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After entering at break of day the inner roadstead of the Port of Toulon, exchanging several loud hails with one of the guardboats of the Fleet, which directed him where he was to take up his berth1, Master-Gunner Peyrol let go the anchor of the sea-worn and battered2 ship in his charge, between the arsenal3 and the town, in full view of the principal quay4. The course of his life, which in the opinion of any ordinary person might have been regarded as full of marvellous incidents (only he himself had never marvelled5 at them), had rendered him undemonstrative to such a degree that he did not even let out a sigh of relief at the rumble6 of the cable. And yet it ended a most anxious six months of knocking about at sea with valuable merchandise in a damaged hull7, most of the time on short rations8, always on the lookout9 for English cruisers, once or twice on the verge10 of shipwreck11 and more than once on the verge of capture. But as to that, old Peyrol had made up his mind from the first to blow up his valuable charge — unemotionally, for such was his character, formed under the sun of the Indian Seas in lawless contests with his kind for a little loot that vanished as soon as grasped, but mainly for bare life almost as precarious12 to hold through its ups and downs, and which now had lasted for fifty-eight years.
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n.卧铺,停泊地,锚位;v.使停泊 | |
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n.兵工厂,军械库 | |
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v.惊奇,对…感到惊奇( marvel的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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定量( ration的名词复数 ); 配给量; 正常量; 合理的量 | |
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shipwreck
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n.船舶失事,海难 | |
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precarious
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followers
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cape
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Mediterranean
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repose
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patriots
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brotherhood
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belongings
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seaman
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indigo
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slaughter
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intelligibly
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cult
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supreme
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lawful
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adj.法律许可的,守法的,合法的 | |
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adv.含糊地,暖昧地 | |
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rustic
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authoritative
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misery
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placidity
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resentment
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magisterial
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