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CHAPTER X
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One on the top of the other the rest of the company followed the Ablewhites, till we had the whole tale of them complete. Including the family, they were twenty-four in all. It was a noble sight to see, when they were settled in their places round the dinner-table, and the Rector of Frizinghall (with beautiful elocution) rose and said grace.
There is no need to worry you with a list of the guests. You will meet none of them a second time—in my part of the story, at any rate—with the exception of two.
Those two sat on either side of Miss Rachel, who, as queen of the day, was naturally the great attraction of the party. On this occasion she was more particularly the centre-point towards which everybody’s eyes were directed; for (to my lady’s secret annoyance) she wore her wonderful birthday present, which eclipsed all the rest—the Moonstone. It was without any setting when it had been placed in her hands; but that universal genius, Mr. Franklin, had contrived1, with the help of his neat fingers and a little bit of silver wire, to fix it as a brooch in the bosom2 of her white dress. Everybody wondered at the prodigious3 size and beauty of the Diamond, as a matter of course. But the only two of the company who said anything out of the common way about it were those two guests I have mentioned, who sat by Miss Rachel on her right hand and her left.
The guest on her left was Mr. Candy, our doctor at Frizinghall.
This was a pleasant, companionable little man, with the drawback, however, I must own, of being too fond, in season and out of season, of his joke, and of his plunging4 in rather a headlong manner into talk with strangers, without waiting to feel his way first. In society, he was constantly making mistakes, and setting people unintentionally by the ears together. In his medical practice he was a more prudent5 man; picking up his discretion6 (as his enemies said) by a kind of instinct, and proving to be generally right where more carefully conducted doctors turned out to be wrong. What he said about the Diamond to Miss Rachel was said, as usual, by way of a mystification or joke. He gravely
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n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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adj.惊人的,奇妙的;异常的;巨大的;庞大的 | |
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discretion
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n.谨慎;随意处理 | |
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恳求,乞求( entreat的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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humdrum
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longing
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vehemently
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prospering
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成功,兴旺( prosper的现在分词 ) | |
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prospered
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成功,兴旺( prosper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.解剖学,解剖;功能,结构,组织 | |
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ad.不同寻常地,相当地 | |
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v.使用(工具)( ply的现在分词 );经常供应(食物、饮料);固定往来;经营生意 | |
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v.使眼色( wink的过去式和过去分词 );递眼色(表示友好或高兴等);(指光)闪烁;闪亮 | |
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champagne
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admiration
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manor
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interfere
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(液体,火焰等)喷出,(使)涌出( spurt的过去式和过去分词 ); (短暂地)加速前进,冲刺 | |
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rogues
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(穆斯林的)额手礼,问安,敬礼( salaam的名词复数 ) | |
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provocation
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刺,扎,戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 ); 刺伤; 刺痛; 使剧痛 | |
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salaaming
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行额手礼( salaam的现在分词 ) | |
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humbly
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juggling
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smelt
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utterly
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concealing
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secondly
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motive
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justification
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idol
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lighting
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proceeding
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groom
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killing
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conspiracy
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安抚,抚慰( appease的现在分词 ); 绥靖(满足另一国的要求以避免战争) | |
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lurking
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snugly
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