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CHAPTER XXXVIII
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OF THE HOME-COMING TO HAMPSHIRE.
It was a bright July morning four months after that fatal fight in the Spanish barranca. A blue heaven stretched above, a green rolling plain undulated below, intersected with hedge-rows and flecked with grazing sheep. The sun was yet low in the heaven, and the red cows stood in the long shadow of the elms, chewing the cud and gazing with great vacant eyes at two horsemen who were spurring it down the long white road which dipped and curved away back to where the towers and pinnacles1 beneath the flat-topped hill marked the old town of Winchester.
Of the riders one was young, graceful2, and fair, clad in plain doublet and hosen of blue Brussels cloth, which served to show his active and well-knit figure. A flat velvet3 cap was drawn4 forward to keep the glare from his eyes, and he rode with lips compressed and anxious face, as one who has much care upon his mind. Young as he was, and peaceful as was his dress, the dainty golden spurs which twinkled upon his heels proclaimed his knighthood, while a long seam upon his brow and a scar upon his temple gave a manly6 grace to his refined and delicate countenance7. His comrade was a large, red-headed man upon a great black horse, with a huge canvas bag slung8 from his saddle-bow, which jingled9 and clinked with every movement of his steed. His broad, brown face was lighted up by a continual smile, and he looked slowly from side to side with eyes which twinkled and shone with delight. Well might John rejoice, for was he not back in his native Hampshire, had he not Don Diego's five thousand crowns rasping against his knee, and above all was he not himself squire10 now to Sir Alleyne Edricson, the young Socman of Minstead lately knighted by the sword of the Black Prince himself, and
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顶峰( pinnacle的名词复数 ); 顶点; 尖顶; 小尖塔 | |
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rogue
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眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 ) | |
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勒缰绳使(马)停步( rein的过去式和过去分词 ); 驾驭; 严格控制; 加强管理 | |
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languishing
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a. 衰弱下去的 | |
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v.忍耐;等候;住 | |
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vi.遵守;坚持;vt.忍受 | |
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n.修道院;v.隐退,使与世隔绝 | |
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渴望,热望( crave的过去式 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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用魔术变出( conjure的过去式和过去分词 ); 祈求,恳求; 变戏法; (变魔术般地) 使…出现 | |
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bruised
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[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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n.婚礼;婚礼( nuptial的名词复数 ) | |
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int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等) | |
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scattered
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sobbing
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beeches
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起涟漪的,潺潺流水般声音的 | |
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