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Anxiety
Poli placed the breakfast on the table, keeping one eye on the table news-recorder which quietly disgorged the bulletins of the day. It could be done easily enough without loss of efficiency, this one-eye-absent business. Since all items of food were sterilely1 packed in containers which served as discardable cooking units, her duties vis-a-vis breakfast consisted of nothing more than choosing the menu, placing the items on the table, and removing the residue2 thereafter.
She clacked her tongue at what she saw and moaned softly in retrospect3.
"Oh, people are so wicked," she said, and Darell merely hemmed4 in reply.
Her voice took on the high-pitched rasp which she automatically assumed when about to bewail the evil of the world. "Now why do these terrible Kalganese" ?she accented the second syIlable and gave it a long "a" ?"do like that? You'd think they'd give a body peace. But no, it's just trouble, trouble, all the time.
"Now look at that headline: 'Mobs Riot Before Foundation Consulate5.?Oh, would I like to give them a piece of my mind, if I could. That's the trouble with people; they just don't remember. They just don't remember, Dr. Darell ?got no memory at all. Look at the last war after the Mule6 died ?of course I was just a little girl then ?and oh, the fuss and trouble. My own uncle was killed, him being just in his twenties and only two years married, with a baby girl. I remember him even yet ?blond hair he had, and a dimple in his chin. I have a trimensional cube of him somewheres?
"And now his baby girl has a son of her own in the navy and most like if anything happens?
"And we had the bombardment patrols, and all the old men taking turns in the stratospheric defense7 ?I could imagine what they would have been able to do if the Kalganese had come that far. My mother used to tell us children about the food
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不毛的,贫瘠的; 不生育的; 无菌的; 无效果的 | |
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缝…的褶边( hem的过去式和过去分词 ); 包围 | |
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glut
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a.沉思的,冥想的 | |
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vi.急匆匆地走;使急赶;催促;n.快步急跑,疾走;仓皇奔跑声;骤雨,骤雪;短距离赛马 | |
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frantic
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taut
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pointed
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luxurious
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