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We are apt to look to the Old World exclusively for startling contrasts between fashion and splendor1 on the one hand, and squalid wretchedness and crime on the other. With an air of complacency, we speak of our great and happy republic, as affording a retreat for the homeless, and a refuge for the oppressed. Yet, in the face of all this, it would be difficult to find in any European city a more thoroughly2 vicious district than that of the Five Points in New York. Few, doubtless, of the fashionable crowds who daily promenade3 Broadway, have ever penetrated4 its recesses5,—few but would[157] shrink in dismay from horrors of which they had not even dreamed, if they should do so. But it is not our purpose to moralize upon that which has already begun to attract the attention, and inspire the exertions6, of philanthropic hearts and hands. That task we leave to abler pens. Enough that we have hinted at the character of the locality in which our story takes its rise.
One of the worst recesses of this notorious district enjoys the singularly euphonious7 name of “Cow Bay.” The entrance to it is a filthy8 arched passage-way, round which are crowded miserable9 tenements10; so miserable, that the scanty11 sunlight, which finds its way through the dirt-begrimed windows, seems to shrink away, as if it were more than half ashamed of the company it is in. In front of these houses, you may see men whose faces betray no evidence of intelligence or
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splendor
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n.光彩;壮丽,华丽;显赫,辉煌 | |
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n.壁凹( recess的名词复数 );(工作或业务活动的)中止或暂停期间;学校的课间休息;某物内部的凹形空间v.把某物放在墙壁的凹处( recess的第三人称单数 );将(墙)做成凹形,在(墙)上做壁龛;休息,休会,休庭 | |
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attest
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invitingly
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noisome
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prospect
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compassionate
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alacrity
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onward
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oversight
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enjoyment
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n.乐趣;享有;享用 | |
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profusion
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etiquette
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n.礼仪,礼节;规矩 | |
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disclaim
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conjecture
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joyful
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deception
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whining
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recollect
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remonstrance
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whine
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contented
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eluding
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