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'An outward-bound mail-boat had come in that afternoon, and the big dining-room of the hotel was more than half full of people with a-hundred-pounds-round-the-world tickets in their pockets. There were married couples looking domesticated1 and bored with each other in the midst of their travels; there were small parties and large parties, and lone2 individuals dining solemnly or feasting boisterously3, but all thinking, conversing4, joking, or scowling5 as was their wont6 at home; and just as intelligently receptive of new impressions as their trunks upstairs. Henceforth they would be labelled as having passed through this and that place, and so would be their luggage. They would cherish this distinction of their persons, and preserve the gummed tickets on their portmanteaus as documentary evidence, as the only permanent trace of their improving enterprise. The dark-faced servants tripped without noise over the vast and polished floor; now and then a girl's laugh would be heard, as innocent and empty as her mind, or, in a sudden hush8 of crockery, a few words in an affected9 drawl from some wit embroidering10 for the benefit of a grinning tableful the last funny story of shipboard scandal. Two nomadic11 old maids, dressed up to kill, worked acrimoniously12 through the bill of fare, whispering to each other with faded lips, wooden-faced and bizarre, like two
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conversing
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nomadic
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sumptuous
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manly
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impudence
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colossal
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deception
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conjectures
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inquiry
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darted
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tablecloth
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cosy
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shafts
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shaft
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winked
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innate
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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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dodges
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proceedings
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ordained
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mumble
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unlimited
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discreet
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fishy
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narrated
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stunned
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brute
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quays
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blurt
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bulge
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thigh
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wrung
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yearning
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| a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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nostrils
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dilated
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intoxicating
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injustice
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aspirations
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penetrating
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bulged
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sleepers
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scrambled
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bass
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bulging
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distress
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hitched
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| 踩( trample的现在分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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