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Chapter Six.
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Spring and the voyageurs.
Winter, with its snow and its ice; winter, with its sharp winds and white drifts; winter, with its various characteristic occupations and employments, is past, and it is spring now.
The sun no longer glitters on fields of white; the wood-man’s axe1 is no longer heard hacking2 the oaken billets, to keep alive the roaring fires. That inexpressibly cheerful sound the merry chime of sleigh-bells, that tells more of winter than all other sounds together, is no longer heard on the bosom4 of Red River; for the sleighs are thrown aside as useless—lumber-carts and gigs have supplanted5 them. The old Canadian, who used to drive the ox with its water-barrel to the ice-hole for his daily supply, has substituted a small cart with wheels for the old sleigh that used to glide6 so smoothly7 over the snow, and grit8 so sharply on it in the more than usually frosty mornings in the days gone by. The trees have lost their white patches, and the clump9 of willows10, that used to look like islands in the prairie, have disappeared, as the carpeting that gave them prominence11 has dissolved. The aspect of everything in the isolated12 settlement has changed. The winter is gone, and spring—bright, beautiful, hilarious13 spring—has come again.
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n.斧子;v.用斧头砍,削减 | |
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n.树丛,草丛;vi.用沉重的脚步行走 | |
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willows
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n.柳树( willow的名词复数 );柳木 | |
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adj.充满笑声的,欢闹的;[反]depressed | |
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peculiar
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zephyr
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grandeur
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n.小湾( creek的名词复数 );小港;小河;小溪 | |
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bask
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vt.取暖,晒太阳,沐浴于 | |
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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manly
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labyrinth
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buffaloes
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n.水牛(分非洲水牛和亚洲水牛两种)( buffalo的名词复数 );(南非或北美的)野牛;威胁;恐吓 | |
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herds
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scarlet
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crimson
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porcupine
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n.豪猪, 箭猪 | |
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variegated
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beads
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lighter
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n.打火机,点火器;驳船;v.用驳船运送;light的比较级 | |
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beaver
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n.穗( tassel的名词复数 );流苏状物;(植物的)穗;玉蜀黍的穗状雄花v.抽穗, (玉米)长穗须( tassel的第三人称单数 );使抽穗, (为了使作物茁壮生长)摘去穗状雄花;用流苏装饰 | |
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uncertainty
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ornamental
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bragging
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hilarity
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(通常经过努力)实现( attain的现在分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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