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CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PATH TO ARCADY
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October that year gathered up all the spilled sunshine of the summer and clad herself in it as in a garment. The Story Girl had asked us to try to make the last month together beautiful, and Nature seconded our efforts, giving us that most beautiful of beautiful things—a gracious and perfect moon of falling leaves. There was not in all that vanished October one day that did not come in with auroral1 splendour and go out attended by a fair galaxy2 of evening stars—not a day when there were not golden lights in the wide pastures and purple hazes3 in the ripened4 distances. Never was anything so gorgeous as the maple6 trees that year. Maples7 are trees that have primeval fire in their souls. It glows out a little in their early youth, before the leaves open, in the redness and rosy8-yellowness of their blossoms, but in summer it is carefully hidden under a demure9, silver-lined greenness. Then when autumn comes, the maples give up trying to be sober and flame out in all the barbaric splendour and gorgeousness of their real nature, making of the hills things out of an Arabian Nights dream in the golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid.
You may never know what scarlet10 and crimson11 really are until you see them in their perfection on an October hillside, under the unfathomable blue of an autumn sky. All the glow and radiance and joy at earth’s heart seem to have broken loose in a splendid determination to express itself for once before the frost of winter chills her beating pulses. It is the year’s
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auroral
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n.(烟尘等的)雾霭( haze的名词复数 );迷蒙;迷糊;(尤指热天引起的)薄雾v.(使)笼罩在薄雾中( haze的第三人称单数 );戏弄,欺凌(新生等,有时作为加入美国大学生联谊会的条件) | |
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v.成熟,使熟( ripen的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.槭树,枫树,槭木 | |
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maples
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carnival
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joyously
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misty
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helping
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turnips
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lone
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futures
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possessed
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lasting
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v.漫步,漫谈,漫游;n.漫步,闲谈,蔓延 | |
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sylvan
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friendliness
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winding
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n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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shrill
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gaily
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chasm
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enchanted
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extravagant
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wont
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brook
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windings
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(道路、河流等)蜿蜒的,弯曲的( winding的名词复数 ); 缠绕( wind的现在分词 ); 卷绕; 转动(把手) | |
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tricky
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bent
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pebble
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glide
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mere
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边( margin的名词复数 ); 利润; 页边空白; 差数 | |
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precipice
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foam
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interfered
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俯冲,猛冲( swoop的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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presto
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exquisitely
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graceful
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sketched
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folly
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吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式) | |
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