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Chapter the Fourth The End of Quarantine Crag
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Section 1
Mr. Barnstaple awoke slowly and reluctantly from a dream about cookery. He was Soyer, the celebrated1 chef of the Reform Club, and he was inventing and tasting new dishes. But in the pleasant way of dreamland he was not only Soyer, but at the same time he was a very clever Utopian biologist and also God Almighty2. So that he could not only make new dishes, but also make new vegetables and meats to go into them. He was particularly interested in a new sort of fowl3, the Chateaubriand breed of fowls4, which was to combine the rich quality of very good beefsteak with the size and delicacy5 of a fowl’s breast. And he wanted to stuff it with a blend of pimento, onion and mushroom — except that the mushroom wasn’t quite the thing. The mushrooms — he tasted them — indeed just the least little modification6. And into the dream came an assistant cook, several assistant cooks, all naked as Utopians, bearing fowls from the pantry and saying that they had not kept, they had gone “high” and they were going higher. In order to illustrate7 this idea of their going higher these assistant cooks lifted the fowls above their heads and then began to climb the walls of the kitchen, which were rocky and for a kitchen remarkably8 close together. Their figures became dark. They were thrown up in black outline against the luminous9 steam arising from a cauldron of boiling soup. It was boiling soup, and yet it was cold soup and cold steam.
Mr. Barnstaple was awake.
In the place of luminous steam there was mist, brightly moonlit mist, filling the gorge
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1 celebrated | |
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的 | |
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2 almighty | |
adj.全能的,万能的;很大的,很强的 | |
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3 fowl | |
n.家禽,鸡,禽肉 | |
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4 fowls | |
鸟( fowl的名词复数 ); 禽肉; 既不是这; 非驴非马 | |
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5 delicacy | |
n.精致,细微,微妙,精良;美味,佳肴 | |
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6 modification | |
n.修改,改进,缓和,减轻 | |
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7 illustrate | |
v.举例说明,阐明;图解,加插图 | |
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8 remarkably | |
ad.不同寻常地,相当地 | |
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9 luminous | |
adj.发光的,发亮的;光明的;明白易懂的;有启发的 | |
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10 gorge | |
n.咽喉,胃,暴食,山峡;v.塞饱,狼吞虎咽地吃 | |
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11 silhouette | |
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12 rigid | |
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13 rigidly | |
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14 attentive | |
adj.注意的,专心的;关心(别人)的,殷勤的 | |
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15 unaware | |
a.不知道的,未意识到的 | |
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16 fixed | |
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的 | |
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17 agitated | |
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18 dangling | |
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19 taut | |
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20 dangled | |
悬吊着( dangle的过去式和过去分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口 | |
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21 metallic | |
adj.金属的;金属制的;含金属的;产金属的;像金属的 | |
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22 intermittent | |
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23 apparently | |
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎 | |
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24 serpentine | |
adj.蜿蜒的,弯曲的 | |
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25 spike | |
n.长钉,钉鞋;v.以大钉钉牢,使...失效 | |
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26 interval | |
n.间隔,间距;幕间休息,中场休息 | |
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27 intervals | |
n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 );间隔时间;[数学]区间;(戏剧、电影或音乐会的)幕间休息 | |
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28 descend | |
vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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29 proximity | |
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30 dreary | |
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31 ledge | |
n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁 | |
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32 backwards | |
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地 | |
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33 gulf | |
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂 | |
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34 canyon | |
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35 plumb | |
adv.精确地,完全地;v.了解意义,测水深 | |
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36 chafed | |
v.擦热(尤指皮肤)( chafe的过去式 );擦痛;发怒;惹怒 | |
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37 tighten | |
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38 descending | |
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39 steadily | |
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40 motive | |
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41 momentary | |
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42 writhing | |
(因极度痛苦而)扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 ) | |
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43 colossal | |
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44 obliquely | |
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45 throbbing | |
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46 noted | |
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47 smoothly | |
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48 standing | |
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49 exhausted | |
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50 relinquish | |
v.放弃,撤回,让与,放手 | |
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51 wriggling | |
v.扭动,蠕动,蜿蜒行进( wriggle的现在分词 );(使身体某一部位)扭动;耍滑不做,逃避(应做的事等);蠕蠕 | |
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52 vein | |
n.血管,静脉;叶脉,纹理;情绪;vt.使成脉络 | |
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53 ascending | |
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54 torrent | |
n.激流,洪流;爆发,(话语等的)连发 | |
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55 illuminated | |
adj.被照明的;受启迪的 | |
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56 squatted | |
v.像动物一样蹲下( squat的过去式和过去分词 );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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57 squat | |
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58 dozed | |
v.打盹儿,打瞌睡( doze的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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59 perfectly | |
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60 trolley | |
n.手推车,台车;无轨电车;有轨电车 | |
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61 trolleys | |
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62 promptly | |
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63 swoop | |
n.俯冲,攫取;v.抓取,突然袭击 | |
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64 relinquished | |
交出,让给( relinquish的过去式和过去分词 ); 放弃 | |
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65 prow | |
n.(飞机)机头,船头 | |
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66 canyons | |
n.峡谷( canyon的名词复数 ) | |
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67 crest | |
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68 streaks | |
n.(与周围有所不同的)条纹( streak的名词复数 );(通常指不好的)特征(倾向);(不断经历成功或失败的)一段时期v.快速移动( streak的第三人称单数 );使布满条纹 | |
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69 swirled | |
v.旋转,打旋( swirl的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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70 smote | |
v.猛打,重击,打击( smite的过去式 ) | |
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71 peculiar | |
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72 gorges | |
n.山峡,峡谷( gorge的名词复数 );咽喉v.(用食物把自己)塞饱,填饱( gorge的第三人称单数 );作呕 | |
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73 vertical | |
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74 flattened | |
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75 savage | |
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76 simultaneously | |
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77 saluted | |
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78 crumple | |
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79 clatter | |
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80 animated | |
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81 awakened | |
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82 abruptly | |
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83 eddy | |
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84 blessings | |
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85 warfare | |
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86 intensity | |
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87 Flared | |
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88 enveloped | |
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89 deafening | |
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90 bruised | |
[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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91 stunned | |
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92 truncated | |
adj.切去顶端的,缩短了的,被删节的v.截面的( truncate的过去式和过去分词 );截头的;缩短了的;截去顶端或末端 | |
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93 neatly | |
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94 fatigue | |
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95 exhaustion | |
n.耗尽枯竭,疲惫,筋疲力尽,竭尽,详尽无遗的论述 | |
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96 sprawled | |
v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词);蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着) | |
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