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CHAPTER 42 THE VOLCANIC SHAFT
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Man's constitution is so peculiar1 that his health is purely2 a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased3 than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
As to anyone who has not endured privation having any notion of the matter, it is simply absurd.
With us, after a long fast, some mouthfuls of bread and meat, a little moldy4 biscuit and salt beef triumphed over all our previous gloomy and saturnine5 thoughts.
Nevertheless, after this repast each gave way to his own reflections. I wondered what were those of Hans—the man of the extreme north, who was yet gifted with the fatalistic resignation of Oriental character. But the utmost stretch of the imagination would not allow me to realize the truth. As for my individual self, my thoughts had ceased to be anything but memories of the past, and were all connected with that upper world which I never should have left. I saw it all now, the beautiful house in the Konigstrasse, my poor Gretchen, the good Martha; they all passed before my mind like visions of the past. Every time any of the lugubrious6 groanings which were to be distinguished7 in the hollows around fell upon my ears, I fancied I heard the distant murmur8 of the great cities above my head.
As for my uncle, always thinking of his science, he examined the nature of the shaft9 by means of a torch. He closely examined the different strata10 one above the other, in order to recognize his situation by geological theory. This calculation, or rather this estimation, could by no means be anything but approximate. But a learned man, a philosopher, is nothing if not a philosopher, when he keeps his ideas calm and collected; and certainly the Professor
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moldy
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vapor
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unbearable
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astonishment
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plunged
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catastrophe
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repose
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decomposition
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fissure
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harry
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gasped
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v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要 | |
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adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的 | |
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crater
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n.火山口,弹坑 | |
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vigor
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exasperation
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fatality
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n.不幸,灾祸,天命 | |
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lava
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n.熔岩,火山岩 | |
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cinders
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remains
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spoke
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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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gaping
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adj.口的;张口的;敞口的;多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 );张开,张大 | |
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suffocate
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vt.使窒息,使缺氧,阻碍;vi.窒息,窒息而亡,阻碍发展 | |
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upwards
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aggregate
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dispersed
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cape
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folly
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hoisting
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