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Chapter 37 THE INVISIBLE POWERS
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Several times already the rumour1 had spread in the Promenade2 that the Promenade would be closed on a certain date, and the Promenade had not been closed. But to-night it was stated that the Promenade would be closed at the end of the week, and everybody concerned knew that the prophecy would come true. No official notice was issued, no person who repeated the tale could give a reliable authority for it; nevertheless, for some mysterious reason it convinced. The rival Promenade had already passed away. The high invisible powers who ruled the world of pleasure were moving at the behest of powers still higher than themselves; and the cloak-room attendants, in their frivolous3 tiny aprons4, shared murmuringly behind plush portières in the woe6 of the ladies with large hats.
The revue being a failure, the auditorium7 was more than half empty. In the Promenade to each man there were at least five pretty ladies, and the ladies looked gloomily across many rows of vacant seats at the bright proscenium where jocularities of an exacerbating8 tedium9 were being enacted10. Not that the jocularities were inane11 beyond the usual, but failure made them seem so. None had the slightest idea why the revue had failed; for precisely12 similar revues, concocted13
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n.谣言,谣传,传闻 | |
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围裙( apron的名词复数 ); 停机坪,台口(舞台幕前的部份) | |
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制定(法律),通过(法案)( enact的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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precisely
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concocted
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lengthening
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idiotic
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voluptuous
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melancholy
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omnipotent
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vt.改造(罪犯),修复;vi.复兴,(罪犯)经受改造 | |
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mighty
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prospect
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moth
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ingratitude
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exigencies
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foul
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aristocrats
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n.贵族( aristocrat的名词复数 ) | |
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scourges
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带来灾难的人或东西,祸害( scourge的名词复数 ); 鞭子 | |
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immunity
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prudence
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recluse
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liaison
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n.联系,(未婚男女间的)暖昧关系,私通 | |
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rummaging
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翻找,搜寻( rummage的现在分词 ); 海关检查 | |
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linen
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n.亚麻布,亚麻线,亚麻制品;adj.亚麻布制的,亚麻的 | |
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passionate
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adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的 | |
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n.守财奴,吝啬鬼 (adj.miserly) | |
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密谋( conspire的现在分词 ); 搞阴谋; (事件等)巧合; 共同导致 | |
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n.处女,未婚女子;adj.未经使用的;未经开发的 | |
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(通常指灯光)闪烁,摇曳( flicker的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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adj.流行的,时髦的;漂亮的,气派的 | |
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dignified
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advantageous
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cosmopolitan
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determined
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sitting-room
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ingenuousness
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indifference
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