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CHAPTER XLIII.
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Colin’s career at Oxford1 does not lie in the way of his present historian, though, to be sure, a few piquant2 particulars might be selected of the way in which a pair of young Scotch3 eyes, with a light in them somewhat akin4 to genius, but trained to see the realities of homely5 life on the Holy Loch, regarded the peculiar6 existence of the steady, artificial old world, and the riotous7 but submissive new world, which between them form a university. Colin who, like most of his countrymen, found a great deal of the “wit” of the community around him to be sheer nonsense, sometimes agreeable, sometimes much the reverse, had also like his nation a latent but powerful sense of humour, which, backed{345} by a few prejudices, and stimulated8 a little by the different manners current in the class to which he himself belonged, revealed to him many wonderful absurdities9 in the unconscious microcosm which felt itself a universe;—a revelation which restored any inequality in the balance of affairs, and made the Scotch undergraduate at his ease in his new circumstances. For his own part, he stood in quite a different position from the host of young men, most of them younger than himself, by whom he found himself surrounded. They were accomplishing without any very definite object the natural and usual course of their education—a process which everybody had to go through, and which, with more or less credit, their fathers, brothers, friends, and relatives had passed through before them. Life beyond the walls of the University had doubtless objects more interesting than the present routine; but there was no such immediate
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Oxford
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n.牛津(英国城市) | |
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absurdities
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disposition
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perfectly
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utterly
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considerably
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vi.衰退,减退;n.处于低潮,处于衰退状态 | |
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invader
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savage
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monarch
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强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 ); 志向; 发送气音; 发 h 音 | |
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a.可敬的,高贵的 | |
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quagmire
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neutralize
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(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况) | |
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adj.反驳的,反对的,抗辩的;n.正反对,矛盾对立 | |
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n.象征,标志;徽章 | |
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remonstrance
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discordant
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unbearable
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seclusion
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pretensions
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自称( pretension的名词复数 ); 自命不凡; 要求; 权力 | |
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doctrine
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v.表现( embody的现在分词 );象征;包括;包含 | |
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uncertainty
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n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物 | |
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canvassed
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v.(在政治方面)游说( canvass的过去式和过去分词 );调查(如选举前选民的)意见;为讨论而提出(意见等);详细检查 | |
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undue
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procured
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v.(努力)取得, (设法)获得( procure的过去式和过去分词 );拉皮条 | |
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awe
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n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧 | |
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pious
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adj.虔诚的;道貌岸然的 | |
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placid
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adj.安静的,平和的 | |
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specimen
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refreshing
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adj.使精神振作的,使人清爽的,使人喜欢的 | |
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simplicity
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n.简单,简易;朴素;直率,单纯 | |
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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morsel
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n.一口,一点点 | |
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sundry
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chapel
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n.小教堂,殡仪馆 | |
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demonstration
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n.表明,示范,论证,示威 | |
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absurdity
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n.荒谬,愚蠢;谬论 | |
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advantageous
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adj.有利的;有帮助的 | |
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honourable
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adj.可敬的;荣誉的,光荣的 | |
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obedience
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investigation
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piety
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conceit
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patronage
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adviser
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