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绿山墙的安妮:CHAPTER XVIII
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  • CHAPTER XVIII.

    Anne to the Rescue

    ALL things great are wound up with all things little. At first glance it might not seem that the decision of a certain Canadian Premier1 to include Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or anything to do with the fortunes of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables. But it had.

    It was a January the Premier came, to address his loyal supporters and such of his nonsupporters as chose to be present at the monster mass meeting held in Charlottetown. Most of the Avonlea people were on Premier’s side of politics; hence on the night of the meeting nearly all the men and a goodly proportion of the women had gone to town thirty miles away. Mrs. Rachel Lynde had gone too. Mrs. Rachel Lynde was a red-hot politician and couldn’t have believed that the political rally could be carried through without her, although she was on the opposite side of politics. So she went to town and took her husband—Thomas would be useful in looking after the horse—and Marilla Cuthbert with her. Marilla had a sneaking2 interest in politics herself, and as she thought it might be her only chance to see a real live Premier, she promptly3 took it, leaving Anne and Matthew to keep house until her return the following day.

    Hence, while Marilla and Mrs. Rachel were enjoying themselves hugely at the mass meeting, Anne and Matthew had the cheerful kitchen at Green Gables all to themselves. A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the windowpanes. Matthew nodded over a Farmers’ Advocate on the sofa and Anne at the table studied her lessons with grim determination, despite sundry4 wistful glances at the clock shelf, where lay a new book that Jane Andrews had lent her that day. Jane had assured her that it was warranted to produce any number of thrills, or words to that effect, and Anne’s fingers tingled5 to reach out for it. But that would mean Gilbert Blythe’s triumph on the morrow. Anne turned her back on the clock shelf and tried to imagine it wasn’t there.

    “Matthew, did you ever study geometry when you went to school?”

    “Well now, no, I didn’t,” said Matthew, coming out of his doze6 with a start.

    “I wish you had,” sighed Anne, “because then you’d be able to sympathize with me. You can’t sympathize properly if you’ve never studied it. It is casting a cloud over my whole life. I’m such a dunce at it, Matthew.”

    “Well now, I dunno,” said Matthew soothingly7. “I guess you’re all right at anything. Mr. Phillips told me last week in Blair’s store at Carmody that you was the smartest scholar in school and was making rapid progress. ‘Rapid progress’ was his very words. There’s them as runs down Teddy Phillips and says he ain’t much of a teacher, but I guess he’s all right.”

    Matthew would have thought anyone who praised Anne was “all right.”

    “I’m sure I’d get on better with geometry if only he wouldn’t change the letters,” complained Anne. “I learn the proposition off by heart and then he draws it on the blackboard and puts different letters from what are in the book and I get all mixed up. I don’t think a teacher should take such a mean advantage, do you? We’re studying agriculture now and I’ve found out at last what makes the roads red. It’s a great comfort. I wonder how Marilla and Mrs. Lynde are enjoying themselves. Mrs. Lynde says Canada is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it’s an awful warning to the electors. She says if women were allowed to vote we would soon see a blessed change. What way do you vote, Matthew?”

    “Conservative,” said Matthew promptly. To vote Conservative was part of Matthew’s religion.

    “Then I’m Conservative too,” said Anne decidedly. “I’m glad because Gil—because some of the boys in school are Grits9. I guess Mr. Phillips is a Grit8 too because Prissy Andrews’s father is one, and Ruby10 Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics. Is that true, Matthew?”

    “Well now, I dunno,” said Matthew.

    “Did you ever go courting, Matthew?”

    “Well now, no, I dunno’s I ever did,” said Matthew, who had certainly never thought of such a thing in his whole existence.

    Anne reflected with her chin in her hands.

    “It must be rather interesting, don’t you think, Matthew? Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she’s going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I’d rather have just one in his right mind. But Ruby Gillis knows a great deal about such matters because she has so many big sisters, and Mrs. Lynde says the Gillis girls have gone off like hot cakes. Mr. Phillips goes up to see Prissy Andrews nearly every evening. He says it is to help her with her lessons but Miranda Sloane is studying for Queen’s too, and I should think she needed help a lot more than Prissy because she’s ever so much stupider, but he never goes to help her in the evenings at all. There are a great many things in this world that I can’t understand very well, Matthew.”

    “Well now, I dunno as I comprehend them all myself,” acknowledged Matthew.

    “Well, I suppose I must finish up my lessons. I won’t allow myself to open that new book Jane lent me until I’m through. But it’s a terrible temptation, Matthew. Even when I turn my back on it I can see it there just as plain. Jane said she cried herself sick over it. I love a book that makes me cry. But I think I’ll carry that book into the sitting room and lock it in the jam closet and give you the key. And you must not give it to me, Matthew, until my lessons are done, not even if I implore11 you on my bended knees. It’s all very well to say resist temptation, but it’s ever so much easier to resist it if you can’t get the key. And then shall I run down the cellar and get some russets, Matthew? Wouldn’t you like some russets?”

    “Well now, I dunno but what I would,” said Matthew, who never ate russets but knew Anne’s weakness for them.

    Just as Anne emerged triumphantly12 from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head. Anne promptly let go of her candle and plate in her surprise, and plate, candle, and apples crashed together down the cellar ladder and were found at the bottom embedded13 in melted grease, the next day, by Marilla, who gathered them up and thanked mercy the house hadn’t been set on fire.

    “Whatever is the matter, Diana?” cried Anne. “Has your mother relented at last?”

    “Oh, Anne, do come quick,” implored14 Diana nervously15. “Minnie May is awful sick—she’s got croup. Young Mary Joe says—and Father and Mother are away to town and there’s nobody to go for the doctor. Minnie May is awful bad and Young Mary Joe doesn’t know what to do—and oh, Anne, I’m so scared!”

    Matthew, without a word, reached out for cap and coat, slipped past Diana and away into the darkness of the yard.

    “He’s gone to harness the sorrel mare16 to go to Carmody for the doctor,” said Anne, who was hurrying on hood17 and jacket. “I know it as well as if he’d said so. Matthew and I are such kindred spirits I can read his thoughts without words at all.”

    “I don’t believe he’ll find the doctor at Carmody,” sobbed18 Diana. “I know that Dr. Blair went to town and I guess Dr. Spencer would go too. Young Mary Joe never saw anybody with croup and Mrs. Lynde is away. Oh, Anne!”

    “Don’t cry, Di,” said Anne cheerily. “I know exactly what to do for croup. You forget that Mrs. Hammond had twins three times. When you look after three pairs of twins you naturally get a lot of experience. They all had croup regularly. Just wait till I get the ipecac bottle—you mayn’t have any at your house. Come on now.”

    The two little girls hastened out hand in hand and hurried through Lover’s Lane and across the crusted field beyond, for the snow was too deep to go by the shorter wood way. Anne, although sincerely sorry for Minnie May, was far from being insensible to the romance of the situation and to the sweetness of once more sharing that romance with a kindred spirit.

    The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed19 firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them. Anne thought it was truly delightful20 to go skimming through all this mystery and loveliness with your bosom21 friend who had been so long estranged22.

    Minnie May, aged three, was really very sick. She lay on the kitchen sofa feverish23 and restless, while her hoarse24 breathing could be heard all over the house. Young Mary Joe, a buxom25, broad-faced French girl from the creek26, whom Mrs. Barry had engaged to stay with the children during her absence, was helpless and bewildered, quite incapable27 of thinking what to do, or doing it if she thought of it.

    Anne went to work with skill and promptness.

    “Minnie May has croup all right; she’s pretty bad, but I’ve seen them worse. First we must have lots of hot water. I declare, Diana, there isn’t more than a cupful in the kettle! There, I’ve filled it up, and, Mary Joe, you may put some wood in the stove. I don’t want to hurt your feelings but it seems to me you might have thought of this before if you’d any imagination. Now, I’ll undress Minnie May and put her to bed and you try to find some soft flannel28 cloths, Diana. I’m going to give her a dose of ipecac first of all.”

    Minnie May did not take kindly29 to the ipecac but Anne had not brought up three pairs of twins for nothing. Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.

    It was three o’clock when Matthew came with a doctor, for he had been obliged to go all the way to Spencervale for one. But the pressing need for assistance was past. Minnie May was much better and was sleeping soundly.

    “I was awfully30 near giving up in despair,” explained Anne. “She got worse and worse until she was sicker than ever the Hammond twins were, even the last pair. I actually thought she was going to choke to death. I gave her every drop of ipecac in that bottle and when the last dose went down I said to myself—not to Diana or Young Mary Joe, because I didn’t want to worry them any more than they were worried, but I had to say it to myself just to relieve my feelings—‘This is the last lingering hope and I fear, tis a vain one.’ But in about three minutes she coughed up the phlegm and began to get better right away. You must just imagine my relief, doctor, because I can’t express it in words. You know there are some things that cannot be expressed in words.”

    “Yes, I know,” nodded the doctor. He looked at Anne as if he were thinking some things about her that couldn’t be expressed in words. Later on, however, he expressed them to Mr. and Mrs. Barry.

    “That little redheaded girl they have over at Cuthbert’s is as smart as they make ‘em. I tell you she saved that baby’s life, for it would have been too late by the time I got there. She seems to have a skill and presence of mind perfectly31 wonderful in a child of her age. I never saw anything like the eyes of her when she was explaining the case to me.”

    Anne had gone home in the wonderful, white-frosted winter morning, heavy eyed from loss of sleep, but still talking unweariedly to Matthew as they crossed the long white field and walked under the glittering fairy arch of the Lover’s Lane maples32.

    “Oh, Matthew, isn’t it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn’t it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath—pouf! I’m so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren’t you? And I’m so glad Mrs. Hammond had three pairs of twins after all. If she hadn’t I mightn’t have known what to do for Minnie May. I’m real sorry I was ever cross with Mrs. Hammond for having twins. But, oh, Matthew, I’m so sleepy. I can’t go to school. I just know I couldn’t keep my eyes open and I’d be so stupid. But I hate to stay home, for Gil—some of the others will get head of the class, and it’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?”

    “Well now, I guess you’ll manage all right,” said Matthew, looking at Anne’s white little face and the dark shadows under her eyes. “You just go right to bed and have a good sleep. I’ll do all the chores.”

    Anne accordingly went to bed and slept so long and soundly that it was well on in the white and rosy33 winter afternoon when she awoke and descended34 to the kitchen where Marilla, who had arrived home in the meantime, was sitting knitting.

    “Oh, did you see the Premier?” exclaimed Anne at once. “What did he look like Marilla?”

    “Well, he never got to be Premier on account of his looks,” said Marilla. “Such a nose as that man had! But he can speak. I was proud of being a Conservative. Rachel Lynde, of course, being a Liberal, had no use for him. Your dinner is in the oven, Anne, and you can get yourself some blue plum preserve out of the pantry. I guess you’re hungry. Matthew has been telling me about last night. I must say it was fortunate you knew what to do. I wouldn’t have had any idea myself, for I never saw a case of croup. There now, never mind talking till you’ve had your dinner. I can tell by the look of you that you’re just full up with speeches, but they’ll keep.”

    Marilla had something to tell Anne, but she did not tell it just then for she knew if she did Anne’s consequent excitement would lift her clear out of the region of such material matters as appetite or dinner. Not until Anne had finished her saucer of blue plums did Marilla say:

    “Mrs. Barry was here this afternoon, Anne. She wanted to see you, but I wouldn’t wake you up. She says you saved Minnie May’s life, and she is very sorry she acted as she did in that affair of the currant wine. She says she knows now you didn’t mean to set Diana drunk, and she hopes you’ll forgive her and be good friends with Diana again. You’re to go over this evening if you like for Diana can’t stir outside the door on account of a bad cold she caught last night. Now, Anne Shirley, for pity’s sake don’t fly up into the air.”

    The warning seemed not unnecessary, so uplifted and aerial was Anne’s expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet, her face irradiated with the flame of her spirit.

    “Oh, Marilla, can I go right now—without washing my dishes? I’ll wash them when I come back, but I cannot tie myself down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing at this thrilling moment.”

    “Yes, yes, run along,” said Marilla indulgently. “Anne Shirley—are you crazy? Come back this instant and put something on you. I might as well call to the wind. She’s gone without a cap or wrap. Look at her tearing through the orchard35 with her hair streaming. It’ll be a mercy if she doesn’t catch her death of cold.”

    Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight36 across the snowy places. Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering37, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce. The tinkles38 of sleigh39 bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne’s heart and on her lips.

    “You see before you a perfectly happy person, Marilla,” she announced. “I’m perfectly happy—yes, in spite of my red hair. Just at present I have a soul above red hair. Mrs. Barry kissed me and cried and said she was so sorry and she could never repay me. I felt fearfully embarrassed, Marilla, but I just said as politely as I could, ‘I have no hard feelings for you, Mrs. Barry. I assure you once for all that I did not mean to intoxicate40 Diana and henceforth I shall cover the past with the mantle41 of oblivion.’ That was a pretty dignified42 way of speaking wasn’t it, Marilla?”

    “I felt that I was heaping coals of fire on Mrs. Barry’s head. And Diana and I had a lovely afternoon. Diana showed me a new fancy crochet43 stitch her aunt over at Carmody taught her. Not a soul in Avonlea knows it but us, and we pledged a solemn vow44 never to reveal it to anyone else. Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry:”

    “If you love me as I love you

    Nothing but death can part us two.”

    “And that is true, Marilla. We’re going to ask Mr. Phillips to let us sit together in school again, and Gertie Pye can go with Minnie Andrews. We had an elegant tea. Mrs. Barry had the very best china set out, Marilla, just as if I was real company. I can’t tell you what a thrill it gave me. Nobody ever used their very best china on my account before. And we had fruit cake and pound cake and doughnuts and two kinds of preserves, Marilla. And Mrs. Barry asked me if I took tea and said ‘Pa, why don’t you pass the biscuits to Anne?’ It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice.”

    “I don’t know about that,” said Marilla, with a brief sigh.

    “Well, anyway, when I am grown up,” said Anne decidedly, “I’m always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I’ll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one’s feelings. After tea Diana and I made taffy. The taffy wasn’t very good, I suppose because neither Diana nor I had ever made any before. Diana left me to stir it while she buttered the plates and I forgot and let it burn; and then when we set it out on the platform to cool the cat walked over one plate and that had to be thrown away. But the making of it was splendid fun. Then when I came home Mrs. Barry asked me to come over as often as I could and Diana stood at the window and threw kisses to me all the way down to Lover’s Lane. I assure you, Marilla, that I feel like praying tonight and I’m going to think out a special brand-new prayer in honor of the occasion.”



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    1 premier [ˈpremiə(r)] R19z3   第7级
    adj.首要的;n.总理,首相
    参考例句:
    • The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain. 爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
    • He requested that the premier grant him an internview. 他要求那位总理接见他一次。
    2 sneaking ['sni:kiŋ] iibzMu   第7级
    a.秘密的,不公开的
    参考例句:
    • She had always had a sneaking affection for him. 以前她一直暗暗倾心于他。
    • She ducked the interviewers by sneaking out the back door. 她从后门偷偷溜走,躲开采访者。
    3 promptly [ˈprɒmptli] LRMxm   第8级
    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 sundry [ˈsʌndri] CswwL   第10级
    adj.各式各样的,种种的
    参考例句:
    • This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries. 这种药膏可用来治各种轻伤。
    • We can see the rich man on sundry occasions. 我们能在各种场合见到那个富豪。
    5 tingled [ˈtiŋɡld] d46614d7855cc022a9bf1ac8573024be   第10级
    v.有刺痛感( tingle的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • My cheeks tingled with the cold. 我的脸颊冻得有点刺痛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • The crowd tingled with excitement. 群众大为兴奋。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    6 doze [dəʊz] IsoxV   第8级
    vi. 打瞌睡;假寐 vt. 打瞌睡度过 n. 瞌睡
    参考例句:
    • He likes to have a doze after lunch. 他喜欢午饭后打个盹。
    • While the adults doze, the young play. 大人们在打瞌睡,而孩子们在玩耍。
    7 soothingly [su:ðɪŋlɪ] soothingly   第7级
    adv.抚慰地,安慰地;镇痛地
    参考例句:
    • The mother talked soothingly to her child. 母亲对自己的孩子安慰地说。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • He continued to talk quietly and soothingly to the girl until her frightened grip on his arm was relaxed. 他继续柔声安慰那姑娘,她那因恐惧而紧抓住他的手终于放松了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    8 grit [grɪt] LlMyH   第9级
    n.沙粒,决心,勇气;vt.下定决心,咬紧牙关; 研磨;vi. 摩擦作声
    参考例句:
    • The soldiers showed that they had plenty of grit. 士兵们表现得很有勇气。
    • I've got some grit in my shoe. 我的鞋子里弄进了一些砂子。
    9 grits [ɡrɪts] 7f442b66774ec4ff80adf7cdbed3cc3c   第9级
    n.粗磨粉;粗面粉;粗燕麦粉;粗玉米粉;细石子,砂粒等( grit的名词复数 );勇气和毅力v.以沙砾覆盖(某物),撒沙砾于( grit的第三人称单数 );咬紧牙关
    参考例句:
    • The sands [grits] in the cooked rice made my tooth ache. 米饭里的砂粒硌痛了牙。 来自辞典例句
    • This process also produces homing and corn grits. 此法也产生玉米麸(homing)和玉米粗粉。 来自辞典例句
    10 ruby [ˈru:bi] iXixS   第7级
    n.红宝石,红宝石色
    参考例句:
    • She is wearing a small ruby earring. 她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
    • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world. 他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
    11 implore [ɪmˈplɔ:(r)] raSxX   第9级
    vt.乞求,恳求,哀求
    参考例句:
    • I implore you to write. At least tell me you're alive. 请给我音讯,让我知道你还活着。
    • Please implore someone else's help in a crisis. 危险时请向别人求助。
    12 triumphantly [trai'ʌmfəntli] 9fhzuv   第9级
    ad.得意洋洋地;得胜地;成功地
    参考例句:
    • The lion was roaring triumphantly. 狮子正在发出胜利的吼叫。
    • Robert was looking at me triumphantly. 罗伯特正得意扬扬地看着我。
    13 embedded [em'bedid] lt9ztS   第7级
    a.扎牢的
    参考例句:
    • an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术
    • He has embedded his name in the minds of millions of people. 他的名字铭刻在数百万人民心中。
    14 implored [ɪmˈplɔ:d] 0b089ebf3591e554caa381773b194ff1   第9级
    恳求或乞求(某人)( implore的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • She implored him to stay. 她恳求他留下。
    • She implored him with tears in her eyes to forgive her. 她含泪哀求他原谅她。
    15 nervously ['nɜ:vəslɪ] tn6zFp   第8级
    adv.神情激动地,不安地
    参考例句:
    • He bit his lip nervously, trying not to cry. 他紧张地咬着唇,努力忍着不哭出来。
    • He paced nervously up and down on the platform. 他在站台上情绪不安地走来走去。
    16 mare [meə(r)] Y24y3   第10级
    n.母马,母驴
    参考例句:
    • The mare has just thrown a foal in the stable. 那匹母马刚刚在马厩里产下了一只小马驹。
    • The mare foundered under the heavy load and collapsed in the road. 那母马因负载过重而倒在路上。
    17 hood [hʊd] ddwzJ   第8级
    n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
    参考例句:
    • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood. 她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
    • The car hood was dented in. 汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
    18 sobbed ['sɒbd] 4a153e2bbe39eef90bf6a4beb2dba759   第7级
    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。
    19 pointed [ˈpɔɪntɪd] Il8zB4   第7级
    adj.尖的,直截了当的
    参考例句:
    • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil. 他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
    • A safety pin has a metal covering over the pointed end. 安全别针在尖端有一个金属套。
    20 delightful [dɪˈlaɪtfl] 6xzxT   第8级
    adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的
    参考例句:
    • We had a delightful time by the seashore last Sunday. 上星期天我们在海滨玩得真痛快。
    • Peter played a delightful melody on his flute. 彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。
    21 bosom [ˈbʊzəm] Lt9zW   第7级
    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。
    22 estranged [ɪˈstreɪndʒd] estranged   第12级
    adj.疏远的,分离的
    参考例句:
    • He became estranged from his family after the argument. 那场争吵后他便与家人疏远了。
    • The argument estranged him from his brother. 争吵使他同他的兄弟之间的关系疏远了。
    23 feverish [ˈfi:vərɪʃ] gzsye   第9级
    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。
    24 hoarse [hɔ:s] 5dqzA   第9级
    adj.嘶哑的,沙哑的
    参考例句:
    • He asked me a question in a hoarse voice. 他用嘶哑的声音问了我一个问题。
    • He was too excited and roared himself hoarse. 他过于激动,嗓子都喊哑了。
    25 buxom [ˈbʌksəm] 4WtzT   第11级
    adj.(妇女)丰满的,有健康美的
    参考例句:
    • Jane is a buxom blond. 简是一个丰满的金发女郎.
    • He still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively and a little blowsy. 他心中仍旧认为她身材丰满、面色红润、生气勃勃、还有点邋遢。
    26 creek [kri:k] 3orzL   第8级
    n.小溪,小河,小湾
    参考例句:
    • He sprang through the creek. 他跳过小河。
    • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek. 人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
    27 incapable [ɪnˈkeɪpəbl] w9ZxK   第8级
    adj.无能力的,不能做某事的
    参考例句:
    • He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed. 他不会做出这么残忍的事。
    • Computers are incapable of creative thought. 计算机不会创造性地思维。
    28 flannel [ˈflænl] S7dyQ   第9级
    n.法兰绒;法兰绒衣服
    参考例句:
    • She always wears a grey flannel trousers. 她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
    • She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt. 她穿着法兰绒裙子,看上去楚楚动人。
    29 kindly [ˈkaɪndli] tpUzhQ   第8级
    adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
    参考例句:
    • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable. 她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
    • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman. 一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
    30 awfully [ˈɔ:fli] MPkym   第8级
    adv.可怕地,非常地,极端地
    参考例句:
    • Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past. 过去农业遭到严重忽视。
    • I've been feeling awfully bad about it. 对这我一直感到很难受。
    31 perfectly [ˈpɜ:fɪktli] 8Mzxb   第8级
    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。
    32 maples [ˈmeiplz] 309f7112d863cd40b5d12477d036621a   第7级
    槭树,枫树( maple的名词复数 ); 槭木
    参考例句:
    • There are many maples in the park. 公园里有好多枫树。
    • The wind of the autumn colour the maples carmine . 秋风给枫林涂抹胭红。
    33 rosy [ˈrəʊzi] kDAy9   第8级
    adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的
    参考例句:
    • She got a new job and her life looks rosy. 她找到一份新工作,生活看上去很美好。
    • She always takes a rosy view of life. 她总是对生活持乐观态度。
    34 descended [di'sendid] guQzoy   第7级
    a.为...后裔的,出身于...的
    参考例句:
    • A mood of melancholy descended on us. 一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。
    • The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。
    35 orchard [ˈɔ:tʃəd] UJzxu   第8级
    n.果园,果园里的全部果树,(美俚)棒球场
    参考例句:
    • My orchard is bearing well this year. 今年我的果园果实累累。
    • Each bamboo house was surrounded by a thriving orchard. 每座竹楼周围都是茂密的果园。
    36 twilight [ˈtwaɪlaɪt] gKizf   第7级
    n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期
    参考例句:
    • Twilight merged into darkness. 夕阳的光辉融于黑暗中。
    • Twilight was sweet with the smell of lilac and freshly turned earth. 薄暮充满紫丁香和新翻耕的泥土的香味。
    37 shimmering ['ʃɪmərɪŋ] 0a3bf9e89a4f6639d4583ea76519339e   第9级
    v.闪闪发光,发微光( shimmer的现在分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The sea was shimmering in the sunlight. 阳光下海水波光闪烁。
    • The colours are delicate and shimmering. 这些颜色柔和且闪烁微光。 来自辞典例句
    38 tinkles [ˈtɪŋkəlz] fb07959851aba224c2042a63f3d07571   第10级
    丁当声,铃铃声( tinkle的名词复数 ); 一次电话
    参考例句:
    • Small drips, tinkles, and bubbles are what birds like. ——小水滴、叮当响声和小泡沫才是鸟类所喜欢的。
    • Tinkles: Is the puppy alive or not? 丁克斯:那只小狗还活着吗?
    39 sleigh [sleɪ] iEryU   第7级
    n.雪撬;v.用雪撬搬运,乘雪撬
    参考例句:
    • The sleigh was on one runner,heeling like a yacht in a wind.这架雪橇在一根滑橇上滑行,倾斜得像大风中的一艘快艇。
    • They travelled across the snow in a sleigh.他们乘着雪橇在雪地上穿行。
    40 intoxicate [ɪn'tɒksɪkeɪt] oauzz   第8级
    vt.使喝醉,使陶醉,使欣喜若狂
    参考例句:
    • Wine has the power to intoxicate. 酒能醉人。
    • Cherishing a rose means to intoxicate yourself on her beauty more than pull her throns out. 喜欢玫瑰意思是要我们陶醉它的美丽,而不是去除它的刺。
    41 mantle [ˈmæntl] Y7tzs   第9级
    n.斗篷,覆罩之物,罩子;vt.&vi.罩住,覆盖,脸红
    参考例句:
    • The earth had donned her mantle of brightest green. 大地披上了苍翠欲滴的绿色斗篷。
    • The mountain was covered with a mantle of snow. 山上覆盖着一层雪。
    42 dignified ['dignifaid] NuZzfb   第10级
    a.可敬的,高贵的
    参考例句:
    • Throughout his trial he maintained a dignified silence. 在整个审讯过程中,他始终沉默以保持尊严。
    • He always strikes such a dignified pose before his girlfriend. 他总是在女友面前摆出这种庄严的姿态。
    43 crochet [ˈkrəʊʃeɪ] qzExU   第12级
    n.钩针织物;v.用钩针编制
    参考例句:
    • That's a black crochet waistcoat. 那是一件用钩针编织的黑色马甲。
    • She offered to teach me to crochet rugs. 她提出要教我钩织小地毯。
    44 vow [vaʊ] 0h9wL   第7级
    n.誓(言),誓约;vt.&vi.起誓,立誓
    参考例句:
    • My parents are under a vow to go to church every Sunday. 我父母许愿,每星期日都去做礼拜。
    • I am under a vow to drink no wine. 我已立誓戒酒。

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