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Chapter VII Second Thoughts
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The next morning the vicar rose early. The first thing he did was to write a long and careful letter to his friend in Yorkshire. Then, eating a little breakfast, he crossed the meadows in the direction of Casterbridge, bearing his letter in his pocket, that he might post it at the town office, and obviate1 the loss of one day in its transmission that would have resulted had he left it for the foot-post through the village.
It was a foggy morning, and the trees shed in noisy water-drops the moisture they had collected from the thick air, an acorn2 occasionally falling from its cup to the ground, in company with the drippings. In the meads, sheets of spiders’-web, almost opaque3 with wet, hung in folds over the fences, and the falling leaves appeared in every variety of brown, green, and yellow hue4.
A low and merry whistling was heard on the highway he was approaching, then the light footsteps of a man going in the same direction as himself. On reaching the junction5 of his path with the road, the vicar beheld6 Dick Dewy’s open and cheerful face. Dick lifted his hat, and the vicar came out into the highway that Dick was pursuing.
“Good-morning, Dewy. How well you are looking!” said Mr. Maybold.
“Yes, sir, I am well — quite well! I am going to Casterbridge now, to get Smart’s collar; we left it there Saturday to be repaired.”
“I am going to Casterbridge, so we’ll walk together,” the vicar said. Dick gave a hop7 with one foot to put himself in step with Mr. Maybold, who proceeded: “I fancy I didn’t see you at church yesterday, Dewy. Or were you behind the pier8?”
“No; I went to Charmley. Poor John Dunford chose me to be one of his bearers a long time before he died, and yesterday was the funeral. Of course I couldn’t refuse, though I should have liked particularly to have been at home as ’twas the day of the new music.”
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1 obviate | |
v.除去,排除,避免,预防 | |
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2 acorn | |
n.橡实,橡子 | |
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3 opaque | |
adj.不透光的;不反光的,不传导的;晦涩的 | |
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4 hue | |
n.色度;色调;样子 | |
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5 junction | |
n.连接,接合;交叉点,接合处,枢纽站 | |
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6 beheld | |
v.看,注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 );瞧;看呀;(叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现)哎哟 | |
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n.单脚跳,跳跃;vi.单脚跳,跳跃;着手做某事;vt.跳跃,跃过 | |
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8 pier | |
n.码头;桥墩,桥柱;[建]窗间壁,支柱 | |
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9 choir | |
n.唱诗班,唱诗班的席位,合唱团,舞蹈团;v.合唱 | |
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10 countenance | |
n.脸色,面容;面部表情;vt.支持,赞同 | |
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11 constrainedly | |
不自然地,勉强地,强制地 | |
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12 glides | |
n.滑行( glide的名词复数 );滑音;音渡;过渡音v.滑动( glide的第三人称单数 );掠过;(鸟或飞机 ) 滑翔 | |
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13 intoxicated | |
喝醉的,极其兴奋的 | |
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14 ingenuous | |
adj.纯朴的,单纯的;天真的;坦率的 | |
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15 heeding | |
v.听某人的劝告,听从( heed的现在分词 ) | |
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16 glided | |
v.滑动( glide的过去式和过去分词 );掠过;(鸟或飞机 ) 滑翔 | |
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17 trout | |
n.鳟鱼;鲑鱼(属) | |
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18 deliberately | |
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地 | |
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19 syllables | |
n.音节( syllable的名词复数 ) | |
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20 juxtaposition | |
n.毗邻,并置,并列 | |
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21 shreds | |
v.撕碎,切碎( shred的第三人称单数 );用撕毁机撕毁(文件) | |
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22 eddy | |
n.漩涡,涡流 | |
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23 dart | |
v.猛冲,投掷;n.飞镖,猛冲 | |
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24 downwards | |
adj./adv.向下的(地),下行的(地) | |
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25 reprehensible | |
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26 chide | |
v.叱责;谴责 | |
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27 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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28 honourably | |
adv.可尊敬地,光荣地,体面地 | |
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29 forsake | |
vt.遗弃,抛弃;舍弃,放弃 | |
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30 descended | |
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31 refinement | |
n.文雅;高尚;精美;精制;精炼 | |
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32 utterly | |
adv.完全地,绝对地 | |
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33 blight | |
n.枯萎病;造成破坏的因素;vt.破坏,摧残 | |
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