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'But next morning, at the first bend of the river shutting off the houses of Patusan, all this dropped out of my sight bodily, with its colour, its design, and its meaning, like a picture created by fancy on a canvas, upon which, after long contemplation, you turn your back for the last time. It remains1 in the memory motionless, unfaded, with its life arrested, in an unchanging light. There are the ambitions, the fears, the hate, the hopes, and they remain in my mind just as I had seen them -- intense and as if for ever suspended in their expression. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers2, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones . I wasn't going to dive into it; I would have enough to do to keep my head above the surface. But as to what I was leaving behind, I cannot imagine any alteration3. The immense and magnanimous Doramin and his little motherly witch of a wife, gazing together upon the land and nursing secretly their dreams of parental4 ambition; Tunku Allang, wizened5 and gready perplexed6; Dain Waris, intelligent und brave, with his faith in Jim, with his firm glance und his ironic7 friendliness8; the girl, absorbed in her frightened, suspicious adoration10; Tumb' Itam, surly and faithful; Cornelius, leaning his forehead against the fence under the moonlight -- I am certain of them. They exist as if under un enchanter's wand. But the figure round which all these are grouped -- that one lives, and I am not certain of him. No magician's wand can immobilise him under my eyes. He is one of us.
'Jim, as I've told you, accompanied me on the first stage of my journey back to the world he had
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| n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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flickers
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| 电影制片业; (通常指灯光)闪烁,摇曳( flicker的名词复数 ) | |
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alteration
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| n.变更,改变;蚀变 | |
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parental
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| adj.父母的;父的;母的 | |
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wizened
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| adj.凋谢的;枯槁的 | |
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perplexed
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ironic
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friendliness
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orb
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adoration
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renounced
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wilderness
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| n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠 | |
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dense
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| a.密集的,稠密的,浓密的;密度大的 | |
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impending
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spoke
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stagnant
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murmur
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| v.包围,笼罩,包住( envelop的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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ridge
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revelled
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| v.作乐( revel的过去式和过去分词 );狂欢;着迷;陶醉 | |
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cramped
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elation
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tilt
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estuary
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hovered
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| 鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫 | |
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inverted
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miserable
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lank
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pointed
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colossal
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dwarfs
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isolated
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| adv.喜怒无常地;情绪多变地;心情不稳地;易生气地 | |
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| v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的现在分词 );非法擅自占用(土地或房屋);为获得其所有权;而占用某片公共用地。 | |
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humbled
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gratitude
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insignificant
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| adj.无关紧要的,可忽略的,无意义的 | |
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crimson
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| n./adj.深(绯)红色(的);vi.脸变绯红色 | |
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fiery
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schooner
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oars
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rosy
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tinge
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twilight
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infinitely
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slaty
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| 石板一样的,石板色的 | |
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trifling
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| adj.微不足道的;没什么价值的 | |
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pertinacity
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persistently
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enigma
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| n.谜,谜一样的人或事 | |
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ebbing
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| (指潮水)退( ebb的现在分词 ); 落; 减少; 衰落 | |
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