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Chapter 22
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The Treasure Vaults1 of Opar
It was quite dark before La, the high priestess, returned to the Chamber2 of the Dead with food and drink for Tarzan. She bore no light, feeling with her hands along the crumbling3 walls until she gained the chamber. Through the stone grating above, a tropic moon served dimly to illuminate4 the interior.
Tarzan, crouching5 in the shadows at the far side of the room as the first sound of approaching footsteps reached him, came forth6 to meet the girl as he recognized that it was she.
"They are furious," were her first words. "Never before has a human sacrifice escaped the altar. Already fifty have gone forth to track you down. They have searched the temple—all save this single room."
"Why do they fear to come here?" he asked.
"It is the Chamber of the Dead. Here the dead return to worship. See this ancient altar? It is here that the dead sacrifice the living—if they find a victim here. That is the reason our people shun7 this chamber. Were one to enter he knows that the waiting dead would seize him for their sacrifice."
"But you?" he asked.
"I am high priestess—I alone am safe from the dead. It is I who at rare intervals9 bring them a human sacrifice from the world above. I alone may enter here in safety."
She looked at him quizzically for a moment. Then she replied:
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n.拱顶( vault的名词复数 );地下室;撑物跳高;墓穴 | |
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(六角)转台( turret的名词复数 ); (战舰和坦克等上的)转动炮塔; (摄影机等上的)镜头转台; (旧时攻城用的)塔车 | |
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n.伟大,崇高,宏伟,庄严,豪华 | |
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n.处女,未婚女子;adj.未经使用的;未经开发的 | |
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武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 ) | |
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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labor
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peril
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guardian
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trot
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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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