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第二十章节
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His first stroke carried him out of space and time, into a region where all that had become numbed2 and atrophied3 in him could expand and breathe. Lines, images, colours were again the sole facts: he plunged4 into their whirling circles like a stranded5 sea-creature into the sea. Once more every face was not a vague hieroglyph6, a curtain drawn7 before an invisible aggregate8 of wants and woes9, but a work of art, a flower in a pattern, to be dealt with on its own merits, like a bronze or a jewel. During the first day or two his hand halted; but the sense of insufficiency was a goad10, and he fought with his subject till he felt a strange ease in every renovated11 muscle, and his model became like a musical instrument on which he played with careless mastery.
He had transferred his easel to Mrs. Talkett’s apartment. It was an odd patchwork12 place, full of bold beginnings and doubtful pauses, rash surrenders to the newest fashions and abrupt13 insurrections against them, where Louis Philippe mahogany had
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bliss
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hieroglyph
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n.象形文字, 图画文字 | |
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goad
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renovated
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翻新,修复,整修( renovate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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patchwork
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aggression
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frail
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tricky
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mere
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serenity
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fins
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luminous
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impartially
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acolyte
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atrocities
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relaxation
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indefatigable
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expenditure
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n.(时间、劳力、金钱等)支出;使用,消耗 | |
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eloquence
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astute
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eddy
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astuteness
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repose
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subversive
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glossy
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followers
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追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件 | |
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lustrous
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squat
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enquire
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v.打听,询问;调查,查问 | |
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jovially
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innocence
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plaintive
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idiocy
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allusion
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allusions
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eminent
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adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的 | |
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drudge
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n.劳碌的人;v.做苦工,操劳 | |
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preoccupied
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adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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abruptly
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curtly
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adv.简短地 | |
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kindliness
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depict
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vt.描画,描绘;描写,描述 | |
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milieu
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n.环境;出身背景;(个人所处的)社会环境 | |
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resolutely
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decided
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adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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whack
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v.敲击,重打,瓜分;n.重击,重打,尝试,一份 | |
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interfered
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posterity
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crumbled
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trenches
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深沟,地沟( trench的名词复数 ); 战壕 | |
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frivolity
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wince
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random
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juvenile
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intimacy
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alluded
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rebuke
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complacent
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exonerate
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juvenility
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embarrassment
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jargon
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noted
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nervously
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serene
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friendliness
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