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They left Carmel River and Carmel Valley behind, and with a rising sun went south across the hills between the mountains and the sea. The road was badly washed and gullied and showed little sign of travel.
“It peters out altogether farther down,” Billy said. “From there on it's only horse trails. But I don't see much signs of timber, an' this soil's none so good. It's only used for pasture—no farmin' to speak of.”
The hills were bare and grassy1. Only the canyons2 were wooded, while the higher and more distant hills were furry3 with chaparral. Once they saw a coyote slide into the brush, and once Billy wished for a gun when a large wildcat stared at them malignantly4 and declined to run until routed by a clod of earth that burst about its ears like shrapnel.
Several miles along Saxon complained of thirst. Where the road dipped nearly at sea level to cross a small gulch5 Billy looked for water. The bed of the gulch was damp with hill-drip, and he left her to rest while he sought a spring.
“Say,” he hailed a few minutes afterward6. “Come on down. You just gotta see this. It'll 'most take your breath away.”
Saxon followed the faint path that led steeply down through the thicket7. Midway along, where a barbed wire fence was strung high across the mouth of the gulch and weighted down with big rocks, she caught her first glimpse of the tiny beach. Only from the sea could one guess its existence, so completely was it tucked away on three precipitous sides by the land, and screened by the thicket. Furthermore, the beach was the head of a narrow rock cove8, a quarter of a mile long, up which pent way the sea roared and was
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darted
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pointed
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consternation
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savage
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即兴创作(improvise的现在分词形式) | |
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astonishment
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cane
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anatomy
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ad.得意洋洋地;得胜地;成功地 | |
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amazement
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physically
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backbone
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crumbling
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abruptly
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contented
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notches
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adj.高低不平的,粗糙的,粗壮的,强健的 | |
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buffets
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chasm
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clefts
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n.裂缝( cleft的名词复数 );裂口;cleave的过去式和过去分词;进退维谷 | |
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growling
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writhing
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gathering
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quail
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