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CHAPTER XI
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I have been talking in the past tense of heroes and of knight-errants, but surely their day is not yet passed. When the earth has all been explored, when the last savage1 has been tamed, when the final cannon2 has been scrapped3, and the world has settled down into unbroken virtue4 and unutterable dulness, men will cast their thoughts back to our age, and will idealize our romance and—our courage, even as we do that of our distant forbears. "It is wonderful what these people did with their rude implements5 and their limited appliances!" That is what they will say when they read of our explorations, our voyages, and our wars.
Now, take that first book on my travel shelf. It is Knight's "Cruise of the Falcon6." Nature was guilty of the pun which put this soul into a body so named. Read this simple record and tell me if there is anything in Hakluyt more wonderful. Two landsmen—solicitors, if I remember right—go down to Southampton Quay7. They pick up a long-shore youth, and they embark8 in a tiny boat in which they put to sea. Where do they turn up? At Buenos Ayres. Thence they penetrate9 to Paraquay, return to the West Indies, sell their little boat there, and so home. What could the Elizabethan mariners10 have done more? There are no Spanish galleons11 now to vary the monotony of such a voyage, but had there been I am very certain our adventurers would have had their share of the doubloons. But surely it was the nobler when done out of the pure
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savage
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adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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n.工具( implement的名词复数 );家具;手段;[法律]履行(契约等)v.实现( implement的第三人称单数 );执行;贯彻;使生效 | |
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grumbling
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discomfort
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grumble
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concealment
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n.隐藏, 掩盖,隐瞒 | |
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hop
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hacked
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生气 | |
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knuckles
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bruised
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[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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exclamation
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lieutenant
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proceeding
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thong
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sledge
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n.雪橇,大锤;v.用雪橇搬运,坐雪橇往 | |
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glamour
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n.魔力,魅力;vt.迷住 | |
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standing
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pebbles
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[复数]鹅卵石; 沙砾; 卵石,小圆石( pebble的名词复数 ) | |
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vi.衰退,减退;n.处于低潮,处于衰退状态 | |
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greasy
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adj. 多脂的,油脂的 | |
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marred
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adj. 被损毁, 污损的 | |
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brutality
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n.野蛮的行为,残忍,野蛮 | |
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apprenticeship
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n.学徒身份;学徒期 | |
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virile
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adj.男性的;有男性生殖力的;有男子气概的;强有力的 | |
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limpid
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coruscating
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v.闪光,闪烁( coruscate的现在分词 ) | |
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countless
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adj.无数的,多得不计其数的 | |
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hue
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n.色度;色调;样子 | |
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countenance
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stagnant
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adj.不流动的,停滞的,不景气的 | |
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foul
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turbid
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miasmatic
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wriggling
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forefather
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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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关于( pertain的第三人称单数 ); 有关; 存在; 适用 | |
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