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CHAPTER I THE NEW POOR
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Arthur Charles Prohack came downstairs at eight thirty, as usual, and found breakfast ready in the empty dining-room. This pleased him, because there was nothing in life he hated more than to be hurried. For him, hell was a place of which the inhabitants always had an eye on the clock and the clock was always further advanced than they had hoped.
The dining-room, simply furnished with reproductions of chaste1 Chippendale, and chilled to the uncomfortable low temperature that hardy2 Britons pretend to enjoy, formed part of an unassailably correct house of mid-Victorian style and antiquity3; and the house formed part of an unassailably correct square just behind Hyde Park Gardens. (Taxi-drivers, when told the name of the square, had to reflect for a fifth of a second before they could recall its exact situation.)
Mr. Prohack was a fairly tall man, with a big head, big features, and a beard. His characteristic expression denoted benevolence4 based on an ironic5 realisation of the humanity of human nature. He was forty-six years of age and looked it. He had been for more than twenty years at the Treasury6, in which organism he had now attained7 a certain importance. He was a Companion of the Bath. He exulted8 in the fact that the Order of the Bath took precedence of those bumptious9 Orders, Star of India, St. Michael and St. George, Indian Empire, Royal Victorian and British Empire; but he laughed at his wife for so exulting10. If the matter happened to be mentioned he would point out that in the table of precedence Companions of the Bath ranked immediately below Masters in Lunacy.
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chaste
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adj.贞洁的;有道德的;善良的;简朴的 | |
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antiquity
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benevolence
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ironic
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attained
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(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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狂喜,欢跃( exult的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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exulting
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swollen
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仲裁人,裁决者( arbiter的名词复数 ) | |
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disapproved
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exchequer
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fiats
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sketch
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nil
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collapse
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positively
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liar
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revelling
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virtuousness
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caressingly
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sniffing
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nether
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effervesced
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ascending
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descending
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phenomena
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commonsense
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perfectly
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shamefully
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可耻地; 丢脸地; 不体面地; 羞耻地 | |
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pretence
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possessed
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remains
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concurred
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同意(concur的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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indifference
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kindly
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countermand
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entirely
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chancellor
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