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CHAPTER 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming
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The house in the city preserved its heavy dulness through all these transactions, and the invalid1 within it turned the same unvarying round of life. Morning, noon, and night, morning, noon, and night, each recurring2 with its accompanying monotony, always the same reluctant return of the same sequences of machinery3, like a dragging piece of clockwork.
The wheeled chair had its associated remembrances and reveries, one may suppose, as every place that is made the station of a human being has. Pictures of demolished4 streets and altered houses, as they formerly5 were when the occupant of the chair was familiar with them, images of people as they too used to be, with little or no allowance made for the lapse6 of time since they were seen; of these, there must have been many in the long routine of gloomy days. To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered7 from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids8, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses9.
What scenes and actors the stern woman most reviewed, as she sat from season to season in her one dark room, none knew but herself. Mr Flintwinch, with his wry10 presence brought to bear upon her daily like some eccentric mechanical force, would perhaps have screwed it out of her, if there had been less resistance in her; but she was too strong for him. So far as Mistress Affery was concerned, to regard her liege-lord and her disabled mistress with a face of blank wonder, to go about the house after dark with her
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invalid
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n.病人,伤残人;adj.有病的,伤残的;无效的 | |
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invalids
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病人,残疾者( invalid的名词复数 ) | |
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recluses
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apron
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conjugal
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inquiry
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proprietor
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n.所有人;业主;经营者 | |
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contraction
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uncommonly
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faltering
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enigma
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gust
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百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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rusty
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vengeance
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desecration
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wringing
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淋湿的,湿透的 | |
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dilemma
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solitary
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posture
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foraging
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