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CHAPTER XIII COLLAPSE
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It must not be supposed that in other directions my affairs had got any smoother as time went on; nor that, although I worked as hard as flesh and blood would permit, that I succeeded in overtaking any of my liabilities. Moreover, I began to receive unmistakable warnings that my physical capacity was becoming unequal to the constant strain I put upon it, although I only knew that my morning cough was more exhausting than it had been, and that I always awoke in the morning feeling dreadfully tired, much more so indeed than when I went to bed. And always I found myself unable to keep up those terribly punctual monthly payments, and trying to discriminate2 between people who would be put off and people who wouldn't.
The first immediately unpleasant result of this discrimination or attempted preference was in connection with my latter loan. Now please understand that I am bringing no indictment3 against the money-lender, or mean anything opprobrious4 in speaking of him in that way. If he had lent me thousands instead of single pounds, he would have been a banker, and if I had wanted his money for speculation5 instead of to pay my rent and get my family food, I should have been a financier to be esteemed6 instead of being a borrower to be despised. I am only, however, concerned with the plain facts now, and they are that I sent a polite letter of apology to the money-lender, telling him that—oh well, you can imagine the kind of things a defaulting debtor7 would say—but the whole comprising just an ordinary letter of excuse for non-payment.
To this effusion I received no reply whatever, but two days afterwards my surety came rushing to me in a state of great agitation8, flourishing a telegram which he had just received from his wife, to the effect that a man had been put in possession of their furniture in default of my payment of an instalment of the loan.
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1 fully | |
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地 | |
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2 discriminate | |
v.区别,辨别,区分;有区别地对待 | |
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4 opprobrious | |
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5 speculation | |
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机 | |
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6 esteemed | |
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7 debtor | |
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9 desperately | |
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11 alas | |
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14 miraculously | |
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15 virtue | |
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16 squander | |
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17 ridicule | |
v.讥讽,挖苦;n.嘲弄 | |
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18 indignity | |
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19 superfluous | |
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20 compensate | |
vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消 | |
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21 wont | |
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22 cork | |
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23 depressed | |
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24 serenely | |
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25 inquiry | |
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26 pawn | |
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27 earnings | |
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得 | |
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28 illustrating | |
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29 conscientious | |
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30 extremity | |
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31 whatsoever | |
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32 illustrated | |
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33 parenthesis | |
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34 appreciation | |
n.评价;欣赏;感谢;领会,理解;价格上涨 | |
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35 chamber | |
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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36 kindly | |
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37 intercourse | |
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38 desultory | |
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39 confessions | |
n.承认( confession的名词复数 );自首;声明;(向神父的)忏悔 | |
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40 forth | |
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41 stickler | |
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42 frankly | |
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43 trifling | |
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44 metaphorically | |
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45 luridly | |
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46 mutual | |
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47 stipulate | |
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48 refreshments | |
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49 amazement | |
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50 stifled | |
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51 gilding | |
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52 gilder | |
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53 renovated | |
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54 delicacy | |
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55 touching | |
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56 precisely | |
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57 thereby | |
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58 concealed | |
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59 casually | |
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60 courageous | |
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61 possessed | |
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62 enjoyment | |
n.乐趣;享有;享用 | |
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63 beguile | |
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64 scotches | |
n.伤口,刻痕( scotch的名词复数 );阻止车轮滑动的木块v.阻止( scotch的第三人称单数 );制止(车轮)转动;弄伤;镇压 | |
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65 genial | |
adj.亲切的,和蔼的,愉快的,脾气好的 | |
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66 habitually | |
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67 mighty | |
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68 harassed | |
adj. 疲倦的,厌烦的 动词harass的过去式和过去分词 | |
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69 accomplished | |
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70 feat | |
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71 apathy | |
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72 laurels | |
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73 arena | |
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74 mire | |
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75 bankruptcy | |
n.破产;无偿付能力 | |
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76 inevitably | |
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77 heed | |
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78 sundry | |
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79 authoritative | |
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80 authoritatively | |
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81 secluded | |
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82 grassy | |
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83 erect | |
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84 numbness | |
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85 presage | |
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86 paralysis | |
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87 grove | |
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88 volatile | |
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90 detailed | |
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