One Hundred Years of Solitude 百年孤独 Chapter 9
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COLONEL GERINELDO MáRQUEZ was the first to perceive the emptiness of the war. In his position as civil and military leader of Macondo he would have telegraphic conversations twice a week Colonel Aure-liano Buendía. At first those exchanges would determine the course of a flesh-and-blood war, the perfectly1 defined outlines of which told them at any moment the exact spot -where it was and the prediction of its future direction. Although he never let himself be pulled into the area of confidences, not even by his closest friends, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía still had at that time the familiar tone that made it possible to identify him at the otend of the wire. Many times he would prolong the talk beyond the expected limit and let them drift into comments of a domestic nature. Little by little, however, and as the war became more intense widespread, his image was fading away into a universe of unreality. The characteristics his speech were more and more uncertain, and they cam togetcombined to form words that were gradually losing all meaning. Colonel Gerineldo Márquez limited himself then to just listening, burdened by the impression that he was in telegraphic contact with a stranger from another world.
"I understand, Aureli-ano," he would conclude on the key. "Long live the Liberal party!"
"How strange men are," she said, because she could not think of anything else to say. "They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts."
From that time on, even during the most critical days the war, he visited her every afternoon. Many times, when Remedios the Beauty was not present, it was he who turned the wheel on the sewing machine. Amaranta felt upset by the perseverance2, the loyalty3, the submissiveness that man who was invested with so much authority and who nevertheless took off his sidearm in the living room so that he could go into the sewing room without weapons, But for four years he kept repeating his love and she would always find a way to reject him without hurting him, for even though she had not succeeded in loving him she could no longer live without him. Remedios the Beauty, who seemed indifferent to everything who was thought to be mentally retarded4, was not insensitive to so much devotion and she intervened in Colonel Gerineldo Márquez's favor. Amaranta suddenly discovered that the girl she had raised, who was just entering adolescence5, was already the most beautiful creature that had even been seen in Macondo. She felt reborn in her heart the rancor6 that she had felt in other days for Rebeca, and begging God not to impel7 into the extreme state of wishing her dead, she banished8 her from the sewing room. It was around that time that Colonel Gerineldo Márquez began to feel the boredom9 the war. He summoned his reserves of persuasion10, his broad and repressed tenderness, ready to give up for Amaranta a glory that had cost him the sacrifice of his best years. But he could not succeed in convincing her. One August afternoon, overcome by the unbearable11 weight of her own obstinacy12, Amaranta locked herself in bedroom to weep over her solitude13 unto death after giving her final answer to her tenacious14 suitor:
Colonel Gerineldo Márquez had a telegraphic call from Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía that afternoon. It was a routine conversation which was not going to bring about any break in the stagnant15 war. At the end, Colonel Gerineldo Márquez looked at the desolate16 streets, the crystal water on the almond trees, and he found himself lost in solitude.
There was a long silence on the line. Suddenly the apparatus17 jumped with the pitiless letters from Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía.
"Don't be a jackass, Gerineldo," the signals said. "It's natural for it to be raining in August."
They had not seen each other for such a long time that Colonel Gerineldo Márquez was upset by the aggressiveness of the reaction. Two months later, however, when Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía returned to Macondo, his upset was changed to stupefaction. Even úrsula was surprised at how much he had changed. He came with no noise, no escort, wrapped in a cloak in spite of the heat, and with three mistresses, whom he installed in the same house, where he spent most of his time lying in a hammock. He scarcely read the telegraphic dispatches that reported routine operations. On one occasion Colonel Gerineldo Márquez asked him for instructions for the evacuation of a spot on the border where there was a danger that the conflict would become an international affair.
"Don't bother me with trifles," he ordered him. "Consult Divine Providence19."
It was perhaps the most critical moment the war. The Liberal landowners, who had supported the revolution in the beginning, had made secret alliances with the Conservative landowners in order to stop the revision of property titles. The politicians who supplied funds for the war from exile had Publicly repudiated20 the drastic aims of Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía, but even that withdrawal21 of authorization22 did not seem to bothim. He had not returned to reading his poetry, which filled more than five volumes and lay forgotten at the bottom of his trunk. At night or at siesta23 time he would call one of his women to his hammock and obtain a rudimentary satisfaction from her, and then he would sleep like a stone that was not concerned by the slightest indication of worry. Only he knew at that time that his confused heart was condemned24 to uncertainty25 forever. At first, intoxicated26 by the glory of his return, by his remarkable27 victories, he had peeped into the abyss of greatness. He took pleasure in keeping by his right hand the Duke of Marlborough, his great teacher in the art of war, whose attire28 of skins and tiger claws aroused the respect of adults and the awe29 of children. It was then that he decided30 that no human being, not even úrsula, could come closer to him than ten feet. In the center of the chalk circle that his aides would draw wherever he stopped, and which only he could enter, he would decide with brief orders that had no appeal the fate of the world. The first time that he was in Manaure after the shooting of General Moncada, he hastened to fulfill31 his victim's last wish and the widow took the glasses, the medal, the watch, and the ring, but she would not let him in the door.
"You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house."
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía did not show any sign of anger, but his spirit only calmed down when his bodyguard32 had sacked the widow's house and reduced it to ashes. "Watch out for your heart, Aureli-ano," Colonel Gerineldo Márquez would say to him then. "You're rotting alive." About that time he called together a second assembly of the principal rebel commanders. He found all types: idealists, ambitious people, adventurers, those with social resentments33, even common criminals. There was even a former Conservative functionary34 who had taken refuge in the revolt to escape a judgment35 for -misappropriation of funds. Many of them did not even know why they were fighting in the midst of that motley crowd, whose differences of values were on the verge36 of causing an internal explosion, one gloomy authority stood out: General Te6filo Vargas. He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate37, endowed with quiet wiles38 and a messianic vocation39 that aroused a demented fanaticism40 in his men. Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía called the meeting with the aim of unifying41 the rebel command against the maneuvers42 of the politicians. General Teófilo Vargas came forward with his intentions: in a few hours he shattered the coalition43 of better-qualified commanders and took charge of the main command. "He's a wild beast worth watching," Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía told his officers. "That man is more dangerous to us than the Minister of War." Then a very young captain who had always been outstanding for his timidity raised a cautious index finger.
"It's quite simple, colonel," he proposed. "He has to be killed."
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía was not alarmed by the coldness of the proposition but by the way in which, by a fraction of a second, it had anticipated his own thoughts.
"Don't expect me to give an order like that," he said.
He did not give it, as a matter of fact. But two weeks later General Teófilo Vargas was cut to bits by machetes in an ambush44 and Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía assumed the main command. The same night that his authority was recognized by all the rebel commands, he woke up in a fright, calling for a blanket. An inner coldness which shattered his bones and tortured him even in the heat of the sun would not let him sleep for several months, until it became a habit. The intoxication45 of power began to break apart under waves of discomfort46. Searching for a cure against the chill, he had the young officer who had proposed the murder of General Teófilo Vargas shot. His orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. He was bothered by the people who cheered him in neighboring villages, and he imagined that they were the same cheers they gave the enemy. Everywhere he met adolescents who looked at him with his own eyes, who spoke47 to him with his own voice, who greeted him with the same mistrust with which he greeted them, and who said they were his sons. He felt scattered48 about, multiplied, and more solitary49 than ever. He was convinced that his own officers were lying to him. He fought with the Duke of Marlborough. "The best friend a person has," he would say at that time, "is one who has just died." He was weary of the uncertainty, of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when. There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping50 cough, or someone who wanted to go off and sleep forever because he could not stand the shit taste of the war in his mouth and who, nevertheless, stood at attention to inform him: "Everything normal, colonel." And normality was precisely51 the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened. Alone, abandoned by his premonitions, fleeing the chill that was to accompany him until death, he sought a last refuge in Macondo in the warmth of his oldest memories. His indolence was so serious that when they announced the arrival of a commission from his party that was authorized52 to discuss the stalemate of the war, he rolled over in his hammock without completely waking up.
"Take them to the whores," he said.
They were six lawyers in frock coats and top hats who endured the violent November sun with stiff stoicism. úrsula put them up in her house. They spent the greater part of the day closeted in the bedroom in hermetic conferences and at dusk they asked for an escort and some accordion53 players and took over Catarino's store. "Leave them alone," Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía ordered. "After all, I know what they want." At the beginning December the long-awaited interview, which many had foreseen as an interminable argument, was resolved in less than an hour.
In the hot parlor54, beside the specter of the pianola shrouded55 in a white sheet, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía did not sit down that time inside the chalk circle that his aides had drawn56. He sat in a chair between his political advisers57 and, wrapped in his woolen58 blanket, he listened in silence to the brief proposals of the emissaries. They asked first that he renounce59 the revision of property titles in order to get back the support of the Liberal landowners. They asked, secondly60, that he renounce the fight against clerical influence in order to obtain the support of the Catholic masses. They asked, finally, that he renounce the aim of equal rights for natural and illegitimate children in order to preserve the integrity of the home.
"That means," Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía said, smiling when the reading was over, "that all we're fighting for is power."
"They're tactical changes," one of the delegates replied. "Right now the main thing is to broaden the popular base of the war. Then we'll have another look."
One of Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía's political advisers hastened to intervene.
"It's a contradiction" he said. "If these changes are good, it means that the Conservative regime is good. If we succeed in broadening the popular base of the war with them, as you people say, it means that the regime his a broad popular base. It means, in short, that for almost twenty years we've been fighting against the sentiments of the nation."
"Since that's the way it is," he concluded, "we have no objection to accepting."
His men looked at one another in consternation61. "Excuse me, colonel," Colonel Gerineldo Márquez said softly, "but this is a betrayal."
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía held the inked pen in the air and discharged the whole weight of his authority on him.
 
"Surrender your weapons," he ordered.
Colonel Gerineldo Márquez stood up and put his sidearms on the table.
"Report to the barracks," Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía ordered him. "Put yourself at the disposition62 of the revolutionary court."
"Here an your papers, gentlemen. I hope you can get some advantage out of them."
Two days later, Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, accused of high treason, was condemned to death. Lying in his hammock, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía was insensible to the pleas for clemency63. On the eve of the execution, disobeying the order not to bother him, úrsula visited in his bedroom. Encased in black, invested with a rare solemnity, she stood during the three minutes of the interview. "I know that you're going to shoot Geri-neldo," she said calmly, "and that I can't do anything to stop it. But I give you one warning: as soon as I see his body I swear to you by the bones of my father and mother, by the memory of José Arcadio Buendía, I swear to you before God that I will drag you out from wherever you're hiding and kill you with my own two hands." Before leaving the room, without waiting for any reply, she concluded:
"It's the same as if you'd been born with the tail of a pig."
During that interminable night while Colonel Geri-neldo Márquez thought about his dead afternoons in Amaranta's sewing room, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía scratched for many hours trying to break the hard shell of his solitude. His only happy moments, since that remote afternoon when his father had taken him to see ice, had taken place in his silver workshop where he passed the time putting little gold fishes together. He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts64 with death and wallow like a hog65 in the dungheap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity66 almost forty years late.
At dawn, worn out by the tormented67 vigil, he appeared in the cell an hour before the execution. "The farce68 is over, old friend," he said to Colonel Geri-neldo Márquez. "Let's get out of here before the mosquitoes in here execute you." Colonel Geri-neldo Márquez could not repress the disdain69 that was inspired in him by that attitude.
"You won't see me," Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía said. "Put on your shoes and help me get this shitty war over with."
When he said it he did not know that it was easier to start a war than to end one. It took him almost a year of fierce and bloody70 effort to force the government to propose conditions of peace favorable to the rebels and another year to convince his own partisans71 of the convenience of accepting them. He went to inconceivable extremes of cruelty to put down the rebellion of his own officers, who resisted and called for victory, and he finally relied on enemy forces to make them submit.
He was never a greater soldier than at that time. The certainty that he was finally fighting for his own liberation and not for abstract ideals, for slogans that politicians could twist left and right according to the circumstances, filled him with an ardent72 enthusiasm. Colonel Geri-neldo Márquez, who fought for defeat with as much conviction and loyalty as he had previously73 fought for victory, reproached him for his useless temerity74. "Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines." In his case it was true. The certainty that his day was assigned gave him a mysterious immunity75, an immortality76 or a fixed77 period that made invulnerable to the risks of war and in the end permitted him to win a defeat that was much more difficult, much more bloody and costly78 than victory.
In almost twenty years of war, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía had been at his house many times, but the state of urgency with which he always arrived, the military retinue79 that accompanied him everywhere, the aura of legend that glowed about his presence and of which even úrsula was aware, changed him into a stranger in the end. The last time that he was in Macondo and took a house for his three concubines, he was seen in his own house only on two or three occasions when he had the time to accept an invitation to dine. Remedios the Beauty and the twins, born during the middle of the war, scarcely knew him. Amaranta could not reconcile her image of the brother who had spent his adolescence making little gold fishes with that of the mythical80 warrior81 who had placed a distance of ten feet between himself the rest of humanity. But when the approach of the armistice82 became known and they thought that he would return changed back into a human being, delivered at last for the hearts of his own people, the family feelings, dormant83 for such a long time, were reborn stronger than ever.
"We'll finally have a man in the house again," úrsula said.
Amaranta was the first to suspect that they had lost him forever. One week before the armistice, when he entered the house without an escort, preceded by two barefoot orderlies who deposited on the porch the saddle from the mule84 and the trunk of poetry, all that was left of his former imperial baggage, she saw him pass by the sewing room and she called to him. Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía had trouble recognizing her.
"It's Amaranta," she said good-humoredly, happy at his return, and she showed him the hand with the black bandage. "Look."
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía smiled at her the same way as when he had first seen her with the bandage on that remote morning when he had come back to Macon-do condemned to death.
"How awful," he said, "the way time passes!"
The regular army had to protect the house. He arrived amid insults, spat18 upon, accused of having accelerated the war in order to sell it for a better price. He was trembling with fever and cold and his armpits were studded with sores again. Six months before, when she had heard talk about the armistice, úrsula had opened up and swept out the bridal chamber85 and had burned myrrh in the corners, thinking that he would come back ready to grow old slowly among Remedios' musty dolls. But actually, during the last two years he had paid his final dues to life, including growing old. When he passed by the silver shop, which úrsula had prepared with special diligence, he did not even notice that the keys were in the lock. He did not notice the minute, tearing destruction that time had wreaked86 on the house and that, after such a prolonged absence, would have looked like a disaster to any man who had kept his memories alive. He was not pained by the peeling of the whitewash87 on the walls or the dirty, cottony cobwebs in the corners or the dust on the begonias or the veins88 left on the beams by the termites89 or the moss90 on the hinges or any of the insidious91 traps that nostalgia92 offered him. He sat down on the porch, wrapped in his blanket and with his boots still on, as if only waiting for it to clear, and he spent the whole afternoon watching it rain on the begonias. úrsula understood then that they would not have him home for long. "If it's not the war," she thought, "it can only be death." It was a supposition that was so neat, so convincing that she identified it as a premonition.
That night, at dinner, the supposed Aureli-ano Segun-do broke his bread with his right hand and drank his soup with his left. His twin brother, the supposed José Arcadio Segundo, broke his bread with his left hand and drank his soup with his right. So precise was their coordination93 that they did not look like two brothers sitting opposite each other but like a trick with mirrors. The spectacle that the twins had invented when they became aware that they were equal was repeated in honor of the new arrival. But Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía did not notice it. He seemed so alien to everything that he did not even notice Remedios the Beauty as she passed by naked on her way to her bedroom. úrsula was the only one who dared disturb his, abstraction.
"If you have to go away again," she said halfway94 through dinner, "at least try to remember how we were tonight."
Then Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía realized, without surprise, that úrsula was the only human being who had succeeded in penetrating95 his misery96, and for the first time in many years he looked her in the face. Her skin was leathery, her teeth decayed, her hair faded and colorless, and her look frightened. He compared her with the oldest memory that he had of her, the afternoon when he had the premonition that a pot of boiling soup was going to fall off the table, and he found her broken to pieces. In an instant he discovered the scratches, the welts, the sores, the ulcers97, and the scan that had been left on her by more than half a century of daily life, and he saw that those damages did not even arouse a feeling of pity in him. Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away and he could not find it. On another occasion, he felt at least a confused sense of shame when he found the smell úrsula on his own skin, and more than once he felt her thoughts interfering98 with his. But all of that had been wiped out by the war. Even Remedios, his wife, at that moment was a hazy99 image of someone who might have been his daughter. The countless100 women he had known on the desert of love and who had spread his seed all along the coast had left no trace in his feelings. Most of them had come into his room in the dark and had left before dawn, and on the following day they were nothing but a touch of fatigue101 in his bodily memory. The only affection that prevailed against time and the war was that which he had felt for his brother José Arcadio when they both were children, and it was not based on love but on complicity.
"I'm sorry," he excused himself from úrsula's request. "It's just that the war has done away with everything."
During the following days he busied himself destroying all trace of his passage through the world. He stripped the silver shop until all that were left were impersonal102 objects, he gave his clothes away to the orderlies, and he buried his weapons in the courtyard with the same feeling of penance103 with which his father had buried the spear that had killed Prudencio Aguilar. He kept only one pistol with one bullet in it. úrsula did not intervene. The only time she dissuaded104 him was when he was about to destroy the daguerreotype105 of Remedios that was kept in the parlor lighted by an eternal lamp. "That picture stopped belonging to you a long time ago," she told him. "It's a family relic106." On the eve of the armistice, when no single object that would let him be remembered was left in the house, he took the trunk of poetry to the bakery when Santa Sofía de la Piedad was making ready to light the oven.
"Light it with this," he told her, handing her the first roll of yellowish papers. "It will, burn better because they're very old things."
Santa Sofía de la Piedad, the silent one, the condescending107 one, the one who never contradicted anyone, not even her own children, had the impression that it was a forbidden act.
"Nothing of the sort," the colonel said. "They're things that a person writes to himself."
"In that case," she said, "you burn them, colonel."
He not only did that, but he broke up the trunk with a hatchet108 and threw the pieces into the fire. Hours before, Pilar Ternera had come to visit him. After so many years of not seeing her, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía was startled at how old and fat she had become and how much she had lost of the splendor109 of her laugh, but he was also startled at the depths she had reached in her reading of the cards. "Watch out for your mouth," she told him, and he wondered whether the other time she had told him that during the height of his glory it had not been a surprisingly anticipated vision of his fate. A short time later, when his personal physician finished removing his sores, he asked him, without showing any particular interest, where the exact location of his heart was. The doctor listened with his stethoscope and then painted a circle on his cheat with a piece of cotton dipped in iodine110.
The Tuesday of the armistice dawned warm and rainy. Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía appeared in the kitchen before five o'clock and had his usual black coffee without sugar. "You came into the world on a day like this," úrsula told him. "Everybody was amazed at your open eyes." He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming the troops, the sound of the comets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn. Even though after so many years of war they should have sounded familiar to him this time he felt the same weakness in his knees and the same tingling111 in his skin that he had felt in his youth in the presence of a naked woman. He thought confusedly, finally captive in a trap of nostalgia, that perhaps if he had married her he would have been a man without war and without glory, a nameless artisan, a happy animal. That tardy112 shudder113 which had not figured in his forethought made his breakfast bitter. At seven in the morning, when Colonel Geri-neldo Márquez came to fetch him, in the company of a group of rebel officers, he found him more taciturn than ever, more pensive114 and solitary. úrsula tried to throw a new wrap over his shoulders. "What will the government think," she told him. "They'll figure that you've surrendered because you didn't have anything left to buy a cloak with." But he would not accept it. When he was at the door, he let her put an old felt hat of José Arcadio Buendía's on his head.
"Aureli-ano," úrsula said to him then, "Promise me that if you find that it's a bad hour for you there that you'll think of your mother."
He gave a distant smile, raising his hand with all his fingers extended, and without saying a word he left the house and faced the shouts, insults, and blasphemies115 that would follow him until he left the town. úrsula put the bar on the door, having decided not to take it down for the rest of her life. "We'll rot in here," she thought. "We'll turn to ashes in this house without men, but we won't give this miserable116 town the pleasure of seeing us weep." She spent the whole morning looking for a memory of her son in the most hidden corners, but she could find none.
The ceremony took place fifteen miles from Macon-do in the shade of a gigantic ceiba tree around which the town of Neerlandia would be founded later. The delegates from the government and the party and the commission of the rebels who were laying down their arms were served by a noisy group of novices117 in white habits who looked like a flock of doves that had been frightened by the rain. Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía arrived on a muddy mule. He had not shaved, more tormented by the pain of the sores than by the great failure of his dreams, for he had reached the end of all hope, beyond glory and the nostalgia of glory. In accordance with his arrangements there was no music, no fireworks, no pealing118 bells, no shouts of victory, or any other manifestation119 that might alter the mournful character of the armistice. An itinerant120 photographer who took the only picture that could have been preserved was forced to smash his plates without developing them.
 
The ceremony lasted only the time necessary to sign the documents. Around the rustic121 table placed in the center of a patched circus tent where the delegates sat were the last officers who were faithful to Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía. Before taking the signatures, the personal delegate of the president of the republic tried to read the act of surrender aloud, but Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía was against it. "Let's not waste time on formalities," he said prepared to sign the papers without reading them. One of his officers then broke the soporific silence of the tent.
"Colonel," he said, "please do us the favor of not being the first to sign."
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía acceded122. When the documents went all around the table, in the midst of a silence that was so pure that one could have deciphered the signatures from the scratching of the pen on the paper, the first line was still blank. Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía prepared to fill it.
"Colonel," another of his officers said, "there's still time for everything to come out right."
Without changing his expression, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía signed the first copy. He had not finished signing the last one when a rebel colonel appeared in the doorway123 leading a mule carrying two chests. In spite of his entire youth he had a dry look and a patient expression. He was the treasurer124 of the revolution in the Macon-do region. He had made a difficult journey of six days, pulling along the mule, who was dying of hunger, in order to arrive at the armistice on time. With an exasperating125 parsimony126 he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks, Everyone had forgotten about the existence of that fortune. In the disorder127 of the past year, when the central command fell apart and the revolution degenerated128 into a bloody rivalry129 of leaders, it was impossible to determine any responsibility. The gold of the revolution, melted into blocks that were then covered with baked clay, was beyond all control. Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía had the seventy-two gold bricks included in the inventory130 of surrender and closed the ceremony without allowing any speeches. The filthy131 adolescent stood opposite him, looking into his eyes with his own calm, syrup-colored eyes.
"Something else?" Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía asked him.
The young colonel tightened132 his mouth.
"The receipt," he said.
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía wrote it out in his own hand. Then he had a glass lemonade a piece of biscuit that the novices were passing around and retired133 to a field tent which had been prepared for him in case he wished to rest. There he took off his shirt, sat on the edge of the cot, and at three-fifteen in the afternoon took his pistol and shot himself in the iodine circle that his personal physician had painted on his chest. At that moment in Macon-do úrsula took the cover off the pot of milk on the stove, wondering why it was taking so long to boil, and found it full of worms.
"They've killed Aureli-ano," she exclaimed.
She looked toward the courtyard, obeying a habit of her solitude, and then she saw José Arcadio Buendía, soaking wet and sad in the rain and much older than when he had died. "They shot him in the back," úrsula said more precisely, "and no one was charitable enough to close his eyes." At dusk through tears she saw the swift and luminous134 disks that crossed the sky like an exhalation and she thought that it was a signal of death. She was still under the chestnut135 tree, sobbing136 at her husband's knees, when they brought in Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía, wrapped in a blanket that was stiff dry blood and with his eyes open in rage.
He was out of danger. The bullet had followed such a neat path that the doctor was able to put a cord soaked in iodine in through the chest and withdraw it from the back. "That was my masterpiece," he said with satisfaction. "It was the only point where a bullet could pass through without harming any vital organ." Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía saw himself surrounded by charitable novices who intoned desperate psalms137 for the repose138 of his soul and then he was sorry that he had not shot himself in the roof of the mouth as he had considered doing if only to mock the prediction of Pilar Ternera.
"I still had the authority," he told the doctor, "I'd have you shot out of hand. Not for having saved my life but for having made a fool of me."
The failure of his death brought back his lost prestige in a few hours. The same people who invented the story that he had sold the war for a room with walls made gold bricks defined the attempt at suicide as an act of honor and proclaimed him a martyr139. Then, when he rejected the Order of Merit awarded him by the president of the republic, even his most bitter enemies filed through the room asking him to withdraw recognition of the armistice and to start a new war. The house was filled with gifts meant as amends140. Impressed finally by the massive support of his former comrades in arms, Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía did not put aside the possibility of pleasing them. On the contrary, at a certain moment he seemed so enthusiastic with the idea of a new war that Colonel Geri-neldo Márquez thought that he was only waiting for a pretext141 to proclaim it. The pretext was offered, in fact, when the president of the republic refused to award any military pensions to former combatants, Liberal or Conservative, until each case was examined by a special commission and the award approved by the congress. "That's an outrage," thundered Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía. "They'll die of old age waiting for the mail to come." For the first time he left the rocker that úrsula had bought for his convalescence142, and, walking about the bedroom, he dictated143 a strong message to the president of the republic. In that telegram which was never made public, he denounced the first violation144 of the Treaty of Neerlandia and threatened to proclaim war to the death if the assignment pensions was not resolved within two weeks. His attitude was so just that it allowed him to hope even for the support of former Conservative combatants. But the only reply from the government was the reinforcement of the military guard that had been placed at the door of his house the pretext of protecting him, and the prohibition145 of all types of visits, Similar methods were adopted all through the country with otleaders who bore watching. It was an operation that was so timely, drastic, and effective that two months after the armistice, when Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía had recovered, his most dedicated146 conspirators147 were dead or exiled or had been assimilated forever into public administration.
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía left his room in December and it was sufficient for him to look at the porch in order not to think about war again. With a vitality148 that seemed impossible at her age, úrsula had rejuvenated149 the house again. "Now they're going to see who I am," she said when she saw that her son was going to live. "There won't be a better, more open house in all the world than this madhouse." She had it washed and painted, changed the furniture, restored the garden and planted new flowers, and opened doors and windows so that the dazzling light of summer would penetrate150 even into the bedrooms. She decreed an end to the numerous superimposed periods of mourning and she herself exchanged her rigorous old gowns for youthful clothing. The music of the pianola again made the house merry. When she heard it, Amaranta thought of Pietro Crespi, his evening gardenia151, and his smell of lavender, and in the depths of her withered152 heart a clean rancor flourished, purified by time. One afternoon when she was trying to put the parlor in order, úrsula asked for the help of the soldiers who were guarding the house. The young commander of the guard gave them permission. Little by little, úrsula began assigning them new chores. She invited them to eat, gave them clothing and shoes, and taught them how to read and write. When the government withdrew the guard, one of them continued living in the house and was in her service for many years. On New Year's Day, driven mad by rebuffs from Remedios the Beauty, the young commander of the guard was found dead under window.
 
格林列尔多.马克斯上校第一个感到战争的空虚。作为马孔多的军政长官,他跟奥雷连诺上校在电话上每周联系两次。起初,他们在交谈中还能断定战争的进展情况,根据战争的轮廓,能够明了战争处在什么阶段,预先见到战争会往什么方向发展。尽管奥雷连诺上校在最亲密的朋友面前也不吐露胸怀,然而当时他的口吻还是亲切随和的,在线路另一头马上就能听出是他。他经常毫无必要地延长谈话,扯一些家庭琐享。但是,由于战争日益激烈和扩大,他的形象就越来越暗淡和虚幻了。每一次,他说起话来总是越来越含糊,他那断断续续的字眼儿连接在一起几乎没有任何意义。面对这样的情况,格林列尔多·马克斯上校只能难受地倾听,觉得自己是在电话上跟另一个世界的陌生人说话。
 
“全明白啦,奥雷连诺,”他按了按电键,结束谈话。“自由党万岁!”
 
最后,格林列尔多·马克斯上校完全脱离了战争。从前,战争是他青年时代理想的行动和难以遏制的嗜好,现在却变成了一种遥远的、陌生的东西——空虚。他逃避现实的唯一处所是阿玛兰塔的缝纫室。他每天下午都去那儿。悄姑娘雷麦黛丝转动缝纫机把手的时候,他喜欢欣赏阿玛兰塔如何给雪白的衬裙布打褶子。女主人和客人满足于彼此作伴,默不吭声地度过许多个小时,阿玛兰塔心里高兴的是他那忠贞的火焰没有熄灭。但他却仍不明白她那难以理解的心究竟有什么秘密打算。知道格林列尔多.马克斯上校回到马孔多之后,阿玛兰塔几乎激动死了。然而,当他左手吊着挎带走进来的时候(他只是奥雷连诺上校许多闹嘈嘈的随从人员中间的一个),阿玛兰塔看见离乡背井的艰苦生活把他折磨得多么厉害,荏苒的光阴使他变得多么苍老,看见他肮里肮脏、满脸是汗、浑身尘土、发出马厩气味,看见他样子丑陋,她失望得差点儿昏厥过去。“我的上帝,”她想。“这可不是我等候的那个人呀!”然而,他第二天来的时候,刮了脸,浑身整洁,没有血迹斑斑的绷带,胡子里还发出花露水的味儿。他送给阿玛兰塔一本用珠母钉装钉起来的祈祷书。
 
“你真是个怪人,”她说,因为她想不出别的话来。“一辈子反对教士,却拿祈祷书送人。”
 
从这时起,即使在战争的危急关头,他每天下午都来看她。有许多次,俏姑娘雷麦黛丝不在的时候,转动缝纫机把手的就是他。他的坚贞不渝和恭顺态度使她受到感动,因为这个拥有大权的人竟在她的面前俯首帖耳,甚至还把自己的军刀和手枪留在客厅里,空手走进她的房间。然而,在这四年中,每当格林列尔多·马克斯上校向她表白爱情时,她总是想法拒绝他,尽管她也没有伤他的面子,因为,她虽还没爱上他,但她没有他已经过不了日子。俏姑娘雷麦黛丝对格林列尔多·马克斯的坚贞颇为感动,突然为他辩护,而以前她对周围的一切完全是无动丁衷的——许多人甚至认为她脑了迟钝。阿玛兰塔忽然发现,她养大的姑娘刚刚进入青春期,却已成了马孔多从未见过的美女。阿玛兰塔觉得自己心里产生了从前对雷贝卡的那种怨恨。她希望这种怨恨不要让她走向极端,而把俏姑娘,雷麦黛丝弄死。接着,她就把这姑娘赶出了自己的房间。正好这个时候,格林列尔多·马克斯上校开始厌恶战争。他准备为阿玛兰塔牺牲自己的荣誉(这种荣誉使他耗去了一生中最好的年华),说尽了好话,表露了长期压抑的无限温情。但他未能说服阿玛兰塔。八月里的一天下午,阿玛兰塔由于自己的顽固而感到十分痛苦,把自己关在卧室里,打算至死都孤身过活了,因为她刚才给坚定的术婚者作了最后的回答。
 
“咱们彼此永远忘记吧,”她说,“现在干这种事儿,咱们都太老啦。”
 
就在这天下午,奥雷连诺上校叫他去听电话。这是一次通常的交谈,对于停滞不前的战争毫无一点作用。一切都已说完以后,格林列尔多·马克斯上校朝荒凉的街道扫了一眼,看见杏树枝上悬着的水珠,他就感到自己孤独得要死。
 
“奥雷连诺,”他在电话上悲切地说,“马孔多正在下雨呵。”
 
线路上沉寂了很久。然后,电话机里突然发出奥雷连诺上校生硬的话语。
 
“别大惊小怪,格林列尔多,”对方说,“八月间下雨是正常的。”
 
很久没有看见朋友的格林列尔多·马克斯上校,对异常生硬的回答感到不安。可是过了两个月,奥雷连诺上校回到马孔多的时候,这种模糊的不安变成了惊异,几乎变成了恐惧。对于儿子的变化,乌苏娜也觉得吃惊。他是不声不响回来的,没有侍从,尽管天气很热,还用斗篷裹着身子;随同他来的是三个情妇,他让她们一块儿住在一间屋子里,大部分时间他都躺在一个吊床上。他难得抽出时间来看战情电报和报告。有一次,格林列尔多.马克斯上校前来向他请示一个边境城镇的撤退问题,因为起义部队继续留在那里可能引起国际纠纷。
 
“别拿鸡毛蒜皮的事来打扰我啦,”奥雷连诺上校回答他。“你去请教上帝吧。”
 
这大概是战争的紧要关头。最初支持革命的自由派地主,为了阻挠土地所有权的重新审查,跟保守派地主签订了秘密协议。在国外为战争提供经费的那些政客,公开谴责奥雷连诺上校采取的激烈措施,然而这种作法似乎也没有使他担心。他再也不读自己的诗了,这些诗约有五卷,现在放在箱子底儿给忘记了。夜晚或者午休时,他都把一个情妇叫到他的吊床上来,从她身上得到一点儿快乐,然后就睡得象石头一样,没有一点忧虑的迹象。那时只有他一个人知道,他心烦意乱,永远失去了信心。最初,他陶醉于凯旋回国和辉煌的胜利,俯临“伟大”的深渊。他喜欢坐在马博罗①公爵的肖像右方——这是他在战争艺术上的伟大导师,此人的虎皮衣服曾引起成年人的赞赏和孩子们的惊讶。正是那时,他决定不让任何人(甚至乌苏娜)接近他三米远。不管他到了哪儿,他的副官都用粉笔在地上画一个圆圈,他站在圆圈中心(只有他一个人可以站进圆圈),用简短而果断的命令决定世界的命运。枪决蒙卡达将军之后,他刚一到达马诺尔,就赶忙去满足受害者的最后愿望。寡妇收下了眼镜、手表、戒指和女神像,可是不许他跨进门槛。
 
“你不能进来,上校,”她说。“你可以指挥你的战争,可是我的家是由我指挥的。”
 
①马博罗(1650一1722),英国将军,1709年在德国西南多瑙河畔的布伦亨村击溃法国军队。
 
奥雷连诺上校丝毫没有表示自己的恼怒,但在他的随身卫队抢劫和烧毁了寡妇的房子之后,他的心才平静下来。“提防你的心吧,奥雷连诺,”格林列尔多·马克斯当时警告他。“你在活活地烂掉。”大约这个时候,奥雷连诺上校召开了第二次起义部队指挥官会议。到场的有各式各样的人:空想家、野心家、冒险家、社会渣滓、甚至一般罪犯。其中有一个保守党官员是由于逃避盗用公款的惩罚才参加革命的。许多人根本就不知道他们为什么战斗,在这群形形色色的人中间,不同的信念将会引起内部爆炸,但最惹人注目的却是一个阴沉沉的权势人物——泰菲罗.瓦加斯将军。这是一个纯血统的印第安人,粗野、无知,具有诡谲伎俩和预见才能,善于把他的部下变成极端的宗教狂。奥雷连诺上校打算在会议上把起义部队的指挥统一起来,反对政客们的鬼把戏。可是泰菲罗·瓦加斯将军破坏了他的计划:在几小时内,就瓦解了优秀指挥官的联合,攫取了总指挥权。。这是一头值得注意的野兽,”奥雷连诺上校向自己的军官们说。“对咱们来说,这样的人比政府的陆军部长还危险。”于是,平常以胆怯著称的一个上尉小心地举起了食指。
 
“这很简单,上校,”他说。”应当把他杀死。”
 
刹那间,这个建议超过了他自己的想法,他感到不安的倒不是这个建议多么残忍,而是实现这个建议的方式。
 
“别指望我会发出这样的命令,”他回答。
 
他确实没有发出这样的命令。然而两个星期之后,泰菲罗将军中了埋伏,被大砍刀剁成内酱,于是奥雷连诺上校担任了总指挥。就在那天夜里,他的权力得到起义部队所有的指挥官承认以后,他突然惊恐地醒来,大叫大嚷地要人给他一条毛毯。身体内部彻骨的寒冷,在灼热的太阳下也折磨着他,在许多肩里都使他睡不着觉,终于变成一种病症,他原来醉心于权力,现在一阵一阵地对自己感到很不满意了。为了治好寒热病,他下令枪毙劝他杀死泰菲罗·瓦加斯将军的年轻军官。但他还没发出命令,甚至还没想到这种命令,他的部下就那么干了,他们经常超过他自己敢于达到的界线。他虽有无限的权力,可是陷入孤独,开始迷失方向。现在,在他占领的城镇里,群众的欢呼也惹他生气,他觉得这些人也是这样欢迎他的敌人的。在每一个地方,他都遇见一些年轻人,他们用他那样的眼睛看他。用他那样的腔调跟他说话,对他采取他对他们的那种怀疑态度,而且把自己叫做他的儿子。他觉得奇怪——他仿佛变成了许多人,但是更加孤独了。他怀疑自己的军官都在骗他,他对马博罗公爵也冷淡了。“最好的朋友是已经死了的,”当时他喜欢这么说。由于经常多疑,由于连年战争的恶性循环,他已困乏不堪;他绕来绕去,实际上是原地踏步,但却越来越衰老,越来越精疲力尽,越来越不明白:为什么?怎么办?到何时为止?在粉笔划的圆圈外面,经常都站着什么人:有的缺钱;有的儿子患了百日咳;有的希望长眠,因为对肮脏的战争已经感到厌恶;但是有的却鼓起余力,采取“立正,,姿势,报告说:“一切正常,上校。”然而,在绵延不断的战争中,“正常”恰恰是最可怕的:表示毫无进展。奥雷连诺上校陷入孤独,不再产生什么预感,为了摆脱寒热病(这种病一直陪他到死).他打算在马孔多找到最后的栖身之所,在住事的回忆中得到温暖。他的消极情绪是那么严重,有人报告他自由党代表团前来跟他讨论最重要的政治问题时.他只是在吊床上翻了个身,甚至没让自己睁开眼睛。
 
“带他们去找妓女吧,”他嘟哝着说。
 
代表团成员是六个穿着礼服,戴着高筒帽的律师,以罕见的斯多葛精神忍受了+一月里灼热的太阳。乌苏娜让他们住在她家里。白天的大部分时间,他们都呆在卧室内秘密商量,晚上则要求给他们一个卫队和一个手风琴合奏队,并且包下了整个卡塔林诺游艺场。“别打搅他们,”奥雷连诺上校命令说。“我清楚地知道他们需要什么。”十二月初举行的期待已久的谈判用了不到一个小时,虽然许多人都以为这次谈判会变成没完没了的争论。
 
在闷热的客厅里,幽灵似的自动钢琴是用裹尸布一样的白罩单遮住的,奥雷连诺上校的副官们在钢琴旁边用粉笔划了个圈子;可是上校这一次没有走进圈子。他坐在他那些政治顾问之间的椅子上,用毛毯裹着身子,默不作声地倾听代表团简短的建议。他们要求他:第一,不再重新审核土地所有权,以便恢复自由派地主对自由党的支持;第二,不再反对教会势力,以便取得信徒们的支持,第三,不再要求婚生子女和非婚生子女的平等权利,以便维护家庭的圣洁和牢固关系。
 
“这就是说,”在建议念完之后,奥雷连诺上校微笑着说,“咱们战斗只是为了权力罗。”
 
“从策略上考虑,我们对自己的纲领作了这些修改,”其中一个代表回答。“目前最主要的是扩大我们的群众基础,其他的到时候再说。”
 
奥雷连诺上校的一位政治顾问连忙插活。
 
“这是跟健全的理性相矛盾的,”他说。“如果你们的修改是好的,那就应当承认保守制度是好的。如果我们凭借你们的修改能够扩大你们所谓的群众基础,那就应当承认保守制度拥有广泛的群众基础。结果我们就得承认,将近二十年来我们是在反对民族利益。”
 
他打算继续说下去,可是奥雷连诺上校用字势阻止了他。“别浪费时间了,教授,”他说。“最主要的是,从现在起,我们战斗就只是为了权力啦。”他仍然面带微笑,拿起代表团给他的文件,准备签字。
 
“既然如此,”他最后说,“我们就无异议了。”
 
他的军官们极度惊愕,面面相觑。
 
“原谅我,上校,”格林列尔多·马克斯上校柔和地说。”这是背叛。”
 
奥雷连诺上校把蘸了墨水的笔拿在空中,在这个大胆的人身上使出了自己的威风。
 
“把你的武器交给我,”他下了命令。
 
格林列尔多·马克斯上校站起身来,把武器放在桌上。
 
“到兵营去吧,”奥雷连诺上校命令他。“让军事法庭来处置你。”
 
然后,他在声明上签了字,把它交还代表团,说:
 
“先生们,这是你们的纸儿。我希望你们能够从中捞到一些好处。”
 
过了两天,格林列尔多·马克斯上校被控叛国,判处死刑。重新躺上吊床的奥雷连诺上校,根本就不理睬赦免的要求。他命令不让任何人打扰他。行刑的前一天,乌苏娜不顾他的命令,跨进他的卧室。她穿着黑衣服,显得异常庄严,在三分钟的会见中始终没有坐下。“我知道你要枪毙格林列尔多,”她平静地说,”我没有法子阻止你。可我要给你一个警告:只要我看见他的尸体,我就要凭我父母的骸骨发誓,凭霍·阿·布恩蒂亚死后的名声发誓,对天发誓:不管你藏在哪儿,我都要拖你出来,亲手把你打死。”在离开房间之前,她不等口答就下了断语:“你那么干,就象是长了一条猪尾巴出世的。”
 
在漫长的黑夜里,正当格林列尔多·马克斯上校想起自己在阿玛兰塔房间里度过的那些黄昏时,奥雷连诺上校却挣扎了许多个小时,企图凿穿孤独的硬壳。自从那个遥远的下午父亲带他去参观冰块以后,命运给他的唯一愉快的时刻是在制作小全鱼的首饰作坊里度过的。他发动过三十二次战争,破坏过自己跟死神的一切协议,象猪一样在“光荣”的粪堆里打滚,然而几乎迟了四十年寸发现普通人的生活是可贵的。
 
他就这样一夜未睡,弄得精疲力尽;黎明,距离行刑只有一个小时,他走进了回室。“滑稽戏收场啦,老朋友,”他向格林列尔多·马克斯上校说。“趁咱们那些酒鬼还没枪毙你,咱们离开这儿吧。”格林列尔多·马克斯上校无法掩饰这种行为使他产生的蔑视。
 
“不,奥雷连诺,”他回答。“我宁肯死,也不愿看见你变成一个残忍的暴君。”
 
“你不会看见的,”奥雷连诺上校说。“穿上你的鞋子,帮助我结束这种讨厌的战争吧。”
 
他这么说的时候,还不知道结束战争比发动战争困难得多。为了迫使政府提出有利于起义者的和平条件,他需要进行一年血腥、残酷的战斗;而让自己的人相信接受这些条件的必要性,又需要一年的工夫。他的军官们不愿出卖胜利,发动了起义;他镇压这些起义,残酷到了难以想象的地步,甚至不惜依靠敌人的力量坚决粉碎这些抵抗。
 
他决不是当时一个比较出色的军人。他相信他终归是为自身的解放、而不是为抽象的理想和口号进行战斗(政客们善于根据情况不断变换这些口号),所以充满了热情。就象以前为了胜利而坚定不移地作战一样,为失败作战的格林列尔多·马克斯上校指责了奥雷连诺上校不必要的蛮勇。“不用担心,”奥雷连诺上校微笑着说。“死亡比想象的困难得多。”对他来说,确实如此。他相信自己的死期是预先注定了的,这种信心给了他一种神秘的免疫力——在预定的期限之前不死;这种免疫力使他在战争的危险中不受伤害,使他最终能够赢得失败——赢得失败比赢得胜利困难得多,需要更大的流血和牺牲。
 
奥雷连诺上校在将近二十年的战争中,曾经多次回到他的家里,可是,他那经常的匆忙状态,卫队簇拥的神气样儿,几乎具有传奇色彩的荣誉光环(甚至乌苏娜对这种光坏也不能漠然视之),终于使他变成了一个陌生人。上一次来到马孔多的时候,他为三个情妇租了一间房子,只抽空应邀回家吃过两三次饭)跟家里的人相见。俏姑娘雷麦黛丝和战争中期出生的孪生子几乎不认得他。阿玛兰塔怎么也无怯使哥哥的形象和传奇勇士的形象一致起来;前者是在制作小金鱼的工作中度过青年时代的,后者却在自己和其他的人之间设置了三米的距离。然而,停战的消息传来的时候,大家以为奥雷连诺上校很快就会回到家里,重新变成一个得到亲人喜爱的普通人,长久蛰伏的亲“人感情也就复苏了,而且比以前更加强烈。
 
“咱们家里终于又有一个男人啦,”乌苏娜说。
 
阿玛兰塔第一个认为她们已经永远失去了他。停战之前一个星期,他回到了家里:没有侍从,只有两个赤足的勤务兵走在前头,把骡子的鞍俸和翰具以及一小箱诗篇放在廊上——这是奥雷连诺上校往日那种堂皇的行装中唯一剩下的东西;他走过阿玛兰塔房间旁边的时候,她叫了他一声。奥雷连诺上校仿佛想不起在他面前的是谁。
 
“我是阿玛兰塔,”她看见哥哥归来感到高兴,亲热地说,并且让他看看缠着黑绷带的手。“瞧吧。”
 
奥雷连诺上校就象那个遥远的早晨一样微微一笑,当时他被判处死刑以后回到了马孔多,第一次看见了这个绷带。
 
“可怕,”他说,“时间过得多快啊!”
 
政府军不得不在宅子前面设置警卫。奥雷连诺上校是在讥笑和唾骂声中口到马孔多的,有人指责他为了较高的售价故意拖延战争。寒热病使他不住地发抖,腋下的脓疮又发作了,六个月以前,乌苏娜听到停战消息的时候,就打开和收拾了儿子的卧室,在各个角落里烧起了没药,以为儿子回来之后就会在雷麦黛丝破旧的玩具中间安度晚年了。其实,在过去的两年中,他已经算清了一生的账,甚至谈不上什么晚年了。他经过乌苏娜拾掇得特别仔细的首饰作坊时,没有发现钥匙是留在锁孔里的。而且在这房子里,时光造成的细微而令人难过的破坏,也没引起他的注意,任何一个记性很好的人,在长久离开之后,看见这些破坏都是会震惊的,可是任何东西都没引起他心中的痛苦:墙上剥落的灰泥,角落里凌乱的蛛网,弃置不顾的秋海棠,白蚁蛀坏的木梁,长了青苔的门框,一怀旧之情给他设置的这些诡谲的陷阶都没使他掉进去。他坐在长廊上,用毛毯裹着身子,也没脱掉靴子,仿佛是顺便到房子里来躲雨的,整个儿下午都瞧着雨水落到秋海棠上。乌苏娜终于明白。她无法长久把他留在家里。“也许还要去打仗。”她想,“如果不是打仗,那就是死。”这种想法是那么明确、可信,乌苏娜认为它是一种预兆。
 
傍晚,吃晚饭的时候,奥雷连诺第二右芋拿面包,左手握汤匙。他的孪生兄弟霍·阿卡蒂奥第二呢,左手拿面包,右手握汤匙。两人动作起来是那么协调,仿佛不是面对面坐着的两兄弟,而是一种巧妙的镜子装置。孪生兄弟知道他们两人完全相似,就在那天想出这种表演来欢迎奥雷连诺上校。可是奥雷连诺上校什么也没看见。他对周围的一切是那么疏远,甚至没有注意到赤身露体经过饭厅的俏姑娘雷麦黛丝。只有乌苏娜一人敢于把他从沉思状态中唤醒过来。
 
“假如你又要走,”她在晚餐时说。“你起码应当记住今儿晚上我们是什么样子。”
 
奥雷连诺上校这时明白,乌苏娜是唯一识破他精神空虚的人,但他并不觉得奇怪。他多年来第一次直勾勾地盯地她的面孔。她的皮肤布满了皱纹,牙齿已经磨损,头发枯萎、稀疏,眼神显得惊恐。他拿她跟老早以前那天下午的乌苏娜比较了一下,当时他曾预言热汤锅将要掉到地上,结果真的掉下去粉碎了。片刻间,他发现了半个多世纪日常的操劳在她身上留下的擦伤、茧子、疮痪和伤疤,这些可悲的痕迹甚至没有引起他一般的怜悯。于是他作了最后的努力,在自己心中寻找善良的感情已经发霉的地方,可是找不到它。从前,他在自己的皮肤上闻到乌苏娜的气味时,起码还有一点羞涩之类的感觉,而且经常觉得他的思想和母亲的思想息息相通,但这一切都被战争消灭了。甚至他的妻子雷麦黛丝,在他心中也只剩下一个陌生姑娘模糊的形象,这姑娘在年龄上是相当于他的女儿的·他在爱情的沙漠上邂逅过许多女人,他和她们在沿海地带撒下了不少种子,但是他的心里却没留下她们的任何痕迹。通常,她们都在黑夜里来找他,黎明前就离去,第二天已经没有什么东西使他想起她们,剩下的只是整个身体上某种困乏的感觉。能够胜过时间和战争的唯一的感情,是他童年时代对哥哥霍·阿卡蒂奥的感情,但它的基础不是爱,而是串通。
 
“对不起,”他抱歉地回答乌苏娜的要求。“战争把一切都葬送啦。”
 
次日,他就忙于消灭自己留居人世的一切痕迹。在首饰作坊里,他没碰的只是没有他个人烙印的东西;他把自己的衣服赠给了勤务兵,而将武器埋在院子里,悔悟的心情就象他父亲把杀死普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔的标枪埋藏起来那样。他留给自己的只是一支剩了一发子弹的手枪。他想取下客厅里长明灯照着的雷麦黛丝的相片时,乌苏娜才阻止他。“这相片早就不是你的啦,”乌苏娜说。“这是家中的圣物。”停战协定签字前夕,家里几乎没有留下一件东西能够使人想起奥雷连诺上校时,他才把一小箱诗篇拎进面包房,圣索菲娅·德拉佩德正在生炉子。
 
“拿这个生火吧,”说着,他把一卷发黄的纸儿递给她。“这种旧东西容易引火。”
 
圣索菲娅·德拉佩德是个寡言、随和的人,从不违拗任何人,甚至她自己的孩子,可她觉得奥雷连诺上校叫她做的是一件违禁的事。
 
“这是重要的纸儿嘛,”她说。
 
“不,”上校回答。“这都是为自个儿写的。”
 
“那么,”她说,“你自个儿烧吧,上校。”
 
他不仅这么做了,甚至用斧头辟开箱子,把木片扔到火里。几小时前,皮拉·苔列娜来看过他。奥雷连诺上校多年没有跟她见过面,一见她就觉得诧异,她变得又老又胖,笑声也不如从前响亮了:但他同时也感到惊讶,她在纸牌占卜上达到了多深的程度啊!“当心嘴巴,”——这是皮拉·苔列娜提醒过他的,于是他想:前一次,在他名望最高的时候,她的这句话难道不是对他未来命运的惊人预见吗?在跟皮拉·苔列娜见面之后不久,他竭力不表露特殊的兴趣,问了问刚给他的脓疮排了脓的私人医生,心脏的准确位置究竟在哪儿。医生用听诊器听了一听,就用蘸了碘酒的棉花在他胸上画了个圈子。
 
星期二——停战协定签订的日子,天气寒冷,下着雨。奥雷连诺上校五点以前来到厨房,照常喝了一杯无糖的咖啡。“你就是在今天这样的日子出生的,”乌苏娜向他说。“你张开的眼睛把大家都吓了一跳。”他没理会她,因为他正在倾听士兵们的脚步声、号声、断续的命令声,这些声音震动了清晨岑寂的空气。经过多年的战争,奥雷连诺上校虽然应当习惯于这样的声音了,可是此刻他却象青年时代第一次看见****女人那样感到膝头发软、身体打颤,他终于掉进了怀旧的圈套,心里朦胧地想,如果当时他跟这个女人结了婚,他就会是个既不知道战争、又不知道光荣的人,而是一个无名的手艺人,一个幸运的人了。这种为时已晚的、突然的痛悔败坏了他早餐的胃口。早晨七点,格林列尔多·马克斯上校带着一群起义军官来到他这儿的时候,他显得比平常更沉默、更恨郁、更孤独。乌苏娜试图把一件新斗篷披在他肩上。“政府会咋个想呢,”她说。“他们会以为你连买件斗篷的钱都没有,所以投降嘛。”他没接受斗篷,已经到了门口的时候,看见从天而降的雨水,他才让她把霍·阿卡蒂奥的旧毡戴在他的头上。
 
“奥雷连诺,”乌苏娜向他说。“如果你在那儿发现情形不妙,你就想着自己的母亲吧,答应我啊!”
 
他向她茫然一笑,发誓似的举起手来,一句话没说就跨出了门槛,去迎接他经过全镇时将要遭到的恐吓、谴责和辱骂。乌苏娜闩上房门,决定至死也不再打开它了。”我们就关在这女修道院里烂掉吧,”她想,“我们宁肯变成灰,也不让那些卑鄙的家伙看见我们的眼泪高兴。”整个早上,她都在房子里——甚至在最秘密的角落里——寻找什么东西,使她能够想到儿子,可是什么也没找到。
 
签字仪式是在距离马孔多十五公里的一棵硕大的丝棉树下举行的(后来在这棵大树周围建立了尼兰德镇)。政府和两党代表以及放下武器的起义军官代表团,是由一群嘁嘁喳喳的白衣修女伺候的,她们很象一群雨水惊起的鸽子。奥雷连诺上校是骑着一匹肮脏、脱毛的骡子来的。他没刮脸。他更感到痛苦的是腋下的脓疮,而不是幻想的彻底破灭,因为他已失去了一切希望,放弃了荣誉以及对荣誉的怀念。根据他的愿望,没有朗朗的音乐,没有僻啪的鞭炮,没有隆隆的钟声,没有胜利的欢呼,没有任何能够改变停战的悲凉性质的高兴表现。一位巡口摄影师为奥雷连诺上校拍了一张可能留给后代的照片,底版还没显影就被打碎了。
 
仪式延续的时间,正好是签署文件所需的时间。在一个破旧的马戏团帐篷里,当中摆了一张普通的木桌,代表们坐在桌子旁边,周围站着忠于奥雷连诺上校的最后几名军官。在让大家签字之前,共和国总统的私人代表打算宣读投降书,可是奥雷连诺上校反对这样做。“咱们别把时间浪费在形式上了,”说着,他看都不看就准备在文件上签字。这时,他的一名军官打破了帐篷中令人发困的沉寂。
 
“上校,”他说,“请你不要第一个签字。”
 
奥雷连诺上校表示同意。文件在桌上绕了一圈,在一片沉寂中,从钢笔在纸上划动的声音,甚至可以猜出每个人签的字儿;在这之后,第一行还是空着的。奥雷连诺上校准备填上它。
 
“上校,”他的另一个军官说,“你还有免除耻辱的可能嘛。”
 
奥雷连诺上校面不改色,在第一份副本上签了字。他还没签完最后一份副本,帐篷门口就出现了一个起义军官,牵着一匹载着两只箱子的骡子。这人虽然十分年轻,却显得沉着和严谨。他是马孔多地区起义部队的财务官。为了及时赶到,他拖着一匹饿得要死的骡子,经历了六天困难的行程。他从骡背上异常小心地取下箱子,把它们打开,接二连三地将七十二块金砖放在桌上。这是大家忘记了的一大笔财产。在最近一年中,中央指挥部上崩瓦解,革命变成了争当头目的血腥的内讧。在一片混乱中,谁也不负什么责任了。起义者的金子铸成了金砖,抹上泥土,就无人监管了。奥雷连诺上校把七十二块金砖也列入了投降书,不容任何商量就签了字。疲惫不堪的青年军官站在他面前,拿糖浆色的宁静的眼睛盯着他的眼睛。
 
“还有什么事吗?”奥雷连诺上校问他。
 
青年军官咬紧牙齿。
 
“收条,”他说。
 
奥雷连诺上校亲笔写了一张收条给他。然后,上校喝了一杯柠檬水,吃了一块饼干(二者都是修女给他的),就到准备给他休息的行军帐篷去。他在那儿脱掉了衬衫,坐在床边,下午三点十五分拿起手枪,对准他的私人医生在他胸上用碘酒画的圈子砰地开了一枪。就在这个时刻,在马孔多,乌苏娜揭开炉灶上牛奶锅的盖子,惊异地发现牛奶半天都没煮沸,而且牛奶里有许多虫子。
 
“他们把奥雷连诺给打死啦!”她叫了一声。
 
然后,她服从孤独中养成的习惯,朝院子里瞥了一眼,便看见了霍·阿·布恩蒂亚;他在雨下淋得透湿,显得愁眉不展,比死的时候老多了。“他是被暗杀的,”她更准确地说。“谁也没有发发慈悲合上他的眼睛。”
 
夜里,她透过眼泪看见一个橙黄色的圆盘,仿佛流星一样迅捷地掠过天空,她认为这是死亡的征兆。她仍在粟树下面,伏在丈夫的膝上哭泣。这时他们就把毛毯裹着的奥雷连诺上校抬来了,毛毯已给凝血弄得僵硬。他睁开的眼里燃着怒火。
 
他已脱离危险。穿伤是那么清晰、笔直,医生毫不费劲就把一根浸过碘酒的细绳伸进他的胸脯,然后从脊背拉出。“这是我的杰作,”医生满意地说。“这是子弹能够穿过而不会碰到任何要害的唯一部位。”奥雷连诺上校发现自己周围是一些同情他的修女,她们为了安抚他的灵魂,正在唱绝望的圣歌,因此他感到遗憾,竟然没有按照最初的想法朝自己的嘴巴开枪,借以嘲笑皮拉·苔列娜的预言。
 
“如果我还有一点权力,”他向医生说,“我会不经审判枪毙了你。这倒不是因为你救了我的命,而是因为你把我变成了一个耻笑的对象。”
 
自杀未遂在几小时内就恢复了奥雷连诺上校失去的威望。那些曾经胡说他为了金砖房子而出卖胜利的人,把他自杀的举动看成是崇高的行为,宣布他为殉道者。后来,他拒绝共和国总统颁发给他的荣誉勋章时,甚至自由党内激烈反对他的人也来要求他否决停战条件,重新发动战争。房子里堆满了作为赔罪的礼品,昔日的战友给他的支持虽然迟了一些,但他也受到感动,没有排除满足他们的要求的可能性。相反地,有一段时间,他似乎热中于重新发动战争。格林列尔多·马克斯上校甚至以为:他只是在等待宣战的借口。借口真的找到了,那就是共和国总统拒绝把养老金发给过去的参战人员——自由党人和保守党人,除非他们每人的事情已由专门委员会审查清楚,而且拨款法案获得了国会批准。“这是蛮不讲理,”奥雷连诺上校暴跳如雷地说。“他们还没领到养老金就会老死啦。”他第一次离开乌苏娜买给他养息用的摇椅,在卧室里踱来踱去,口述了一份强硬的电报给共和国总统。在这份从来没有公布的电报里,他谴责总统破坏尼兰德停战协定的条款,并且扬言说,如果养老金的拨款问题在两周内得不到解决,他就要誓死宣战。他的态度是那么公正,甚至可以指望以前保守党作战人员的支持。然而政府唯一的回答是,借口保护奥雷连诺上校,在他的住所门前加强了军事警戒,并且禁止任何人去找他。为了预防万一。政府在全国范围内对其他的起义指挥官也采取了类似的措施。这个行动是那样及时、有力、成功,停战之后过了两个月,当奥雷连诺上校终于康复的时候,他所有最忠实的助手不是死了,就是流放了,或者去为政府效劳了。
 
十二月里,奥雷连诺上校走出卧室,一看长廊就已明白,再要发动战争就是枉费心机了。乌苏娜以她充沛的精力(这种精力就她的年岁来说似乎已经不大可能),再一次刷新了整座房子。“现在他们将会知道我是什么样的人了,”她看见儿子已经康复的那一天,说道。“全世界不会有一座比这疯人院更漂亮、更好客的房子了。”她叫人粉刷和油漆了房子,更换了家具,收拾了花园,栽种了新的花卉,敞开了所有的门窗,让夏天耀眼的阳光也射进卧室。然后,她向大家宣布连续不断的丧事已经结束,自己首先脱掉了旧的黑衣服,穿上了年轻人的服装。家里重新响起了自动钢琴愉快的乐曲声。阿玛兰塔听到乐曲声之后,又想起了皮埃特罗·克列斯比,似乎闻到了晚间的栀子花和薰衣草的芳香,她那懊丧的心里又出现了长久以来的哀怨。有一天下午,乌苏娜收拾客厅的时候,请守卫宅子的士兵们帮她的忙。年轻的警卫队长表示了同意。乌苏娜一天一天地给士兵们增添了任务,就开始邀请他们吃饭,给他们衣服和鞋子,教他们读书和写字。后来,政府撤走警卫队时,一个士兵继续住在乌苏娜家里,为她服务了多年。而年轻的军官呢,因为遭到俏姑娘雷麦黛丝的藐视,变得疯疯癫癫,新年初一的早晨死在她的窗下了。


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1 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
2 perseverance oMaxH     
n.坚持不懈,不屈不挠
参考例句:
  • It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
  • Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。
3 loyalty gA9xu     
n.忠诚,忠心
参考例句:
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
4 retarded xjAzyy     
a.智力迟钝的,智力发育迟缓的
参考例句:
  • The progression of the disease can be retarded by early surgery. 早期手术可以抑制病情的发展。
  • He was so slow that many thought him mentally retarded. 他迟钝得很,许多人以为他智力低下。
5 adolescence CyXzY     
n.青春期,青少年
参考例句:
  • Adolescence is the process of going from childhood to maturity.青春期是从少年到成年的过渡期。
  • The film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence.这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。
6 rancor hA6zj     
n.深仇,积怨
参考例句:
  • I have no rancor against him.我对他无怨无仇。
  • Their rancor dated from a political dogfight between them.他们的积怨来自于他们之间在政治上的狗咬狗。
7 impel NaLxG     
v.推动;激励,迫使
参考例句:
  • Financial pressures impel the firm to cut back on spending.财政压力迫使公司减少开支。
  • The progress in science and technical will powerfully impel the education's development.科学和技术的进步将有力地推动教育的发展。
8 banished b779057f354f1ec8efd5dd1adee731df     
v.放逐,驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚,五年后在那里去世。
  • He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. 他被放逐到一个无人居住的荒岛一年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 boredom ynByy     
n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊
参考例句:
  • Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失业会让你无聊得发疯。
  • A walkman can relieve the boredom of running.跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。
10 persuasion wMQxR     
n.劝说;说服;持有某种信仰的宗派
参考例句:
  • He decided to leave only after much persuasion.经过多方劝说,他才决定离开。
  • After a lot of persuasion,she agreed to go.经过多次劝说后,她同意去了。
11 unbearable alCwB     
adj.不能容忍的;忍受不住的
参考例句:
  • It is unbearable to be always on thorns.老是处于焦虑不安的情况中是受不了的。
  • The more he thought of it the more unbearable it became.他越想越觉得无法忍受。
12 obstinacy C0qy7     
n.顽固;(病痛等)难治
参考例句:
  • It is a very accountable obstinacy.这是一种完全可以理解的固执态度。
  • Cindy's anger usually made him stand firm to the point of obstinacy.辛迪一发怒,常常使他坚持自见,并达到执拗的地步。
13 solitude xF9yw     
n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方
参考例句:
  • People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
  • They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。
14 tenacious kIXzb     
adj.顽强的,固执的,记忆力强的,粘的
参考例句:
  • We must learn from the tenacious fighting spirit of Lu Xun.我们要学习鲁迅先生韧性的战斗精神。
  • We should be tenacious of our rights.我们应坚决维护我们的权利。
15 stagnant iGgzj     
adj.不流动的,停滞的,不景气的
参考例句:
  • Due to low investment,industrial output has remained stagnant.由于投资少,工业生产一直停滞不前。
  • Their national economy is stagnant.他们的国家经济停滞不前。
16 desolate vmizO     
adj.荒凉的,荒芜的;孤独的,凄凉的;v.使荒芜,使孤寂
参考例句:
  • The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。
  • We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后,我们都觉得万分孤寂。
17 apparatus ivTzx     
n.装置,器械;器具,设备
参考例句:
  • The school's audio apparatus includes films and records.学校的视听设备包括放映机和录音机。
  • They had a very refined apparatus.他们有一套非常精良的设备。
18 spat pFdzJ     
n.口角,掌击;v.发出呼噜呼噜声
参考例句:
  • Her parents always have spats.她的父母经常有些小的口角。
  • There is only a spat between the brother and sister.那只是兄妹间的小吵小闹。
19 providence 8tdyh     
n.深谋远虑,天道,天意;远见;节约;上帝
参考例句:
  • It is tempting Providence to go in that old boat.乘那艘旧船前往是冒大险。
  • To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence.照你的所作所为那样去行事,是违背上帝的意志的。
20 repudiated c3b68e77368cc11bbc01048bf409b53b     
v.(正式地)否认( repudiate的过去式和过去分词 );拒绝接受;拒绝与…往来;拒不履行(法律义务)
参考例句:
  • All slanders and libels should be repudiated. 一切诬蔑不实之词,应予推倒。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The Prime Minister has repudiated racist remarks made by a member of the Conservative Party. 首相已经驳斥了一个保守党成员的种族主义言论。 来自辞典例句
21 withdrawal Cfhwq     
n.取回,提款;撤退,撤军;收回,撤销
参考例句:
  • The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
  • They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
22 authorization wOxyV     
n.授权,委任状
参考例句:
  • Anglers are required to obtain prior authorization from the park keeper.垂钓者必须事先得到公园管理者的许可。
  • You cannot take a day off without authorization.未经批准你不得休假。
23 siesta Urayw     
n.午睡
参考例句:
  • Lots of people were taking a short siesta in the shade.午后很多人在阴凉处小睡。
  • He had acquired the knack of snatching his siesta in the most unfavourable circumstance.他学会了在最喧闹的场合下抓紧时间睡觉的诀窍。
24 condemned condemned     
adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
  • The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。
25 uncertainty NlFwK     
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
参考例句:
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
26 intoxicated 350bfb35af86e3867ed55bb2af85135f     
喝醉的,极其兴奋的
参考例句:
  • She was intoxicated with success. 她为成功所陶醉。
  • They became deeply intoxicated and totally disoriented. 他们酩酊大醉,东南西北全然不辨。
27 remarkable 8Vbx6     
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
参考例句:
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
28 attire AN0zA     
v.穿衣,装扮[同]array;n.衣着;盛装
参考例句:
  • He had no intention of changing his mode of attire.他无意改变着装方式。
  • Her attention was attracted by his peculiar attire.他那奇特的服装引起了她的注意。
29 awe WNqzC     
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
参考例句:
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
30 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
31 fulfill Qhbxg     
vt.履行,实现,完成;满足,使满意
参考例句:
  • If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了,你就要履行你的诺言。
  • This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。
32 bodyguard 0Rfy2     
n.护卫,保镖
参考例句:
  • She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.她不管到哪儿都得有带武器的保镖跟从。
  • The big guy standing at his side may be his bodyguard.站在他身旁的那个大个子可能是他的保镖。
33 resentments 4e6d4b541f5fd83064d41eea9a6dec89     
(因受虐待而)愤恨,不满,怨恨( resentment的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He could never transcend his resentments and his complexes. 他从来不能把他的怨恨和感情上的症结置之度外。
  • These local resentments burst into open revolt. 地方性反感变成公开暴动。
34 functionary 1hLx9     
n.官员;公职人员
参考例句:
  • No functionary may support or cover up unfair competition acts.国家官员不得支持、包庇不正当竞争行为。
  • " Emigrant," said the functionary,"I am going to send you on to Paris,under an escort."“ 外逃分子,”那官员说,“我要把你送到巴黎去,还派人护送。”
35 judgment e3xxC     
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
参考例句:
  • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
  • He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
36 verge gUtzQ     
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
参考例句:
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
37 illiterate Bc6z5     
adj.文盲的;无知的;n.文盲
参考例句:
  • There are still many illiterate people in our country.在我国还有许多文盲。
  • I was an illiterate in the old society,but now I can read.我这个旧社会的文盲,今天也认字了。
38 wiles 9e4z1U     
n.(旨在欺骗或吸引人的)诡计,花招;欺骗,欺诈( wile的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • All her wiles were to persuade them to buy the goods. 她花言巧语想打动他们买这些货物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The woman used all her wiles to tempt him into following her. 那女人用尽了自己的诱骗本领勾引着他尾随而去。 来自《用法词典》
39 vocation 8h6wB     
n.职业,行业
参考例句:
  • She struggled for years to find her true vocation.她多年来苦苦寻找真正适合自己的职业。
  • She felt it was her vocation to minister to the sick.她觉得照料病人是她的天职。
40 fanaticism ChCzQ     
n.狂热,盲信
参考例句:
  • Your fanaticism followed the girl is wrong. 你对那个女孩的狂热是错误的。
  • All of Goebbels's speeches sounded the note of stereotyped fanaticism. 戈培尔的演讲,千篇一律,无非狂热二字。
41 unifying 18f99ec3e0286dcc4f6f318a4d8aa539     
使联合( unify的现在分词 ); 使相同; 使一致; 统一
参考例句:
  • In addition, there were certain religious bonds of a unifying kind. 此外,他们还有某种具有一种统一性质的宗教上的结合。
  • There is a unifying theme, and that is the theme of information flow within biological systems. 我们可以用一个总的命题,把生物学系统内的信息流来作为这一研究主题。
42 maneuvers 4f463314799d35346cd7e8662b520abf     
n.策略,谋略,花招( maneuver的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He suspected at once that she had been spying upon his maneuvers. 他立刻猜想到,她已经侦察到他的行动。 来自辞典例句
  • Maneuvers in Guizhou occupied the Reds for four months. 贵州境内的作战占了红军四个月的时间。 来自辞典例句
43 coalition pWlyi     
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
参考例句:
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
44 ambush DNPzg     
n.埋伏(地点);伏兵;v.埋伏;伏击
参考例句:
  • Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
  • Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。
45 intoxication qq7zL8     
n.wild excitement;drunkenness;poisoning
参考例句:
  • He began to drink, drank himself to intoxication, till he slept obliterated. 他一直喝,喝到他快要迷糊地睡着了。
  • Predator: Intoxication-Damage over time effect will now stack with other allies. Predator:Intoxication,持续性伤害的效果将会与队友相加。
46 discomfort cuvxN     
n.不舒服,不安,难过,困难,不方便
参考例句:
  • One has to bear a little discomfort while travelling.旅行中总要忍受一点不便。
  • She turned red with discomfort when the teacher spoke.老师讲话时她不好意思地红着脸。
47 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
48 scattered 7jgzKF     
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
参考例句:
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
49 solitary 7FUyx     
adj.孤独的,独立的,荒凉的;n.隐士
参考例句:
  • I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
  • The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际,显得十分壮美。
50 whooping 3b8fa61ef7ccd46b156de6bf873a9395     
发嗬嗬声的,发咳声的
参考例句:
  • Whooping cough is very prevalent just now. 百日咳正在广泛流行。
  • Have you had your child vaccinated against whooping cough? 你给你的孩子打过百日咳疫苗了吗?
51 precisely zlWzUb     
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
参考例句:
  • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
  • The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
52 authorized jyLzgx     
a.委任的,许可的
参考例句:
  • An administrative order is valid if authorized by a statute.如果一个行政命令得到一个法规的认可那么这个命令就是有效的。
53 accordion rf1y7     
n.手风琴;adj.可折叠的
参考例句:
  • The accordion music in the film isn't very beautiful.这部影片中的手风琴音乐不是很好。
  • The accordion music reminds me of my boyhood.这手风琴的乐声让我回忆起了我的少年时代。
54 parlor v4MzU     
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅
参考例句:
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店?
55 shrouded 6b3958ee6e7b263c722c8b117143345f     
v.隐瞒( shroud的过去式和过去分词 );保密
参考例句:
  • The hills were shrouded in mist . 这些小山被笼罩在薄雾之中。
  • The towers were shrouded in mist. 城楼被蒙上薄雾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
56 drawn MuXzIi     
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
参考例句:
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
57 advisers d4866a794d72d2a666da4e4803fdbf2e     
顾问,劝告者( adviser的名词复数 ); (指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授
参考例句:
  • a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
  • She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
58 woolen 0fKw9     
adj.羊毛(制)的;毛纺的
参考例句:
  • She likes to wear woolen socks in winter.冬天她喜欢穿羊毛袜。
  • There is one bar of woolen blanket on that bed.那张床上有一条毛毯。
59 renounce 8BNzi     
v.放弃;拒绝承认,宣布与…断绝关系
参考例句:
  • She decided to renounce the world and enter a convent.她决定弃绝尘世去当修女。
  • It was painful for him to renounce his son.宣布与儿子脱离关系对他来说是很痛苦的。
60 secondly cjazXx     
adv.第二,其次
参考例句:
  • Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二,动脑筋提出自己的见解。
  • Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次,需要确定所作用的载荷。
61 consternation 8OfzB     
n.大为吃惊,惊骇
参考例句:
  • He was filled with consternation to hear that his friend was so ill.他听说朋友病得那么厉害,感到非常震惊。
  • Sam stared at him in consternation.萨姆惊恐不安地注视着他。
62 disposition GljzO     
n.性情,性格;意向,倾向;排列,部署
参考例句:
  • He has made a good disposition of his property.他已对财产作了妥善处理。
  • He has a cheerful disposition.他性情开朗。
63 clemency qVnyV     
n.温和,仁慈,宽厚
参考例句:
  • The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
  • They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
64 pacts 2add620028f09a3af9f25b75b004f8ed     
条约( pact的名词复数 ); 协定; 公约
参考例句:
  • Vassals can no longer accept one-sided defensive pacts (!). 附庸国不会接受单方面的共同防御协定。
  • Well, they are EU members now and have formed solidarity pacts with members such as Poland. 他们现在已经是欧盟的一部分了并且他们和欧盟成员诸如波兰等以签署了合作协议。
65 hog TrYzRg     
n.猪;馋嘴贪吃的人;vt.把…占为己有,独占
参考例句:
  • He is greedy like a hog.他像猪一样贪婪。
  • Drivers who hog the road leave no room for other cars.那些占着路面的驾驶员一点余地都不留给其他车辆。
66 simplicity Vryyv     
n.简单,简易;朴素;直率,单纯
参考例句:
  • She dressed with elegant simplicity.她穿着朴素高雅。
  • The beauty of this plan is its simplicity.简明扼要是这个计划的一大特点。
67 tormented b017cc8a8957c07bc6b20230800888d0     
饱受折磨的
参考例句:
  • The knowledge of his guilt tormented him. 知道了自己的罪责使他非常痛苦。
  • He had lain awake all night, tormented by jealousy. 他彻夜未眠,深受嫉妒的折磨。
68 farce HhlzS     
n.闹剧,笑剧,滑稽戏;胡闹
参考例句:
  • They played a shameful role in this farce.他们在这场闹剧中扮演了可耻的角色。
  • The audience roared at the farce.闹剧使观众哄堂大笑。
69 disdain KltzA     
n.鄙视,轻视;v.轻视,鄙视,不屑
参考例句:
  • Some people disdain labour.有些人轻视劳动。
  • A great man should disdain flatterers.伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。
70 bloody kWHza     
adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染
参考例句:
  • He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
  • He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
71 partisans 7508b06f102269d4b8786dbe34ab4c28     
游击队员( partisan的名词复数 ); 党人; 党羽; 帮伙
参考例句:
  • Every movement has its partisans. 每一运动都有热情的支持者。
  • He was rescued by some Italian partisans. 他被几名意大利游击队员所救。
72 ardent yvjzd     
adj.热情的,热烈的,强烈的,烈性的
参考例句:
  • He's an ardent supporter of the local football team.他是本地足球队的热情支持者。
  • Ardent expectations were held by his parents for his college career.他父母对他的大学学习抱着殷切的期望。
73 previously bkzzzC     
adv.以前,先前(地)
参考例句:
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
74 temerity PGmyk     
n.鲁莽,冒失
参考例句:
  • He had the temerity to ask for higher wages after only a day's work.只工作了一天,他就蛮不讲理地要求增加工资。
  • Tins took some temerity,but it was fruitless.这件事做得有点莽撞,但结果还是无用。
75 immunity dygyQ     
n.优惠;免除;豁免,豁免权
参考例句:
  • The law gives public schools immunity from taxation.法律免除公立学校的纳税义务。
  • He claims diplomatic immunity to avoid being arrested.他要求外交豁免以便避免被捕。
76 immortality hkuys     
n.不死,不朽
参考例句:
  • belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念
  • It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。
77 fixed JsKzzj     
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
参考例句:
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
78 costly 7zXxh     
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
参考例句:
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
79 retinue wB5zO     
n.侍从;随员
参考例句:
  • The duchess arrived,surrounded by her retinue of servants.公爵夫人在大批随从人马的簇拥下到达了。
  • The king's retinue accompanied him on the journey.国王的侍从在旅途上陪伴着他。
80 mythical 4FrxJ     
adj.神话的;虚构的;想像的
参考例句:
  • Undeniably,he is a man of mythical status.不可否认,他是一个神话般的人物。
  • Their wealth is merely mythical.他们的财富完全是虚构的。
81 warrior YgPww     
n.勇士,武士,斗士
参考例句:
  • The young man is a bold warrior.这个年轻人是个很英勇的武士。
  • A true warrior values glory and honor above life.一个真正的勇士珍视荣誉胜过生命。
82 armistice ivoz9     
n.休战,停战协定
参考例句:
  • The two nations signed an armistice.两国签署了停火协议。
  • The Italian armistice is nothing but a clumsy trap.意大利的停战不过是一个笨拙的陷阱。
83 dormant d8uyk     
adj.暂停活动的;休眠的;潜伏的
参考例句:
  • Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.在冬天许多动物都处于睡眠状态。
  • This dormant volcano suddenly fired up.这座休眠火山突然爆发了。
84 mule G6RzI     
n.骡子,杂种,执拗的人
参考例句:
  • A mule is a cross between a mare and a donkey.骡子是母马和公驴的杂交后代。
  • He is an old mule.他是个老顽固。
85 chamber wnky9     
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
参考例句:
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
86 wreaked b55a53c55bc968f9e4146e61191644f5     
诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city. 地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
  • They have wreaked dreadful havoc among the wildlife by shooting and trapping. 他们射杀和诱捕野生动物,造成了严重的破坏。
87 whitewash 3gYwJ     
v.粉刷,掩饰;n.石灰水,粉刷,掩饰
参考例句:
  • They tried hard to whitewash themselves.他们力图粉饰自己。
  • What he said was a load of whitewash.他所说的是一大堆粉饰之词。
88 veins 65827206226d9e2d78ea2bfe697c6329     
n.纹理;矿脉( vein的名词复数 );静脉;叶脉;纹理
参考例句:
  • The blood flows from the capillaries back into the veins. 血从毛细血管流回静脉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I felt a pleasant glow in all my veins from the wine. 喝过酒后我浑身的血都热烘烘的,感到很舒服。 来自《简明英汉词典》
89 termites 8ee357110f82dc8b267190e430924662     
n.白蚁( termite的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Termites are principally tropical in distribution. 白蚁主要分布在热带地区。 来自辞典例句
  • This spray will exterminate the termites. 这种喷剂能消灭白蚁。 来自辞典例句
90 moss X6QzA     
n.苔,藓,地衣
参考例句:
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
91 insidious fx6yh     
adj.阴险的,隐匿的,暗中为害的,(疾病)不知不觉之间加剧
参考例句:
  • That insidious man bad-mouthed me to almost everyone else.那个阴险的家伙几乎见人便说我的坏话。
  • Organized crime has an insidious influence on all who come into contact with it.所有和集团犯罪有关的人都会不知不觉地受坏影响。
92 nostalgia p5Rzb     
n.怀乡病,留恋过去,怀旧
参考例句:
  • He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
  • I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌,心中充满了怀旧之情。
93 coordination Ho8zt     
n.协调,协作
参考例句:
  • Gymnastics is a sport that requires a considerable level of coordination.体操是一项需要高协调性的运动。
  • The perfect coordination of the dancers and singers added a rhythmic charm to the performance.舞蹈演员和歌手们配合得很好,使演出更具魅力。
94 halfway Xrvzdq     
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
参考例句:
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
95 penetrating ImTzZS     
adj.(声音)响亮的,尖锐的adj.(气味)刺激的adj.(思想)敏锐的,有洞察力的
参考例句:
  • He had an extraordinarily penetrating gaze. 他的目光有股异乎寻常的洞察力。
  • He examined the man with a penetrating gaze. 他以锐利的目光仔细观察了那个人。
96 misery G10yi     
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
参考例句:
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
97 ulcers CfBzhM     
n.溃疡( ulcer的名词复数 );腐烂物;道德败坏;腐败
参考例句:
  • Detachment of the dead cells produces erosions and ulcers. 死亡细胞的脱落,产生糜烂和溃疡。 来自辞典例句
  • 75% of postbulbar ulcers occur proximal to the duodenal papilla. 75%的球后溃疡发生在十二指肠乳头近侧。 来自辞典例句
98 interfering interfering     
adj. 妨碍的 动词interfere的现在分词
参考例句:
  • He's an interfering old busybody! 他老爱管闲事!
  • I wish my mother would stop interfering and let me make my own decisions. 我希望我母亲不再干预,让我自己拿主意。
99 hazy h53ya     
adj.有薄雾的,朦胧的;不肯定的,模糊的
参考例句:
  • We couldn't see far because it was so hazy.雾气蒙蒙妨碍了我们的视线。
  • I have a hazy memory of those early years.对那些早先的岁月我有着朦胧的记忆。
100 countless 7vqz9L     
adj.无数的,多得不计其数的
参考例句:
  • In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
  • I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。
101 fatigue PhVzV     
n.疲劳,劳累
参考例句:
  • The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
  • I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。
102 impersonal Ck6yp     
adj.无个人感情的,与个人无关的,非人称的
参考例句:
  • Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.他的孩子们也认为他跟其他人很疏远,没有人情味。
  • His manner seemed rather stiff and impersonal.他的态度似乎很生硬冷淡。
103 penance Uulyx     
n.(赎罪的)惩罪
参考例句:
  • They had confessed their sins and done their penance.他们已经告罪并做了补赎。
  • She knelt at her mother's feet in penance.她忏悔地跪在母亲脚下。
104 dissuaded a2aaf4d696a6951c453bcb3bace560b6     
劝(某人)勿做某事,劝阻( dissuade的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was easily dissuaded from going. 他很容易就接受劝告不走了。
  • Ulysses was not to be dissuaded from his attempt. 尤利西斯想前去解救的决心不为所动。
105 daguerreotype Iywx1     
n.银板照相
参考例句:
  • The inventor of the daguerreotype is a French artist.银版照相的发明者是位法国艺术家。
  • The image was taken by louis daguerre who invented the daguerreotype-one of the earliest methods of photography.这张照片是由路易斯达盖尔拍摄,他发明了银版照相法-摄影的最早方法之一。
106 relic 4V2xd     
n.神圣的遗物,遗迹,纪念物
参考例句:
  • This stone axe is a relic of ancient times.这石斧是古代的遗物。
  • He found himself thinking of the man as a relic from the past.他把这个男人看成是过去时代的人物。
107 condescending avxzvU     
adj.谦逊的,故意屈尊的
参考例句:
  • He has a condescending attitude towards women. 他对女性总是居高临下。
  • He tends to adopt a condescending manner when talking to young women. 和年轻女子说话时,他喜欢摆出一副高高在上的姿态。
108 hatchet Dd0zr     
n.短柄小斧;v.扼杀
参考例句:
  • I shall have to take a hatchet to that stump.我得用一把短柄斧来劈这树桩。
  • Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.别用斧头拍打朋友额头上的苍蝇。
109 splendor hriy0     
n.光彩;壮丽,华丽;显赫,辉煌
参考例句:
  • Never in his life had he gazed on such splendor.他生平从没有见过如此辉煌壮丽的场面。
  • All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
110 iodine Da6zr     
n.碘,碘酒
参考例句:
  • The doctor painted iodine on the cut.医生在伤口上涂点碘酒。
  • Iodine tends to localize in the thyroid.碘容易集于甲状腺。
111 tingling LgTzGu     
v.有刺痛感( tingle的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • My ears are tingling [humming; ringing; singing]. 我耳鸣。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My tongue is tingling. 舌头发麻。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
112 tardy zq3wF     
adj.缓慢的,迟缓的
参考例句:
  • It's impolite to make a tardy appearance.晚到是不礼貌的。
  • The boss is unsatisfied with the tardy tempo.老板不满于这种缓慢的进度。
113 shudder JEqy8     
v.战粟,震动,剧烈地摇晃;n.战粟,抖动
参考例句:
  • The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him.看到那副棺材,他浑身一阵战栗。
  • We all shudder at the thought of the dreadful dirty place.我们一想到那可怕的肮脏地方就浑身战惊。
114 pensive 2uTys     
a.沉思的,哀思的,忧沉的
参考例句:
  • He looked suddenly sombre,pensive.他突然看起来很阴郁,一副忧虑的样子。
  • He became so pensive that she didn't like to break into his thought.他陷入沉思之中,她不想打断他的思路。
115 blasphemies 03153f820424ca21b037633d3d1b7481     
n.对上帝的亵渎,亵渎的言词[行为]( blasphemy的名词复数 );侮慢的言词(或行为)
参考例句:
  • That foul mouth stands there bringing more ill fortune with his blasphemies. 那一张臭嘴站在那儿满嘴喷粪,只能带来更多恶运。 来自辞典例句
  • All great truths begin as blasphemies. 一切伟大的真理起初都被视为大逆不道的邪说。 来自辞典例句
116 miserable g18yk     
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
参考例句:
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
117 novices 760ca772bcfbe170dc208a6174b7f7a2     
n.新手( novice的名词复数 );初学修士(或修女);(修会等的)初学生;尚未赢过大赛的赛马
参考例句:
  • The Russians are such novices in Africa. 在非洲的俄国人简直都是些毫无经验的生手。 来自辞典例句
  • Where the primary track all novices, screams everywhere, ha ha good terror. 那里的初级道上全是生手,到处都是尖叫声,哈哈好恐怖的。 来自互联网
118 pealing a30c30e9cb056cec10397fd3f7069c71     
v.(使)(钟等)鸣响,(雷等)发出隆隆声( peal的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The bell began pealing. 钟声开始鸣响了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The church bells are pealing the message of Christmas joy. 教堂的钟声洪亮地传颂着圣诞快乐的信息。 来自辞典例句
119 manifestation 0RCz6     
n.表现形式;表明;现象
参考例句:
  • Her smile is a manifestation of joy.她的微笑是她快乐的表现。
  • What we call mass is only another manifestation of energy.我们称之为质量的东西只是能量的另一种表现形态。
120 itinerant m3jyu     
adj.巡回的;流动的
参考例句:
  • He is starting itinerant performance all over the world.他正在世界各地巡回演出。
  • There is a general debate nowadays about the problem of itinerant workers.目前,针对流动工人的问题展开了普遍的争论。
121 rustic mCQz9     
adj.乡村的,有乡村特色的;n.乡下人,乡巴佬
参考例句:
  • It was nearly seven months of leisurely rustic living before Michael felt real boredom.这种悠闲的乡村生活过了差不多七个月之后,迈克尔开始感到烦闷。
  • We hoped the fresh air and rustic atmosphere would help him adjust.我们希望新鲜的空气和乡村的氛围能帮他调整自己。
122 acceded c4280b02966b7694640620699b4832b0     
v.(正式)加入( accede的过去式和过去分词 );答应;(通过财产的添附而)增加;开始任职
参考例句:
  • He acceded to demands for his resignation. 他同意要他辞职的要求。
  • They have acceded to the treaty. 他们已经加入了那个条约。 来自《简明英汉词典》
123 doorway 2s0xK     
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
参考例句:
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
124 treasurer VmHwm     
n.司库,财务主管
参考例句:
  • Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
  • The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
125 exasperating 06604aa7af9dfc9c7046206f7e102cf0     
adj. 激怒的 动词exasperate的现在分词形式
参考例句:
  • Our team's failure is very exasperating. 我们队失败了,真是气死人。
  • It is really exasperating that he has not turned up when the train is about to leave. 火车快开了, 他还不来,实在急人。
126 parsimony 6Lzxo     
n.过度节俭,吝啬
参考例句:
  • A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny, famous for his parsimony.有个经典例子出自以吝啬著称的喜剧演员杰克?班尼。
  • Due to official parsimony only the one machine was built.由于官方过于吝啬,仅制造了那一台机器。
127 disorder Et1x4     
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
参考例句:
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
128 degenerated 41e5137359bcc159984e1d58f1f76d16     
衰退,堕落,退化( degenerate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The march degenerated into a riot. 示威游行变成了暴动。
  • The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track. 铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。
129 rivalry tXExd     
n.竞争,竞赛,对抗
参考例句:
  • The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
  • He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
130 inventory 04xx7     
n.详细目录,存货清单
参考例句:
  • Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
  • We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。
131 filthy ZgOzj     
adj.卑劣的;恶劣的,肮脏的
参考例句:
  • The whole river has been fouled up with filthy waste from factories.整条河都被工厂的污秽废物污染了。
  • You really should throw out that filthy old sofa and get a new one.你真的应该扔掉那张肮脏的旧沙发,然后再去买张新的。
132 tightened bd3d8363419d9ff838bae0ba51722ee9     
收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧
参考例句:
  • The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
  • His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机,然后又松开了。
133 retired Njhzyv     
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
参考例句:
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
134 luminous 98ez5     
adj.发光的,发亮的;光明的;明白易懂的;有启发的
参考例句:
  • There are luminous knobs on all the doors in my house.我家所有门上都安有夜光把手。
  • Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.这家商店出售的大多数钟表都涂了发光漆。
135 chestnut XnJy8     
n.栗树,栗子
参考例句:
  • We have a chestnut tree in the bottom of our garden.我们的花园尽头有一棵栗树。
  • In summer we had tea outdoors,under the chestnut tree.夏天我们在室外栗树下喝茶。
136 sobbing df75b14f92e64fc9e1d7eaf6dcfc083a     
<主方>Ⅰ adj.湿透的
参考例句:
  • I heard a child sobbing loudly. 我听见有个孩子在呜呜地哭。
  • Her eyes were red with recent sobbing. 她的眼睛因刚哭过而发红。
137 psalms 47aac1d82cedae7c6a543a2c9a72b9db     
n.赞美诗( psalm的名词复数 );圣诗;圣歌;(中的)
参考例句:
  • the Book of Psalms 《〈圣经〉诗篇》
  • A verse from Psalms knifed into Pug's mind: "put not your trust in princes." 《诗篇》里有一句话闪过帕格的脑海:“不要相信王侯。” 来自辞典例句
138 repose KVGxQ     
v.(使)休息;n.安息
参考例句:
  • Don't disturb her repose.不要打扰她休息。
  • Her mouth seemed always to be smiling,even in repose.她的嘴角似乎总是挂着微笑,即使在睡眠时也是这样。
139 martyr o7jzm     
n.烈士,殉难者;vt.杀害,折磨,牺牲
参考例句:
  • The martyr laid down his life for the cause of national independence.这位烈士是为了民族独立的事业而献身的。
  • The newspaper carried the martyr's photo framed in black.报上登载了框有黑边的烈士遗像。
140 amends AzlzCR     
n. 赔偿
参考例句:
  • He made amends for his rudeness by giving her some flowers. 他送给她一些花,为他自己的鲁莽赔罪。
  • This country refuses stubbornly to make amends for its past war crimes. 该国顽固地拒绝为其过去的战争罪行赔罪。
141 pretext 1Qsxi     
n.借口,托词
参考例句:
  • He used his headache as a pretext for not going to school.他借口头疼而不去上学。
  • He didn't attend that meeting under the pretext of sickness.他以生病为借口,没参加那个会议。
142 convalescence 8Y6ze     
n.病后康复期
参考例句:
  • She bore up well during her convalescence.她在病后恢复期间始终有信心。
  • After convalescence he had a relapse.他于痊愈之后,病又发作了一次。
143 dictated aa4dc65f69c81352fa034c36d66908ec     
v.大声讲或读( dictate的过去式和过去分词 );口授;支配;摆布
参考例句:
  • He dictated a letter to his secretary. 他向秘书口授信稿。
  • No person of a strong character likes to be dictated to. 没有一个个性强的人愿受人使唤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
144 violation lLBzJ     
n.违反(行为),违背(行为),侵犯
参考例句:
  • He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说,那是违反规则的。
  • He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。
145 prohibition 7Rqxw     
n.禁止;禁令,禁律
参考例句:
  • The prohibition against drunken driving will save many lives.禁止酒后开车将会减少许多死亡事故。
  • They voted in favour of the prohibition of smoking in public areas.他们投票赞成禁止在公共场所吸烟。
146 dedicated duHzy2     
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
参考例句:
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
147 conspirators d40593710e3e511cb9bb9ec2b74bccc3     
n.共谋者,阴谋家( conspirator的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The conspirators took no part in the fighting which ensued. 密谋者没有参加随后发生的战斗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The French conspirators were forced to escape very hurriedly. 法国同谋者被迫匆促逃亡。 来自辞典例句
148 vitality lhAw8     
n.活力,生命力,效力
参考例句:
  • He came back from his holiday bursting with vitality and good health.他度假归来之后,身强体壮,充满活力。
  • He is an ambitious young man full of enthusiasm and vitality.他是个充满热情与活力的有远大抱负的青年。
149 rejuvenated eb579d2f15c855cfdcb0652d23a6aaca     
更生的
参考例句:
  • He was rejuvenated by new hope. 新的希望又使他充满了活力。
  • She looked rejuvenated after plastic surgery. 她做完整形手术后显得年轻了。
150 penetrate juSyv     
v.透(渗)入;刺入,刺穿;洞察,了解
参考例句:
  • Western ideas penetrate slowly through the East.西方观念逐渐传入东方。
  • The sunshine could not penetrate where the trees were thickest.阳光不能透入树木最浓密的地方。
151 gardenia zh6xQ     
n.栀子花
参考例句:
  • On muggy summer night,Gardenia brought about memories in the South.闷热的夏夜,栀子花带来关于南方的回忆。
  • A gardenia stands for pure,noble.栀子花是纯洁高尚的象征。
152 withered 342a99154d999c47f1fc69d900097df9     
adj. 枯萎的,干瘪的,(人身体的部分器官)因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • The grass had withered in the warm sun. 这些草在温暖的阳光下枯死了。
  • The leaves of this tree have become dry and withered. 这棵树下的叶子干枯了。
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