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VIII. PLAYS AND PASTIMES.
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About the time fate cursed him with a granted prayer in those boots, my boy was deep in the reading of a book about Grecian mythology1 which he found perpetually fascinating; he read it over and over without ever thinking of stopping merely because he had already been through it twenty or thirty times. It had pictures of all the gods and goddesses, demigods and heroes; and he tried to make poems upon their various characters and exploits. But Apollo was his favorite, and I believe it was with some hope of employing them in a personation of the god that he coveted3 those red-topped sharp-toed calf-skin boots. He had a notion that if he could get up a chariot by sawing down the sides of a store-box for the body, and borrowing the hind-wheels of the baby's willow4 wagon5, and then, drawn6 by the family dog Tip at a mad gallop7, come suddenly whirling round the corner of the school-house, wearing spangled circus-tights and bearing Apollo's bow and shaft8, while a silken scarf which he had seen in a bureau-drawer at home blew gallantly9 out behind him, it would have a fine effect with the boys. Some of the fellows wished to be highway robbers and outlaws10; one who intended to be a pirate afterwards got so far in a maritime11 career as to invent a steam-engine governor now in use on the seagoing steamers; my boy was content to be simply a[81] god, the god of poetry and sunshine. He never realized his modest ambition, but then boys never realize anything; though they have lots of fun failing.
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mythology
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| n.神话,神话学,神话集 | |
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kin
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| n.家族,亲属,血缘关系;adj.亲属关系的,同类的 | |
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coveted
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| adj.令人垂涎的;垂涎的,梦寐以求的v.贪求,觊觎(covet的过去分词);垂涎;贪图 | |
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willow
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wagon
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| n.四轮马车,手推车,面包车;无盖运货列车 | |
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drawn
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gallop
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shaft
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gallantly
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| adv. 漂亮地,勇敢地,献殷勤地 | |
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outlaws
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| 歹徒,亡命之徒( outlaw的名词复数 ); 逃犯 | |
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maritime
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skilful
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gambling
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strictly
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fore
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knuckle
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knuckles
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twitch
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savage
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incessant
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knuckled
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fen
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amiability
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batters
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| n.面糊(煎料)( batter的名词复数 );面糊(用于做糕饼);( 棒球) 正在击球的球员;击球员v.连续猛击( batter的第三人称单数 ) | |
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plunges
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| n.跳进,投入vt.使投入,使插入,使陷入vi.投入,跳进,陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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rapture
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bliss
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fatigue
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stumping
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hopped
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| 跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花 | |
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hoop
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molest
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peg
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applied
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withhold
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conclave
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| n.秘密会议,红衣主教团 | |
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lured
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| 吸引,引诱(lure的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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caresses
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pretext
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joyfully
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misgiving
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tighten
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streak
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| n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动 | |
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projectors
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| 电影放映机,幻灯机( projector的名词复数 ) | |
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enthusiast
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| n.热心人,热衷者 | |
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untied
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| 松开,解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 ); 解除,使自由; 解决 | |
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touchingly
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softened
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| (使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰 | |
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bough
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hydraulic
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beech
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maple
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spun
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standing
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bulged
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awfully
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esteemed
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pitcher
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taut
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tack
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twine
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gracefully
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excellences
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entangled
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| adj.卷入的;陷入的;被缠住的;缠在一起的v.使某人(某物/自己)缠绕,纠缠于(某物中),使某人(自己)陷入(困难或复杂的环境中)( entangle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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