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When I hear grown-up people discussing the University Boat Race I smile sadly and hold my peace. They may say what they like about the latest Oxford1 trial, or the average weight per man of the Cambridge crew, but deep in my heart there stays the conviction that they are making a ludicrous mistake in speaking about the Boat Race at all. Once I knew all about it, and even now I think I could put them right if I wished. But what is the use of arguing with persons who, under the absurd pretext2 of fairness, pretend to find praiseworthy features in both crews? Even the smallest boy knew better than that in the days when the Boat Race was really important. I will not say that there did not exist weaklings even then, who wobbled between Oxford and Cambridge in an endeavour to propitiate3 p. 93both factions4. But they usually suffered the fate of wobblers by having to join one side or the other, while still incurring5 the scorn of both.
The Boat Race dawned upon us each year as a strange and bewildering element in our social relationships. We would part one night on normal terms, and the morrow would find us wearing strange favours, and regarding our friends of yesterday with open and passionate6 dislike. For the sake of a morsel7 of coloured ribbon old friendships would be shattered and brother would meet brother with ingenious expressions of contempt. There was no moderate course in the matter. A boy was either vehemently8 Cambridge or intolerably Oxford, and it would have been easier to account for the colour of his hair than to explain how he arrived at his choice of a university. Some blind instinct, some subtle influence felt, perhaps, in the dim, far-off nursery days may have determined
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1 Oxford | |
n.牛津(英国城市) | |
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2 pretext | |
n.借口,托词 | |
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3 propitiate | |
v.慰解,劝解 | |
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4 factions | |
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 ) | |
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5 incurring | |
遭受,招致,引起( incur的现在分词 ) | |
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6 passionate | |
adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的 | |
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7 morsel | |
n.一口,一点点 | |
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8 vehemently | |
adv. 热烈地 | |
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9 determined | |
adj.坚定的;有决心的 | |
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10 immutably | |
adv.不变地,永恒地 | |
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11 devoted | |
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的 | |
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12 conclusive | |
adj.最后的,结论的;确凿的,消除怀疑的 | |
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13 warfare | |
n.战争(状态);斗争;冲突 | |
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14 discredited | |
不足信的,不名誉的 | |
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15 falter | |
vi.(嗓音)颤抖,结巴地说;犹豫;蹒跚 | |
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16 fray | |
v.争吵;打斗;磨损,磨破;n.吵架;打斗 | |
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17 clan | |
n.氏族,部落,宗族,家族,宗派 | |
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18 extinction | |
n.熄灭,消亡,消灭,灭绝,绝种 | |
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19 rumour | |
n.谣言,谣传,传闻 | |
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20 clans | |
宗族( clan的名词复数 ); 氏族; 庞大的家族; 宗派 | |
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21 lull | |
v.使安静,使入睡,缓和,哄骗;n.暂停,间歇 | |
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22 utterance | |
n.用言语表达,话语,言语 | |
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23 rabble | |
n.乌合之众,暴民;下等人 | |
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24 quad | |
n.四方院;四胞胎之一;v.在…填补空铅 | |
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25 beset | |
v.镶嵌;困扰,包围 | |
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26 cloisters | |
n.(学院、修道院、教堂等建筑的)走廊( cloister的名词复数 );回廊;修道院的生活;隐居v.隐退,使与世隔绝( cloister的第三人称单数 ) | |
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27 tumult | |
n.喧哗;激动,混乱;吵闹 | |
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28 discomfiture | |
n.崩溃;大败;挫败;困惑 | |
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29 bosom | |
n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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30 blues | |
n.抑郁,沮丧;布鲁斯音乐 | |
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31 judgments | |
判断( judgment的名词复数 ); 鉴定; 评价; 审判 | |
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32 miserable | |
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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