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The recent cult1 for Miss Austen, which has resulted in no less than ten new editions of her novels within a decade and three memoirs2 by different hands within as many years, have made the facts of her life familiar to most readers. It was a short life, and an uneventful one as viewed from the standpoint of our modern times, when steam and electricity have linked together the ends of the earth, and the very air seems teeming3 with news, agitations4, discussions. We have barely time to recover our breath between post and post; and the morning paper with its statements of disaster and its hints of still greater evils to be, is scarcely out-lived, when, lo! in comes the evening issue, contradicting the news of the morning, to be sure, but full of omens5 and auguries6 of its own to strew7 our pillows with the seed of wakefulness.
To us, publications come hot and hot from the press. Telegraphic wires like the intricate and incalculable zigzags8 of the lightning ramify above our heads; and who can tell at what moment their[iv] darts9 may strike? In Miss Austen's day the tranquil10, drowsy11, decorous English day of a century since, all was different. News travelled then from hand to hand, carried in creaking post-wagons, or in cases of extreme urgency by men on horseback. When a gentleman journeying in his own "chaise" took three days in going from Exeter to London, a distance now covered in three hours of railroad, there was little chance of frequent surprises. Love, sorrow, and death were in the world then as now, and worked their will upon the sons of men; but people did not expect happenings every day or even every year. No doubt they lived the longer for this
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(液体等的)摇动( agitation的名词复数 ); 鼓动; 激烈争论; (情绪等的)纷乱 | |
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exemption
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promotion
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distinguished
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vt.盘算,计议;周密考虑;注视,凝视 | |
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fidelity
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赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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描绘,描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 ); 描述 | |
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n.童帽( bonnet的名词复数 );(烟囱等的)覆盖物;(苏格兰男子的)无边呢帽;(女子戴的)任何一种帽子 | |
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straightforwardness
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v.给予,赐予( vouchsafe的过去式和过去分词 );允诺 | |
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withheld
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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adj.遗腹的;父亡后出生的;死后的,身后的 | |
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adj.有希望的,有前途的 | |
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a.隐藏的,隐蔽的 | |
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anecdote
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n.轶事,趣闻,短故事 | |
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grove
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n.林子,小树林,园林 | |
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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