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3 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
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One day, about two weeks later, von Horn and the professor were occupied closely with their work in the court of mystery. Developments were coming in riotous1 confusion. A recent startling discovery bade fare to simplify and expedite the work far beyond the fondest dreams of the scientist.
Von Horn's interest in the marvellous results that had been obtained was little short of the professor's—but he foresaw a very different outcome of it all, and by day never moved without a gun at either hip2, and by night both of them were beside him.
Sing Lee, the noonday meal having been disposed of, set forth3 with rod, string and bait to snare4 gulls5 upon the beach. He moved quietly through the jungle, his sharp eyes and ears always alert for anything that might savor6 of the unusual, and so it was that he saw the two men upon the beach, while they did not see him at all.
They were Bududreen and the same tall Malay whom Sing had seen twice before—once in splendid raiment and commanding the pirate prahu, and again as a simple boatman come to the Ithaca to trade, but without the goods to carry out his professed7 intentions.
The two squatted8 on the beach at the edge of the jungle a short distance above the point at which Sing had been about to emerge when he discovered them, so that it was but the work of a moment or two for the Chinaman to creep stealthily through the dense9 underbrush to a point directly above them and not three yards from where they conversed10
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v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的过去式和过去分词 );非法擅自占用(土地或房屋);为获得其所有权;而占用某片公共用地。 | |
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vats
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varieties 变化,多样性,种类 | |
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mustered
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v.集合,召集,集结(尤指部队)( muster的过去式和过去分词 );(自他人处)搜集某事物;聚集;激发 | |
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crouched
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hatred
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hideous
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adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的 | |
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grizzly
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adj.略为灰色的,呈灰色的;n.灰色大熊 | |
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lumbered
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砍伐(lumber的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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futile(无用的)的变形; 干 | |
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n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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gathering
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