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IT was very remarkable1 that a young gentleman who had been brought up under one continuous system of unnatural2 restraint, should be a hypocrite; but it was certainly the case with Tom. It was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been left to his own guidance for five consecutive3 minutes, should be incapable4 at last of governing himself; but so it was with Tom. It was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, should be still inconvenienced by its ghost in the form of grovelling5 sensualities; but such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom.
'Do you smoke?' asked Mr. James Harthouse, when they came to the hotel.
'I believe you!' said Tom.
He could do no less than ask Tom up; and Tom could do no less than go up. What with a cooling drink adapted to the weather, but not so weak as cool; and what with a rarer tobacco than was to be bought in those parts; Tom was soon in a highly free and easy state at his end of the sofa, and more than ever disposed to admire his new friend at the other end.
Tom blew his smoke aside, after he had been smoking a little while, and took an observation of his friend. 'He don't seem to care about his dress,' thought Tom, 'and yet how capitally he does it. What an easy swell6 he is!'
Mr. James Harthouse, happening to catch Tom's eye, remarked that he drank nothing, and filled his glass with his own negligent7 hand.
'Thank'ee,' said Tom. 'Thank'ee. Well, Mr. Harthouse, I hope you have had about a dose of old Bounderby to-night.' Tom said this with one eye shut up again, and looking over his glass knowingly, at his entertainer.
'A very good fellow indeed!' returned Mr. James Harthouse.
'You think so, don't you?' said Tom. And shut up his eye again.
Mr. James Harthouse smiled; and rising from his end of the sofa, and lounging with his back against the chimney-piece, so that he stood before the empty fire-grate as he smoked, in front of Tom and looking down at him, observed:
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adj.无能力的,不能做某事的 | |
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5 grovelling | |
adj.卑下的,奴颜婢膝的v.卑躬屈节,奴颜婢膝( grovel的现在分词 );趴 | |
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6 swell | |
vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强 | |
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7 negligent | |
adj.疏忽的;玩忽的;粗心大意的 | |
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9 uncommonly | |
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vi.翱翔,盘旋;徘徊;彷徨,犹豫 | |
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adj.古雅的,离奇有趣的,奇怪的 | |
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13 negligence | |
n.疏忽,玩忽,粗心大意 | |
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15 eyebrows | |
眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 ) | |
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17 perfectly | |
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18 delightful | |
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19 placidly | |
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20 patronage | |
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adj.塞满的,挤满的;大口地吃;快速贪婪地吃v.把…塞满;填入;临时抱佛脚( cram的过去式) | |
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22 oyster | |
n.牡蛎;沉默寡言的人 | |
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23 complacent | |
adj.自满的;自鸣得意的 | |
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24 puffing | |
v.使喷出( puff的现在分词 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧 | |
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25 admiration | |
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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26 drowsiness | |
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v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 );攀登;争夺;(军事飞机)紧急起飞 | |
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28 filthy | |
adj.卑劣的;恶劣的,肮脏的 | |
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