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Full Circle I
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GEOFFREY BETTON woke rather late — so late that the winter sunlight sliding across his warm red carpet struck his eyes as he turned on the pillow.
Strett, the valet, had been in, drawn1 the bath in the adjoining dressing-room, placed the crystal and silver cigarette-box at his side, put a match to the fire, and thrown open the windows to the bright morning air. It brought in, on the glitter of sun, all the shrill2 crisp morning noises — those piercing notes of the American thoroughfare that seem to take a sharper vibration3 from the clearness of the medium through which they pass.
Betton raised himself languidly. That was the voice of Fifth Avenue below his windows. He remembered that when he moved into his rooms eighteen months before, the sound had been like music to him: the complex orchestration to which the tune4 of his new life was set. Now it filled him with horror and weariness, since it had become the symbol of the hurry and noise of that new life. He had been far less hurried in the old days when he had to be up by seven, and down at the office sharp at nine. Now that he got up when he chose, and his life had no fixed5 framework of duties, the hours hunted him like a pack of blood-hounds.
He dropped back on his pillows with a groan6. Yes — not a year ago there had been a positively7 sensuous8 joy in getting out of bed, feeling under his bare feet the softness of the sunlit carpet, and entering the shining tiled sanctuary9 where his great porcelain10 bath
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drawn
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v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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vibration
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n.颤动,振动;摆动 | |
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tune
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vi./n.呻吟,抱怨;(发出)呻吟般的声音 | |
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adv.明确地,断然,坚决地;实在,确实 | |
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adj.激发美感的;感官的,感觉上的 | |
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sanctuary
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n.圣所,圣堂,寺庙;禁猎区,保护区 | |
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porcelain
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n.瓷;adj.瓷的,瓷制的 | |
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proffered
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renovating
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翻新,修复,整修( renovate的现在分词 ) | |
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communal
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plunge
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lodgings
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dodging
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shrouded
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v.隐瞒( shroud的过去式和过去分词 );保密 | |
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blotchy
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promiscuous
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implements
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n.工具( implement的名词复数 );家具;手段;[法律]履行(契约等)v.实现( implement的第三人称单数 );执行;贯彻;使生效 | |
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refreshment
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inane
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condemnation
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broth
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n.原(汁)汤(鱼汤、肉汤、菜汤等) | |
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sediment
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gush
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incorrigible
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publicity
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v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要 | |
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preposterous
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orphans
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孤儿( orphan的名词复数 ) | |
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v.消毒( sterilize的过去式和过去分词 );使无菌;使失去生育能力;使绝育 | |
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bazaars
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(东方国家的)市场( bazaar的名词复数 ); 义卖; 义卖市场; (出售花哨商品等的)小商品市场 | |
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Buddhism
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regaining
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复得( regain的现在分词 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地 | |
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folly
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n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话 | |
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incentives
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激励某人做某事的事物( incentive的名词复数 ); 刺激; 诱因; 动机 | |
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perpetuate
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calligraphy
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vaguely
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exclamation
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watchful
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chronic
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riveted
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passionate
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guild
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afterward
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vowed
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起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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desperately
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rummaging
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翻找,搜寻( rummage的现在分词 ); 海关检查 | |
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gathering
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n.集会,聚会,聚集 | |
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feverish
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disorder
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hauteur
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remarkable
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delicacy
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truculence
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hospitable
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luxuriously
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maple
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perfectly
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advertising
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aspire
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hack
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embarrassment
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sketched
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obligatory
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deluge
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spoke
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awfully
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打听( enquire的过去式和过去分词 ); 询问; 问问题; 查问 | |
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heartiness
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诚实,热心 | |
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