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In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I. and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress’s, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired1 to a monastery2 to become a monk3.
This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable4 to those who did not know his inner motives5, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted otherwise.
His father, a retired colonel of the Guards, had died when Stepan was twelve, and sorry as his mother was to part from her son, she entered him at the Military College as her deceased husband had intended.
The widow herself, with her daughter, Varvara, moved to Petersburg to be near her son and have him with her for the holidays.
The boy was distinguished6 both by his brilliant ability and by his immense self-esteem. He was first both in his studies—especially in mathematics, of which he was particularly fond—and also in drill and in riding. Though of more than average height, he was handsome and agile7, and he would have been an altogether exemplary cadet had it not been for his quick temper. He was remarkably8 truthful9, and was neither dissipated nor addicted10 to drink. The only faults that
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retired
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monastery
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monk
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inexplicable
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motives
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distinguished
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remarkably
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truthful
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marred
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acting
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steward
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lieutenant
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passionately
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adoration
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产生,引起,唤起( evoke的现在分词 ) | |
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deliberately
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alley
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innocence
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impurity
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possessed
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imploring
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amiably
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applied
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professing
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dissuade
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transcended
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超出或超越(经验、信念、描写能力等)的范围( transcend的过去式和过去分词 ); 优于或胜过… | |
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