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The guardsmen paid not the slightest attention to their wards1, for the red men could not move over two feet from the great rings to which they were padlocked, though each had seized a weapon upon which he had been engaged when I entered the room, and stood ready to join me could they have but done so.
The yellow men devoted2 all their attention to me, nor were they long in discovering that the three of them were none too many to defend the armory3 against John Carter. Would that I had had my own good long-sword in my hand that day; but, as it was, I rendered a satisfactory account of myself with the unfamiliar4 weapon of the yellow man.
At first I had a time of it dodging5 their villainous hook-swords, but after a minute or two I had succeeded in wresting6 a second straight sword from one of the racks along the wall, and thereafter, using it to parry the hooks of my antagonists7, I felt more evenly equipped.
The three of them were on me at once, and but for a lucky circumstance my end might have come quickly. The foremost guardsman made a vicious lunge for my side with his hook after the three of them had backed me against the wall, but as I sidestepped and raised my arm his weapon but grazed my side, passing into a rack of javelins9, where it became entangled10.
Before he could release it I had run him through, and then, falling back upon the tactics that have saved me a hundred times in tight pinches, I rushed the two remaining warriors12
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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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adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的 | |
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armory
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n.纹章,兵工厂,军械库 | |
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adj.陌生的,不熟悉的 | |
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n.避开,闪过,音调改变v.闪躲( dodge的现在分词 );回避 | |
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动词wrest的现在进行式 | |
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对立[对抗] 者,对手,敌手( antagonist的名词复数 ); 对抗肌; 对抗药 | |
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adv.在前面;adj.先前的;在前部的;n.前部 | |
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n.标枪( javelin的名词复数 ) | |
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adj.卷入的;陷入的;被缠住的;缠在一起的v.使某人(某物/自己)缠绕,纠缠于(某物中),使某人(自己)陷入(困难或复杂的环境中)( entangle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.勇士,武士,斗士 | |
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warriors
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武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 ) | |
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n.激流,洪流;爆发,(话语等的)连发 | |
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给(某人)带上手铐或脚镣( shackle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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doorway
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fetters
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n.脚镣( fetter的名词复数 );束缚v.给…上脚镣,束缚( fetter的第三人称单数 ) | |
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hacking
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n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动 | |
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battering
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n.用坏,损坏v.连续猛击( batter的现在分词 ) | |
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dangled
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n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱 | |
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hoarse
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ascent
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scrambled
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toll
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perch
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n.栖木,高位,杆;v.栖息,就位,位于 | |
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descried
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immediate
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adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的 | |
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guardian
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n.监护人;守卫者,保护者 | |
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shaft
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n.(工具的)柄,杆状物 | |
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adj.昏暗的,阴天的,阴森的,忧郁的 | |
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tumult
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n.喧哗;激动,混乱;吵闹 | |
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observatory
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n.天文台,气象台,瞭望台,观测台 | |
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testimony
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n.证词;见证,证明 | |
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groaning
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adj. 呜咽的, 呻吟的 动词groan的现在分词形式 | |
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pointed
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adj.勇敢的,英勇的;n.勇士,勇敢的人 | |
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avert
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succoring
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looming
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savage
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hordes
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plaza
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敌人,仇敌( foe的名词复数 ) | |
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(使)阻碍( clog的过去式和过去分词 ); 淤滞 | |
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int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等) | |
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majestically
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