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Kaleidoscopic1 dreams of a weird2 alchemist-surgeon, Grammer Oliver’s skeleton, and the face of Giles Winterborne, brought Grace Melbury to the morning of the next day. It was fine. A north wind was blowing — that not unacceptable compromise between the atmospheric3 cutlery of the eastern blast and the spongy gales4 of the west quarter. She looked from her window in the direction of the light of the previous evening, and could just discern through the trees the shape of the surgeon’s house. Somehow, in the broad, practical daylight, that unknown and lonely gentleman seemed to be shorn of much of the interest which had invested his personality and pursuits in the hours of darkness, and as Grace’s dressing5 proceeded he faded from her mind.
Meanwhile, Winterborne, though half assured of her father’s favor, was rendered a little restless by Miss Melbury’s behavior. Despite his dry self-control, he could not help looking continually from his own door towards the timber-merchant’s, in the probability of somebody’s emergence6 therefrom. His attention was at length justified7 by the appearance of two figures, that of Mr. Melbury himself, and Grace beside him. They stepped out in a direction towards the densest8 quarter of the wood, and Winterborne walked contemplatively behind them, till all three were soon under the trees.
Although the time of bare boughs9 had now set in, there were sheltered hollows amid the Hintock plantations11 and copses in which a more
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1 kaleidoscopic | |
adj.千变万化的 | |
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2 weird | |
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的 | |
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3 atmospheric | |
adj.大气的,空气的;大气层的;大气所引起的 | |
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龙猫 | |
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5 dressing | |
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料 | |
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6 emergence | |
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7 justified | |
a.正当的,有理的 | |
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8 densest | |
密集的( dense的最高级 ); 密度大的; 愚笨的; (信息量大得)难理解的 | |
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9 boughs | |
大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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10 plantation | |
n.种植园,大农场 | |
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11 plantations | |
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12 tardy | |
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13 foliage | |
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14 peculiarities | |
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15 beheld | |
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16 lapse | |
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17 primitive | |
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18 sylvan | |
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19 phenomena | |
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20 drawn | |
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21 exclamation | |
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22 onward | |
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23 starry | |
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24 moss | |
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25 rustled | |
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26 interspersed | |
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27 tracts | |
大片土地( tract的名词复数 ); 地带; (体内的)道; (尤指宣扬宗教、伦理或政治的)短文 | |
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28 overflowed | |
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29 cascades | |
倾泻( cascade的名词复数 ); 小瀑布(尤指一连串瀑布中的一支); 瀑布状物; 倾泻(或涌出)的东西 | |
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30 lobes | |
n.耳垂( lobe的名词复数 );(器官的)叶;肺叶;脑叶 | |
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31 fungi | |
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32 deformed | |
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33 taper | |
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34 lichen | |
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35 vigor | |
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36 ivy | |
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37 promising | |
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38 beeches | |
n.山毛榉( beech的名词复数 );山毛榉木材 | |
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39 hectic | |
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40 metallic | |
adj.金属的;金属制的;含金属的;产金属的;像金属的 | |
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41 fabled | |
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42 flecks | |
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43 perch | |
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44 quill | |
n.羽毛管;v.给(织物或衣服)作皱褶 | |
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45 doughy | |
adj.面团的,苍白的,半熟的;软弱无力 | |
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46 lighter | |
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47 nibbled | |
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48 divers | |
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49 intermittently | |
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50 auction | |
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51 peripatetic | |
adj.漫游的,逍遥派的,巡回的 | |
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52 groves | |
树丛,小树林( grove的名词复数 ) | |
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53 grotesque | |
adj.怪诞的,丑陋的;n.怪诞的图案,怪人(物) | |
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54 infancy | |
n.婴儿期;幼年期;初期 | |
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55 replenished | |
补充( replenish的过去式和过去分词 ); 重新装满 | |
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56 brew | |
v.酿造,调制 | |
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57 proceeding | |
n.行动,进行,(pl.)会议录,学报 | |
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58 rigidity | |
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59 eccentricity | |
n.古怪,反常,怪癖 | |
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60 engendered | |
v.产生(某形势或状况),造成,引起( engender的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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61 attire | |
v.穿衣,装扮[同]array;n.衣着;盛装 | |
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62 homeliness | |
n.简朴,朴实;相貌平平 | |
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63 interval | |
n.间隔,间距;幕间休息,中场休息 | |
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64 obliviousness | |
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65 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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66 justify | |
vt.证明…正当(或有理),为…辩护 | |
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67 flake | |
v.使成薄片;雪片般落下;n.薄片 | |
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68 flakes | |
小薄片( flake的名词复数 ); (尤指)碎片; 雪花; 古怪的人 | |
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69 descended | |
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70 robin | |
n.知更鸟,红襟鸟 | |
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71 imminent | |
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72 crumb | |
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73 standing | |
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74 bonnet | |
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75 causticity | |
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76 temperament | |
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77 betrothal | |
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78 musing | |
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79 thither | |
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80 lighting | |
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81 vexed | |
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82 glade | |
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83 converging | |
adj.收敛[缩]的,会聚的,趋同的v.(线条、运动的物体等)会于一点( converge的现在分词 );(趋于)相似或相同;人或车辆汇集;聚集 | |
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84 reined | |
勒缰绳使(马)停步( rein的过去式和过去分词 ); 驾驭; 严格控制; 加强管理 | |
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85 equestrian | |
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86 groom | |
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87 unwilling | |
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88 bosom | |
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89 fixed | |
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90 kindled | |
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91 maturity | |
n.成熟;完成;(支票、债券等)到期 | |
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92 remarkable | |
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93 decried | |
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94 judgment | |
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95 ministry | |
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96 apprehension | |
n.理解,领悟;逮捕,拘捕;忧虑 | |
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97 paternal | |
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98 repented | |
对(自己的所为)感到懊悔或忏悔( repent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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99 bonneted | |
发动机前置的 | |
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100 elation | |
n.兴高采烈,洋洋得意 | |
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