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It was a day of rather bright weather for the season. Miss Melbury went out for a morning walk, and her ever-regardful father, having an hour’s leisure, offered to walk with her. The breeze was fresh and quite steady, filtering itself through the denuded1 mass of twigs2 without swaying them, but making the point of each ivy-leaf on the trunks scratch its underlying3 neighbor restlessly. Grace’s lips sucked in this native air of hers like milk. They soon reached a place where the wood ran down into a corner, and went outside it towards comparatively open ground. Having looked round about, they were intending to re-enter the copse when a fox quietly emerged with a dragging brush, trotted4 past them tamely as a domestic cat, and disappeared amid some dead fern. They walked on, her father merely observing, after watching the animal, “They are hunting somewhere near.”
Farther up they saw in the mid-distance the hounds running hither and thither6, as if there were little or no scent7 that day. Soon divers8 members of the hunt appeared on the scene, and it was evident from their movements that the chase had been stultified9 by general puzzle-headedness as to the whereabouts of the intended victim. In a minute a farmer rode up to the two pedestrians10, panting with acteonic excitement, and Grace being a few steps in advance, he addressed her, asking if she had seen the fox.
“Yes,” said she. “We saw him some time ago — just out there.”
“Did you cry Halloo?”
“We said nothing.”
“Then why the d —— didn’t you, or get the old
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1 denuded | |
adj.[医]变光的,裸露的v.使赤裸( denude的过去式和过去分词 );剥光覆盖物 | |
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2 twigs | |
细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 ) | |
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3 underlying | |
adj.在下面的,含蓄的,潜在的 | |
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4 trotted | |
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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5 mere | |
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过 | |
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6 thither | |
adv.向那里;adj.在那边的,对岸的 | |
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7 scent | |
n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉 | |
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8 divers | |
adj.不同的;种种的 | |
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9 stultified | |
v.使成为徒劳,使变得无用( stultify的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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10 pedestrians | |
n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 ) | |
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11 buffer | |
n.起缓冲作用的人(或物),缓冲器;vt.缓冲 | |
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12 bruised | |
[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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13 epithet | |
n.(用于褒贬人物等的)表述形容词,修饰语 | |
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14 applied | |
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用 | |
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15 squire | |
n.护卫, 侍从, 乡绅 | |
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16 homely | |
adj.家常的,简朴的;不漂亮的 | |
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17 distressed | |
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18 ticklish | |
adj.怕痒的;问题棘手的;adv.怕痒地;n.怕痒,小心处理 | |
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19 assented | |
同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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20 remonstrance | |
n抗议,抱怨 | |
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21 snug | |
adj.温暖舒适的,合身的,安全的;v.使整洁干净,舒适地依靠,紧贴;n.(英)酒吧里的私房 | |
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22 parlor | |
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅 | |
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23 cultivation | |
n.耕作,培养,栽培(法),养成 | |
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24 biding | |
v.等待,停留( bide的现在分词 );居住;(过去式用bided)等待;面临 | |
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25 antagonism | |
n.对抗,敌对,对立 | |
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26 succumbed | |
不再抵抗(诱惑、疾病、攻击等)( succumb的过去式和过去分词 ); 屈从; 被压垮; 死 | |
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27 ramble | |
v.漫步,漫谈,漫游;n.漫步,闲谈,蔓延 | |
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28 deplored | |
v.悲叹,痛惜,强烈反对( deplore的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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29 counterfoils | |
n.(支票、票据等的)存根,票根( counterfoil的名词复数 ) | |
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30 drawn | |
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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31 wagons | |
n.四轮的运货马车( wagon的名词复数 );铁路货车;小手推车 | |
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