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THE NEW LODGING II
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At the corner dominated by the Queen's Elm, which on the great route from Piccadilly Circus to Putney was a public-house and halt second only in importance to the Redcliffe Arms, night fell earlier than it ought to have done, owing to a vast rain-cloud over Chelsea. A few drops descended1, but so warm and so gently that they were not like real rain, and sentimentalists could not believe that they would wet. People, arriving mysteriously out of darkness, gathered sparsely2 on the pavements, lingered a few moments, and were swallowed by omnibuses that bore them obscurely away. At intervals3 an individual got out of an omnibus and adventured hurriedly forth4 and was lost in the gloom. The omnibuses, all white, trotted5 on an inward curve to the pavement, stopped while the conductor, with hand raised to the bell-string, murmured apathetically6 the names of streets and of public-houses, and then they jerked off again on an outward curve to the impatient double ting of the bell. To the east was a high defile7 of hospitals, and to the west the Workhouse tower faintly imprinted8 itself on the sombre sky.
The drops of rain grew very large and heavy, and the travellers, instead of waiting on the kerb, withdrew to the shelter of the wall of the Queen's Elm. George was now among the group, precipitated9 like the rest, as it were, out of the solution of London. George was of the age which does not admit rain or which believes that it is immune from the usual consequences of exposure to rain. When advised, especially by women, to defend himself against the treacheries of the weather, he always protested confidently that he would 'be all right.' Thus with a stick and a straw hat he would
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小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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adv.不露感情地;无动于衷地;不感兴趣地;冷淡地 | |
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v.弄污,弄脏;n.(山间)小道 | |
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drenched
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apron
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humiliated
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感到羞愧的 | |
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differentiated
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区分,区别,辨别( differentiate的过去式和过去分词 ); 区别对待; 表明…间的差别,构成…间差别的特征 | |
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gaily
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triumphantly
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Mediterranean
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yearning
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cannon
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privately
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barge
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distinguished
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vice
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longings
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渴望,盼望( longing的名词复数 ) | |
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rotunda
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countless
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specious
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grove
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borough
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divination
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gorge
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descried
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rattled
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blanched
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v.使变白( blanch的过去式 );使(植物)不见阳光而变白;酸洗(金属)使有光泽;用沸水烫(杏仁等)以便去皮 | |
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facades
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luminous
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comely
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nostrils
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vitality
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dubious
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utterly
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pointed
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(笨拙地)摸索或处理(某事物)( fumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 乱摸,笨拙地弄; 使落下 | |
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