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Chapter Seven. The Great White Mountain.
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We are in Switzerland now; in the “land of the mountain and the flood”—the land also of perennial1 ice and snow. The solemn presence of the Great White Mountain is beginning to be felt. Its pure summit was first seen from Geneva; its shadow is now beginning to steal over us.
We are on the road to Chamouni, not yet over the frontier, in a carriage and four. Mrs Stoutley, being a lady of unbounded wealth, always travels post in a carriage and four when she can manage to do so, having an unconquerable antipathy3 to railroads and steamers. She could not well travel in any other fashion here, railways not having yet penetrated4 the mountain regions in this direction, and a mode of ascending5 roaring mountain torrents6 in steamboats not having yet been discovered. She might, however, travel with two horses, but she prefers four. Captain Wopper, who sits opposite Emma Gray, wonders in a quiet speculative7 way whether “the Mines” will produce a dividend8 sufficient to pay the expenses of this journey. He is quite disinterested9 in the thought, it being understood that the Captain pays his own expenses.
But we wander from our text, which is—the Great White Mountain. We are driving now under its shadow with Mrs Stoutley’s party, which, in addition to the Captain and Miss Gray, already mentioned, includes young Dr George Lawrence and Lewis, who are on horseback; also Mrs Stoutley’s maid (Mrs Stoutley never travels without a maid), Susan Quick, who sits beside the Captain; and Gillie White, alias10 the Spider and the Imp
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perennial
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dividend
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alias
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n.山峡,峡谷( gorge的名词复数 );咽喉v.(用食物把自己)塞饱,填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 );作呕 | |
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pinnacles
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顶峰( pinnacle的名词复数 ); 顶点; 尖顶; 小尖塔 | |
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percolates
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v.滤( percolate的第三人称单数 );渗透;(思想等)渗透;渗入 | |
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monarch
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n.帝王,君主,最高统治者 | |
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consolation
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beheld
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watery
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everlasting
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growling
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uncommonly
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celebrated
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sitting-room
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ad.不同寻常地,相当地 | |
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bestow
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orb
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perversity
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unpacking
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strings
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animation
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remains
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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mere
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barefaced
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spoke
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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poetically
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risible
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dribbling
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n.(燃料或油从系统内)漏泄v.流口水( dribble的现在分词 );(使液体)滴下或作细流;运球,带球 | |
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blotted
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涂污( blot的过去式和过去分词 ); (用吸墨纸)吸干 | |
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exquisite
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adj.精美的;敏锐的;剧烈的,感觉强烈的 | |
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strictly
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grandeur
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n.伟大,崇高,宏伟,庄严,豪华 | |
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alpine
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adj.高山的;n.高山植物 | |
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weird
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adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的 | |
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admiration
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dismal
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adj.阴沉的,凄凉的,令人忧郁的,差劲的 | |
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upwards
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grassy
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shrubs
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ecstasy
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beholding
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