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A LESSON IN CHRISTMAS-KEEPING
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Morning broke bleakly1 forbidding on the iron-bound coast of Kerguelen Island. Over the fantastic peaks, flung broadcast as if from the primeval cauldron of the world, hung a grim pall3 of low, grey-black cloud, so low, indeed, that the sea-birds drifting disconsolately4 to and fro between barren shore and gale-tossed sea were often hidden from view as if behind a fog-bank, and only their melancholy5 screams denoted their presence, until they glinted into sight again like huge snow-flakes hesitating to fall. Yet it was the Antarctic mid-summer, it was the breaking of Christmas Day.
As the pale dawn grew less weak, it revealed a tiny encampment, just a few odds7 and ends of drifting wreckage8 piled forlornly together, and yielding a dubious9 shelter to a huddled10-up group of fourteen men, sleeping in spite of their surroundings. Presently, there were exposed, perched upon the snarling11 teeth of an outlying rock-cluster, the “ribs and trucks” of a small wooden ship, a barque-rigged craft of about four hundred tons. Her rigging hung in slovenly12 festoons from the drunkenly standing14 masts, the yards270 made more angles with their unstable15 supports than are known to Euclid, while through many a jagged gap in her topsides the mad sea rushed wantonly, as if elated with its opportunities of marring the handiwork of the daring sea-masters.
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无望地,阴郁地,苍凉地 | |
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挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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adj.懒散的,不整齐的,邋遢的 | |
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wan
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(wide area network)广域网 | |
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lair
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countenances
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chafe
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brace
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appetizer
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n.小吃,开胃品 | |
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hoarse
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adj.嘶哑的,沙哑的 | |
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pickle
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n.腌汁,泡菜;v.腌,泡 | |
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stoutly
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plank
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n.(指人)指关节( knuckle的名词复数 );(指动物)膝关节,踝v.(指人)指关节( knuckle的第三人称单数 );(指动物)膝关节,踝 | |
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lining
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hacking
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n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动 | |
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jack
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peculiar
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exclamation
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(作者)题词( inscription的名词复数 ); 献词; 碑文; 证劵持有人的登记 | |
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adorning
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修饰,装饰物 | |
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tempting
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softening
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deftly
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wrecking
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champagne
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assorted
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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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seaman
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