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'It all begins, as I've told you, with the man called Brown,' ran the opening sentence of Marlow's narrative1. 'You who have knocked about the Western Pacific must have heard of him. He was the show ruffian on the Australian coast -- not that he was often to be seen there, but because he was always trotted2 out in the stones of lawless life a visitor from home is treated to; and the mildest of these stories which were told about him from Cape3 York to Eden Bay was more than enough to hang a man if told in the right place. They never failed to let you know, too, that he was supposed to be the son of a baronet. Be it as it may, it is certain he had deserted4 from a home ship in the early gold-digging days, and in a few years became talked about as the terror of this or that group of islands in Polynesia. He would kidnap natives, he would strip some lonely white trader to the very pyjamas5 he stood in, and after he had robbed the poor devil, he would as likely as not invite him to fight a duel6 with shot-guns on the beach -- which would have been fair enough as these things go, if the other man hadn't been by that time already half-dead with fright. Brown was a latter-day buccaneer, sorry enough, like his more celebrated7 prototypes; but what distinguished8 him from his contemporary brother ruffians, like Bully9 Hayes or the mellifluous10 Pease, or that perfumed, Dundrearywhiskered, dandified scoundrel known as Dirty Dick, was the arrogant11
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arrogant
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commissioners
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treasurer
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blackmailing
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imprisonment
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investigation
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contrived
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contented
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| 含糊地说某事,叽咕,咕哝( mumble的现在分词 ) | |
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ammunition
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bland
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spawn
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gallows
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draught
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plausible
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misty
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drenched
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rusty
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loomed
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loom
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| (wide area network)广域网 | |
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| 使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 ); 歜; 激愤 | |
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cargo
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assorted
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oars
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creek
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conflagration
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