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Danger Signals: the Challenge
These two years 1893–4 saw Oscar Wilde at the very zenith of success. Thackeray, who always felt himself a monetary1 failure in comparison with Dickens, calls success “one of the greatest of a great man’s qualities,” and Oscar was not successful merely, he was triumphant3. Not Sheridan the day after his marriage, not Byron when he awoke to find himself famous, ever reached such a pinnacle4. His plays were bringing in so much that he could spend money like water; he had won every sort of popularity; the gross applause of the many, and the finer incense5 of the few who constitute the jury of Fame; his personal popularity too was extraordinary; thousands admired him, many liked him; he seemed to have everything that heart could desire and perfect health to boot. Even his home life was without a cloud. Two stories which he told at this time paint him. One was about his two boys, Vyvyan and Cyril.
“Children are sometimes interesting,” he began. “The other night I was reading when my wife came and asked me to go upstairs and reprove the elder boy: Cyril, it appeared, would not say his prayers. He had quarrelled with Vyvyan, and beaten him, and when he was shaken and told he must say his prayers, he would not kneel down, or ask God to make him a good boy. Of course I had to go upstairs and see to it. I took the chubby6 little fellow on my knee, and told him in a grave way that he had been very naughty; naughty to hit his younger brother, and naughty because he had given his mother pain. He must kneel down at once, and ask God to forgive him and make him a good boy.
“‘I was not naughty,’ he pouted7, ‘it was Vyvyan; he was naughty.’
“I explained to him that his temper was naughty, and that he must do as he was told. With a little sigh he slipped off my knee, and knelt down and put his little hands together, as he had been taught, and began ‘Our Father.’ When he had finished the ‘Lord’s Prayer,’ he looked up at me and said gravely, ‘Now I’ll pray to myself.’
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monetary
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adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的 | |
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slander
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likeness
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hatred
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pompously
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寄生物( parasite的名词复数 ); 靠他人为生的人; 诸虫 | |
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chameleon
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n.变色龙,蜥蜴;善变之人 | |
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Oxford
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condemnation
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n.谴责; 定罪 | |
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vice
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shameful
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adj.可耻的,不道德的 | |
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hysterical
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adj.情绪异常激动的,歇斯底里般的 | |
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vt.使不可置信;n.丧失信义;不信,怀疑 | |
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secondly
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intimacy
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a.正当的,有理的 | |
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blackmail
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penal
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