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Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness. Out of her disconnexion, a restlessness was taking possession of her like madness. It twitched1 her limbs when she didn't want to twitch2 them, it jerked her spine3 when she didn't want to jerk upright but preferred to rest comfortably. It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason. And she was getting thinner.
It was just restlessness. She would rush off across the park, abandon Clifford, and lie prone4 in the bracken. To get away from the house...she must get away from the house and everybody. The work was her one refuge, her sanctuary5.
But it was not really a refuge, a sanctuary, because she had no connexion with it. It was only a place where she could get away from the rest. She never really touched the spirit of the wood itself...if it had any such nonsensical thing.
Vaguely6 she knew herself that she was going to pieces in some way. Vaguely she knew she was out of connexion: she had lost touch with the substantial and vital world. Only Clifford and his books, which did not exist...which had nothing in them! Void to void. Vaguely she knew. But it was like beating her head against a stone.
Her father warned her again: `Why don't you get yourself a beau, Connie? Do you all the good in the world.'
That winter Michaelis came for a few days. He was a young Irishman who had already made a large fortune by his plays in America. He had been taken up quite enthusiastically for a time by smart society in London, for he wrote smart society plays. Then gradually smart society realized that it had been made ridiculous at the hands of a down-at-heel Dublin street-rat, and revulsion came. Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish. He was discovered to be anti-English, and to the class that made this discovery this was worse than the dirtiest crime. He was cut dead, and his corpse
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vt.& vi.(使)抽动,(使)颤动(twitch的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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18 chauffeur | |
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21 snarl | |
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24 grudge | |
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25 blatant | |
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26 momentary | |
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27 Buddha | |
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28 acquiescent | |
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29 acquiescence | |
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31 compassion | |
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32 tinged | |
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33 assertive | |
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34 fathomless | |
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35 disillusion | |
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36 strata | |
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37 triumphant | |
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38 incompetent | |
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39 melancholy | |
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40 specimen | |
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41 downwards | |
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42 dreary | |
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44 awakened | |
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45 devoid | |
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46 frankly | |
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47 irony | |
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48 wry | |
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49 perfectly | |
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50 disillusioned | |
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51 affected | |
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52 awfully | |
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53 laconically | |
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54 hiss | |
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55 fixed | |
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56 amazement | |
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57 thighs | |
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58 shudder | |
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59 utterly | |
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60 incapable | |
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61 yearning | |
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62 compassionate | |
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63 slippers | |
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64 inevitable | |
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65 miserably | |
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66 miserable | |
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67 infinitely | |
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68 sobbing | |
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69 cynically | |
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70 arid | |
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71 humbly | |
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72 underneath | |
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73 veneer | |
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74 generosity | |
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75 fascination | |
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76 advertising | |
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的 | |
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77 prominence | |
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78 gasping | |
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79 disarm | |
v.解除武装,回复平常的编制,缓和 | |
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80 opposition | |
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81 effrontery | |
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82 presumptions | |
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83 affront | |
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84 embroidery | |
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85 melancholic | |
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86 attentive | |
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87 aloof | |
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88 forth | |
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89 begrudges | |
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90 isolation | |
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91 conformity | |
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92 soothing | |
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93 poignantly | |
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94 gratitude | |
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95 lighting | |
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96 curiously | |
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97 abeyance | |
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98 craving | |
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99 potent | |
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101 frenzy | |
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102 erect | |
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103 plaintive | |
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104 witty | |
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105 arrogant | |
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106 stimulate | |
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107 joyful | |
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108 stimulus | |
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109 depressed | |
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110 irritable | |
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