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CHAPTER VI DREAM MINE
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The next morning the party broke camp, and after toiling1 hard with pole and paddle reached, toward evening, a forest-shrouded gorge2 through which the flood swept furiously. A quarter of a mile ahead steep rocks pent in the raging water, which was veiled in spray; but nearer at hand the stream widened into a pool at which Andrew gazed with misgivings3. Evidently Carnally meant to cross it. A wall of crag formed one bank; the opposite beach was strewn with massy boulders4, over which the pine branches stretched; and in between there ran a great wedge-shaped track of foam6. No canoe, Andrew thought, could live through that tumult7 of broken water; but it ran more slackly near the boulder5 bank, and a short distance higher up an angry eddy9 swung back, close inshore, to the head of the pool, where it joined the main downward rush. At the junction10 a spur of rock ran out into the wild side-swirl of the flood. Shut in as it was by dripping pines, the place had a forbidding look.
"It strikes me that the Company will find carrying up its stores and plant very costly11 work," Andrew remarked, as they rested in an eddy behind a stone. "I'm beginning to understand why Leonard asked for so much capital. My idea is that we'll have to do some preliminary reducing on the spot to save mineral transport."
[Pg 56]Carnally nodded. For a novice12 in such matters, Allinson was showing an unusual grasp of details.
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长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的现在分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉 | |
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n.咽喉,胃,暴食,山峡;v.塞饱,狼吞虎咽地吃 | |
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boulders
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n.卵石( boulder的名词复数 );巨砾;(受水或天气侵蚀而成的)巨石;漂砾 | |
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boulder
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n.巨砾;卵石,圆石 | |
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eddy
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junction
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costly
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novice
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assays
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n.化验( assay的名词复数 );试验;尝试;试金 | |
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eddies
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(水、烟等的)漩涡,涡流( eddy的名词复数 ) | |
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swirling
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cataract
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swollen
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veins
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vein
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torrent
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stationary
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shingle
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scent
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steering
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turmoil
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plunge
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afterward
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gliding
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scrambled
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bluff
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trout
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aromatic
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loon
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caribou
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shack
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treasurer
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wreckage
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rubble
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lode
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persuasion
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creek
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peculiar
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pebbles
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lustrous
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prospect
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prospectors
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thaw
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domains
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discursive
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grievance
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procured
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sledge
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blizzard
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memento
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mitten
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assayer
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