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CHAPTER I. THE INMATES OF THE MILL.
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My story begins like a fairy tale. Once upon a time there was a miller1 who had three sons. Here, however, the resemblance ceases. At this late date I, the last stricken inmate2 of the Mill of Silence, set it down for a warning and a menace; not entirely3 in despair, perhaps, but with a fitful flickering4 of hope that at the last moment my soul may be rent from me into a light it has never yet foreseen.
We were three brothers, sons of a gray, old man, whose father, and his father before him, had owned and run a flour mill in the ancient city of Winton in Hampshire. This mill stood a little back from the north side of the east and more deserted5 end of the High street, and faced a little bridge—wooden in those days, but stone now—through which raced the first of the mill fall that came thundering out from under the old timber building, as though it had burst at a push some ancient dam and were hurrying off to make up for lost ages of restraint. The house, a broad single red-tiled gable, as seen from the bridge, stood crushed in between other buildings, and in all my memory of it was a crazy affair in appearance and ever in two minds about slipping into the boisterous6 water below and so flushing all that quarter of the town with an overflow7, as it were, of its own ancient dropsy. It was built right across the stream, with the mill wheel buried in its heart; and I can recall a certain childish speculation8 as to the results which would follow a possible relaxing of the house pressure on either side; in which case I hopefully assumed the wheel would slip out of its socket9, and, carrying the frail
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adj.荒芜的,荒废的,无人的,被遗弃的 | |
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fortress
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bullying
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manure
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[复数]鹅卵石; 沙砾; 卵石,小圆石( pebble的名词复数 ) | |
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guile
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fiber
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marred
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vigilant
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lookout
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foe
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bosom
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n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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deftly
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twitched
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v.看到( espy的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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tickling
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反馈,回授,自旋挠痒法 | |
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grunted
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(猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说 | |
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chuckle
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spun
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sufficiently
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