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Chapter Nineteen.
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Spring returns—Kayak Evolutions—Angut is Puzzled.
Why some people should wink1 and blink as well as smirk2 when they are comfortable is a question which might possibly be answered by cats if they could speak, but which we do not profess3 to understand. Nevertheless we are bound to record the fact that on the very day when Nunaga and her invalids4 drew near to the first Moravian settlements in Greenland, Ippegoo slowly mounted a hillside which overlooked the icy sea, flung himself down on a moss-clad bank, and began to wink and blink and smirk in a way that surpassed the most comfortable cat that ever revelled5 on rug or slumbered6 in sunshine.
Ippegoo was supremely7 happy, and his felicity, like that of most simple folk, reposed8 on a simple basis. It was merely this—that Spring had returned to the Arctic regions.
Spring! Ha! who among the dwellers9 in our favoured land has the faintest idea of—of—pooh!—words are wanting. The British poets, alive and dead, have sung of Spring, and doubtless have fancied that they understood it. They had no more idea of what they were singing about than—than the man in the moon, if we may venture to use a rather hackneyed comparison. Listen, reader, humbly10, as becometh the ignorant.
Imagine yourself an Eskimo. Don’t overdo11 it. You need not in imagination adopt the hairy garments, or
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civilisation
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simplicity
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twilight
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bellowing
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walrus
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melodious
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marrow
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singed
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cuisine
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softening
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transformation
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chirp
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zephyrs
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trickling
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trumpet
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plaintive
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plover
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orb
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saturated
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a.饱和的,充满的 | |
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bosom
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mighty
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draughts
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n. <英>国际跳棋 | |
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vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强 | |
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冰河,冰川( glacier的名词复数 ) | |
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顶峰( pinnacle的名词复数 ); 顶点; 尖顶; 小尖塔 | |
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(使)混合( merge的过去式和过去分词 ); 相融; 融入; 渐渐消失在某物中 | |
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advent
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Forsaken
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utterly
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sledge
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friendliness
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