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Let the high Muse1 chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of man.
An eminent2 philosopher among my friends, who can dignify3 even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene4 light of science, has shown me this pregnant little fact. Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially5 and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable6. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent-- of Miss Vincy, for example. Rosamond had a Providence7 of her own who had kindly8 made her more charming than other girls, and who seemed to have arranged Fred's illness and Mr. Wrench9's mistake in order to bring her and Lydgate within effective proximity10. It would have been to contravene11 these arrangements if Rosamond had consented to go away to Stone Court or elsewhere, as her parents wished her to do, especially since Mr. Lydgate thought the precaution needless. Therefore, while Miss Morgan and the children were sent away to a

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n.缪斯(希腊神话中的女神),创作灵感 | |
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broth
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longing
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folly
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intimacy
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flirt
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mutual
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frankly
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gracefully
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intercourse
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interfere
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flirtation
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n.调情,调戏,挑逗 | |
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singeing
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adroitly
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enchantment
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gentry
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jocose
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affinity
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homage
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doomed
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amiability
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constraint
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delightful
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flirted
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v.调情,打情骂俏( flirt的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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relaxation
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piety
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filthy
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adorned
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n.版画;雕刻(作品);雕刻艺术;镌版术v.在(硬物)上雕刻(字,画等)( engrave的现在分词 );将某事物深深印在(记忆或头脑中) | |
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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