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THE OLD HOUSE ON THE HILL CHAPTER I
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There is something in the stress and struggle of tumultuous life in a vast city like London that to me is almost unbearable2. Accustomed from a very early age to the illimitable peace of the ocean, to the untainted air of its changeless circle of waves and roofless dome3 of sky, I have never been able to endure satisfactorily the unceasing roar of traffic in crowded streets, the relentless4 rush of mankind in the race for life which is the normal condition of our great centres of civilization. Yet, for many years, being condemned5 by circumstances to abide6 in the midst of urban strife7 and noise without a break from one weary year to another, I lived to mourn departed peace, and feed my longing8 for it on memory alone, without a hope that its enjoyments10 would ever again be mine. Then came unexpected relief, an opportunity to visit a secluded11 corner of Wiltshire, that inland division of England which is richer, perhaps, in memorials of our wonderful history than any other part of these little islands, crowded as they are with reminiscences of bygone glorious days.
I took up my quarters in a hamlet on the banks of the Wylye, a delightful12 little river, taking its rise near the Somersetshire border, and wandering with innumerable windings13 through the heart of Wiltshire, associating itself with the Bourne and the Nadder, until at Salisbury it is lost in that most puzzling of all streams, the Avon. I said puzzling, for I believe there are but a handful of people out of the great host to whom the Avon is one of the best-known streams in the world from its associations, who know that there is one Avon feeding the Severn near Tewkesbury, which is Shakespeare’s Avon; there is another, upon which Bristol has founded her prosperity, and there is yet another, the Avon of my first mention, which, accumulated from numberless
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leisurely
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plover
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吞没( devour的现在分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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鸟( fowl的名词复数 ); 禽肉; 既不是这; 非驴非马 | |
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n.壁凹( recess的名词复数 );(工作或业务活动的)中止或暂停期间;学校的课间休息;某物内部的凹形空间v.把某物放在墙壁的凹处( recess的第三人称单数 );将(墙)做成凹形,在(墙)上做壁龛;休息,休会,休庭 | |
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profusely
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repugnance
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hindrance
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onward
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paramount
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a.最重要的,最高权力的 | |
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scampered
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scent
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nettle
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kindly
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moss
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conjure
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grove
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