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PART I. CHAPTER I. BILLY BYRNE
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BILLY BYRNE was a product of the streets and alleys2 of Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to Robey, and from Grand Avenue to Lake Street there was scarce a bartender whom Billy knew not by his first name. And, in proportion to their number which was considerably3 less, he knew the patrolmen and plain clothes men equally as well, but not so pleasantly.
His kindergarten education had commenced in an alley1 back of a feed-store. Here a gang of older boys and men were wont4 to congregate5 at such times as they had naught6 else to occupy their time, and as the bridewell was the only place in which they ever held a job for more than a day or two, they had considerable time to devote to congregating7.
They were pickpockets8 and second-story men, made and in the making, and all were muckers, ready to insult the first woman who passed, or pick a quarrel with any stranger who did not appear too burly. By night they plied9 their real vocations10. By day they sat in the alley behind the feedstore and drank beer from a battered11 tin pail.
The question of labor12 involved in transporting the pail, empty, to the saloon across the street, and returning it, full, to the alley back of the feed-store was solved by the presence of admiring and
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alley
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n.小巷,胡同;小径,小路 | |
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胡同,小巷( alley的名词复数 ); 小径 | |
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pickpockets
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battered
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labor
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rudiments
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brass
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faucets
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jaw
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scraps
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altercation
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pal
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contestants
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gouged
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ointment
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retirement
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affiliated
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proximity
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boon
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trespass
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impunity
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prey
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baton
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n.肋骨( rib的名词复数 );(船或屋顶等的)肋拱;肋骨状的东西;(织物的)凸条花纹 | |
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entirely
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ethical
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lesser
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fray
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granite
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skull
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手持着使用(武器、工具等)( wield的现在分词 ); 具有; 运用(权力); 施加(影响) | |
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possessed
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nervously
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immediate
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thoroughly
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wrenched
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scrambling
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补充( replenish的过去式和过去分词 ); 重新装满 | |
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