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It would be difficult to say why the village of Oldfields should have been placed in the least attractive part of the township, if one were not somewhat familiar with the law of growth of country communities. The first settlers, being pious2 kindred of the Pilgrims, were mindful of the necessity of a meeting-house, and the place for it was chosen with reference to the convenience of most of the worshipers. Then the parson was given a parsonage and a tract1 of glebe land somewhere in the vicinity of his pulpit, and since this was the centre of social attraction, the blacksmith built his shop at the nearest cross-road. And when some enterprising citizen became possessed3 of an idea that there were traders enough toiling4 to and fro on the rough highways to the nearest larger village to make it worth his while to be an interceptor, the first step was taken toward a local centre of commerce, and the village was fairly begun. It had not yet reached a remarkable6 size, though there was a time-honored joke because an enthusiastic old woman had said once, when four or five houses and a new meeting-house were being built all in one summer, that she expected now that she might live to see Oldfields a seaport7 town. There had been a great excitement over the second meeting-house, to which the conservative faction8 had strongly objected, but, after the radicals9 had once gained the day, other innovations passed without public challenge. The old First Parish Church was very white and held aloft an imposing10 steeple, and strangers were always commiserated11 if they had to leave town without the opportunity of seeing its front by moonlight. Behind this, and beyond a green which had been the playground of many generations of boys and girls, was a long row of horse-sheds, where the farmers' horses enjoyed such part of their Sunday rest as was permitted them after bringing heavy loads of rural parishioners to their public devotions. The Sunday church-going was by no means so carefully observed in these days as in former ones, when disinclination was anything but a received excuse. In Parson Leslie's—the doctor's grandfather's—day, it would have
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| n.传单,小册子,大片(土地或森林) | |
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toiling
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| n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开 | |
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seaport
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radicals
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commiserated
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condemned
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reproof
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quaint
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superstitious
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delightful
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maturity
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virtues
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| 美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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virgin
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friction
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| 抱怨( grumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 发牢骚; 咕哝; 发哼声 | |
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| 感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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| 由毒芹提取的毒药( hemlock的名词复数 ) | |
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gateway
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funereal
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| adj.悲哀的;送葬的 | |
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placid
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mutual
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dependence
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inquiry
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grumbling
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concealed
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bonnet
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lessened
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| 减少的,减弱的 | |
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persecuted
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| (尤指宗教或政治信仰的)迫害(~sb. for sth.)( persecute的过去式和过去分词 ); 烦扰,困扰或骚扰某人 | |
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dissenter
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lame
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landmarks
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sweeping
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calamity
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confided
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embroidery
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spoke
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conscientious
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abominable
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rekindled
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impatience
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prey
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velvet
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incurs
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| 遭受,招致,引起( incur的第三人称单数 ) | |
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bustling
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compassion
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