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CHAPTER 14. Little Dorrit’s Party
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Arthur Clennam rose hastily, and saw her standing1 at the door. This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit’s eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him.
Little Dorrit looked into a dim room, which seemed a spacious2 one to her, and grandly furnished. Courtly ideas of Covent Garden, as a place with famous coffee-houses, where gentlemen wearing gold-laced coats and swords had quarrelled and fought duels3; costly4 ideas of Covent Garden, as a place where there were flowers in winter at guineas a-piece, pine-apples at guineas a pound, and peas at guineas a pint5; picturesque6 ideas of Covent Garden, as a place where there was a mighty7 theatre, showing wonderful and beautiful sights to richly-dressed ladies and gentlemen, and which was for ever far beyond the reach of poor Fanny or poor uncle; desolate8 ideas of Covent Garden, as having all those arches in it, where the miserable9 children in rags among whom she had just now passed, like young rats, slunk and hid, fed on offal, huddled10 together for warmth, and were hunted about (look to the rats young and old, all ye Barnacles, for before God they are eating away our foundations, and will bring the roofs on our heads!); teeming11 ideas of Covent Garden, as a place of past and present mystery, romance, abundance, want, beauty, ugliness, fair country gardens, and foul
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1 standing | |
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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3 duels | |
n.两男子的决斗( duel的名词复数 );竞争,斗争 | |
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4 costly | |
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挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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14 asperity | |
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15 attentive | |
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16 sufficiently | |
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17 manifestation | |
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18 fixedly | |
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19 kindling | |
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20 smote | |
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21 misgiving | |
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23 harmonious | |
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24 distress | |
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25 uncouth | |
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26 generosity | |
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27 subduing | |
征服( subdue的现在分词 ); 克制; 制服; 色变暗 | |
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28 confession | |
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29 contrive | |
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30 gratitude | |
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31 insufficient | |
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32 pretence | |
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33 enjoyment | |
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34 tremor | |
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37 hush | |
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42 suppliant | |
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44 unreasonable | |
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49 nervously | |
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50 chuckles | |
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51 anticipation | |
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54 lodging | |
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55 delicacy | |
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56 obtruding | |
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57 chuckled | |
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58 choir | |
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60 bleak | |
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62 compassion | |
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63 dwelling | |
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64 bosom | |
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65 soothed | |
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66 delightful | |
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67 vista | |
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69 demon | |
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70 fascination | |
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71 guilt | |
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73 feigned | |
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74 brawling | |
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75 streak | |
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79 resounding | |
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86 repose | |
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87 dismal | |
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