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Chapter Twenty Five.
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Shows how our Hero formed Plans, how Miss Pritty formed Plots, and how the small Domestic amused herself.
On a certain cold, raw, bleak1, biting, bitter day in November, our hero found himself comfortably situated2 at the bottom of the sea.
We say ‘comfortably’ advisedly and comparatively, for, as compared with the men whose duty it was to send air down to him, Edgar Berrington was in a state of decided3 comfort. Above water nought4 was to be seen but a bleak, rocky, forbidding coast, a grey sky with sleet5 driving across it, and an angry indigo6 sea covered with white wavelets. Nothing was to be felt but a stiff cutting breeze, icy particles in the air, and cold blood in the veins7. Below water all was calm and placid8; groves9 of sea-weed delighted the eye; patches of yellow sand invited to a siesta10; the curiously-twisted and smashed-up remains11 of a wreck12 formed a subject of interesting contemplation, while a few wandering crabs13, and an erratic14
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n.蟹( crab的名词复数 );阴虱寄生病;蟹肉v.捕蟹( crab的第三人称单数 ) | |
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lobster
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pier
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n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 );(事故中)遭严重毁坏的汽车(或飞机等);(身体或精神上)受到严重损伤的人;状况非常糟糕的车辆(或建筑物等)v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 );使(船舶)失事,使遇难,使下沉 | |
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好奇,求知欲 | |
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subscription
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