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Chapter Four
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Willems moved languidly towards the river, then retraced1 his steps to the tree and let himself fall on the seat under its shade. On the other side of the immense trunk he could hear the old woman moving about, sighing loudly, muttering to herself, snapping dry sticks, blowing up the fire. After a while a whiff of smoke drifted round to where he sat. It made him feel hungry, and that feeling was like a new indignity2 added to an intolerable load of humiliations. He felt inclined to cry. He felt very weak. He held up his arm before his eyes and watched for a little while the trembling of the lean limb. Skin and bone, by God! How thin he was! . . . He had suffered from fever a good deal, and now he thought with tearful dismay that Lingard, although he had sent him food — and what food, great Lord: a little rice and dried fish; quite unfit for a white man — had not sent him any medicine. Did the old savage3 think that he was like the wild beasts that are never ill? He wanted quinine.
He leaned the back of his head against the tree and closed his eyes. He thought feebly that if he could get hold of Lingard he would like to flay4 him alive; but it was only a blurred5, a short and a passing thought. His imagination, exhausted6 by the repeated delineations of his own fate, had not enough strength left to grip the idea of revenge. He was not indignant and rebellious7. He was cowed. He was cowed by the immense cataclysm8 of his disaster. Like most men, he had carried solemnly within his breast the whole universe, and the approaching end of all things in the destruction of his own personality filled him with paralyzing awe9. Everything was toppling over. He blinked his eyes quickly, and it seemed to him that the very sunshine of the morning disclosed in its brightness a suggestion of some hidden and
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corpse
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acquiescence
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| 哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说 | |
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darted
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lawful
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stunning
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| adj.可理解的,明白易懂的,清楚的 | |
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ambush
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solitude
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sobbing
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toils
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| 恳求,乞求( entreat的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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monotonous
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turmoil
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hatred
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squatting
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weird
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faculties
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repugnance
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cartridges
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defiance
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folly
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caressing
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festive
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expedients
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