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Feeling good from the rosy1 wine at lunch, Nicole Diver folded her arms high enough for the artificial camellia on her shoulder to touch her cheek, and went out into her lovely grassless garden. The garden was bounded on one side by the house, from which it flowed and into which it ran, on two sides by the old village, and on the last by the cliff falling by ledges3 to the sea.
Along the walls on the village side all was dusty, the wriggling5 vines, the lemon and eucalyptus6 trees, the casual wheel-barrow, left only a moment since, but already grown into the path, atrophied7 and faintly rotten. Nicole was invariably somewhat surprised that by turning in the other direction past a bed of peonies she walked into an area so green and cool that the leaves and petals8 were curled with tender damp.
Knotted at her throat she wore a lilac scarf that even in the achromatic sunshine cast its color up to her face and down around her moving feet in a lilac shadow. Her face was hard, almost stern, save for the soft gleam of piteous doubt that looked from her green eyes. Her once fair hair had darkened, but she was lovelier now at twenty-four than she had been at eighteen, when her hair was brighter than she.
Following a walk marked by an intangible mist of bloom that followed the white border stones she came to a space overlooking the sea where there were lanterns asleep in the fig9 trees and a big table and wicker chairs and a great market umbrella from Sienna, all gathered about an enormous pine, the biggest tree in the garden. She paused there a moment, looking absently at a growth of nasturtiums and iris10 tangled11 at its foot, as though sprung from a careless handful of seeds, listening to the plaints and
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adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的 | |
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n.别墅,城郊小屋 | |
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n.(墙壁,悬崖等)突出的狭长部分( ledge的名词复数 );(平窄的)壁架;横档;(尤指)窗台 | |
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n.壁架,架状突出物;岩架,岩礁 | |
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v.扭动,蠕动,蜿蜒行进( wriggle的现在分词 );(使身体某一部位)扭动;耍滑不做,逃避(应做的事等);蠕蠕 | |
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n.桉树,桉属植物 | |
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feverishly
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prospective
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medley
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insolent
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descending
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n. 下行 adj. 下降的 | |
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Mediterranean
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exterior
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v.轻视,小看,贬低 | |
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inevitably
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adv.不可避免地;必然发生地 | |
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n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的 | |
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n.精湛技巧 | |
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adv.经常出现地;长期地;持久地;永久地 | |
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n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧 | |
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carnivals
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狂欢节( carnival的名词复数 ); 嘉年华会; 激动人心的事物的组合; 五彩缤纷的颜色组合 | |
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massacre
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n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀 | |
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adj.无个人感情的,与个人无关的,非人称的 | |
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lust
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exquisite
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vt.使凋谢,使衰退,(用眼神气势等)使畏缩;vi.枯萎,衰退,消亡 | |
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v.捐助( subscribe的过去式和过去分词 );签署,题词;订阅;同意 | |
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vi./n.闪烁,摇曳,闪现 | |
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promisingly
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(通常只是开头)给人以希望地,良好地 | |
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cape
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n.海角,岬;披肩,短披风 | |
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reassurance
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n.使放心,使消除疑虑 | |
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transpired
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(事实,秘密等)被人知道( transpire的过去式和过去分词 ); 泄露; 显露; 发生 | |
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apparition
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n.幽灵,神奇的现象 | |
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perversity
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n.任性;刚愎自用 | |
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cork
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n.软木,软木塞 | |
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v.逐渐远离( recede的过去式和过去分词 );向后倾斜;自原处后退或避开别人的注视;尤指问题 | |
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n.不断地挑剔或批评(某人)( nag的名词复数 );不断地烦扰或伤害(某人);无休止地抱怨;不断指责v.不断地挑剔或批评(某人)( nag的第三人称单数 );不断地烦扰或伤害(某人);无休止地抱怨;不断指责 | |
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mildew
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n.发霉;v.(使)发霉 | |
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speck
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n.微粒,小污点,小斑点 | |
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blight
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n.枯萎病;造成破坏的因素;vt.破坏,摧残 | |
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pointed
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forefinger
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conceal
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v.隐藏,隐瞒,隐蔽 | |
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paternal
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adj.父亲的,像父亲的,父系的,父方的 | |
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cocktail
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n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物 | |
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spoke
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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shrill
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plume
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aglow
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memorable
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deference
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divers
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stiffened
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repelled
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v.击退( repel的过去式和过去分词 );使厌恶;排斥;推开 | |
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adoration
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confiding
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adj.相信人的,易于相信的v.吐露(秘密,心事等)( confide的现在分词 );(向某人)吐露(隐私、秘密等) | |
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intermittently
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