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CHAPTER 5. THE TEMPLE
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‘I wish we could find the Phoenix1,’ said Jane. ‘It’s much better company than the carpet.’
‘Beastly ungrateful, little kids are,’ said Cyril.
‘No, I’m not; only the carpet never says anything, and it’s so helpless. It doesn’t seem able to take care of itself. It gets sold, and taken into the sea, and things like that. You wouldn’t catch the Phoenix getting sold.’
It was two days after the bazaar2. Every one was a little cross—some days are like that, usually Mondays, by the way. And this was a Monday.
‘I shouldn’t wonder if your precious Phoenix had gone off for good,’ said Cyril; ‘and I don’t know that I blame it. Look at the weather!’
‘It’s not worth looking at,’ said Robert. And indeed it wasn’t.
‘The Phoenix hasn’t gone—I’m sure it hasn’t,’ said Anthea. ‘I’ll have another look for it.’
Anthea looked under tables and chairs, and in boxes and baskets, in mother’s work-bag and father’s portmanteau, but still the Phoenix showed not so much as the tip of one shining feather.
Then suddenly Robert remembered how the whole of the Greek invocation song of seven thousand lines had been condensed by him into one English hexameter, so he stood on the carpet and chanted—
‘Oh, come along, come along, you good old beautiful Phoenix,’
and almost at once there was a rustle3 of wings down the kitchen stairs, and the Phoenix sailed in on wide gold wings.
‘Where on earth HAVE you been?’ asked Anthea. ‘I’ve looked everywhere for you.’
‘Not EVERYWHERE,’ replied the bird, ‘because you did not look in the place where I was. Confess that that hallowed spot was overlooked by you.’
‘WHAT hallowed spot?’ asked Cyril, a little impatiently, for time was hastening on, and the wishing carpet still idle.
‘The spot,’ said the Phoenix, ‘which I hallowed by my golden presence was the Lutron.’
‘The WHAT?’
‘The bath—the place of washing.’
‘I’m sure you weren’t,’ said Jane. ‘I looked there three times and moved all the towels.’
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phoenix
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n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生 | |
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n.集市,商店集中区 | |
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rustle
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v.沙沙作响;偷盗(牛、马等);n.沙沙声声 | |
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eel
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decided
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papyrus
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wary
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beak
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fetter
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stuffy
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binders
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jeering
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wink
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hoarse
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ragged
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crouched
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advertising
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amazement
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throttle
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dweller
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sordid
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acolytes
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sneaked
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doorway
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v./n.蠕动,扭动;蜿蜒 | |
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wriggled
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v.扭动,蠕动,蜿蜒行进( wriggle的过去式和过去分词 );(使身体某一部位)扭动;耍滑不做,逃避(应做的事等) | |
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dignified
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illiberal
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adventurous
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forth
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adv.向前;向外,往外 | |
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brass
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n.黄铜;黄铜器,铜管乐器 | |
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nought
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muddle
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sanctuary
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adorned
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pottery
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attentive
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eyebrows
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眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 ) | |
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asterisk
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n.星号,星标 | |
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delightful
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awfully
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fumble
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vi.笨拙地用手摸、弄、接等,摸索 | |
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extraordinarily
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homage
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remarkable
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saluted
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v.欢迎,致敬( salute的过去式和过去分词 );赞扬,赞颂 | |
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perfectly
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appreciation
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n.评价;欣赏;感谢;领会,理解;价格上涨 | |
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condescension
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strutted
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趾高气扬地走,高视阔步( strut的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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honourable
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conveyance
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incense
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v.激怒;n.香,焚香时的烟,香气 | |
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sniff
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vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视 | |
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consultation
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n.咨询;商量;商议;会议 | |
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applied
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v.总结,扼要重述( recapitulate的现在分词 ) | |
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derived
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worthy
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eminent
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adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的 | |
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adorns
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装饰,佩带( adorn的第三人称单数 ) | |
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deafening
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graceful
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slated
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用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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throng
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