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CHAPTER IX AT COVE CASTLE
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Five miles from Hurseton the marshes1 began and did not end until they touched the coast. There were acres of mud and reeds and succulent grasses, interspersed3 with narrow waterways. In rainy weather this low-lying land—if it could be called so—almost disappeared under water, and in summer the poisonous morass4 exhaled5 white mists which caused fever and ague. The people who dwelt on the border of the slough6 of despond were rarely healthy, but they were attached to the dismal7 neighborhood and refused to move to higher ground where they would have enjoyed better health. What was good enough for their fathers was good enough for them, was the argument upon which they based their refusal.
The road from Hurseton changed where the marshes began to a causeway and ran solid and high across the treacherous8 bog9 towards the coast. Here it took a sudden turn, and passed through several fishing villages on its way to Market-on-Sea. And thence between hedges it passed onward10 to London, a road once more. Some distance from the curve an arm of the causeway ran for a quarter of a mile to Cove11 Castle, which was built on a firm and elevated spot of ground, near a kind of estuary12 which communicated with the sea. The sea itself was only distant half a mile, and a fine view of it could be obtained from the castle. Why the building should be called by so high-sounding a name, it is hard to say. It was simply a large stone house of two story, with a kind of tower at one end.
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n.沼泽,湿地( marsh的名词复数 ) | |
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morass
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slough
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bog
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cove
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estuary
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contraband
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isolate
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hermit
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underneath
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支持物( holder的名词复数 ); 持有者; (支票等)持有人; 支托(或握持)…之物 | |
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sufficiently
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housekeeper
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scotch
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(使)窒息, (使)窒闷( stifle的过去式和过去分词 ); 镇压,遏制; 堵 | |
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drawn
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ornaments
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quaint
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mellow
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gore
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poker
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concealed
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distress
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perfectly
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vaults
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fugitive
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touching
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awfully
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imperative
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embryo
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chatters
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sipped
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complacently
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