德伯家的苔丝(TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES)第十八章
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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)

Angel Clare rises out of the past not altogether as a distinct figure, but as an appreciative1 voice, a long regard of fixed2, abstracted eyes, and a mobility3 of mouth somewhat too small and delicately lined for a man's, though with an unexpectedly firm close of the lower lip now and then; enough to do away with any inference of indecision. Nevertheless, something nebulous, preoccupied4, vague, in his bearing and regard, marked him as one who probably had no very definite aim or concern about his material future. Yet as a lad people had said of him that he was one who might do anything if he tried.

He was the youngest son of his father, a poor parson at the other end of the county, and had arrived at Talbothays Dairy as a six months' pupil, after going the round of some other farms, his object being to acquire a practical skill in the various processes of farming, with a view either to the Colonies, or the tenure5 of a home-farm, as circumstances might decide.

His entry into the ranks of the agriculturists and breeders was a step in the young man's career which had been anticipated neither by himself nor by others.

Mr Clare the elder, whose first wife had died and left him a daughter, married a second late in life. This lady had somewhat unexpectedly brought him three sons, so that between Angel, the youngest, and his father the vicar there seemed to be almost a missing generation. Of these boys the aforesaid Angel, the child of his old age, was the only son who had not taken a University degree, though he was the single one of them whose early promise might have done full justice to an academical training.

Some two or three years before Angel's appearance at the Marlott dance, on a day when he had left school and was pursuing his studies at home, a parcel came to the vicarage from the local bookseller's, directed to the Reverend James Clare. The vicar having opened it and found it to contain a book, read a few pages; whereupon he lumped up from his seat and went straight to the shop with the book under his arm.

`Why has this been sent to my house?' he asked peremptorily6, holding up the volume.

`It was ordered, sir.'

`Not by me, or any one belonging to me, I am happy to say.' The shopkeeper looked into his order-book.

`Oh, it has been misdirected, sir,' he said. `It was ordered by Mr Angel Clare, and should have been sent to him.'

Mr Clare winced7 as if he had been struck. He went home pale and dejected, and called Angel into his study.

`Look into this book, my boy,' he said. `What do you know about it?'

`I ordered it,' said Angel simply.

`What for?'

`To read.'

`How can you think of reading it?'

`How can I? Why - it is a system of philosophy. There is no more moral, or even religious, work published.'

`Yes - moral enough; I don't deny that. But religious! - and for you, who intend to be a minister of the Gospel!'

`Since you have alluded8 to the matter, father,' said the son, with anxious thought upon his face, `I should like to say, once for all, that I should prefer not to take Orders. I fear I could not conscientiously9 do so. I love the Church as one loves a parent. I shall always have the warmest affection for her. There is no institution for whose history I have a deeper admiration10; but I cannot honestly be ordained11 her minister, as my brothers are, while she refuses to liberate12 her mind from an untenable redemptive theolatry.'

It had never occurred to the straightforward13 and simple-minded Vicar that one of his own flesh and blood could come to this! He was stultified14, shocked, paralyzed. And if Angel were not going to enter the Church, what was the use of sending him to Cambridge? The University as a step to anything but ordination15 seemed, to this man of fixed ideas, a preface without a volume. He was a man not merely religious, but devout16; a firm believer - not as the phrase is now elusively17 construed18 by theological thimble-riggers in the Church and out of it, but in the old and ardent19 sense of the Evangelical school: one who could

Indeed opine
That the Eternal and Divine
Did, eighteen centuries ago
In very truth...

Angel's father tried argument, persuasion20, entreaty21.
`No, father: I cannot underwrite Article Four (leave alone the rest), taking it "in the literal and grammatical sense" as required by the Declaration; and, therefore, I can't be a parson in the present state of affairs,' said Angel. `My whole instinct in matters of religion is towards reconstruction23; to quote your favourite Epistle to the Hebrews, "the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain".'

His father grieved so deeply that it made Angel quite ill to see him.

`What is the good of your mother and me economizing24 and stinting25 ourselves to give you a University education, if it is not to be used for the honour and glory of God?' his father repeated.

`Why, that it may be used for the honour and glory of man, father.'

Perhaps if Angel had persevered26 he might have gone to Cambridge like his brothers. But the Vicar's view of that seat of learning as a stepping-stone to Orders alone was quite a family tradition; and so rooted was the idea in his mind that perseverance27 began to appear to the sensitive son akin22 to an intent to misappropriate a trust, and wrong the pious28 heads of the household, who had been and were, as his father had hinted, compelled to exercise much thrift29 to carry out this uniform plan of education for the three young men.

`I will do without Cambridge,' said Angel at last. `I feel that I have no right to go there in the circumstances.'

The effects of this decisive debate were not long in showing themselves. He spent years and years in desultory30 studies, undertakings31, and meditations32; he began to evince considerable indifference33 to social forms and observances. The material distinctions of rank and wealth he increasingly despised. Even the `good old family' (to use a favourite phrase of a late local worthy) had no aroma34 for him unless there were good new resolutions in its representatives. As a balance to these austerities, when he went to live in London to see what the world was like, and with a view to practising a profession or business there, he was carried off his head, and nearly entrapped35 by a woman much older than himself, though luckily he escaped not greatly the worse for the experience.

Early association with country solitudes36 had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable37, aversion to modern life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspired38 to by following a mundane39 calling in the impracticability of the spiritual one. But something had to be done; he had wasted many valuable years; and having an acquaintance who was starting on a thriving life as a Colonial farmer, it occurred to Angel that this might be a lead in the right direction. Farming, either in the Colonies, America, or at home - farming, at any rate, after becoming well qualified40 for the business by a careful apprenticeship41 - that was a vocation42 which would probably afford an independence without the sacrifice of what he valued even more than a competency - intellectual liberty.

So we find Angel Clare at six-and-twenty here at Talbothays as a student of kine, and, as there were no houses near at hand in which he could get a comfortable lodging43, a boarder at the dairyman's.

His room was an immense attic44 which ran the whole length of the dairy-house. It could only be reached by a ladder from the cheese-loft, and had been closed up for a long time till he arrived and selected it as his retreat. Here Clare had plenty of space, and could often be heard by the dairy-folk pacing up and down when the household had gone to rest. A portion was divided off at one end by a curtain, behind which was his bed, the outer part being furnished as a homely45 sitting-room46.

At first he lived up above entirely47, reading a good deal, and strumming upon an old harp48 which he had bought at a sale, saying when in a bitter humour that he might have to get his living by it in the streets some day. But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals downstairs in the general dining-kitchen, with the dairyman and his wife, and the maids and men, who all together formed a lively assembly; for though but few milking hands slept in the house, several joined the family at meals. The longer Clare resided here the less objection had he to his company, and the more did he like to share quarters with them in common.

Much to his surprise he took, indeed, a real delight in their companionship. The conventional farm-folk of his imagination - personified in the newspaper-press by the pitiable dummy49 known as Hodge - were obliterated50 after a few days' residence. At close quarters no Hodge was to be seen. At first, it is true, when Clare's intelligence was fresh from a contrasting society, these friends with whom he now hobnobbed seemed a little strange. Sitting down as a level member of the dairyman's household seemed at the outset an undignified proceeding51. The ideas, the modes, the surroundings, appeared retrogressive and unmeaning. But with living on there, day after day, the acute sojourner52 became conscious of a new aspect in the spectacle. Without any objective change whatever, variety had taken the place of monotonousness. His host and his host's household, his men and his maids, as they became intimately known to Clare, began to differentiate53 themselves as in a chemical process. The thought of Pascal's was brought home to him: `A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il y a plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de difference entre les hommes.' The typical and unvarying Hodge ceased to exist. He had been disintegrated54 into a number of varied55 fellow-creatures - beings of many minds, beings infinite in difference; some happy, many serene56, a few depressed57, one here and there bright even to genius, some stupid, others wanton, others austere58; some mutely Miltonic, some potentially Cromwellian; into men who had private views of each other, as he had of his friends; who could applaud or condemn59 each other, amuse or sadden themselves by the contemplation of each other's foibles or vices60; men every one of whom walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death.

Unexpectedly he began to like the outdoor life for its own sake, and for what it brought, apart from its bearing on his own proposed career. Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic61 melancholy62 which is taking hold of the civilized63 races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power. For the first time of late years he could read as his musings inclined him, without any eye to cramming64 for a profession, since the few farming handbooks which he deemed it desirable to master occupied him but little time.

He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena65 which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.

The early mornings were still sufficiently66 cool to render a fire acceptable in the large room wherein they breakfasted; and, by Mrs Crick's orders, who held that he was too genteel to mess at their table, it was Angel Clare's custom to sit in the yawning chimney-corner during the meal, his cup-and-saucer and plate being placed on a hinged flap at his elbow. The light from the long, wide, mullioned window opposite shone in upon his nook, and, assisted by a secondary light of cold blue quality which shone down the chimney, enabled him to read there easily whenever disposed to do so. Between Clare and the window was the table at which his companions sat, their munching67 profiles rising sharp against the panes68; while to the side was the milk-house door, through which were visible the rectangular leads in rows, full to the brim with the morning's milk. At the further end the great churn could be seen revolving69, and its slip-slopping heard - the moving power being discernible through the window in the form of a spiritless horse walking in a circle and driven by a boy,

For several days after Tess's arrival Clare, sitting abstractedly reading from some book, periodical, or piece of music just come by post, hardly noticed that she was present at table. She talked so little, and the other maids talked so much, that the babble70 did not strike him as possessing a new note, and he was ever in the habit of neglecting the particulars of an outward scene for the general impression. One day, however, when he had been conning71 one of his music-scores, and by force of imagination was hearing the tune72 in his head, he lapsed73 into listlessness, and the music-sheet rolled to the hearth74. He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig75 to his inward tune; also at the two chimney crooks76 dangling77 down from the cotterer or cross-bar, plumed78 with soot79 which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining80 an accompaniment. The conversation at the table mixed in with his phantasmal orchestra till he thought: `What a fluty voice one of those milkmaids has! I suppose it is the new one.'

Clare looked round upon her, seated with the others.

She was not looking towards him. Indeed, owing to his long silence, his presence in the room was almost forgotten.

`I don't know about ghosts,' she was saying; `but I do know that our souls can be made to go outside our bodies when we are alive.'

The dairyman turned to her with his mouth full, his eyes charged with serious inquiry81, and his great knife and fork (breakfasts were breakfasts here) planted erect82 on the table, like the beginning of a gallows83.

`What - really now? And is it so, maidy?' he said.

`A very easy way to feel 'em go,' continued Tess, `is to lie on the grass at night and look straight up at some big bright star; and, by fixing your mind upon it, you will soon find that you are hundreds and hundreds o' miles away from your body, which you don't seem to want at all.'

The dairyman removed his hard gaze from Tess, and fixed it on his wife.

`Now that's a rum thing, Christianner - hey? To think o' the miles I've vamped o' starlight nights these last thirty years, courting, or trading, or for doctor, or for nurse, and yet never had the least notion o' that till now, or feeled my soul rise so much as an inch above my shirt-collar.'

The general attention being drawn84 to her, including that of the dairyman's pupil, Tess flushed, and remarking evasively that it was only a fancy, resumed her breakfast.

Clare continued to observe her. She soon finished her eating, and having a consciousness that Clare was regarding her, began to trace imaginary patterns on the tablecloth85 with her forefinger86 with the constraint87 of a domestic animal that perceives itself to be watched.

`What a fresh and virginal daughter of Nature that milkmaid is!' he said to himself.

And then he seemed to discern in her something that was familiar, something which carried him back into a joyous88 and unforeseeing past, before the necessity of taking thought had made the heavens gray. He concluded that he had beheld89 her before; where he could not tell. A casual encounter during some country ramble90 it certainly had been, and he was not greatly curious about it. But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to the other pretty milkmaids when he wished to contemplate91 contiguous womankind.

从往日的回忆中显现出来的安棋尔·克莱尔先生,并不完全是一个清晰的形象,而是一种富有欣赏力的声音,一种凝视和出神眼睛的长久注视,一种生动的嘴唇,那嘴唇有时候对一个男人来说太小,线条太纤细,虽然他的下唇有时叫人意想不到地闭得紧紧的,但是这已足够叫人打消对他不够果断的推论。尽管如此,在他的神态和目光里,隐藏着某种混乱、模糊和心不在焉的东西,叫人一看就知道他这个人也许对未来的物质生活,既没有明确的目标,也不怎么关心。可是当他还是一个少年的时候,人们就说过,他是那种想做什么就能把什么做好的人。
  他是他父亲的小儿子,他父亲是住在本郡另一头的穷牧师。他来到泰波塞斯奶牛场,是要当六个月的学徒,他已经去过附近其它的一些农场,目的是要学习管理农场过程中的各种实际技术,以便将来根据情况决定是到殖民地去,还是留在国内的农场里工作。
  他进入农夫和牧人的行列,这只是这个年轻人事业中的第一步,也是他自己或者其他的人都不曾预料到的。老克莱尔先生的前妻给他生了一个女儿以后,就不幸死了,到了晚年,他又娶了第二个妻子。多少有些出人意料,后妻给他生了三个儿子,因此在最小的儿子安琪尔和老牧师父亲之间,好像差不多缺少了一辈人。在二个儿子中间,前面说到的安琪尔是牧师老来得到的儿子,也只有这个儿子没有大学学位,尽管从早年的天资看,只有他才真正配接受大学的学术训练。
  从安琪尔在马洛特村的舞会上跳舞算起,在两三年前,有一天他放学回家后正在学习功课,这时候本地的书店给牧师家送来一个包裹,交到了詹姆士·克莱尔牧师手里。牧师打开包裹一看,里面是一本书,就翻开读了几页;读后他再也坐不住了,就从座位上跳起来,挟著书直奔书店而去。
  “为什么要把这本书送到我家里?”他拿着书,不容分说地问。
  “这本书是订购的,先生。”
  “我敢说我没有订购这本书,我家里别的人也没有订购这本书。”
  书店老板查了查订购登记簿。
  “哦,这本书寄错了,先生,”他说。“这本书是安琪尔·克莱尔先生订购的,应该寄给他才对。”
  克莱尔先生听后直往后躲,仿佛被人打了一样。他满脸苍白地回到家里,一脸地沮丧,把安琪尔叫到他的书房里。
  “你读读这本书吧,我的儿子,”他说。“你知道这是怎么一回事吗?”
  “这是我订购的书,”安琪尔回答得很简单。
  “订这本书干什么?”
  “读呀。”
  “你怎么会想到要读这本书?”
  “我怎么想到的?为什么——这是一本关于哲学体系的书呀。在已经出版的书里面,没有其它的书比它更符合道德的了,也甚至没有比它更符合宗教的了。”
  “是的—一很道德;我不否认这一点。可是宗教呢?——尤其对你来说,对想当一个宣传福音的牧师的你来说,它不合乎宗教!”
  “既然你提到这件事,父亲,”儿子说,脸上满是焦虑的神情,“我想最后再说一次,我不愿意担任教职。凭良心说,我恐怕不能够去当牧师。我爱教会就像一个人爱他的父亲一样。对教会我一直怀有最热烈的感情。再也没有一种制度的历史能使我有比它更深的敬爱了;可是,在她还没有把她的思想从奉神赎罪的不堪一击的信念中解放出来,我不能像我两个哥哥一样,真正接受教职做她的牧师。”
  这位性格率直思想单纯的牧师从来没有想到,他自己的亲生骨肉竟会说出这样一番话来。他不禁吓住了、愣住了、瘫痪了。要是安琪尔不愿意进入教会,那么把他送到剑桥去还有什么用处呢?对这位思想观念一成不变的牧师来说,进剑桥大学似乎只是进入教会的第一步,是一篇还没有正文的序言。他这个人不但信教,而且非常虔诚;他是一个坚定的信徒——这不是现在教堂内外拿神学玩把戏而闪烁其词时用作解释的一个词,而是在福音教派①过去就有的在热烈意义上使用的一个词。他是这样一个人:
  
  ①福音教派(Evangelical school),新教(Protestant)中的一派,认为福音的要义是宣讲人陷入罪恶,耶稣为人赎罪,人应凭借信心赎罪。英国国教中包含这种主义的也就是低教派(Low Church)。

  真正相信
  上帝和造物主
  在十八世纪以前
  确实作过上……
  安琪尔的父亲努力同他争论,劝说他,恳求他。
  “不,爸爸;光是第四条我就不能赞同(其它的暂且不论),不能按照《宣言》的要求‘按照字面和语法上的意义’接受它;所以,在目前的情况下我不能做牧帅,”安琪尔说。“关于宗教的问题,我的全部本能就是趋向于将它重新改造;让我引用你所喜爱的《希伯莱书》中的几句话吧,‘那些被震动的都是受造之物,都要挪去,使那不被震动的常存’。”
  他的父亲伤心无比,安琪尔见了心里感到非常难受。
  “要是你不为上帝的光辉和荣耀服务,那么我和你母亲省吃俭用、吃苦受罪地供你上大学,还有什么用处呢?”他的父亲把这话说了一遍又一遍。
  “可以用来为人类的光辉和荣耀服务啊,爸爸。”
  如果安琪尔继续坚持下去,也许他就可以像两个哥哥一样去剑桥了。但是牧师的观点完全是一种家庭传统,就足仅仅把剑桥这个学府当作进入教会的一块垫脚石;他心中的思想是那样根深蒂固,所以生性敏感的儿子开始觉得,他要再坚持下去就好像是侵吞了一笔委托财产,对个起他虔诚的父母,正如他的父亲睹示的那样,他们过去和现在都不得不节衣缩食,以便实现供养三个儿子接受同样教育的计划。
  “我不上剑桥大学也行,”安琪尔后来说。“我觉得在目前情况下,我没有权利进剑桥大学。”
  这场关键性的辩论结束了,它的影响不久也显现出来。多少年来,他进行了许多漫无边际的研究,尝试过多次杂乱无章的计划,进行过无数毫无系统的思考;开始对社会习俗和礼仪明显表现出满不在乎的态度。他越来越鄙夷地位、财富这种物质上的差别。在他看来,即使“古老世家”(使用近来故去的一个本地名人的字眼儿)也没有了香味,除非它的后人能有新的良好变化。为了使这种严酷单调的生活得到平衡,他就到伦敦去住,要看看伦敦的世界是什么样子,同时也为了从事一种职业或者生意在那儿进行锻炼,他在那儿遇上了一个年纪比他大得多的女人,被她迷昏厂头脑,差一点儿掉进她的陷阱,幸好他摆脱开了,没有因为这番经历吃了大亏。
  他的幼年生活同乡村幽静生活的联系,使他对现代城市生活生出一种不可抑制的几乎是非理性的厌恶来,因此也使他同另一种成功隔离开来,使他既不愿从事精神方面的工作,也不愿立志追求一种世俗的职业。但是他不能不做一件工作;他已经虚度了许多年的宝贵光阴;后来认识了一个在殖民地务农而发达起来的朋友,因此他想到这也许是一条正确的途径。在殖民地,在美国,或者在国内务农——通过认真地学习务农,无论如何,在学会了这件事之后——也许务农是使他得到独立的一种职业,而不用牺牲他看得比可观的财产更为宝贵的东西,即精神自由。
  因此,我们就看到安琪尔·克莱尔在二十六岁时来到泰波塞斯,做一个学习养牛的学徒,同时,因为附近找不到一个舒适的住处,所以他吃住都和奶牛场的老板在一起。他的房间是一个很大的阁楼,同整个牛奶房的长度一样长。奶酪间里有一架楼梯,只有从那儿才能上楼去,阁楼已经关闭了很长时间,他来了以后才把它打开作他的住处。克莱尔住在这儿,拥有大量空间,所有的人都睡了,奶牛场的人还听见他在那儿走来走去。阁楼的一头用帘子隔出了一部分,里面就是他的床铺,外面的部分则被布置成一个朴素的起居室。
  起初他完全住在楼上,读了大量的书,弹一弹廉价买来的一架旧竖琴,在他感到心情苦恼无奈的时候,就说有一天他要在街上弹琴挣饭吃。可是后来不久,他就宁肯下楼到那间大饭厅里去体察人生,同老板、老板娘和男女工人一起吃饭了,所有这些人一起组成了一个生动的集体;因为只有很少的挤奶工人住在奶牛场里,但是同牛奶场老板一家吃饭的人倒有好几个。克莱尔在这儿住的时间越长,他同他的伙伴们的隔阂就越少,也愿意同他们多增加相互的往来。
  使他大感意外的是,他的确真的喜欢与他们为伍了。他想象中的世俗农夫——报纸上所说的典型人物,著名的可怜笨伯霍吉——他住下来没有几天就从他心中消失了。同他们一接近,霍吉是不存在的。说真的,起初克莱尔从一个完全不同的社会来到这里,他感到同他朝夕相处的这些朋友呆在一起似乎有点儿异样。作为奶牛场老板一家人中的一个平等成员坐在一起,他在开头还觉得有失身分。他们的思想观念、生活方式和周围的环境似乎都是落后的、毫无意义的。但是他在那儿住下来,同他们天天生活在一起,于是寄居在这儿的这个眼光敏锐的人,就开始认识到这群平常人身上的全新的一面。虽然他看到的人并没有发生什么变化,但是丰富多采已经取代了单调乏味。老板和老板娘、男工和女工都变成了克莱尔熟悉的朋友,他们像发生化学变化一样开始显示出各自不同的特点。他开始想到帕斯卡说过的话:“一个人自身的心智越高,就越能发现别人的独特之处。平庸的人是看不出人与人之间的差别的。”①那种典型的没有变化的霍吉已经不存在了。他已经分化了,融进了大量的各色各样的人中间去了——成了一群思想丰富的人,一群差别无穷的人;有些人快乐,多数人沉静,还有几个人心情忧郁,其间也有聪明程度达到天才的人,也有一些人愚笨,有些人粗俗,有些人质朴;有些人是沉默无声的弥尔顿式的人物,有些人则是锋芒毕露的克伦威尔式的人物②;他们就像他认识自己的朋友一样,相互之间都有着自己的看法;他们也会相互赞扬,或者相互指责,或者因为想到各自的弱点或者缺点而感到好笑和难过;他们都按照各自的方式在通往尘土的死亡道路上走着。
  
  ①帕斯卡(Pascal,1623-1662),法国数学家和哲学家,引文引自其《沉思录》“总序”。
  ②该文出自于英国诗人托玛斯·葛雷的《墓园挽歌》一诗的第十五节。

  出乎意料的是,他开始喜爱户外的生活了,这倒不是由于户外的生活对自己选择的职业有关系,而是因为户外生活本身,由于户外生活给他带来的东西。从克莱尔的地位来看,他已经令人惊奇地摆脱了长期的忧郁,那种忧郁是因为文明的人类对仁慈的神逐渐丧失信心而产生的。近些年来,他能够第一次按照自己的意思读他喜爱的书了,而不用考虑为了职业去死记硬背,因为他认为值得熟读的几本农业手册,根本用不了多少时间。
  他同过去的联系越来越少了,在人生和人类中间发现了一些新的东西。其次,他对过上只是模模糊糊地知道的外界现象更加熟悉了——如四季的变幻、清晨和傍晚、黑夜和正午、不同脾性的风、树木、水流、雾气、幽暗、静寂,还有许多无生命事物的声音。
  清早的气温仍然凉得很,所以在他们吃早饭的那间大房子里生上了火,大家感到适意;克里克太太认为克莱尔温文尔雅,不宜于坐在他们的桌子上同大家在一起吃饭,就吩咐让人把他的盘子和一套杯子和碟子摆在一块用铰链连起米的搁板上,所以吃饭的时候他总是坐在大张着口的壁炉旁边。阳光从对面那个又长又宽的直棂窗户里射进来,照亮了他坐的那个角落,壁炉的烟囱里也有一道冷蓝色的光线照进来,每当想要读书的时候,他就可以在那儿舒舒服服地读书了。在克莱尔和窗户中间,有一张他的伙伴们坐着吃饭的桌子,他们咀嚼东西的身影清清楚楚地映在窗户的玻璃上;房子一边是奶房的门,从门里面看进去,可以看见一排长方形的铅桶,里面装满了早晨挤出来的牛奶。在更远的一头,可以看见搅黄油的奶桶在转动着,也听得见搅黄油的声音——从窗户里看过去,可以看出奶桶是由一匹马拉着转动的,那是一匹没精打采的马,在一个男孩的驱赶下绕着圈走着。
  在苔丝来后的好几天里,克莱尔老是坐在那儿聚精会神地读书,读杂志,或者是读他刚收到的邮局寄来的乐谱,几乎没有注意到桌子上苔丝的出现。苔丝说话不多,其他的女孩子又说话太多,所以在那一片喧哗里,他心里没有留下多了一种新的说话声的印象,而且他也只习惯于获得外界的大致印象,而不太注意其中的细节。但是有一天,他正在熟悉一段乐谱,并在头脑里集中了他的全部想象力欣赏这段乐谱的时候,突然走了神,乐谱掉到了带炉的边上。那时已经做完了早饭,烧过了开水,他看见燃烧的木头只剩下一点火苗还在跳动着,快要熄火了,似乎在和着他内心的旋律跳吉尔舞;他还看见从壁炉的横梁或十字架上垂下来的两根挂钩,钩子沾满了烟灰,也和着同样的旋律颤抖着;钩子上的水壶已经空了一半,在用低声的倾诉和着旋律伴奏。桌子上的谈话混合在他幻想中的管弦乐曲里,他心里想:“在这些挤奶女工中间,有一个姑娘的声音多么清脆悦耳呀!我猜想这是一个新来的人的声音。”
  克莱尔扭头看去,只见她同其他的女工坐在一起。
  她没有向他这边看。实在的情形是,因为他在那儿坐了很久,默不作声,差不多已经被人忘记了。
  “我不知道有没有鬼怪,”她正在说,“但是我的确知道我们活着的时候,是能够让我们的灵魂出窍的。”
  奶牛场的老板一听,惊讶得合不上嘴,转过身看着她,眼睛里带着认真的询问;他把手里拿的大刀子和大叉子竖在桌子上(因为这儿的早餐是正规的早餐),就像是一副绞刑架子。
  “什么呀——真的吗?真的是这样吗,姑娘?”他问。
  “要觉得灵魂出窍,一种最简单的方法,”苔丝继续说,“就是晚上躺在草地上,用眼睛紧紧盯着天上某颗又大又亮的星星;你把思想集中到那颗星星上,不久你就会发现你离开自己的肉体有好几千里路远了,而你又似乎根本不想离开那么远。”
  奶牛场老板把死死盯在苔丝身上的目光移开,盯在他的妻子身上。
  “真是一件怪事,克里丝蒂娜,你说是不是?想想吧,我这三十年来在星空中走了多少里路啊,讨老婆,做生意,请大夫,找护士,一直到现在,一点儿也没有注意到灵魂出窍,也没有感觉到我的灵魂曾经离开过我的衣领半寸。”
  所有的人都把日光集中到了她的身上,其中也包括奶牛场老板的学徒的目光,苔丝的脸红了,就含含糊糊地说这只不过是一种幻想,说完了又接着吃她的早饭。
  克莱尔继续观察她,不久她就吃完了饭,感觉到克莱尔正在注意她,就像一只家畜知道有人注意自己时感到的紧张那样,开始用她的食指在桌布上画着她想象中的花样。
  “那个挤奶的女工,真是一个多么新鲜、多么纯洁的自然女儿啊!”他自言自语地说。
  后来,他似乎在她的身上了解到一些他所熟悉的东西,这些东西使他回忆起欢乐的不能预知未来的过去,回忆起从前顾虑重重天空昏暗的日子。他最后肯定他从前见过她;但是他说不出在哪儿见过她。肯定是有一次在乡下漫游时偶然相遇的;因而他对此并不感到十分奇怪。但是这情形已经足以使他在希望观察身边这些女性时,选择苔丝而宁愿放弃别的漂亮女孩子了。



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1 appreciative 9vDzr     
adj.有鉴赏力的,有眼力的;感激的
参考例句:
  • She was deeply appreciative of your help.她对你的帮助深表感激。
  • We are very appreciative of their support in this respect.我们十分感谢他们在这方面的支持。
2 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。
3 mobility H6rzu     
n.可动性,变动性,情感不定
参考例句:
  • The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
  • Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。
4 preoccupied TPBxZ     
adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式)
参考例句:
  • He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. 他只顾想着心事,没注意到有什么不对。
  • The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind. 去游泰山的问题盘踞在他心头。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 tenure Uqjy2     
n.终身职位;任期;(土地)保有权,保有期
参考例句:
  • He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在担任市长的整个任期内都深得民心。
  • Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有权在世界很多地区是主要的政治问题。
6 peremptorily dbf9fb7e6236647e2b3396fe01f8d47a     
adv.紧急地,不容分说地,专横地
参考例句:
  • She peremptorily rejected the request. 她断然拒绝了请求。
  • Their propaganda was peremptorily switched to an anti-Western line. 他们的宣传断然地转而持反对西方的路线。 来自辞典例句
7 winced 7be9a27cb0995f7f6019956af354c6e4     
赶紧避开,畏缩( wince的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He winced as the dog nipped his ankle. 狗咬了他的脚腕子,疼得他龇牙咧嘴。
  • He winced as a sharp pain shot through his left leg. 他左腿一阵剧痛疼得他直龇牙咧嘴。
8 alluded 69f7a8b0f2e374aaf5d0965af46948e7     
提及,暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • In your remarks you alluded to a certain sinister design. 在你的谈话中,你提到了某个阴谋。
  • She also alluded to her rival's past marital troubles. 她还影射了对手过去的婚姻问题。
9 conscientiously 3vBzrQ     
adv.凭良心地;认真地,负责尽职地;老老实实
参考例句:
  • He kept silent,eating just as conscientiously but as though everything tasted alike. 他一声不吭,闷头吃着,仿佛桌上的饭菜都一个味儿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She discharged all the responsibilities of a minister conscientiously. 她自觉地履行部长的一切职责。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 admiration afpyA     
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
参考例句:
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
11 ordained 629f6c8a1f6bf34be2caf3a3959a61f1     
v.任命(某人)为牧师( ordain的过去式和过去分词 );授予(某人)圣职;(上帝、法律等)命令;判定
参考例句:
  • He was ordained in 1984. 他在一九八四年被任命为牧师。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He was ordained priest. 他被任命为牧师。 来自辞典例句
12 liberate p9ozT     
v.解放,使获得自由,释出,放出;vt.解放,使获自由
参考例句:
  • They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
  • This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。
13 straightforward fFfyA     
adj.正直的,坦率的;易懂的,简单的
参考例句:
  • A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
  • I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。
14 stultified 288ad76ed555b9e3999b2bc6ccc102da     
v.使成为徒劳,使变得无用( stultify的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • Their unhelpfulness has stultified our efforts to improve things. 他们不管事,我们为改进工作的用心也就白费了。 来自辞典例句
  • He was stultified, shocked, paralyzed. 他当时一听,吓傻了,气坏了,瘫痪了。 来自辞典例句
15 ordination rJQxr     
n.授任圣职
参考例句:
  • His ordination gives him the right to conduct a marriage or a funeral.他的晋升圣职使他有权主持婚礼或葬礼。
  • The vatican said the ordination places the city's catholics in a "very delicate and difficult decision."教廷说,这个任命使得这个城市的天主教徒不得不做出“非常棘手和困难的决定”。
16 devout Qlozt     
adj.虔诚的,虔敬的,衷心的 (n.devoutness)
参考例句:
  • His devout Catholicism appeals to ordinary people.他对天主教的虔诚信仰感染了普通民众。
  • The devout man prayed daily.那位虔诚的男士每天都祈祷。
17 elusively 9a91f0703deb103e5d2cfa0ebd48a274     
adv.巧妙逃避地,易忘记地
参考例句:
18 construed b4b2252d3046746b8fae41b0e85dbc78     
v.解释(陈述、行为等)( construe的过去式和过去分词 );翻译,作句法分析
参考例句:
  • He considered how the remark was to be construed. 他考虑这话该如何理解。
  • They construed her silence as meaning that she agreed. 他们把她的沉默解释为表示赞同。 来自《简明英汉词典》
19 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。
20 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。
21 entreaty voAxi     
n.恳求,哀求
参考例句:
  • Mrs. Quilp durst only make a gesture of entreaty.奎尔普太太仅做出一种哀求的姿势。
  • Her gaze clung to him in entreaty.她的眼光带着恳求的神色停留在他身上。
22 akin uxbz2     
adj.同族的,类似的
参考例句:
  • She painted flowers and birds pictures akin to those of earlier feminine painters.她画一些同早期女画家类似的花鸟画。
  • Listening to his life story is akin to reading a good adventure novel.听他的人生故事犹如阅读一本精彩的冒险小说。
23 reconstruction 3U6xb     
n.重建,再现,复原
参考例句:
  • The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
  • In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期,技术决定一切。
24 economizing 133cb886367309b0ad7a7e8c52e349e6     
v.节省,减少开支( economize的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • Strengthing Management of Economizing Electricity Enhancing BenefIt'step by Step. 强化节电管理效益逐上台阶。 来自互联网
  • We should lose no time in increasing production and economizing. 六、抓紧增产节约。 来自互联网
25 stinting d8a3f0451018e06558b6ab0ecf635cf1     
v.限制,节省(stint的现在分词形式)
参考例句:
26 persevered b3246393c709e55e93de64dc63360d37     
v.坚忍,坚持( persevere的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She persevered with her violin lessons. 她孜孜不倦地学习小提琴。
  • Hard as the conditions were, he persevered in his studies. 虽然条件艰苦,但他仍坚持学习。 来自辞典例句
27 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。
28 pious KSCzd     
adj.虔诚的;道貌岸然的
参考例句:
  • Alexander is a pious follower of the faith.亚历山大是个虔诚的信徒。
  • Her mother was a pious Christian.她母亲是一个虔诚的基督教徒。
29 thrift kI6zT     
adj.节约,节俭;n.节俭,节约
参考例句:
  • He has the virtues of thrift and hard work.他具备节俭和勤奋的美德。
  • His thrift and industry speak well for his future.他的节俭和勤勉预示着他美好的未来。
30 desultory BvZxp     
adj.散漫的,无方法的
参考例句:
  • Do not let the discussion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.不要让讨论变得支离破碎,成为没有明确方向的漫谈。
  • The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.警察漫不经心地拦着不让他们靠近谷仓。
31 undertakings e635513464ec002d92571ebd6bc9f67e     
企业( undertaking的名词复数 ); 保证; 殡仪业; 任务
参考例句:
  • The principle of diligence and frugality applies to all undertakings. 勤俭节约的原则适用于一切事业。
  • Such undertakings require the precise planning and foresight of military operations. 此举要求军事上战役中所需要的准确布置和预见。
32 meditations f4b300324e129a004479aa8f4c41e44a     
默想( meditation的名词复数 ); 默念; 沉思; 冥想
参考例句:
  • Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations. 每一句话似乎都给人以许多冥思默想。
  • I'm sorry to interrupt your meditations. 我很抱歉,打断你思考问题了。
33 indifference k8DxO     
n.不感兴趣,不关心,冷淡,不在乎
参考例句:
  • I was disappointed by his indifference more than somewhat.他的漠不关心使我很失望。
  • He feigned indifference to criticism of his work.他假装毫不在意别人批评他的作品。
34 aroma Nvfz9     
n.香气,芬芳,芳香
参考例句:
  • The whole house was filled with the aroma of coffee.满屋子都是咖啡的香味。
  • The air was heavy with the aroma of the paddy fields.稻花飘香。
35 entrapped eb21b3b8e7dad36e21d322e11b46715d     
v.使陷入圈套,使入陷阱( entrap的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was entrapped into undertaking the work. 他受骗而担任那工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He felt he had been entrapped into marrying her. 他觉得和她结婚是上了当。 来自辞典例句
36 solitudes 64fe2505fdaa2595d05909eb049cf65c     
n.独居( solitude的名词复数 );孤独;荒僻的地方;人迹罕至的地方
参考例句:
  • Africa is going at last to give up the secret of its vast solitudes. 非洲无边无际的荒野的秘密就要被揭穿了。 来自辞典例句
  • The scientist has spent six months in the solitudes of the Antarctic. 这位科学家已经在人迹罕至的南极待了六个月了。 来自互联网
37 unreasonable tjLwm     
adj.不讲道理的,不合情理的,过度的
参考例句:
  • I know that they made the most unreasonable demands on you.我知道他们对你提出了最不合理的要求。
  • They spend an unreasonable amount of money on clothes.他们花在衣服上的钱太多了。
38 aspired 379d690dd1367e3bafe9aa80ae270d77     
v.渴望,追求( aspire的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She aspired to a scientific career. 她有志于科学事业。
  • Britain,France,the United States and Japan all aspired to hegemony after the end of World War I. 第一次世界大战后,英、法、美、日都想争夺霸权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
39 mundane F6NzJ     
adj.平凡的;尘世的;宇宙的
参考例句:
  • I hope I can get an interesting job and not something mundane.我希望我可以得到的是一份有趣的工作,而不是一份平凡无奇的。
  • I find it humorous sometimes that even the most mundane occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.我发现生活有时挺诙谐的,即使是最平凡的事情也能影响我们的感知。
40 qualified DCPyj     
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
参考例句:
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
41 apprenticeship 4NLyv     
n.学徒身份;学徒期
参考例句:
  • She was in the second year of her apprenticeship as a carpenter. 她当木工学徒已是第二年了。
  • He served his apprenticeship with Bob. 他跟鲍勃当学徒。
42 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。
43 lodging wRgz9     
n.寄宿,住所;(大学生的)校外宿舍
参考例句:
  • The bill is inclusive of the food and lodging. 账单包括吃、住费用。
  • Where can you find lodging for the night? 你今晚在哪里借宿?
44 attic Hv4zZ     
n.顶楼,屋顶室
参考例句:
  • Leakiness in the roof caused a damp attic.屋漏使顶楼潮湿。
  • What's to be done with all this stuff in the attic?顶楼上的材料怎么处理?
45 homely Ecdxo     
adj.家常的,简朴的;不漂亮的
参考例句:
  • We had a homely meal of bread and cheese.我们吃了一顿面包加乳酪的家常便餐。
  • Come and have a homely meal with us,will you?来和我们一起吃顿家常便饭,好吗?
46 sitting-room sitting-room     
n.(BrE)客厅,起居室
参考例句:
  • The sitting-room is clean.起居室很清洁。
  • Each villa has a separate sitting-room.每栋别墅都有一间独立的起居室。
47 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
48 harp UlEyQ     
n.竖琴;天琴座
参考例句:
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
  • He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。
49 dummy Jrgx7     
n.假的东西;(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头
参考例句:
  • The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹,只是一个假货。
  • The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。
50 obliterated 5b21c854b61847047948152f774a0c94     
v.除去( obliterate的过去式和过去分词 );涂去;擦掉;彻底破坏或毁灭
参考例句:
  • The building was completely obliterated by the bomb. 炸弹把那座建筑物彻底摧毁了。
  • 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。 来自《简明英汉词典》
51 proceeding Vktzvu     
n.行动,进行,(pl.)会议录,学报
参考例句:
  • This train is now proceeding from Paris to London.这次列车从巴黎开往伦敦。
  • The work is proceeding briskly.工作很有生气地进展着。
52 sojourner ziqzS8     
n.旅居者,寄居者
参考例句:
  • The sojourner has been in Wales for two weeks. 那个寄居者在威尔士已经逗留了两个星期。 来自互联网
  • A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it. 出12:45寄居的、和雇工人、都不可吃。 来自互联网
53 differentiate cm3yc     
vi.(between)区分;vt.区别;使不同
参考例句:
  • You can differentiate between the houses by the shape of their chimneys.你可以凭借烟囱形状的不同来区分这两幢房子。
  • He never learned to differentiate between good and evil.他从未学会分辨善恶。
54 disintegrated e36fb4ffadd6df797ee64cbd05a02790     
v.(使)破裂[分裂,粉碎],(使)崩溃( disintegrate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The plane disintegrated as it fell into the sea. 飞机坠入大海时解体了。
  • The box was so old;it just disintegrated when I picked it up. 那箱子太破旧了,我刚一提就散了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
55 varied giIw9     
adj.多样的,多变化的
参考例句:
  • The forms of art are many and varied.艺术的形式是多种多样的。
  • The hotel has a varied programme of nightly entertainment.宾馆有各种晚间娱乐活动。
56 serene PD2zZ     
adj. 安详的,宁静的,平静的
参考例句:
  • He has entered the serene autumn of his life.他已进入了美好的中年时期。
  • He didn't speak much,he just smiled with that serene smile of his.他话不多,只是脸上露出他招牌式的淡定的微笑。
57 depressed xu8zp9     
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
参考例句:
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
58 austere GeIyW     
adj.艰苦的;朴素的,朴实无华的;严峻的
参考例句:
  • His way of life is rather austere.他的生活方式相当简朴。
  • The room was furnished in austere style.这间屋子的陈设都很简单朴素。
59 condemn zpxzp     
vt.谴责,指责;宣判(罪犯),判刑
参考例句:
  • Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他,而有些人谴责他。
  • We mustn't condemn him on mere suppositions.我们不可全凭臆测来指责他。
60 vices 01aad211a45c120dcd263c6f3d60ce79     
缺陷( vice的名词复数 ); 恶习; 不道德行为; 台钳
参考例句:
  • In spite of his vices, he was loved by all. 尽管他有缺点,还是受到大家的爱戴。
  • He vituperated from the pulpit the vices of the court. 他在教堂的讲坛上责骂宫廷的罪恶。
61 chronic BO9zl     
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的,慢性的;极坏的
参考例句:
  • Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
  • Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。
62 melancholy t7rz8     
n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的
参考例句:
  • All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
  • He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过,他感到很郁闷。
63 civilized UwRzDg     
a.有教养的,文雅的
参考例句:
  • Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
  • rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
64 cramming 72a5eb07f207b2ce280314cd162588b7     
n.塞满,填鸭式的用功v.塞入( cram的现在分词 );填塞;塞满;(为考试而)死记硬背功课
参考例句:
  • Being hungry for the whole morning, I couldn't help cramming myself. 我饿了一上午,禁不住狼吞虎咽了起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She's cramming for her history exam. 她考历史之前临时抱佛脚。 来自《简明英汉词典》
65 phenomena 8N9xp     
n.现象
参考例句:
  • Ade couldn't relate the phenomena with any theory he knew.艾德无法用他所知道的任何理论来解释这种现象。
  • The object of these experiments was to find the connection,if any,between the two phenomena.这些实验的目的就是探索这两种现象之间的联系,如果存在着任何联系的话。
66 sufficiently 0htzMB     
adv.足够地,充分地
参考例句:
  • It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
  • The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。
67 munching 3bbbb661207569e6c6cb6a1390d74d06     
v.用力咀嚼(某物),大嚼( munch的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was munching an apple. 他在津津有味地嚼着苹果。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Munching the apple as he was, he had an eye for all her movements. 他虽然啃着苹果,但却很留神地监视着她的每一个动作。 来自辞典例句
68 panes c8bd1ed369fcd03fe15520d551ab1d48     
窗玻璃( pane的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The sun caught the panes and flashed back at him. 阳光照到窗玻璃上,又反射到他身上。
  • The window-panes are dim with steam. 玻璃窗上蒙上了一层蒸汽。
69 revolving 3jbzvd     
adj.旋转的,轮转式的;循环的v.(使)旋转( revolve的现在分词 );细想
参考例句:
  • The theatre has a revolving stage. 剧院有一个旋转舞台。
  • The company became a revolving-door workplace. 这家公司成了工作的中转站。
70 babble 9osyJ     
v.含糊不清地说,胡言乱语地说,儿语
参考例句:
  • No one could understand the little baby's babble. 没人能听懂这个小婴孩的话。
  • The babble of voices in the next compartment annoyed all of us.隔壁的车厢隔间里不间歇的嘈杂谈话声让我们都很气恼。
71 conning b97e62086a8bfeb6de9139effa481f58     
v.诈骗,哄骗( con的现在分词 );指挥操舵( conn的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • He climbed into the conning tower, his eyes haunted and sickly bright. 他爬上司令塔,两眼象见鬼似的亮得近乎病态。 来自辞典例句
  • As for Mady, she enriched her record by conning you. 对马德琳来说,这次骗了你,又可在她的光荣历史上多了一笔。 来自辞典例句
72 tune NmnwW     
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
参考例句:
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
73 lapsed f403f7d09326913b001788aee680719d     
adj.流失的,堕落的v.退步( lapse的过去式和过去分词 );陷入;倒退;丧失
参考例句:
  • He had lapsed into unconsciousness. 他陷入了昏迷状态。
  • He soon lapsed into his previous bad habits. 他很快陷入以前的恶习中去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
74 hearth n5by9     
n.壁炉炉床,壁炉地面
参考例句:
  • She came and sat in a chair before the hearth.她走过来,在炉子前面的椅子上坐下。
  • She comes to the hearth,and switches on the electric light there.她走到壁炉那里,打开电灯。
75 jig aRnzk     
n.快步舞(曲);v.上下晃动;用夹具辅助加工;蹦蹦跳跳
参考例句:
  • I went mad with joy and danced a little jig.我欣喜若狂,跳了几步吉格舞。
  • He piped a jig so that we could dance.他用笛子吹奏格舞曲好让我们跳舞。
76 crooks 31060be9089be1fcdd3ac8530c248b55     
n.骗子( crook的名词复数 );罪犯;弯曲部分;(牧羊人或主教用的)弯拐杖v.弯成钩形( crook的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • The police are getting after the crooks in the city. 警察在城里追捕小偷。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The cops got the crooks. 警察捉到了那些罪犯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
77 dangling 4930128e58930768b1c1c75026ebc649     
悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口
参考例句:
  • The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now. 结果,那颗牙就晃来晃去吊在床柱上了。
  • The children sat on the high wall,their legs dangling. 孩子们坐在一堵高墙上,摇晃着他们的双腿。
78 plumed 160f544b3765f7a5765fdd45504f15fb     
饰有羽毛的
参考例句:
  • The knight plumed his helmet with brilliant red feathers. 骑士用鲜红的羽毛装饰他的头盔。
  • The eagle plumed its wing. 这只鹰整理它的翅膀。
79 soot ehryH     
n.煤烟,烟尘;vt.熏以煤烟
参考例句:
  • Soot is the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.煤烟是燃料不完全燃烧的产物。
  • The chimney was choked with soot.烟囱被煤灰堵塞了。
80 whining whining     
n. 抱怨,牢骚 v. 哭诉,发牢骚
参考例句:
  • That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players. 你们这种又爱哭、又软弱、又可怜的赌棍就是这样。
  • The dog sat outside the door whining (to be let in). 那条狗坐在门外狺狺叫着(要进来)。
81 inquiry nbgzF     
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
参考例句:
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
82 erect 4iLzm     
n./v.树立,建立,使竖立;adj.直立的,垂直的
参考例句:
  • She held her head erect and her back straight.她昂着头,把背挺得笔直。
  • Soldiers are trained to stand erect.士兵们训练站得笔直。
83 gallows UfLzE     
n.绞刑架,绞台
参考例句:
  • The murderer was sent to the gallows for his crimes.谋杀犯由于罪大恶极被处以绞刑。
  • Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.现在我将在绞刑架上赎我一切的罪过。
84 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。
85 tablecloth lqSwh     
n.桌布,台布
参考例句:
  • He sat there ruminating and picking at the tablecloth.他坐在那儿沉思,轻轻地抚弄着桌布。
  • She smoothed down a wrinkled tablecloth.她把起皱的桌布熨平了。
86 forefinger pihxt     
n.食指
参考例句:
  • He pinched the leaf between his thumb and forefinger.他将叶子捏在拇指和食指之间。
  • He held it between the tips of his thumb and forefinger.他用他大拇指和食指尖拿着它。
87 constraint rYnzo     
n.(on)约束,限制;限制(或约束)性的事物
参考例句:
  • The boy felt constraint in her presence.那男孩在她面前感到局促不安。
  • The lack of capital is major constraint on activities in the informal sector.资本短缺也是影响非正规部门生产经营的一个重要制约因素。
88 joyous d3sxB     
adj.充满快乐的;令人高兴的
参考例句:
  • The lively dance heightened the joyous atmosphere of the scene.轻快的舞蹈给这场戏渲染了欢乐气氛。
  • They conveyed the joyous news to us soon.他们把这一佳音很快地传递给我们。
89 beheld beheld     
v.看,注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 );瞧;看呀;(叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现)哎哟
参考例句:
  • His eyes had never beheld such opulence. 他从未见过这样的财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment. 灵魂在逝去的瞬间的镜子中看到了自己的模样。 来自英汉文学 - 红字
90 ramble DAszo     
v.漫步,漫谈,漫游;n.漫步,闲谈,蔓延
参考例句:
  • This is the best season for a ramble in the suburbs.这是去郊区漫游的最好季节。
  • I like to ramble about the street after work.我下班后在街上漫步。
91 contemplate PaXyl     
vt.盘算,计议;周密考虑;注视,凝视
参考例句:
  • The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.战争的可能性太可怕了,真不堪细想。
  • The consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate.后果不堪设想。
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