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In December and January two historical events caused an excitement into which Julia threw herself so whole-heartedly that for a time she managed to forget her personal life; taking pains to become intimate with every detail, she was obligingly conversed1 with by some of the important older men at Bosquith, and pronounced by the younger to be “waking up.”
On December 17 the President of the United States, Mr. Cleveland, sent his famous message to Congress concerning the long-standing dispute between England and Venezuela as to the boundaries between that state and British Guiana. The United States had proposed arbitration2; Lord Salisbury would have none of it, intimating that England knew what belonged to her without being told. Whereupon Mr. Cleveland hurled3 his bomb: Congress, after being reminded of the Monroe Doctrine4 (which accumulates mould from long intervals5 of disuse), was requested to authorize6 the President to appoint a boundary commission whose findings would be “imposed upon Great Britain by all the resources of the United States.”
There was a financial panic (in which, incidentally, Mr. Jones lost a great deal of money), the newspapers thundered, Mr. Cleveland, at Bosquith, as elsewhere, was called an “ignorant firebrand,” and “no doubt a well-meaning bourgeois,” everybody tried to understand the Monroe Doctrine that they might despise it, and for nearly a week war between the two countries seemed imminent7.
Mr. Cleveland went fishing and was unapproachable until the excitement had subsided8. Lord Salisbury consented to the Boundary Commission, with modifications9; and the whole matter was forgotten on New Year’s Day in a far more
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doctrine
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intervals
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impulsive
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adventurous
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derived
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mighty
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scrap
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testimony
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liaisons
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philosophical
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awakened
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asses
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casually
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annuity
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fidelity
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fleeting
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divers
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laborers
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| 渴望,热望( crave的过去式 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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enjoyment
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unlimited
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disapproved
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varied
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drenched
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consultation
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exclamation
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civilized
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| a.有教养的,文雅的 | |
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| adj.不能渗透的,不能穿过的,不易伤害的 | |
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abominable
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| adj.可厌的,令人憎恶的 | |
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unreasonable
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devious
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innately
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amazement
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injustice
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mania
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speculation
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lookout
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apparently
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piquant
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whined
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magnetism
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absurdities
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bluff
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frivolous
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satiety
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deliberately
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indifference
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| 证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威 | |
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flirtation
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displeased
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philosophically
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