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CHAPTER XIII—THE REPULSE
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The night was dark and the road bad, and Clay leaned forward in the lurching car, looking fixedly1 ahead. The glare of the headlamp flickered3 across wagon4 ruts and banks of tall fern that bordered the uneven5 track, while here and there the base of a great fir trunk flashed suddenly out of the enveloping6 darkness and passed. Where the bush was thinnest, Clay could see the tiny wineberries glimmer7 red in the rushing beam of light, but all above was wrapped in impenetrable gloom. They were traveling very fast through a deep woods, but the road ran straight and roughly level, and talking was possible.
“You had trouble in the city lately. How did it begin?” Clay asked the driver. “I’m a stranger, and know only what’s in your papers.”
“The boys thought too many Japs were coming in,” the man replied. “They corralled most of the salmon8 netting, and when there was talk about prices being cut, the white men warned them to quit.”
“The Japs wouldn’t go?”
“No, sir; they allowed they meant to hold their job; and the boys didn’t make a good show when they tried to chase them off. Then, as they were getting other work into their hands, the trouble spread. The city’s surely full of foreigners.”
“You had a pretty big row a day or two ago.”
“We certainly had,” the driver agreed, and added, after a pause during which he avoided a deep rut, “The boys had fixed
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bluff
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bribe
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(使)作汽笛声响,作汽车喇叭声( hoot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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hoarse
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uproar
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looming
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bruised
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prospect
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watchful
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defenders
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garrison
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steadily
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determined
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手持着使用(武器、工具等)( wield的现在分词 ); 具有; 运用(权力); 施加(影响) | |
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lithe
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vengeance
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