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The next day was Wednesday and a slack day for the Potwell Inn. It was a hot, close day, full of the murmuring of bees. One or two people crossed by the ferry, an elaborately equipped fisherman stopped for cold meat and dry ginger1 ale in the bar parlour, some haymakers came and drank beer for an hour, and afterwards sent jars and jugs2 by a boy to be replenished3; that was all. Mr. Polly had risen early and was busy about the place meditating5 upon the probable tactics of Uncle Jim. He was no longer strung up to the desperate pitch of the first encounter. But he was grave and anxious. Uncle Jim had shrunken, as all antagonists6 that are boldly faced shrink, after the first battle, to the negotiable, the vulnerable. Formidable he was no doubt, but not invincible7. He had, under Providence8, been defeated once, and he might be defeated altogether.
Mr. Polly went about the place considering the militant9 possibilities of pacific things, pokers11, copper12 sticks, garden implements13, kitchen knives, garden nets, barbed wire, oars14, clothes lines, blankets, pewter pots, stockings and broken bottles. He prepared a club with a stocking and a bottle inside upon the best East End model. He swung it round his head once, broke an outhouse window with a flying fragment of glass, and ruined the stocking beyond all darning. He developed a subtle scheme with the cellar flap as a sort of

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n.姜,精力,淡赤黄色;adj.淡赤黄色的;vt.使活泼,使有生气 | |
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vt.补充;(把…)装满;(再)填满 | |
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对立[对抗] 者,对手,敌手( antagonist的名词复数 ); 对抗肌; 对抗药 | |
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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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gilt
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boisterous
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eel
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