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CHAPTER IX. MORE MONEY-MAKING M.P.’S.
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Let me, in this chapter, give the first place to Samuel Plimsoll, a man who, if he made money, spent it nobly, and deserved the peerage far more than many who have been elected to that honour—at any rate, from the time the Earl of Beaconsfield became Premier1. He was down very low in the social scale, and it is thus he writes of his noble poverty and of his companions in misfortune, in that appeal on behalf of our seamen2, which stirred up the community as with the voice of a trumpet3, and actually forced parliament to legislate4. “I don’t wish,” he writes, “to disparage5 the rich; but I think it may reasonably be doubted whether these qualities are so fully6 developed in them” (he had been writing of the honesty, of the strong aversion to idleness, of the generosity7 to one another in adversity, and of the splendid courage of the working classes); “for notwithstanding that not a few of them are not unacquainted with the claims, reasonable and unreasonable8, of poor relations, these qualities are not in such constant exercise, and riches seem, in so many cases, to smother9 the manliness10 of their possessors, that their sympathies become not so much narrowed as, so to speak, stratified; they are reserved for the sufferings of their own class, and also the woes11 of those above them. They seldom tend
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premier
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legislate
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disparage
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generosity
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manliness
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困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉 | |
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fortitude
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lodging
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fetter
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scattered
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divest
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v.脱去,剥除 | |
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relish
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promotion
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humiliation
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trudge
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despondent
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accosted
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miserable
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inmates
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thoroughly
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previously
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confession
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distinguished
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emancipation
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n.(从束缚、支配下)解放 | |
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proprietor
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n.所有人;业主;经营者 | |
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conveyance
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n.(不动产等的)转让,让与;转让证书;传送;运送;表达;(正)运输工具 | |
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frugal
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adj.节俭的,节约的,少量的,微量的 | |
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apprentice
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resolute
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persevering
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a.坚忍不拔的 | |
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maxim
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prudent
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strictly
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worthy
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attest
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vt.证明,证实;表明 | |
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regularity
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steadily
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sanguine
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prudence
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n.谨慎,精明,节俭 | |
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humble
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frugality
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tavern
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benevolent
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adj.仁慈的,乐善好施的 | |
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eminent
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adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的 | |
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homely
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adj.家常的,简朴的;不漂亮的 | |
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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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ardent
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perseverance
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piety
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vices
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缺陷( vice的名词复数 ); 恶习; 不道德行为; 台钳 | |
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remarkable
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orphan
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destitute
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adj.缺乏的;穷困的 | |
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destitution
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n.穷困,缺乏,贫穷 | |
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onward
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adj.向前的,前进的;adv.向前,前进,在先 | |
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belied
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gulf
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n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂 | |
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killing
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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retired
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wharves
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metropolis
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bustle
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shipping
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marine
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brokers
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corruption
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determined
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opposition
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Mediterranean
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contractors
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administrative
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initiatory
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detailed
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retirement
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possessed
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situated
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patriotism
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constituents
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apprenticed
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学徒,徒弟( apprentice的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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indenture
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vendor
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metropolitan
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