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'I was immensely touched: her youth, her ignorance, her pretty beauty, which had the simple charm and the delicate vigour1 of a wild flower, her pathetic pleading, her helplessness, appealed to me with almost the strength of her own unreasonable2 and natural fear. She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely3 vast. I stood for it, for myself, for you fellows, for all the world that neither cared for Jim nor needed him in the least. I would have been ready enough to answer for the indifference4 of the teeming5 earth but for the reflection that he too belonged to this mysterious unknown of her fears, and that, however much I stood for, I did not stand for him. This made me hesitate. A murmur6 of hopeless pain unsealed my lips. I began by protesting that I at least had come with no intention to take Jim away.
'Why did I come, then? After a slight movement she was as still as a marble statue in the night. I tried to explain briefly7: friendship, business; if I had any wish in the matter it was rather to see him stay.... "They always leave us," she murmured. The breath of sad wisdom from the grave which her piety8 wreathed with flowers seemed to pass in a faint sigh.... Nothing, I said, could separate Jim from her.
'It is my firm conviction now; it was my conviction at the time; it was the only possible conclusion from the facts of the case. It was not made more certain by her whispering in a tone in which one speaks to oneself, "He swore this to me." "Did you ask him?" I said.
'She made a step nearer. "No. Never!" She had asked him only to go away. It was that night on the river-bank, after he had killed the man -- after she had flung the torch in the water because he was looking at her so. There was too much light, and the danger was over then -- for a little time -- for a little time. He said then he would not abandon her to Cornelius. She had insisted. She wanted him to leave her. He said that he could not -- that it was impossible. He trembled while he said this. She had felt him tremble.... One does not require much imagination to see the scene, almost to hear their whispers. She was afraid for him too. I believe that then she saw in him only a predestined victim of dangers which she understood better than himself. Though by nothing but his
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vigour
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infinitely
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indifference
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extenuation
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| 同意(concur的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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honourable
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| 凄惨地; 绝望地; 糟透地; 悲惨地 | |
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grovelled
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hovering
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insignificant
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discreet
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incapable
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knight
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maiden
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| 誓言( vow的名词复数 ); 郑重宣布,许愿 | |
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| 恳求,乞求( entreat的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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passionately
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obliterating
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landmarks
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| vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧 | |
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moribund
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imperturbable
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disorder
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craving
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incertitude
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monstrous
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perverse
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meditative
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awe
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shrill
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isolated
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wring
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wringing
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| 淋湿的,湿透的 | |
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supplicating
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calamity
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slumbers
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| 睡眠,安眠( slumber的名词复数 ) | |
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seduced
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apparition
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| n.幽灵,神奇的现象 | |
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evoked
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vouch
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dwellers
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futile
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spurned
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benighted
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tragic
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chafed
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distress
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soothe
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frail
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tormenting
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spectral
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enchanted
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courageous
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animated
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inexplicable
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irresistible
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detailed
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tussle
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infinity
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scathing
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sobbing
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