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Volume Two--Chapter Thirteen. The Oldest Sunday-School Teacher.
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From the elevation1 of his barrel Edwin could survey, in the lordly and negligent2 manner of people on a height, all the detail of his immediate3 surroundings. Presently, in common with Hilda and the other aristocrats4 of barrels, he became aware of the increased vivacity5 of a scene which was passing at a little distance, near a hokey-pokey barrow. The chief actors in the affair appeared to be a young policeman, the owner of the hokey-pokey barrow, and an old man. It speedily grew into one of those episodes which, occurring on the outskirts6 of some episode immensely greater, draw too much attention to themselves and thereby7 outrage8 the sense of proportion residing in most plain men, and especially in most policemen.
“Give him a ha’porth o’ hokey,” said a derisive9 voice. “He hasn’t got a tooth in his head, but it wants no chewing, hokey does na’.” There was a general guffaw10 from the little rabble11 about the barrow.
“Aye! Give us some o’ that!” said the piping, silly voice of the old man. “But I mun’ get to that there platform, I’m telling ye. I’m telling all of ye.” He made a senile plunge12 against the body of the policeman, as against a moveless
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vivacity
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outskirts
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derisive
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v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲 | |
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feverishly
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altercation
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altercations
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descended
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concealing
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providence
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phenomena
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mumbling
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idiocy
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crass
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bullies
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fatuous
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benevolent
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pretences
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omission
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haughty
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sneered
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讥笑,冷笑( sneer的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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peculiar
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furtively
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sarcasm
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multiplication
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growled
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闹哄哄地忙乱,奔忙( bustle的过去式和过去分词 ); 催促 | |
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authoritatively
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命令式地,有权威地,可信地 | |
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spoke
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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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patronage
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winked
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wink
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exquisitely
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transformation
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caressing
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爱抚的,表现爱情的,亲切的 | |
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hymn
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