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CHAPTER IX
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It was on a Saturday morning about the middle of July, and it had been foggy; and I had watched the fog retreating stealthily, withdrawing one long vaporous arm and then another, slinking back like a wraith1 before the sun, as if trying to get away unperceived. There was no writhing2 and twisting in the anguish3 of defeat and dissolution, no jets and shreds4 vanishing into the hot air above. But the ways of the fog over the sea are a mystery, and I am not yet at the end of them.
I had gone over to Old Goodwin's to take my daughter, and I had left her with one of the army of starched5 and stiff imitations of men in [Pg 266]buttons who haunt the house. They guard every door, so that a man cannot so much as turn a handle for himself; and one is to be found in each passage, and at every turn. They might be wooden images from a Noah's Ark, endowed with movement, but not with life. There are not so many of them as there were some years ago. They are none of Old Goodwin's doing, and Mrs. Goodwin has somewhat lost her fancy for them; and some of them, Old Goodwin told me, have enlisted6. Fancy! Those men in buff uniform and many buttons enlisting7! But they will be well used to wearing a uniform, and they will be well used to doing without question what they are told to do, and to keeping their faces like masks. They will make good soldiers[Pg 267] I have no doubt, and they may be in France at this moment.
The buttons who admitted us was not so very starched and stiff, and he seemed to have been endowed with life as well as movement, and to have become actually a human being. For he smiled when he saw my daughter, and spoke8 pleasantly to her, so that I was persuaded that he was even glad to see her. And she, having thrown him some pleasantry, and a smile with it, dashed past him through the great hall and vanished. And he, still smiling, closed the door upon me, and I went in search of Old Goodwin, who deals not in uniforms and buttons.
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wraith
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writhing
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| (因极度痛苦而)扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 ) | |
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| n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦,烦恼 | |
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shreds
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| adj.浆硬的,硬挺的,拘泥刻板的v.把(衣服、床单等)浆一浆( starch的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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| n.广场;走廊 | |
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slaughter
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lighter
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blues
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concealment
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chuckled
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unwilling
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vessel
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hearty
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vessels
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straightforward
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hull
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enroll
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schooner
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sloop
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lobster
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buoys
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palatial
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vacancies
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tempted
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pointed
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smack
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| vt.拍,打,掴;咂嘴;vi.含有…意味;n.拍 | |
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improper
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qualified
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navigate
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savagely
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clams
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naught
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lobsters
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| 龙虾( lobster的名词复数 ); 龙虾肉 | |
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inspectors
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incubus
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moodily
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clump
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| n.树丛,草丛;vi.用沉重的脚步行走 | |
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planks
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| (厚)木板( plank的名词复数 ); 政纲条目,政策要点 | |
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jack
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influential
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winked
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abruptly
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marsh
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twilight
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infinitely
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awakened
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sledge
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growled
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growling
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| n.吠声, 咆哮声 v.怒吠, 咆哮, 吼 | |
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| v.(指狗)吠,嗥叫, (人)咆哮( snarl的现在分词 );咆哮着说,厉声地说 | |
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mangled
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remains
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pebbles
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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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