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CHAPTER XXVII WE GO TO EZE
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THE charms of Monte Carlo are many. Our first morning there, to the sound of a horn blowing reveille in the distance, I was up betimes enjoying the wonderful spectacles from my balcony. The sun was just peeping up over the surface of an indigo1 sea, shooting sharp golden glances in every direction. Up on the mountains, which rise sharp and clear like great unornamented cathedrals back of the jeweled villages of this coast, it was picking out shepherd’s hut and fallen mementoes of the glory that was Rome. A sailboat or two was already making its way out to sea, and below me on that long point of land which is Cap Martin, stretching like a thin green spear into the sea, was the splendid olive orchard2 which I noted3 the day before, its gleaming leaves showing a different shade of green from what it had then. I did not know it until the subject came up that olive trees live to be a thousand years old and that they do as well here on this little strip of coast, protected by the high mountains at their back, as they do anywhere in Italy. In fact, as I think of it, this lovely projection4 of land, no wider than to permit of a few small villages and cities crowding between the sea and the mountains, is a true projection of Italy itself, its palms, olive trees, cypresses6, umbrella trees and its peasants and architecture. I understand that a bastard7 French—half French, half Italian—is spoken here and that only here are the hill cities truly the same as they are in Italy.
While I was gazing at the morning sun and the blue276 sea and marveling how quickly the comfortable Riviera Express had whirled us out of the cold winds of Paris into this sun-kissed land, Barfleur must have been up and shaving, for presently he appeared, pink and clean in his brown dressing-gown, to sit out on my lovely balcony with me.
“You know,” he said, after he had commented on the wonder of the morning and the delicious soothing9
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1 indigo | |
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6 cypresses | |
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7 bastard | |
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8 spoke | |
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10 pounce | |
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11 physically | |
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13 asceticism | |
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14 ascetic | |
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15 rim | |
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16 amicable | |
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17 decided | |
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18 propped | |
支撑,支持,维持( prop的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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19 adornment | |
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20 tints | |
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21 forth | |
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22 ambling | |
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23 automobiles | |
n.汽车( automobile的名词复数 ) | |
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24 grumbling | |
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25 graceful | |
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26 artistic | |
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27 vistas | |
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28 feverish | |
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29 haughty | |
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30 somber | |
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31 mien | |
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32 artistically | |
adv.艺术性地 | |
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33 mingle | |
vt.使混合,使相混;vi.混合起来;相交往 | |
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34 fretted | |
焦躁的,附有弦马的,腐蚀的 | |
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35 shaft | |
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36 delightful | |
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37 Mediterranean | |
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38 farmhouse | |
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39 brass | |
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40 spotted | |
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41 bespoke | |
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42 lavish | |
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43 expenditure | |
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44 meager | |
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45 gorge | |
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46 glut | |
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47 glutted | |
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48 earnings | |
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49 marine | |
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50 luncheon | |
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51 penchant | |
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52 propensities | |
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53 sarcasm | |
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54 esthetic | |
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55 crumbling | |
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56 illustrated | |
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57 rubble | |
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58 fabric | |
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59 doorways | |
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60 gossamer | |
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61 entrusted | |
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62 wasteful | |
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63 standing | |
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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64 lichens | |
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65 lichen | |
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66 lurking | |
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67 quaintness | |
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68 gracefully | |
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69 picturesquely | |
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70 moldy | |
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71 chattering | |
n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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72 hips | |
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的 | |
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73 previously | |
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74 inadequate | |
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75 drawn | |
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76 expatiating | |
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77 exalted | |
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78 mentor | |
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79 precipices | |
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80 nervously | |
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81 contemplating | |
深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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82 ebullient | |
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83 intoxicated | |
喝醉的,极其兴奋的 | |
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84 cape | |
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85 crooked | |
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86 descended | |
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87 canard | |
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88 maiden | |
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89 devoured | |
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90 glamour | |
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91 peculiarities | |
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92 snail | |
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93 defenders | |
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94 penetrated | |
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95 defense | |
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96 luring | |
吸引,引诱(lure的现在分词形式) | |
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97 invaders | |
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98 winding | |
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99 citadel | |
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100 squat | |
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101 recalcitrant | |
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102 staples | |
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103 patois | |
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104 toll | |
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105 groves | |
树丛,小树林( grove的名词复数 ) | |
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106 pointed | |
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107 specimen | |
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108 attire | |
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109 laden | |
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110 patina | |
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112 idyllic | |
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113 chambers | |
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114 jewelry | |
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115 haze | |
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116 astounding | |
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117 dallied | |
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118 rubies | |
红宝石( ruby的名词复数 ); 红宝石色,深红色 | |
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119 piers | |
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121 mere | |
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122 champagne | |
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