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长篇小说《米德尔马契》(61)
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  • “Inconsistencies,” answered Imlac, “cannot both be right, but imputed1 to man they may both be true.”—Rasselas.

    The same night, when Mr. Bulstrode returned from a journey to Brassing on business, his good wife met him in the entrance-hall and drew him into his private sitting-room2.

    “Nicholas,” she said, fixing her honest eyes upon him anxiously, “there has been such a disagreeable man here asking for you—it has made me quite uncomfortable.”

    “What kind of man, my dear,” said Mr. Bulstrode, dreadfully certain of the answer.

    “A red-faced man with large whiskers, and most impudent4 in his manner. He declared he was an old friend of yours, and said you would be sorry not to see him. He wanted to wait for you here, but I told him he could see you at the Bank to-morrow morning. Most impudent he was!—stared at me, and said his friend Nick had luck in wives. I don’t believe he would have gone away, if Blucher had not happened to break his chain and come running round on the gravel—for I was in the garden; so I said, ‘You’d better go away—the dog is very fierce, and I can’t hold him.’ Do you really know anything of such a man?”

    “I believe I know who he is, my dear,” said Mr. Bulstrode, in his usual subdued5 voice, “an unfortunate dissolute wretch6, whom I helped too much in days gone by. However, I presume you will not be troubled by him again. He will probably come to the Bank—to beg, doubtless.”

    No more was said on the subject until the next day, when Mr. Bulstrode had returned from the town and was dressing7 for dinner. His wife, not sure that he was come home, looked into his dressing-room and saw him with his coat and cravat8 off, leaning one arm on a chest of drawers and staring absently at the ground. He started nervously9 and looked up as she entered.

    “You look very ill, Nicholas. Is there anything the matter?”

    “I have a good deal of pain in my head,” said Mr. Bulstrode, who was so frequently ailing10 that his wife was always ready to believe in this cause of depression.

    “Sit down and let me sponge it with vinegar.”

    Physically11 Mr. Bulstrode did not want the vinegar, but morally the affectionate attention soothed12 him. Though always polite, it was his habit to receive such services with marital13 coolness, as his wife’s duty. But to-day, while she was bending over him, he said, “You are very good, Harriet,” in a tone which had something new in it to her ear; she did not know exactly what the novelty was, but her woman’s solicitude14 shaped itself into a darting15 thought that he might be going to have an illness.

    “Has anything worried you?” she said. “Did that man come to you at the Bank?”

    “Yes; it was as I had supposed. He is a man who at one time might have done better. But he has sunk into a drunken debauched creature.”

    “Is he quite gone away?” said Mrs. Bulstrode, anxiously; but for certain reasons she refrained from adding, “It was very disagreeable to hear him calling himself a friend of yours.” At that moment she would not have liked to say anything which implied her habitual16 consciousness that her husband’s earlier connections were not quite on a level with her own. Not that she knew much about them. That her husband had at first been employed in a bank, that he had afterwards entered into what he called city business and gained a fortune before he was three-and-thirty, that he had married a widow who was much older than himself—a Dissenter17, and in other ways probably of that disadvantageous quality usually perceptible in a first wife if inquired into with the dispassionate judgment19 of a second—was almost as much as she had cared to learn beyond the glimpses which Mr. Bulstrode’s narrative20 occasionally gave of his early bent21 towards religion, his inclination22 to be a preacher, and his association with missionary23 and philanthropic efforts. She believed in him as an excellent man whose piety24 carried a peculiar25 eminence26 in belonging to a layman27, whose influence had turned her own mind toward seriousness, and whose share of perishable28 good had been the means of raising her own position. But she also liked to think that it was well in every sense for Mr. Bulstrode to have won the hand of Harriet Vincy; whose family was undeniable in a Middlemarch light—a better light surely than any thrown in London thoroughfares or dissenting29 chapel-yards. The unreformed provincial30 mind distrusted London; and while true religion was everywhere saving, honest Mrs. Bulstrode was convinced that to be saved in the Church was more respectable. She so much wished to ignore towards others that her husband had ever been a London Dissenter, that she liked to keep it out of sight even in talking to him. He was quite aware of this; indeed in some respects he was rather afraid of this ingenuous31 wife, whose imitative piety and native worldliness were equally sincere, who had nothing to be ashamed of, and whom he had married out of a thorough inclination still subsisting32. But his fears were such as belong to a man who cares to maintain his recognized supremacy33: the loss of high consideration from his wife, as from every one else who did not clearly hate him out of enmity to the truth, would be as the beginning of death to him. When she said—

    “Is he quite gone away?”

    “Oh, I trust so,” he answered, with an effort to throw as much sober unconcern into his tone as possible!

    But in truth Mr. Bulstrode was very far from a state of quiet trust. In the interview at the Bank, Raffles34 had made it evident that his eagerness to torment35 was almost as strong in him as any other greed. He had frankly36 said that he had turned out of the way to come to Middlemarch, just to look about him and see whether the neighborhood would suit him to live in. He had certainly had a few debts to pay more than he expected, but the two hundred pounds were not gone yet: a cool five-and-twenty would suffice him to go away with for the present. What he had wanted chiefly was to see his friend Nick and family, and know all about the prosperity of a man to whom he was so much attached. By-and-by he might come back for a longer stay. This time Raffles declined to be “seen off the premises,” as he expressed it—declined to quit Middlemarch under Bulstrode’s eyes. He meant to go by coach the next day—if he chose.

    Bulstrode felt himself helpless. Neither threats nor coaxing37 could avail: he could not count on any persistent38 fear nor on any promise. On the contrary, he felt a cold certainty at his heart that Raffles—unless providence39 sent death to hinder him—would come back to Middlemarch before long. And that certainty was a terror.

    It was not that he was in danger of legal punishment or of beggary: he was in danger only of seeing disclosed to the judgment of his neighbors and the mournful perception of his wife certain facts of his past life which would render him an object of scorn and an opprobrium40 of the religion with which he had diligently41 associated himself. The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable42 glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually43 recalled only in general phrases. Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a zone of dependence44 in growth and decay; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past. With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented45 error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders46 and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

    Into this second life Bulstrode’s past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save of brief sleep which only wove retrospect47 and fear into a fantastic present, he felt the scenes of his earlier life coming between him and everything else, as obstinately48 as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees. The successive events inward and outward were there in one view: though each might be dwelt on in turn, the rest still kept their hold in the consciousness.

    Once more he saw himself the young banker’s clerk, with an agreeable person, as clever in figures as he was fluent in speech and fond of theological definition: an eminent49 though young member of a Calvinistic dissenting church at Highbury, having had striking experience in conviction of sin and sense of pardon. Again he heard himself called for as Brother Bulstrode in prayer meetings, speaking on religious platforms, preaching in private houses. Again he felt himself thinking of the ministry50 as possibly his vocation51, and inclined towards missionary labor. That was the happiest time of his life: that was the spot he would have chosen now to awake in and find the rest a dream. The people among whom Brother Bulstrode was distinguished52 were very few, but they were very near to him, and stirred his satisfaction the more; his power stretched through a narrow space, but he felt its effect the more intensely. He believed without effort in the peculiar work of grace within him, and in the signs that God intended him for special instrumentality.

    Then came the moment of transition; it was with the sense of promotion53 he had when he, an orphan54 educated at a commercial charity-school, was invited to a fine villa55 belonging to Mr. Dunkirk, the richest man in the congregation. Soon he became an intimate there, honored for his piety by the wife, marked out for his ability by the husband, whose wealth was due to a flourishing city and west-end trade. That was the setting-in of a new current for his ambition, directing his prospects56 of “instrumentality” towards the uniting of distinguished religious gifts with successful business.

    By-and-by came a decided57 external leading: a confidential58 subordinate partner died, and nobody seemed to the principal so well fitted to fill the severely59 felt vacancy60 as his young friend Bulstrode, if he would become confidential accountant. The offer was accepted. The business was a pawnbroker’s, of the most magnificent sort both in extent and profits; and on a short acquaintance with it Bulstrode became aware that one source of magnificent profit was the easy reception of any goods offered, without strict inquiry61 as to where they came from. But there was a branch house at the west end, and no pettiness or dinginess62 to give suggestions of shame.

    He remembered his first moments of shrinking. They were private, and were filled with arguments; some of these taking the form of prayer. The business was established and had old roots; is it not one thing to set up a new gin-palace and another to accept an investment in an old one? The profits made out of lost souls—where can the line be drawn63 at which they begin in human transactions? Was it not even God’s way of saving His chosen? “Thou knowest,”—the young Bulstrode had said then, as the older Bulstrode was saying now—“Thou knowest how loose my soul sits from these things—how I view them all as implements64 for tilling Thy garden rescued here and there from the wilderness65.”

    Metaphors66 and precedents67 were not wanting; peculiar spiritual experiences were not wanting which at last made the retention68 of his position seem a service demanded of him: the vista69 of a fortune had already opened itself, and Bulstrode’s shrinking remained private. Mr. Dunkirk had never expected that there would be any shrinking at all: he had never conceived that trade had anything to do with the scheme of salvation70. And it was true that Bulstrode found himself carrying on two distinct lives; his religious activity could not be incompatible71 with his business as soon as he had argued himself into not feeling it incompatible.

    Mentally surrounded with that past again, Bulstrode had the same pleas—indeed, the years had been perpetually spinning them into intricate thickness, like masses of spider-web, padding the moral sensibility; nay72, as age made egoism more eager but less enjoying, his soul had become more saturated73 with the belief that he did everything for God’s sake, being indifferent to it for his own. And yet—if he could be back in that far-off spot with his youthful poverty—why, then he would choose to be a missionary.

    But the train of causes in which he had locked himself went on. There was trouble in the fine villa at Highbury. Years before, the only daughter had run away, defied her parents, and gone on the stage; and now the only boy died, and after a short time Mr. Dunkirk died also. The wife, a simple pious74 woman, left with all the wealth in and out of the magnificent trade, of which she never knew the precise nature, had come to believe in Bulstrode, and innocently adore him as women often adore their priest or “man-made” minister. It was natural that after a time marriage should have been thought of between them. But Mrs. Dunkirk had qualms75 and yearnings about her daughter, who had long been regarded as lost both to God and her parents. It was known that the daughter had married, but she was utterly76 gone out of sight. The mother, having lost her boy, imagined a grandson, and wished in a double sense to reclaim77 her daughter. If she were found, there would be a channel for property—perhaps a wide one—in the provision for several grandchildren. Efforts to find her must be made before Mrs. Dunkirk would marry again. Bulstrode concurred78; but after advertisement as well as other modes of inquiry had been tried, the mother believed that her daughter was not to be found, and consented to marry without reservation of property.

    The daughter had been found; but only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away.

    That was the bare fact which Bulstrode was now forced to see in the rigid79 outline with which acts present themselves to onlookers80. But for himself at that distant time, and even now in burning memory, the fact was broken into little sequences, each justified81 as it came by reasonings which seemed to prove it righteous. Bulstrode’s course up to that time had, he thought, been sanctioned by remarkable82 providences, appearing to point the way for him to be the agent in making the best use of a large property and withdrawing it from perversion83. Death and other striking dispositions84, such as feminine trustfulness, had come; and Bulstrode would have adopted Cromwell’s words—“Do you call these bare events? The Lord pity you!” The events were comparatively small, but the essential condition was there—namely, that they were in favor of his own ends. It was easy for him to settle what was due from him to others by inquiring what were God’s intentions with regard to himself. Could it be for God’s service that this fortune should in any considerable proportion go to a young woman and her husband who were given up to the lightest pursuits, and might scatter85 it abroad in triviality—people who seemed to lie outside the path of remarkable providences? Bulstrode had never said to himself beforehand, “The daughter shall not be found”—nevertheless when the moment came he kept her existence hidden; and when other moments followed, he soothed the mother with consolation86 in the probability that the unhappy young woman might be no more.

    There were hours in which Bulstrode felt that his action was unrighteous; but how could he go back? He had mental exercises, called himself nought87, laid hold on redemption, and went on in his course of instrumentality. And after five years Death again came to widen his path, by taking away his wife. He did gradually withdraw his capital, but he did not make the sacrifices requisite88 to put an end to the business, which was carried on for thirteen years afterwards before it finally collapsed89. Meanwhile Nicholas Bulstrode had used his hundred thousand discreetly90, and was become provincially91, solidly important—a banker, a Churchman, a public benefactor92; also a sleeping partner in trading concerns, in which his ability was directed to economy in the raw material, as in the case of the dyes which rotted Mr. Vincy’s silk. And now, when this respectability had lasted undisturbed for nearly thirty years—when all that preceded it had long lain benumbed in the consciousness—that past had risen and immersed his thought as if with the terrible irruption of a new sense overburthening the feeble being.

    Meanwhile, in his conversation with Raffles, he had learned something momentous93, something which entered actively94 into the struggle of his longings95 and terrors. There, he thought, lay an opening towards spiritual, perhaps towards material rescue.

    The spiritual kind of rescue was a genuine need with him. There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling96 the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy97, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all, to whatever confession98 we belong, and whether we believe in the future perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed99 for the end of the world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved remnant, including ourselves, or have a passionate18 belief in the solidarity100 of mankind.

    The service he could do to the cause of religion had been through life the ground he alleged102 to himself for his choice of action: it had been the motive103 which he had poured out in his prayers. Who would use money and position better than he meant to use them? Who could surpass him in self-abhorrence and exaltation of God’s cause? And to Mr. Bulstrode God’s cause was something distinct from his own rectitude of conduct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments, and whom it would be as well if possible to keep out of money and consequent influence. Also, profitable investments in trades where the power of the prince of this world showed its most active devices, became sanctified by a right application of the profits in the hands of God’s servant.

    This implicit104 reasoning is essentially105 no more peculiar to evangelical belief than the use of wide phrases for narrow motives106 is peculiar to Englishmen. There is no general doctrine107 which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

    But a man who believes in something else than his own greed, has necessarily a conscience or standard to which he more or less adapts himself. Bulstrode’s standard had been his serviceableness to God’s cause: “I am sinful and nought—a vessel108 to be consecrated109 by use—but use me!”—had been the mould into which he had constrained110 his immense need of being something important and predominating. And now had come a moment in which that mould seemed in danger of being broken and utterly cast away.

    What if the acts he had reconciled himself to because they made him a stronger instrument of the divine glory, were to become the pretext111 of the scoffer112, and a darkening of that glory? If this were to be the ruling of Providence, he was cast out from the temple as one who had brought unclean offerings.

    He had long poured out utterances113 of repentance114. But today a repentance had come which was of a bitterer flavor, and a threatening Providence urged him to a kind of propitiation which was not simply a doctrinal transaction. The divine tribunal had changed its aspect for him; self-prostration was no longer enough, and he must bring restitution115 in his hand. It was really before his God that Bulstrode was about to attempt such restitution as seemed possible: a great dread3 had seized his susceptible116 frame, and the scorching117 approach of shame wrought118 in him a new spiritual need. Night and day, while the resurgent threatening past was making a conscience within him, he was thinking by what means he could recover peace and trust—by what sacrifice he could stay the rod. His belief in these moments of dread was, that if he spontaneously did something right, God would save him from the consequences of wrong-doing. For religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains119 nearly at the level of the savage120.

    He had seen Raffles actually going away on the Brassing coach, and this was a temporary relief; it removed the pressure of an immediate121 dread, but did not put an end to the spiritual conflict and the need to win protection. At last he came to a difficult resolve, and wrote a letter to Will Ladislaw, begging him to be at the Shrubs122 that evening for a private interview at nine o’clock. Will had felt no particular surprise at the request, and connected it with some new notions about the “Pioneer;” but when he was shown into Mr. Bulstrode’s private room, he was struck with the painfully worn look on the banker’s face, and was going to say, “Are you ill?” when, checking himself in that abruptness123, he only inquired after Mrs. Bulstrode, and her satisfaction with the picture bought for her.

    “Thank you, she is quite satisfied; she has gone out with her daughters this evening. I begged you to come, Mr. Ladislaw, because I have a communication of a very private—indeed, I will say, of a sacredly confidential nature, which I desire to make to you. Nothing, I dare say, has been farther from your thoughts than that there had been important ties in the past which could connect your history with mine.”

    Will felt something like an electric shock. He was already in a state of keen sensitiveness and hardly allayed124 agitation125 on the subject of ties in the past, and his presentiments126 were not agreeable. It seemed like the fluctuations127 of a dream—as if the action begun by that loud bloated stranger were being carried on by this pale-eyed sickly looking piece of respectability, whose subdued tone and glib128 formality of speech were at this moment almost as repulsive129 to him as their remembered contrast. He answered, with a marked change of color—

    “No, indeed, nothing.”

    “You see before you, Mr. Ladislaw, a man who is deeply stricken. But for the urgency of conscience and the knowledge that I am before the bar of One who seeth not as man seeth, I should be under no compulsion to make the disclosure which has been my object in asking you to come here to-night. So far as human laws go, you have no claim on me whatever.”

    Will was even more uncomfortable than wondering. Mr. Bulstrode had paused, leaning his head on his hand, and looking at the floor. But he now fixed his examining glance on Will and said—

    “I am told that your mother’s name was Sarah Dunkirk, and that she ran away from her friends to go on the stage. Also, that your father was at one time much emaciated130 by illness. May I ask if you can confirm these statements?”

    “Yes, they are all true,” said Will, struck with the order in which an inquiry had come, that might have been expected to be preliminary to the banker’s previous hints. But Mr. Bulstrode had to-night followed the order of his emotions; he entertained no doubt that the opportunity for restitution had come, and he had an overpowering impulse towards the penitential expression by which he was deprecating chastisement131.

    “Do you know any particulars of your mother’s family?” he continued.

    “No; she never liked to speak of them. She was a very generous, honorable woman,” said Will, almost angrily.

    “I do not wish to allege101 anything against her. Did she never mention her mother to you at all?”

    “I have heard her say that she thought her mother did not know the reason of her running away. She said ‘poor mother’ in a pitying tone.”

    “That mother became my wife,” said Bulstrode, and then paused a moment before he added, “you have a claim on me, Mr. Ladislaw: as I said before, not a legal claim, but one which my conscience recognizes. I was enriched by that marriage—a result which would probably not have taken place—certainly not to the same extent—if your grandmother could have discovered her daughter. That daughter, I gather, is no longer living!”

    “No,” said Will, feeling suspicion and repugnance132 rising so strongly within him, that without quite knowing what he did, he took his hat from the floor and stood up. The impulse within him was to reject the disclosed connection.

    “Pray be seated, Mr. Ladislaw,” said Bulstrode, anxiously. “Doubtless you are startled by the suddenness of this discovery. But I entreat133 your patience with one who is already bowed down by inward trial.”

    Will reseated himself, feeling some pity which was half contempt for this voluntary self-abasement of an elderly man.

    “It is my wish, Mr. Ladislaw, to make amends134 for the deprivation135 which befell your mother. I know that you are without fortune, and I wish to supply you adequately from a store which would have probably already been yours had your grandmother been certain of your mother’s existence and been able to find her.”

    Mr. Bulstrode paused. He felt that he was performing a striking piece of scrupulosity136 in the judgment of his auditor137, and a penitential act in the eyes of God. He had no clew to the state of Will Ladislaw’s mind, smarting as it was from the clear hints of Raffles, and with its natural quickness in construction stimulated138 by the expectation of discoveries which he would have been glad to conjure139 back into darkness. Will made no answer for several moments, till Mr. Bulstrode, who at the end of his speech had cast his eyes on the floor, now raised them with an examining glance, which Will met fully, saying—

    “I suppose you did know of my mother’s existence, and knew where she might have been found.”

    Bulstrode shrank—there was a visible quivering in his face and hands. He was totally unprepared to have his advances met in this way, or to find himself urged into more revelation than he had beforehand set down as needful. But at that moment he dared not tell a lie, and he felt suddenly uncertain of his ground which he had trodden with some confidence before.

    “I will not deny that you conjecture140 rightly,” he answered, with a faltering141 in his tone. “And I wish to make atonement to you as the one still remaining who has suffered a loss through me. You enter, I trust, into my purpose, Mr. Ladislaw, which has a reference to higher than merely human claims, and as I have already said, is entirely142 independent of any legal compulsion. I am ready to narrow my own resources and the prospects of my family by binding143 myself to allow you five hundred pounds yearly during my life, and to leave you a proportional capital at my death—nay, to do still more, if more should be definitely necessary to any laudable project on your part.” Mr. Bulstrode had gone on to particulars in the expectation that these would work strongly on Ladislaw, and merge144 other feelings in grateful acceptance.

    But Will was looking as stubborn as possible, with his lip pouting145 and his fingers in his side-pockets. He was not in the least touched, and said firmly,—

    “Before I make any reply to your proposition, Mr. Bulstrode, I must beg you to answer a question or two. Were you connected with the business by which that fortune you speak of was originally made?”

    Mr. Bulstrode’s thought was, “Raffles has told him.” How could he refuse to answer when he had volunteered what drew forth146 the question? He answered, “Yes.”

    “And was that business—or was it not—a thoroughly147 dishonorable one—nay, one that, if its nature had been made public, might have ranked those concerned in it with thieves and convicts?”

    Will’s tone had a cutting bitterness: he was moved to put his question as nakedly as he could.

    Bulstrode reddened with irrepressible anger. He had been prepared for a scene of self-abasement, but his intense pride and his habit of supremacy overpowered penitence148, and even dread, when this young man, whom he had meant to benefit, turned on him with the air of a judge.

    “The business was established before I became connected with it, sir; nor is it for you to institute an inquiry of that kind,” he answered, not raising his voice, but speaking with quick defiantness.

    “Yes, it is,” said Will, starting up again with his hat in his hand. “It is eminently149 mine to ask such questions, when I have to decide whether I will have transactions with you and accept your money. My unblemished honor is important to me. It is important to me to have no stain on my birth and connections. And now I find there is a stain which I can’t help. My mother felt it, and tried to keep as clear of it as she could, and so will I. You shall keep your ill-gotten money. If I had any fortune of my own, I would willingly pay it to any one who could disprove what you have told me. What I have to thank you for is that you kept the money till now, when I can refuse it. It ought to lie with a man’s self that he is a gentleman. Good-night, sir.”

    Bulstrode was going to speak, but Will, with determined150 quickness, was out of the room in an instant, and in another the hall-door had closed behind him. He was too strongly possessed151 with passionate rebellion against this inherited blot152 which had been thrust on his knowledge to reflect at present whether he had not been too hard on Bulstrode—too arrogantly153 merciless towards a man of sixty, who was making efforts at retrieval when time had rendered them vain.

    No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will’s repulse154 or the bitterness of his words. No one but himself then knew how everything connected with the sentiment of his own dignity had an immediate bearing for him on his relation to Dorothea and to Mr. Casaubon’s treatment of him. And in the rush of impulses by which he flung back that offer of Bulstrode’s there was mingled155 the sense that it would have been impossible for him ever to tell Dorothea that he had accepted it.

    As for Bulstrode—when Will was gone he suffered a violent reaction, and wept like a woman. It was the first time he had encountered an open expression of scorn from any man higher than Raffles; and with that scorn hurrying like venom156 through his system, there was no sensibility left to consolations157. But the relief of weeping had to be checked. His wife and daughters soon came home from hearing the address of an Oriental missionary, and were full of regret that papa had not heard, in the first instance, the interesting things which they tried to repeat to him.

    Perhaps, through all other hidden thoughts, the one that breathed most comfort was, that Will Ladislaw at least was not likely to publish what had taken place that evening.

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    1 imputed [ɪmp'ju:tɪd] b517c0c1d49a8e6817c4d0667060241e   第11级
    v.把(错误等)归咎于( impute的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • They imputed the accident to the driver's carelessness. 他们把这次车祸归咎于司机的疏忽。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    • He imputed the failure of his marriage to his wife's shortcomings. 他把婚姻的失败归咎于妻子的缺点。 来自辞典例句
    2 sitting-room ['sɪtɪŋrʊm] sitting-room   第8级
    n.(BrE)客厅,起居室
    参考例句:
    • The sitting-room is clean. 起居室很清洁。
    • Each villa has a separate sitting-room. 每栋别墅都有一间独立的起居室。
    3 dread [dred] Ekpz8   第7级
    vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧
    参考例句:
    • We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes. 我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
    • Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread. 她极度恐惧的心理消除了。
    4 impudent [ˈɪmpjədənt] X4Eyf   第10级
    adj.鲁莽的,卑鄙的,厚颜无耻的
    参考例句:
    • She's tolerant toward those impudent colleagues. 她对那些无礼的同事采取容忍的态度。
    • The teacher threatened to kick the impudent pupil out of the room. 老师威胁着要把这无礼的小学生撵出教室。
    5 subdued [səbˈdju:d] 76419335ce506a486af8913f13b8981d   第7级
    adj. 屈服的,柔和的,减弱的 动词subdue的过去式和过去分词
    参考例句:
    • He seemed a bit subdued to me. 我觉得他当时有点闷闷不乐。
    • I felt strangely subdued when it was all over. 一切都结束的时候,我却有一种奇怪的压抑感。
    6 wretch [retʃ] EIPyl   第12级
    n.可怜的人,不幸的人;卑鄙的人
    参考例句:
    • You are really an ungrateful wretch to complain instead of thanking him. 你不但不谢他,还埋怨他,真不知好歹。
    • The dead husband is not the dishonoured wretch they fancied him. 死去的丈夫不是他们所想象的不光彩的坏蛋。
    7 dressing [ˈdresɪŋ] 1uOzJG   第7级
    n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
    参考例句:
    • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself. 别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
    • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes. 孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
    8 cravat [krəˈvæt] 7zTxF   第11级
    n.领巾,领结;v.使穿有领结的服装,使结领结
    参考例句:
    • You're never fully dressed without a cravat. 不打领结,就不算正装。
    • Mr. Kenge adjusting his cravat, then looked at us. 肯吉先生整了整领带,然后又望着我们。
    9 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。
    10 ailing ['eiliŋ] XzzzbA   第11级
    v.生病
    参考例句:
    • They discussed the problems ailing the steel industry. 他们讨论了困扰钢铁工业的问题。
    • She looked after her ailing father. 她照顾有病的父亲。
    11 physically [ˈfɪzɪkli] iNix5   第8级
    adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
    参考例句:
    • He was out of sorts physically, as well as disordered mentally. 他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
    • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick. 一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
    12 soothed [su:ðd] 509169542d21da19b0b0bd232848b963   第7级
    v.安慰( soothe的过去式和过去分词 );抚慰;使舒服;减轻痛苦
    参考例句:
    • The music soothed her for a while. 音乐让她稍微安静了一会儿。
    • The soft modulation of her voice soothed the infant. 她柔和的声调使婴儿安静了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    13 marital [ˈmærɪtl] SBixg   第7级
    adj.婚姻的,夫妻的
    参考例句:
    • Her son had no marital problems. 她的儿子没有婚姻问题。
    • I regret getting involved with my daughter's marital problems. 我后悔干涉我女儿的婚姻问题。
    14 solicitude [səˈlɪsɪtju:d] mFEza   第12级
    n.焦虑
    参考例句:
    • Your solicitude was a great consolation to me. 你对我的关怀给了我莫大的安慰。
    • He is full of tender solicitude towards my sister. 他对我妹妹满心牵挂。
    15 darting [dɑ:tɪŋ] darting   第8级
    v.投掷,投射( dart的现在分词 );向前冲,飞奔
    参考例句:
    • Swallows were darting through the clouds. 燕子穿云急飞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    • Swallows were darting through the air. 燕子在空中掠过。 来自辞典例句
    16 habitual [həˈbɪtʃuəl] x5Pyp   第7级
    adj.习惯性的;通常的,惯常的
    参考例句:
    • He is a habitual criminal. 他是一个惯犯。
    • They are habitual visitors to our house. 他们是我家的常客。
    17 dissenter [dɪˈsentə(r)] 7t4xU   第11级
    n.反对者
    参考例句:
    • The role of the dissenter is not for the weak-kneed. 反对者的角色不是软弱之人所能够担当的。
    • The Party does not tolerate dissenters in its ranks. 该政党不允许其成员中存在异见分子。
    18 passionate [ˈpæʃənət] rLDxd   第8级
    adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的
    参考例句:
    • He is said to be the most passionate man. 据说他是最有激情的人。
    • He is very passionate about the project. 他对那个项目非常热心。
    19 judgment ['dʒʌdʒmənt] e3xxC   第7级
    n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见
    参考例句:
    • The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people. 主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
    • He's a man of excellent judgment. 他眼力过人。
    20 narrative [ˈnærətɪv] CFmxS   第7级
    n.叙述,故事;adj.叙事的,故事体的
    参考例句:
    • He was a writer of great narrative power. 他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
    • Neither author was very strong on narrative. 两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。
    21 bent [bent] QQ8yD   第7级
    n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的;v.(使)弯曲,屈身(bend的过去式和过去分词)
    参考例句:
    • He was fully bent upon the project. 他一心扑在这项计划上。
    • We bent over backward to help them. 我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
    22 inclination [ˌɪnklɪˈneɪʃn] Gkwyj   第7级
    n.倾斜;点头;弯腰;斜坡;倾度;倾向;爱好
    参考例句:
    • She greeted us with a slight inclination of the head. 她微微点头向我们致意。
    • I did not feel the slightest inclination to hurry. 我没有丝毫着急的意思。
    23 missionary [ˈmɪʃənri] ID8xX   第7级
    adj.教会的,传教(士)的;n.传教士
    参考例句:
    • She taught in a missionary school for a couple of years. 她在一所教会学校教了两年书。
    • I hope every member understands the value of missionary work. 我希望教友都了解传教工作的价值。
    24 piety [ˈpaɪəti] muuy3   第10级
    n.虔诚,虔敬
    参考例句:
    • They were drawn to the church not by piety but by curiosity. 他们去教堂不是出于虔诚而是出于好奇。
    • Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. 经验使我们看到虔诚与善意之间有着巨大的区别。
    25 peculiar [pɪˈkju:liə(r)] cinyo   第7级
    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。
    26 eminence [ˈemɪnəns] VpLxo   第9级
    n.卓越,显赫;高地,高处;名家
    参考例句:
    • He is a statesman of great eminence. 他是个声名显赫的政治家。
    • Many of the pilots were to achieve eminence in the aeronautical world. 这些飞行员中很多人将会在航空界声名显赫。
    27 layman [ˈleɪmən] T3wy6   第7级
    n.俗人,门外汉,凡人
    参考例句:
    • These technical terms are difficult for the layman to understand. 这些专门术语是外行人难以理解的。
    • He is a layman in politics. 他对政治是个门外汉。
    28 perishable [ˈperɪʃəbl] 9uKyk   第11级
    adj.(尤指食物)易腐的,易坏的
    参考例句:
    • Many fresh foods are highly perishable. 许多新鲜食物都极易腐败。
    • Fruits are perishable in transit. 水果在运送时容易腐烂。
    29 dissenting [di'sentiŋ] kuhz4F   第10级
    adj.不同意的
    参考例句:
    • He can't tolerate dissenting views. 他不能容纳不同意见。
    • A dissenting opinion came from the aunt . 姑妈却提出不赞同的意见。
    30 provincial [prəˈvɪnʃl] Nt8ye   第8级
    adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
    参考例句:
    • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes. 城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
    • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday. 昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
    31 ingenuous [ɪnˈdʒenjuəs] mbNz0   第10级
    adj.纯朴的,单纯的;天真的;坦率的
    参考例句:
    • Only the most ingenuous person would believe such a weak excuse! 只有最天真的人才会相信这么一个站不住脚的借口!
    • With ingenuous sincerity, he captivated his audience. 他以自己的率真迷住了观众。
    32 subsisting [səbˈsɪstɪŋ] 7be6b596734a881a8f6dddc7dddb424d   第10级
    v.(靠很少的钱或食物)维持生活,生存下去( subsist的现在分词 )
    参考例句:
    • Perfect God and perfect man, of a reasonable soul and human subsisting. 衪是完全的神又是完全的人,且有理性的灵魂和人类血肉之躯。 来自互联网
    • The benevolence subsisting in her character draws her friends closer to her. 存在于她性格中的仁慈吸引她的朋友们接近她。 来自互联网
    33 supremacy [su:ˈpreməsi] 3Hzzd   第10级
    n.至上;至高权力
    参考例句:
    • No one could challenge her supremacy in gymnastics. 她是最优秀的体操运动员,无人能胜过她。
    • Theoretically, she holds supremacy as the head of the state. 从理论上说,她作为国家的最高元首拥有至高无上的权力。
    34 raffles [ˈræflz] 6c7d0b0857b474f06d345aeb445411eb   第10级
    n.抽彩售物( raffle的名词复数 )v.以抽彩方式售(物)( raffle的第三人称单数 )
    参考例句:
    • Elsa and I will buzz on to the Raffles bar. 埃尔莎和我继续往前去,到拉福尔旅馆的酒巴。 来自辞典例句
    • Tudsbury rushed to the Raffles and dictated this hot story to Pamela. 塔茨伯利冲到拉福尔旅馆,对帕米拉口述了这个最新消息。 来自辞典例句
    35 torment [ˈtɔ:ment] gJXzd   第7级
    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。
    36 frankly [ˈfræŋkli] fsXzcf   第7级
    adv.坦白地,直率地;坦率地说
    参考例句:
    • To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all. 老实说,我一点也不赞成这个主意。
    • Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform. 坦率地说,我不反对改革。
    37 coaxing [ˈkəʊksɪŋ] 444e70224820a50b0202cb5bb05f1c2e   第8级
    v.哄,用好话劝说( coax的现在分词 );巧言骗取;哄劝,劝诱;“锻炼”效应
    参考例句:
    • No amount of coaxing will make me change my mind. 任你费尽口舌也不会说服我改变主意。
    • It took a lot of coaxing before he agreed. 劝说了很久他才同意。 来自辞典例句
    38 persistent [pəˈsɪstənt] BSUzg   第7级
    adj.坚持不懈的,执意的;持续的
    参考例句:
    • Albert had a persistent headache that lasted for three days. 艾伯特连续头痛了三天。
    • She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions. 他不时地向她大献殷勤,使她很难为情。
    39 providence [ˈprɒvɪdəns] 8tdyh   第12级
    n.深谋远虑,天道,天意;远见;节约;上帝
    参考例句:
    • It is tempting Providence to go in that old boat. 乘那艘旧船前往是冒大险。
    • To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence. 照你的所作所为那样去行事,是违背上帝的意志的。
    40 opprobrium [əˈprəʊbriəm] Y0AyH   第12级
    n.耻辱,责难
    参考例句:
    • The opprobrium and enmity he incurred were caused by his outspoken brashness. 他招致的轻蔑和敌意是由于他出言过于粗率而造成的。
    • That drunkard was the opprobrium of our community. 那个酒鬼是我们社区里可耻的人物。
    41 diligently ['dilidʒəntli] gueze5   第7级
    ad.industriously;carefully
    参考例句:
    • He applied himself diligently to learning French. 他孜孜不倦地学法语。
    • He had studied diligently at college. 他在大学里勤奋学习。
    42 inevitable [ɪnˈevɪtəbl] 5xcyq   第7级
    adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
    参考例句:
    • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat. 玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
    • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy. 战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
    43 habitually [hə'bitjuəli] 4rKzgk   第7级
    ad.习惯地,通常地
    参考例句:
    • The pain of the disease caused him habitually to furrow his brow. 病痛使他习惯性地紧皱眉头。
    • Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair. 我已经习惯于服从约翰,我来到他的椅子跟前。
    44 dependence [dɪˈpendəns] 3wsx9   第8级
    n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
    参考例句:
    • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug. 医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
    • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents. 他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
    45 repented [rɪˈpentid] c24481167c6695923be1511247ed3c08   第8级
    对(自己的所为)感到懊悔或忏悔( repent的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • He repented his thoughtlessness. 他后悔自己的轻率。
    • Darren repented having shot the bird. 达伦后悔射杀了那只鸟。
    46 shudders [ˈʃʌdəz] 7a8459ee756ecff6a63e8a61f9289613   第8级
    n.颤动,打颤,战栗( shudder的名词复数 )v.战栗( shudder的第三人称单数 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动
    参考例句:
    • It gives me the shudders. ((口语))它使我战栗。 来自辞典例句
    • The ghastly sight gave him the shudders. 那恐怖的景象使他感到恐惧。 来自辞典例句
    47 retrospect [ˈretrəspekt] xDeys   第7级
    n.回顾,追溯;vt.&vi.回顾,回想,追溯
    参考例句:
    • One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality. 学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
    • In retrospect, it's easy to see why we were wrong. 回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。
    48 obstinately ['ɔbstinitli] imVzvU   第9级
    ad.固执地,顽固地
    参考例句:
    • He obstinately asserted that he had done the right thing. 他硬说他做得对。
    • Unemployment figures are remaining obstinately high. 失业数字仍然顽固地居高不下。
    49 eminent [ˈemɪnənt] dpRxn   第7级
    adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的
    参考例句:
    • We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist. 我们正期待一位著名科学家的来访。
    • He is an eminent citizen of China. 他是一个杰出的中国公民。
    50 ministry [ˈmɪnɪstri] kD5x2   第7级
    n.(政府的)部;牧师
    参考例句:
    • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain. 他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
    • We probed the Air Ministry statements. 我们调查了空军部的报告。
    51 vocation [vəʊˈkeɪʃn] 8h6wB   第7级
    n.职业,行业
    参考例句:
    • She struggled for years to find her true vocation. 她多年来苦苦寻找真正适合自己的职业。
    • She felt it was her vocation to minister to the sick. 她觉得照料病人是她的天职。
    52 distinguished [dɪˈstɪŋgwɪʃt] wu9z3v   第8级
    adj.卓越的,杰出的,著名的
    参考例句:
    • Elephants are distinguished from other animals by their long noses. 大象以其长长的鼻子显示出与其他动物的不同。
    • A banquet was given in honor of the distinguished guests. 宴会是为了向贵宾们致敬而举行的。
    53 promotion [prəˈməʊʃn] eRLxn   第7级
    n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
    参考例句:
    • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion. 教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
    • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary. 那个职员升了级,加了薪。
    54 orphan [ˈɔ:fn] QJExg   第7级
    n.孤儿;adj.无父母的
    参考例句:
    • He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine. 他把一个孤儿养大,并且把自己的医术传给了他。
    • The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters. 这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。
    55 villa [ˈvɪlə] xHayI   第8级
    n.别墅,城郊小屋
    参考例句:
    • We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays. 我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
    • We are quartered in a beautiful villa. 我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。
    56 prospects ['prɔspekts] fkVzpY   第7级
    n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
    参考例句:
    • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
    • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
    57 decided [dɪˈsaɪdɪd] lvqzZd   第7级
    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。
    58 confidential [ˌkɒnfɪˈdenʃl] MOKzA   第8级
    adj.秘(机)密的,表示信任的,担任机密工作的
    参考例句:
    • He refused to allow his secretary to handle confidential letters. 他不让秘书处理机密文件。
    • We have a confidential exchange of views. 我们推心置腹地交换意见。
    59 severely [sə'vɪrlɪ] SiCzmk   第7级
    adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
    参考例句:
    • He was severely criticized and removed from his post. 他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
    • He is severely put down for his careless work. 他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
    60 vacancy [ˈveɪkənsi] EHpy7   第8级
    n.(旅馆的)空位,空房,(职务的)空缺
    参考例句:
    • Her going on maternity leave will create a temporary vacancy. 她休产假时将会有一个临时空缺。
    • The vacancy of her expression made me doubt if she was listening. 她茫然的神情让我怀疑她是否在听。
    61 inquiry [ɪn'kwaɪərɪ] nbgzF   第7级
    n.打听,询问,调查,查问
    参考例句:
    • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem. 许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
    • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons. 调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
    62 dinginess ['dɪndʒɪnəs] affc36375c16b7c60e61d958b86e3ced   第10级
    n.暗淡,肮脏
    参考例句:
    • Mary was appalled by the dinginess of the house. 玛丽被那肮脏的房子吓坏了。 来自辞典例句
    • She hated dinginess as much as her mother had hated it. 她同母亲一样,对贫困寒酸的日子深恶痛绝。 来自辞典例句
    63 drawn [drɔ:n] MuXzIi   第11级
    v.(draw的过去式)拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
    参考例句:
    • All the characters in the story are drawn from life. 故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
    • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside. 她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
    64 implements ['ɪmplɪmənts] 37371cb8af481bf82a7ea3324d81affc   第7级
    n.工具( implement的名词复数 );家具;手段;[法律]履行(契约等)v.实现( implement的第三人称单数 );执行;贯彻;使生效
    参考例句:
    • Primitive man hunted wild animals with crude stone implements. 原始社会的人用粗糙的石器猎取野兽。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
    • They ordered quantities of farm implements. 他们订购了大量农具。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
    65 wilderness [ˈwɪldənəs] SgrwS   第8级
    n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠
    参考例句:
    • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness. 她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
    • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means. 荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
    66 metaphors [ˈmetəfəz] 83e73a88f6ce7dc55e75641ff9fe3c41   第8级
    隐喻( metaphor的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • I can only represent it to you by metaphors. 我只能用隐喻来向你描述它。
    • Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors. 因此她是天使,他是雄狮都是比喻说法。
    67 precedents [p'resɪdənts] 822d1685d50ee9bc7c3ee15a208b4a7e   第7级
    引用单元; 范例( precedent的名词复数 ); 先前出现的事例; 前例; 先例
    参考例句:
    • There is no lack of precedents in this connection. 不乏先例。
    • He copied after bad precedents. 他仿效恶例。
    68 retention [rɪˈtenʃn] HBazK   第7级
    n.保留,保持,保持力,记忆力
    参考例句:
    • They advocate the retention of our nuclear power plants. 他们主张保留我们的核电厂。
    • His retention of energy at this hour is really surprising. 人们惊叹他在这个时候还能保持如此旺盛的精力。
    69 vista [ˈvɪstə] jLVzN   第8级
    n.远景,深景,展望,回想
    参考例句:
    • From my bedroom window I looked out on a crowded vista of hills and rooftops. 我从卧室窗口望去,远处尽是连绵的山峦和屋顶。
    • These uprisings come from desperation and a vista of a future without hope. 发生这些暴动是因为人们被逼上了绝路,未来看不到一点儿希望。
    70 salvation [sælˈveɪʃn] nC2zC   第8级
    n.(尤指基督)救世,超度,拯救,解困
    参考例句:
    • Salvation lay in political reform. 解救办法在于政治改革。
    • Christians hope and pray for salvation. 基督教徒希望并祈祷灵魂得救。
    71 incompatible [ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbl] y8oxu   第7级
    adj.不相容的,不协调的,不相配的
    参考例句:
    • His plan is incompatible with my intent. 他的计划与我的意图不相符。
    • Speed and safety are not necessarily incompatible. 速度和安全未必不相容。
    72 nay [neɪ] unjzAQ   第12级
    adv.不;n.反对票,投反对票者
    参考例句:
    • He was grateful for and proud of his son's remarkable, nay, unique performance. 他为儿子出色的,不,应该是独一无二的表演心怀感激和骄傲。
    • Long essays, nay, whole books have been written on this. 许多长篇大论的文章,不,应该说是整部整部的书都是关于这件事的。
    73 saturated ['sætʃəreitid] qjEzG3   第7级
    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
    74 pious [ˈpaɪəs] KSCzd   第9级
    adj.虔诚的;道貌岸然的
    参考例句:
    • Alexander is a pious follower of the faith. 亚历山大是个虔诚的信徒。
    • Her mother was a pious Christian. 她母亲是一个虔诚的基督教徒。
    75 qualms [kwɑ:lms] qualms   第12级
    n.不安;内疚
    参考例句:
    • He felt no qualms about borrowing money from friends. 他没有对于从朋友那里借钱感到不安。
    • He has no qualms about lying. 他撒谎毫不内疚。
    76 utterly ['ʌtəli:] ZfpzM1   第9级
    adv.完全地,绝对地
    参考例句:
    • Utterly devoted to the people, he gave his life in saving his patients. 他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
    • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled. 她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
    77 reclaim [rɪˈkleɪm] NUWxp   第7级
    vt.要求归还,收回;开垦;vi.抗议,喊叫
    参考例句:
    • I have tried to reclaim my money without success. 我没能把钱取回来。
    • You must present this ticket when you reclaim your luggage. 当你要取回行李时,必须出示这张票子。
    78 concurred [] 1830b9fe9fc3a55d928418c131a295bd   第8级
    同意(concur的过去式与过去分词形式)
    参考例句:
    • Historians have concurred with each other in this view. 历史学家在这个观点上已取得一致意见。
    • So many things concurred to give rise to the problem. 许多事情同时发生而导致了这一问题。
    79 rigid [ˈrɪdʒɪd] jDPyf   第7级
    adj.严格的,死板的;刚硬的,僵硬的
    参考例句:
    • She became as rigid as adamant. 她变得如顽石般的固执。
    • The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out. 考试很严,几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。
    80 onlookers ['ɒnlʊkəz] 9475a32ff7f3c5da0694cff2738f9381   第8级
    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。
    81 justified ['dʒʌstifaid] 7pSzrk   第7级
    a.正当的,有理的
    参考例句:
    • She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
    • The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。
    82 remarkable [rɪˈmɑ:kəbl] 8Vbx6   第7级
    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。
    83 perversion [pəˈvɜ:ʃn] s3tzJ   第12级
    n.曲解;堕落;反常
    参考例句:
    • In its most general sense, corruption means the perversion or abandonment. 就其最一般的意义上说,舞弊就是堕落,就是背离准则。
    • Her account was a perversion of the truth. 她所讲的歪曲了事实。
    84 dispositions [dɪspə'zɪʃnz] eee819c0d17bf04feb01fd4dcaa8fe35   第7级
    安排( disposition的名词复数 ); 倾向; (财产、金钱的)处置; 气质
    参考例句:
    • We got out some information about the enemy's dispositions from the captured enemy officer. 我们从捕获的敌军官那里问出一些有关敌军部署的情况。
    • Elasticity, solubility, inflammability are paradigm cases of dispositions in natural objects. 伸缩性、可缩性、易燃性是天然物体倾向性的范例。
    85 scatter [ˈskætə(r)] uDwzt   第7级
    vt.撒,驱散,散开;散布/播;vi.分散,消散
    参考例句:
    • You pile everything up and scatter things around. 你把东西乱堆乱放。
    • Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain. 小村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。
    86 consolation [ˌkɒnsəˈleɪʃn] WpbzC   第10级
    n.安慰,慰问
    参考例句:
    • The children were a great consolation to me at that time. 那时孩子们成了我的莫大安慰。
    • This news was of little consolation to us. 这个消息对我们来说没有什么安慰。
    87 nought [nɔ:t] gHGx3   第9级
    n./adj.无,零
    参考例句:
    • We must bring their schemes to nought. 我们必须使他们的阴谋彻底破产。
    • One minus one leaves nought. 一减一等于零。
    88 requisite [ˈrekwɪzɪt] 2W0xu   第9级
    adj.需要的,必不可少的;n.必需品
    参考例句:
    • He hasn't got the requisite qualifications for the job. 他不具备这工作所需的资格。
    • Food and air are requisite for life. 食物和空气是生命的必需品。
    89 collapsed [kə'læpzd] cwWzSG   第7级
    adj.倒塌的
    参考例句:
    • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
    • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
    90 discreetly [dis'kri:tli] nuwz8C   第8级
    ad.(言行)审慎地,慎重地
    参考例句:
    • He had only known the perennial widow, the discreetly expensive Frenchwoman. 他只知道她是个永远那么年轻的寡妇,一个很会讲排场的法国女人。
    • Sensing that Lilian wanted to be alone with Celia, Andrew discreetly disappeared. 安德鲁觉得莉莲想同西莉亚单独谈些什么,有意避开了。
    91 provincially [prə'vɪnʃəlɪ] 89441c2c07fbcc02ac4284e39b699532   第8级
    adv.外省地,地方地
    参考例句:
    92 benefactor [ˈbenɪfæktə(r)] ZQEy0   第9级
    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。
    93 momentous [məˈmentəs] Zjay9   第8级
    adj.重要的,重大的
    参考例句:
    • I am deeply honoured to be invited to this momentous occasion. 能应邀出席如此重要的场合,我深感荣幸。
    • The momentous news was that war had begun. 重大的新闻是战争已经开始。
    94 actively ['æktɪvlɪ] lzezni   第9级
    adv.积极地,勤奋地
    参考例句:
    • During this period all the students were actively participating. 在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
    • We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel. 我们正在积极调解争执。
    95 longings [ˈlɔ:ŋɪŋz] 093806503fd3e66647eab74915c055e7   第8级
    渴望,盼望( longing的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • Ah, those foolish days of noble longings and of noble strivings! 啊,那些充满高贵憧憬和高尚奋斗的傻乎乎的时光!
    • I paint you and fashion you ever with my love longings. 我永远用爱恋的渴想来描画你。
    96 gulling [gʌlɪŋ] 1a62f02f88db2da310edb8c6d8c7000e   第10级
    v.欺骗某人( gull的现在分词 )
    参考例句:
    97 hypocrisy [hɪˈpɒkrəsi] g4qyt   第7级
    n.伪善,虚伪
    参考例句:
    • He railed against hypocrisy and greed. 他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
    • He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story. 他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。
    98 confession [kənˈfeʃn] 8Ygye   第10级
    n.自白,供认,承认
    参考例句:
    • Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation. 她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
    • The police used torture to extort a confession from him. 警察对他用刑逼供。
    99 fixed [fɪkst] JsKzzj   第8级
    adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
    参考例句:
    • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet? 你们俩选定婚期了吗?
    • Once the aim is fixed, we should not change it arbitrarily. 目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
    100 solidarity [ˌsɒlɪˈdærəti] ww9wa   第7级
    n.团结;休戚相关
    参考例句:
    • They must preserve their solidarity. 他们必须维护他们的团结。
    • The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock. 中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。
    101 allege [əˈledʒ] PfEyT   第7级
    vt.宣称,申述,主张,断言
    参考例句:
    • The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof. 新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的,但他们没提出证据。
    • Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence. 学生时不时会称病缺课。
    102 alleged [ə'lədʒd] gzaz3i   第7级
    a.被指控的,嫌疑的
    参考例句:
    • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
    • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
    103 motive [ˈməʊtɪv] GFzxz   第7级
    n.动机,目的;adv.发动的,运动的
    参考例句:
    • The police could not find a motive for the murder. 警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
    • He had some motive in telling this fable. 他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
    104 implicit [ɪmˈplɪsɪt] lkhyn   第7级
    adj.暗示的,含蓄的,不明晰的,绝对的
    参考例句:
    • A soldier must give implicit obedience to his officers. 士兵必须绝对服从他的长官。
    • Her silence gave implicit consent. 她的沉默表示默许。
    105 essentially [ɪˈsenʃəli] nntxw   第8级
    adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
    参考例句:
    • Really great men are essentially modest. 真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
    • She is an essentially selfish person. 她本质上是个自私自利的人。
    106 motives [ˈməutivz] 6c25d038886898b20441190abe240957   第7级
    n.动机,目的( motive的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • to impeach sb's motives 怀疑某人的动机
    • His motives are unclear. 他的用意不明。
    107 doctrine [ˈdɒktrɪn] Pkszt   第7级
    n.教义;主义;学说
    参考例句:
    • He was impelled to proclaim his doctrine. 他不得不宣扬他的教义。
    • The council met to consider changes to doctrine. 宗教议会开会考虑更改教义。
    108 vessel [ˈvesl] 4L1zi   第7级
    n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管
    参考例句:
    • The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai. 这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
    • You should put the water into a vessel. 你应该把水装入容器中。
    109 consecrated ['kən(t)səˌkrətɪd] consecrated   第9级
    adj.神圣的,被视为神圣的v.把…奉为神圣,给…祝圣( consecrate的过去式和过去分词 );奉献
    参考例句:
    • The church was consecrated in 1853. 这座教堂于1853年祝圣。
    • They consecrated a temple to their god. 他们把庙奉献给神。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    110 constrained [kən'streind] YvbzqU   第7级
    adj.束缚的,节制的
    参考例句:
    • The evidence was so compelling that he felt constrained to accept it. 证据是那样的令人折服,他觉得不得不接受。
    • I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness. 我不得不写信请你原谅。
    111 pretext [ˈpri:tekst] 1Qsxi   第7级
    n.借口,托词
    参考例句:
    • He used his headache as a pretext for not going to school. 他借口头疼而不去上学。
    • He didn't attend that meeting under the pretext of sickness. 他以生病为借口,没参加那个会议。
    112 scoffer ['skɒfə] cdbb97a5eb383595b179cad0ef998968   第7级
    嘲笑者
    参考例句:
    • A scoffer, a debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial. 一个玩世不恭的人,一个生活放荡的家伙,总而言之,是个恶棍。
    • A scoffer, debauched person, and, in brief, a man of Belial. 玩世不恭者,是只知一切事物的价钱而不知其价值的人。
    113 utterances ['ʌtərənsɪz] e168af1b6b9585501e72cb8ff038183b   第11级
    n.发声( utterance的名词复数 );说话方式;语调;言论
    参考例句:
    • John Maynard Keynes used somewhat gnomic utterances in his General Theory. 约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯在其《通论》中用了许多精辟言辞。 来自辞典例句
    • Elsewhere, particularly in his more public utterances, Hawthorne speaks very differently. 在别的地方,特别是在比较公开的谈话里,霍桑讲的话则完全不同。 来自辞典例句
    114 repentance [rɪˈpentəns] ZCnyS   第8级
    n.懊悔
    参考例句:
    • He shows no repentance for what he has done.他对他的所作所为一点也不懊悔。
    • Christ is inviting sinners to repentance.基督正在敦请有罪的人悔悟。
    115 restitution [ˌrestɪˈtju:ʃn] cDHyz   第12级
    n.赔偿;恢复原状
    参考例句:
    • It's only fair that those who do the damage should make restitution. 损坏东西的人应负责赔偿,这是再公平不过的了。
    • The victims are demanding full restitution. 受害人要求全额赔偿。
    116 susceptible [səˈseptəbl] 4rrw7   第7级
    adj.过敏的,敏感的;易动感情的,易受感动的
    参考例句:
    • Children are more susceptible than adults. 孩子比成人易受感动。
    • We are all susceptible to advertising. 我们都易受广告的影响。
    117 scorching ['skɔ:tʃiŋ] xjqzPr   第9级
    adj. 灼热的
    参考例句:
    • a scorching, pitiless sun 灼热的骄阳
    • a scorching critique of the government's economic policy 对政府经济政策的严厉批评
    118 wrought [rɔ:t] EoZyr   第11级
    v.(wreak的过去分词)引起;以…原料制作;运转;adj.制造的
    参考例句:
    • Events in Paris wrought a change in British opinion towards France and Germany. 巴黎发生的事件改变了英国对法国和德国的看法。
    • It's a walking stick with a gold head wrought in the form of a flower. 那是一个金质花形包头的拐杖。
    119 remains [rɪˈmeɪnz] 1kMzTy   第7级
    n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
    参考例句:
    • He ate the remains of food hungrily. 他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
    • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog. 残羹剩饭喂狗了。
    120 savage [ˈsævɪdʒ] ECxzR   第7级
    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。
    121 immediate [ɪˈmi:diət] aapxh   第7级
    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。
    122 shrubs [ʃrʌbz] b480276f8eea44e011d42320b17c3619   第7级
    灌木( shrub的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • The gardener spent a complete morning in trimming those two shrubs. 园丁花了整个上午的时间修剪那两处灌木林。
    • These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots. 这些灌木需要更多的光照才能抽出开花的新枝。
    123 abruptness [ə'brʌptnəs] abruptness   第7级
    n. 突然,唐突
    参考例句:
    • He hid his feelings behind a gruff abruptness. 他把自己的感情隐藏在生硬鲁莽之中。
    • Suddenly Vanamee returned to himself with the abruptness of a blow. 伐那米猛地清醒过来,象挨到了当头一拳似的。
    124 allayed [əˈleɪd] a2f1594ab7abf92451e58b3bedb57669   第10级
    v.减轻,缓和( allay的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • His fever is allayed, but his appetite is still flatted. 他发烧减轻了,但食欲仍然不振。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    • His fever was allayed by the medicine. 这药剂使他退烧了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
    125 agitation [ˌædʒɪˈteɪʃn] TN0zi   第9级
    n.搅动;搅拌;鼓动,煽动
    参考例句:
    • Small shopkeepers carried on a long agitation against the big department stores. 小店主们长期以来一直在煽动人们反对大型百货商店。
    • These materials require constant agitation to keep them in suspension. 这些药剂要经常搅动以保持悬浮状态。
    126 presentiments [priˈzentimənts] 94142b6676e2096d7e26ee0241976c93   第12级
    n.(对不祥事物的)预感( presentiment的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • His presentiments of what the future holds for all are plainly not cheering. 则是应和了很多美国人的种种担心,他对各方未来的预感显然是不令人振奋的。 来自互联网
    127 fluctuations [ˌflʌktjʊ'eɪʃəns] 5ffd9bfff797526ec241b97cfb872d61   第9级
    波动,涨落,起伏( fluctuation的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • He showed the price fluctuations in a statistical table. 他用统计表显示价格的波动。
    • There were so many unpredictable fluctuations on the Stock Exchange. 股票市场瞬息万变。
    128 glib [glɪb] DeNzs   第10级
    adj.圆滑的,油嘴滑舌的
    参考例句:
    • His glib talk sounds as sweet as a song. 他说的比唱的还好听。
    • The fellow has a very glib tongue. 这家伙嘴油得很。
    129 repulsive [rɪˈpʌlsɪv] RsNyx   第8级
    adj.排斥的,使人反感的
    参考例句:
    • She found the idea deeply repulsive. 她发现这个想法很恶心。
    • The repulsive force within the nucleus is enormous. 核子内部的斥力是巨大的。
    130 emaciated [ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtɪd] Wt3zuK   第10级
    adj.衰弱的,消瘦的
    参考例句:
    • A long time illness made him sallow and emaciated. 长期患病使他面黄肌瘦。
    • In the light of a single candle, she can see his emaciated face. 借着烛光,她能看到他的被憔悴的面孔。
    131 chastisement ['tʃæstɪzmənt] chastisement   第10级
    n.惩罚
    参考例句:
    • You cannot but know that we live in a period of chastisement and ruin. 你们必须认识到我们生活在一个灾难深重、面临毁灭的时代。 来自辞典例句
    • I think the chastisement to him is too critical. 我认为对他的惩罚太严厉了。 来自互联网
    132 repugnance [rɪˈpʌgnəns] oBWz5   第11级
    n.嫌恶
    参考例句:
    • He fought down a feelings of repugnance. 他抑制住了厌恶感。
    • She had a repugnance to the person with whom she spoke. 她看不惯这个和她谈话的人。
    133 entreat [ɪnˈtri:t] soexj   第9级
    vt.&vi.恳求,恳请
    参考例句:
    • Charles Darnay felt it hopeless entreat him further, and his pride was touched besides. 查尔斯·达尔内感到再恳求他已是枉然,自尊心也受到了伤害。
    • I entreat you to contribute generously to the building fund. 我恳求您慷慨捐助建设基金。
    134 amends [ə'mendz] AzlzCR   第7级
    n. 赔偿
    参考例句:
    • He made amends for his rudeness by giving her some flowers. 他送给她一些花,为他自己的鲁莽赔罪。
    • This country refuses stubbornly to make amends for its past war crimes. 该国顽固地拒绝为其过去的战争罪行赔罪。
    135 deprivation [ˌdeprɪˈveɪʃn] e9Uy7   第9级
    n.匮乏;丧失;夺去,贫困
    参考例句:
    • Many studies make it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous. 许多实验都证实了睡眠被剥夺是危险的。
    • Missing the holiday was a great deprivation. 错过假日是极大的损失。
    136 scrupulosity [ˌskru:pjʊ'lɒsɪtɪ] 320bad05cd91e52759d3b8df5f503732   第8级
    n.顾虑
    参考例句:
    137 auditor [ˈɔ:dɪtə(r)] My5ziV   第9级
    n.审计员,旁听着
    参考例句:
    • The auditor was required to produce his working papers. 那个审计员被要求提供其工作底稿。
    • The auditor examines the accounts of all county officers and departments. 审计员查对所有县官员及各部门的帐目。
    138 stimulated ['stimjəˌletid] Rhrz78   第7级
    a.刺激的
    参考例句:
    • The exhibition has stimulated interest in her work. 展览增进了人们对她作品的兴趣。
    • The award has stimulated her into working still harder. 奖金促使她更加努力地工作。
    139 conjure [ˈkʌndʒə(r)] tnRyN   第9级
    vt.恳求,祈求;变魔术,变戏法;vi.施魔法;变魔术
    参考例句:
    • I conjure you not to betray me. 我恳求你不要背弃我。
    • I can't simply conjure up the money out of thin air. 我是不能像变魔术似的把钱变来。
    140 conjecture [kənˈdʒektʃə(r)] 3p8z4   第9级
    n./v.推测,猜测
    参考例句:
    • She felt it no use to conjecture his motives. 她觉得猜想他的动机是没有用的。
    • This conjecture is not supported by any real evidence. 这种推测未被任何确切的证据所证实。
    141 faltering ['fɔ:ltərɪŋ] b25bbdc0788288f819b6e8b06c0a6496   第8级
    犹豫的,支吾的,蹒跚的
    参考例句:
    • The economy shows no signs of faltering. 经济没有衰退的迹象。
    • I canfeel my legs faltering. 我感到我的腿在颤抖。
    142 entirely [ɪnˈtaɪəli] entirely   第9级
    ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
    参考例句:
    • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
    • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
    143 binding ['baindiŋ] 2yEzWb   第7级
    有约束力的,有效的,应遵守的
    参考例句:
    • The contract was not signed and has no binding force. 合同没有签署因而没有约束力。
    • Both sides have agreed that the arbitration will be binding. 双方都赞同仲裁具有约束力。
    144 merge [mɜ:dʒ] qCpxF   第7级
    vt.&vi.(使)结合,(使)合并,(使)合为一体
    参考例句:
    • I can merge my two small businesses into a large one. 我可以将我的两家小商店合并为一家大商行。
    • The directors have decided to merge the two small firms together. 董事们已决定把这两家小商号归并起来。
    145 pouting [paʊtɪŋ] f5e25f4f5cb47eec0e279bd7732e444b   第12级
    v.撅(嘴)( pout的现在分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The child sat there pouting. 那孩子坐在那儿,一副不高兴的样子。 来自辞典例句
    • She was almost pouting at his hesitation. 她几乎要为他这种犹犹豫豫的态度不高兴了。 来自辞典例句
    146 forth [fɔ:θ] Hzdz2   第7级
    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。
    147 thoroughly [ˈθʌrəli] sgmz0J   第8级
    adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
    参考例句:
    • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting. 一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
    • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons. 士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
    148 penitence [ˈpenɪtəns] guoyu   第12级
    n.忏悔,赎罪;悔过
    参考例句:
    • The thief expressed penitence for all his past actions. 那盗贼对他犯过的一切罪恶表示忏悔。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
    • Of penitence, there has been none! 可是悔过呢,还一点没有! 来自英汉文学 - 红字
    149 eminently [ˈemɪnəntli] c442c1e3a4b0ad4160feece6feb0aabf   第7级
    adv.突出地;显著地;不寻常地
    参考例句:
    • She seems eminently suitable for the job. 她看来非常适合这个工作。
    • It was an eminently respectable boarding school. 这是所非常好的寄宿学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    150 determined [dɪˈtɜ:mɪnd] duszmP   第7级
    adj.坚定的;有决心的;v.决定;断定(determine的过去分词)
    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。
    151 possessed [pəˈzest] xuyyQ   第12级
    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。
    152 blot [blɒt] wtbzA   第8级
    vt.弄脏(用吸墨纸)吸干;n.污点,污渍
    参考例句:
    • That new factory is a blot on the landscape. 那新建的工厂破坏了此地的景色。
    • The crime he committed is a blot on his record. 他犯的罪是他的履历中的一个污点。
    153 arrogantly ['ærəgəntli] bykztA   第8级
    adv.傲慢地
    参考例句:
    • The consular porter strode arrogantly ahead with his light swinging. 领事馆的门房提着摇来晃去的灯,在前面大摇大摆地走着。
    • It made his great nose protrude more arrogantly. 这就使得他的大鼻子更加傲慢地翘起来。
    154 repulse [rɪˈpʌls] dBFz4   第9级
    n.击退,拒绝;vt.逐退,击退,拒绝
    参考例句:
    • The armed forces were prepared to repulse any attacks. 武装部队已作好击退任何进攻的准备。
    • After the second repulse, the enemy surrendered. 在第二次击退之后,敌人投降了。
    155 mingled [ˈmiŋɡld] fdf34efd22095ed7e00f43ccc823abdf   第7级
    混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系]
    参考例句:
    • The sounds of laughter and singing mingled in the evening air. 笑声和歌声交织在夜空中。
    • The man and the woman mingled as everyone started to relax. 当大家开始放松的时候,这一男一女就开始交往了。
    156 venom [ˈvenəm] qLqzr   第10级
    n.毒液,恶毒,痛恨
    参考例句:
    • The snake injects the venom immediately after biting its prey. 毒蛇咬住猎物之后马上注入毒液。
    • In fact, some components of the venom may benefit human health. 事实上,毒液的某些成分可能有益于人类健康。
    157 consolations [ˌkɔnsəˈleɪʃənz] 73df0eda2cb43ef5d4137bf180257e9b   第10级
    n.安慰,慰问( consolation的名词复数 );起安慰作用的人(或事物)
    参考例句:
    • Recent history had washed away the easy consolations and the old formulas. 现代的历史已经把轻松的安慰和陈旧的公式一扫而光。 来自辞典例句
    • When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. 诗94:19我心里多忧多疑、安慰我、使我欢乐。 来自互联网

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