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The Party Chapter 1
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AFTER the festive1 dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband’s name-day was being celebrated2, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly3, the clatter4 of the crockery, the stupidity of the servants, the long intervals5 between the courses, and the stays she had put on to conceal6 her condition from the visitors, wearied her to exhaustion7. She longed to get away from the house, to sit in the shade and rest her heart with thoughts of the baby which was to be born to her in another two months. She was used to these thoughts coming to her as she turned to the left out of the big avenue into the narrow path. Here in the thick shade of the plums and cherry-trees the dry branches used to scratch her neck and shoulders; a spider’s web would settle on her face, and there would rise up in her mind the image of a little creature of undetermined sex and undefined features, and it began to seem as though it were not the spider’s web that tickled8 her face and neck caressingly9, but that little creature. When, at the end of the path, a thin wicker hurdle10 came into sight, and behind it podgy beehives with tiled roofs; when in the motionless, stagnant11 air there came a smell of hay and honey, and a soft buzzing of bees was audible, then the little creature would take complete possession of Olga Mihalovna. She used to sit down on a bench near the
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festive
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| adj.欢宴的,节日的 | |
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celebrated
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| adj.有名的,声誉卓著的 | |
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clatter
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intervals
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| 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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conceal
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exhaustion
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caressingly
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hurdle
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shanty
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deserted
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stifling
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melancholy
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scent
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monotonous
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bent
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stuffiness
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delightful
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cosy
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chatter
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antagonisms
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reactionary
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disapproval
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touching
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fungus
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tavern
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mutual
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breach
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rascal
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triumphantly
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irony
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grumbling
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harassed
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depressed
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| adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的 | |
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panes
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poetical
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mowing
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scythes
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| n.(长柄)大镰刀( scythe的名词复数 )v.(长柄)大镰刀( scythe的第三人称单数 ) | |
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rustic
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filthy
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fiddle
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tambourines
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shrieked
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softened
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| (使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰 | |
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solitude
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| n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方 | |
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| (使)败坏( corrupt的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)腐化; 引起(计算机文件等的)错误; 破坏 | |
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aloof
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formulate
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jealousy
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admiration
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flirting
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prerogatives
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magistrate
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replete
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ironical
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prospect
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dignified
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hatred
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digestion
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tunic
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grandeur
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pricked
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| 刺,扎,戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 ); 刺伤; 刺痛; 使剧痛 | |
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sarcastic
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annihilating
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eloquent
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