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CHAPTER I ANTONY FERRARA
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Robert Cairn looked out across the quadrangle. The moon had just arisen, and it softened1 the beauty of the old college buildings, mellowed2 the harshness of time, casting shadow pools beneath the cloisteresque arches to the west and setting out the ivy3 in stronger relief upon the ancient walls. The barred shadow on the lichened4 stones beyond the elm was cast by the hidden gate; and straight ahead, where, between a quaint5 chimney-stack and a bartizan, a triangular6 patch of blue showed like spangled velvet7, lay the Thames. It was from there the cooling breeze came.
But Cairn's gaze was set upon a window almost directly ahead, and west below the chimneys. Within the room to which it belonged a lambent light played.
Cairn turned to his companion, a ruddy and athletic8 looking man, somewhat bovine9 in type, who at the moment was busily tracing out sections on a human skull10 and checking his calculations from Ross's Diseases of the Nervous System.
"Sime," he said, "what does Ferrara always have a fire in his rooms for at this time of the year?"
Sime glanced up irritably11 at the speaker. Cairn was a tall, thin Scotsman, clean-shaven, square jawed12, and with the crisp light hair and grey eyes which often
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(使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰 | |
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mellowed
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(使)成熟( mellow的过去式和过去分词 ); 使色彩更加柔和,使酒更加醇香 | |
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n.常青藤,常春藤 | |
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lichened
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quaint
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adj.古雅的,离奇有趣的,奇怪的 | |
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velvet
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bovine
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skull
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jawed
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bespeak
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virility
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irrelevance
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scowling
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怒视,生气地皱眉( scowl的现在分词 ) | |
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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frantically
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ad.发狂地, 发疯地 | |
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pouch
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bosom
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n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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scotch
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n.伤口,刻痕;苏格兰威士忌酒;v.粉碎,消灭,阻止;adj.苏格兰(人)的 | |
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adj.失事的,遇难的 | |
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genealogy
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influenza
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undoubtedly
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delightfully
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phantom
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int.嘘,别出声;n.沉默,静寂;v.使安静 | |
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prelude
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gathering
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glided
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wafted
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wring
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spoke
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cannon
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n.大炮,火炮;飞机上的机关炮 | |
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drenched
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flickering
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abated
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减少( abate的过去式和过去分词 ); 减去; 降价; 撤消(诉讼) | |
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growled
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v.(动物)发狺狺声, (雷)作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 );低声咆哮着说 | |
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pungent
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incense
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v.激怒;n.香,焚香时的烟,香气 | |
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smelt
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bedlam
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slippers
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forth
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hissing
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saturated
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a.饱和的,充满的 | |
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flannels
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法兰绒男裤; 法兰绒( flannel的名词复数 ) | |
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beads
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perspiration
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brewed
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调制( brew的过去式和过去分词 ); 酝酿; 沏(茶); 煮(咖啡) | |
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mere
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outrages
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monstrous
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utterly
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preposterous
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confide
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acting
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dressing
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lank
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