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THIS once-happy family has suddenly returned to the pit whence it was digged, and it is impossible to imagine any more depressing spectacle than we present. Dawn in faint flickers1 is beginning to shine on the wreck2, and occasionally for a moment or two, though we may be over-sanguine, Helen and I can dimly imagine being happy again. Legs cannot do that yet; it is still midnight gloom with him.
The intelligent reader will scarcely need to be told that it is the influenza3 that has blackened the world like this. Helen began, and Legs and I followed within twenty-four hours. That, somehow, is a relief to her, since she feels she did not give it us. As if it mattered where it came from! Besides, personally I would rather catch it from her{182} than anyone else. Legs has had the worst visitation, because, after it was quite certain he had got it, he persisted in attending the last night of the autumn opera season, did not enjoy it at all, of course, by reason of a splitting headache, and was really ill for a day or two. I was infinitely4 wiser. As soon as the nymph touched me with her fairy hand I went firmly to bed, turned my face to the wall like Hezekiah, and stopped there till the fever was over. After five days I tottered5 downstairs to find an old, old woman sitting by the fire. It was Helen.
I think that was the most dreadful day I ever remember. She told me again and again how ill I looked until I was goaded6 into a sort of depressed7 frenzy8, and said I couldn’t possibly look as ill as she. We both had beef-tea in the middle of the morning, and to my horror, when it was brought, it was brought not by Raikes, my man who is as indispensable to this house as is the carburetter to a motor-car (for it won’t run without), but by an Awful Thing that I never saw {183}before. In answer to an
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电影制片业; (通常指灯光)闪烁,摇曳( flicker的名词复数 ) | |
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n.流行性感冒,流感 | |
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v.走得或动得不稳( totter的过去式和过去分词 );踉跄;蹒跚;摇摇欲坠 | |
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v.刺激( goad的过去式和过去分词 );激励;(用尖棒)驱赶;驱使(或怂恿、刺激)某人 | |
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inquiry
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recording
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Christian
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severely
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winced
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mere
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dreariness
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沉寂,可怕,凄凉 | |
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sumptuously
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奢侈地,豪华地 | |
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adj.重大的,巨大的;重击的;尺码大的;极好的adv.极端地;非常地v.重击(thump的现在分词);狠打;怦怦地跳;全力支持 | |
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n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的 | |
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fragrance
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dealing
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wholesome
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taint
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n.污点;感染;腐坏;v.使感染;污染 | |
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adj.令人痛苦的,辛酸的,惨痛的 | |
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relaxation
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shrill
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adj.尖声的;刺耳的;v尖叫 | |
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postpone
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v.延期,推迟 | |
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meditations
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默想( meditation的名词复数 ); 默念; 沉思; 冥想 | |
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anguish
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n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦,烦恼 | |
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extraordinarily
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pessimist
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n.悲观者;悲观主义者;厌世 | |
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optimists
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散布,传播( disseminate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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prohibition
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n.禁止;禁令,禁律 | |
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dissemination
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传播,宣传,传染(病毒) | |
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impunity
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n.(惩罚、损失、伤害等的)免除 | |
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stringently
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joyful
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adj.欢乐的,令人欢欣的 | |
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dreary
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adj.令人沮丧的,沉闷的,单调乏味的 | |
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truthful
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解(渴)( quench的过去式和过去分词 ); 终止(某事物); (用水)扑灭(火焰等); 将(热物体)放入水中急速冷却 | |
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extinction
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idiotic
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harmonious
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joviality
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kindly
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mellow
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kindliness
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carousing
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throbbing
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knight
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n.骑士,武士;爵士 | |
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choirs
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n.教堂的唱诗班( choir的名词复数 );唱诗队;公开表演的合唱团;(教堂)唱经楼 | |
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ardent
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adj.热情的,热烈的,强烈的,烈性的 | |
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混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系] | |
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adj.(天气)阴冷的;凄凉的;暗淡的 | |
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maidens
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处女( maiden的名词复数 ); 少女; 未婚女子; (板球运动)未得分的一轮投球 | |
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wrath
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(使某物)燃烧,着火( kindle的过去式和过去分词 ); 激起(感情等); 发亮,放光 | |
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buffet
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immortal
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hoofs
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成功,兴旺( prosper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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doomed
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doom
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rosy
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appreciation
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