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CHAPTER 20. Moving in Society
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If Young John Chivery had had the inclination1 and the power to write a satire2 on family pride, he would have had no need to go for an avenging3 illustration out of the family of his beloved. He would have found it amply in that gallant4 brother and that dainty sister, so steeped in mean experiences, and so loftily conscious of the family name; so ready to beg or borrow from the poorest, to eat of anybody’s bread, spend anybody’s money, drink from anybody’s cup and break it afterwards. To have painted the sordid5 facts of their lives, and they throughout invoking6 the death’s head apparition7 of the family gentility to come and scare their benefactors8, would have made Young John a satirist9 of the first water.
Tip had turned his liberty to hopeful account by becoming a billiard-marker. He had troubled himself so little as to the means of his release, that Clennam scarcely needed to have been at the pains of impressing the mind of Mr Plornish on that subject. Whoever had paid him the compliment, he very readily accepted the compliment with his compliments, and there was an end of it. Issuing forth10 from the gate on these easy terms, he became a billiard-marker; and now occasionally looked in at the little skittle-ground in a green Newmarket coat (second-hand), with a shining collar and bright buttons (new), and drank the beer of the Collegians.
One solid stationary11 point in the looseness of this gentleman’s character was, that he respected and admired his sister Amy. The feeling had never induced him to spare her a moment’s uneasiness, or to put himself to any restraint or inconvenience on her account; but with that Marshalsea
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satirist
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lodge
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alley
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n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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condescension
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gravy
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n.肉汁;轻易得来的钱,外快 | |
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perspiration
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thither
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spacious
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n.鸟嘴,茶壶嘴,钩形鼻 | |
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scaly
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postures
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姿势( posture的名词复数 ); 看法; 态度; 立场 | |
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peculiarity
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costly
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amazement
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delightful
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triumphantly
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