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I found two of my old schoolfellows with him. They seemed to be discussing an important matter. All of them took scarcely any notice of my entrance, which was strange, for I had not met them for years. Evidently they looked upon me as something on the level of a common fly. I had not been treated like that even at school, though they all hated me. I knew, of course, that they must despise me now for my lack of success in the service, and for my having let myself sink so low, going about badly dressed and so on — which seemed to them a sign of my incapacity and insignificance1. But I had not expected such contempt. Simonov was positively2 surprised at my turning up. Even in old days he had always seemed surprised at my coming. All this disconcerted me: I sat down, feeling rather miserable3, and began listening to what they were saying.
They were engaged in warm and earnest conversation about a farewell dinner which they wanted to arrange for the next day to a comrade of theirs called Zverkov, an officer in the army, who was going away to a distant province. This Zverkov had been all the time at school with me too. I had begun to hate him particularly in the upper forms. In the lower forms he had simply been a pretty, playful boy whom everybody liked. I had hated him, however, even in the lower forms, just because he was a pretty and playful boy. He was always bad at his lessons and got worse and worse as he went on; however, he left with a good certificate, as he had powerful interests. During his last year at school he came in for an estate of two hundred serfs, and as almost all of us were poor he took up a swaggering tone among us. He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering. In spite of superficial, fantastic and sham4 notions of honour and dignity, all but very few of us positively grovelled5 before Zverkov, and the more so the more he swaggered. And it was not from any interested motive6 that they grovelled, but simply because he had been favoured by the gifts of nature. Moreover, it was, as it were, an accepted idea among us that Zverkov was a specialist in regard to
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n.不重要;无价值;无意义 | |
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duels
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rabble
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compassion
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malice
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lieutenant
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privately
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promotion
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inviting
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conceitedly
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delicacy
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graceful
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crimson
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truthful
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possessed
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hideous
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savage
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嘲弄的言语,嘲笑,奚落( taunt的名词复数 ) | |
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cynically
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repulsive
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morosely
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nausea
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shamefully
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可耻地; 丢脸地; 不体面地; 羞耻地 | |
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adj.温暖舒适的,合身的,安全的;v.使整洁干净,舒适地依靠,紧贴;n.(英)酒吧里的私房 | |
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conceal
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humiliation
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sarcastic
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hostility
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passionate
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radical
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abjectness
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凄惨; 绝望; 卑鄙; 卑劣 | |
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