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Citizen Peyrol stayed at the inn-yard gate till the night had swallowed up all those features of the land to which his eyes had clung as long as the last gleams of daylight. And even after the last gleams had gone he had remained for some time staring into the darkness in which all he could distinguish was the white road at his feet and the black heads of pines where the cart track dipped towards the coast. He did not go indoors till some carters who had been refreshing1 themselves had departed with their big two-wheeled carts piled up high with empty wine-casks, in the direction of Fréjus. The fact that they did not remain for the night pleased Peyrol. He ate his bit of supper alone, in silence, and with a gravity which intimidated2 the old woman who had aroused in him the memory of his mother. Having finished his pipe and obtained a bit of candle in a tin candle-stick, Citizen Peyrol went heavily upstairs to rejoin his luggage. The crazy staircase shook and groaned3 under his feet as though he had been carrying a burden. The first thing he did was to close the shutters4 most carefully as though he had been afraid of a breath of night air. Next he bolted the door of the room. Then sitting on the floor, with the candlestick standing6 before him between his widely straddled legs, he began to undress, flinging off his coat and dragging his shirt hastily over his head. The secret of his heavy movements was disclosed then in the fact that he had been wearing next his bare skin — like a pious7 penitent8 his hair-shirt — a sort of waistcoat made of two thicknesses of old sail-cloth and stitched all over in the manner of a quilt with tarred twine9. Three horn buttons closed it in front. He undid10
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adj.使精神振作的,使人清爽的,使人喜欢的 | |
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v.恐吓;威胁adj.害怕的;受到威胁的 | |
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v.搓,织,编饰;(使)缠绕 | |
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v. 解开, 复原 | |
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sagging
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下垂[沉,陷],松垂,垂度 | |
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adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地 | |
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pelt
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athletic
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stolidity
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ribs
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n.泻湖,咸水湖 | |
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lagoons
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n.污水池( lagoon的名词复数 );潟湖;(大湖或江河附近的)小而浅的淡水湖;温泉形成的池塘 | |
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adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带 | |
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adj.爱冒险的;惊心动魄的,惊险的,刺激的 | |
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seaman
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meditation
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n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处) | |
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intimacies
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亲密( intimacy的名词复数 ); 密切; 亲昵的言行; 性行为 | |
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promiscuous
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mule
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elevation
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strands
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n.(线、绳、金属线、毛发等的)股( strand的名词复数 );缕;海洋、湖或河的)岸;(观点、计划、故事等的)部份v.使滞留,使搁浅( strand的第三人称单数 ) | |
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scanty
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crooked
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adj.弯曲的;不诚实的,狡猾的,不正当的 | |
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ragged
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foliage
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v.(使)改变方向,改变目的( swerve的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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contemplating
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深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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reluctance
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destitute
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backbone
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n.脊骨,脊柱,骨干;刚毅,骨气 | |
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dismal
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adj.阴沉的,凄凉的,令人忧郁的,差劲的 | |
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fidelity
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n.忠诚,忠实;精确 | |
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calves
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n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子,腓;腿肚子( calf的名词复数 );牛犊;腓;小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 );(冰川)崩解;生(小牛等),产(犊);使(冰川)崩解 | |
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dangling
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悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口 | |
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pointed
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lodge
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refreshment
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n.爱国者,爱国主义者 | |
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n.贵族,有贵族气派的人,上层人物 | |
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(基督教某些教派管辖大教区的)主教( bishop的名词复数 ); (国际象棋的)象 | |
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爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 ) | |
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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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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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