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Some months later in the war when confined in a little up-country hamlet, many hundreds of miles from the coast and from Johannesburg; with the brunt of the war at that time breaking around us, de Wet having crossed the Orange River and being said to have been within a few miles of us, and the British columns moving hither and thither34, I was living in a little house on the outskirts35 of the village, in a single room, with a stretcher and two packing-cases as furniture, and with my little dog for company. Thirty-six armed African natives were set to guard night and day at the doors and windows of the house; and I was only allowed to go out during certain hours in the middle of the day to fetch water from the fountain, or to buy what I needed, and I was allowed to receive no books, newspapers or magazines. A high barbed wire fence, guarded by armed natives, surrounded the village, through which it would have been death to try to escape. All day the pom-poms from the armoured trains, that paraded on the railway line nine miles distant, could be heard at intervals36; and at night the talk of the armed natives as they pressed against the windows, and the tramp of the watch with the endless “Who goes there?” as they walked round the wire fence through the long, dark hours, when one was allowed neither to light a candle nor strike a match. When a conflict was fought near by, the dying and wounded were brought in; three men belonging to our little village were led out to execution; death sentences were read in our little market-place; our prison was filled with our fellow-countrymen; and we did not know from hour to hour what the next would bring to any of us. Under these conditions I felt it necessary I should resolutely37 force my thought at times from the horror of the world around me, to dwell on some abstract question, and it was under these circumstances that this little book was written; being a remembrance mainly drawn38 from one chapter of the larger book. The armed native guards standing39 against the uncurtained windows, it was impossible to open the
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coalesce
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primitive
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manifestations
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paternal
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maternal
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toads
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pouch
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attained
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aesthetic
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savage
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eloquent
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anguish
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intensity
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majestic
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inevitable
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| adj.不可避免的,必然发生的 | |
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axiomatic
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| adj.不需证明的,不言自明的 | |
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persistence
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submission
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acquiescence
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physiological
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entirely
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dealing
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awaken
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| vi.醒,觉醒;vt.唤醒,使觉醒,唤起,激起 | |
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lust
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situated
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martial
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| adj.战争的,军事的,尚武的,威武的 | |
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thither
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outskirts
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resolutely
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drawn
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shutters
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| 烧焦,烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(植物)枯萎,把…晒枯; 高速行驶; 枯焦 | |
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phenomena
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parasitism
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| n.寄生状态,寄生病;寄生性 | |
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devoted
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| adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的 | |
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insistence
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lighter
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indirectly
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marital
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earnings
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| n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得 | |
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partnership
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sufficiently
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perfectly
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illustrating
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afflict
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ordained
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wilful
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equity
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impartiality
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promiscuity
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appreciation
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mechanism
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onward
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petal
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mire
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injustice
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upwards
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inscribed
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embodied
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astonishment
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passionate
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| adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的 | |
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accomplished
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| adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的 | |
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marvel
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consolation
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