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chapter 15 Dickens
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What I have said of Dickens reminds me that I had been reading him at the same time that I had been reading Ik Marvel1; but a curious thing about the reading of my later boyhood is that the dates do not sharply detach themselves one from another. This may be so because my reading was much more multifarious than it had been earlier, or because I was reading always two or three authors at a time. I think Macaulay a little antedated2 Dickens in my affections, but when I came to the novels of that masterful artist (as I must call him, with a thousand reservations as to the times when he is not a master and not an artist), I did not fail to fall under his spell.
This was in a season of great depression, when I began to feel in broken health the effect of trying to burn my candle at both ends. It seemed for a while very simple and easy to come home in the middle of the afternoon, when my task at the printing-office was done, and sit down to my books in my little study, which I did not finally leave until the family were in bed; but it was not well, and it was not enough that I should like to do it. The most that can be said in defence of such a thing is that with the strong native impulse and the conditions it was inevitable3. If I was to do the thing I wanted to do I was to do it in that way, and I wanted to do that thing, whatever it was, more than I wanted to do anything else, and even more than I wanted to do nothing. I cannot make out that I was fond of study, or cared for the things I was trying to do, except as a means to other things. As far as my pleasure went, or my natural bent4 was concerned, I would rather have been wandering through the woods with a gun on my shoulder, or lying under a tree, or reading some book that cost me no sort of effort. But there was much more than my pleasure involved; there was a hope to fulfil, an aim to achieve, and I could no more have left off trying for what I hoped and aimed at than I could have left off living, though I did not know very distinctly what either was. As I look back at the endeavor of those days much of it seems mere5 purblind6 groping,
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marvel
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| vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异;n.令人惊异的事 | |
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| v.(在历史上)比…为早( antedate的过去式和过去分词 );先于;早于;(在信、支票等上)填写比实际日期早的日期 | |
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inevitable
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| adj.不可避免的,必然发生的 | |
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bent
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| n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的 | |
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purblind
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wilful
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enlist
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| vt.谋取(支持等),赢得;征募;vi.入伍 | |
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sham
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lexicon
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conjecture
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stint
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incessant
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fatigue
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morbid
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devoured
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| 吞没( devour的过去式和过去分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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beset
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| v.镶嵌;困扰,包围 | |
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misery
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mighty
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parlance
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glamour
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potent
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| adj.强有力的,有权势的;有效力的 | |
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manifestations
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spoke
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quaint
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pang
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hardy
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consistency
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savage
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cynical
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| adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的,不信世道向善的 | |
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malice
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| n.恶意,怨恨,蓄意;[律]预谋 | |
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gainsaid
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| v.否认,反驳( gainsay的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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passionate
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| adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的 | |
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rapture
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| n.狂喜;全神贯注;着迷;v.使狂喜 | |
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delightful
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| adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的 | |
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rambling
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aesthetic
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| adj.美学的,审美的,有美感 | |
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snobbishness
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| 势利; 势利眼 | |
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fully
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| adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地 | |
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porcelain
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virtue
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sniffs
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| v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的第三人称单数 );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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affected
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| adj.不自然的,假装的 | |
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instinctive
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| adj.(出于)本能的;直觉的;(出于)天性的 | |
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instinctively
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sane
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formulated
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rhetoric
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providence
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pathos
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haughty
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humble
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purely
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contemptible
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lastingly
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inadequate
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provinciality
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portraiture
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affinity
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sentimental
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altruistic
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vibrant
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invalid
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hereditary
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disorder
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| n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调 | |
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| 混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系] | |
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