PART 2 CHAPTER 33

PART 2 CHAPTER

33

N ARY A JUNE COMES AROUND THAT I DON’T RECALL THE FIRST minutes of freedom from the

Fort. This morning’s sun-laden¹, leafy fragrances² put me in mind of that bright June day. Lee had

surrendered in April, two months earlier, and the war was finally declared over in May, yet it

was still several weeks until our release.

Schoepf and Ahl presided over a table laden with stacks of official documents while a double

line of prisoners snaked across the pen. The men shifted from foot to foot as the officers slowly

filled out forms for each and rubber stamped them. When my turn came, Ahl’s eyes hardened. I

wondered if he still had power to harm me. While Ahl glared, Schoepf looked me over. He then

wrote out a line describing my hair and eye colors and approximate height. Nothing had

changed there, although so much else had. At long last, he signed my release slip and passed it

to Ahl. For what seemed an eternity³, Ahl did nothing but watch me squirm. Finally, he signed

the form and thunked down the US government stamp. I breathed a great sigh. The last step was

to raise my right hand and swear allegiance to the United States.

At long last, the gates were thrown open. Waves of happiness rose in my chest for the first

time in too long to remember. Those with the energy cavorted⁴ and frolicked on the grass

beyond, oblivious⁵ to the streaks⁶ of green stain on newly issued pants. I solemnly regarded the

outside of the pen wall, a sight I had doubted I would live to see again, and remembered a year

earlier when I viewed it for the first time with Zeke, Tayloe, and the other boys. With a strange

mix of sadness and relief, I threw my haversack over my shoulder and tramped up the loading

plank⁷ of a packet boat headed for Baltimore and finally a journey south.

The port of Richmond was our destination after boarding a second packet boat in Baltimore.

It was a malodorous two-day journey, spent leaning against the next man for support. Pull one

out, and the whole stinking⁸ bunch might fall. An hour or two out in the Bay, gray clouds

mounded to the west of the horizon, and soon a strong wind churned the water into agitated⁹

waves. We pitched against one another, grabbing for a shoulder or arm for support. My stomach

lurched, and I clasped one hand over my mouth to unsuccessfully stem the rising stream. Beards

and Blue were spewing the contents of their guts¹¹ too. Once the wind died down and the sea

smoothed out, the boat’s interior was filled with an eerie¹² silence and an even fouler¹³ stench.

There was only the sound of the paddle wheels slicing through water, accompanied by frequent

sighs or nervous coughs.

Apprehension¹⁴ had taken root in men’s minds. What might their wives or family think when

they first spied a crutch¹⁵ standing¹⁶ in for a leg, or a sleeve pinned back on a one-armed jacket?

Would there be revulsion? Or pity? I studied Beards and the others, imagining their folks seeing

them for the first time. I was used to the shadows of Beards’s hollowed-out cheekbones and

purple-haloed eyes. The others were just as ghoulish. I was no better, but I was also weighed

down by a spectral¹⁷ John Bibb. His body might have been rotting in a ditch by the Delaware

River, but his presence was palpable the minute I left the fort, when I first savored¹⁸ the

exhilarating, chest-expanding sense of freedom, something he would never know.

A collective gasp¹⁹ arose as the splintered landscape of Richmond came into view along the

James River. We pressed against the railing. I had never visited the city, but Jim Blue had

accompanied his father by train a few years before the war. “I’ll be damned,” he said. “This isn’t

Richmond. This is a nightmare.” He was right. Brittle²⁰, empty facades²¹ stretched as far as we

could see. Some tobacco warehouses²³ were as much as four stories tall with windows nothing but

open frames for the sky—the interiors and roofs gone to ashes.

Shoving forward, we filed onto the wooden gangway and spilled out onto a loading dock

jammed with hundreds of jostling freed prisoners and those who’d come to meet them. Beards,

Blue, and I staked a position in the center of the cobblestone street, as sweethearts, mothers,

fathers, and siblings²⁴ cried out and hugged their boys to them. But for us there was no familiar

voice from behind or a tap on the shoulder. No one was there to greet us.

Did this mean that Pa was injured or ill, unable to make the trip? Or worse, could he have

died while I’d been in prison? After all, he wasn’t a young man, and there had been no word

from home for more than a year. I was beside myself with worry.

After an hour, when the crowd had wandered off and only massive tobacco barrels stood like

sentinels on the dock, Beards said, “We might as well find a way home on our own.” He saw my

anxious expression and added, “I suspect our folks had no way of knowing that we were coming

today.”

“I’m not sure I have it in me to walk that far,” Jim Blue said. He sank down on a stone curb²⁵. I

agreed. We would have to cover a hundred and twenty miles, a ten-day walk if the train wasn’t

running, with no money, no food, and no transportation but our legs. “We have no choice,”

Beards said. “Grab your packs, and let’s get moving.” He briskly stood up and strode off.

I reluctantly hoisted²⁶ my haversack to my shoulder and followed Beards through the streets.

Jim Blue lagged behind. The place was overrun with union soldiers, rifles on their backs and

strolling the rubble-littered sidewalks as if they owned the city. I flinched²⁷ every time I saw one,

and we crossed to the other side of the street whenever they approached. I itched¹⁰ to get out of

that place.

In front of warehouse²² ruins at the end of the street, a tall Black man struggled with a wood

barrow full of bricks. He lowered the handles and passed a rag over his brow and face. His faded

homespun shirt swung loose from his bony shoulders and thin arms protruded²⁸ from its sleeves.

As we approached, he ignored us, instead concentrating on his barrow’s passage through the

debris²⁹ and across the rough cobblestones.

“Hey, can you please help us?” I called.

He paused and looked over his shoulder, his eyes crackling with wariness³⁰. He then dropped

the barrow’s handles and turned.

I gave our names, and then said, “We want nothing more than to get home to Augusta

County. We’ve fresh out of a union prison.” The words caught in my throat. I held my breath.

Why would this man assist former Confederates? But then, he must have taken account of our

hollowed cheeks, sunken eyes, and frail³¹ limbs and decided³² we posed no harm. He nodded and

told us, with a faint tremor³³ to his words, that he was Bill Stewart.

Beards asked, “Are you from around here?”

“Nope, not from Richmond. I’m from down around Hampton—raised up on the Stewart

plantation³⁴.”

“How’d you come to be here?” I asked.

“I spent the last year of the war as a refugee at Fort Monroe after the Yankees took it. Then

came up here two months ago to get paid work with the federals cleaning up the city. I know the

area right well now.”

“Can you help us find our way?” Blue asked.

“We’re looking for a train. We need to find one running toward Charlottesville or Staunton,”

I added.

He grudgingly³⁵ offered to guide us to the terminus of the line going west, although he’d be

losing time from his work. “I heard that the rails from Richmond to Charlottesville are repaired

now. Have been for about a week,” he said. “Don’t know about going any farther west or north

than that.”

“We’d be mighty³⁶ grateful if you’d point us in the direction of where the freight trains run.

We hope to jump one to get home,” Beards said. He looked around at the wreckage³⁷ towering

over us. “What happened here? We heard the Confederates torched the city in April to keep the

union troops from getting supplies from the warehouses, but this is unbelievable destruction.”

Bill said the buildings were still smoldering³⁸ when he arrived, two weeks after they were

torched. A mob lost control when they saw wheat, oats, and rye spilling from crumbling³⁹

warehouses. The city had starved while speculators secretly hoarded⁴⁰ grain and drove the prices

so high no one could afford them. In their fury, the mob set fires far beyond the area designated

by the Confederate army.

“I heard that Mr. Pollard, the owner of this big one behind us, suspected maybe ten or twelve

paupers⁴¹ camping inside was burnt up too,” he said. He told us that shells exploded all day after

flames reached the nearby armory⁴². “Now I’m pulling a good wage cleaning up, so I don’t mind

the mess. But I sure hope I don’t find any of those paupers,” he said. He parked his barrow

against a ragged⁴³ wall. “You boys can follow me.”

Apologetically, I put my hands in my pants pockets and yanked them inside out. “But we

have nothing to give you.”

“Never mind.”

We trailed behind as he marched confidently through the few streets cleared of charred⁴⁴

timbers and mountains of bricks. He also knew the street corners where the federal army was

dispensing⁴⁵ rations⁴⁶ for those who’d signed the United States loyalty⁴⁷ pledge. I fumbled⁴⁸ in my new

shirt pocket for the allegiance document and unfolded it.

A gray-haired white woman with rounded cheeks and a sweet expression dipped water from a

crock into a canteen and tied up some cornbread in a red cotton kerchief. “Here, son, you’ll be

needing these on your travels,” she said. I murmured my thanks and put them in my bag,

stepping back to make room for the other boys. She reminded me of women from Bethel, with

her mild manner and soft face, and home seemed a little nearer.

Bill led us to the rail tracks at the western side of the city. “I hear the whistle blow morning

and evening, and I haven’t heard the evening one yet, so a freight is bound to come by sooner or

later,” he said. We pumped his hand, thanking him profusely⁴⁹. He turned without glancing back

as he set out for the trek⁵⁰ back to his wooden barrow. Then we waited. As a freight train finally

chugged toward us, Beards yelled and I frantically⁵¹ waved my shirt in the middle of the track to

force the engine to halt. The train slowed, and the engineer leaned from the cab window. His

voice was drowned out by the engine’s blasts of steam, but he beckoned⁵² us to get aboard. I

jumped through the wide doors of an empty freight car and grabbed Beards’ and then Blue’s

outstretched hands to pull them aboard. Now we were off toward those fair mountains seen in

the past months only in dreams.

Bibb’s presence intensified⁵³ as we disembarked in Charlottesville, the last stop where the rail

line was in good repair. But for me, he would have been greeting his mother, father, sisters, and

perhaps sweet Margaret Ellen right there at that track, laughing as they embraced him and drew

him into their healing warmth.

For a few seconds, I considered delaying our return to Augusta, if only a day, to call on the

Bibb family. I could give them news of John’s last moments, his time at the Fort, and could

perhaps pass on that letter I’d written months ago. But a voice in my head whispered that they

would want to talk about their son and would expect some answers about his death. I couldn’t

possibly tell them the details. Not for the life of me. Cowardice⁵⁴ won out, even if I was denying

Beards and Blue a night’s rest in a real bed and an opportunity to wash off the journey’s

accumulated filth⁵⁵. I tore the letter into pieces when the boys weren’t looking and dropped them

into a laurel bush. When Beards suggested a side trip into town to see if more rations were

available, I snarled⁵⁶ at him so fiercely that no one dared venture in that direction. Bibb in tow, I

stumbled forward with the others on the path home.

1 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

2 fragrances   

n.芳香，香味( fragrance的名词复数 )；香水

参考例句：

• The bath oil comes in various fragrances. 这种沐浴油有不同的香味。
• This toilet soap lathers so nicely and has several fragrances. 这种香皂起泡很多，并且有好几种香味。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 eternity   

n.不朽，来世；永恒，无穷

参考例句：

• The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
• Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞，永世相随。

4 cavorted   

v.跳跃( cavort的过去式 )

参考例句：

• URGELLING, India-He drank wine, cavorted with women and wrote poetry that spoke of life's earthly pleasures. 他喝着酒，和女人跳着舞，写着述说生命最纯美的诗。 来自互联网
• St. Paul cavorted to Christianity. He preached holy acrimony, which is another name for marriage. 圣保罗欢闹了基督教。他传讲了圣恶毒，就是婚姻的另一个名字。 来自互联网

5 oblivious   

adj.易忘的，遗忘的，忘却的，健忘的

参考例句：

• Mother has become quite oblivious after the illness.这次病后，妈妈变得特别健忘。
• He was quite oblivious of the danger.他完全没有察觉到危险。

6 streaks   

n.（与周围有所不同的）条纹( streak的名词复数 )；（通常指不好的）特征（倾向）；（不断经历成功或失败的）一段时期v.快速移动( streak的第三人称单数 )；使布满条纹

参考例句：

• streaks of grey in her hair 她头上的绺绺白发
• Bacon has streaks of fat and streaks of lean. 咸肉中有几层肥的和几层瘦的。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

7 plank   

n.板条，木板，政策要点，政纲条目

参考例句：

• The plank was set against the wall.木板靠着墙壁。
• They intend to win the next election on the plank of developing trade.他们想以发展贸易的纲领来赢得下次选举。

8 stinking   

adj.臭的，烂醉的，讨厌的v.散发出恶臭( stink的现在分词 )；发臭味；名声臭；糟透

参考例句：

• I was pushed into a filthy, stinking room. 我被推进一间又脏又臭的屋子里。
• Those lousy, stinking ships. It was them that destroyed us. 是的！就是那些该死的蠢猪似的臭飞船！是它们毁了我们。 来自英汉非文学 - 科幻

9 agitated   

adj.被鼓动的，不安的

参考例句：

• His answers were all mixed up,so agitated was he.他是那样心神不定，回答全乱了。
• She was agitated because her train was an hour late.她乘坐的火车晚点一个小时，她十分焦虑。

10 itched   

v.发痒( itch的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Seeing the children playing ping-pong, he itched to have a go. 他看到孩子们打乒乓，不觉技痒。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He could hardly sIt'still and itched to have a go. 他再也坐不住了，心里跃跃欲试。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

11 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 eerie   

adj.怪诞的；奇异的；可怕的；胆怯的

参考例句：

• It's eerie to walk through a dark wood at night.夜晚在漆黑的森林中行走很是恐怖。
• I walked down the eerie dark path.我走在那条漆黑恐怖的小路上。

13 fouler   

adj.恶劣的( foul的比较级 )；邪恶的；难闻的；下流的

参考例句：

• The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot. 纸愈白，污愈显。 来自互联网
• He that falls into dirt, the longer he stays there, the fouler he is. 陷入泥的人，待的时间越长，身上越脏。 来自互联网

14 apprehension   

n.理解，领悟；逮捕，拘捕；忧虑

参考例句：

• There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.有些地方仍然存疑，于是她越来越担心。
• She is a girl of weak apprehension.她是一个理解力很差的女孩。

15 crutch   

n.T字形拐杖；支持，依靠，精神支柱

参考例句：

• Her religion was a crutch to her when John died.约翰死后，她在精神上依靠宗教信仰支撑住自己。
• He uses his wife as a kind of crutch because of his lack of confidence.他缺乏自信心，总把妻子当作主心骨。

16 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

17 spectral   

adj.幽灵的，鬼魂的

参考例句：

• At times he seems rather ordinary.At other times ethereal,perhaps even spectral.有时他好像很正常，有时又难以捉摸，甚至像个幽灵。
• She is compelling,spectral fascinating,an unforgettably unique performer.她极具吸引力，清幽如鬼魅，令人着迷，令人难忘，是个独具特色的演员。

18 savored   

v.意味，带有…的性质( savor的过去式和过去分词 )；给…加调味品；使有风味；品尝

参考例句：

• We savored the barbed hits in his reply. 我们很欣赏他在回答中使用的带刺的俏皮话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• We savored, (the pleasures of) mountain life to the full. 我们充分体会了山居生活的乐趣。 来自辞典例句

19 gasp   

n.喘息，气喘；v.喘息；气吁吁他说

参考例句：

• She gave a gasp of surprise.她吃惊得大口喘气。
• The enemy are at their last gasp.敌人在做垂死的挣扎。

20 brittle   

adj.易碎的；脆弱的；冷淡的；(声音)尖利的

参考例句：

• The pond was covered in a brittle layer of ice.池塘覆盖了一层易碎的冰。
• She gave a brittle laugh.她冷淡地笑了笑。

21 facades   

n.（房屋的）正面( facade的名词复数 )；假象，外观

参考例句：

• Terraces of asphalt are placed by the building's south and west facades. 沥青露台位于建筑的南面和西面。 来自互联网
• Preserving historic buildings or keeping only their facades (or fronts) grew common. 保存历史建筑或是保持它们普通的正面增长。 来自互联网

22 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

23 warehouses   

仓库，货栈( warehouse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
• Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。

24 siblings   

n.兄弟，姐妹( sibling的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A triplet sleeps amongst its two siblings. 一个三胞胎睡在其两个同胞之间。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She has no way of tracking the donor or her half-siblings down. 她没办法找到那个捐精者或她的兄弟姐妹。 来自时文部分

25 curb   

n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制

参考例句：

• I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
• You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。

26 hoisted   

把…吊起，升起( hoist的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He hoisted himself onto a high stool. 他抬身坐上了一张高凳子。
• The sailors hoisted the cargo onto the deck. 水手们把货物吊到甲板上。

27 flinched   

v.（因危险和痛苦）退缩，畏惧( flinch的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He flinched at the sight of the blood. 他一见到血就往后退。
• This tough Corsican never flinched or failed. 这个刚毅的科西嘉人从来没有任何畏缩或沮丧。 来自辞典例句

28 protruded   

v.（使某物）伸出，（使某物）突出( protrude的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The child protruded his tongue. 那小孩伸出舌头。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The creature's face seemed to be protruded, because of its bent carriage. 那人的脑袋似乎向前突出，那是因为身子佝偻的缘故。 来自英汉文学

29 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

30 wariness   

n. 注意,小心

参考例句：

• The British public's wariness of opera is an anomaly in Europe. 英国公众对歌剧不大轻易接受的态度在欧洲来说很反常。
• There certainly is a history of wariness about using the R-word. 历史表明绝对应当谨慎使用“衰退”一词。

31 frail   

adj.身体虚弱的；易损坏的

参考例句：

• Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herself.华纳太太已经九十六岁了，身体虚弱，不便独居。
• She lay in bed looking particularly frail.她躺在床上，看上去特别虚弱。

32 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

33 tremor   

n.震动，颤动，战栗，兴奋，地震

参考例句：

• There was a slight tremor in his voice.他的声音有点颤抖。
• A slight earth tremor was felt in California.加利福尼亚发生了轻微的地震。

34 plantation   

n.种植园，大农场

参考例句：

• His father-in-law is a plantation manager.他岳父是个种植园经营者。
• The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.这个种植园主把大片土地占为己有。

35 grudgingly   

参考例句：

• He grudgingly acknowledged having made a mistake. 他勉强承认他做错了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Their parents unwillingly [grudgingly] consented to the marriage. 他们的父母无可奈何地应允了这门亲事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

36 mighty   

adj.强有力的；巨大的

参考例句：

• A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
• The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。

37 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

38 smoldering   

v.用文火焖烧，熏烧，慢燃( smolder的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The mat was smoldering where the burning log had fallen. 燃烧的木棒落下的地方垫子慢慢燃烧起来。 来自辞典例句
• The wood was smoldering in the fireplace. 木柴在壁炉中闷烧。 来自辞典例句

39 crumbling   

adj.摇摇欲坠的

参考例句：

• an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
• The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。

40 hoarded   

v.积蓄并储藏（某物）( hoard的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• It owned great properties and often hoarded huge treasures. 它拥有庞大的财产，同时往往窖藏巨额的财宝。 来自辞典例句
• Sylvia among them, good-naturedly applaud so much long-hoarded treasure of useless knowing. 西尔维亚也在他们中间，为那些长期珍藏的无用知识，友好地、起劲地鼓掌。 来自互联网

41 paupers   

n.穷人( pauper的名词复数 )；贫民；贫穷

参考例句：

• The garment is expensive, paupers like you could never afford it! 这件衣服很贵，你这穷鬼根本买不起！ 来自互联网
• Child-friendliest among the paupers were Burkina Faso and Malawi. 布基纳法索，马拉维，这俩贫穷国家儿童友善工作做得不错。 来自互联网

42 armory   

n.纹章，兵工厂，军械库

参考例句：

• Nuclear weapons will play a less prominent part in NATO's armory in the future.核武器将来在北约的军械中会起较次要的作用。
• Every March the Armory Show sets up shop in New York.每年三月，军械博览会都会在纽约设置展场。

43 ragged   

adj.衣衫褴褛的，粗糙的，刺耳的

参考例句：

• A ragged shout went up from the small crowd.这一小群人发出了刺耳的喊叫。
• Ragged clothing infers poverty.破衣烂衫意味着贫穷。

44 charred   

v.把…烧成炭( char的过去式)；烧焦

参考例句：

• the charred remains of a burnt-out car 被烧焦的轿车残骸
• The intensity of the explosion is recorded on the charred tree trunks. 那些烧焦的树干表明爆炸的强烈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

45 dispensing   

v.分配( dispense的现在分词 )；施与；配（药）

参考例句：

• A dispensing optician supplies glasses, but doesn't test your eyes. 配镜师为你提供眼镜，但不检查眼睛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The firm has been dispensing ointments. 本公司配制药膏。 来自《简明英汉词典》

46 rations   

定量( ration的名词复数 )； 配给量； 正常量； 合理的量

参考例句：

• They are provisioned with seven days' rations. 他们得到了7天的给养。
• The soldiers complained that they were getting short rations. 士兵们抱怨他们得到的配给不够数。

47 loyalty   

n.忠诚，忠心

参考例句：

• She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
• His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。

48 fumbled   

（笨拙地）摸索或处理（某事物）( fumble的过去式和过去分词 )； 乱摸，笨拙地弄； 使落下

参考例句：

• She fumbled in her pocket for a handkerchief. 她在她口袋里胡乱摸找手帕。
• He fumbled about in his pockets for the ticket. 他（瞎）摸着衣兜找票。

49 profusely   

ad.abundantly

参考例句：

• We were sweating profusely from the exertion of moving the furniture. 我们搬动家具大费气力，累得大汗淋漓。
• He had been working hard and was perspiring profusely. 他一直在努力干活，身上大汗淋漓的。

50 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

51 frantically   

ad.发狂地, 发疯地

参考例句：

• He dashed frantically across the road. 他疯狂地跑过马路。
• She bid frantically for the old chair. 她发狂地喊出高价要买那把古老的椅子。

52 beckoned   

v.（用头或手的动作）示意，召唤( beckon的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He beckoned to the waiter to bring the bill. 他招手示意服务生把账单送过来。
• The seated figure in the corner beckoned me over. 那个坐在角落里的人向我招手让我过去。 来自《简明英汉词典》

53 intensified   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
• The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

54 cowardice   

n.胆小，怯懦

参考例句：

• His cowardice reflects on his character.他的胆怯对他的性格带来不良影响。
• His refusal to help simply pinpointed his cowardice.他拒绝帮助正显示他的胆小。

55 filth   

n.肮脏，污物，污秽；淫猥

参考例句：

• I don't know how you can read such filth.我不明白你怎么会去读这种淫秽下流的东西。
• The dialogue was all filth and innuendo.这段对话全是下流的言辞和影射。

56 snarled   

v.（指狗）吠，嗥叫， （人）咆哮( snarl的过去式和过去分词 )；咆哮着说，厉声地说

参考例句：

• The dog snarled at us. 狗朝我们低声吼叫。
• As I advanced towards the dog, It'snarled and struck at me. 我朝那条狗走去时，它狂吠着向我扑来。 来自《简明英汉词典》