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It was a great relief to the girl at last to perceive that the dreadful move would really be made. What might happen if it shouldn't had been from the first indefinite. It was absurd to pretend that any violence was probable—a tussel, dishevelment, shrieks1; yet Fleda had an imagination of a drama, a "great scene," a thing, somehow, of indignity2 and misery3, of wounds inflicted4 and received, in which indeed, though Mrs. Gereth's presence, with movements and sounds, loomed5 large to her, Owen remained indistinct and on the whole unaggressive. He wouldn't be there with a cigarette in his teeth, very handsome and insolently6 quiet: that was only the way he would be in a novel, across whose interesting page some such figure, as she half closed her eyes, seemed to her to walk. Fleda had rather, and indeed with shame, a confused, pitying vision of Mrs. Gereth with her great scene left in a manner on her hands, Mrs. Gereth missing her effect and having to appear merely hot and injured and in the wrong. The symptoms that she would be spared even that spectacle resided not so much, through the chambers8 of Poynton, in an air of concentration as in the hum of buzzing alternatives. There was no common preparation, but one day, at the turn of a corridor, she found her hostess standing9 very still, with the hanging hands of an invalid10 and the active eyes of an adventurer. These eyes appeared to Fleda to meet her own with a strange, dim bravado11, and there was a silence, almost awkward, before either of the friends
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n.尖叫声( shriek的名词复数 )v.尖叫( shriek的第三人称单数 ) | |
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2 indignity | |
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3 misery | |
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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4 inflicted | |
把…强加给,使承受,遭受( inflict的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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5 loomed | |
v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的过去式和过去分词 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近 | |
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8 chambers | |
n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅 | |
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n.病人,伤残人;adj.有病的,伤残的;无效的 | |
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14 defiant | |
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15 melancholy | |
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17 concession | |
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19 wreck | |
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20 embarrassment | |
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21 immutably | |
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22 odiousness | |
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23 odious | |
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24 exquisite | |
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25 condemned | |
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26 tormentedly | |
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27 supplication | |
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28 perversely | |
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29 hush | |
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30 drawn | |
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31 vistas | |
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32 shimmer | |
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33 wrought | |
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34 brasses | |
n.黄铜( brass的名词复数 );铜管乐器;钱;黄铜饰品(尤指马挽具上的黄铜圆片) | |
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35 tapestries | |
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36 depressed | |
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37 helping | |
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38 deadlock | |
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39 brute | |
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40 manly | |
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41 aggression | |
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42 castigation | |
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43 ingenuity | |
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44 chattering | |
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45 repression | |
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46 privately | |
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47 horrid | |
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48 lash | |
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49 unanimity | |
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50 minion | |
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51 abdication | |
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52 compartment | |
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53 leech | |
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54 frankly | |
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55 doomed | |
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56 nuptials | |
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57 embroidery | |
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58 recipient | |
a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器 | |
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59 lodgings | |
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60 scant | |
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61 accomplished | |
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62 migration | |
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63 apparently | |
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64 literally | |
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65 savage | |
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66 Oxford | |
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67 circuitously | |
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68 humbly | |
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69 obedience | |
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70 brandished | |
v.挥舞( brandish的过去式和过去分词 );炫耀 | |
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71 rattled | |
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72 hood | |
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73 hilarious | |
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74 hilarity | |
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75 garnishment | |
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76 satiric | |
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77 stammered | |
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78 bazaar | |
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79 pointedly | |
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80 hesitation | |
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81 proceedings | |
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82 extravagant | |
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83 heeding | |
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84 abrupt | |
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85 unduly | |
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86 binding | |
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87 graceful | |
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88 commemorate | |
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89 delicacy | |
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90 proscribed | |
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91 chaff | |
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92 loyalty | |
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93 discretion | |
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94 allusion | |
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95 parenthesis | |
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96 analyzed | |
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97 insignificance | |
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98 luncheon | |
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99 romp | |
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100 amenable | |
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101 retracing | |
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102 westward | |
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103 postpone | |
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104 postponed | |
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105 winding | |
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106 plunge | |
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107 positively | |
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108 conveyance | |
n.(不动产等的)转让,让与;转让证书;传送;运送;表达;(正)运输工具 | |
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109 intensification | |
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110 overture | |
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111 unnatural | |
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112 grimace | |
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113 gallop | |
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114 scrambled | |
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