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CHAPTER XXXIII
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The beautiful Giesbach Fall is near Interlaken, on the other side of the lake of Brienz, and is illuminated1 every night with those gorgeous theatrical2 fires whose name I cannot call just at this moment. This was said to be a spectacle which the tourist ought by no means to miss. I was strongly tempted3, but I could not go there with propriety4, because one goes in a boat. The task which I had set myself was to walk over Europe on foot, not skim over it in a boat. I had made a tacit contract with myself; it was my duty to abide5 by it. I was willing to make boat trips for pleasure, but I could not conscientiously6 make them in the way of business.
It cost me something of a pang7 to lose that fine sight, but I lived down the desire, and gained in my self-respect through the triumph. I had a finer and a grander sight, however, where I was. This was the mighty8 dome9 of the Jungfrau softly outlined against the sky and faintly silvered by the starlight. There was something subduing10 in the influence of that silent and solemn and awful presence; one seemed to meet the immutable11, the indestructible, the eternal, face to face, and to feel the trivial and fleeting12 nature of his own existence the more sharply by the contrast. One had the sense of being under the brooding contemplation of a spirit, not an
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formulating
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| 基质间片; 品丝(吉他等指板上定音的)( fret的名词复数 ) | |
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serenity
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enjoyment
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ornamental
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decomposition
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peculiar
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luncheon
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dictating
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cyclone
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adventurous
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spectral
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mellowing
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apron
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crest
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vapor
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rascals
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| 流氓( rascal的名词复数 ); 无赖; (开玩笑说法)淘气的人(尤指小孩); 恶作剧的人 | |
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overflowed
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| 感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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toiled
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| 长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉 | |
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precipice
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precipices
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severed
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verge
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puff
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extremity
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inviting
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glaciers
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lashing
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cascades
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| 倾泻( cascade的名词复数 ); 小瀑布(尤指一连串瀑布中的一支); 瀑布状物; 倾泻(或涌出)的东西 | |
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crests
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