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CHAPTER XIII.
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Journey resumed—The hunters meet with bears and have a great fight, in which the dogs are sufferers—A bear's dinner—Mode in which Arctic rocks travel—The ice-belt.
On the abating1 of the great storm referred to in the last chapter, the hunters sought to free themselves from their snowy prison, and succeeded in burrowing2, so to speak, upwards3 after severe labour, for the hut was buried in drift which the violence of the gale4 had rendered extremely compact.
O'Riley was the first to emerge into the upper world. Having dusted the snow from his garments, and shaken himself like a Newfoundland dog, he made sundry5 wry6 faces, and gazed round him with the look of a man that did not know very well what to do with himself.
"It's a quare place, it is, intirely," he remarked, with a shake of the head that betokened7 intense sagacity, while he seated himself on a mound8 of snow and watched his comrades as they busied themselves in dragging their sleeping-bags and cooking utensils9 from the cavern10 they had just quitted. O'Riley seemed to be in a contemplative mood, for he did not venture any further remark, although he looked unutterable things as he proceeded quietly to fill his little black pipe.
"Ho! O'Riley, lend a hand, you lazy fellow," cried Fred; "work first and play afterwards, you skulker11."
"Sure that same is what I'm doin'," replied O'Riley with a
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abating
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减少( abate的现在分词 ); 减去; 降价; 撤消(诉讼) | |
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v.挖掘(洞穴),挖洞( burrow的现在分词 );翻寻 | |
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gale
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n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等) | |
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sundry
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mound
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器具,用具,器皿( utensil的名词复数 ); 器物 | |
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cavern
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skulker
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bin
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tune
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sledge
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screech
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bate
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poker
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lashed
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icebergs
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n.冰山,流冰( iceberg的名词复数 ) | |
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iceberg
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n.冰山,流冰,冷冰冰的人 | |
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winking
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n.瞬眼,目语v.使眼色( wink的现在分词 );递眼色(表示友好或高兴等);(指光)闪烁;闪亮 | |
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advent
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crevice
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cub
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astonishment
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warfare
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wriggled
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descended
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whack
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fray
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harass
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systematic
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retired
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severely
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opportune
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yelping
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v.发出短而尖的叫声( yelp的现在分词 ) | |
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scramble
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v.爬行,攀爬,杂乱蔓延,碎片,片段,废料 | |
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audacity
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defensive
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entirely
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snarling
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gallant
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applied
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delicacy
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morsel
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n.一口,一点点 | |
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raisins
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n.葡萄干( raisin的名词复数 ) | |
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vessel
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machinery
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speculation
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glacier
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chasm
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