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CHAPTER VII I TAKE A SHOP
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Last chapter closed with a bitter confession1 of incompetence2 on my part that I would not make if I could help it, but alas3 it is too true. Account for it I cannot, except by saying that I began by getting into debt, as I have before said, and never afterwards until the end of that régime came was I able to emerge from the condition of poverty I have attempted to describe, not though my struggles were incessant4 and certainly severe. It tinged5 my whole life and robbed me of my rightful proportion of joy, this want of ability to manage my own affairs upon a very small and strictly6 stationary7 income. If this condition of things may be taken for granted, whether with blame or pity, it will simplify matters a good deal and save me humiliating allusions8 to it every now and then.
So time fled along in rapid fashion, for now I never had a moment to spare. And still further to curtail9 the time at my disposal, I, finding the burden of the rent in the west of London too grievous to be borne, to say nothing of the cruel anxiety of letting lodgings10 unfurnished, decided11 to migrate to the far east of London, between Upton Park and East Ham. There I had heard that a neat five-roomed house with a long garden could be hired for seven and six a week inclusive of all rates and taxes. (I believe the same house would fetch nearly if not quite double now.) That was a
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1 confession | |
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2 incompetence | |
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3 alas | |
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4 incessant | |
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5 tinged | |
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7 stationary | |
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8 allusions | |
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9 curtail | |
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10 lodgings | |
n. 出租的房舍, 寄宿舍 | |
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11 decided | |
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12 rental | |
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13 lodgers | |
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14 auspices | |
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15 eldest | |
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16 fretted | |
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18 dismantled | |
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19 fully | |
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20 refreshment | |
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21 lashed | |
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22 impromptu | |
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23 misgivings | |
n.疑虑,担忧,害怕;疑虑,担心,恐惧( misgiving的名词复数 );疑惧 | |
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24 trudge | |
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25 chattels | |
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26 apparently | |
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27 drawn | |
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28 torrent | |
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29 gratitude | |
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30 artillery | |
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31 abode | |
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32 forth | |
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33 jejune | |
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34 portray | |
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35 dwelling | |
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36 havoc | |
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37 homely | |
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38 slung | |
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39 sylvan | |
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40 glades | |
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41 delightful | |
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42 purely | |
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43 mightily | |
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44 begrudge | |
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45 motives | |
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46 ticklish | |
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47 brittle | |
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48 reeking | |
v.发出浓烈的臭气( reek的现在分词 );散发臭气;发出难闻的气味 (of sth);明显带有(令人不快或生疑的跡象) | |
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49 compartment | |
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50 dreading | |
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51 lurch | |
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52 hideous | |
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53 auxiliary | |
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54 exiguous | |
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55 incubus | |
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56 curtly | |
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57 scanty | |
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58 berth | |
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59 incentives | |
激励某人做某事的事物( incentive的名词复数 ); 刺激; 诱因; 动机 | |
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60 descend | |
vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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61 wail | |
vt./vi.大声哀号,恸哭;呼啸,尖啸 | |
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62 decency | |
n.体面,得体,合宜,正派,庄重 | |
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63 pauperism | |
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64 judgment | |
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见 | |
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65 thorny | |
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66 legacy | |
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67 contingent | |
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68 bequest | |
n.遗赠;遗产,遗物 | |
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69 tithe | |
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70 entirely | |
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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71 underlying | |
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72 registrar | |
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73 pithily | |
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74 standing | |
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75 vendors | |
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76 legitimately | |
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77 futile | |
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78 devoted | |
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79 pictorial | |
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80 artistic | |
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81 pompously | |
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82 elastic | |
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83 appalled | |
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84 dreaded | |
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85 narrative | |
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86 recital | |
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87 miserable | |
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88 lauded | |
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89 obsession | |
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90 memorable | |
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91 prone | |
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92 destined | |
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93 prematurely | |
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94 prospects | |
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95 tenant | |
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96 reticent | |
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97 alleged | |
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98 varnish | |
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99 procured | |
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100 specifications | |
n.规格;载明;详述;(产品等的)说明书;说明书( specification的名词复数 );详细的计划书;载明;详述 | |
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101 necessitate | |
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102 procuring | |
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103 innocence | |
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104 inverse | |
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105 sufficiently | |
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106 humble | |
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107 yarn | |
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108 enlisted | |
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109 implicit | |
a.暗示的,含蓄的,不明晰的,绝对的 | |
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110 daunted | |
使(某人)气馁,威吓( daunt的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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111 mumbling | |
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112 belongings | |
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113 literally | |
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114 bullied | |
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115 feverish | |
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116 evade | |
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117 falteringly | |
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118 fragrant | |
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119 rebuke | |
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120 doctrine | |
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121 innate | |
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122 touching | |
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123 apprehensions | |
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