One Hundred Years of Solitude 百年孤独 Chapter 4
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THE NEW HOUSE, white, like a dove, was inaugurated with a dance. úrsula had got that idea from the afternoon when she saw Rebeca and Amaranta changed into adolescents, and it could almost have been said that the main reason behind the construction was a desire to have a proper place for the girls to receive visitors. In order that nothing would be lacking in splendor2 she worked like a galley3 slave as the repairs were under way, so that before they were finished she had ordered costly4 necessities for the decorations, the table service, and the marvelous invention that was to arouse the astonishment5 of the town and the jubilation6 of the young people: the pianola. They delivered it broken down, packed in several boxes that were unloaded along with the Viennese furniture, the Bohemian crystal, the table service from the Indies Company, the tablecloths7 from Holland, and a rich variety of lamps and candlesticks, hangings and drapes. The import house sent along at its own expense an Italian expert, Pietro Crespi, to assemble and tune8 the pianola, to instruct the purchasers in its functioning, to teach them how to dance the latest music printed on its six paper rolls.
Pietro Crespi was young and blond, the most handsome and well mannered man who had ever been seen in Macondo, so scrupulous9 in his dress that in spite of the suffocating10 heat he would work in his brocade vest and heavy coat of dark cloth. Soaked in sweat, keeping a reverent11 distance from the owners the house, he spent several weeks shut up is the parlor12 with a dedication13 much like that of Aureliano in his silverwork. One morning, without opening the door, without calling anyone to witness the miracle, he placed the first roll in the pianola and the tormenting15 hammering and the constant noise of wooden lathings ceased in a silence that was startled at the order and neatness of the music. They all ran to the parlor. José Arcadio Buendía was as if struck by lightning, not because of the beauty of the melody, but because of the automatic working of the keys of the pianola, and he set up Melquíades' camera with the hope of getting a daguerreotype16 of the invisible player. That day the Italian had lunch them. Rebeca and Amaranta, serving the table, were intimidated17 by the way in which the angelic man with pale and ringless hands manipulated the utensils18. In the living room, next to the parlor, Pietro Crespi taught them how to dance. He showed them the steps without touching19 them, keeping time with a metronome, under the friendly eye of úrsula, who did not leave the room for a moment while her daughters had their lesson. Pietro Crespi wore special pants on those days, very elastic21 and tight, dancing slippers22, "You don't have to worry so much," José Arcadio Buendía told her. "The man's a fairy." But she did not leave off her vigilance until the apprenticeship23 was over and the Italian left Macondo. Then they began to organize the party. úrsula drew up a strict guest list, in which the only ones invited were the descendants the founders24, except for the family of Pilar Ternera, who by then had had two more children by unknown fathers. It was truly a highclass list, except that it was determined25 by feelings friendship, for those favored were not only the oldest friends of José Arcadio Buendía's house since before they undertook the exodus26 and the founding of Macondo, but also their sons and grandsons, who were the constant companions of Aureliano and Arcadio since infancy27, and their daughters, who were the only ones who visited the house to embroider28 with Rebeca and Amaranta. Don Apolinar Moscote, the benevolent29 ruler whose activity had been reduced to the maintenance from his scanty30 resources of two policemen armed with wooden clubs, was a figurehead. In older to support the household expenses his daughters had opened a sewing shop, where they made felt flowers as well as guava delicacies31, and wrote love notes to order. But in spite of being modest and hard-working, the most beautiful girls in Iowa, and the most skilled at the new dances, they did not manage to be considered for the party.
While úrsula and the girls unpacked32 furniture, polished silverware, and hung pictures of maidens33 in boats full of roses, which gave a breath of new life to the naked areas that the masons had built, José Arcadio Buendía stopped his pursuit of the image of God, convinced of His nonexistence, and he took the pianola apart in order to decipher its magical secret. Two days before the party, swamped in a shower of leftover34 keys and hammers, bungling35 in the midst of a mixup of strings36 that would unroll in one direction and roll up again in the other, he succeeded in a fashion in putting the instrument back together. There had never been as many surprises and as much dashing about as in those days, but the new pitch lamps were lighted on the designated day and hour. The house was opened, still smelling of resin37 and damp whitewash38, and the children and grandchildren of the founders saw the porch with ferns and begonias, the quiet rooms, the garden saturated39 with the fragrance40 of the roses, and they gathered together in the parlor, facing the unknown invention that had been covered with a white sheet. Those who were familiar with the piano, popular in other towns in the swamp, felt a little disheartened, but more bitter was úrsula's disappointment when she put in the first roll so that Amaranta and Rebeca could begin the dancing and the mechanism41 did not work. Melquíades, almost blind by then, crumbling42 with decrepitude43, used the arts of his timeless wisdom in an attempt to fix it. Finally José Arcadio Buendía managed, by mistake, to move a device that was stuck and the music came out, first in a burst and then in a flow of mixed-up notes. Beating against the strings that had been put in without order or concert and had been tuned45 temerity46, the hammers let go. But the stubborn descendants of the twenty-one intrepid47 people who plowed48 through the mountains in search of the sea to the west avoided the reefs of the melodic49 mix-up and the dancing went on until dawn.
Pietro Crespi came back to repair the pianola. Rebeca and Amaranta helped him put the strings in order and helped him with their laughter at the mix-up of the melodies. It was extremely pleasant and so chaste50 in its way that úrsula ceased her vigilance. On the eve of his departure a farewell dance for him was improvised51 with the pianola and with Rebeca he put on a skillful demonstration52 of modern dance, Arcadio and Amaranta matched them in grace and skill. But the exhibition was interrupted because Pilar Ternera, who was at the door with the onlookers53, had a fight, biting and hair pulling, with a woman who had dared to comment that Arcadio had a woman's behind. Toward midnight Pietro Crespi took his leave with a sentimental54 little speech, and he promised to return very soon. Rebeca accompanied him to the door, and having closed up the house and put out the lamps, she went to her room to weep. It was an inconsolable weeping that lasted for several days, the cause of which was not known even by Amaranta. Her hermetism was not odd. Although she seemed expansive and cordial, she had a solitary55 character an impenetrable heart. She was a splendid adolescent with long and firm bones, but she still insisted on using the small wooden rocking chair with which she had arrived at the house, reinforced many times and with the arms gone. No one had discovered that even at that age she still had the habit of sucking her finger. That was why she would not lose an opportunity to lock herself in the bathroom and had acquired the habit of sleeping with her face to the wall. On rainy afternoons, embroidering56 with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear of nostalgia57 would salt her palate when she saw the strips of damp earth and the piles of mud that the earthworms had pushed up in the garden. Those secret tastes, defeated in the past by oranges and rhubarb, broke out into an irrepressible urge when she began to weep. She went back to eating earth. The first time she did it almost out of curiosity, sure that the bad taste would be the best cure for the temptation. And, in fact, she could not bear the earth in her mouth. But she persevered59, overcome by the growing anxiety, and little by little she was getting back her ancestral appetite, the taste primary minerals, the unbridled satisfaction of what was the original food. She would put handfuls of earth in her pockets, and ate them in small bits without being seen, with a confused feeling of pleasure and rage, as she instructed her girl friends in the most difficult needlepoint and spoke60 about other men, who did not deserve the sacrifice of having one eat the whitewash on the walls because of them. The handfuls of earth made the only man who deserved that show of degradation61 less remote and more certain, as if the ground that he walked on with his fine patent leatboots in another part the world were transmitting to her the weight and the temperature his blood in a mineral savor62 that left a harsh aftertaste in her mouth and a sediment63 of peace in her heart. One afternoon, for no reason, Amparo Moscote asked permission to see the house. Amaranta and Rebeca, disconcerted by the unexpected visit, attended her with a stiff formality. They showed her the remodeled mansion64, they had her listen to the rolls on the pianola, and they offered her orange marmalade and crackers65. Amparo gave a lesson in dignity, personal charm, and good manners that impressed úrsula in the few moments that she was present during the visit. After two hours, when the conversation was beginning to wane66, Amparo took advantage of Amaranta's distraction67 and gave Rebeca a letter. She was able to see the name of the Estimable Se?orita Rebeca Buendía, written in the same methodical hand, with the same green ink, and the same delicacy68 of words with which the instructions for the operation of the pianola were written, and she folded the letter with the tips of her fingers and hid it in her bosom69, looking at Amparo Moscote with an expression of endless and unconditional70 gratitude71 and a silent promise of complicity unto death.
The sudden friendship between Amparo Moscote and Rebeca Buendía awakened72 the hopes of Aureliano. The memory of little Remedios had not stopped tormenting him, but he had not found a chance to see her. When he would stroll through town his closest friends, Magnífico Visbal and Gerineldo Márquez-the sons of the founders of the same names-he would look for her in the sewing shop with an anxious glance, but he saw only the older sisters. The presence of Amparo Moscote in the house was like a premonition. "She has to come with her," Aureliano would say to himself in a low voice. "She has to come." He repeated it so many times and with such conviction that one afternoon when he was putting together a little gold fish in the work shop, he had the certainty that she had answered his call. Indeed, a short time later he heard the childish voice, when he looked up his heart froze with terror as he saw the girl at the door, dressed in pink organdy and wearing white boots.
But Aureliano did not give her time to respond. He picked up the little fish by the chain that came through its mouth and said to her.
"Come in."
Remedios went over and asked some questions about the fish that Aureliano could not answer because he was seized with a sudden attack of asthma73. He wanted to stay beside that lily skin forever, beside those emerald eyes, close to that voice that called him "sir" with every question. showing the same respect that she gave her father. Melquíades was in the corner seated at the desk scribbling74 indecipherable signs. Aureliano hated him. All he could do was tell Remedios that he was going to give her the little fish and the girl was so startled by the offer that she left the workshop as fast as she could. That afternoon Aureliano lost the hidden patience with which he had waited for a chance to see her. He neglected his work. In several desperate efforts of concentration he willed her to appear but Remedios did not respond. He looked for her in sisters' shop, behind the window shades in her house, in her father's office, but he found her only in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude75. He would spend whole hours with Rebeca in the parlor listening to the music on the pianola. She was listening to it because it was the music with which Pietro Crespi had taught them how to dance. Aureliano listened to it simply because everything, even music, reminded him of Remedios.
The house became full of loves Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning or end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquíades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths76, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever. Rebeca waited for her love at four in the afternoon, embroidering by the window. She knew that the mailman's mule77 arrived only every two weeks, but she always waited for him, convinced that he was going to arrive on some other day by mistake. It happened quite the opposite: once the mule did not come on the usual day. Mad desperation, Rebeca got up in the middle of the night and ate handfuls of earth in the garden with a suicidal drive, weeping with pain and fury, chewing tender earthworms and chipping her teeth on snail78 shells. She vomited79 until dawn. She fell into a state of feverish81 prostration82, lost consciousness, and her heart went into a shameless delirium83. úrsula, scandalized, forced the lock on her trunk and found at the bottom, tied togetpink ribbons, the sixteen perfumed letters and the skeletons of leaves and petals84 preserved in old books the dried butterflies that turned to powder at the touch.
Aureliano was the only one capable of understanding such desolation. That afternoon, while úrsula was trying to rescue Rebeca from the slough85 of delirium, he went with Magnífico Visbal and Gerineldo Márquez to Catarino's store. The establishment had been expanded with a gallery of wooden rooms where single women who smelled of dead flowers lived. A group made up of an accordion86 and drums played the songs of Francisco the Man, who had not been seen in Macondo for several years. The three friends drank fermented87 cane88 juice. Magnífico Gerineldo, contemporaries of Aureliano but more skilled in the ways the world, drank methodically with the women seated on their laps. One of the women, withered89 and with goldwork on her teeth, gave Aureliano a caress90 that made him shudder91. He rejected her. He had discovered that the more he drank the more he thought about Remedios, but he could bear the torture of his recollections better. He did not know exactly when he began to float. He saw his friends and the women sailing in a radiant glow, without weight or mass, saying words that did not come out of their mouths and making mysterious signals that did not correspond to their expressions. Catarino put a hand on his shoulder and said to him: "It's going on eleven." Aureliano turned his head, saw the enormous disfigured face with a felt flower behind the ear, and then he lost his memory, as during the times of forgetfulness, and he recovered it on a strange dawn and in a room that was completely foreign, where Pilar Ternera stood in her slip, barefoot, her hair down, holding a lamp over him, startled with disbelief.
 
"Aureliano!"
Aureliano checked his feet and raised his head. He did not know how he had come there, but he knew what his aim was, because he had carried it hidden since infancy in an inviolable backwater of his heart.
"I've come to sleep with you," he said.
His clothes were smeared92 with mud and vomit80. Pilar Ternera, who lived alone at that time with her two younger children, did not ask him any questions. She took him to the bed. She cleaned his face with a damp cloth, took of his clothes, and then got completely undressed and lowered the mosquito netting so that her children would not see them if they woke up. She had become tired of waiting for the man who would stay, of the men who left, of the countless93 men who missed the road to her house, confused by the uncertainty94 of the cards. During the wait her skin had become wrinkled, her breasts had withered, the coals of her heart had gone out. She felt for Aureliano in the darkness, put her hand on his stomach and kissed him on the neck with a maternal95 tenderness. "My poor child," she murmured. Aureliano shuddered96. With a calm skill, without the slightest misstep, he left his accumulated grief behind and found Remedios changed into a swamp without horizons, smelling of a raw animal and recently ironed clothes. When he came to the surface he was weeping. First they were involuntary and broken sobs97. Then he emptied himself out in an unleashed98 flow, feeling that something swollen100 and painful had burst inside of him. She waited, snatching his head with the tips fingers, until his body got rid of the dark material that would not let him live. They Pilar Ternera asked him: "Who is it?" And Aureliano told her. She let out a laugh that in other times frightened the doves and that now did not even wake up the children. "You'll have to raise her first," she mocked, but underneath101 the mockery Aureliano found a reservoir of understanding. When he went out of the room, leaving behind not only his doubts about his virility102 but also the bitter weight that his heart had borne for so many months, Pilar Ternera made him a spontaneous promise.
"I'm going to talk to the girl," she told him, "and you'll see what I'll serve her on the tray."
She kept her promise. But it was a bad moment, because the house had lost its peace of former days. When she discovered Rebeca's passion, which was impossible to keep secret because of her shouts, Amaranta suffered an attack of fever. She also suffered from the barb58 of a lonely love. Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment14 of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk. úrsula barely had the strength to take care of the two sick girls. She was unable, after prolonged and insidious103 interrogations, to ascertain104 the causes of Amaranta's prostration. Finally, in another moment of inspiration, she forced the lock on the trunk and found the letters tied with a pink ribbon, swollen with fresh lilies and still wet with tears, addressed and never sent to Pietro Crespi. Weeping with rage, she cursed the day that it had occurred to her to buy the pianola, she forbade the embroidery105 lessons and decreed a kind of mourning with no one dead which was to be prolonged until the daughters got over their hopes. Useless was the intervention106 of José Arcadio Buendía, who had modified his first impression Pietro Crespi and admired his ability in the manipulation of musical machines. So that when Pilar Ternera told Aureliano that Remedios had decided107 on marriage, he could see that the news would only give his parents more trouble. Invited to the parlor for a formal interview, José Arcadio Buendía and úrsula listened stonily108 to their son's declaration. When he learned the name of the fiancée, however, José Arcadio Buendía grew red with indignation. "Love is a disease," he thundered. "With so many pretty and decent girls around, the only thing that occurs to you is to get married to the daughter of our enemy." But úrsula agreed the choice. She confessed her affection for the seven Moscote sisters. for their beauty, their ability for work, their modesty109, and their good manners, and she celebrated110 her son's prudence111. Conquered by his wife's enthusiasm, José Arcadio Buendía then laid down one condition: Rebeca, who was the one he wanted, would marry Pietro Crespi. úrsula would take Amaranta on a trip to the capital of the province when she had time, so that contact with different people would alleviate112 her disappointment. Rebeca got her health back just as soon as she heard of the agreement, and she wrote her fiancé a jubilant letter that she submitted to her parents' approval and put into the mail without the use of any intermediaries. Amaranta pretended to accept the decision and little by little she recovered from her fevers, but she promised herself that Rebeca would marry only over her dead body.
The following Saturday José Arcadio Buendía put on his dark suit, his celluloid collar, and the deerskin boots that he had worn for the first time the night of the party, and went to ask for the hand of Remedios Moscote. The magistrate113 and his wife received him, pleased and worried at the same time, for they did not know the reason for the unexpected visit, and then they thought that he was confused about the name of the intended bride. In order to remove the mistake, the mother woke Remedios up and carried her into the living room, still drowsy114 from sleep. They asked her if it was true that she had decided to get married, and she answered, whimpering, that she only wanted them to let her sleep. José Arcadio Buendía, understanding the distress115 of the Moscotes, went to clear things up with Aureliano. When he returned, the Moscotes had put on formal clothing, had rearranged the furniture put fresh flowers in the vases, and were waiting in the company of their older daughters. Overwhelmed by the unpleasantness of the occasion and the bothersome hard collar, José Arcadio Buendía confirmed the fact that Remedios, indeed, was the chosen one. "It doesn't make sense," Don Apolinar Moscote said with consternation116. "We have six other daughters, all unmarried, and at an age where they deserve it, who would be delighted to be the honorable wife of a gentleman as serious and hardworking as your son, and Aurelito lays his eyes precisely117 on the one who still wets her bed." His wife, a well-preserved woman with afflicted118 eyelids119 and expression, scolded his mistake. When they finished the fruit punch, they willingly accepted Aureliano's decision. Except that Se?ora Moscote begged the favor of speaking to úrsula alone. Intrigued120, protesting that they were involving her in men's affairs, but really feeling deep emotion, úrsula went to visit her the next day. A half hour later she returned with the news that Remedios had not reached puberty. Aureliano did not consider that a serious barrier. He had waited so long that he could wait as long as was necessary until his bride reached the age of conception.
The newfound harmony was interrupted by the death of Melquíades. Although it was a foreseeable event, the circumstances were not. A few months after his return, a process aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedrooms like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bothers about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed. At first José Arcadio Buendía helped him in his work, enthusiastic over the novelty of the daguerreotypes and the predictions of Nostradamus. But little by little he began abandoning him to his solitude, for communication was becoming Increasingly difficult. He was losing his sight and his hearing, he seemed to confuse the people he was speaking to with others he had known in remote epochs of mankind, and he would answer questions with a complex hodgepodge languages. He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with an inexplicable121 fluidity, as if be were endowed with some instinct of direction based on an immediate122 prescience. One day he forgot to put in his false teeth, which at night he left in a glass of water beside his bed, and he never put them in again. When úrsula undertook the enlargement of the house, she had them build him a special room next to Aureliano's workshop, far from the noise and bustle123 of the house, with a window flooded with light and a bookcase where she herself put in order the books that were almost destroyed by dust and moths, the flaky stacks of paper covered with indecipherable signs, and the glass with his false teeth, where some aquatic124 plants with tiny yellow flowers had taken root. The new place seemed to please Melquíades, because he was never seen any more, not even in the dining room, He only went to Aureliano's workshop, where he would spend hours on end scribbling his enigmatic literature on the parchments that he had brought with him and that seemed to have been made out of some dry material that crumpled126 like puff127 paste. There he ate the meals that Visitación brought him twice a day, although in the last days he lost his appetite and fed only on vegetables. He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians128. His skin became covered with a thin moss129, similar to that which flourished on the antique vest that he never took off, and his breath exhaled130 the odor of a sleeping animal. Aureliano ended up forgetting about him, absorbed in the composition of his poems, but on one occasion he thought he understood something of what Melquíades was saying in his groping monologues131, and he paid attention. In reality, the only thing that could be isolated132 in the rocky paragraphs was the insistent133 hammering on the word equinox, equinox, equinox, and the name of Alexander von Humboldt. Arcadio got a little closer to him when he began to help Aureliano in his silverwork. Melquíades answered that effort at communication at times by giving forth134 with phrases in Spanish that had very little to do reality. One afternoon, however, he seemed to be illuminated135 by a sudden emotion. Years later, facing the firing squad136, Arcadio would remember the trembling with which Melquíades made him listen to several pages of his impenetrable writing, which course he did not understand, but which when read aloud were like encyclicals being chanted. Then he smiled for the first time in a long while and said in Spanish: "When I die, burn mercury in my room for three days." Arcadio told that to José Arcadio Buendía and the latter tried to get more explicit137 information, but he received only one answer: "I have found immortality138." When Melquíades' breathing began to smell, Arcadio took him to bathe in the river on Thursday mornings. He seemed to get better. He would undress and get into the water with the boys, and his mysterious sense of orientation139 would allow him to avoid the deep and dangerous spots. "We come from the water," he said on a certain occasion. Much time passed in that way without anyone's seeing him in the house except on the night when he made a pathetic effort to fix the pianola, and when he would go to the river with Arcadio, carrying under his arm a gourd140 and a bar of palm oil soap wrapped in a towel. One Thursday before they called him to go to the river, Aureliano heard him say: "I have died of fever on the dunes141 of Singapore." That day he went into the water at a bad spot and they did not find him until the following day, a few miles downstream, washed up on a bright bend in the river and with a solitary vulture sitting on his stomach. Over the scandalized protests of úrsula, who wept with more grief than she had had for her own father, José Arcadio Buendía was opposed to their burying him. "He is immortal," he said, "and he himself revealed the formula of his resurrection." He brought out the forgotten water pipe and put a kettle mercury to boil next to the body, which little by little was filling with blue bubbles. Don Apolinar Moscote ventured to remind him that an unburied drowned man was a danger to public health. "None of that, because he's alive," was the answer of José Arcadio Buendía, who finished the seventy-two hours with the mercurial142 incense143 as the body was already beginning to burst with a livid fluorescence, the soft whistles of which impregnated the house with a pestilential vapor144. Only then did he permit them to bury him, not in any ordinary way, but the honors reserved for Macondo's greatest benefactor145. It was the first burial and the best-attended one that was ever seen in the town, only surpassed, a century later, by Big Mama's funeral carnival146. They buried him in a grave dug in the center of the plot destined147 for the cemetery148, with a stone on which they wrote the only thing they knew about him: MELQUíADES. They gave him his nine nights of wake. In the tumult149 that gathered in the courtyard to drink coffee, tell jokes, and play cards. Amaranta found a chance to confess her love to Pietro Crespi, who a few weeks before had formalized his promise to Rebeca and had set up a store for musical instruments and mechanical toys in the same section where the Arabs had lingered in other times swapping150 knickknacks for macaws, and which the people called the Street of the Turks. The Italian, whose head covered with patent leather curls aroused in women an irrepressible need to sigh, dealt with Amaranta as with a capricious little girl who was not worth taking seriously.
"I have a younger brother," he told her. "He's coming to help me in the store."
Amaranta felt humiliated151 and told Pietro Crespi with a virulent152 anger that she was prepared to stop her sister's wedding even own dead body had to lie across the door. The Italian was so impressed by the dramatics of the threat that he could not resist the temptation to mention it to Rebeca. That was how Amaranta's trip, always put off by úrsula's work, was arranged in less than a week. Amaranta put up no resistance, but when she kissed Rebeca goodbye she whispered in her ear:
"Don't get your hopes up. Even if they send me to the ends of the earth I'll find some way of stopping you from getting married, even if I have to kill you."
With the absence of úrsula, with the invisible presence of Melquíades, who continued his stealthy shuffling153 through the rooms, the house seemed enormous and empty. Rebeca took charge of domestic order, while the Indian woman took care of the bakery. At dusk, when Pietro Crespi would arrive, preceded by a cool breath of lavender and always bringing a toy as a gift, his fiancée would receive the visitor in the main parlor with doors and windows open to be safe from any suspicion. It was an unnecessary precaution, for the Italian had shown himself to be so respectful that he did not even touch the hand of the woman who was going to be his wife within the year. Those visits were filling the house with remarkable154 toys. Mechanical ballerinas, music boxes, acrobatic monkeys, trotting155 horses, clowns who played the tambourine156: the rich and startling mechanical fauna157 that Pietro Crespi brought dissipated José Arcadio Buendía's affliction over the death of Melquíades and carried him back to his old days as an alchemist. He lived at that time in a paradise of disemboweled animals, of mechanisms158 that had been taken apart in an attempt to perfect them with a system of perpetual motion based upon the principles of the pendulum159. Aureliano, for his part, had neglected the workshop in order to teach little Remedios to read and write. At first the child preferred her dolls to the man who would come every afternoon and who was responsi-ble for her being separated from her toys in order to be bathed and dressed and seated in the parlor to receive the visitor. But Aureliano's patience and devotion final-ly won her over, up to the point where she would spend many hours with him studying the meaning of the letters and sketching160 in a notebook with colored pencils little houses with cows in the corral and round suns with yellow rays that hid behind the hills.
 
"You will not be happy as long as your parents remain unburied."
Rebeca shuddered. As in the memory of a dream she saw herself entering the house as a very small girl, with the trunk and the little rocker, a bag whose contents she had never known. She remembered a bald gentleman dressed in linen161 and with his collar closed by a gold button, who had nothing to do with the king of hearts. She remembered a very young and beautiful woman with warm and perfumed hands, who had nothing in common with the jack162 of diamonds and his rheumatic hands, who used to put flowers in her hair and take her out walking in the afternoon through a town with green streets.
"I don't understand," she said.
Pilar Ternera seemed disconcerted:
"I don't either, but that's what the cards say."
Rebeca was so preoccupied163 the enigma125 that she told it to José Arcadio Buendía, and he scolded her for believing in the predictions of the cards, but he undertook the silent task of searching closets and trunks, moving furniture and turning over beds and floorboards looking for the bag of bones. He remembered that he had not seen it since the time of the rebuilding. He secretly summoned the masons and one of them revealed that he had walled up the bag in some bedroom because it bothered him in his work. After several days of listening, with their ears against the walls, they perceived the deep cloccloc. They penetrated164 the wall and there were the bones in the intact bag. They buried it the same day in a grave without a stone next to that of Melquíades, and José Arcadio Buendía returned home free of a burden that for a moment had weighed on his conscience as much as the memory of Prudencio Aguilar. When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead.
The friendship with Rebeca opened up to Pilar Ternera the doors of the house, closed by úrsula since the birth of Arcadio. She would arrive at any hour of the day, like a flock of goats, and would unleash99 her feverish energy in the hardest tasks. Sometimes she would go into the workshop and help Arcadio sensitize the daguerreotype plates with an efficiency and a tenderness that ended up by confusing him. That woman bothered him. The tan of her skin, her smell of smoke, the disorder165 of her laughter in the darkroom distracted his attention and made him bump into things.
On a certain occasion Aureliano was there working on his silver, and Pilar Ternera leaned over the table to admire his laborious166 patience. Suddenly it happened. Aureliano made sure that Arcadio was in the darkroom before raising his eyes and meeting those Pilar Ternera, whose thought was perfectly167 visible, as if exposed to the light of noon.
"Well," Aureliano said. "Tell me what it is."
Pilar Ternera bit her lips with a sad smile.
"That you'd be good in a war," she said. "Where you put your eye, you put your bullet."
Aureliano relaxed with the proof of the omen20. He went back to concentrate on his work as if nothing had happened, and his voice took on a restful strength.
"I will recognize him," he said. "He'll bear my name."
José Arcadio Buendía finally got what he was looking for: he connected the mechanism of the clock to a mechanical ballerina, and the toy danced uninterruptedly to the rhythm of her own music for three days. That discovery excited him much more than any of his other harebrained undertakings168. He stopped eating. He stopped sleeping. Only the vigilance and care of Rebeca kept him from being dragged off by his imagination into a state of perpetual delirium from which he would not recover. He would spend the nights walking around the room thinking aloud, searching for a way to apply the principles of the pendulum to oxcarts, to harrows, to everything that was useful when put into motion. The fever of insomnia169 fatigued170 him so much that one dawn he could not recognize the old man with white hair and uncertain gestures who came into his bedroom. It was Prudencio Aguilar. When he finally identified him, startled that the dead also aged44, José Arcadio Buendía felt himself shaken by nostalgia. "Prudencio," he exclaimed. "You've come from a long way off!" After many years of death the yearning171 for the living was so intense, the need for company so pressing, so terrifying the neatness that other death which exists within death, that Prudencio Aguilar had ended up loving his worst enemy. He had spent a great deal of time looking for him. He asked the dead from Riohacha about him, the dead who came from the Upar Valley, those who came from the swamp, and no one could tell him because Macondo was a town that was unknown to the dead until Melquíades arrived and marked it with a small black dot on the motley maps of death. José Arcadio Buendía conversed172 with Prudencio Aguilar until dawn. A few hours later, worn out by the vigil, he went into Aureliano's workshop and asked him: "What day is today?" Aureliano told him that it was Tuesday. "I was thinking the same thing," José Arcadio Buendía said, "but suddenly I realized that it's still Monday, like yesterday. Look at the sky, look at the walls, look at the begonias. Today is Monday too." Used to his manias173, Aureliano paid no attention to him. On the next day, Wednesday, José Arcadio Buendía went back to the workshop. "This is a disaster," he said. "Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too." That night Pietro Crespi found him on the porch, weeping for Prudencio Aguilar, for Melquíades, for Rebeca's parents, for his mother and father, for all of those he could remember and who were now alone in death. He gave him a mechanical bear that walked on its hind1 legs on a tightrope174, but he could not distract him from his obsession175. He asked him what had happened to the project he had explained to him a few days before about the possibility of building a pendulum machine that would help men to fly and he answered that it was impossible because a pendulum could lift anything into the air but it could not lift itself. On Thursday he appeared in the workshop again with the painful look of plowed ground. "The time machine has broken," he almost sobbed176, "úrsula and Amaranta so far away!" Aureliano scolded him like a child he adopted a contrite177 air. He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. He spent the whole night in bed with his eyes open, calling to Prudencio Aguilar, to Melquíades, to all the dead, so that they would share his distress. But no one came. On Friday. before anyone arose, he watched the appearance of nature again until he did not have the slightest doubt but that it was Monday. Then he grabbed the bar from a door and with the savage178 violence his uncommon179 strength he smashed to dust the equipment in the alchemy laboratory, the daguerreotype room, the silver workshop, shouting like a man possessed180 in some high-sounding and fluent but completely incomprehensible language. He was about to finish off the rest of the house when Aureliano asked the neighbors for help. Ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up, twenty to drag him to the chestnut181 tree in the courtyard, where they left him tied up, barking in the strange language and giving off a green froth at the mouth. When úrsula and Amaranta returned he was still tied to the trunk of the chestnut tree by his hands feet, soaked with rain and in a state of total innocence182. They spoke to him and he looked at them without recognizing them, saying things they did not understand. úrsula untied183 his wrists and ankles, lacerated by the pressure of the rope, and left him tied only by the waist. Later on they built him a shelter of palm brandies to protect him from the sun and the rain.
 
白得象鸽子的新宅落成之后,举行了一次庆祝舞会。扩建房屋的事是乌苏娜那天下午想到的,因为她发现雷贝卡和阿玛兰塔都已成了大姑娘。其实,大兴土木的主要原因就是希望有个合适的地方便于姑娘们接待客人。为了出色地实现自己的愿望,乌苏娜活象个做苦工的女人,在修建过程中一直艰苦地劳动,甚至在房屋竣工之前,她就靠出售糖果和面包赚了那么多伪钱,以便能够定购许多稀罕和贵重的东西,用作房屋的装饰和设备,其中有一件将会引起全镇惊讶和青年们狂欢的奇异发明一自动钢琴。钢琴是拆放在几口箱子里运到的,一块儿运采的有维也纳家具、波希米亚水晶玻璃器皿、西印度公司餐具、荷兰桌布,还有许多各式各样的灯具、烛台、花瓶、窗帷和地毯。供应这些货色的商号自费派来了一名意大利技师皮埃特罗·克列斯比,由他负责装配和调准钢琴,指导买主如何使用,并且教他们随着六卷录音带上的流行歌曲跳舞。
 
皮埃特罗·克列斯比是个头发淡黄的年轻小伙子,马孔多还不曾见过这样漂亮、端庄的男人。他那么注重外表,即使在闷热的天气下工作,也不脱掉锦缎坎肩和黑色厚呢上装。他在客厅里关了几个星期,经常大汗淋淋,全神倾注地埋头工作,就象奥雷连诺干活那样。在房主人面前,他却保持着恰如其分的距离。有一天早晨,皮埃特罗·克列斯比没有打开客厅的门,也没叫任何人来观看奇迹,就把第一卷录音带插入钢琴,讨厌槌子敲击声和经久不息的噪音都突然停止了,在静谧中奇异地响起了和谐和纯正的乐曲。大家跑进客厅。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚惊得发呆,但他觉得奇异的不是美妙的旋律,而是琴键的自动起落。他甚至在房间里安好了梅尔加德斯的照相机,打算把看不见的钢琴手拍摄下来。这天早晨,意大利人跟全家一起进餐。这个天使般的人,双手白皙,没戴戒指,异常老练地使用着刀叉,照顾用膳的雷贝卡和阿玛兰塔一见就有点惊异。在客厅隔壁的大厅里,皮埃特罗·克列斯比开始教她们跳舞。他并不跟姑娘们接触,只用节拍器打着拍子,向她们表演各种舞步;乌苏娜却在旁边彬彬有礼地监视;女儿们学习跳舞的时候,她一分钟也没离开房间。在这些日子里,皮埃特罗·克列斯比穿上了舞鞋和紧绷绷的特殊裤子。
 
“你不必那么担心,”霍·阿·布恩蒂亚对妻子说,”因为这人象个娘儿们。”可是,在舞蹈训练结束、意大利人离开马孔多之后,乌苏娜才离开了自己的岗位,接着开始了庆祝的准备工作。乌苏娜拟了一份很有限的客人名单,其中仅仅包括马孔多建村者的家庭成员,皮拉·苔列娜一家人却不在内,因为这时她又跟不知什么男人生了两个儿子。实际上,客人是按门第挑选的,虽然也是由友情决定的:因为被邀请的人都是远征和马孔多建村之前霍·阿·布恩蒂亚家的老朋友和他们的后代;而这些后代从小就是奥雷连诺和阿卡蒂奥的密友,或者是跟雷贝卡和阿玛兰塔一块儿绣花的姑娘。阿·摩斯柯特先生是个温和的镇长,他的权力纯粹是有名无实的,他干的事情就是靠自己的一点儿钱养着两名用木棒武装起来的警察。为了弥补家庭开销,他的女儿们开设了一家缝纫店,同时制作假花和番石榴糖果,甚至根据特殊要求代写情书。尽管这些姑娘朴实、勤劳,是镇上最漂亮的,新式舞比谁都跳得得好,可是她们却没列入舞会客人的名单。
 
乌苏娜、阿玛兰塔和雷贝卡拆出裹着的家具,把银器洗刷干净,而且为了在泥瓦匠砌成的光秃秃的墙壁上增加生气,到处挂起了蔷薇船上的少女图;这时,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚却不再继续追踪上帝的影象,相信上帝是不存在的,而且拆开了自动钢琴,打算识破它那不可思议的秘密。在庆祝舞会之前的两天,他埋在不知哪儿弄来的一大堆螺钉和小槌子里,在乱七八糟的弦线中间瞎忙一气,这些弦线呀,刚从一端把它们伸直,它们立刻又从另一端卷了起来。他好不容易才把乐器重新装配好。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚家里还从来不曾这么忙乱过,但是新的煤油灯正好在规定的日子和规定的时刻亮了。房子还有焦油味和灰浆味,就开了门。马孔多老居民的子孙参观了摆着欧洲碳和秋海棠的长廊,观看了暂时还寂静无声的一间间卧室,欣赏了充满玫瑰芳香的花园,然后簇拥在客厅里用白罩单遮住的一个神奇宝贝周围。自动钢琴在沼泽地带的其他城镇是相当普及的,那些已经见过这种乐器的人就觉得有点扫兴,然而最失望的是乌苏娜:她把第一卷录音带放进钢琴,想让雷贝卡和阿玛兰塔婆娑起舞,钢琴却不动了。梅尔加德斯几乎已经双目失明,衰老已极,却想用往日那种神奇的本事把钢琴修好。最后,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚完全偶然地移动了一下卡住的零件,钢琴就发出了乐曲声,开头是咔嗒咔嗒的声音,然后却涌出混乱不堪的曲调。在随便绷紧、胡乱调好的琴弦上,一个个小槌子不住地瞎敲。可是,翻山越岭寻找过海洋的二十一个勇士顽固的后代,没去理睬杂乱无章的乐曲。舞会一直继续到了黎明。
 
为了修理自动钢琴,皮埃特罗·克列斯比回到了马孔多。雷贝卡和阿玛兰塔协助他拾掇琴弦;听到完全走了调的华尔兹舞曲,她们就跟他一块儿嬉笑。意大利人显得那么和蔼、尊严,乌苏娜这一次放弃了监视。在他离开之前,用修好的钢琴举行了一次欢送舞会,皮埃特罗·克列斯比和雷贝卡搭配,表演了现代舞的高超艺术。阿卡蒂奥和阿玛兰塔在优雅和灵巧上可跟他们媲美。然而舞蹈的示范表演不得不中止,因为和其他好奇者一块儿站在门口的皮拉·苔列娜,跟一个女人揪打了起来,那女人竟敢说年轻的阿卡蒂奥长着娘儿们的屁股。已经午夜。皮埃特罗·克列斯比发表了一次动人的告别演说,答应很快回来。雷贝卡把他送到门边;房门关上、灯盏熄灭之后,她回到自己的卧室,流山了热泪。这种无可安慰的痛哭延续了几天,谁都不知原因何在,甚至阿玛兰塔也不明究竟。对于雷贝卡的秘密,家里人并不感到奇怪。雷贝卡表面温和,容易接近,但她性情孤僻,心思叫人捉摸不透。她已经是个漂亮、强健、修长的姑娘,可是照旧喜欢坐在她带来的摇椅里,这个摇椅已经修了不止一次,没有扶手。谁也猜想不到,雷贝卡即使到了这种年岁,仍有咂吮手指的习惯。因此,她经常利用一切方便的机会躲在浴室里,并且惯于面向墙壁睡觉。现在,每逢雨天的下午,她跟女伴们一起在摆着秋海棠的长廊上绣花时,看见园中湿漉漉的小道和蚯蚓垒起的土堆,她会突然中断谈话,怀念的苦泪就会梳到她的嘴角。她一开始痛哭,从前用橙子汁和大黄克服的恶劣嗜好,又不可遏止地在她身上出现了。雷贝卡又开始吃土。她第一次这么做多半出于好奇,以为讨厌的味道将是对付诱惑力的良药。实际上,她立刻就把泥上吐了出来。但她烦恼不堪,就继续自己的尝试,逐渐恢复了对原生矿物(注:未曾氧化的矿物)的癖好。她把土装在衣兜里,一面教女伴们最难的针脚,一面跟她们议论各种各样的男人,说是值不得为他们去大吃泥土和石灰,同时却怀着既愉快又痛苦的模糊感觉,悄悄地把一撮撮泥土吃掉了。这一撮撮泥土似乎能使值得她屈辱牺牲的唯一的男人更加真切,更加跟她接近,仿佛泥土的余味在她嘴里留下了温暖,在她心中留下了慰藉;这泥土的余味跟他那漂亮的漆皮鞋在世界另一头所踩的土地息息相连,她从这种余味中也感觉到了他的脉搏和体温。有一天下午,安芭萝·摩斯柯特无缘无故地要求允许她看看新房子。阿玛兰塔和雷贝卡被这意外的访问弄得很窘,就冷淡而客气地接待她。她们领她看了看改建的房子,让她听了听自动钢琴的乐曲,拿柠檬水和饼干款待她。安芭萝教导她们如何保持自己的尊严、魅力和良好的风度,这给了乌苏娜深刻的印象,尽管乌苏娜在房间里只呆了几分钟。两小时以后,谈话就要结束时,安芭萝利用阿玛兰塔刹那间心神分散的机会,交给雷贝卡一封信。雷贝卡晃眼一看信封上“亲爱的雷贝卡·布恩蒂亚小姐”这个称呼,发现规整的字体、绿色的墨水、漂亮的笔迹,都跟钢琴说明书一样,就用指尖把信摺好,藏到怀里,同时望着安芭萝·摩斯柯特,她的眼神表露了无穷的感谢,仿佛默默地答应跟对方做一辈子的密友。
 
安芭萝·摩斯柯特和雷贝卡之间突然产生的友谊,在奥雷连诺心中激起了希望。他仍在苦苦地想念小姑娘雷麦黛丝,可是没有见到她的机会。他跟自己最亲密的朋友马格尼菲柯·维期巴尔和格林列尔多·马克斯(都是马孔多建村者的儿子,名字和父亲相同)一起在镇上溜达时,用渴望的目光在缝纫店里找她,只是发现了她的几个姐姐。安芭萝·摩斯柯特出现在他的家里,就是一个预兆。“她一定会跟安芭萝一块儿来的,”奥雷连诺低声自语,“一定。”他怀着那样的信心多次叨咕这几个字儿,以致有一天下午,他在作坊里装配小金鱼首饰时,忽然相信雷麦黛丝已经响应他的召唤。的确,过了一会儿,他就听到一个孩子的声音;他举眼一看,看见门口的一个姑娘,他的心都惊得缩紧了;这姑娘穿着粉红色玻璃纱衣服和白鞋子。
 
“不能到里面去,雷麦黛丝,”安芭萝·摩斯柯特从廊子上叫道。“人家正在干活。”
 
然而,奥雷连诺不让姑娘有时间回答,就把链条穿着嘴巴的小金鱼举到空中,说道:
 
“进来。”
 
雷麦黛丝走了进去,问了问有关金鱼的什么,可是奥雷连诺突然喘不过气,无法回答她的问题。他想永远呆在这个皮肤细嫩的姑娘身边,经常看见这对绿宝石似的眼睛,常常听到这种声音;对于每个问题,这声音都要尊敬地添上“先生”二字,仿佛对待亲父亲一样。梅尔加德斯坐在角落里的桌子旁边,正在潦草地画些难以理解的符号。奥雷连诺讨厌他。他刚要雷麦黛丝把小金鱼拿去作纪念,小姑娘就吓得跑出了作坊。这天下午,奥雷连诺失去了潜在的耐心,他是一直怀着这种耐心伺机跟她相见的。他放下了工作。他多次专心致志地拼命努力,希望再把雷麦黛丝叫来,可她不听。他在她姐姐的缝纫店里找她,在她家的窗帘后面找她,在她父亲的办公室里找她,可是只能在自己心中想到她的形象,这个形象倒也减轻了他那可怕的孤独之感。奥雷连诺一连几小时呆在客厅里,跟雷贝卡一起倾听自动钢琴的华兹舞曲。她听这些乐曲,因为皮埃特罗·克列斯比曾在这种音乐中教她跳舞。奥雷连诺倾听这些乐曲,只是因为一切东西一-甚至音乐一-都使他想起雷麦黛丝。
 
家里的人都在谈情说爱。奥雷连诺用无头无尾的诗句倾诉爱情。他把诗句写在梅尔加德斯给他的粗糙的羊皮纸上、浴室墙壁上、自个儿手上,这些诗里都有改了观的雷麦黛丝:晌午闷热空气中的雷麦黛丝;玫瑰清香中的雷麦黛丝;早餐面包腾腾热气中的雷麦黛丝--随时随地都有雷麦黛丝。每天下午四点,雷贝卡一面坐在窗前绣花,一面等候自己的情书。她清楚地知道,运送邮件的骡子前来马孔多每月只有两次,可她时时刻刻都在等它,以为它可能弄错时间,任何一天都会到达。情形恰恰相反:有一次,骡子在规定的日子却没有来。雷贝卡苦恼得发疯,半夜起来,急匆匆地到了花园里,自杀一样贪婪地吞食一撮撮泥土,一面痛苦和愤怒地哭泣,一面嚼着软搭搭的蚯蚓,牙床都给蜗牛壳碎片割伤了。到天亮时,她呕吐了。她陷入了某种狂热、沮丧的状态,失去了知觉,在呓语中无耻地泄露了心中的秘密。恼怒的乌苏娜撬开箱子的锁,在箱子底儿找到了十六封洒上香水的情书,是用粉红色绦带扎上的;还有一些残余的树叶和花瓣,是夹在旧书的书页之间的;此外是些蝴蝶标本,刚一碰就变成了灰。
 
雷贝卡的悲观失望,只有奥雷连诺一个人能够理解。那天下午,乌苏娜试图把雷贝卡从昏迷状态中救醒过来的时候,奥雷连诺跟马格尼菲柯·维斯巴尔和格林列尔多·马克斯来到了卡塔林诺游艺场。现在,这个游艺场增建了一排用木板隔开的小房间,住着一个个单身的女人,她们身上发出萎谢的花卉气味。手风琴手和鼓手组成的乐队演奏着弗兰西斯科人的歌曲,这些人已经几年没来马孔多了。三个朋友要了甘蔗酒,马格尼菲柯和格林列尔多是跟奥雷连诺同岁的,但在生活上比他老练,他俩不慌不忙地跟坐在他们膝上的女人喝酒。其中一个容颜枯槁、镶着金牙的女人试图抚摸奥雷连诺一下。可他推开了她。他发现自己喝得越多,就越想念雷麦黛丝,不过愁闷也就减少了。随后,奥雷连诺突然飘荡起来,他自己也不知道什么时候开始飘飘然的;他很快发现,他的朋友和女人也在朦胧的灯光里晃荡,成了混沌、飘忽的形体,他们所说的话,仿佛不是从他们嘴里出来的;他们那种神秘的手势跟他们面部的表情根本就不一致。卡塔林诺把一只手放在奥雷连诺肩上,说:“快十一点啦。”奥雷连诺扭过头去,看见一张模糊、宽大的面孔,还看见这人耳朵后面的一朵假花,然后他就象健忘症流行时那样昏迷过去,直到第二天拂晓才苏醒过来。他到了一个完全陌生的房间--皮拉·苔列娜站在他面前,穿着一件衬衫,光着脚丫,披头散发,拿灯照了照他,不相信地惊叫了一声:
 
“原来是奥雷连诺!”
 
奥雷连诺站稳脚根,抬起了头。他不知道自己是如何来到这儿的,但是清楚记得自己的目的,因为他从童年时代起就把这个目的密藏在心的深处。
 
“我是来跟你睡觉的,”他说。
 
奥雷连诺的衣服沾满了污泥和呕吐出来的脏东西。这时,皮拉·苔列娜只和自己的两个小儿子住在一起;她什么也没问他,就把他领到一个床铺,用湿布擦净他的脸,脱掉他的衣服,然后自己也脱得精光,放下蚊帐,免得两个儿子醒来看见。她等待留在原先那个村子的男人,等待离开这个村子的男人,等待那些被她的纸牌占卜弄得蒙头转向的男人,已经等得厌倦了;等呀盼呀,她的皮肤已经打皱了,乳房干瘪了,心里的欲火也熄灭了。皮拉·昔列娜在黑暗中摸到了奥雷连诺,把一只手放在他的肚子上,母亲一般温情地吻了吻他的脖子,低声说:“我可怜的孩子,”奥雷连诺战粟起来。他一点没有迟延,平稳地离开了岩石累累的悲袁的河岸,恍惚觉得雷麦黛丝变成了无边天际的沼泽,这片沼泽洋溢着原始动物的气息,散发出刚刚熨过的床单的味儿,他到了沼泽表面,却哭了。开头,这是不由自主的、断断续续的啜泣,然后,他就难以遏制地泪如泉涌。他心中感到极度的痛苦和难受。她用指尖抚摸着他的头发,等他把似乎使他难以生活下去的隐衷吐露出来。接着,皮拉·苔列娜问道:“她是谁呀?”于是,奥雷连诺告诉了她。她笑了起来;这种笑声往日曾把鸽子吓得飞到空中,现在却没有惊醒她的两个孩子。“你先得把她养大,”--皮拉·苔列娜打趣地说。可是奥雷连诺在这笑语后面觉到了深刻的同情。他走出房间时,不仅不再怀疑自己的男性特征,而且放下了几个月来心中痛苦的重负,因为皮拉·苔列娜突然答应帮他的忙。
 
“我跟小姑娘说说,并且把她和盘端给你。瞧着吧。”
 
皮拉·苔列娜履行了自己的诺言,但是时机并不合适,因为霍·阿·布恩蒂亚家里失去了往日的宁静。雷贝卡热烈的爱情暴露以后(这种爱情是无法掩藏的,因为雷贝卡在梦中大声地把它吐露了出来),阿玛兰塔忽然患了热病。她也受到爱情的煎熬,但却是单相思。她把自己关在浴室里,写了一封封炽热的信,倾诉空恋的痛苦,可她并没有寄出这些信,只把它们藏在箱子底儿。乌苏娜几乎没有精力同时照顾两个病人。经过长时间巧妙的盘问,她仍然没有弄清阿玛兰塔精神萎靡的原因。最后,她又灵机一动:撬开箱子的锁,发现了一叠用粉红色绦带扎着的信函,其间夹了一些新鲜的百合花,信上泪迹未干;这些信都是写给皮埃特罗·克列斯比的,但是没有寄出。乌苏娜发狂地痛哭流涕,叱骂自己那天心血来潮买了一架自动钢琴,并且禁止姑娘们绣花,宣布一个,没有死人的丧事,直到她的女儿们放弃自己的幻想为止。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚现在改变了原先对皮埃特罗·克列斯比的看法,赞扬他操纵乐器的本领,可是他的干预毫无用处。因此,皮拉·苔列娜向奥雷连诺说,雷麦黛丝同意嫁给他的时候,他虽明白这个消息只会加重父母的痛苦,但他还是决定面对自己的命运。他把父母请到客厅进行正式谈判,他们毫无表情地听了儿子的声明。但是,知道小姑娘的名字以后,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚气得面红筋胀。“你是不是爱得发疯了?”他怒吼起来。“周围有那么多漂亮、体面的姑娘,可你不找别人,偏要跟咱们冤家的女儿结婚?”乌苏娜却赞成儿子的选择。她承认,摩斯柯特的七个女儿都叫她喜欢,因为她们美丽、勤劳、朴实、文雅,而且她夸奖儿子眼力很好。妻子热情洋溢的赞美解除了霍·阿·布恩蒂亚的武装,他只提出一个条件:雷贝卡和皮埃特罗·克列斯比情投意合,她必须嫁给他。而且,乌苏娜能够抽空的时候,可以带着阿玛兰塔到省城去观光观光,跟各种各样的人接触可能减轻她失恋的痛苦。雷贝卡刚一知道父母同意,立刻就康复了,给未婚夫写了一封喜气洋洋的信,请父母过了目,就亲自送去邮寄。阿玛兰塔假装服从父母的决定,热病也渐渐好了,但她在心里赌咒发誓,雷贝卡只有跨过她的尸体才能结婚。
 
下一个星期六,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚象舞会那天崭新的打扮一样,穿上黑呢衣服,戴上赛璐珞领子,蹬上鹿皮鞋,去雷麦黛丝·摩斯柯特家为儿子求婚。对于这次突然的访问,镇长夫妇不仅觉得荣幸,而且感到不安,因为不了解来访的原因;他们知道原因之后,又以为霍·阿·布因恩蒂亚把对象的名字弄错了。为了消除误会,母亲从床上抱起雷麦黛丝,抱进了客厅--小姑娘还没完全醒来。父母问她是不是真想嫁人,可她哭着说,她只要他们别打搅她睡觉。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚明白了摩斯柯特夫妇怀疑的缘由,就去要奥雷连诺澄清事实。当他回来的时候,夫妇俩已经改穿了合乎礼节的衣服,把客厅里的家具重新布置了一下,在花瓶以插满了鲜花,跟几个大女儿一起正在等候他。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚显得有点尴尬,而且被硬领弄得相当难受,肯定他说明儿子选中的对象真是雷麦黛丝。“可这是不合情理的,”懊丧的阿·摩斯柯特先生说。“除了她,我们还有六个女儿,她们全是待嫁的姑娘;象您公子这样稳重、勤劳的先生,她们每一个都会高兴地同意成为他的妻子的,可奥雷连诺选中的偏偏是还在尿床的一个。”他的妻子是个保养得很好的女人,神色不爽地责备丈夫说话粗鲁。在喝完果汁之后,夫妇俩被奥雷连诺坚贞不渝的精神感动了,终于表示同意。不过摩斯柯特太太要求跟乌苏娜单独谈谈。乌苏娜埋怨人家不该把她卷入男人的事情,其实很想知道个究竟,第二天就激动而畏怯地到了摩斯柯特家里。半小时后她回来说,雷麦黛丝还没达到成熟的时期。奥雷连诺并不认为这是重要障碍。他已经等了那么久,现在准备再等,要等多久都行,一直等候未婚妻到达能够生育的年龄。
 
梅尔加德斯之死破坏了刚刚恢复的平静生活。这件事本身是可以预料到的,然而发生这件事的情况却很突然。梅尔加德斯回来之后过了几个月,他身上就出现了衰老的现象;这种衰老现象发展极快,这吉卜赛人很快就成了一个谁也不需要的老头儿了,这类老头儿总象幽灵似的,在房间里拖着腿子荡来荡去,大声地叨念过去的美好时光;谁也不理睬他们,甚至把他们抛到脑后,直到哪一天早上忽然发现他们死在床上。起初,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚醉心于照相术,并且佩服纳斯特拉达马斯的预言,所以帮助梅尔加德斯干事。可是后来霍·阿·布恩蒂亚就逐渐让他孤独地生活了,因为跟他接触越来越难。梅尔加德斯变得又瞎又聋,糊里糊涂,似乎把跟他谈话的人当成他知道的古人;回答问题时,他用的是稀奇古怪的混杂语言。他在屋子里行走的时候,总是东摸西摸的,尽管他在家具之间移动异常敏捷,仿佛有一种辨别方向的本能,这种本能的基础就是直觉。有一天夜里,他把假牙放在床边的一只水杯里,忘了把它们戴上,以后就再也没戴了。乌苏娜打算扩充房屋时,叫人给梅尔加德斯盖了一间单独的屋子,这间屋子靠近奥雷连诺的作坊,距离拥挤、嘈杂的主宅稍远一些,安了一扇敞亮的大窗子,还有一个书架,乌苏娜亲手把一些东西放在书架上,其中有:老头儿的一些布满尘土、虫子蛀坏的书籍;写满了神秘符号的易碎的纸页;放着假牙的水杯,水杯里已经长出了开着小黄花的水生植物。新的住所显然符合梅尔加德斯的心意,因为他连饭厅都不去了。能够碰见他的地方只有奥雷连诺的作坊,他在那儿一待就是几个小时,在以前带来的羊皮纸上潦草地写满了令人不解的符号;这类羊皮纸仿佛是用一种结实、干燥的材料制成的,象奶油松饼似的分作几层。他是在这作坊里吃饭的--维希塔香每天给他送两次饭--,然而最近以来他胃口不好,只吃蔬菜,所以很快就象素食者那样形容憔悴了。他的皮肤布满了霉斑,很象他从不脱下的那件破旧坎肩上的霉点。他象睡着的牲畜一样,呼出的气有一股臭味。埋头写诗的奥雷连诺,终于不再留意这吉卜赛人在不在旁边,可是有一次梅尔加德斯叽哩咕噜的时候,奥雷连诺觉得自己听懂了什么。他仔细倾听起来。在含混不清的话语中,他唯一能够听出的是象槌子敲击一样不断重复的字儿:“二分点”和一个人名--亚历山大·冯·洪波尔特。阿卡蒂奥帮助奥雷连诺千金银首饰活儿时,比较接近老头儿。阿卡蒂奥试图跟梅尔加德斯聊聊,老头儿有时也用西班牙语说上几句,然而这些话语跟周围的现实没有任何关系。但是有一天下午,吉卜赛人忽然激动起来。若干年以后,阿卡蒂奥站在行刑队面前的时候将会想起,梅尔加德斯浑身战栗,给他念了几页他无法理解的著作;阿卡蒂奥当然不明白这是什么东西,但他觉得吉卜赛人拖长声音朗诵的,似乎是改成了音乐的罗马教皇通谕。梅尔加德斯念完之后,长久以来第一次笑了笑,并且用西班牙语说:“等我死的时候,让人家在我的房间里烧三天水银吧。”阿卡蒂奥把这句话转告了霍·阿·布恩蒂亚,后者试图从老头儿那里得到进一步的解释,可是仅仅得到简短的回答:“我是永生的。”梅尔加德斯呼出的气开始发臭时,阿卡蒂奥每个星期四早上都带他到小河里去洗澡,情况有了好转,梅尔加德斯脱掉衣服,跟孩子们一起走到水里,辨别方向的神秘感觉帮助他绕过了最深、最危险的地方。“我们都是从水里出来的,”有一次他说。
 
这样过了许久,老头儿似乎不在家里了;大家见过他的只是那天晚上,他很热心地想把钢琴修好;还有就是那个星期四,他腋下夹着一个丝瓜瓤和毛巾裹着的一块棕榈肥皂,跟阿卡蒂奥到河边去。在那个星期四,阿卡蒂奥叫梅尔加德斯去洗澡之前,奥雷连诺听到老头儿叨咕说:“我在新加坡沙滩上患热病死啦。”这一次,梅尔加德斯走到水里的时候,到了不该去的地方;次日早晨,在下游几公里的地方才找到了他;他躺在明晃晃的河湾浅滩上,一只孤零零的秃鹫站在他的肚子上。乌苏娜哀悼这个吉卜赛人超过了自己的亲父,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚却不顾她的愤然反对,禁止掩埋尸体。“梅尔加德斯是不朽的,他自己就说过复活的奥秘。”说着,他点燃废弃了的熔铁炉,把盛着水银的铁锅放在炉子上,让铁锅在尸体旁边沸腾起来,尸体就逐渐布满了蓝色气泡。阿·摩斯柯特先生大胆地提醒霍·阿·布恩蒂亚说,淹死的人不埋掉是危害公共卫生的。“绝对不会,因为他是活的,”霍·阿·布恩蒂亚反驳,并且继续用水银热气熏了整整七十二小时;到这个时候,尸体已经开始象蓝白色的蓓蕾一样裂开,发出细微的咝咝声,屋子里弥漫了腐臭的气味。这时,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚才允许掩埋尸体,但是不能马马虎虎地埋掉,而要用对待马孔多最大的恩人的礼仪下葬。这是全镇第一次人数最多的葬礼,只有一百年后格兰德大娘的葬礼才勉强超过了它。在划作坟场的空地中间挖了个坑,人们把吉卜赛人放入坑内,并且立了一块石碑,上面刻着人们唯一知道的名字:梅尔加德斯。然后,人们连续几夜为他守灵。左邻右舍的人聚在院子里喝咖啡、玩纸牌、说笑话,一直闹嘈嘈的,阿玛兰塔趁机向皮埃特罗·克列斯比表白了爱情;在这以前几个星期,他已经跟雷贝卡订了婚;在从前阿拉伯人用小玩意儿交换鹦鹉的地方,如今他开了一家乐器和自动玩具店,这地方就是大家知道的“土耳其人街”,这意大利人满头油光闪亮的容发,总要引起娘儿们难以遏止的赞叹,但他把阿玛兰塔看成一个淘气的小姑娘,对她并不认真。
 
“我有个弟弟,”他向她说,“他就要来店里帮我的忙了。”
 
阿玛兰塔觉得自己受了屈辱,气虎虎地回答他说,她决定不管怎样都要阻挠姐姐的婚姻,即使她自己的尸体不得不躺在房门跟前。皮埃特罗·克列斯比被这威胁吓了一跳,忍不住把它告诉了雷贝卡。结果,由于乌苏娜太忙而一直推迟的旅行,不到一个星期就准备好了。阿玛兰塔没有抗拒,可是跟雷贝卡分手时,却在她耳边说:
 
“你别做梦!哪怕他们把我发配到天涯海角,我也要想方设法使你结不了婚,即使我不得不杀死你。”
 
由于乌苏娜不在,而无影无踪的梅尔加德斯仍在各个房间里神秘地游荡,这座房子就显得又大又空了。雷贝卡负责料理家务,印第安女人经管面包房。傍晚,皮埃特罗·克列斯比带着熏衣草的清香来到的时候,手里总要拿着一件自动玩具当做礼物,未婚妻就在大客厅里接待他;为了避免流言蜚语,她把门窗全都敞开。这种预防措施是多余的,因为意大利人举止谦恭,虽然这个姑娘不过一年就要成为他的妻子,可他连她的手都不碰一下。这座房子逐渐摆满了各种稀奇古怪的玩具。自动芭蕾舞女演员,八音盒,杂耍猴子,跑马,铃鼓小丑--皮埃特罗·克列斯比带来的这些丰富多采的自动玩具,驱除了霍·阿·布恩蒂亚自从梅尔加德斯去世以来的悲伤,使他回到了自己研究炼金术的时代。这时,他又生活在一个乐园里了,这儿满是开了膛的动物和拆散的机械;他想改进它们,让它们按照钟摆的原理不停地动。奥雷连诺却把作坊抛在一边,开始教小姑娘雷麦黛丝读读写写。起初,小姑娘宁愿要自己的小囡囡,而不愿要每天下午都来的这个陌生男人;他一来到,家里的人就让她放下玩具,给她洗澡、穿上衣服,叫她坐在客厅里接待客人。可是,奥雷连诺的耐心和诚挚终于博得了她的欢心,以致她一连几小时跟他呆在一起,学习写字,用彩色铅笔在小本儿上描画房子和牛栏,画出金光四射的落日。
 
感到不幸的只有雷贝卡一个人,她忘不了妹妹的威吓。雷贝卡知道阿玛兰塔的性格和傲慢脾气,害怕凶狠的报复。她一连几小时坐在浴室里咂吮指头,拼命克制重新吃土的欲望。为了摆脱忧虑,她把皮拉·苔列娜叫来,请皮拉·苔列娜用纸牌给她占卜。皮拉·苔列娜照旧含糊不清地说了一通之后,预言说:
 
“只要你的父母还没埋葬,你就不会幸福。”
 
雷贝卡浑身颤栗。她仿佛想起了很久以前的一场梦,看见自己是个小姑娘,带着一只小箱子、一张木摇椅和一条口袋,走进布恩蒂亚的房子--口袋里是什么东西,她始终都不知道。她想起一个穿着亚麻布衣服的秃顶先生,他的衬衫领子被一个金色钮扣扣得紧紧的,但他一点不象纸牌上的红桃老K。她也想起了一个十分年轻、漂亮的女人,有一双温暖、芬芳的手,但是这双手跟纸牌上那个方块皇后好象患风湿的手毫不相同;这个年轻女人经常把花朵戴在她的头发上,带她到镇上绿树成荫的傍晚的街头去闲逛。
 
“我不明白,”雷贝卡说。
 
皮拉·苔列娜感到困窘。
 
“我也不明白,可这是纸牌说的。”
 
雷贝卡对这模糊的预言感到不安,就把它告诉了霍·阿·布恩蒂亚。他责骂她相信纸牌的占卜,可他自己却悄悄地翻箱倒柜,搬动家具,撬起地板,掀开床铺,寻找那只装着骸骨的袋子。据他记得,自从房屋改建以来,他就没有见过那只袋子。他暗中把一些泥瓦匠叫来,其中一个承认他把袋子砌在一间卧室的墙壁里了,因为它妨碍他干活。接连几天,他们都把耳朵贴在每一堵墙壁上仔细倾听,最后才听到深沉的“咔嚓咔嚓”声。他们打通墙壁,骸骨袋子仍然完整无损地放在那儿。同一天,他们就把骸骨埋在一个没有墓碑的坟坑里了,那坟坑距离梅尔加德斯的墓塚不远;霍·阿·布恩蒂亚如释重负地回到家里,因为,对于这件事情,他有时就象想起普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔那么沉痛。他经过厨房时,吻了吻雷贝卡的脑门。
 
“别再胡思乱想啦,”他向她说。“你会幸福的。”
 
阿卡蒂奥出生之后,乌苏娜就不让皮拉·苔列娜来自己家里了;但是皮拉·苔列娜跟雷贝卡交上了朋友,这家的大门又对她敞开了。她一个人就象一群山羊,一天要来好多次,来了就干最重的家务,非常卖力。有时,她也到作坊里去帮助阿卡蒂奥修照相底片,既勤快又温存,这个青年终于感到不好意思。他的脑瓜都给这个女人搅昏了。她那温暖的皮肤,她身上发出的烟味,以及她在暗室里的狂笑,都分散把他的注意力,使他不断地跟东西相撞。
 
有一次,皮拉·苔列娜在作坊里看见正在干首饰活的奥雷连诺,她就倚着他的桌子,赞赏地观察他耐心而精确地工作。事情是突然发生的。奥雷连诺确信阿卡蒂奥是在另一个房间里,然后才朝皮拉·苔列娜扬起眼来,正巧跟她的视线相遇,她眼里的意思就象晌午的太阳那么明朗。
 
“唔,”奥雷连诺问道。“什么事哇?”
 
皮拉·苔列娜咬紧嘴唇,苦笑了一下。
 
“你打仗真行,”她回答。“弹无虚发。”
 
奥雷连诺相信自己的预感已经应验,就感到松快了。他又在桌上埋头干活,仿佛什么事情也没发生,他的声音既平静又坚定。
 
“我承认他,”他说。“他就取我的名字吧。”
 
霍·阿·布恩蒂亚终于达到了自己的目的。他把钟上的发条连接在一个自动芭蕾舞女演员身上,这玩具在本身的音乐伴奏之下不停地舞蹈了三天。这件发明比以往的任何荒唐把戏都叫他激动。他不再吃饭,也不再睡觉。他失去了乌苏娜的照顾和监督,就幻想联翩,永远陷入了如痴似狂的状态,再也不能复原了。他整夜整夜在房间里踱来踱去,喃喃自语,想方设法要把钟摆的原理应用到牛车上,应用到犁铧上,应用到一动就对人有益的一切东西上。失眠症把霍·阿·布恩蒂亚完全搞垮了,有一天早晨,一个头发雪白、步履蹒跚的老头儿走进他的卧室,他也没有认出此人。原来这是普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔。最后弄清楚了客人的身份,发现死人也会衰老,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚非常惊讶,而且产生了怀旧之情。“普鲁登希奥,”他叫道,“你怎么从老远的地方跑到这儿来了?”在死人国里呆了多年,普鲁登希奥强烈怀念活人,急切需要有个伙伴,畏惧阴曹地府另一种死亡的迫近,他终于喜欢自己最凶狠的冤家了。他花了许多时间寻找霍·阿·布恩蒂亚,他向列奥阿察来的死人打听过,向乌帕尔山谷和沼泽地来的死人打听过,可是谁也无法帮助他。因为,梅尔加德斯来到阴间,在死亡簿上用小黑点划了“到”之前,其他的死人还不知道马孔多。霍·阿·布恩蒂亚跟普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔一直谈到夭亮。几小时以后,他由于失眠变得疲惫不堪,走进奥雷连诺的作坊,问道:“今天是星期呀?”奥雷连诺回答他是星期二。“我也那么想,”霍·阿·布恩蒂亚说,“可我突然觉得,今天还是星期一,象昨天一样。你瞧天空,瞧墙壁,瞧秋海棠。今天还是星期一。”奥雷连诺对他的怪里怪气已经习以为常,没有理睬这些话。下一天,星期三,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚又来到作坊。“这简直是一场灾难,”他说。“你瞧瞧空气,听听太阳的声音,一切都跟昨天和前天一模一样。今天还是星期一。”晚上,皮埃特罗·克列斯比遇见他在走廊上流泪:他不太雅观地、抽抽嗒嗒地哭诉普鲁登希奥·阿吉廖尔,哭诉梅尔加德斯,哭诉雷贝卡的双亲,哭诉自己的爸爸妈妈--哭诉他能想起的、还在阴间孤独生活的人。皮埃特罗·克列斯比给了他一只用后腿走钢丝的“自动狗熊”,可也未能使他摆脱愁思。于是皮埃特罗·克列斯比就问,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚不久以前向他谈到过的计划--使人飞到空中的钟摆机器搞得如何了?霍·阿·布恩蒂亚回答说,制造这种机器是不可能的,因为钟摆能使任何东西升到空中,它自己却不能上。星期四,霍·阿·布恩蒂亚又来到作坊,他的面孔露出了完全的绝望。“时间机器坏啦,”他几乎号啕地说,“乌苏娜和阿玛兰塔又去得那么远!”奥雷连诺骂他象个小孩儿,他就顺从地一声不响了。在六个小时之内,他仔细地观察了各种东西,打算确定它们的样子跟头一天有没有差别,并且坚持不渝地寻找变化,借以证明时间的推移。整个晚上他都睁着眼睛躺在床上,呼唤普鲁登希奥·阿古廖尔、梅尔加德斯和一切死人来分担他的忧虑,可是谁也没来。星期五早晨,家里的人还在睡觉,他又开始研究周围各种东西的形状,最后毫不怀疑这一天还是星期一。接着,他抓住一根门闩,使出浑身非凡的力气,凶猛地砸烂了炼金器具、照相机洗印室和金银首饰作坊,同时,他象着了魔似的,快嘴快舌地尖声叫嚷,但是谁也不懂他叫些什么。他还想毁掉整座房子,可是奥雷连诺马上叫了左邻右舍的人来帮忙。按倒霍·阿·布恩蒂亚,需要十个人;捆起他来,需要十四个人,把他拖到院内大栗树下,需要二十个人;他们拿绳子把他捆在树干上。他仍在用古里古怪的话乱骂,嘴里冒出绿色的唾沫。乌苏娜和阿玛兰塔回来的时候,他的手脚仍然是捆着的,浑身被雨水淋得透湿,但已完全平静、无害了。她们跟他讲话,但他不认得她们,他回答的话也叫人莫名其妙。乌苏娜松开了他已经磨出血来的手腕和脚踝,只留下了捆在腰间的绳子。随后,她们用棕榈枝叶给他搭了个棚子,免得他受到日晒雨淋。


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1 hind Cyoya     
adj.后面的,后部的
参考例句:
  • The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.这种动物能够用后肢站立。
  • Don't hind her in her studies.不要在学业上扯她后腿。
2 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。
3 galley rhwxE     
n.(飞机或船上的)厨房单层甲板大帆船;军舰舰长用的大划艇;
参考例句:
  • The stewardess will get you some water from the galley.空姐会从厨房给你拿些水来。
  • Visitors can also go through the large galley where crew members got their meals.游客还可以穿过船员们用餐的厨房。
4 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。
5 astonishment VvjzR     
n.惊奇,惊异
参考例句:
  • They heard him give a loud shout of astonishment.他们听见他惊奇地大叫一声。
  • I was filled with astonishment at her strange action.我对她的奇怪举动不胜惊异。
6 jubilation UaCzI     
n.欢庆,喜悦
参考例句:
  • The goal was greeted by jubilation from the home fans.主场球迷为进球欢呼。
  • The whole city was a scene of jubilation.全市一片欢腾。
7 tablecloths abb41060c43ebc073d86c1c49f8fb98f     
n.桌布,台布( tablecloth的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Champagne corks popped, and on lace tablecloths seven-course dinners were laid. 桌上铺着带装饰图案的网织的桌布,上面是七道菜的晚餐。 来自飘(部分)
  • At the moment the cause of her concern was a pile of soiled tablecloths. 此刻她关心的事是一堆弄脏了的台布。 来自辞典例句
8 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。
9 scrupulous 6sayH     
adj.审慎的,小心翼翼的,完全的,纯粹的
参考例句:
  • She is scrupulous to a degree.她非常谨慎。
  • Poets are not so scrupulous as you are.诗人并不像你那样顾虑多。
10 suffocating suffocating     
a.使人窒息的
参考例句:
  • After a few weeks with her parents, she felt she was suffocating.和父母呆了几个星期后,她感到自己毫无自由。
  • That's better. I was suffocating in that cell of a room.这样好些了,我刚才在那个小房间里快闷死了。
11 reverent IWNxP     
adj.恭敬的,虔诚的
参考例句:
  • He gave reverent attention to the teacher.他恭敬地听老师讲课。
  • She said the word artist with a gentle,understanding,reverent smile.她说作家一词时面带高雅,理解和虔诚的微笑。
12 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?
13 dedication pxMx9     
n.奉献,献身,致力,题献,献辞
参考例句:
  • We admire her courage,compassion and dedication.我们钦佩她的勇气、爱心和奉献精神。
  • Her dedication to her work was admirable.她对工作的奉献精神可钦可佩。
14 torment gJXzd     
n.折磨;令人痛苦的东西(人);vt.折磨;纠缠
参考例句:
  • He has never suffered the torment of rejection.他从未经受过遭人拒绝的痛苦。
  • Now nothing aggravates me more than when people torment each other.没有什么东西比人们的互相折磨更使我愤怒。
15 tormenting 6e14ac649577fc286f6d088293b57895     
使痛苦的,使苦恼的
参考例句:
  • He took too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban. 他喜欢一味捉弄一个名叫凯列班的丑妖怪。
  • The children were scolded for tormenting animals. 孩子们因折磨动物而受到责骂。
16 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。
17 intimidated 69a1f9d1d2d295a87a7e68b3f3fbd7d5     
v.恐吓;威胁adj.害怕的;受到威胁的
参考例句:
  • We try to make sure children don't feel intimidated on their first day at school. 我们努力确保孩子们在上学的第一天不胆怯。
  • The thief intimidated the boy into not telling the police. 这个贼恫吓那男孩使他不敢向警察报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
18 utensils 69f125dfb1fef9b418c96d1986e7b484     
器具,用具,器皿( utensil的名词复数 ); 器物
参考例句:
  • Formerly most of our household utensils were made of brass. 以前我们家庭用的器皿多数是用黄铜做的。
  • Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。
19 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
20 omen N5jzY     
n.征兆,预兆;vt.预示
参考例句:
  • The superstitious regard it as a bad omen.迷信的人认为那是一种恶兆。
  • Could this at last be a good omen for peace?这是否终于可以视作和平的吉兆了?
21 elastic Tjbzq     
n.橡皮圈,松紧带;adj.有弹性的;灵活的
参考例句:
  • Rubber is an elastic material.橡胶是一种弹性材料。
  • These regulations are elastic.这些规定是有弹性的。
22 slippers oiPzHV     
n. 拖鞋
参考例句:
  • a pair of slippers 一双拖鞋
  • He kicked his slippers off and dropped on to the bed. 他踢掉了拖鞋,倒在床上。
23 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。
24 founders 863257b2606659efe292a0bf3114782c     
n.创始人( founder的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
  • The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句
25 determined duszmP     
adj.坚定的;有决心的
参考例句:
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
26 exodus khnzj     
v.大批离去,成群外出
参考例句:
  • The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.由于医生大批离去,医疗系统面临崩溃。
  • Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet.人在当前所遇到的最大挑战,就是要防止人从这个星球上消失。
27 infancy F4Ey0     
n.婴儿期;幼年期;初期
参考例句:
  • He came to England in his infancy.他幼年时期来到英国。
  • Their research is only in its infancy.他们的研究处于初级阶段。
28 embroider 9jtz7     
v.刺绣于(布)上;给…添枝加叶,润饰
参考例句:
  • The editor would take a theme and embroider upon it with drollery.编辑会将一篇文章,以调侃式的幽默笔调加以渲染。
  • She wants to embroider a coverlet with flowers and birds.她想给床罩绣上花鸟。
29 benevolent Wtfzx     
adj.仁慈的,乐善好施的
参考例句:
  • His benevolent nature prevented him from refusing any beggar who accosted him.他乐善好施的本性使他不会拒绝走上前向他行乞的任何一个乞丐。
  • He was a benevolent old man and he wouldn't hurt a fly.他是一个仁慈的老人,连只苍蝇都不愿伤害。
30 scanty ZDPzx     
adj.缺乏的,仅有的,节省的,狭小的,不够的
参考例句:
  • There is scanty evidence to support their accusations.他们的指控证据不足。
  • The rainfall was rather scanty this month.这个月的雨量不足。
31 delicacies 0a6e87ce402f44558508deee2deb0287     
n.棘手( delicacy的名词复数 );精致;精美的食物;周到
参考例句:
  • Its flesh has exceptional delicacies. 它的肉异常鲜美。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • After these delicacies, the trappers were ready for their feast. 在享用了这些美食之后,狩猎者开始其大餐。 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
32 unpacked 78a068b187a564f21b93e72acffcebc3     
v.从(包裹等)中取出(所装的东西),打开行李取出( unpack的过去式和过去分词 );拆包;解除…的负担;吐露(心事等)
参考例句:
  • I unpacked my bags as soon as I arrived. 我一到达就打开行李,整理衣物。
  • Our guide unpacked a picnic of ham sandwiches and offered us tea. 我们的导游打开装着火腿三明治的野餐盒,并给我们倒了些茶水。 来自辞典例句
33 maidens 85662561d697ae675e1f32743af22a69     
处女( maiden的名词复数 ); 少女; 未婚女子; (板球运动)未得分的一轮投球
参考例句:
  • stories of knights and fair maidens 关于骑士和美女的故事
  • Transplantation is not always successful in the matter of flowers or maidens. 花儿移栽往往并不成功,少女们换了环境也是如此。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
34 leftover V97zC     
n.剩货,残留物,剩饭;adj.残余的
参考例句:
  • These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
  • Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。
35 bungling 9a4ae404ac9d9a615bfdbdf0d4e87632     
adj.笨拙的,粗劣的v.搞糟,完不成( bungle的现在分词 );笨手笨脚地做;失败;完不成
参考例句:
  • You can't do a thing without bungling it. 你做事总是笨手笨脚。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • 'Enough, too,' retorted George. 'We'll all swing and sundry for your bungling.' “还不够吗?”乔治反问道,“就因为你乱指挥,我们都得荡秋千,被日头晒干。” 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
36 strings nh0zBe     
n.弦
参考例句:
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
37 resin bCqyY     
n.树脂,松香,树脂制品;vt.涂树脂
参考例句:
  • This allyl type resin is a highly transparent, colourless material.这种烯丙基型的树脂是一种高度透明的、无色材料。
  • This is referred to as a thixotropic property of the resin.这种特性叫做树脂的触变性。
38 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。
39 saturated qjEzG3     
a.饱和的,充满的
参考例句:
  • The continuous rain had saturated the soil. 连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。
  • a saturated solution of sodium chloride 氯化钠饱和溶液
40 fragrance 66ryn     
n.芬芳,香味,香气
参考例句:
  • The apple blossoms filled the air with their fragrance.苹果花使空气充满香味。
  • The fragrance of lavender filled the room.房间里充满了薰衣草的香味。
41 mechanism zCWxr     
n.机械装置;机构,结构
参考例句:
  • The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
  • The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。
42 crumbling Pyaxy     
adj.摇摇欲坠的
参考例句:
  • an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
  • The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。
43 decrepitude Z9yyu     
n.衰老;破旧
参考例句:
  • Staying youth can be likened to climbing steep hill,while negligence will lead to decrepitude overnight. 保持青春已如爬坡,任由衰老会一泻千里。
  • The building had a general air of decrepitude and neglect.这座建筑看上去破旧失修,无人照管。
44 aged 6zWzdI     
adj.年老的,陈年的
参考例句:
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
45 tuned b40b43fd5af2db4fbfeb4e83856e4876     
adj.调谐的,已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
参考例句:
  • The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
  • The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
46 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。
47 intrepid NaYzz     
adj.无畏的,刚毅的
参考例句:
  • He is not really satisfied with his intrepid action.他没有真正满意他的无畏行动。
  • John's intrepid personality made him a good choice for team leader.约翰勇敢的个性适合作领导工作。
48 plowed 2de363079730210858ae5f5b15e702cf     
v.耕( plow的过去式和过去分词 );犁耕;费力穿过
参考例句:
  • They plowed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland. 他们犁了将近10万英亩未开垦的高沼地。 来自辞典例句
  • He plowed the land and then sowed the seeds. 他先翻土,然后播种。 来自辞典例句
49 melodic WorzFW     
adj.有旋律的,调子美妙的
参考例句:
  • His voice had a rich melodic quality.他的音色浑厚而优美。
  • He spoke with a soft husky voice in a melodic accent.他微微沙哑的声音带着一种悠扬的口音。
50 chaste 8b6yt     
adj.贞洁的;有道德的;善良的;简朴的
参考例句:
  • Comparatively speaking,I like chaste poetry better.相比较而言,我更喜欢朴实无华的诗。
  • Tess was a chaste young girl.苔丝是一个善良的少女。
51 improvised tqczb9     
a.即席而作的,即兴的
参考例句:
  • He improvised a song about the football team's victory. 他即席创作了一首足球队胜利之歌。
  • We improvised a tent out of two blankets and some long poles. 我们用两条毛毯和几根长竿搭成一个临时帐蓬。
52 demonstration 9waxo     
n.表明,示范,论证,示威
参考例句:
  • His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
  • He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
53 onlookers 9475a32ff7f3c5da0694cff2738f9381     
n.旁观者,观看者( onlooker的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • A crowd of onlookers gathered at the scene of the crash. 在撞车地点聚集了一大群围观者。
  • The onlookers stood at a respectful distance. 旁观者站在一定的距离之外,以示尊敬。
54 sentimental dDuzS     
adj.多愁善感的,感伤的
参考例句:
  • She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.她是多愁善感的人,她相信姻缘命中注定。
  • We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。
55 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。
56 embroidering fdc8bed218777bd98c3fde7c261249b6     
v.(在织物上)绣花( embroider的现在分词 );刺绣;对…加以渲染(或修饰);给…添枝加叶
参考例句:
  • He always had a way of embroidering. 他总爱添油加醋。 来自辞典例句
  • Zhao Junxin learned the craft of embroidering from his grandmother. 赵俊信从奶奶那里学到了刺绣的手艺。 来自互联网
57 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。
58 barb kuXzG     
n.(鱼钩等的)倒钩,倒刺
参考例句:
  • The barb of his wit made us wince.他那锋芒毕露的机智使我们退避三舍。
  • A fish hook has a barb to prevent the fish from escaping after being hooked.鱼钩上都有一个倒钩以防上了钩的鱼逃走。
59 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
60 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。
61 degradation QxKxL     
n.降级;低落;退化;陵削;降解;衰变
参考例句:
  • There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。
  • Gambling is always coupled with degradation.赌博总是与堕落相联系。
62 savor bCizT     
vt.品尝,欣赏;n.味道,风味;情趣,趣味
参考例句:
  • The soup has a savor of onion.这汤有洋葱味。
  • His humorous remarks added a savor to our conversation.他幽默的话语给谈话增添了风趣。
63 sediment IsByK     
n.沉淀,沉渣,沉积(物)
参考例句:
  • The sediment settled and the water was clear.杂质沉淀后,水变清了。
  • Sediment begins to choke the channel's opening.沉积物开始淤塞河道口。
64 mansion 8BYxn     
n.大厦,大楼;宅第
参考例句:
  • The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
  • The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。
65 crackers nvvz5e     
adj.精神错乱的,癫狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名词复数 );薄脆饼干;(认为)十分愉快的事;迷人的姑娘
参考例句:
  • That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪声闹得我简直要疯了。
  • We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我们上了些饼干和奶酪作为开胃品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
66 wane bpRyR     
n.衰微,亏缺,变弱;v.变小,亏缺,呈下弦
参考例句:
  • The moon is on the wane.月亮渐亏。
  • Her enthusiasm for him was beginning to wane.她对他的热情在开始减退。
67 distraction muOz3l     
n.精神涣散,精神不集中,消遣,娱乐
参考例句:
  • Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注,不能有丝毫分神。
  • Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。
68 delicacy mxuxS     
n.精致,细微,微妙,精良;美味,佳肴
参考例句:
  • We admired the delicacy of the craftsmanship.我们佩服工艺师精巧的手艺。
  • He sensed the delicacy of the situation.他感觉到了形势的微妙。
69 bosom Lt9zW     
n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的
参考例句:
  • She drew a little book from her bosom.她从怀里取出一本小册子。
  • A dark jealousy stirred in his bosom.他内心生出一阵恶毒的嫉妒。
70 unconditional plcwS     
adj.无条件的,无限制的,绝对的
参考例句:
  • The victorious army demanded unconditional surrender.胜方要求敌人无条件投降。
  • My love for all my children is unconditional.我对自己所有孩子的爱都是无条件的。
71 gratitude p6wyS     
adj.感激,感谢
参考例句:
  • I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him.我向他表示了深切的谢意。
  • She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face.她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。
72 awakened de71059d0b3cd8a1de21151c9166f9f0     
v.(使)醒( awaken的过去式和过去分词 );(使)觉醒;弄醒;(使)意识到
参考例句:
  • She awakened to the sound of birds singing. 她醒来听到鸟的叫声。
  • The public has been awakened to the full horror of the situation. 公众完全意识到了这一状况的可怕程度。 来自《简明英汉词典》
73 asthma WvezQ     
n.气喘病,哮喘病
参考例句:
  • I think he's having an asthma attack.我想他现在是哮喘病发作了。
  • Its presence in allergic asthma is well known.它在过敏性气喘中的存在是大家很熟悉的。
74 scribbling 82fe3d42f37de6f101db3de98fc9e23d     
n.乱涂[写]胡[乱]写的文章[作品]v.潦草的书写( scribble的现在分词 );乱画;草草地写;匆匆记下
参考例句:
  • Once the money got into the book, all that remained were some scribbling. 折子上的钱只是几个字! 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
  • McMug loves scribbling. Mama then sent him to the Kindergarten. 麦唛很喜欢写字,妈妈看在眼里,就替他报读了幼稚园。 来自互联网
75 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。
76 moths de674306a310c87ab410232ea1555cbb     
n.蛾( moth的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The moths have eaten holes in my wool coat. 蛀虫将我的羊毛衫蛀蚀了几个小洞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The moths tapped and blurred at the window screen. 飞蛾在窗帘上跳来跳去,弄上了许多污点。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
77 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。
78 snail 8xcwS     
n.蜗牛
参考例句:
  • Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
  • Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。
79 vomited 23632f2de1c0dc958c22b917c3cdd795     
参考例句:
  • Corbett leaned against the wall and promptly vomited. 科比特倚在墙边,马上呕吐了起来。
  • She leant forward and vomited copiously on the floor. 她向前一俯,哇的一声吐了一地。 来自英汉文学
80 vomit TL9zV     
v.呕吐,作呕;n.呕吐物,吐出物
参考例句:
  • They gave her salty water to make her vomit.他们给她喝盐水好让她吐出来。
  • She was stricken by pain and began to vomit.她感到一阵疼痛,开始呕吐起来。
81 feverish gzsye     
adj.发烧的,狂热的,兴奋的
参考例句:
  • He is too feverish to rest.他兴奋得安静不下来。
  • They worked with feverish haste to finish the job.为了完成此事他们以狂热的速度工作着。
82 prostration e23ec06f537750e7e1306b9c8f596399     
n. 平伏, 跪倒, 疲劳
参考例句:
  • a state of prostration brought on by the heat 暑热导致的虚脱状态
  • A long period of worrying led to her nervous prostration. 长期的焦虑导致她的神经衰弱。
83 delirium 99jyh     
n. 神智昏迷,说胡话;极度兴奋
参考例句:
  • In her delirium, she had fallen to the floor several times. 她在神志不清的状态下几次摔倒在地上。
  • For the next nine months, Job was in constant delirium.接下来的九个月,约伯处于持续精神错乱的状态。
84 petals f346ae24f5b5778ae3e2317a33cd8d9b     
n.花瓣( petal的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣
  • The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 许多花瓣在阳光下开放。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
85 slough Drhyo     
v.蜕皮,脱落,抛弃
参考例句:
  • He was not able to slough off the memories of the past.他无法忘记过去。
  • A cicada throws its slough.蝉是要蜕皮的。
86 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。
87 fermented e1236246d968e9dda0f02e826f25e962     
v.(使)发酵( ferment的过去式和过去分词 );(使)激动;骚动;骚扰
参考例句:
  • When wine is fermented, it gives off gas. 酒发酵时发出气泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His speeches fermented trouble among the workers. 他的演讲在工人中引起骚动。 来自辞典例句
88 cane RsNzT     
n.手杖,细长的茎,藤条;v.以杖击,以藤编制的
参考例句:
  • This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
  • English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。
89 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。
90 caress crczs     
vt./n.爱抚,抚摸
参考例句:
  • She gave the child a loving caress.她疼爱地抚摸着孩子。
  • She feasted on the caress of the hot spring.她尽情享受着温泉的抚爱。
91 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。
92 smeared c767e97773b70cc726f08526efd20e83     
弄脏; 玷污; 涂抹; 擦上
参考例句:
  • The children had smeared mud on the walls. 那几个孩子往墙上抹了泥巴。
  • A few words were smeared. 有写字被涂模糊了。
93 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。
94 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。
95 maternal 57Azi     
adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
参考例句:
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
96 shuddered 70137c95ff493fbfede89987ee46ab86     
v.战栗( shudder的过去式和过去分词 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动
参考例句:
  • He slammed on the brakes and the car shuddered to a halt. 他猛踩刹车,车颤抖着停住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I shuddered at the sight of the dead body. 我一看见那尸体就战栗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
97 sobs d4349f86cad43cb1a5579b1ef269d0cb     
啜泣(声),呜咽(声)( sob的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • She was struggling to suppress her sobs. 她拼命不让自己哭出来。
  • She burst into a convulsive sobs. 她突然抽泣起来。
98 unleashed unleashed     
v.把(感情、力量等)释放出来,发泄( unleash的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The government's proposals unleashed a storm of protest in the press. 政府的提案引发了新闻界的抗议浪潮。
  • The full force of his rage was unleashed against me. 他把所有的怒气都发泄在我身上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
99 unleash bjewz     
vt.发泄,发出;解带子放开
参考例句:
  • They hope to create allies to unleash against diseases,pests,and invasive species.他们希望创造出一些新群体来对付疾病、害虫和一些有侵害性的物种。
  • Changing water levels now at times unleash a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.如今,大坝不时地改变水位,从暴露的污水释放出了疾病瘴气。
100 swollen DrcwL     
adj.肿大的,水涨的;v.使变大,肿胀
参考例句:
  • Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着,她的双腿已经肿了。
  • A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她,她的手臂肿起来了。
101 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
参考例句:
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
102 virility JUKzS     
n.雄劲,丈夫气
参考例句:
  • He wanted his sons to become strong,virile,and athletic like himself.他希望他的儿子们能长得像他一样强壮、阳刚而又健美。
  • He is a tall,virile man with rugged good looks.他是个身材高大、体魄健壮、相貌粗犷英俊的男子。
103 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。
104 ascertain WNVyN     
vt.发现,确定,查明,弄清
参考例句:
  • It's difficult to ascertain the coal deposits.煤储量很难探明。
  • We must ascertain the responsibility in light of different situtations.我们必须根据不同情况判定责任。
105 embroidery Wjkz7     
n.绣花,刺绣;绣制品
参考例句:
  • This exquisite embroidery won people's great admiration.这件精美的绣品,使人惊叹不已。
  • This is Jane's first attempt at embroidery.这是简第一次试着绣花。
106 intervention e5sxZ     
n.介入,干涉,干预
参考例句:
  • The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
  • Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
107 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。
108 stonily 940e31d40f6b467c25c49683f45aea84     
石头地,冷酷地
参考例句:
  • She stared stonily at him for a minute. 她冷冷地盯着他看了片刻。
  • Proudly lined up on a long bench, they stonily awaited their victims. 轿夫们把花炮全搬出来,放在门房里供人们赏鉴。 来自汉英文学 - 家(1-26) - 家(1-26)
109 modesty REmxo     
n.谦逊,虚心,端庄,稳重,羞怯,朴素
参考例句:
  • Industry and modesty are the chief factors of his success.勤奋和谦虚是他成功的主要因素。
  • As conceit makes one lag behind,so modesty helps one make progress.骄傲使人落后,谦虚使人进步。
110 celebrated iwLzpz     
adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
参考例句:
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
111 prudence 9isyI     
n.谨慎,精明,节俭
参考例句:
  • A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。
  • The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.幸运者都把他们的成功归因于谨慎或功德。
112 alleviate ZxEzJ     
v.减轻,缓和,缓解(痛苦等)
参考例句:
  • The doctor gave her an injection to alleviate the pain.医生给她注射以减轻疼痛。
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
113 magistrate e8vzN     
n.地方行政官,地方法官,治安官
参考例句:
  • The magistrate committed him to prison for a month.法官判处他一个月监禁。
  • John was fined 1000 dollars by the magistrate.约翰被地方法官罚款1000美元。
114 drowsy DkYz3     
adj.昏昏欲睡的,令人发困的
参考例句:
  • Exhaust fumes made him drowsy and brought on a headache.废气把他熏得昏昏沉沉,还引起了头疼。
  • I feel drowsy after lunch every day.每天午饭后我就想睡觉。
115 distress 3llzX     
n.苦恼,痛苦,不舒适;不幸;vt.使悲痛
参考例句:
  • Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
  • Please don't distress yourself.请你不要忧愁了。
116 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。
117 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。
118 afflicted aaf4adfe86f9ab55b4275dae2a2e305a     
使受痛苦,折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease. 全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。
  • A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden. 一阵可怕的、跟饥饿差不多的不安情绪折磨着马丁·伊登。
119 eyelids 86ece0ca18a95664f58bda5de252f4e7     
n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色
参考例句:
  • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了,眼睑开始往下垂。
  • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
120 intrigued 7acc2a75074482e2b408c60187e27c73     
adj.好奇的,被迷住了的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的过去式);激起…的兴趣或好奇心;“intrigue”的过去式和过去分词
参考例句:
  • You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思—再给我讲一些吧!
  • He was intrigued by her story. 他被她的故事迷住了。
121 inexplicable tbCzf     
adj.无法解释的,难理解的
参考例句:
  • It is now inexplicable how that development was misinterpreted.当时对这一事态发展的错误理解究竟是怎么产生的,现在已经无法说清楚了。
  • There are many things which are inexplicable by science.有很多事科学还无法解释。
122 immediate aapxh     
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
参考例句:
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
123 bustle esazC     
v.喧扰地忙乱,匆忙,奔忙;n.忙碌;喧闹
参考例句:
  • The bustle and din gradually faded to silence as night advanced.随着夜越来越深,喧闹声逐渐沉寂。
  • There is a lot of hustle and bustle in the railway station.火车站里非常拥挤。
124 aquatic mvXzk     
adj.水生的,水栖的
参考例句:
  • Aquatic sports include swimming and rowing.水上运动包括游泳和划船。
  • We visited an aquatic city in Italy.我们在意大利访问过一个水上城市。
125 enigma 68HyU     
n.谜,谜一样的人或事
参考例句:
  • I've known him for many years,but he remains something of an enigma to me.我与他相识多年,他仍然难以捉摸。
  • Even after all the testimonies,the murder remained a enigma.即使听完了所有的证词,这件谋杀案仍然是一个谜。
126 crumpled crumpled     
adj. 弯扭的, 变皱的 动词crumple的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire. 她把那封信揉成一团扔进了火里。
  • She flattened out the crumpled letter on the desk. 她在写字台上把皱巴巴的信展平。
127 puff y0cz8     
n.一口(气);一阵(风);v.喷气,喘气
参考例句:
  • He took a puff at his cigarette.他吸了一口香烟。
  • They tried their best to puff the book they published.他们尽力吹捧他们出版的书。
128 vegetarians 92ca2254bb61eaa208608083177e4ed9     
n.吃素的人( vegetarian的名词复数 );素食者;素食主义者;食草动物
参考例句:
  • Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks. 素食者不再被视为有怪癖的人。
  • Vegetarians believe that eating meat is bad karma. 素食者认为吃肉食是造恶业。
129 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。
130 exhaled 8e9b6351819daaa316dd7ab045d3176d     
v.呼出,发散出( exhale的过去式和过去分词 );吐出(肺中的空气、烟等),呼气
参考例句:
  • He sat back and exhaled deeply. 他仰坐着深深地呼气。
  • He stamped his feet and exhaled a long, white breath. 跺了跺脚,他吐了口长气,很长很白。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
131 monologues b54ccd8f001b9d8e09b1cb0a3d508b10     
n.(戏剧)长篇独白( monologue的名词复数 );滔滔不绝的讲话;独角戏
参考例句:
  • That film combines real testimonials with monologues read by actors. 电影中既有真人讲的真事,也有演员的独白。 来自互联网
  • Her monologues may help her make sense of her day. 她的独白可以帮助她让她一天的感觉。 来自互联网
132 isolated bqmzTd     
adj.与世隔绝的
参考例句:
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
133 insistent s6ZxC     
adj.迫切的,坚持的
参考例句:
  • There was an insistent knock on my door.我听到一阵急促的敲门声。
  • He is most insistent on this point.他在这点上很坚持。
134 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。
135 illuminated 98b351e9bc282af85e83e767e5ec76b8     
adj.被照明的;受启迪的
参考例句:
  • Floodlights illuminated the stadium. 泛光灯照亮了体育场。
  • the illuminated city at night 夜幕中万家灯火的城市
136 squad 4G1zq     
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
参考例句:
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
137 explicit IhFzc     
adj.详述的,明确的;坦率的;显然的
参考例句:
  • She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
  • He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。
138 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。
139 orientation IJ4xo     
n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍
参考例句:
  • Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
  • The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
140 gourd mfWxh     
n.葫芦
参考例句:
  • Are you going with him? You must be out of your gourd.你和他一块去?你一定是疯了。
  • Give me a gourd so I can bail.把葫芦瓢给我,我好把水舀出去。
141 dunes 8a48dcdac1abf28807833e2947184dd4     
沙丘( dune的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The boy galloped over the dunes barefoot. 那男孩光着脚在沙丘间飞跑。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat. 将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
142 mercurial yCnxD     
adj.善变的,活泼的
参考例句:
  • He was of a mercurial temperament and therefore unpredictable.他是个反复无常的人,因此对他的行为无法预言。
  • Our desires and aversions are mercurial rulers.我们的欲望与嫌恶是变化无常的统治者。
143 incense dcLzU     
v.激怒;n.香,焚香时的烟,香气
参考例句:
  • This proposal will incense conservation campaigners.这项提议会激怒环保人士。
  • In summer,they usually burn some coil incense to keep away the mosquitoes.夏天他们通常点香驱蚊。
144 vapor DHJy2     
n.蒸汽,雾气
参考例句:
  • The cold wind condenses vapor into rain.冷风使水蒸气凝结成雨。
  • This new machine sometimes transpires a lot of hot vapor.这部机器有时排出大量的热气。
145 benefactor ZQEy0     
n. 恩人,行善的人,捐助人
参考例句:
  • The chieftain of that country is disguised as a benefactor this time. 那个国家的首领这一次伪装出一副施恩者的姿态。
  • The first thing I did, was to recompense my original benefactor, my good old captain. 我所做的第一件事, 就是报答我那最初的恩人, 那位好心的老船长。
146 carnival 4rezq     
n.嘉年华会,狂欢,狂欢节,巡回表演
参考例句:
  • I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
  • Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。
147 destined Dunznz     
adj.命中注定的;(for)以…为目的地的
参考例句:
  • It was destined that they would marry.他们结婚是缘分。
  • The shipment is destined for America.这批货物将运往美国。
148 cemetery ur9z7     
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
参考例句:
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
149 tumult LKrzm     
n.喧哗;激动,混乱;吵闹
参考例句:
  • The tumult in the streets awakened everyone in the house.街上的喧哗吵醒了屋子里的每一个人。
  • His voice disappeared under growing tumult.他的声音消失在越来越响的喧哗声中。
150 swapping 8a991dafbba2463e25ba0bc65307eb5e     
交换,交换技术
参考例句:
  • The slow swapping and buying of horses went on. 马匹的买卖和交换就是这样慢慢地进行着。
  • He was quite keen on swapping books with friends. 他非常热衷于和朋友们交换书籍。
151 humiliated 97211aab9c3dcd4f7c74e1101d555362     
感到羞愧的
参考例句:
  • Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当,父母也失体面。
  • He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻,丢尽了面子。
152 virulent 1HtyK     
adj.有毒的,有恶意的,充满敌意的
参考例句:
  • She is very virulent about her former employer.她对她过去的老板恨之入骨。
  • I stood up for her despite the virulent criticism.尽管她遭到恶毒的批评,我还是维护她。
153 shuffling 03b785186d0322e5a1a31c105fc534ee     
adj. 慢慢移动的, 滑移的 动词shuffle的现在分词形式
参考例句:
  • Don't go shuffling along as if you were dead. 别像个死人似地拖着脚走。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • Some one was shuffling by on the sidewalk. 外面的人行道上有人拖着脚走过。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
154 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。
155 trotting cbfe4f2086fbf0d567ffdf135320f26a     
小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
参考例句:
  • The riders came trotting down the lane. 这骑手骑着马在小路上慢跑。
  • Alan took the reins and the small horse started trotting. 艾伦抓住缰绳,小马开始慢跑起来。
156 tambourine 5G2yt     
n.铃鼓,手鼓
参考例句:
  • A stew without an onion is like a dance without a tambourine.烧菜没有洋葱就像跳舞没有手鼓。
  • He is really good at playing tambourine.他很擅长演奏铃鼓。
157 fauna 9kExx     
n.(一个地区或时代的)所有动物,动物区系
参考例句:
  • This National Park is an area with unique fauna and flora.该国家公园区域内具有独特的动物种群和植物种群。
  • Fauna is a biological notion means all the animal life in a particular region or period. 动物群是一个生物学的概念,指的是一个特定时期或者地区的所有动物。
158 mechanisms d0db71d70348ef1c49f05f59097917b8     
n.机械( mechanism的名词复数 );机械装置;[生物学] 机制;机械作用
参考例句:
  • The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms. 这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He explained how the two mechanisms worked. 他解释这两台机械装置是如何工作的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
159 pendulum X3ezg     
n.摆,钟摆
参考例句:
  • The pendulum swung slowly to and fro.钟摆在慢慢地来回摆动。
  • He accidentally found that the desk clock did not swing its pendulum.他无意中发现座钟不摇摆了。
160 sketching 2df579f3d044331e74dce85d6a365dd7     
n.草图
参考例句:
  • They are sketching out proposals for a new road. 他们正在草拟修建新路的计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • "Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. “飞舞驰骋的想象描绘出一幅幅玫瑰色欢乐的场景。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
161 linen W3LyK     
n.亚麻布,亚麻线,亚麻制品;adj.亚麻布制的,亚麻的
参考例句:
  • The worker is starching the linen.这名工人正在给亚麻布上浆。
  • Fine linen and cotton fabrics were known as well as wool.精细的亚麻织品和棉织品像羊毛一样闻名遐迩。
162 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
163 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》
164 penetrated 61c8e5905df30b8828694a7dc4c3a3e0     
adj. 击穿的,鞭辟入里的 动词penetrate的过去式和过去分词形式
参考例句:
  • The knife had penetrated his chest. 刀子刺入了他的胸膛。
  • They penetrated into territory where no man had ever gone before. 他们已进入先前没人去过的地区。
165 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。
166 laborious VxoyD     
adj.吃力的,努力的,不流畅
参考例句:
  • They had the laborious task of cutting down the huge tree.他们接受了伐大树的艰苦工作。
  • Ants and bees are laborious insects.蚂蚁与蜜蜂是勤劳的昆虫。
167 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。
168 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。
169 insomnia EbFzK     
n.失眠,失眠症
参考例句:
  • Worries and tenseness can lead to insomnia.忧虑和紧张会导致失眠。
  • He is suffering from insomnia.他患失眠症。
170 fatigued fatigued     
adj. 疲乏的
参考例句:
  • The exercises fatigued her. 操练使她感到很疲乏。
  • The President smiled, with fatigued tolerance for a minor person's naivety. 总统笑了笑,疲惫地表现出对一个下级人员的天真想法的宽容。
171 yearning hezzPJ     
a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的
参考例句:
  • a yearning for a quiet life 对宁静生活的向往
  • He felt a great yearning after his old job. 他对过去的工作有一种强烈的渴想。
172 conversed a9ac3add7106d6e0696aafb65fcced0d     
v.交谈,谈话( converse的过去式 )
参考例句:
  • I conversed with her on a certain problem. 我与她讨论某一问题。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • She was cheerful and polite, and conversed with me pleasantly. 她十分高兴,也很客气,而且愉快地同我交谈。 来自辞典例句
173 manias a53fb556c0453c4fb031bec991049041     
n.(mania的复数形式)
参考例句:
  • Like all manias, it needed an object of focus and an explanation. 华尔街立刻夸耀这种称之为“新纪元”的现象。 来自互联网
  • But shareholders have frequently in the manias of the moment along with everyone else. 但股东常常会和其他人一样,陷入一时的狂热。 来自互联网
174 tightrope xgkzEG     
n.绷紧的绳索或钢丝
参考例句:
  • The audience held their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.杂技演员走钢丝时,观众都屏住了呼吸。
  • The tightrope walker kept her balance by holding up an umbrella.走钢丝的演员举着一把伞,保持身体的均衡。
175 obsession eIdxt     
n.困扰,无法摆脱的思想(或情感)
参考例句:
  • I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
  • She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
176 sobbed 4a153e2bbe39eef90bf6a4beb2dba759     
哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说
参考例句:
  • She sobbed out the story of her son's death. 她哭诉着她儿子的死。
  • She sobbed out the sad story of her son's death. 她哽咽着诉说她儿子死去的悲惨经过。
177 contrite RYXzf     
adj.悔悟了的,后悔的,痛悔的
参考例句:
  • She was contrite the morning after her angry outburst.她发了一顿脾气之后一早上追悔莫及。
  • She assumed a contrite expression.她装出一副后悔的表情。
178 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。
179 uncommon AlPwO     
adj.罕见的,非凡的,不平常的
参考例句:
  • Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.这些看法在30年前很常见。
  • Phil has uncommon intelligence.菲尔智力超群。
180 possessed xuyyQ     
adj.疯狂的;拥有的,占有的
参考例句:
  • He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
  • He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。
181 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。
182 innocence ZbizC     
n.无罪;天真;无害
参考例句:
  • There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
  • The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。
183 untied d4a1dd1a28503840144e8098dbf9e40f     
松开,解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 ); 解除,使自由; 解决
参考例句:
  • Once untied, we common people are able to conquer nature, too. 只要团结起来,我们老百姓也能移山倒海。
  • He untied the ropes. 他解开了绳子。
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