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The Red Room
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“I can assure you,” said I, “that it will take a very tangible1 ghost to frighten me.” And I stood up before the fire with my glass in my hand.
“Eight-and-twenty years,” said I, “I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.”
The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open. “Ay,” she broke in; “and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There’s a many things to see, when one’s still but eight-and-twenty.” She swayed her head slowly from side to side. “A many things to see and sorrow for.”
I half suspected the old people were trying to enhance the spiritual terrors of their house by their droning insistence3. I put down my empty glass on the table and looked about the room, and caught a glimpse of myself, abbreviated4 and broadened to an impossible sturdiness, in the queer old mirror at the end of the room. “Well,” I said, “if I see anything to-night, I shall be so much the wiser. For I come to the business with an open mind.”
“It’s your own choosing,” said the man with the withered arm once more.
I heard the faint sound of a stick and a shambling step on the flags in the passage outside. The door creaked on its hinges as a second old man entered, more bent5, more wrinkled, more aged6 even than the first. He supported himself by the help of a crutch7, his eyes were covered by a shade, and his lower lip, half averted8, hung pale and pink from his decaying yellow teeth. He made straight for an armchair on the opposite side of the table, sat down clumsily, and began to cough. The man with the withered hand gave the newcomer a short glance of positive dislike; the old woman took no notice of his arrival, but remained with her eyes
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adj. 枯萎的,干瘪的,(人身体的部分器官)因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式 | |
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n.T字形拐杖;支持,依靠,精神支柱 | |
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防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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inhuman
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slab
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unnatural
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tilting
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pensioners
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uncommon
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unwilling
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recess
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predecessor
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apprehension
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pallid
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gallant
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superstition
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tragic
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recesses
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n.壁凹( recess的名词复数 );(工作或业务活动的)中止或暂停期间;学校的课间休息;某物内部的凹形空间v.把某物放在墙壁的凹处( recess的第三人称单数 );将(墙)做成凹形,在(墙)上做壁龛;休息,休会,休庭 | |
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alcoves
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n.凹室( alcove的名词复数 );(花园)凉亭;僻静处;壁龛 | |
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alcove
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n.凹室 | |
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sprouted
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v.发芽( sprout的过去式和过去分词 );抽芽;出现;(使)涌现出 | |
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germinating
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n.& adj.发芽(的)v.(使)发芽( germinate的现在分词 ) | |
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chamber
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n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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systematic
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dispel
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disposition
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barricade
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stimulating
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lurking
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solitude
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reassure
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perfectly
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postulated
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spoke
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flaring
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flickering
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penumbra
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adorned
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reassuring
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a.使人消除恐惧和疑虑的,使人放心的 | |
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diminution
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leisurely
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wink
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gaping
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doorway
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extinction
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frantic
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bruised
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[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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thigh
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dwindled
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残余部分( vestige的名词复数 ); 遗迹; 痕迹; 毫不 | |
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battering
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recollect
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condoles
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