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CHAPTER II. SHANGHAIED
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WHEN Billy opened his eyes again he could not recall, for the instant, very much of his recent past. At last he remembered with painful regret the drunken sailor it had been his intention to roll. He felt deeply chagrined1 that his rightful prey2 should have escaped him. He couldn't understand how it had happened.
“This Frisco booze must be something fierce,” thought Billy.
His head ached frightfully and he was very sick. So sick that the room in which he lay seemed to be rising and falling in a horribly realistic manner. Every time it dropped it brought Billy's stomach nearly to his mouth.
Billy shut his eyes. Still the awful sensation. Billy groaned3. He never had been so sick in all his life before, and, my, how his poor head did hurt. Finding that it only seemed to make matters worse when he closed his eyes Billy opened them again.
He looked about the room in which he lay. He found it a stuffy4 hole filled with bunks6 in tiers three deep around the sides. In the center of the room was a table. Above the table a lamp hung suspended from one of the wooden beams of the ceiling.
The lamp arrested Billy's attention. It was swinging back and forth7 rather violently. This could not be a hallucination. The room might seem to be rising and falling, but that lamp could not seem to be swinging around in any such manner if it were not really and truly swinging. He couldn't account for it. Again he shut his eyes for a moment. When he opened them to look again at the lamp he found it still swung as before.
Cautiously he slid from his bunk5 to the floor. It was with difficulty that he kept his feet. Still that might be but the effects of the liquor. At last he reached the table to which he clung for support while he extended one hand toward the lamp.
There was no longer any doubt! The lamp was beating back and forth like the clapper of a great bell. Where was he? Billy sought a window. He found some little round, glass-covered holes near the low ceiling at one side of the room. It was only at the greatest risk to life and limb that he managed to crawl on all fours to one of them.
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chagrined
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prey
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n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨 | |
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v.呻吟( groan的过去式和过去分词 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦 | |
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bunk
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pal
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descending
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hearty
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affront
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bluffed
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bluff
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vitality
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wriggle
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gangster
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majesty
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brawler
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contemptible
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meager
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ethics
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刮,切除坯体余泥 | |
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antagonist
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halfway
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seamen
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prostrate
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mighty
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punctuate
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stanch
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devouring
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吞没( devour的现在分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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succumbed
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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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labor
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berth
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perfectly
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vengeance
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wreaked
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诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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subsided
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v.(土地)下陷(因在地下采矿)( subside的过去式和过去分词 );减弱;下降至较低或正常水平;一下子坐在椅子等上 | |
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nautical
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abstemiousness
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blotchy
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complexion
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supplanted
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bestial
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alley
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impudence
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craving
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habitually
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hatred
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vessel
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