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Chapter Ten.
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Balls, Bobby, Sir Richard, and Giles appear on the Stage.
As from the sublime1 to the ridiculous there is but a step, so, from the dining-room to the kitchen there is but a stair. Let us descend2 the stair and learn that while Sir Richard was expounding3 the subject of “the poor” to little Di, Mr Balls, the butler, was engaged on the same subject in the servants’ hall.
“I cannot tell you,” said Balls, “what a impression the sight o’ these poor people made on me.”
“La! Mr Balls,” said the cook, who was not unacquainted with low life in London, having herself been born within sound of Bow-Bells, “you’ve got no occasion to worrit yourself about it. It ’as never bin5 different.”
“That makes it all the worse, cook,” returned Balls, standing6 with his back to the fireplace and his legs wide apart; “if it was only a temporary depression in trade, or the repeal7 of the corn laws that did it, one could stand it, but to think that such a state of things always goes on is something fearful. You know I’m a country-bred man myself, and ain’t used to the town, or to such awful sights of squalor. It almost made me weep, I do assure you. One room that I looked into had a mother and two children in it, and I declare to you that the little boy was going about stark8 naked, and his sister was only just a slight degree better.”
“P’raps they was goin’ to bed,” suggested Mrs Screwbury.
“No, nurse, they wasn’t; they was playing about evidently in their usual costume—for that evenin’ at least. I would not have believed it if I had not seen it. And the mother was so tattered9 and draggled and dirty—which, also, was the room.”
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adj.崇高的,伟大的;极度的,不顾后果的 | |
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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expounding
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论述,详细讲解( expound的现在分词 ) | |
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n.箱柜;vt.放入箱内;[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件 | |
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n.废止,撤消;v.废止,撤消 | |
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brat
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n.孩子;顽童 | |
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n.厚颜无耻;冒失;无礼 | |
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dignified
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a.可敬的,高贵的 | |
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brass
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unnatural
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eyebrows
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astonishment
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cove
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n.小海湾,小峡谷 | |
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jack
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小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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facetious
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mischief
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hymn
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conceal
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prospects
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majesty
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foe
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alley
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ad.不同寻常地,相当地 | |
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coppers
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铜( copper的名词复数 ); 铜币 | |
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n.经文,圣书,手稿;Scripture:(常用复数)《圣经》,《圣经》中的一段 | |
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(使)败坏( corrupt的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)腐化; 引起(计算机文件等的)错误; 破坏 | |
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corruption
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victuals
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n.食物;食品 | |
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