双城记(A Tale of Two Cities)第二章 看热闹
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`YOU know the Old Bailey well, no doubt?' said one of the oldest of clerks to Jerry the messenger.

`Ye-es, sir,' returned Jerry, in something of a dogged manner. `I do know the Bailey.'

`Just so. And you know Mr. Lorry.'

`I know Mr. Lorry, sir, much better than I know the Bailey. Much better,' said Jerry, not unlike a reluctant witness at the establishment in question, `than I, as a honest tradesman, wish to know the Bailey.'

`Very well. Find the door where the witnesses go in, and show the door-keeper this note for Mr. Lorry. He will then let you in.'

`Into the court, sir?'

`Into the court.'

Mr. Cruncher's eyes seemed to get a little closer to one another, and to interchange the inquiry1, `What do you think of this?'

`Am I to wait in the court, sir?' he asked, as the result of that conference.

`I am going to tell you. The door-keeper will pass the note to Mr. Lorry, and do you make any gesture that will attract Mr. Lorry's attention, and show him where you stand. Then what you have to do, is, to remain there until he wants you.'

`Is that all, sir?'

`That's all. He wishes to have a messenger at hand. This is to tell him you are there.'

As the ancient clerk deliberately2 folded and superscribed the note, Mr. Cruncher, after surveying him in silence until he came to the blotting-paper stage, remarked:

`I suppose they'll be trying Forgeries3 this morning?'

`Treason!'

`That's quartering,' said Jerry. `Barbarous!'

`It is the law,' remarked the ancient clerk, turning his surprised spectacles upon him. `It is the law.

`It `shard in the law to spile a man, I think. It `shard enough to kill him, but it's wery hard to spile him, sir.'

`Not at all,' returned the ancient clerk. `Speak well of the law. Take care of your chest and voice, my good friend, and leave the law to take care of itself. I give you that advice.'

`It's the damp, sir, what settles on my chest and voice,' said Jerry. `I leave you to judge what a damp way of earning a living mine is.'

`Well, well,' said the old clerk; `we all have our various ways of gaining a livelihood4. Some of us have damp ways, and some of us have dry ways. Here is the letter. Go along.'

Jerry took the letter, and, remarking to himself with less internal deference5 than he made an outward show of, `You are a lean old one, too,' made his bow, informed his son, in passing, of [`is destination, and went his way.

They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street outside Newgate had not obtained one infamous6 notoriety that has since attached to it. But, the gaol7 was a vile8 place, in which most kinds of debauchery and villainy were practised, and where dire9 diseases were bred, that came into court with the prisoners, and sometimes rushed straight from the dock at my Lord Chief Justice himself, and pulled him off the bench. It had more than once happened, that the Judge in the black cap pronounced his own doom10 as certainly as the prisoner's, and even died before him. For the rest, the Old Bailey was famous as a kind of deadly inn-yard, from which pale travellers set out continually, in carts and coaches, on a violent passage into the other world: traversing some two miles and a half of public street and road, and shaming few good citizens, if any. So powerful is use, and
so desirable to be good use in the beginning. It was famous, too, for the pillory11, a wise old institution, that inflicted12 a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent; also, for the whipping-post, another dear old institution, very humanising and softening13 to behold14 in action; also, for extensive transactions in blood-money, another fragment of ancestral wisdom, systematically15 leading to the most frightful16 mercenary crimes that could be committed under Heaven. Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept17, that `Whatever is is right;' an aphorism18 that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Making his way through the tainted19 crowd, dispersed20 up and down this hideous21 scene of action, with the skill of a man accustomed to make his way quietly, the messenger found out the door he sought, and handed in his letter through a trap in it. For people then paid to see the play at the Old Bailey, just as they paid to see the play in Bedlam--only the former entertainment was much the dearer. Therefore, all the Old Bailey doors were well guarded--except, indeed, the social doors by which the criminals got there, and those were always left wide open.

After some delay and demur22, the door grudgingly23 turned on its hinges a very little way, and allowed Mr. Jerry Cruncher to squeeze himself into court.

`What's on?' he asked, in a whisper, of the man he found himself next to.

`Nothing yet.'

`What's coming on,?'

`The Treason case.

`The quartering one, eh?'

`Ah!' returned the man, with a relish24; `he'll be drawn25 on a hurdle26 to be half hanged, and then he'll be taken down and sliced before his own face, and then his inside will be taken out and burnt while he looks on, and then his head will be chopped off, and he'll be cut into quarters. That the sentence.'

`If he's found Guilty, you mean to say?' Jerry added, by way of proviso.

`Oh! they'll find him guilty,' said the other. `Don't you be afraid of that.'

Mr. Cruncher's attention was here diverted to the doorkeeper, whom he saw making his way to Mr. Lorry, with the note in his hand. Mr. Lorry sat at a table, among the gentlemen in wigs27: not far from a wigged28 gentleman, the prisoner's counsel, who had a great bundle of papers before him: and nearly opposite another wigged gentleman with his hands in his pockets, whose whole attention, when Mr. Cruncher looked at him then or afterwards, seemed to be concentrated on the ceiling of the court. After some gruff coughing and rubbing of his chin and signing with his hand, Jerry attracted the notice of Mr. Lorry, who had stood up to look for him, and who quietly nodded and sat down again.

`What's. he got to do with the case?' asked the man he had spoken with.

`Blest if I know,' said Jerry.

`What have you got to do with it, then, if a person may inquire?'

`Blest if I know that either,' said Jerry.

The entrance of the Judge, and a consequent great stir and settling down in the court, stopped the dialogue. Presently, the dock became the central point of interest. Two gaolers, who had been standing29 there, went out, and the prisoner was brought in, and
put to the bar.

Everybody present, except the one wigged gentleman who looked at the ceiling, stared at him. All the human breath in the place, rolled at him, like a sea, or a wind, or a fire. Eager faces strained round pillars and corners, to get a sight of him; spectators in back rows stood up, not to miss a hair of him; people on the floor of the court, laid their hands on the shoulders of the people before them, to help themselves, at anybody's cost, to a view of him--stood a-tiptoe, got upon ledges30, stood upon next to nothing, to see every inch of him. Conspicuous31 among these latter, like an animated32 bit of the spiked33 wall of Newgate, Jerry stood: aiming at the prisoner the beery breath of a whet34 he had taken as he came along, and discharging it to mingle35 with the waves of other beer, and gin, and tea, and coffee, and what not, that flowed at him, and already broke upon the great
windows behind him in an impure36 mist and rain.

The object of all this staring and blaring, was a young man of about five-and-twenty, well-grown and well-looking, with a sunburnt cheek and a dark eye. His condition was that of a young gentleman. He was plainly dressed in black, or very dark grey, and his hair, which was long and dark, was gathered in a ribbon at the back of his neck; more to be out of his way than for ornament37. As an emotion of the mind will express itself through any covering of the body, so the paleness which his situation engendered38 came through the brown upon his cheek, showing the soul to be stronger than the sun. He was otherwise quite self-possessed, bowed to the Judge, and stood quiet.

The sort of interest with which this man was stared and breathed at, was not a sort that elevated humanity. Had he stood in peril39 of a less horrible sentence--had there been a chance of any one of its savage40 details being spared--by just so much would he have lost in his fascination41. The form that was to be doomed42 to be so shamefully43 mangled44, was the sight; the immortal45 creature that was to be so butchered and torn asunder46, yielded the sensation. Whatever gloss47 the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.

Silence in the court! Charles Darnay had yesterday pleaded Not Guilty to an indictment48 denouncing him (with infinite jingle49 and jangle) for that he was a false traitor50 to our serene51, illustrious, excellent, and so forth52, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers53 occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted Lewis, the French King, in his wars against our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth; that was to say, by coming and going, between the dominions54 of our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, and those of the said French Lewis, and wickedly, falsely, traitorously55, and otherwise
evil-adverbiously, revealing to the said French Lewis what forces our said serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, had in preparation to send to Canada and North America. This much, Jerry, with his head becoming more and more spiky56 as the law terms bristled57 it, made out with huge satisfaction, and so arrived circuitously58 at the under-standing that the aforesaid, and over and over again aforesaid, Charles Darnay, stood there before him upon his trial; that the jury were swearing in; and that Mr. Attorney-General was making ready to speak.

The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged, beheaded, and quartered, by everybody there, neither flinched59 from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical60 air in it. He was quiet and attentive61; watched the opening proceedings
with a grave interest; and stood with his hands resting on the slab62 of wood before him, so composedly, that they had not displaced a leaf of the herbs with which it was strewn. The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.

Over the prisoner's head there was a mirror, to throw the light down upon him. Crowds of the wicked and the wretched had been reflected in it, and had passed from its surface and this earth's together. Haunted in a most ghastly manner that abominable63 place would have been, if the glass could ever have rendered back its reflections, as the ocean is one day to give up its dead. Some passing thought of the infamy64 and disgrace for which it had been reserved, may have struck the prisoner's mind. Be that as it may, a change in his position making him conscious of a bar of light across his face, he looked up; and when he saw the glass his face flushed, and his right hand pushed the herbs away.

It happened, that the action turned his face to that side of the court which was on his left. About on a level with his eyes, there sat, in that corner of the Judge's bench, two persons upon whom his look immediately rested; so immediately, and so much to the changing of his aspect, that all the eyes that were turned upon him, turned to them.

The spectators saw in the two figures, a young lady of little more than twenty, and a gentleman who was evidently her father; a man of a very remarkable65 appearance in respect of the absolute whiteness of his hair, and a certain indescribable intensity66 of
face: not of an active kind, but pondering and self-communing. When this expression was upon him, he looked as if he were old; but when it was stirred and broken up--as It was now, in a moment, on his speaking to his daughter--he became a handsome man, not past the prime of life.

His daughter had one of her hands drawn through his arm, as she sat by him, and the other pressed upon it. She had drawn close to him, in her dread67 of the scene, and in her pity for the prisoner. Her forehead had been strikingly expressive68 of an engrossing69 terror and compassion70 that saw nothing but the peril of the accused. This had been so very noticeable, so very powerfully and naturally shown, that starers who had had no pity for him were touched by her; and the whisper went about, `Who are they?'

Jerry, the messenger, who had made his own observations, in his own manner, and who had been sucking the rust71 off his fingers in his absorption, stretched his neck to hear who they were. The crowd about him had pressed and passed the inquiry on to the nearest attendant, and from him it had been more slowly pressed and passed back; at last it got to Jerry:

`Witnesses.'

`For which side?'

`Against.'

`Against what side?'

`The prisoner's.'

The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily72 at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe73, and hammer the nails into the scaffold.

“你对老贝勒很熟,是吗?”一个衰老的行员对跑腿的杰瑞说。

“没--错,先生,”杰瑞带几分抵触地回答说,“我对它的确很熟。”

“那好。你也认识罗瑞先生?”

“我对罗瑞先生比对老贝勒要熟悉得多,先生,”杰瑞说,那口气并非不像迫不得已到老贝勒去出庭作证。“我作为一个诚实的生意人宁可熟悉罗瑞先生,而不愿熟悉老贝勒。”

“很好。你去找到证人出入的门,把这个写给罗瑞先生的条子给门房看看,他就会让你进去的。”

“进法庭去么,先生?”

“要进去。”

克朗彻的两只眼睛似乎靠得更近了,而且在互相探问,“你对此有何高见?”

“要我在法庭里等候么,先生?”作为双眼彼此探问的结果,他问。

“我来告诉你吧。门房会把条子递给罗瑞先生,那时你就向罗瑞先生打个手势,引起他的注意,让他看到你守候的地方。然后你就就地等待,听候差遣。”

“就这样么,先生?”

“就这样。他希望身边有个人送信。这信就是通知他有你在那儿。”

老行员仔细折好字条,写上收件人姓名。克朗彻先生一声不响地观察着他,在他吸干墨水时说:

“我估计今天上午要审伪证案吧?”

“叛国案!”

“那可是要破腹分尸的呀,”杰瑞说。“野蛮着呢!”

“这是法律,”衰老的行员把他吃惊的眼镜转向他。“这是法律!”

“我认为法律把人分尸也太厉害了点。杀了他就够厉害的,分尸太过分了,先生。”

“一点也不,”老行员说。“对法律要说好话。好好保护你的胸口和嗓子,好朋友,别去管法律的闲事,我奉劝你。”

“我这胸口和嗓子都是叫湿气害的,先生,”杰瑞说。“我挣钱过日子要受多少湿气,你想想看。”

“好了,好了,”衰老的行员说,“咱们谁都挣钱过日子,可办法各有不同。有人受潮,有人枯燥。信在这儿,去吧。”

杰瑞接过信,外表毕恭毕敬,心里却不服,说,“你也是个干瘦的老头儿呢。”他鞠了一躬,顺便把去向告诉了儿子,才上了路。

那时绞刑还在泰本执行,因此新门监狱大门外那条街还不像后来那么声名狼籍,但监狱却是个恶劣的地方,各种堕落荒唐与流氓行为都在那里出现,各种可怕的疾病也都在那里孳生,而且随着囚徒进入法庭,有时甚至从被告席径直传染给大法官,把他从宝座上拉下来。戴黑色礼帽的法官对囚犯宣判死刑时,也宣判了自己的毁灭,甚至毁灭得比囚犯还早的事出现过不止一次。此外,老贝勒还以“死亡逆旅”闻名。面无人色的旅客不断从那儿出发,坐着大车或马车经过一条充满暴烈事件的路去到另一个世界。在穿过大约两英里半的大街和公路时,并没有几个公民(即使有的话)为此感到惭傀。习惯是强有力的,习惯成自然在开始时也很有用处。这监狱还以枷刑闻名。那是一种古老而聪明的制度,那种惩罚伤害之深没有人可以预见。它也以鞭刑柱闻名,那也是一种可爱而古老的制度,看了之后是会令人大发慈悲,心肠变软的。它也以大量的“血钱”交易闻名,那也是我们祖宗聪明的一种表现,它能系统全面地引向天下最骇人听闻的雇佣犯罪。总而言之,那时的老贝勒是“存在便是合理”这句名言的最佳例证。这个警句若是没有包含“过去不存在的也都不合理”这个令人尴尬的推论的话,倒可以算作是结论性的,虽然并不管用。

肮脏的人群满布在这种恐怖活动的现场。送信人以习惯于一声不响穿过人群的技巧穿过了人群,找到了他要找的门,从一道小活门递进了信。那时人们花钱看老贝勒的表演正像花钱看贝德兰的表演一样,不过老贝勒要贵得多。因此老贝勒的门全都严加把守--只有罪犯进出的交通口例外,那倒是大敞开的。

在一阵耽误和踌躇之后,那门很不情愿地开了一条缝,让杰瑞.克朗彻挤进了法庭。

“在干啥?”他悄声问身边的人。

“还没开始。”

“要审什么案?”

“叛国案。”

“要分尸的,是么?”

“啊!”那人兴致勃勃地回答,“先要在架于上绞个半死,再放下来让他眼看着一刀一刀割,再掏出内脏,当着他的面烧掉。最后才砍掉头,卸作四块。这种刑罚就是这样。”

“你是说,若是认定他有罪的话?”杰瑞说道,仿佛加上一份“但书”。

啊!他们会认定他犯罪的,”对方说,“别担心。”

克朗彻先生的注意力此刻被门卫分散了。他看见门卫拿着信向罗瑞先生逛去。罗瑞先生跟戴假发的先生们一起坐在桌前,距离囚犯的辩护人不远。那辩护人戴着假发,面前有一大捆文件。差不多跟他们正对面还坐着另一个戴假发的先生,双手插在口袋里。克朗彻先生当时和后来看他时,他的注意力似乎都集中在法庭的天花板上。杰瑞大声咳嗽了一下,又揉了揉下巴,做了个手势,引起了罗瑞先生的注意一一罗瑞先生已站起身在找他,见了他便点点头又坐下了。

“他跟这案子有什么关系?”刚才和他谈话的人问。

“我要是知道就好了,”杰瑞说。

“若是有人调查起来,你跟这案子有什么关系么?”

“我要是知道就好了,”杰瑞说。

法官进场,引起了一番忙乱,然后静了下来,这就阻止了他俩的对话。被告席马上成了注意力的中心。一直站在那儿的两个狱史走出去,带来了囚犯,送进了被告席。

除了那个戴假发望天花板的人之外,每个人的注意力都集中到了被告身上。那儿的全部人类的呼吸都向他滚去,像海涛,像凤,像火焰。急切的面孔努力绕过柱头,转过犄角,都想看到他。后排的观众站起了身,连他的一根头发也不肯放过;站着的人手扶着前面的人的肩头往前看,不管是否影响了别人,只想看个明白--他们或踮起脚尖、或踩在墙裙上、或踩在简直踩不住的东西上,要想看到囚徒身上的各个部位。杰瑞站在站立的人群中很显眼,好像是新门监狱带铁蒺藜的墙壁的一个活的部分,他那有啤酒味儿的鼻息向囚犯吹去(他在路上才喝了一盅),也把那气味跟别人的气味-一啤酒味、杜松子酒味、茶味、咖啡味等等--混合到了一起,形成了一股浪潮。那浪潮已融合为一股浑浊的雾和雨向他冲刷过来,也已经向他身后的大窗户冲刷过去。

这一切注视与喧哗的目标是一个大约二十五岁的青年男子,身材匀称,气色良好,有一张被阳光晒黑的面孔和一对深色的眼睛,看样子是一个年轻的绅士。他穿着朴素的黑色(或许是深灰色)的衣服,长长的深色头发用带于系好挂在脑后;主要是避免麻烦而不是为了装饰。心里的情绪总是要通过身体表面透露出来的,因此他的处境所产生的苍白便透过黄褐的面颊透露了出来,表现出他的灵魂比阳光更为有力。除此之外他很冷静。他向法官行过了礼,便一声不响地站着。

人们注视此人、向他喷着雾气时所表现出的兴趣并非是能使人类崇高的那一类兴趣。若是他所面对的判决不是那么恐怖,若是那刑罚野蛮的细节有可能减少一部分,他的魅力也就会相应减少。此人的好看之处正在于他要被那么卑鄙地一刀刀地脔切;一个活生生的人要被屠杀,被撕成几块,轰动情绪就是从这儿产生的。不同的观众尽管可以用不同的辞藻和自欺本领为这种兴趣辩解,可它归根到底是丑恶凶残的。

法庭里鸦雀无声!查尔斯.达尔内昨天对公诉提出了无罪申辩。那公诉状里有数不清的响亮言辞,说他是一个丧心病狂的叛徒,出卖了我们沉静的、辉煌的、杰出的、如此等等的君主、国王、主子。因为他在不同的时机,采用了不同的方式方法,帮助了法国国王路易进攻我们上述的沉静的、辉煌的、杰出的、如此等等的国王。这就是说,他在我们上述的沉静的、辉煌的、杰出的、如此等等的国王的国土和上述的法国国王路易的国土上穿梭往来,从而十恶不赦地、背信弃义地、大逆不道地,诸如此类地向上述法国国王路易透露了我们上述的沉静的、辉煌的、杰出的、如此等等的国王已经部署齐备打算派遣到加拿大和北美洲的兵力。法律文件里芒铩森然,杰瑞的脑袋上也渐渐毛发直竖,揸开了铁蒺藜,他经过种种曲折之后才大为满足地获得了结论,懂得了上述那个一再被重复提起的查尔斯.达尔内此时正站在他面前受审,陪审团正在宣誓;检察长先生已准备好发言。

被告此时已被在场的每一个人在想象中绞了个半死、砍掉了脑袋、卸成了几块。这一点被告也明白。可他却没有在这种形势前表现出畏怯,也没有摆出戏剧性的英雄气概。他一言不发,神情专注,带着沉静的兴趣望着开幕式进行,一双手摆在面前的木栏杆上。木栏杆上满是草药,他的手却很泰然,连一片叶子也不曾碰动-一为了预防狱臭和监狱热流行,法庭里已摆满了草药,洒满了醋。

囚徒头上有一面镜子,是用来向他投射光线的。不知多少邪恶的人和不幸的人曾反映在镜子里,又从它的表面和地球的表面消失。若是这面镜子能像海洋会托出溺死者一样把它反映过的影象重现,那可憎的地方一定会是鬼影幢幢,令人毛骨竦然的。也许囚犯心里曾掠过保留这面镜子正是为让囚犯们感到难堪和羞辱的念头吧,总之他挪了挪位置,却意识到一道光线射到脸上,抬头一看,见到了镜子时脸上泛出了红晕,右手一伸,碰掉了草药。

原来这个动作使他把头转向了他左边的法庭。在法官座位的角落上坐着两个人,位置大体跟他的目光齐平。他的目光立即落到两人身上。那目光闪落之快,他的脸色变化之大,使得转向他的目光全都又转向了那两个人。

观众看到的两个人一个是刚过二十的小姐,另一个显然是她的父亲。后者以他满头的白发十分引人注目。他脸上带着一种难以描述的紧张表情:并非活跃性的紧张,而是沉思的内心自省的紧张。这种表情在他脸上时,他便显得憔悴苍老,可是那表情一消失--现在它就暂时消失了,因为他跟女儿说话一-他又变成了一个漂亮的男人,还没有超过他的最佳年华。

他的女儿坐在他身边,一只手挽着他的胳膊,另一只手搭在胳膊上面。她因害怕这场面,也因怜悯那囚徒,身子挪得更靠近他了。因为只看到被告的危险,她的额头鲜明地表现出了专注的恐怖与同情。这种表情太引人注目,太强有力,流露得太自然,那些对囚犯全无同情的看客也不禁受到感染。一片窃窃私语随之而起,“这两人是谁呀?”

送信人杰瑞以自己的方式作了观察,又在专心观察时吮过了手上的铁锈,此时便伸长了脖子去看那两人是谁。他身边的人彼此靠拢,依次向距离最近的出庭人传递询问;答案又更缓慢地传递回来,最后到达了杰瑞的耳里。

“是证人。”

“哪一边的?”

“反对的。”

“反对哪一边的?”

“反对被告一边的。”

法官收回了适才散射的目光,向椅背上一靠,目不转睛地望着那青年--那人的性命就摸在他手心里。此时,检察长先生站起身来,绞起了绞索,磨起了斧头,把钉子钉进了断头墩。



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1 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。
2 deliberately Gulzvq     
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
参考例句:
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
3 forgeries ccf3756c474249ecf8bd23166b7aaaf1     
伪造( forgery的名词复数 ); 伪造的文件、签名等
参考例句:
  • The whole sky was filled with forgeries of the brain. 整个天空充满了头脑里臆造出来的膺品。
  • On inspection, the notes proved to be forgeries. 经过检查,那些钞票证明是伪造的。
4 livelihood sppzWF     
n.生计,谋生之道
参考例句:
  • Appropriate arrangements will be made for their work and livelihood.他们的工作和生活会得到妥善安排。
  • My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。
5 deference mmKzz     
n.尊重,顺从;敬意
参考例句:
  • Do you treat your parents and teachers with deference?你对父母师长尊敬吗?
  • The major defect of their work was deference to authority.他们的主要缺陷是趋从权威。
6 infamous K7ax3     
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
参考例句:
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
7 gaol Qh8xK     
n.(jail)监狱;(不加冠词)监禁;vt.使…坐牢
参考例句:
  • He was released from the gaol.他被释放出狱。
  • The man spent several years in gaol for robbery.这男人因犯抢劫罪而坐了几年牢。
8 vile YLWz0     
adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的
参考例句:
  • Who could have carried out such a vile attack?会是谁发起这么卑鄙的攻击呢?
  • Her talk was full of vile curses.她的话里充满着恶毒的咒骂。
9 dire llUz9     
adj.可怕的,悲惨的,阴惨的,极端的
参考例句:
  • There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.曾经有人就看电视太多的危害性提出严重警告。
  • We were indeed in dire straits.But we pulled through.那时我们的困难真是大极了,但是我们渡过了困难。
10 doom gsexJ     
n.厄运,劫数;v.注定,命定
参考例句:
  • The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
  • The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。
11 pillory J2xze     
n.嘲弄;v.使受公众嘲笑;将…示众
参考例句:
  • A man has been forced to resign as a result of being pilloried by some of the press.一人因为受到一些媒体的抨击已被迫辞职。
  • He was pilloried,but she escaped without blemish.他受到公众的批评,她却名声未损地得以逃脱。
12 inflicted cd6137b3bb7ad543500a72a112c6680f     
把…强加给,使承受,遭受( inflict的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the home team. 他们使主队吃了一场很没面子的败仗。
  • Zoya heroically bore the torture that the Fascists inflicted upon her. 卓娅英勇地承受法西斯匪徒加在她身上的酷刑。
13 softening f4d358268f6bd0b278eabb29f2ee5845     
变软,软化
参考例句:
  • Her eyes, softening, caressed his face. 她的眼光变得很温柔了。它们不住地爱抚他的脸。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
  • He might think my brain was softening or something of the kind. 他也许会觉得我婆婆妈妈的,已经成了个软心肠的人了。
14 behold jQKy9     
v.看,注视,看到
参考例句:
  • The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
  • The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。
15 systematically 7qhwn     
adv.有系统地
参考例句:
  • This government has systematically run down public services since it took office.这一屆政府自上台以来系统地削减了公共服务。
  • The rainforest is being systematically destroyed.雨林正被系统地毀灭。
16 frightful Ghmxw     
adj.可怕的;讨厌的
参考例句:
  • How frightful to have a husband who snores!有一个发鼾声的丈夫多讨厌啊!
  • We're having frightful weather these days.这几天天气坏极了。
17 precept VPox5     
n.戒律;格言
参考例句:
  • It occurs to me that example is always more efficacious than precept.我想到身教重于言教。
  • The son had well profited by the precept and example of the father.老太爷的言传身教早已使他儿子获益无穷。
18 aphorism rwHzY     
n.格言,警语
参考例句:
  • It is the aphorism of the Asian Games. 这是亚运会的格言。
  • Probably the aphorism that there is no easy answer to what is very complex is true. 常言道,复杂的问题无简易的答案,这话大概是真的。
19 tainted qgDzqS     
adj.腐坏的;污染的;沾污的;感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 );使污染;败坏;被污染,腐坏,败坏
参考例句:
  • The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
  • He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
20 dispersed b24c637ca8e58669bce3496236c839fa     
adj. 被驱散的, 被分散的, 散布的
参考例句:
  • The clouds dispersed themselves. 云散了。
  • After school the children dispersed to their homes. 放学后,孩子们四散回家了。
21 hideous 65KyC     
adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的
参考例句:
  • The whole experience had been like some hideous nightmare.整个经历就像一场可怕的噩梦。
  • They're not like dogs,they're hideous brutes.它们不像狗,是丑陋的畜牲。
22 demur xmfzb     
v.表示异议,反对
参考例句:
  • Without demur, they joined the party in my rooms. 他们没有推辞就到我的屋里一起聚餐了。
  • He accepted the criticism without demur. 他毫无异议地接受了批评。
23 grudgingly grudgingly     
参考例句:
  • He grudgingly acknowledged having made a mistake. 他勉强承认他做错了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Their parents unwillingly [grudgingly] consented to the marriage. 他们的父母无可奈何地应允了这门亲事。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
24 relish wBkzs     
n.滋味,享受,爱好,调味品;vt.加调味料,享受,品味;vi.有滋味
参考例句:
  • I have no relish for pop music.我对流行音乐不感兴趣。
  • I relish the challenge of doing jobs that others turn down.我喜欢挑战别人拒绝做的工作。
25 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。
26 hurdle T5YyU     
n.跳栏,栏架;障碍,困难;vi.进行跨栏赛
参考例句:
  • The weather will be the biggest hurdle so I have to be ready.天气将会是最大的障碍,所以我必须要作好准备。
  • She clocked 11.6 seconds for the 80 metre hurdle.八十米跳栏赛跑她跑了十一秒六。
27 wigs 53e7a1f0d49258e236f1a412f2313400     
n.假发,法官帽( wig的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • They say that wigs will be coming in again this year. 据说今年又要流行戴假发了。 来自辞典例句
  • Frank, we needed more wigs than we thought, and we have to do some advertising. 弗兰克,因为我们需要更多的假发,而且我们还要做点广告。 来自电影对白
28 wigged a6b8242854daaf1f86646e406440d071     
adj.戴假发的
参考例句:
  • I have wigged him well. 我已给他装好了假发。 来自辞典例句
  • He wigged me for being late. 他因我来迟而责骂我。 来自辞典例句
29 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
30 ledges 6a417e3908e60ac7fcb331ba2faa21b1     
n.(墙壁,悬崖等)突出的狭长部分( ledge的名词复数 );(平窄的)壁架;横档;(尤指)窗台
参考例句:
  • seabirds nesting on rocky ledges 海鸟在岩架上筑巢
  • A rusty ironrod projected mournfully from one of the window ledges. 一个窗架上突出一根生锈的铁棒,真是满目凄凉。 来自辞典例句
31 conspicuous spszE     
adj.明眼的,惹人注目的;炫耀的,摆阔气的
参考例句:
  • It is conspicuous that smoking is harmful to health.很明显,抽烟对健康有害。
  • Its colouring makes it highly conspicuous.它的色彩使它非常惹人注目。
32 animated Cz7zMa     
adj.生气勃勃的,活跃的,愉快的
参考例句:
  • His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
  • We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
33 spiked 5fab019f3e0b17ceef04e9d1198b8619     
adj.有穗的;成锥形的;有尖顶的
参考例句:
  • The editor spiked the story. 编辑删去了这篇报道。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They wondered whether their drinks had been spiked. 他们有些疑惑自己的饮料里是否被偷偷搀了烈性酒。 来自辞典例句
34 whet GUuzX     
v.磨快,刺激
参考例句:
  • I've read only the fIrst few pages of her book,but It was enough to whet my appetIte.她的书我只看了开头几页,但已经引起我极大的兴趣。
  • A really good catalogue can also whet customers' appetites for merchandise.一份真正好的商品目录也可以激起顾客购买的欲望。
35 mingle 3Dvx8     
vt.使混合,使相混;vi.混合起来;相交往
参考例句:
  • If we mingle with the crowd,we should not be noticed.如果我们混在人群中,就不会被注意到。
  • Oil will not mingle with water.油和水不相融。
36 impure NyByW     
adj.不纯净的,不洁的;不道德的,下流的
参考例句:
  • The air of a big city is often impure.大城市的空气往往是污浊的。
  • Impure drinking water is a cause of disease.不洁的饮用水是引发疾病的一个原因。
37 ornament u4czn     
v.装饰,美化;n.装饰,装饰物
参考例句:
  • The flowers were put on the table for ornament.花放在桌子上做装饰用。
  • She wears a crystal ornament on her chest.她的前胸戴了一个水晶饰品。
38 engendered 9ea62fba28ee7e2bac621ac2c571239e     
v.产生(某形势或状况),造成,引起( engender的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The issue engendered controversy. 这个问题引起了争论。
  • The meeting engendered several quarrels. 这次会议发生了几次争吵。 来自《简明英汉词典》
39 peril l3Dz6     
n.(严重的)危险;危险的事物
参考例句:
  • The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.难民有饿死的危险。
  • The embankment is in great peril.河堤岌岌可危。
40 savage ECxzR     
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人
参考例句:
  • The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
  • He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。
41 fascination FlHxO     
n.令人着迷的事物,魅力,迷恋
参考例句:
  • He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
  • His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。
42 doomed EuuzC1     
命定的
参考例句:
  • The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
  • A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。
43 shamefully 34df188eeac9326cbc46e003cb9726b1     
可耻地; 丢脸地; 不体面地; 羞耻地
参考例句:
  • He misused his dog shamefully. 他可耻地虐待自己的狗。
  • They have served me shamefully for a long time. 长期以来,他们待我很坏。
44 mangled c6ddad2d2b989a3ee0c19033d9ef021b     
vt.乱砍(mangle的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • His hand was mangled in the machine. 他的手卷到机器里轧烂了。
  • He was off work because he'd mangled his hand in a machine. 他没上班,因为他的手给机器严重压伤了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
45 immortal 7kOyr     
adj.不朽的;永生的,不死的;神的
参考例句:
  • The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal.野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
  • The heroes of the people are immortal!人民英雄永垂不朽!
46 asunder GVkzU     
adj.分离的,化为碎片
参考例句:
  • The curtains had been drawn asunder.窗帘被拉向两边。
  • Your conscience,conviction,integrity,and loyalties were torn asunder.你的良心、信念、正直和忠诚都被扯得粉碎了。
47 gloss gloss     
n.光泽,光滑;虚饰;注释;vt.加光泽于;掩饰
参考例句:
  • John tried in vain to gloss over his faults.约翰极力想掩饰自己的缺点,但是没有用。
  • She rubbed up the silver plates to a high gloss.她把银盘擦得很亮。
48 indictment ybdzt     
n.起诉;诉状
参考例句:
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
  • They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。
49 jingle RaizA     
n.叮当声,韵律简单的诗句;v.使叮当作响,叮当响,押韵
参考例句:
  • The key fell on the ground with a jingle.钥匙叮当落地。
  • The knives and forks set up their regular jingle.刀叉发出常有的叮当声。
50 traitor GqByW     
n.叛徒,卖国贼
参考例句:
  • The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.那个卖国贼终于被人发现并被监禁了起来。
  • He was sold out by a traitor and arrested.他被叛徒出卖而被捕了。
51 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。
52 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前;向外,往外
参考例句:
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
53 divers hu9z23     
adj.不同的;种种的
参考例句:
  • He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人,要他们和他作伴。
  • Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作,同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。
54 dominions 37d263090097e797fa11274a0b5a2506     
统治权( dominion的名词复数 ); 领土; 疆土; 版图
参考例句:
  • The King sent messengers to every town, village and hamlet in his dominions. 国王派使者到国内每一个市镇,村落和山庄。
  • European powers no longer rule over great overseas dominions. 欧洲列强不再统治大块海外领土了。
55 traitorously 4360493d6ca3bf30c9f95c969c5d6acd     
叛逆地,不忠地
参考例句:
56 spiky hhczrZ     
adj.长而尖的,大钉似的
参考例句:
  • Your hairbrush is too spiky for me.你的发刷,我觉得太尖了。
  • The spiky handwriting on the airmail envelope from London was obviously hers.发自伦敦的航空信封上的尖长字迹分明是她的。
57 bristled bristled     
adj. 直立的,多刺毛的 动词bristle的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • They bristled at his denigrating description of their activities. 听到他在污蔑他们的活动,他们都怒发冲冠。
  • All of us bristled at the lawyer's speech insulting our forefathers. 听到那个律师在讲演中污蔑我们的祖先,大家都气得怒发冲冠。
58 circuitously 7b7cf49363583a54b6598eff984b912f     
曲折地
参考例句:
59 flinched 2fdac3253dda450d8c0462cb1e8d7102     
v.(因危险和痛苦)退缩,畏惧( flinch的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He flinched at the sight of the blood. 他一见到血就往后退。
  • This tough Corsican never flinched or failed. 这个刚毅的科西嘉人从来没有任何畏缩或沮丧。 来自辞典例句
60 theatrical pIRzF     
adj.剧场的,演戏的;做戏似的,做作的
参考例句:
  • The final scene was dismayingly lacking in theatrical effect.最后一场缺乏戏剧效果,叫人失望。
  • She always makes some theatrical gesture.她老在做些夸张的手势。
61 attentive pOKyB     
adj.注意的,专心的;关心(别人)的,殷勤的
参考例句:
  • She was very attentive to her guests.她对客人招待得十分周到。
  • The speaker likes to have an attentive audience.演讲者喜欢注意力集中的听众。
62 slab BTKz3     
n.平板,厚的切片;v.切成厚板,以平板盖上
参考例句:
  • This heavy slab of oak now stood between the bomb and Hitler.这时笨重的橡木厚板就横在炸弹和希特勒之间了。
  • The monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab.这座纪念碑由两根垂直的柱体构成,它们共同支撑着一块平板。
63 abominable PN5zs     
adj.可厌的,令人憎恶的
参考例句:
  • Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.他们虐待犯人的做法令人厌恶。
  • The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.这家饭馆的卫生状况糟透了。
64 infamy j71x2     
n.声名狼藉,出丑,恶行
参考例句:
  • They may grant you power,honour,and riches but afflict you with servitude,infamy,and poverty.他们可以给你权力、荣誉和财富,但却用奴役、耻辱和贫穷来折磨你。
  • Traitors are held in infamy.叛徒为人所不齿。
65 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。
66 intensity 45Ixd     
n.强烈,剧烈;强度;烈度
参考例句:
  • I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
  • The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。
67 dread Ekpz8     
vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧
参考例句:
  • We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
  • Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。
68 expressive shwz4     
adj.表现的,表达…的,富于表情的
参考例句:
  • Black English can be more expressive than standard English.黑人所使用的英语可能比正式英语更有表现力。
  • He had a mobile,expressive,animated face.他有一张多变的,富于表情的,生动活泼的脸。
69 engrossing YZ8zR     
adj.使人全神贯注的,引人入胜的v.使全神贯注( engross的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • He told us an engrossing story. 他给我们讲了一个引人入胜的故事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It might soon have ripened into that engrossing feeling. 很快便会发展成那种压倒一切的感情的。 来自辞典例句
70 compassion 3q2zZ     
n.同情,怜悯
参考例句:
  • He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
  • Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
71 rust XYIxu     
n.锈;v.生锈;(脑子)衰退
参考例句:
  • She scraped the rust off the kitchen knife.她擦掉了菜刀上的锈。
  • The rain will rust the iron roof.雨水会使铁皮屋顶生锈。
72 steadily Qukw6     
adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地
参考例句:
  • The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
  • Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。
73 axe 2oVyI     
n.斧子;v.用斧头砍,削减
参考例句:
  • Be careful with that sharp axe.那把斧子很锋利,你要当心。
  • The edge of this axe has turned.这把斧子卷了刃了。
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