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The night fell dead and blank, and with it came the snow, crisp, large-flaked, dropping silently as autumn leaves in a windless garden. These were but the pickets1 of a gathering2 army—whose cloudy regiments3 moved up unwieldily from the north-west, where for weeks they had been forming and manœuvring—and the world looked indifferently on them, little thinking how presently it should be overwhelmed in the rush of forces of which they were the pioneers.
Sometimes a little galloping4 wind, like one of a distracted staff, would scatter5 a company of them right and left; and then to folks within-doors would sound a rubbing noise on window-panes, as if stealthy fingers were feeling for the hasp.
“If I had not lived all my life amongst ghosts,” said Luvaine, “I should fear this house of yours, Mr. Tuke.”
He rose as he spoke6 (the three gentlemen were sitting over their wine in the great dining-hall of “Delsrop”), and, walking to the casement7, plucked aside a corner of the wide crimson8 curtain that hung thereover, and stood looking out into the night.
“The dark is full of white faces,” he muttered. “They writhe9 with laughter and flash down and are gone. There! did you hear that?”
“Oh, Luvaine!” he cried—“damn your
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罢工纠察员( picket的名词复数 ) | |
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(军队的)团( regiment的名词复数 ); 大量的人或物 | |
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vt.撒,驱散,散开;散布/播;vi.分散,消散 | |
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shuddering
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chuckle
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broker
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gem
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facetious
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adj.轻浮的,好开玩笑的 | |
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retaliate
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joyously
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ad.快乐地, 高兴地 | |
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condescend
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v.俯就,屈尊;堕落,丢丑 | |
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descend
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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postpone
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v.延期,推迟 | |
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n.壁炉炉床,壁炉地面 | |
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disappearance
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confession
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smoothly
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gnawing
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a.痛苦的,折磨人的 | |
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knuckles
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brutality
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instinctive
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decided
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savagely
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tightening
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peril
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exclamation
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pointed
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blot
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sagging
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下垂[沉,陷],松垂,垂度 | |
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vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出 | |
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momentary
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catastrophe
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filament
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bridle
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gainsay
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