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the path of mystery leads inwards
Hilde let the heavy ring binder1 slide into her lap. Then she let it slide further onto the floor.
It was already lighter2 in the room than when she had gone to bed. She looked at the clock. It was almost three. She snuggled down under the covers and closed her eyes. As she was falling asleep she wondered why her father had begun to write about Little Red Ridinghood and Winnie-the-Pooh ...
She slept until eleven o'clock the next morning. The tension in her body told her that she had dreamed intensely all night, but she could not remember what she had dreamed. It felt as if she had been in a totally different reality.
She went downstairs and fixed3 breakfast. Her mother had put on her blue jumpsuit ready to go down to the boathouse and work on the motorboat. Even if it was not afloat, it had to be shipshape when Dad got back from Lebanon.
"Do you want to come down and give me a hand?"
"I have to read a little first. Should I come down with some tea and a mid-morning snack?"
"What mid-morning?"
When Hilde had eaten she went back up to her room, made her bed, and sat herself comfortably with the ring binder resting against her knees.
* * *
Sophie slipped through the hedge and stood in the big garden which she had once thought of as her own Garden of Eden . . .
There were branches and leaves strewn everywhere after the storm the night before. It seemed to her that there was some connection between the storm and the fallen branches and her meeting with Little Red Ridinghood and Winnie-the-Pooh.
She went into the house. Her mother had just gotten home and was putting some bottles of soda4 in the refrigerator. On the table was a delicious-looking chocolate cake.
"Are you expecting visitors?" asked Sophie; she had almost forgotten it was her birthday.
"We're having the real party next Saturday, but I thought we ought to have a little celebration today as well."
"How?"
"I have invited Joanna and her parents."
"Fine with me."
The visitors arrived shortly before half-past seven. The atmosphere was somewhat formal--Sophie's mother very seldom saw Joanna's parents socially.
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n.包扎物,包扎工具;[法]临时契约;粘合剂;装订工 | |
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soda
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inviting
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philosophical
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adj.哲学家的,哲学上的,达观的 | |
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strictly
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weird
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unity
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conceal
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previously
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renaissance
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epoch
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yearning
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a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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drawn
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v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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bias
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mainstream
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ego
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artistic
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sonata
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aesthetic
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aesthetics
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yearned
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渴望,切盼,向往( yearn的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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twilight
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adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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virtue
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idol
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passionate
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illusive
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adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的 | |
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tuberculosis
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thoroughly
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adj.高低不平的,粗糙的,粗壮的,强健的 | |
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swirling
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initiated
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n. 创始人 adj. 新加入的 vt. 开始,创始,启蒙,介绍加入 | |
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racing
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cognitive
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adj.认知的,认识的,有感知的 | |
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slumbering
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微睡,睡眠(slumber的现在分词形式) | |
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attic
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mechanism
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naturalist
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n.博物学家(尤指直接观察动植物者) | |
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bagatelle
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innate
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petals
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orientations
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poetic
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forerunner
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eloquent
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Christian
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genre
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passionately
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fictional
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irony
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dictated
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