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CHAPTER I.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. If, when I was a boy, and went forth1 into the world poor and friendless, a good fairy had met me and said, "Choose now thy own course through life, and the object for which thou wilt2 strive, and then, according to the development of thy mind, and as reason requires, I will guide and defend thee to its attainment," my fate could not, even then, have been directed more happily, more prudently3, or better. The history of my life will say to the world what it says to me—There is a loving God, who directs all things for the best.
My native land, Denmark, is a poetical4 land, full of popular traditions, old songs, and an eventful history, which has become bound up with that of Sweden and Norway. The Danish islands are possessed5 of beautiful beech6 woods, and corn and clover fields: they resemble gardens on a great scale. Upon one of these green islands, Funen, stands Odense, the place of my birth. Odense is called after the pagan god Odin, who, as tradition states, lived here: this place is the capital of the province, and lies twenty-two Danish miles from Copenhagen.
In the year 1805 there lived here, in a small mean room, a young married couple, who were extremely attached to each other; he was a shoemaker, scarcely twenty-two years old, a man of a richly gifted and truly poetical mind. His wife, a few years older than himself, was ignorant of life and of the world, but possessed a heart full of love. The young man had himself made his shoemaking bench, and the bedstead with which he began housekeeping; this bedstead he had made out of the wooden frame which had borne only a short time before the coffin7 of the deceased Count Trampe, as he lay in state, and the remnants of the black cloth on the wood work kept the fact still in remembrance.
Instead of a noble corpse
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4 poetical | |
adj.似诗人的;诗一般的;韵文的;富有诗意的 | |
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6 beech | |
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14 fully | |
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15 abode | |
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16 gutters | |
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18 drawn | |
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19 apprentice | |
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20 ardent | |
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21 spoke | |
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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23 passionately | |
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24 boughs | |
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25 omens | |
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26 ornamented | |
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27 amiable | |
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28 severely | |
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29 remains | |
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30 posterity | |
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31 penance | |
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32 maiden | |
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33 asylum | |
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34 adorned | |
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35 nay | |
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36 raving | |
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37 touching | |
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38 eloquence | |
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39 astonishment | |
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40 mechanism | |
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41 intestines | |
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42 remarkably | |
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43 dwelling | |
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44 paternal | |
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45 intercourse | |
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46 guilds | |
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47 mace | |
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48 wrestled | |
v.(与某人)搏斗( wrestle的过去式和过去分词 );扭成一团;扭打;(与…)摔跤 | |
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49 plank | |
n.板条,木板,政策要点,政纲条目 | |
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50 perfectly | |
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51 disturbances | |
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52 cannon | |
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53 illustrated | |
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54 aprons | |
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55 glean | |
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56 savage | |
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57 disposition | |
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58 pricked | |
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59 pious | |
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60 superstitious | |
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61 slumbering | |
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62 exclamation | |
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63 scriptures | |
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64 horrified | |
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65 distress | |
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66 blasphemy | |
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67 miserable | |
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68 entirely | |
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69 rambles | |
(无目的地)漫游( ramble的第三人称单数 ); (喻)漫谈; 扯淡; 长篇大论 | |
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70 lieutenant | |
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71 shrugged | |
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72 folly | |
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73 agitated | |
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74 measles | |
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75 regiment | |
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76 woolen | |
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77 twig | |
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78 saviour | |
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79 superstition | |
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80 chirped | |
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81 recollected | |
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82 panes | |
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83 pointed | |
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84 kindly | |
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85 rattle | |
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86 reverence | |
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88 perch | |
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89 wittily | |
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90 depressed | |
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91 ridicule | |
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92 dignified | |
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93 procured | |
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94 lexicon | |
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95 affected | |
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96 consort | |
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97 ragged | |
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98 impure | |
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99 unintelligible | |
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100 intelligible | |
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101 vein | |
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103 tempestuous | |
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104 penetration | |
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105 hops | |
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106 determined | |
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107 resolutely | |
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108 wring | |
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111 influential | |
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112 peculiar | |
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113 gentry | |
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114 derisively | |
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115 apprenticed | |
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116 confirmation | |
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117 impelled | |
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122 zeal | |
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