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7 The Jewel-Room of Opar
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For some time Tarzan lay where he had fallen upon the floor of the treasure chamber1 beneath the ruined walls of Opar. He lay as one dead; but he was not dead. At length he stirred. His eyes opened upon the utter darkness of the room. He raised his hand to his head and brought it away sticky with clotted2 blood. He sniffed3 at his fingers, as a wild beast might sniff4 at the life-blood upon a wounded paw.
Slowly he rose to a sitting posture—listening. No sound reached to the buried depths of his sepulcher5. He staggered to his feet, and groped his way about among the tiers of ingots. What was he? Where was he? His head ached; but otherwise he felt no ill effects from the blow that had felled him. The accident he did not recall, nor did he recall aught of what had led up to it.
He let his hands grope unfamiliarly over his limbs, his torso, and his head. He felt of the quiver at his back, the knife in his loin cloth. Something struggled for recognition within his brain. Ah! he had it. There was something missing. He crawled about upon the floor, feeling with his hands for the thing that instinct warned him was gone. At last he found it—the heavy war spear that in past years had formed so important a feature of his daily life, almost of his very existence, so inseparably had it been connected with his every action since the long-gone day that he had wrested6 his first spear from the body of a black victim of his savage7 training.
Tarzan was sure that there was another and more lovely world than that which was confined to the darkness of the four stone walls surrounding him. He continued his search and at last found the doorway8 leading inward beneath the city and the temple. This he followed, most incautiously. He came to the stone steps leading upward to the higher level. He
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chamber
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n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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adj.凝结的v.凝固( clot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视 | |
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doorway
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brilliance
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warily
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overflowed
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shaft
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copper
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growth; economy; management; and customer satisfaction 增长 | |
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darted
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ferocious
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fangs
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darting
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v.投掷,投射( dart的现在分词 );向前冲,飞奔 | |
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tawny
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regained
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conqueror
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回响,回荡( reverberate的过去式和过去分词 ); 使反响,使回荡,使反射 | |
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