | |
vi.辛劳工作,艰难地行动;n.苦工,难事 | |
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31 cape | |
n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风 | |
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32 lapse | |
n.过失,流逝,失效,抛弃信仰,间隔;vi.堕落,停止,失效,流逝;vt.使失效 | |
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33 constellations | |
n.星座( constellation的名词复数 );一群杰出人物;一系列(相关的想法、事物);一群(相关的人) | |
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34 exhausted | |
adj.极其疲惫的,精疲力尽的 | |
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35 investigation | |
n.调查,调查研究 | |
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36 indifference | |
n.不感兴趣,不关心,冷淡,不在乎 | |
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37 prodded | |
v.刺,戳( prod的过去式和过去分词 );刺激;促使;(用手指或尖物)戳 | |
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38 passionately | |
ad.热烈地,激烈地 | |
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39 softened | |
(使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰 | |
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40 license | |
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41 plumb | |
adv.精确地,完全地;v.了解意义,测水深 | |
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42 clandestine | |
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43 snugly | |
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44 neatly | |
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45 bonnet | |
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46 isolated | |
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47 shutter | |
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48 predilections | |
n.偏爱,偏好,嗜好( predilection的名词复数 ) | |
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49 misgivings | |
n.疑虑,担忧,害怕;疑虑,担心,恐惧( misgiving的名词复数 );疑惧 | |
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50 inclination | |
n.倾斜;点头;弯腰;斜坡;倾度;倾向;爱好 | |
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51 prudence | |
n.谨慎,精明,节俭 | |
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52 vaguely | |
adv.含糊地,暖昧地 | |
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53 tenor | |
n.男高音(歌手),次中音(乐器),要旨,大意 | |
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54 attachment | |
n.附属物,附件;依恋;依附 | |
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55 distresses | |
n.悲痛( distress的名词复数 );痛苦;贫困;危险 | |
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56 bent | |
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的 | |
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57 stipulation | |
n.契约,规定,条文;条款说明 | |
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58 assent | |
v.批准,认可;n.批准,认可 | |
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59 assented | |
同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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60 peculiar | |
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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61 secrecy | |
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62 stipulated | |
vt.& vi.规定;约定adj.[法]合同规定的 | |
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63 recluse | |
n.隐居者 | |
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64 manor | |
n.庄园,领地 | |
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65 humiliation | |
n.羞辱 | |
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66 compensating | |
补偿,补助,修正 | |
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67 politic | |
adj.有智虑的;精明的;v.从政 | |
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68 worthy | |
adj.(of)值得的,配得上的;有价值的 | |
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69 covenant | |
n.盟约,契约;v.订盟约 | |
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70 intruding | |
v.侵入,侵扰,打扰( intrude的现在分词);把…强加于 | |
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71 concealed | |
a.隐藏的,隐蔽的 | |
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72 contingency | |
n.意外事件,可能性 | |
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