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PART TWO CHAPTER XVI
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It was a bright autumn Sunday, sixteen years after Silas Marner had found his new treasure on the hearth1. The bells of the old Raveloe church were ringing the cheerful peal2 which told that the morning service was ended; and out of the arched doorway3 in the tower came slowly, retarded4 by friendly greetings and questions, the richer parishioners who had chosen this bright Sunday morning as eligible5 for church-going. It was the rural fashion of that time for the more important members of the congregation to depart first, while their humbler neighbours waited and looked on, stroking their bent7 heads or dropping their curtsies to any large ratepayer who turned to notice them.
Foremost among these advancing groups of well-clad people, there are some whom we shall recognize, in spite of Time, who has laid his hand on them all. The tall blond man of forty is not much changed in feature from the Godfrey Cass of six-and-twenty: he is only fuller in flesh, and has only lost the indefinable look of youth—a loss which is marked even when the eye is undulled and the wrinkles are not yet come. Perhaps the pretty woman, not much younger than he, who is leaning on his arm, is more changed than her husband: the lovely bloom that used to be always on her cheek now comes but fitfully, with the fresh morning air or with some strong surprise; yet to all who love human faces best for what they tell of human experience, Nancy's beauty has a heightened interest. Often the soul is ripened9 into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere10 glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit. But the years have not been so cruel to Nancy. The firm yet placid11 mouth, the clear
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hearth
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n.壁炉炉床,壁炉地面 | |
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doorway
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a.智力迟钝的,智力发育迟缓的 | |
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placid
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veracious
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lapse
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weaver
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chastise
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bonnet
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ripples
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逐渐扩散的感觉( ripple的名词复数 ) | |
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obstinately
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ad.固执地,顽固地 | |
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brooklet
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neatly
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fustian
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mustering
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victuals
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lone
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browsing
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meek
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adj.温顺的,逆来顺受的 | |
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adj.情绪异常激动的,歇斯底里般的 | |
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orphan
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superstition
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entirely
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bruise
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lengthy
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rippling
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起涟漪的,潺潺流水般声音的 | |
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remonstrate
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cogent
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futility
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n.无用 | |
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acquiescence
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unity
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interpretation
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narrative
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n.顶点;高潮;v.(使)达到顶点 | |
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testimony
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n.证词;见证,证明 | |
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leeching
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水蛭吸血法 | |
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alluded
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提及,暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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recurred
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再发生,复发( recur的过去式和过去分词 ); 治愈 | |
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allays
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v.减轻,缓和( allay的第三人称单数 ) | |
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nay
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dame
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reticence
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peculiar
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refinement
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