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There was not a word to be said. The echoes of the blast rolled away into the outer rooms and rumbled1 downward into a hoarse2, dying whisper. Before its death, it had muffled3 the sharp clamor of Bayta's falling blaster, smothered4 Magnifico's high-pitched cry, drowned out Toran's inarticulate roar.
There was a silence of agony.
Bayta's head was bent5 into obscurity. A droplet6 caught the light as it fell. Bayta had never wept since her childhood.
Toran's muscles almost cracked in their spasm7, but he did not relax ?he felt as if he would never unclench his teeth again. Magnifico's face was a faded, lifeless mask.
Finally, from between teeth still tight, Toran choked out in an unrecognizable voice, "You're a Mule8's woman, then. He got to you!"
Bayta looked up, and her mouth twisted with a painful merriment, "I, a Mule's woman? That's ironic9."
She smiled ?a brittle10 effort ?and tossed her hair back. Slowly, her voice verged11 back to the normal, or something near it. "It's over, Toran; I can talk now. How much I will survive, I don't know. But I can start talking?
Toran's tension had broken of its own weight and faded into a flaccid dullness, "Talk about what, Bay? What's there to talk about?"
"About the calamity
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发出隆隆声,发出辘辘声( rumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 轰鸣着缓慢行进; 发现…的真相; 看穿(阴谋) | |
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(使)窒息, (使)透不过气( smother的过去式和过去分词 ); 覆盖; 忍住; 抑制 | |
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mutation
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hatred
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investigation
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industrialist
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outrage
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lieutenant
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lesser
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