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Chapter One.
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A light—clear, ruddy and brilliant, like a huge carbuncle—uprose one evening from the deep, and remained hovering2 about forty feet above the surface, scattering3 its rays far and wide, over the Downs to Ramsgate and Deal, along the coast towards Dover, away beyond the North Foreland, across the Goodwin Sands, and far out upon the bosom4 of the great North Sea.
It was a chill November evening, when this light arose, in the year—well, it matters not what year. We have good reasons, reader, for shrouding5 this point in mystery. It may have been recently; it may have been “long, long ago.” We don’t intend to tell. It was not the first time of that light’s appearance, and it certainly was not the last. Let it suffice that what we are about to relate did happen, sometime or other within the present century.
Besides being cold, the evening in question was somewhat stormy—“gusty,” as was said of it by a traveller with a stern visage and remarkably6 keen grey eyes, who entered the coffee-room of an hotel which stood on the margin7 of Ramsgate harbour facing the sea, and from the upper windows of which the light just mentioned was visible.
“It is, sir,” said the waiter, in reply to the “gusty” observation, stirring the fire while the traveller divested8 himself of his hat and greatcoat.
“Think it’s going to blow hard?” inquired the traveller, planting himself firmly on the hearth-rug, with his back to the fire, and his thumbs hooked into the armholes of his waistcoat.
“It may, sir, and it may not,” answered the waiter, with the caution of a man who has resolved, come what may, never to commit himself. “Sometimes it comes on to blow, sir, w’en we don’t look for it; at other times it falls calm w’en we least expects it. I don’t pretend to understand much about the weather myself, sir, but I shouldn’t wonder if it was to come on to blow ’ard. It ain’t an
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inquiries
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n.调查( inquiry的名词复数 );疑问;探究;打听 | |
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鸟( hover的现在分词 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫 | |
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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n.覆盖v.隐瞒( shroud的现在分词 );保密 | |
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ad.不同寻常地,相当地 | |
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(时间或空间)延长,伸长( lengthen的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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fortress
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sociable
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expressive
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countenance
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poking
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peculiar
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adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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abruptly
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sloop
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n.单桅帆船 | |
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shrimps
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n.虾,小虾( shrimp的名词复数 );矮小的人 | |
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viands
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n.食品,食物 | |
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twilight
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n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期 | |
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gull
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n.鸥;受骗的人;v.欺诈 | |
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ashore
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adv.在(向)岸上,上岸 | |
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vigour
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(=vigor)n.智力,体力,精力 | |
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possessed
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felicitous
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adj.恰当的,巧妙的;n.恰当,贴切 | |
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mere
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precisely
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functionary
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n.官员;公职人员 | |
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adj.非常诱人的,无法拒绝的,无法抗拒的 | |
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disintegration
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n.分散,解体 | |
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gulps
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n.一大口(尤指液体)( gulp的名词复数 )v.狼吞虎咽地吃,吞咽( gulp的第三人称单数 );大口地吸(气);哽住 | |
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proceedings
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n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报 | |
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proprietors
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n.所有人,业主( proprietor的名词复数 ) | |
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exorbitant
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standing
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presumptuous
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adj.胆大妄为的,放肆的,冒昧的,冒失的 | |
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speculation
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n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机 | |
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thoroughly
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adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地 | |
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forth
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adv.向前;向外,往外 | |
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shipping
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n.船运(发货,运输,乘船) | |
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pier
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n.码头;桥墩,桥柱;[建]窗间壁,支柱 | |
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bluff
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v.虚张声势,用假象骗人;n.虚张声势,欺骗 | |
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hearty
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adj.热情友好的;衷心的;尽情的,纵情的 | |
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conversed
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v.交谈,谈话( converse的过去式 ) | |
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inquiry
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n.打听,询问,调查,查问 | |
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contrived
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adj.不自然的,做作的;虚构的 | |
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corroborate
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v.支持,证实,确定 | |
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uncertainty
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n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物 | |
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vessel
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n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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scarlet
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n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的 | |
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lobster
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n.龙虾,龙虾肉 | |
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hearsay
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n.谣传,风闻 | |
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remarkable
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adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的 | |
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galleys
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n.平底大船,战舰( galley的名词复数 );(船上或航空器上的)厨房 | |
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incessantly
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ad.不停地 | |
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diurnally
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adv.白天活动地 | |
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cleft
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gallantly
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adv. 漂亮地,勇敢地,献殷勤地 | |
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gallant
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adj.英勇的,豪侠的;(向女人)献殷勤的 | |
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pointed
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doom
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tug
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attained
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tempted
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v.怂恿(某人)干不正当的事;冒…的险(tempt的过去分词) | |
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conspicuous
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adj.明眼的,惹人注目的;炫耀的,摆阔气的 | |
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watery
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sonorous
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mariner
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untold
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dispense
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disinterested
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costly
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destitute
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majesty
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converging
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adj.收敛[缩]的,会聚的,趋同的v.(线条、运动的物体等)会于一点( converge的现在分词 );(趋于)相似或相同;人或车辆汇集;聚集 | |
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knight
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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fouled
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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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