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CHAPTER XXXIX.
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"It certainly must have been made a hundred years after the rest of the world," said Mr. Etheridge. "Where on earth did you hear of it, Jasper?"
They were standing1, the painter, Jasper, and Stella, on the little stretch of beach that fronted the tiny village of Carlyon, with its cluster of rough-stone cottages and weather-beaten church, the whole nestling under the shadow of the Cornish cliffs that kept the east winds at bay and offered a stern face to the wild seas which so often roared and raged at its base.
Jasper smiled.
"I can't exactly say, sir," he answered. "I met with it by chance, and it seemed to me just the place for our young invalid2. You like it, Stella, I hope?" and he turned to Stella with a softened3 smile.
Stella was leaning on the old man's arm, looking out to sea, with a far-away expression in her dark eyes.
"Yes," she said, quietly; "I like it."
"Stella likes any place that is far from the madding crowd," remarked Mr. Etheridge, gazing at her affectionately. "You don't appear to have got back your roses yet, my child, however."
"I am quite well," she said, not so wearily as indifferently. "I am always well. It is Frank who is ill, you know, uncle."
"Ay, ay," he said, with the expression of gravity which always came upon him when the boy was mentioned. "He looks very pale and thin, poor boy."
Stella sighed, but Jasper broke in cheerfully—
"Better than when he first came," he said. "I noticed the difference directly I saw him. He will pick up his strength famously, you will see."
Stella sighed again.
"You must make sketches4 of this coast," said Jasper, as if anxious to get away from the subject. "It is particularly picturesque5, especially about the cliffs. There is one view in particular[259] which you should not fail to take; you get it from the top of the cliff there."
"Rather a dangerous perch," said Mr. Etheridge, shading his eyes and looking up.
"Yes, it is,"
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softened
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| 同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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humble
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wan
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| (wide area network)广域网 | |
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metallic
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affected
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passionate
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mere
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frail
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touching
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meekly
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| (使某人)窒息而死( suffocate的过去式和过去分词 ); (将某人)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气 | |
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pebble
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pang
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throbbing
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sneer
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bosom
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| n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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unnatural
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| adj.不自然的;反常的 | |
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bereft
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dealing
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bided
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gasped
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imploring
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| 恳求的,哀求的 | |
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cowering
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maiden
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devouring
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| 吞没( devour的现在分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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magistrate
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invoking
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tauntingly
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| 嘲笑地,辱骂地; 嘲骂地 | |
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fulfill
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| vt.履行,实现,完成;满足,使满意 | |
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moodily
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proffered
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persistently
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sinister
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brutally
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eavesdropper
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contraction
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crook
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forgery
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intentionally
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brink
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foe
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| 混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系] | |
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