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Chapter 15 JULIAN HAS AN EXCITING PLAN
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Chapter 15 JULIAN HAS AN EXCITING PLAN
The five children talked and talked, as they opened more tins and had a most peculiar1 meal of hamspread with fruit salad and beans. They finished up with another barley2 sugar each. George gave hersto Timmy who disposed of it with a crick-crack-swallow!
'Have we all got torches?' asked Julian. 'I know it will be bright moonlight tonight, but as we shallpresumably be getting down - or up - dark caves, we shall want torches.'
Yes - they each had a torch. Wilfrid, for some reason, had two, rather small, but quite efficient.
'What's the plan going to be, Ju?' asked George, and Timmy gave a little whine3, as if to say, 'Yes, tellus.' He sat by George, listening earnestly, with Wilfrid on the other side of him. At times he sniffed4 atthe baby hedgehog still in the boy's pocket, and apparently5 quite happy there. Wilfrid had been busycatching insects for it, much to Timmy's interest.
'I propose that we go to the cliffs - the Wailing6 Cliffs - as soon as it's twilight7, and make our waydown,' said Julian. 'There is probably some kind of pathway down, I should think - even if only arabbit-path. I'll lead the way down, of course. Anne and Wilfrid are to come between me and Dick,with George and Timmy behind.'
'Right!' said everyone.
'We are, of course, to make as little noise as possible,' said Julian. 'And do try not to send stoneshurtling down the path or cliff just in case anyone's about! When we get down to the rocks, we'll letWilfrid go ahead, because he saw where the men went in and out earlier on.'
Wilfrid felt suddenly important. My word - it was like planning an exploration! He suddenlyremembered something - the wailing noise.
'I hope the girls won't be scared when they hear the awful wailing noise,' he said. 'It's only the windscreaming in and out of the holes and corners of the great cliffs.'
George made a scornful noise. 'Who's scared of the wind!' she said.
'Timmy might be,' said Julian, smiling. 'We know what makes the wailing. He doesn't! You may haveto hold him when it begins, George. He'll be a bit
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1 peculiar | |
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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2 barley | |
n.大麦,大麦粒 | |
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3 whine | |
v.哀号,号哭;n.哀鸣 | |
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4 sniffed | |
v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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5 apparently | |
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎 | |
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6 wailing | |
v.哭叫,哀号( wail的现在分词 );沱 | |
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7 twilight | |
n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期 | |
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8 restive | |
adj.不安宁的,不安静的 | |
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9 flop | |
n.失败(者),扑通一声;vi.笨重地行动,沉重地落下 | |
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10 chuckle | |
vi./n.轻声笑,咯咯笑 | |
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11 chamber | |
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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12 smuggled | |
水货 | |
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13 awfully | |
adv.可怕地,非常地,极端地 | |
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14 longing | |
n.(for)渴望 | |
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15 smuggler | |
n.走私者 | |
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16 whined | |
v.哀号( whine的过去式和过去分词 );哀诉,诉怨 | |
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17 sobbing | |
<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的 | |
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18 gulls | |
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19 gull | |
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20 preening | |
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21 ledgy | |
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22 slanting | |
倾斜的,歪斜的 | |
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23 ledge | |
n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁 | |
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24 pointed | |
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25 upwards | |
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26 swooped | |
俯冲,猛冲( swoop的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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27 screeched | |
v.发出尖叫声( screech的过去式和过去分词 );发出粗而刺耳的声音;高叫 | |
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28 growled | |
v.(动物)发狺狺声, (雷)作隆隆声( growl的过去式和过去分词 );低声咆哮着说 | |
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