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第十三章节
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The killing1 of René Davril seemed to Campton one of the most senseless crimes the war had yet perpetrated. It brought home to him, far more vividly2 than the distant death of poor Jean Fortin, what an incalculable sum of gifts and virtues3 went to make up the monster’s daily meal.
“Ah, you want genius, do you? Mere4 youth’s not enough ... and health and gaiety and courage; you want brains in the bud, imagination and poetry, ideas 151all folded up in their sheath! It takes that, does it, to tempt5 your jaded7 appetite?” He was reminded of the rich vulgarians who will eat only things out of season. “That’s what war is like,” he muttered savagely8 to himself.
The next morning he went to the funeral with Mrs. Talkett—between whom and himself the tragic9 episode had created a sort of improvised10 intimacy—walking at her side through the November rain, behind the poor hearse with the tricolour over it.
At the church, while the few mourners shivered in a damp side chapel11, he had time to study the family: a poor sobbing12 mother, two anæmic little girls, and the lame13 sister who was musical—a piteous group, smelling of poverty and tears. Behind them, to his surprise, he saw the curly brown head and short-sighted eyes of Boylston. Campton wondered at the latter’s presence; then he remembered “The Friends of French Art,” and concluded that the association had probably been interested in poor Davril.
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killing
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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tragic
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chapel
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lame
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nun
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突然的巨变( upheaval的名词复数 ); 大动荡; 大变动; 胀起 | |
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glided
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incense
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justify
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abominable
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middle-aged
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precipitate
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scented
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lair
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denuded
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rusty
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pang
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superstitious
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expiatory
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deserted
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arcades
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delving
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dishonoured
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a.不光彩的,不名誉的 | |
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bugled
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obsolete
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attic
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prehistoric
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desperately
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divan
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wholesale
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emaciated
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adj.衰弱的,消瘦的 | |
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scrawled
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乱涂,潦草地写( scrawl的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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amorous
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wane
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embarrassment
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sketch
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Undid
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ridge
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auction
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privately
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applicants
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havoc
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