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Toward dusk the same day a beggar came trudging1 over the moor2. He was a most unclean and grotesquely3 ragged4 creature, almost too ragged to be genuine, nor had he the characteristic and unstudied gestures of the true vagrant5 who cannot let ten minutes pass without scratching some part of him. The fellow wore a dirty old hood6 that once had been lined with scarlet7 cloth. A white bandage covered his mouth and chin as though he had some foul8 disease that had to be hidden. His brown smock hung in tatters around his knees, and his wallet was such a thing of patches that no one could have told what color it had been in the beginning.
This ragamuffin scouted9 his way toward the chapelry with stolid11 circumspection12. He seemed to have a liking13 for the gorse and a hatred14 of the heather; his love of cover led him a somewhat devious15 but successful course, in that he reached the top of the moor without Martin Valliant seeing him. Once there he crawled into a patch of furze, and so fitted himself under the ragged stems that he could see the
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vt.& vi.跋涉,吃力地走(trudge的现在分词形式) | |
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n.荒野,沼泽;vt.(使)停泊;vi.停泊 | |
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adv. 奇异地,荒诞地 | |
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adj.衣衫褴褛的,粗糙的,刺耳的 | |
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n.流浪者,游民;adj.流浪的,漂泊不定的 | |
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n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的 | |
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adj.污秽的;邪恶的;v.弄脏;妨害;犯规;n.犯规 | |
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scouted
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寻找,侦察( scout的过去式和过去分词 ); 物色(优秀运动员、演员、音乐家等) | |
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chapel
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n.小教堂,殡仪馆 | |
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circumspection
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n.细心,慎重 | |
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liking
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devious
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doorway
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pricking
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刺,刺痕,刺痛感 | |
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perked
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(使)活跃( perk的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)增值; 使更有趣 | |
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miraculous
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adj.像奇迹一样的,不可思议的 | |
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nostrils
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faltered
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n.小旅馆,客栈;小酒店 | |
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v.闪躲( dodge的过去式和过去分词 );回避 | |
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alley
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n.小巷,胡同;小径,小路 | |
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adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染 | |
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rogue
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n.流氓;v.游手好闲 | |
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n.沟,街沟,水槽,檐槽,贫民窟 | |
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bland
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adj.淡而无味的,温和的,无刺激性的 | |
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bide
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a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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poignant
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adj.令人痛苦的,辛酸的,惨痛的 | |
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vi.退却,退缩,畏缩 | |
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humble
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adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低 | |
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slain
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杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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traitors
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卖国贼( traitor的名词复数 ); 叛徒; 背叛者; 背信弃义的人 | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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tingled
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v.有刺痛感( tingle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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trumpets
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喇叭( trumpet的名词复数 ); 小号; 喇叭形物; (尤指)绽开的水仙花 | |
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talons
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n.(尤指猛禽的)爪( talon的名词复数 );(如爪般的)手指;爪状物;锁簧尖状突出部 | |
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tumult
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n.喧哗;激动,混乱;吵闹 | |
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