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chapter 2
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It is doubtful if the Rev1. Mr. Burch had ever found in Syria a person more difficult to persuade than the already “gospel-hardened” Jacob Moody2 of Riverboro.
Tall, gaunt, swarthy, black-bearded—his masses of grizzled, uncombed hair and the red scar across his nose and cheek added to his sinister3 appearance. His tumble-down house stood on a rocky bit of land back of the Sawyer pasture, and the acres of his farm stretched out on all sides of it. He lived alone, ate alone, plowed4, planted, sowed, harvested alone, and was more than willing to die alone, “unwept, unhonored, and unsung.” The road that bordered upon his fields was comparatively little used by any one, and notwithstanding the fact that it was thickly set with chokecherry trees and blackberry bushes it had been for years practically deserted5 by the children. Jacob's Red Astrakhan and Granny Garland trees hung thick with apples, but no Riverboro or Edgewood boy stole them; for terrifying accounts of the fate that had overtaken one urchin6 in times agone had been handed along from boy to boy, protecting the Moody fruit far better than any police patrol.
Perhaps no circumstances could have extenuated7 the old man's surly manners or his lack of all citizenly graces and virtues8; but his neighbors commonly rebuked9 his present way of living and forgot the troubled past that had brought it about: the sharp-tongued wife, the unloving and disloyal sons, the daughter's hapless fate, and all the other sorry tricks that fortune had played upon him—at least that was the way in which he had always regarded his disappointments and griefs.
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| v.发动机旋转,加快速度 | |
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moody
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| adj.心情不稳的,易怒的,喜怒无常的 | |
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sinister
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| adj.不吉利的,凶恶的,左边的 | |
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plowed
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deserted
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urchin
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extenuated
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virtues
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| 美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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rebuked
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rehabilitation
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blandly
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chamber
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missionary
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ethics
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dilemma
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plaintively
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opportune
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scraps
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labor
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conversion
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confession
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corroborated
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recalcitrant
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trot
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| (马等)奔驰,骑马奔驰( gallop的名词复数 ) | |
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undertaking
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longing
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lighter
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admiration
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loyalty
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hoarse
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axe
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wrung
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| 绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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disdain
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pious
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scuttling
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lapsed
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missionaries
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