To Kill a Mockingbird 杀死一只知更鸟 Chapter 5(5)
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My nagging1 got the better of Jem eventually, as I knew it would, and to my relief weslowed down the game for a while. He still maintained, however, that Atticus hadn't saidwe couldn't, therefore we could; and if Atticus ever said we couldn't, Jem had thought ofa way around it: he would simply change the names of the characters and then wecouldn't be accused of playing anything.
 
Dill was in hearty2 agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of atrial anyway, following Jem about. He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him,then he promptly3 forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I wasthe only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did nogood, he only grew closer to Jem. They spent days together in the treehouse plottingand planning, calling me only when they needed a third party. But I kept aloof4 from theirmore foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most ofthe remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her frontporch.
 
Jem and I had always enjoyed the free run of Miss Maudie's yard if we kept out of herazaleas, but our contact with her was not clearly defined. Until Jem and Dill excludedme from their plans, she was only another lady in the neighborhood, but a relativelybenign presence.
 
Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat herscuppernongs if we didn't jump on the arbor5, and explore her vast back lot, terms sogenerous we seldom spoke6 to her, so careful were we to preserve the delicate balanceof our relationship, but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with their behavior.
 
Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted. She was a widow,a chameleon7 lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men'scoveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign8 overthe street in magisterial9 beauty.
 
She loved everything that grew in God's earth, even the weeds. With one exception. Ifshe found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle of the Marne:
 
she swooped10 down upon it with a tin tub and subjected it to blasts from beneath with apoisonous substance she said was so powerful it'd kill us all if we didn't stand out of theway.
 
"Why can't you just pull it up?" I asked, after witnessing a prolonged campaign againsta blade not three inches high.
 
"Pull it up, child, pull it up?" She picked up the limp sprout11 and squeezed her thumb upits tiny stalk. Microscopic12 grains oozed13 out. "Why, one sprig of nut grass can ruin awhole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all overMaycomb County!" Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an OldTestament pestilence14.
 
Her speech was crisp for a Maycomb County inhabitant. She called us by all ournames, and when she grinned she revealed two minute gold prongs clipped to hereyeteeth. When I admired them and hoped I would have some eventually, she said,"Look here." With a click of her tongue she thrust out her bridgework, a gesture ofcordiality that cemented our friendship.
 
Miss Maudie's benevolence15 extended to Jem and Dill, whenever they paused in theirpursuits: we reaped the benefits of a talent Miss Maudie had hitherto kept hidden fromus. She made the best cakes in the neighborhood. When she was admitted into ourconfidence, every time she baked she made a big cake and three little ones, and shewould call across the street: "Jem Finch16, Scout17 Finch, Charles Baker18 Harris, comehere!" Our promptness was always rewarded.
 
In summertime, twilights are long and peaceful. Often as not, Miss Maudie and I wouldsit silently on her porch, watching the sky go from yellow to pink as the sun went down,watching flights of martins sweep low over the neighborhood and disappear behind theschoolhouse rooftops.
 
"Miss Maudie," I said one evening, "do you think Boo Radley's still alive?"
 
"His name's Arthur and he's alive," she said. She was rocking slowly in her big oakchair. "Do you smell my mimosa? It's like angels' breath this evening."
 
"Yessum. How do you know?"
 
"Know what, child?"
 
"That B -- Mr. Arthur's still alive?"
 
"What a morbid19 question. But I suppose it's a morbid subject. I know he's alive, JeanLouise, because I haven't seen him carried out yet."
 
"Maybe he died and they stuffed him up the chimney."
 
"Where did you get such a notion?"#p#分页标题#e#
 
"That's what Jem said he thought they did."
 
"S-ss-ss. He gets more like Jack20 Finch every day."
 
Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus's brother, since they were children.
 
Nearly the same age, they had grown up together at Finch's Landing. Miss Maudie wasthe daughter of a neighboring landowner, Dr. Frank Buford. Dr. Buford's profession wasmedicine and his obsession21 was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor.
 
Uncle Jack Finch confined his passion for digging to his window boxes in Nashville andstayed rich. We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled acrossthe street for Miss Maudie to come marry him. Miss Maudie would yell back, "Call a littlelouder, Jack Finch, and they'll hear you at the post office, I haven't heard you yet!" Jemand I thought this a strange way to ask for a lady's hand in marriage, but then UncleJack was rather strange. He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat, that he hadbeen trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world MissMaudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, andthe best defense22 to her was spirited offense23, all of which we understood clearly.
 
"Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that's all," said Miss Maudie. "Wouldn't you stayin the house if you didn't want to come out?"
 
"Yessum, but I'd wanta come out. Why doesn't he?"
 
Miss Maudie's eyes narrowed. "You know that story as well as I do."
 
"I never heard why, though. Nobody ever told me why."
 
Miss Maudie settled her bridgework. "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washingBaptist-"
 
"That's what you are, ain't it?"
 
"My shell's not that hard, child. I'm just a Baptist."
 
"Don't you all believe in foot-washing?"
 
"We do. At home in the bathtub."
 
"But we can't have communion with you all-"
 
Apparently24 deciding that it was easier to define primitive25 baptistry than closedcommunion, Miss Maudie said: "Foot-washers believe anything that's pleasure is a sin.
 
Did you know some of ‘em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by thisplace and told me me and my flowers were going to hell?"
 
"Your flowers, too?"
 
"Yes ma'am. They'd burn right with me. They thought I spent too much time in God'soutdoors and not enough time inside the house reading the Bible."
 
My confidence in pulpit Gospel lessened26 at the vision of Miss Maudie stewing27 foreverin various Protestant hells. True enough, she had an acid tongue in her head, and shedid not go about the neighborhood doing good, as did Miss Stephanie Crawford. Butwhile no one with a grain of sense trusted Miss Stephanie, Jem and I had considerablefaith in Miss Maudie. She had never told on us, had never played cat-and-mouse withus, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend. How soreasonable a creature could live in peril28 of everlasting29 torment30 was incomprehensible.
 
"That ain't right, Miss Maudie. You're the best lady I know."
 
Miss Maudie grinned. "Thank you ma'am. Thing is, foot-washers think women are asin by definition. They take the Bible literally31, you know."
 
"Is that why Mr. Arthur stays in the house, to keep away from women?"
 
"I've no idea."
 
"It doesn't make sense to me. Looks like if Mr. Arthur was hankerin‘ after heaven he'dcome out on the porch at least. Atticus says God's loving folks like you love yourself-"
 
Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. "You are too young tounderstand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse thana whiskey bottle in the hand of -- oh, of your father."
 
I was shocked. "Atticus doesn't drink whiskey," I said. "He never drunk a drop in hislife -- nome, yes he did. He said he drank some one time and didn't like it."
 
Miss Maudie laughed. "Wasn't talking about your father," she said. "What I meant was,if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men are attheir best. There are just some kind of men who -- who're so busy worrying about thenext world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the streetand see the results."#p#分页标题#e#
 
"Do you think they're true, all those things they say about B -- Mr. Arthur?"
 
"What things?"
 
I told her.
 
"That is three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie Crawford," said MissMaudie grimly. "Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of thenight and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie,move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up a while."
 
I was sure it did. Miss Maudie's voice was enough to shut anybody up.
 
"No, child," she said, "that is a sad house. I remember Arthur Radley when he was aboy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did. Spoke as nicely ashe knew how."
 
"You reckon he's crazy?"
 
Miss Maudie shook her head. "If he's not he should be by now. The things that happento people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, whatsecrets-"
 
"Atticus don't ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don't do in theyard," I said, feeling it my duty to defend my parent.
 
"Gracious child, I was raveling a thread, wasn't even thinking about your father, butnow that I am I'll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the publicstreets. How'd you like some fresh poundcake to take home?"
 
I liked it very much.
 
Next morning when I awakened32 I found Jem and Dill in the back yard deep inconversation. When I joined them, as usual they said go away.
 
"Will not. This yard's as much mine as it is yours, Jem Finch. I got just as much right toplay in it as you have."
 
Dill and Jem emerged from a brief huddle33: "If you stay you've got to do what we tellyou," Dill warned.
 
"We-ll," I said, "who's so high and mighty34 all of a sudden?"
 
"If you don't say you'll do what we tell you, we ain't gonna tell you anything," Dillcontinued.
 
"You act like you grew ten inches in the night! All right, what is it?"
 
Jem said placidly35, "We are going to give a note to Boo Radley."
 
"Just how?" I was trying to fight down the automatic terror rising in me. It was all rightfor Miss Maudie to talk -- she was old and snug36 on her porch. It was different for us.
 
Jem was merely going to put the note on the end of a fishing pole and stick it throughthe shutters38. If anyone came along, Dill would ring the bell.
 
Dill raised his right hand. In it was my mother's silver dinner-bell.
 
"I'm goin‘ around to the side of the house," said Jem. "We looked yesterday fromacross the street, and there's a shutter37 loose. Think maybe I can make it stick on thewindow sill, at least."
 
"Jem-"
 
"Now you're in it and you can't get out of it, you'll just stay in it, Miss Priss!"
 
"Okay, okay, but I don't wanta watch. Jem, somebody was-"
 
"Yes you will, you'll watch the back end of the lot and Dill's gonna watch the front ofthe house an‘ up the street, an' if anybody comes he'll ring the bell. That clear?"
 
"All right then. What'd you write him?"
 
Dill said, "We're askin‘ him real politely to come out sometimes, and tell us what hedoes in there -- we said we wouldn't hurt him and we'd buy him an ice cream."
 
"You all've gone crazy, he'll kill us!"
 
Dill said, "It's my idea. I figure if he'd come out and sit a spell with us he might feelbetter."
 
"How do you know he don't feel good?"
 
"Well how'd you feel if you'd been shut up for a hundred years with nothin‘ but cats toeat? I bet he's got a beard down to here-" "Like your daddy's?"
 
"He ain't got a beard, he-" Dill stopped, as if trying to remember.
 
"Uh huh, caughtcha," I said. "You said ‘fore you were off the train good your daddyhad a black beard-"
 
"If it's all the same to you he shaved it off last summer! Yeah, an‘ I've got the letter toprove it -- he sent me two dollars, too!"#p#分页标题#e#
 
"Keep on -- I reckon he even sent you a mounted police uniform! That'n never showedup, did it? You just keep on tellin‘ 'em, son-"
 
Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I ever heard. Among other things, he had beenup in a mail plane seventeen times, he had been to Nova Scotia, he had seen anelephant, and his granddaddy was Brigadier General Joe Wheeler and left him hissword.
 
"You all hush," said Jem. He scuttled39 beneath the house and came out with a yellowbamboo pole. "Reckon this is long enough to reach from the sidewalk?"
 
"Anybody who's brave enough to go up and touch the house hadn't oughta use afishin‘ pole," I said. "Why don't you just knock the front door down?"
 
"This -- is -- different," said Jem, "how many times do I have to tell you that?"
 
Dill took a piece of paper from his pocket and gave it to Jem. The three of us walkedcautiously toward the old house. Dill remained at the light-pole on the front corner of thelot, and Jem and I edged down the sidewalk parallel to the side of the house. I walkedbeyond Jem and stood where I could see around the curve.
 
"All clear," I said. "Not a soul in sight."
 
Jem looked up the sidewalk to Dill, who nodded.
 
Jem attached the note to the end of the fishing pole, let the pole out across the yardand pushed it toward the window he had selected. The pole lacked several inches ofbeing long enough, and Jem leaned over as far as he could. I watched him makingjabbing motions for so long, I abandoned my post and went to him.
 
"Can't get it off the pole," he muttered, "or if I got it off I can't make it stay. G'on backdown the street, Scout."
 
I returned and gazed around the curve at the empty road. Occasionally I looked backat Jem, who was patiently trying to place the note on the window sill. It would flutter tothe ground and Jem would jab it up, until I thought if Boo Radley ever received it hewouldn't be able to read it. I was looking down the street when the dinner-bell rang.
 
Shoulder up, I reeled around to face Boo Radley and his bloody40 fangs41; instead, I sawDill ringing the bell with all his might in Atticus's face.
 
Jem looked so awful I didn't have the heart to tell him I told him so. He trudged42 along,dragging the pole behind him on the sidewalk.
 
Atticus said, "Stop ringing that bell."
 
Dill grabbed the clapper; in the silence that followed, I wished he'd start ringing itagain. Atticus pushed his hat to the back of his head and put his hands on his hips43.
 
"Jem," he said, "what were you doing?"
 
"Nothin‘, sir."
 
"I don't want any of that. Tell me."
 
"I was -- we were just tryin‘ to give somethin' to Mr. Radley."
 
"What were you trying to give him?"
 
"Just a letter."
 
"Let me see it."
 
Jem held out a filthy44 piece of paper. Atticus took it and tried to read it. "Why do youwant Mr. Radley to come out?"
 
Dill said, "We thought he might enjoy us…" and dried up when Atticus looked at him.
 
"Son," he said to Jem, "I'm going to tell you something and tell you one time: stoptormenting that man. That goes for the other two of you."
 
What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If hewanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from theattentions of inquisitive45 children, which was a mild term for the likes of us. How wouldwe like it if Atticus barged in on us without knocking, when we were in our rooms atnight? We were, in effect, doing the same thing to Mr. Radley. What Mr. Radley didmight seem peculiar46 to us, but it did not seem peculiar to him. Furthermore, had it neveroccurred to us that the civil way to communicate with another being was by the frontdoor instead of a side window? Lastly, we were to stay away from that house until wewere invited there, we were not to play an asinine47 game he had seen us playing ormake fun of anybody on this street or in this town-"We weren't makin‘ fun of him, we weren't laughin' at him," said Jem, "we were just-"
 
"So that was what you were doing, wasn't it?"
 
"Makin‘ fun of him?"#p#分页标题#e#
 
"No," said Atticus, "putting his life's history on display for the edification of theneighborhood."
 
Jem seemed to swell48 a little. "I didn't say we were doin‘ that, I didn't say it!"
 
Atticus grinned dryly. "You just told me," he said. "You stop this nonsense right now,every one of you."
 
Jem gaped49 at him.
 
"You want to be a lawyer, don't you?" Our father's mouth was suspiciously firm, as ifhe were trying to hold it in line.
 
Jem decided50 there was no point in quibbling, and was silent. When Atticus went insidethe house to retrieve51 a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning, Jem finallyrealized that he had been done in by the oldest lawyer's trick on record. He waited arespectful distance from the front steps, watched Atticus leave the house and walktoward town. When Atticus was out of earshot Jem yelled after him: "I thought I wantedto be a lawyer but I ain't so sure now!"


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1 nagging be0b69d13a0baed63cc899dc05b36d80     
adj.唠叨的,挑剔的;使人不得安宁的v.不断地挑剔或批评(某人)( nag的现在分词 );不断地烦扰或伤害(某人);无休止地抱怨;不断指责
参考例句:
  • Stop nagging—I'll do it as soon as I can. 别唠叨了—我会尽快做的。
  • I've got a nagging pain in my lower back. 我后背下方老是疼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 hearty Od1zn     
adj.热情友好的;衷心的;尽情的,纵情的
参考例句:
  • After work they made a hearty meal in the worker's canteen.工作完了,他们在工人食堂饱餐了一顿。
  • We accorded him a hearty welcome.我们给他热忱的欢迎。
3 promptly LRMxm     
adv.及时地,敏捷地
参考例句:
  • He paid the money back promptly.他立即还了钱。
  • She promptly seized the opportunity his absence gave her.她立即抓住了因他不在场给她创造的机会。
4 aloof wxpzN     
adj.远离的;冷淡的,漠不关心的
参考例句:
  • Never stand aloof from the masses.千万不可脱离群众。
  • On the evening the girl kept herself timidly aloof from the crowd.这小女孩在晚会上一直胆怯地远离人群。
5 arbor fyIzz0     
n.凉亭;树木
参考例句:
  • They sat in the arbor and chatted over tea.他们坐在凉亭里,边喝茶边聊天。
  • You may have heard of Arbor Day at school.你可能在学校里听过植树节。
6 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。
7 chameleon YUWy2     
n.变色龙,蜥蜴;善变之人
参考例句:
  • The chameleon changes colour to match its surroundings.变色龙变换颜色以适应环境。
  • The chameleon can take on the colour of its background.变色龙可呈现出与其背景相同的颜色。
8 reign pBbzx     
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
参考例句:
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
9 magisterial mAaxA     
adj.威风的,有权威的;adv.威严地
参考例句:
  • The colonel's somewhat in a magisterial manner.上校多少有点威严的神态。
  • The Cambridge World History of Human Disease is a magisterial work.《剑桥世界人类疾病史》是一部权威著作。
10 swooped 33b84cab2ba3813062b6e35dccf6ee5b     
俯冲,猛冲( swoop的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The aircraft swooped down over the buildings. 飞机俯冲到那些建筑物上方。
  • The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it. 鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死。
11 sprout ITizY     
n.芽,萌芽;vt.使发芽,摘去芽;vi.长芽,抽条
参考例句:
  • When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角?
  • It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。
12 microscopic nDrxq     
adj.微小的,细微的,极小的,显微的
参考例句:
  • It's impossible to read his microscopic handwriting.不可能看清他那极小的书写字迹。
  • A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。
13 oozed d11de42af8e0bb132bd10042ebefdf99     
v.(浓液等)慢慢地冒出,渗出( ooze的过去式和过去分词 );使(液体)缓缓流出;(浓液)渗出,慢慢流出
参考例句:
  • Blood oozed out of the wound. 血从伤口慢慢流出来。
  • Mud oozed from underground. 泥浆从地下冒出来。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
14 pestilence YlGzsG     
n.瘟疫
参考例句:
  • They were crazed by the famine and pestilence of that bitter winter.他们因那年严冬的饥饿与瘟疫而折磨得发狂。
  • A pestilence was raging in that area. 瘟疫正在那一地区流行。
15 benevolence gt8zx     
n.慈悲,捐助
参考例句:
  • We definitely do not apply a policy of benevolence to the reactionaries.我们对反动派决不施仁政。
  • He did it out of pure benevolence. 他做那件事完全出于善意。
16 finch TkRxS     
n.雀科鸣禽(如燕雀,金丝雀等)
参考例句:
  • This behaviour is commonly observed among several species of finch.这种行为常常可以在几种雀科鸣禽中看到。
  • In Australia,it is predominantly called the Gouldian Finch.在澳大利亚,它主要还是被称之为胡锦雀。
17 scout oDGzi     
n.童子军,侦察员;v.侦察,搜索
参考例句:
  • He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.他被误认为是敌人的侦察兵,受了重伤。
  • The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.侦察兵偷偷地靠近敌军阵地。
18 baker wyTz62     
n.面包师
参考例句:
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
19 morbid u6qz3     
adj.病的;致病的;病态的;可怕的
参考例句:
  • Some people have a morbid fascination with crime.一些人对犯罪有一种病态的痴迷。
  • It's morbid to dwell on cemeteries and such like.不厌其烦地谈论墓地以及诸如此类的事是一种病态。
20 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。
21 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。
22 defense AxbxB     
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
参考例句:
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
23 offense HIvxd     
n.犯规,违法行为;冒犯,得罪
参考例句:
  • I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
  • His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
24 apparently tMmyQ     
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
参考例句:
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
25 primitive vSwz0     
adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物
参考例句:
  • It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
  • His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。
26 lessened 6351a909991322c8a53dc9baa69dda6f     
减少的,减弱的
参考例句:
  • Listening to the speech through an interpreter lessened its impact somewhat. 演讲辞通过翻译的嘴说出来,多少削弱了演讲的力量。
  • The flight to suburbia lessened the number of middle-class families living within the city. 随着迁往郊外的风行,住在城内的中产家庭减少了。
27 stewing f459459d12959efafd2f4f71cdc99b4a     
参考例句:
  • The meat was stewing in the pan. 肉正炖在锅里。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • The cashier was stewing herself over the sum of 1, 000 which was missing. 钱短了一千美元,出纳员着急得要命。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
28 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。
29 everlasting Insx7     
adj.永恒的,持久的,无止境的
参考例句:
  • These tyres are advertised as being everlasting.广告上说轮胎持久耐用。
  • He believes in everlasting life after death.他相信死后有不朽的生命。
30 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。
31 literally 28Wzv     
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
参考例句:
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
32 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》
33 huddle s5UyT     
vi.挤作一团;蜷缩;vt.聚集;n.挤在一起的人
参考例句:
  • They like living in a huddle.他们喜欢杂居在一起。
  • The cold wind made the boy huddle inside his coat.寒风使这个男孩卷缩在他的外衣里。
34 mighty YDWxl     
adj.强有力的;巨大的
参考例句:
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
35 placidly c0c28951cb36e0d70b9b64b1d177906e     
adv.平稳地,平静地
参考例句:
  • Hurstwood stood placidly by, while the car rolled back into the yard. 当车子开回场地时,赫斯渥沉着地站在一边。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • The water chestnut floated placidly there, where it would grow. 那棵菱角就又安安稳稳浮在水面上生长去了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
36 snug 3TvzG     
adj.温暖舒适的,合身的,安全的;v.使整洁干净,舒适地依靠,紧贴;n.(英)酒吧里的私房
参考例句:
  • He showed us into a snug little sitting room.他领我们走进了一间温暖而舒适的小客厅。
  • She had a small but snug home.她有个小小的但很舒适的家。
37 shutter qEpy6     
n.百叶窗;(照相机)快门;关闭装置
参考例句:
  • The camera has a shutter speed of one-sixtieth of a second.这架照像机的快门速度达六十分之一秒。
  • The shutter rattled in the wind.百叶窗在风中发出嘎嘎声。
38 shutters 74d48a88b636ca064333022eb3458e1f     
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门
参考例句:
  • The shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters. 那商店的店门装有卷门。
  • The shutters thumped the wall in the wind. 在风中百叶窗砰砰地碰在墙上。
39 scuttled f5d33c8cedd0ebe9ef7a35f17a1cff7e     
v.使船沉没( scuttle的过去式和过去分词 );快跑,急走
参考例句:
  • She scuttled off when she heard the sound of his voice. 听到他的说话声,她赶紧跑开了。
  • The thief scuttled off when he saw the policeman. 小偷看见警察来了便急忙跑掉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
40 bloody kWHza     
adj.非常的的;流血的;残忍的;adv.很;vt.血染
参考例句:
  • He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
  • He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
41 fangs d8ad5a608d5413636d95dfb00a6e7ac4     
n.(尤指狗和狼的)长而尖的牙( fang的名词复数 );(蛇的)毒牙;罐座
参考例句:
  • The dog fleshed his fangs in the deer's leg. 狗用尖牙咬住了鹿腿。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Dogs came lunging forward with their fangs bared. 狗龇牙咧嘴地扑过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
42 trudged e830eb9ac9fd5a70bf67387e070a9616     
vt.& vi.跋涉,吃力地走(trudge的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • He trudged the last two miles to the town. 他步履艰难地走完最后两英里到了城里。
  • He trudged wearily along the path. 他沿着小路疲惫地走去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
43 hips f8c80f9a170ee6ab52ed1e87054f32d4     
abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的
参考例句:
  • She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
  • They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》
44 filthy ZgOzj     
adj.卑劣的;恶劣的,肮脏的
参考例句:
  • The whole river has been fouled up with filthy waste from factories.整条河都被工厂的污秽废物污染了。
  • You really should throw out that filthy old sofa and get a new one.你真的应该扔掉那张肮脏的旧沙发,然后再去买张新的。
45 inquisitive s64xi     
adj.求知欲强的,好奇的,好寻根究底的
参考例句:
  • Children are usually inquisitive.小孩通常很好问。
  • A pat answer is not going to satisfy an inquisitive audience.陈腔烂调的答案不能满足好奇的听众。
46 peculiar cinyo     
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的
参考例句:
  • He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
  • He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
47 asinine iNHyU     
adj.愚蠢的
参考例句:
  • It is an asinine discussion.那是个愚蠢透顶的讨论。
  • I must have been insane to listen to your asinine gibberish!我真是昏了头居然听信了你的胡说八道!
48 swell IHnzB     
vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强
参考例句:
  • The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
  • His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。
49 gaped 11328bb13d82388ec2c0b2bf7af6f272     
v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的过去式和过去分词 );张开,张大
参考例句:
  • A huge chasm gaped before them. 他们面前有个巨大的裂痕。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The front door was missing. A hole gaped in the roof. 前门不翼而飞,屋顶豁开了一个洞。 来自辞典例句
50 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。
51 retrieve ZsYyp     
vt.重新得到,收回;挽回,补救;检索
参考例句:
  • He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
  • The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。
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