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As the trainer, with raised lash1, hesitated an instant at the entrance to the box where the boy and the ape confronted him, a tall broad-shouldered man pushed past him and entered. As his eyes fell upon the newcomer a slight flush mounted the boy's cheeks.
"Father!" he exclaimed.
The ape gave one look at the English lord, and then leaped toward him, calling out in excited jabbering2. The man, his eyes going wide in astonishment3, stopped as though turned to stone.
"Akut!" he cried.
The boy looked, bewildered, from the ape to his father, and from his father to the ape. The trainer's jaw4 dropped as he listened to what followed, for from the lips of the Englishman flowed the gutturals of an ape that were answered in kind by the huge anthropoid5 that now clung to him.
And from the wings a hideously6 bent8 and disfigured old man watched the tableau9 in the box, his pock-marked features working spasmodically in varying expressions that might have marked every sensation in the gamut10 from pleasure to terror.
"Long have I looked for you, Tarzan," said Akut. "Now that I have found you I shall come to your jungle and live there always."
The man stroked the beast's head. Through his mind there was running rapidly a train of recollection that carried him far into the depths of the primeval African forest where this huge, man-like beast had fought shoulder to shoulder with him years before. He saw the black Mugambi
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v.系牢;鞭打;猛烈抨击;n.鞭打;眼睫毛 | |
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v.急切而含混不清地说( jabber的现在分词 );急促兴奋地说话;结结巴巴 | |
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savage
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shrugged
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growling
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sullenly
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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limousine
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n.豪华轿车 | |
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briefly
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infancy
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n.婴儿期;幼年期;初期 | |
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jack
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n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克 | |
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vestige
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filthy
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adj. 纠缠的,紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词 | |
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shuffled
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wreak
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v.发泄;报复 | |
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vengeance
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determined
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vt.捆,包扎;装订;约束;使凝固;vi.变硬 | |
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vt.渴望得到,迫切需要,恳求,请求 | |
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craved
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渴望,热望( crave的过去式 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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craving
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n.渴望,热望 | |
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adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物 | |
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frankly
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attachment
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n.附属物,附件;依恋;依附 | |
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fluency
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fabulous
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adj.极好的;极为巨大的;寓言中的,传说中的 | |
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vessel
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mingling
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herd
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persuasion
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n.劝说;说服;持有某种信仰的宗派 | |
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dressing
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n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料 | |
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interfered
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v.干预( interfere的过去式和过去分词 );调停;妨碍;干涉 | |
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n.痛苦( misery的名词复数 );痛苦的事;穷困;常发牢骚的人 | |
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malign
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adj.有害的;恶性的;恶意的;v.诽谤,诬蔑 | |
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disposition
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perversity
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deteriorated
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恶化,变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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refinement
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immunity
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unanimity
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obdurate
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vi.默许,顺从,同意 | |
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smuggle
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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compartment
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nervously
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含糊地说某事,叽咕,咕哝( mumble的现在分词 ) | |
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