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LVIII ARACHNE
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Behold1, "Vicksburg and the Bends."
In one of those damp June-hot caves galleried into the sheer yellow-clay sides of her deep-sunken streets, desolate2 streets where Porter's great soaring, howling, burrowing3 "lamp-posts" blew up like steamboats and flew forty ways in search of women and children, dwelt the Callenders. Out among Pemberton's trenches4 and redans, where the woods were dense5 on the crowns and faces of the landside bluffs6, and the undergrowth was thick in the dark ravines, the minie-ball forever buzzed and pattered, and every now and then dabbed7 mortally into some head or breast. There ever closer and closer the blue boys dug and crept while they and the gray tossed back and forth8 the hellish hand-grenade, the heavenly hard-tack and tobacco, gay jokes and lighted bombs. There, mining and countermining, they blew one another to atoms, or under shrieking9 shells that tore limbs from the trees and made missiles of them hurled10 themselves to the assault and were hurled back. There, in a ruined villa11 whose shrubberies Kincaid named "Carrollton Gardens," quartered old Brodnax, dining on the fare we promised him from the first, and there the nephew sang an ancient song from which, to please his listeners, he had dropped "old Ireland" and made it run:
"O, my heart's in New Orleans wherever I go--"
meaning, for himself, that wherever roamed a certain
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behold
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v.看,注视,看到 | |
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dabbed
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hurled
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maiden
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cemetery
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区( ward的名词复数 ); 病房; 受监护的未成年者; 被人照顾或控制的状态 | |
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pertinacity
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unaware
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inordinately
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dagger
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disappearance
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imputed
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confession
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regain
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frenzies
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狂乱( frenzy的名词复数 ); 极度的激动 | |
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rend
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anguish
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sobbed
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哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说 | |
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slumbers
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睡眠,安眠( slumber的名词复数 ) | |
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volcanic
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havoc
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impeachment
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banish
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vt.放逐,驱逐;消除,排除 | |
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reverence
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labored
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languor
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pang
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modesty
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utterly
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bosom
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