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CHAPTER V. A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT
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Shortly before sunset that evening Eric went for a walk. When he did not go to the shore he liked to indulge in long tramps through the Lindsay fields and woods, in the mellowness2 of “the sweet ‘o the year.” Most of the Lindsay houses were built along the main road, which ran parallel to the shore, or about the stores at “The Corner.” The farms ran back from them into solitudes3 of woods and pasture lands.
Eric struck southwest from the Williamson homestead, in a direction he had not hitherto explored, and walked briskly along, enjoying the witchery of the season all about him in earth and air and sky. He felt it and loved it and yielded to it, as anyone of clean life and sane4 pulses must do.
The spruce wood in which he presently found himself was smitten5 through with arrows of ruby6 light from the setting sun. He went through it, walking up a long, purple aisle7 where the wood-floor was brown and elastic8 under his feet, and came out beyond it on a scene which surprised him.
No house was in sight, but he found himself looking into an orchard9; an old orchard, evidently long neglected and forsaken10. But an orchard dies hard; and this one, which must have been a very delightful11 spot once, was delightful still, none the less so for the air of gentle melancholy12 which seemed to
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mellow
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adj.柔和的;熟透的;v.变柔和;(使)成熟 | |
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mellowness
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成熟; 芳醇; 肥沃; 怡然 | |
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solitudes
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ruby
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orchard
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delightful
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bleached
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intervals
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eastward
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velvet
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pebbles
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n.穗( spike的名词复数 );跑鞋;(防滑)鞋钉;尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 );偷偷地给某人的饮料加入(更多)酒精( 或药物);把尖状物钉入;打乱某人的计划 | |
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fragrance
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boughs
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fragrant
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frail
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intoxicating
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astonishment
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elusive
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sobs
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plaintive
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imprisoned
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下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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utterance
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deserted
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amazement
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n.惊奇,惊讶 | |
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tempted
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sagging
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下垂[沉,陷],松垂,垂度 | |
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blotted
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涂污( blot的过去式和过去分词 ); (用吸墨纸)吸干 | |
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vividly
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brilliance
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scant
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lustrous
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tint
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luminous
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lashes
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眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 ) | |
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purely
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tinted
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drooping
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plume
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mere
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enjoyment
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lithe
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nay
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