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CHAPTER I
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As Father Felipe slowly toiled1 up the dusty road towards the Rancho of the Blessed Innocents, he more than once stopped under the shadow of a sycamore to rest his somewhat lazy mule3 and to compose his own perplexed4 thoughts by a few snatches from his breviary. For the good padre had some reason to be troubled. The invasion of Gentile Americans that followed the gold discovery of three years before had not confined itself to the plains of the Sacramento, but stragglers had already found their way to the Santa Cruz Valley, and the seclusion5 of even the mission itself was threatened. It was true that they had not brought their heathen engines to disembowel the earth in search of gold, but it was rumored6 that they had already speculated upon the agricultural productiveness of the land, and had espied7 "the fatness thereof." As he reached the higher plateau he could see the afternoon sea-fog—presently to obliterate8 the fair prospect—already pulling through the gaps in the Coast Range, and on a nearer slope—no less ominously9—the smoke of a recent but more permanently10 destructive Yankee saw-mill was slowly drifting towards the valley.
"Get up, beast!" said the father, digging his heels into the comfortable flanks of his mule with some human impatience11, "or art THOU, too, a lazy renegade? Thinkest thou, besotted one, that the heretic will spare thee more work than the Holy Church."
The mule, thus apostrophized in ear and flesh, shook its head
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obliterate
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impatience
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obstinately
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adobe
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gateway
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reverence
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uncouth
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atheist
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furtive
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exclamation
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adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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pictorial
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kin
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论述,详细讲解( expound的第三人称单数 ) | |
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horrified
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labor
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complacent
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implements
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n.工具( implement的名词复数 );家具;手段;[法律]履行(契约等)v.实现( implement的第三人称单数 );执行;贯彻;使生效 | |
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zeal
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lame
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colloquy
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meditative
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apparently
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complexion
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melancholy
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alleged
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lasting
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adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持 | |
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undoubtedly
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beheld
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astonishment
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inflamed
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profligate
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mare
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affected
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vigor
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bucking
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shutter
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dignified
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peculiarity
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traitors
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asylum
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speculations
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discreet
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Christian
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slumber
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