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CHAPTER XV THE UNEXPECTED
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The sun beat down on the prairie, which was already losing its flush of green, but it was cool where Maud Barrington and her aunt stood in the shadow of the bluff1 by Silverdale Grange. The birches, tasseled2 now with whispering foliage3, divided the homestead front the waste which would lie white and desolate4 under the parching5 heat, and that afternoon it seemed to the girl that the wall of green shut out more than the driving dust and sun-glare from the Grange, for where the trees were thinner she could see moving specks6 of men and horses athwart the skyline.
They had toiled7 in the sun-baked furrow9 since the first flush of crimson10 streaked12 the prairie's rim11, and the chill of dusk would fall upon the grasses before their work was done. Those men who bore the burden and heat of the day were, the girl knew, helots now, but there was in them the silent vigor13 and something of the somberness of the land of rock and forest they came from, and a time would come when others would work for them. Winning slowly, holding grimly, they were moving on, while secure in its patrician14
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bluff
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v.虚张声势,用假象骗人;n.虚张声势,欺骗 | |
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v.抽穗, (玉米)长穗须( tassel的过去式和过去分词 );使抽穗, (为了使作物茁壮生长)摘去穗状雄花;用流苏装饰 | |
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foliage
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n.叶子,树叶,簇叶 | |
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toil
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vi.辛劳工作,艰难地行动;n.苦工,难事 | |
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crimson
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streaked
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vigor
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patrician
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tranquillity
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curiously
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joyous
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exemption
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toiler
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辛劳者,勤劳者 | |
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maiden
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wilderness
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furrows
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granite
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impelled
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refinement
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hoofs
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rattle
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bleaching
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漂白法,漂白 | |
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loam
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ridge
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echelon
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plowing
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v.耕( plow的现在分词 );犁耕;费力穿过 | |
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lustrous
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virgin
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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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apparently
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variance
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swarming
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密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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galled
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v.使…擦痛( gall的过去式和过去分词 );擦伤;烦扰;侮辱 | |
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clatter
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squealed
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v.长声尖叫,用长而尖锐的声音说( squeal的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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savagely
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trampled
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踩( trample的过去式和过去分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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blurred
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v.(使)变模糊( blur的过去式和过去分词 );(使)难以区分;模模糊糊;迷离 | |
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medley
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smote
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plodded
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v.沉重缓慢地走(路)( plod的过去式和过去分词 );努力从事;沉闷地苦干;缓慢进行(尤指艰难枯燥的工作) | |
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knuckles
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sitting-room
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profligate
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prodigal
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trifling
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scribbled
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cedar
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graceful
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plowed
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audacity
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tracts
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大片土地( tract的名词复数 ); 地带; (体内的)道; (尤指宣扬宗教、伦理或政治的)短文 | |
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prospect
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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成功,兴旺( prosper的现在分词 ) | |
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