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CHAPTER THE FIFTH The World according to Sir Isaac 7 8
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And as we reckon up the disturbing influences that were stirring Lady Harman out of that life of acquiescences to which women are perhaps even more naturally disposed than men, we may pick out the conversation of Susan Burnet as something a little apart from the others, as something with a peculiar1 barbed pointedness2 of its own that was yet in other respects very representative of a multitude of nudges and nips and pricks3 and indications that life was giving Lady Harman's awaking mind. Susan Burnet was a woman who came to renovate4 and generally do up the Putney curtains and furniture and loose covers every spring; she was Mrs. Crumble's discovery, she was sturdy and short and she had open blue eyes and an engaging simplicity5 of manner that attracted Lady Harman from the outset. She was stuck away in one of the spare bedrooms and there she was available for any one, so long, she explained, as they didn't fluster6 her when she was cutting out, with a flow of conversation that not even a mouth full of pins seemed to interrupt. And Lady Harman would go and watch Susan Burnet by the hour together and think what an enviably independent young woman she was, and listen with interest and something between horror and admiration8 to the various impressions of life she had gathered during a hardy9 and adventurous10 career.
Their early conversations were about Susan Burnet's business and the general condition of things in that world of upholsterers' young women in which Susan had lived until she perceived the possibilities of a "connexion," and set up for herself. And the condition of things in that world, as Susan described it, brought home to Lady Harman just how sheltered and limited her own upbringing had been. "It isn't right," said Susan, "the way they send girls out with fellers into empty houses. Naturally the men get
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刺痛( prick的名词复数 ); 刺孔; 刺痕; 植物的刺 | |
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vt.更新,革新,刷新 | |
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specialized
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baker
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n.吊带,背带;托架( brace的名词复数 );箍子;括弧;(儿童)牙箍v.支住( brace的第三人称单数 );撑牢;使自己站稳;振作起来 | |
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humiliation
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scarlet
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bakers
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fauna
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adorned
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cockroach
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scone
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preoccupied
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adolescence
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catering
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remarkable
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obstinately
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subconsciously
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ad.下意识地,潜意识地 | |
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breach
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turnover
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yarn
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blackmailer
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敲诈者,勒索者 | |
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nagging
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illuminating
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guilt
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loyalty
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thwarted
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