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It was the fourth day of the siege. Ammunition1 and provisions were both nearing an end. When the Boxer2 insurrection had suddenly flamed up, and roared, like a fire in dry grass, across Northern China, the few scattered3 Europeans in the outlying provinces had huddled4 together at the nearest defensible post and had held on for dear life until rescue came—or until it did not. In the latter case, the less said about their fate the better. In the former, they came back into the world of men with that upon their faces which told that they had looked very closely upon such an end as would ever haunt their dreams.
Ichau was only fifty miles from the coast, and there was a European squadron in the Gulf5 of Liantong. Therefore the absurd little garrison6, consisting of native Christians8 and railway men, with a German officer to command them and five civilian9 Europeans to support him, held on bravely with the conviction that help must soon come sweeping10 down to them from the low hills to eastward11. The sea was visible from those hills, and on the sea were their armed countrymen. Surely, then, they could not feel deserted12. With brave hearts they manned the loopholes in the crumbling13 brick walls outlining the tiny European 66quarter, and they fired away briskly, if ineffectively, at the rapidly advancing sangars of the
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ammunition
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eastward
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deserted
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boxers
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hideous
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abating
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clamorous
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steadily
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adv.无法抵抗地,不能自持地;极为诱惑人地 | |
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inevitably
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infantry
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flippancy
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scotch
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trenches
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filch
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子弹( cartridge的名词复数 ); (打印机的)墨盒; 录音带盒; (唱机的)唱头 | |
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dwindle
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v.逐渐变小(或减少) | |
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grunted
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hamper
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joyous
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peril
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luxurious
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glorified
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rascals
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流氓( rascal的名词复数 ); 无赖; (开玩笑说法)淘气的人(尤指小孩); 恶作剧的人 | |
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exuberant
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maxim
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intonation
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palatable
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chivalrous
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adj.武士精神的;对女人彬彬有礼的 | |
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besieged
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包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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perilous
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adj.危险的,冒险的 | |
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missionary
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lurking
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ripple
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n.涟波,涟漪,波纹,粗钢梳;vt.使...起涟漪,使起波纹; vi.呈波浪状,起伏前进 | |
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bass
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scanty
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adj.缺乏的,仅有的,节省的,狭小的,不够的 | |
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remains
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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pensive
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a.沉思的,哀思的,忧沉的 | |
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slumbers
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睡眠,安眠( slumber的名词复数 ) | |
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supreme
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complacent
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exultation
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civilians
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