轻松背单词新浪微博 轻松背单词腾讯微博
轻松背单词微信服务号
当前位置:首页 -> 10级英语阅读 - > 经典名著:弗洛斯河上的磨坊10
经典名著:弗洛斯河上的磨坊10
添加时间:2024-04-29 11:20:38 浏览次数: 作者:未知
Tip:点击数字可快速查看单词解释  
  • Chapter X.

    Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected

    The startling object which thus made an epoch1 for uncle Pullet was no other than little Lucy, with one side of her person, from her small foot to her bonnet-crown, wet and discoloured with mud, holding out two tiny blackened hands, and making a very piteous face. To account for this unprecedented2 apparition3 in aunt Pullet’s parlour, we must return to the moment when the three children went to play out of doors, and the small demons4 who had taken possession of Maggie’s soul at an early period of the day had returned in all the greater force after a temporary absence. All the disagreeable recollections of the morning were thick upon her, when Tom, whose displeasure toward her had been considerably5 refreshed by her foolish trick of causing him to upset his cowslip wine, said, “Here, Lucy, you come along with me,” and walked off to the area where the toads7 were, as if there were no Maggie in existence. Seeing this, Maggie lingered at a distance, looking like a small Medusa with her snakes cropped. Lucy was naturally pleased that cousin Tom was so good to her, and it was very amusing to see him tickling8 a fat toad6 with a piece of string when the toad was safe down the area, with an iron grating over him. Still Lucy wished Maggie to enjoy the spectacle also, especially as she would doubtless find a name for the toad, and say what had been his past history; for Lucy had a delighted semi-belief in Maggie’s stories about the live things they came upon by accident,—how Mrs Earwig had a wash at home, and one of her children had fallen into the hot copper9, for which reason she was running so fast to fetch the doctor. Tom had a profound contempt for this nonsense of Maggie’s, smashing the earwig at once as a superfluous10 yet easy means of proving the entire unreality of such a story; but Lucy, for the life of her, could not help fancying there was something in it, and at all events thought it was very pretty make-believe. So now the desire to know the history of a very portly toad, added to her habitual11 affectionateness, made her run back to Maggie and say, “Oh, there is such a big, funny toad, Maggie! Do come and see!”

    Maggie said nothing, but turned away from her with a deeper frown. As long as Tom seemed to prefer Lucy to her, Lucy made part of his unkindness. Maggie would have thought a little while ago that she could never be cross with pretty little Lucy, any more than she could be cruel to a little white mouse; but then, Tom had always been quite indifferent to Lucy before, and it had been left to Maggie to pet and make much of her. As it was, she was actually beginning to think that she should like to make Lucy cry by slapping or pinching her, especially as it might vex12 Tom, whom it was of no use to slap, even if she dared, because he didn’t mind it. And if Lucy hadn’t been there, Maggie was sure he would have got friends with her sooner.

    Tickling a fat toad who is not highly sensitive is an amusement that it is possible to exhaust, and Tom by and by began to look round for some other mode of passing the time. But in so prim13 a garden, where they were not to go off the paved walks, there was not a great choice of sport. The only great pleasure such a restriction14 suggested was the pleasure of breaking it, and Tom began to meditate15 an insurrectionary visit to the pond, about a field’s length beyond the garden.

    “I say, Lucy,” he began, nodding his head up and down with great significance, as he coiled up his string again, “what do you think I mean to do?”

    “What, Tom?” said Lucy, with curiosity.

    “I mean to go to the pond and look at the pike. You may go with me if you like,” said the young sultan.

    “Oh, Tom, dare you?” said Lucy. “Aunt said we mustn’t go out of the garden.”

    “Oh, I shall go out at the other end of the garden,” said Tom. “Nobody ’ull see us. Besides, I don’t care if they do,—I’ll run off home.”

    “But I couldn’t run,” said Lucy, who had never before been exposed to such severe temptation.

    “Oh, never mind; they won’t be cross with you,” said Tom. “You say I took you.”

    Tom walked along, and Lucy trotted16 by his side, timidly enjoying the rare treat of doing something naughty,—excited also by the mention of that celebrity17, the pike, about which she was quite uncertain whether it was a fish or a fowl18.

    Maggie saw them leaving the garden, and could not resist the impulse to follow. Anger and jealousy19 can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love, and that Tom and Lucy should do or see anything of which she was ignorant would have been an intolerable idea to Maggie. So she kept a few yards behind them, unobserved by Tom, who was presently absorbed in watching for the pike,—a highly interesting monster; he was said to be so very old, so very large, and to have such a remarkable20 appetite. The pike, like other celebrities21, did not show when he was watched for, but Tom caught sight of something in rapid movement in the water, which attracted him to another spot on the brink22 of the pond.

    “Here, Lucy!” he said in a loud whisper, “come here! take care! keep on the grass!—don’t step where the cows have been!” he added, pointing to a peninsula of dry grass, with trodden mud on each side of it; for Tom’s contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.

    Lucy came carefully as she was bidden, and bent23 down to look at what seemed a golden arrow-head darting24 through the water. It was a water-snake, Tom told her; and Lucy at last could see the serpentine25 wave of its body, very much wondering that a snake could swim. Maggie had drawn26 nearer and nearer; she must see it too, though it was bitter to her, like everything else, since Tom did not care about her seeing it. At last she was close by Lucy; and Tom, who had been aware of her approach, but would not notice it till he was obliged, turned round and said,—

    “Now, get away, Maggie; there’s no room for you on the grass here. Nobody asked you to come.”

    There were passions at war in Maggie at that moment to have made a tragedy, if tragedies were made by passion only; but the essential τι μέγεθος which was present in the passion was wanting to the action; the utmost Maggie could do, with a fierce thrust of her small brown arm, was to push poor little pink-and-white Lucy into the cow-trodden mud.

    Then Tom could not restrain himself, and gave Maggie two smart slaps on the arm as he ran to pick up Lucy, who lay crying helplessly. Maggie retreated to the roots of a tree a few yards off, and looked on impenitently27. Usually her repentance28 came quickly after one rash deed, but now Tom and Lucy had made her so miserable29, she was glad to spoil their happiness,—glad to make everybody uncomfortable. Why should she be sorry? Tom was very slow to forgive her, however sorry she might have been.

    “I shall tell mother, you know, Miss Mag,” said Tom, loudly and emphatically, as soon as Lucy was up and ready to walk away. It was not Tom’s practice to “tell,” but here justice clearly demanded that Maggie should be visited with the utmost punishment; not that Tom had learned to put his views in that abstract form; he never mentioned “justice,” and had no idea that his desire to punish might be called by that fine name. Lucy was too entirely30 absorbed by the evil that had befallen her,—the spoiling of her pretty best clothes, and the discomfort31 of being wet and dirty,—to think much of the cause, which was entirely mysterious to her. She could never have guessed what she had done to make Maggie angry with her; but she felt that Maggie was very unkind and disagreeable, and made no magnanimous entreaties32 to Tom that he would not “tell,” only running along by his side and crying piteously, while Maggie sat on the roots of the tree and looked after them with her small Medusa face.

    “Sally,” said Tom, when they reached the kitchen door, and Sally looked at them in speechless amaze, with a piece of bread-and-butter in her mouth and a toasting-fork in her hand,—“Sally, tell mother it was Maggie pushed Lucy into the mud.”

    “But Lors ha’ massy, how did you get near such mud as that?” said Sally, making a wry33 face, as she stooped down and examined the corpus delicti.

    Tom’s imagination had not been rapid and capacious enough to include this question among the foreseen consequences, but it was no sooner put than he foresaw whither it tended, and that Maggie would not be considered the only culprit in the case. He walked quietly away from the kitchen door, leaving Sally to that pleasure of guessing which active minds notoriously prefer to ready-made knowledge.

    Sally, as you are aware, lost no time in presenting Lucy at the parlour door, for to have so dirty an object introduced into the house at Garum Firs was too great a weight to be sustained by a single mind.

    “Goodness gracious!” aunt Pullet exclaimed, after preluding by an inarticulate scream; “keep her at the door, Sally! Don’t bring her off the oil-cloth, whatever you do.”

    “Why, she’s tumbled into some nasty mud,” said Mrs Tulliver, going up to Lucy to examine into the amount of damage to clothes for which she felt herself responsible to her sister Deane.

    “If you please, ’um, it was Miss Maggie as pushed her in,” said Sally; “Master Tom’s been and said so, and they must ha’ been to the pond, for it’s only there they could ha’ got into such dirt.”

    “There it is, Bessy; it’s what I’ve been telling you,” said Mrs Pullet, in a tone of prophetic sadness; “it’s your children,—there’s no knowing what they’ll come to.”

    Mrs Tulliver was mute, feeling herself a truly wretched mother. As usual, the thought pressed upon her that people would think she had done something wicked to deserve her maternal34 troubles, while Mrs Pullet began to give elaborate directions to Sally how to guard the premises35 from serious injury in the course of removing the dirt. Meantime tea was to be brought in by the cook, and the two naughty children were to have theirs in an ignominious36 manner in the kitchen. Mrs Tulliver went out to speak to these naughty children, supposing them to be close at hand; but it was not until after some search that she found Tom leaning with rather a hardened, careless air against the white paling of the poultry37-yard, and lowering his piece of string on the other side as a means of exasperating38 the turkey-cock.

    “Tom, you naughty boy, where’s your sister?” said Mrs Tulliver, in a distressed39 voice.

    “I don’t know,” said Tom; his eagerness for justice on Maggie had diminished since he had seen clearly that it could hardly be brought about without the injustice40 of some blame on his own conduct.

    “Why, where did you leave her?” said the mother, looking round.

    “Sitting under the tree, against the pond,” said Tom, apparently41 indifferent to everything but the string and the turkey-cock.

    “Then go and fetch her in this minute, you naughty boy. And how could you think o’ going to the pond, and taking your sister where there was dirt? You know she’ll do mischief42 if there’s mischief to be done.”

    It was Mrs Tulliver’s way, if she blamed Tom, to refer his misdemeanour, somehow or other, to Maggie.

    The idea of Maggie sitting alone by the pond roused an habitual fear in Mrs Tulliver’s mind, and she mounted the horse-block to satisfy herself by a sight of that fatal child, while Tom walked—not very quickly—on his way toward her.

    “They’re such children for the water, mine are,” she said aloud, without reflecting that there was no one to hear her; “they’ll be brought in dead and drownded some day. I wish that river was far enough.”

    But when she not only failed to discern Maggie, but presently saw Tom returning from the pool alone, this hovering43 fear entered and took complete possession of her, and she hurried to meet him.

    “Maggie’s nowhere about the pond, mother,” said Tom; “she’s gone away.”

    You may conceive the terrified search for Maggie, and the difficulty of convincing her mother that she was not in the pond. Mrs Pullet observed that the child might come to a worse end if she lived, there was no knowing; and Mr Pullet, confused and overwhelmed by this revolutionary aspect of things,—the tea deferred44 and the poultry alarmed by the unusual running to and fro,—took up his spud as an instrument of search, and reached down a key to unlock the goose-pen, as a likely place for Maggie to lie concealed45 in.

    Tom, after a while, started the idea that Maggie was gone home (without thinking it necessary to state that it was what he should have done himself under the circumstances), and the suggestion was seized as a comfort by his mother.

    “Sister, for goodness’ sake let ’em put the horse in the carriage and take me home; we shall perhaps find her on the road. Lucy can’t walk in her dirty clothes,” she said, looking at that innocent victim, who was wrapped up in a shawl, and sitting with naked feet on the sofa.

    Aunt Pullet was quite willing to take the shortest means of restoring her premises to order and quiet, and it was not long before Mrs Tulliver was in the chaise, looking anxiously at the most distant point before her. What the father would say if Maggie was lost, was a question that predominated over every other.



    点击收听单词发音收听单词发音  

    1 epoch [ˈi:pɒk] riTzw   第7级
    n.(新)时代;历元
    参考例句:
    • The epoch of revolution creates great figures. 革命时代造就伟大的人物。
    • We're at the end of the historical epoch, and at the dawn of another. 我们正处在一个历史时代的末期,另一个历史时代的开端。
    2 unprecedented [ʌnˈpresɪdentɪd] 7gSyJ   第8级
    adj.无前例的,新奇的
    参考例句:
    • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths. 这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
    • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented. 这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
    3 apparition [ˌæpəˈrɪʃn] rM3yR   第11级
    n.幽灵,神奇的现象
    参考例句:
    • He saw the apparition of his dead wife. 他看见了他亡妻的幽灵。
    • But the terror of this new apparition brought me to a stand. 这新出现的幽灵吓得我站在那里一动也不敢动。
    4 demons ['di:mənz] 8f23f80251f9c0b6518bce3312ca1a61   第10级
    n.恶人( demon的名词复数 );恶魔;精力过人的人;邪念
    参考例句:
    • demons torturing the sinners in Hell 地狱里折磨罪人的魔鬼
    • He is plagued by demons which go back to his traumatic childhood. 他为心魔所困扰,那可追溯至他饱受创伤的童年。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    5 considerably [kənˈsɪdərəbli] 0YWyQ   第9级
    adv.极大地;相当大地;在很大程度上
    参考例句:
    • The economic situation has changed considerably. 经济形势已发生了相当大的变化。
    • The gap has narrowed considerably. 分歧大大缩小了。
    6 toad [təʊd] oJezr   第8级
    n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆
    参考例句:
    • Both the toad and frog are amphibian. 蟾蜍和青蛙都是两栖动物。
    • Many kinds of toad hibernate in winter. 许多种蟾蜍在冬天都会冬眠。
    7 toads [təudz] 848d4ebf1875eac88fe0765c59ce57d1   第8级
    n.蟾蜍,癞蛤蟆( toad的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • All toads blink when they swallow. 所有的癞蛤蟆吞食东西时都会眨眼皮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • Toads have shorter legs and are generally more clumsy than frogs. 蟾蜍比青蛙脚短,一般说来没有青蛙灵活。 来自辞典例句
    8 tickling ['tɪklɪŋ] 8e56dcc9f1e9847a8eeb18aa2a8e7098   第9级
    反馈,回授,自旋挠痒法
    参考例句:
    • Was It'spring tickling her senses? 是不是春意撩人呢?
    • Its origin is in tickling and rough-and-tumble play, he says. 他说,笑的起源来自于挠痒痒以及杂乱无章的游戏。
    9 copper [ˈkɒpə(r)] HZXyU   第7级
    n.铜;铜币;铜器;adj.铜(制)的;(紫)铜色的
    参考例句:
    • The students are asked to prove the purity of copper. 要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
    • Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity. 铜是热和电的良导体。
    10 superfluous [su:ˈpɜ:fluəs] EU6zf   第7级
    adj.过多的,过剩的,多余的
    参考例句:
    • She fined away superfluous matter in the design. 她删去了这图案中多余的东西。
    • That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it. 我这样写的时候觉得这个请求似乎是多此一举。
    11 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。
    12 vex [veks] TLVze   第8级
    vt.使烦恼,使苦恼
    参考例句:
    • Everything about her vexed him. 有关她的一切都令他困惑。
    • It vexed me to think of others gossiping behind my back. 一想到别人在背后说我闲话,我就很恼火。
    13 prim [prɪm] SSIz3   第12级
    adj.拘泥形式的,一本正经的;n.循规蹈矩,整洁;adv.循规蹈矩地,整洁地
    参考例句:
    • She's too prim to enjoy rude jokes! 她太古板,不喜欢听粗野的笑话!
    • He is prim and precise in manner. 他的态度一本正经而严谨。
    14 restriction [rɪˈstrɪkʃn] jW8x0   第8级
    n.限制,约束
    参考例句:
    • The park is open to the public without restriction. 这个公园对公众开放,没有任何限制。
    • The 30 mph speed restriction applies in all built-up areas. 每小时限速30英里适用于所有建筑物聚集区。
    15 meditate [ˈmedɪteɪt] 4jOys   第8级
    vt. 考虑;计划;企图 vi. 冥想;沉思
    参考例句:
    • It is important to meditate on the meaning of life. 思考人生的意义很重要。
    • I was meditating, and reached a higher state of consciousness. 我在冥想,并进入了一个更高的意识境界。
    16 trotted [trɔtid] 6df8e0ef20c10ef975433b4a0456e6e1   第9级
    小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
    参考例句:
    • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
    • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
    17 celebrity [səˈlebrəti] xcRyQ   第7级
    n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
    参考例句:
    • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
    • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起,希望借此使自己获得名气。
    18 fowl [faʊl] fljy6   第8级
    n.家禽,鸡,禽肉
    参考例句:
    • Fowl is not part of a traditional brunch. 禽肉不是传统的早午餐的一部分。
    • Since my heart attack, I've eaten more fish and fowl and less red meat. 自从我患了心脏病后,我就多吃鱼肉和禽肉,少吃红色肉类。
    19 jealousy [ˈdʒeləsi] WaRz6   第7级
    n.妒忌,嫉妒,猜忌
    参考例句:
    • Some women have a disposition to jealousy. 有些女人生性爱妒忌。
    • I can't support your jealousy any longer. 我再也无法忍受你的嫉妒了。
    20 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。
    21 celebrities [siˈlebritiz] d38f03cca59ea1056c17b4467ee0b769   第7级
    n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
    参考例句:
    • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
    • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
    22 brink [brɪŋk] OWazM   第9级
    n.(悬崖、河流等的)边缘,边沿
    参考例句:
    • The tree grew on the brink of the cliff. 那棵树生长在峭壁的边缘。
    • The two countries were poised on the brink of war. 这两个国家处于交战的边缘。
    23 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。
    24 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
    25 serpentine [ˈsɜ:pəntaɪn] MEgzx   第11级
    adj.蜿蜒的,弯曲的
    参考例句:
    • One part of the Serpentine is kept for swimmers. 蜿蜒河的一段划为游泳区。
    • Tremolite laths and serpentine minerals are present in places. 有的地方出现透闪石板条及蛇纹石。
    26 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。
    27 impenitently [ɪmpenɪ'təntlɪ] 5f6bbf6e06cb829eee0f033cebc8f14e   第11级
    adv.不知悔改地
    参考例句:
    28 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。
    29 miserable [ˈmɪzrəbl] g18yk   第7级
    adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
    参考例句:
    • It was miserable of you to make fun of him. 你取笑他,这是可耻的。
    • Her past life was miserable. 她过去的生活很苦。
    30 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。
    31 discomfort [dɪsˈkʌmfət] cuvxN   第8级
    n.不舒服,不安,难过,困难,不方便
    参考例句:
    • One has to bear a little discomfort while travelling. 旅行中总要忍受一点不便。
    • She turned red with discomfort when the teacher spoke. 老师讲话时她不好意思地红着脸。
    32 entreaties [enˈtri:ti:z] d56c170cf2a22c1ecef1ae585b702562   第11级
    n.恳求,乞求( entreaty的名词复数 )
    参考例句:
    • He began with entreaties and ended with a threat. 他先是恳求,最后是威胁。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • The tyrant was deaf to the entreaties of the slaves. 暴君听不到奴隶们的哀鸣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    33 wry [raɪ] hMQzK   第10级
    adj.讽刺的;扭曲的
    参考例句:
    • He made a wry face and attempted to wash the taste away with coffee. 他做了个鬼脸,打算用咖啡把那怪味地冲下去。
    • Bethune released Tung's horse and made a wry mouth. 白求恩放开了董的马,噘了噘嘴。
    34 maternal [məˈtɜ:nl] 57Azi   第8级
    adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
    参考例句:
    • He is my maternal uncle. 他是我舅舅。
    • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts. 那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
    35 premises [ˈpremɪsɪz] 6l1zWN   第11级
    n.建筑物,房屋
    参考例句:
    • According to the rules, no alcohol can be consumed on the premises. 按照规定,场内不准饮酒。
    • All repairs are done on the premises and not put out. 全部修缮都在家里进行,不用送到外面去做。
    36 ignominious [ˌɪgnəˈmɪniəs] qczza   第11级
    adj.可鄙的,不光彩的,耻辱的
    参考例句:
    • The marriage was considered especially ignominious since she was of royal descent. 由于她出身王族,这门婚事被认为是奇耻大辱。
    • Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure. 许多人认为他注定会极不光彩地失败。
    37 poultry [ˈpəʊltri] GPQxh   第7级
    n.家禽,禽肉
    参考例句:
    • There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
    • What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?
    38 exasperating [ɪgˈzæspəreɪtɪŋ] 06604aa7af9dfc9c7046206f7e102cf0   第8级
    adj. 激怒的 动词exasperate的现在分词形式
    参考例句:
    • Our team's failure is very exasperating. 我们队失败了,真是气死人。
    • It is really exasperating that he has not turned up when the train is about to leave. 火车快开了, 他还不来,实在急人。
    39 distressed [dis'trest] du1z3y   第7级
    痛苦的
    参考例句:
    • He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions. 他非常苦恼而困惑,无法回答他们的问题。
    • The news of his death distressed us greatly. 他逝世的消息使我们极为悲痛。
    40 injustice [ɪnˈdʒʌstɪs] O45yL   第8级
    n.非正义,不公正,不公平,侵犯(别人的)权利
    参考例句:
    • They complained of injustice in the way they had been treated. 他们抱怨受到不公平的对待。
    • All his life he has been struggling against injustice. 他一生都在与不公正现象作斗争。
    41 apparently [əˈpærəntli] tMmyQ   第7级
    adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
    参考例句:
    • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space. 山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
    • He was apparently much surprised at the news. 他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
    42 mischief [ˈmɪstʃɪf] jDgxH   第7级
    n.损害,伤害,危害;恶作剧,捣蛋,胡闹
    参考例句:
    • Nobody took notice of the mischief of the matter. 没有人注意到这件事情所带来的危害。
    • He seems to intend mischief. 看来他想捣蛋。
    43 hovering ['hɒvərɪŋ] 99fdb695db3c202536060470c79b067f   第7级
    鸟( hover的现在分词 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫
    参考例句:
    • The helicopter was hovering about 100 metres above the pad. 直升机在离发射台一百米的上空盘旋。
    • I'm hovering between the concert and the play tonight. 我犹豫不决今晚是听音乐会还是看戏。
    44 deferred [dɪ'fɜ:d] 43fff3df3fc0b3417c86dc3040fb2d86   第7级
    adj.延期的,缓召的v.拖延,延缓,推迟( defer的过去式和过去分词 );服从某人的意愿,遵从
    参考例句:
    • The department deferred the decision for six months. 这个部门推迟了六个月才作决定。
    • a tax-deferred savings plan 延税储蓄计划
    45 concealed [kən'si:ld] 0v3zxG   第7级
    a.隐藏的,隐蔽的
    参考例句:
    • The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster. 那些画被隐藏在厚厚的灰泥层下面。
    • I think he had a gun concealed about his person. 我认为他当时身上藏有一支枪。

    文章评论 共有评论 0查看全部

      会员登陆
      热门单词标签
    我的单词印象
    我的理解: