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For a week the amount of virtue1 in the old house would have supplied the neighbourhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved of their first anxiety about their father the girls insensibly relaxed their praiseworthy efforts a little, and began to fall back into the old ways. They did not forget their motto, but hoping and keeping busy seemed to grow easier; and after such tremendous exertions3, they felt that Endeavor deserved a holiday, and gave it a good many.
Jo caught a bad cold through neglect to cover the shorn head enough, and was ordered to stay at home till she was better, for Aunt March didn't like to hear people read with colds in their heads. Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage4 from garret to cellar, subsided5 on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books. Amy found that housework and art did not go well together, and returned to her mud pies. Meg went daily to her pupils, and sewed, or thought she did, at home, but much time was spent in writing long letters to her mother, or reading the Washington dispatches over and over. Beth kept on, with only slight relapses into idleness or grieving.
All the little duties were faithfully done each day, and many of her sisters' also, for they were forgetful, and the house seemed like a clock whose pendulum6 was gone a-visiting. When her heart got heavy with longings7 for Mother or fears for Father, she went away into a certain closet, hid her face in the folds of a certain dear old gown, and made her little moan and prayed her little prayer quietly by herself. Nobody knew what cheered her up after a sober fit, but everyone felt how sweet and helpful Beth was, and fell into a way of going to her for comfort or advice in their small affairs.
All were unconscious that this experience was a test of character; and when the first excitement was over, felt that they had done well, and deserved praise. So they did; but their mistake was in ceasing to do well, and they learned this lesson through much anxiety and regret.
1 virtue | |
n.德行,美德;贞操;优点;功效,效力 | |
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2 hood | |
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖 | |
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3 exertions | |
n.努力( exertion的名词复数 );费力;(能力、权力等的)运用;行使 | |
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4 rummage | |
v./n.翻寻,仔细检查 | |
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5 subsided | |
v.(土地)下陷(因在地下采矿)( subside的过去式和过去分词 );减弱;下降至较低或正常水平;一下子坐在椅子等上 | |
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6 pendulum | |
n.摆,钟摆 | |
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7 longings | |
渴望,盼望( longing的名词复数 ) | |
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8 sob | |
n.空间轨道的轰炸机;呜咽,哭泣 | |
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9 spoke | |
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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10 odds | |
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别 | |
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11 chilly | |
adj.凉快的,寒冷的 | |
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12 scarlet | |
n.深红色,绯红色,红衣;adj.绯红色的 | |
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13 remorseful | |
adj.悔恨的 | |
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14 contented | |
adj.满意的,安心的,知足的 | |
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15 outright | |
adv.坦率地;彻底地;立即;adj.无疑的;彻底的 | |
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16 passionately | |
ad.热烈地,激烈地 | |
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17 sobbing | |
<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的 | |
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18 entirely | |
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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19 trotting | |
小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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20 waggon | |
n.运货马车,运货车;敞篷车箱 | |
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21 behold | |
v.看,注视,看到 | |
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22 wrought | |
v.引起;以…原料制作;运转;adj.制造的 | |
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23 rumpling | |
v.弄皱,使凌乱( rumple的现在分词 ) | |
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24 porcupine | |
n.豪猪, 箭猪 | |
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25 wig | |
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26 ward | |
n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开 | |
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27 retired | |
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的 | |
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28 poking | |
n. 刺,戳,袋 vt. 拨开,刺,戳 vi. 戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢 | |
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29 sniff | |
vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视 | |
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30 croak | |
vi.嘎嘎叫,发牢骚 | |
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31 perch | |
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32 gadding | |
n.叮搔症adj.蔓生的v.闲逛( gad的现在分词 );游荡;找乐子;用铁棒刺 | |
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