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It is impossible to deny that, except in hotels which are cosmopolitan1, and adapted to the many wants of the rich English, life in Italy is hard business enough for the inexperienced traveller, who knows the strange country into which he has suddenly dropped rather by means of poetical2 legends than by the facts of actual existence. A country of vineyards and orange-groves, of everlasting3 verdure and sunshine, is indeed, in its way, a true enough description of one aspect of that many-sided country: but these words of course convey no intimation of the terrors of an Italian palace in the depth of winter, where everything is stone-cold, and the possibilities of artificial warmth are of the most limited description; where the idea of doors and windows closely fitting has never entered the primitive4 mind, and where the cardinal5 virtue6 of patience and endurance of necessary evils wraps the contented7 native sufferer like the cloak which he hugs round him. Yet, notwithstanding, even Lauderdale relaxed out of the settled gloom on his face when he went to the window of the great bare sitting-room9, and gazed out upon the grand expanse of the Campagna, lighted up with morning sunshine. The silence of that depopulated plain, with its pathetic bits of ruin here and there—ruins, to be sure, identified and written down in books, but speaking for themselves with a more woeful and suggestive voice than can be uttered by any mere10 historical associations, through the very depths of their dumbness and loss of all distinction—went to the spectator’s heart. What they were or had been, what human hands had erected
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savages
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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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remonstrance
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unaware
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piazza
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scotch
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alacrity
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exclamation
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pompous
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inscription
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recording
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reigned
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hoarsely
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underneath
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subdued
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instinctive
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loyalty
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brag
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liar
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n.说谎的人 | |
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miserable
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auld
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bask
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abruptly
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profane
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hovering
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delusion
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entice
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momentary
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withdrawal
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shrine
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picturesqueness
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niches
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壁龛( niche的名词复数 ); 合适的位置[工作等]; (产品的)商机; 生态位(一个生物所占据的生境的最小单位) | |
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salvation
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pang
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