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CHAPTER II
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Attention has already been called to the defects of the feudal1 system for military purposes, and to the shifts whereby successive sovereigns sought to make them good. With Edward the Second resort was made to a new device. Contracts, or as they were called indents2, were concluded by the King with men of position, whereby the latter, as though they had been apprentices3 to a trade, bound themselves to serve him with a force of fixed4 strength during a fixed term at a fixed rate of wages. In some respects this was simply a reversion to the old practice of hiring mercenaries; but as Edward the Third placed his contracts for the most part within his kingdom, the force assumed a national character. The current ideas of organisation5 were still so imperfect that the contractors6 generally engaged themselves to provide a mixed force of all arms; but as they naturally raised men where they could most easily get hold of them, that is to say in their own neighbourhoods, there was almost certainly some local or personal feeling to help to keep them together. For the rest the contractor7 of course made his own arrangements for the interior economy of his own particular troops, and enjoyed in consequence considerable powers, which descended8 to the colonels of a later day and have only been stripped from them within the last two generations. It is not difficult to imagine that men thus enlisted9 should presently, when released from national employment, have sold their services to the highest bidder10 and become, as they presently did become, condottièri. It is characteristic[22] of the commercial genius of our race that England should be the cradle not only of the soldier but of the condottière;[15] in other words, that she should have set the example in making
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| 骑士; (中古时代的)武士( knight的名词复数 ); 骑士; 爵士; (国际象棋中)马 | |
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     align   | |
| vt.使成一线,结盟,调节;vi.成一线,结盟 | |
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     corrupted   | |
| (使)败坏( corrupt的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)腐化; 引起(计算机文件等的)错误; 破坏 | |
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| 警官( sergeant的名词复数 ); (美国警察)警佐; (英国警察)巡佐; 陆军(或空军)中士 | |
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     dignified   | |
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     derived   | |
| vi.起源;由来;衍生;导出v.得到( derive的过去式和过去分词 );(从…中)得到获得;源于;(从…中)提取 | |
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| (=armor)n.盔甲;装甲部队 | |
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     taint   | |
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| n.匕首,短剑,剑号 | |
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     proficient   | |
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     astonishment   | |
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     batch   | |
| n.一批(组,群);一批生产量 | |
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     procured   | |
| v.(努力)取得, (设法)获得( procure的过去式和过去分词 );拉皮条 | |
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     pony   | |
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     retinue   | |
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     burnishing   | |
| n.磨光,抛光,擦亮v.擦亮(金属等),磨光( burnish的现在分词 );被擦亮,磨光 | |
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     upwards   | |
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     fabric   | |
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     invaluable   | |
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     immediate   | |
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     chivalric   | |
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     administrative   | |
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     varied   | |
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     followers   | |
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     promotion   | |
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     regiments   | |
| (军队的)团( regiment的名词复数 ); 大量的人或物 | |
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     modification   | |
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     disorder   | |
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     ponies   | |
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     peculiar   | |
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     mobility   | |
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     bishop   | |
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| adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词 | |
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     artillery   | |
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| n.术语;专有名词 | |
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     cannon   | |
| n.大炮,火炮;飞机上的机关炮 | |
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| 再分,细分( subdivide的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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| adv.准确地,精确地 | |
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     muster   | |
| v.集合,收集,鼓起,激起;n.集合,检阅,集合人员,点名册 | |
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     encumber   | |
| v.阻碍行动,妨碍,堆满 | |
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     barons   | |
| 男爵( baron的名词复数 ); 巨头; 大王; 大亨 | |
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| n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的 | |
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     corruption   | |
| n.腐败,堕落,贪污 | |
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     dealing   | |
| n.经商方法,待人态度 | |
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     inadequately   | |
| ad.不够地;不够好地 | |
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     corps   | |
| n.(通信等兵种的)部队;(同类作的)一组 | |
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     deception   | |
| n.欺骗,欺诈;骗局,诡计 | |
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| n.审计,查账( audit的名词复数 )v.审计,查账( audit的第三人称单数 ) | |
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| n.检查( inspection的名词复数 );检验;视察;检阅 | |
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     peculation   | |
| n.侵吞公款[公物] | |
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