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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age offoolishness, it was the epoch1 of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so. far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
There were a king with a large jaw2 and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, a sat this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained3 her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded4 the sublime5 appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient6 in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere7 messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her
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n.颚,颌,说教,流言蜚语;v.喋喋不休,教训 | |
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(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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v.预示( herald的过去式和过去分词 );宣布(好或重要) | |
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adj.崇高的,伟大的;极度的,不顾后果的 | |
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8 Christian | |
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒 | |
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10 humane | |
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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16 atheistical | |
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17 traitorous | |
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20 gallantly | |
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24 retinue | |
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26 majesty | |
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28 contraband | |
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29 pilferer | |
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30 jaws | |
n.口部;嘴 | |
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