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 -> 11级英语阅读 - > 露西·莫德·蒙哥马利:《黄金之路14》
露西·莫德·蒙哥马利:《黄金之路14》
添加时间:2024-10-08 09:34:38 浏览次数: 作者:未知
Tip:点击数字可快速查看单词解释  
  • CHAPTER XIV. A PRODIGAL1 RETURNS

    Aunt Olivia and the Story Girl lived in a whirlwind of dressmaking after that, and enjoyed it hugely. Cecily and Felicity also had to have new dresses for the great event, and they talked of little else for a fortnight. Cecily declared that she hated to go to sleep because she was sure to dream that she was at Aunt Olivia’s wedding in her old faded gingham dress and a ragged2 apron3.

    “And no shoes or stockings,” she added, “and I can’t move, and everyone walks past and looks at my feet.”

    “That’s only in a dream,” mourned Sara Ray, “but I may have to wear my last summer’s white dress to the wedding. It’s too short, but ma says it’s plenty good for this summer. I’ll be so mortified4 if I have to wear it.”

    “I’d rather not go at all than wear a dress that wasn’t nice,” said Felicity pleasantly.

    “I’d go to the wedding if I had to go in my school dress,” cried Sara Ray. “I’ve never been to anything. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”

    “My Aunt Jane always said that if you were neat and tidy it didn’t matter whether you were dressed fine or not,” said Peter.

    “I’m sick and tired of hearing about your Aunt Jane,” said Felicity crossly.

    Peter looked grieved but held his peace. Felicity was very hard on him that spring, but his loyalty5 never wavered. Everything she said or did was right in Peter’s eyes.

    “It’s all very well to be neat and tidy,” said Sara Ray, “but I like a little style too.”

    “I think you’ll find your mother will get you a new dress after all,” comforted Cecily. “Anyway, nobody will notice you because everyone will be looking at the bride. Aunt Olivia will make a lovely bride. Just think how sweet she’ll look in a white silk dress and a floating veil.”

    “She says she is going to have the ceremony performed out here in the orchard6 under her own tree,” said the Story Girl. “Won’t that be romantic? It almost makes me feel like getting married myself.”

    “What a way to talk,” rebuked7 Felicity, “and you only fifteen.”

    “Lots of people have been married at fifteen,” laughed the Story Girl. “Lady Jane Gray was.”

    “But you are always saying that Valeria H. Montague’s stories are silly and not true to life, so that is no argument,” retorted Felicity, who knew more about cooking than about history, and evidently imagined that the Lady Jane Gray was one of Valeria’s titled heroines.

    The wedding was a perennial8 source of conversation among us in those days; but presently its interest palled9 for a time in the light of another quite tremendous happening. One Saturday night Peter’s mother called to take him home with her for Sunday. She had been working at Mr. James Frewen’s, and Mr. Frewen was driving her home. We had never seen Peter’s mother before, and we looked at her with discreet10 curiosity. She was a plump, black-eyed little woman, neat as a pin, but with a rather tired and care-worn face that looked as if it should have been rosy11 and jolly. Life had been a hard battle for her, and I rather think that her curly-headed little lad was all that had kept heart and spirit in her. Peter went home with her and returned Sunday evening. We were in the orchard sitting around the Pulpit Stone, where we had, according to the custom of the households of King, been learning our golden texts and memory verses for the next Sunday School lesson. Paddy, grown sleek12 and handsome again, was sitting on the stone itself, washing his jowls.

    Peter joined us with a very queer expression on his face. He seemed bursting with some news which he wanted to tell and yet hardly liked to.

    “Why are you looking so mysterious, Peter?” demanded the Story Girl.

    “What do you think has happened?” asked Peter solemnly.

    “What has?”

    “My father has come home,” answered Peter.

    The announcement produced all the sensation he could have wished. We crowded around him in excitement.

    “Peter! When did he come back?”

    “Saturday night. He was there when ma and I got home. It give her an awful turn. I didn’t know him at first, of course.”

    “Peter Craig, I believe you are glad your father has come back,” cried the Story Girl.

    “‘Course I’m glad,” retorted Peter.

    “And after you saying you didn’t want ever to see him again,” said Felicity.

    “You just wait. You haven’t heard my story yet. I wouldn’t have been glad to see father if he’d come back the same as he went away. But he is a changed man. He happened to go into a revival13 meeting one night this spring and he got converted. And he’s come home to stay, and he says he’s never going to drink another drop, but he’s going to look after his family. Ma isn’t to do any more washing for nobody but him and me, and I’m not to be a hired boy any longer. He says I can stay with your Uncle Roger till the fall ‘cause I promised I would, but after that I’m to stay home and go to school right along and learn to be whatever I’d like to be. I tell you it made me feel queer. Everything seemed to be upset. But he gave ma forty dollars—every cent he had—so I guess he really is converted.”

    “I hope it will last, I’m sure,” said Felicity. She did not say it nastily, however. We were all glad for Peter’s sake, though a little dizzy over the unexpectedness of it all.

    “This is what I’D like to know,” said Peter. “How did Peg14 Bowen know my father was coming home? Don’t you tell me she isn’t a witch after that.”

    “And she knew about your Aunt Olivia’s wedding, too,” added Sara Ray.

    “Oh, well, she likely heard that from some one. Grown up folks talk things over long before they tell them to children,” said Cecily.

    “Well, she couldn’t have heard father was coming home from any one,” answered Peter. “He was converted up in Maine, where nobody knew him, and he never told a soul he was coming till he got here. No, you can believe what you like, but I’m satisfied at last that Peg is a witch and that skull15 of hers does tell her things. She told me father was coming home and he come!”

    “How happy you must be,” sighed Sara Ray romantically. “It’s just like that story in the Family Guide, where the missing earl comes home to his family just as the Countess and Lady Violetta are going to be turned out by the cruel heir.”

    Felicity sniffed16.

    “There’s some difference, I guess. The earl had been imprisoned17 for years in a loathsome18 dungeon19.”

    Perhaps Peter’s father had too, if we but realized it—imprisoned in the dungeon of his own evil appetites and habits, than which none could be more loathsome. But a Power, mightier20 than the forces of evil, had struck off his fetters21 and led him back to his long-forfeited liberty and light. And no countess or lady of high degree could have welcomed a long-lost earl home more joyfully22 than the tired little washerwoman had welcomed the erring23 husband of her youth.

    But in Peter’s ointment24 of joy there was a fly or two. So very, very few things are flawless in this world, even on the golden road.

    “Of course I’m awful glad that father has come back and that ma won’t have to wash any more,” he said with a sigh, “but there are two things that kind of worry me. My Aunt Jane always said that it didn’t do any good to worry, and I s’pose it don’t, but it’s kind of a relief.”

    “What’s worrying you?” asked Felix.

    “Well, for one thing I’ll feel awful bad to go away from you all. I’ll miss you just dreadful, and I won’t even be able to go to the same school. I’ll have to go to Markdale school.”

    “But you must come and see us often,” said Felicity graciously. “Markdale isn’t so far away, and you could spend every other Saturday afternoon with us anyway.”

    Peter’s black eyes filled with adoring gratitude25.

    “That’s so kind of you, Felicity. I’ll come as often as I can, of course; but it won’t be the same as being around with you all the time. The other thing is even worse. You see, it was a Methodist revival father got converted in, and so of course he joined the Methodist church. He wasn’t anything before. He used to say he was a Nothingarian and lived up to it—kind of bragging26 like. But he’s a strong Methodist now, and is going to go to Markdale Methodist church and pay to the salary. Now what’ll he say when I tell him I’m a Presbyterian?”

    “You haven’t told him, yet?” asked the Story Girl.

    “No, I didn’t dare. I was scared he’d say I’d have to be a Methodist.”

    “Well, Methodists are pretty near as good as Presbyterians,” said Felicity, with the air of one making a great concession27.

    “I guess they’re every bit as good,” retorted Peter. “But that ain’t the point. I’ve got to be a Presbyterian, ‘cause I stick to a thing when I once decide it. But I expect father will be mad when he finds out.”

    “If he’s converted he oughtn’t to get mad,” said Dan.

    “Well, lots o’ people do. But if he isn’t mad he’ll be sorry, and that’ll be even worse, for a Presbyterian I’m bound to be. But I expect it will make things unpleasant.”

    “You needn’t tell him anything about it,” advised Felicity. “Just keep quiet and go to the Methodist church until you get big, and then you can go where you please.”

    “No, that wouldn’t be honest,” said Peter sturdily. “My Aunt Jane always said it was best to be open and above board in everything, and especially in religion. So I’ll tell father right out, but I’ll wait a few weeks so as not to spoil things for ma too soon if he acts up.”

    Peter was not the only one who had secret cares. Sara Ray was beginning to feel worried over her looks. I heard her and Cecily talking over their troubles one evening while I was weeding the onion bed and they were behind the hedge knitting lace. I did not mean to eavesdrop28. I supposed they knew I was there until Cecily overwhelmed me with indignation later on.

    “I’m so afraid, Cecily, that I’m going to be homely29 all my life,” said poor Sara with a tremble in her voice. “You can stand being ugly when you are young if you have any hope of being better looking when you grow up. But I’m getting worse. Aunt Mary says I’m going to be the very image of Aunt Matilda. And Aunt Matilda is as homely as she can be. It isn’t”—and poor Sara sighed—“a very cheerful prospect30. If I am ugly nobody will ever want to marry me, and,” concluded Sara candidly31, “I don’t want to be an old maid.”

    “But plenty of girls get married who aren’t a bit pretty,” comforted Cecily. “Besides, you are real nice looking at times, Sara. I think you are going to have a nice figure.”

    “But just look at my hands,” moaned Sara. “They’re simply covered with warts32.”

    “Oh, the warts will all disappear before you grow up,” said Cecily.

    “But they won’t disappear before the school concert. How am I to get up there and recite? You know there is one line in my recitation, ‘She waved her lily-white hand,’ and I have to wave mine when I say it. Fancy waving a lily-white hand all covered with warts. I’ve tried every remedy I ever heard of, but nothing does any good. Judy Pineau said if I rubbed them with toad-spit it would take them away for sure. But how am I to get any toad-spit?”

    “It doesn’t sound like a very nice remedy, anyhow,” shuddered33 Cecily. “I’d rather have the warts. But do you know, I believe if you didn’t cry so much over every little thing, you’d be ever so much better looking. Crying spoils your eyes and makes the end of your nose red.”

    “I can’t help crying,” protested Sara. “My feelings are so very sensitive. I’ve given up trying to keep THAT resolution.”

    “Well, men don’t like cry-babies,” said Cecily sagely34. Cecily had a good deal of Mother Eve’s wisdom tucked away in that smooth, brown head of hers.

    “Cecily, do you ever intend to be married?” asked Sara in a confidential35 tone.

    “Goodness!” cried Cecily, quite shocked. “It will be time enough when I grow up to think of that, Sara.”

    “I should think you’d have to think of it now, with Cyrus Brisk as crazy after you as he is.”

    “I wish Cyrus Brisk was at the bottom of the Red Sea,” exclaimed Cecily, goaded36 into a spurt37 of temper by mention of the detested38 name.

    “What has Cyrus been doing now?” asked Felicity, coming around the corner of the hedge.

    “Doing NOW! It’s ALL the time. He just worries me to death,” returned Cecily angrily. “He keeps writing me letters and putting them in my desk or in my reader. I never answer one of them, but he keeps on. And in the last one, mind you, he said he’d do something desperate right off if I wouldn’t promise to marry him when we grew up.”

    “Just think, Cecily, you’ve had a proposal already,” said Sara Ray in an awe-struck tone.

    “But he hasn’t done anything desperate yet, and that was last week,” commented Felicity, with a toss of her head.

    “He sent me a lock of his hair and wanted one of mine in exchange,” continued Cecily indignantly. “I tell you I sent his back to him pretty quick.”

    “Did you never answer any of his letters?” asked Sara Ray.

    “No, indeed! I guess not!”

    “Do you know,” said Felicity, “I believe if you wrote him just once and told him your exact opinion of him in good plain English it would cure him of his nonsense.”

    “I couldn’t do that. I haven’t enough spunk,” confessed Cecily with a blush. “But I’ll tell you what I did do once. He wrote me a long letter last week. It was just awfully39 SOFT, and every other word was spelled wrong. He even spelled baking soda, ‘bacon soda!’”

    “What on earth had he to say about baking soda in a love-letter?” asked Felicity.

    “Oh, he said his mother sent him to the store for some and he forgot it because he was thinking about me. Well, I just took his letter and wrote in all the words, spelled right, above the wrong ones, in red ink, just as Mr. Perkins makes us do with our dictation exercises, and sent it back to him. I thought maybe he’d feel insulted and stop writing to me.”

    “And did he?”

    “No, he didn’t. It is my opinion you can’t insult Cyrus Brisk. He is too thick-skinned. He wrote another letter, and thanked me for correcting his mistakes, and said it made him feel glad because it showed I was beginning to take an interest in him when I wanted him to spell better. Did you ever? Miss Marwood says it is wrong to hate anyone, but I don’t care, I hate Cyrus Brisk.”

    “Mrs. Cyrus Brisk WOULD be an awful name,” giggled40 Felicity.

    “Flossie Brisk says Cyrus is ruining all the trees on his father’s place cutting your name on them,” said Sara Ray. “His father told him he would whip him if he didn’t stop, but Cyrus keeps right on. He told Flossie it relieved his feelings. Flossie says he cut yours and his together on the birch tree in front of the parlour window, and a row of hearts around them.”

    “Just where every visitor can see them, I suppose,” lamented41 Cecily. “He just worries my life out. And what I mind most of all is, he sits and looks at me in school with such melancholy42, reproachful eyes when he ought to be working sums. I won’t look at him, but I FEEL him staring at me, and it makes me so nervous.”

    “They say his mother was out of her mind at one time,” said Felicity.

    I do not think Felicity was quite well pleased that Cyrus should have passed over her rose-red prettiness to set his affections on that demure43 elf of a Cecily. She did not want the allegiance of Cyrus in the least, but it was something of a slight that he had not wanted her to want it.

    “And he sends me pieces of poetry he cuts out of the papers,” Cecily went on, “with lots of the lines marked with a lead pencil. Yesterday he put one in his letter, and this is what he marked:

    “‘If you will not relent to me

    Then must I learn to know

    Darkness alone till life be flown.

    Here—I have the piece in my sewing-bag—I’ll read it all to you.”

    Those three graceless girls read the sentimental44 rhyme and giggled over it. Poor Cyrus! His young affections were sadly misplaced. But after all, though Cecily never relented towards him, he did not condemn45 himself to darkness alone till life was flown. Quite early in life he wedded46 a stout47, rosy, buxom48 lass, the very antithesis49 of his first love; he prospered50 in his undertakings51, raised a large and respectable family, and was eventually appointed a Justice of the Peace. Which was all very sensible of Cyrus.



    点击收听单词发音收听单词发音  

    1 prodigal [ˈprɒdɪgl] qtsym   第9级
    adj.浪费的,挥霍的,放荡的
    参考例句:
    • He has been prodigal of the money left by his parents. 他已挥霍掉他父母留下的钱。
    • The country has been prodigal of its forests. 这个国家的森林正受过度的采伐。
    2 ragged [ˈrægɪd] KC0y8   第7级
    adj.衣衫褴褛的,粗糙的,刺耳的
    参考例句:
    • A ragged shout went up from the small crowd. 这一小群人发出了刺耳的喊叫。
    • Ragged clothing infers poverty. 破衣烂衫意味着贫穷。
    3 apron [ˈeɪprən] Lvzzo   第7级
    n.围裙;工作裙
    参考例句:
    • We were waited on by a pretty girl in a pink apron. 招待我们的是一位穿粉红色围裙的漂亮姑娘。
    • She stitched a pocket on the new apron. 她在新围裙上缝上一只口袋。
    4 mortified [ˈmɔ:təˌfaɪd] 0270b705ee76206d7730e7559f53ea31   第11级
    v.使受辱( mortify的过去式和过去分词 );伤害(人的感情);克制;抑制(肉体、情感等)
    参考例句:
    • She was mortified to realize he had heard every word she said. 她意识到自己的每句话都被他听到了,直羞得无地自容。
    • The knowledge of future evils mortified the present felicities. 对未来苦难的了解压抑了目前的喜悦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    5 loyalty [ˈlɔɪəlti] gA9xu   第7级
    n.忠诚,忠心
    参考例句:
    • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty. 她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
    • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt. 他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
    6 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。
    7 rebuked [riˈbju:kt] bdac29ff5ae4a503d9868e9cd4d93b12   第9级
    责难或指责( rebuke的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The company was publicly rebuked for having neglected safety procedures. 公司因忽略了安全规程而受到公开批评。
    • The teacher rebuked the boy for throwing paper on the floor. 老师指责这个男孩将纸丢在地板上。
    8 perennial [pəˈreniəl] i3bz7   第10级
    adj.终年的;长久的
    参考例句:
    • I wonder at her perennial youthfulness. 我对她青春常驻感到惊讶。
    • There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications. 有理科教学资格的老师一直都很短缺。
    9 palled ['pæld] 984be633df413584fa60334756686b70   第8级
    v.(因过多或过久而)生厌,感到乏味,厌烦( pall的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • They palled up at college. 他们是在大学结识的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • The long hot idle summer days palled on me. 我对这漫长、炎热、无所事事的夏天感到腻烦了。 来自辞典例句
    10 discreet [dɪˈskri:t] xZezn   第8级
    adj.(言行)谨慎的;慎重的;有判断力的
    参考例句:
    • He is very discreet in giving his opinions. 发表意见他十分慎重。
    • It wasn't discreet of you to ring me up at the office. 你打电话到我办公室真是太鲁莽了。
    11 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。
    12 sleek [sli:k] zESzJ   第10级
    adj.光滑的,井然有序的;v.使光滑,梳拢
    参考例句:
    • Women preferred sleek, shiny hair with little decoration. 女士们更喜欢略加修饰的光滑闪亮型秀发。
    • The horse's coat was sleek and glossy. 这匹马全身润泽有光。
    13 revival [rɪˈvaɪvl] UWixU   第8级
    n.复兴,复苏,(精力、活力等的)重振
    参考例句:
    • The period saw a great revival in the wine trade. 这一时期葡萄酒业出现了很大的复苏。
    • He claimed the housing market was showing signs of a revival. 他指出房地产市场正出现复苏的迹象。
    14 peg [peg] p3Fzi   第8级
    n.木栓,木钉;vt.用木钉钉,用短桩固定
    参考例句:
    • Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall. 把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
    • He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet. 他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。
    15 skull [skʌl] CETyO   第7级
    n.头骨;颅骨
    参考例句:
    • The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. 头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
    • He fell out of the window and cracked his skull. 他从窗子摔了出去,跌裂了颅骨。
    16 sniffed [snift] ccb6bd83c4e9592715e6230a90f76b72   第7级
    v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说
    参考例句:
    • When Jenney had stopped crying she sniffed and dried her eyes. 珍妮停止了哭泣,吸了吸鼻子,擦干了眼泪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • The dog sniffed suspiciously at the stranger. 狗疑惑地嗅着那个陌生人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    17 imprisoned [ɪmˈprɪzənd] bc7d0bcdd0951055b819cfd008ef0d8d   第8级
    下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • He was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months. 他被判处30个月和18个月的监禁,合并执行。
    • They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. 他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。
    18 loathsome [ˈləʊðsəm] Vx5yX   第11级
    adj.讨厌的,令人厌恶的
    参考例句:
    • The witch hid her loathsome face with her hands. 巫婆用手掩住她那张令人恶心的脸。
    • Some people think that snakes are loathsome creatures. 有些人觉得蛇是令人憎恶的动物。
    19 dungeon [ˈdʌndʒən] MZyz6   第10级
    n.地牢,土牢
    参考例句:
    • They were driven into a dark dungeon. 他们被人驱赶进入一个黑暗的地牢。
    • He was just set free from a dungeon a few days ago. 几天前,他刚从土牢里被放出来。
    20 mightier [ˈmaɪti:ə] 76f7dc79cccb0a7cef821be61d0656df   第7级
    adj. 强有力的,强大的,巨大的 adv. 很,极其
    参考例句:
    • But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier. 但是,这种组织总是重新产生,并且一次比一次更强大,更坚固,更有力。 来自英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言
    • Do you believe that the pen is mightier than the sword? 你相信笔杆的威力大于武力吗?
    21 fetters ['fetəz] 25139e3e651d34fe0c13030f3d375428   第10级
    n.脚镣( fetter的名词复数 );束缚v.给…上脚镣,束缚( fetter的第三人称单数 )
    参考例句:
    • They were at last freed from the fetters of ignorance. 他们终于从愚昧无知的束缚中解脱出来。
    • They will run wild freed from the fetters of control. 他们一旦摆脱了束缚,就会变得无法无天。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    22 joyfully ['dʒɔɪfəlɪ] joyfully   第8级
    adv. 喜悦地, 高兴地
    参考例句:
    • She tripped along joyfully as if treading on air. 她高兴地走着,脚底下轻飘飘的。
    • During these first weeks she slaved joyfully. 在最初的几周里,她干得很高兴。
    23 erring ['ɜ:rɪŋ] a646ae681564dc63eb0b5a3cb51b588e   第10级
    做错事的,错误的
    参考例句:
    • Instead of bludgeoning our erring comrades, we should help them with criticism. 对犯错误的同志, 要批评帮助,不能一棍子打死。
    • She had too little faith in mankind not to know that they were erring. 她对男人们没有信心,知道他们总要犯错误的。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
    24 ointment [ˈɔɪntmənt] 6vzy5   第9级
    n.药膏,油膏,软膏
    参考例句:
    • Your foot will feel better after the application of this ointment. 敷用这药膏后,你的脚会感到舒服些。
    • This herbal ointment will help to close up your wound quickly. 这种中草药膏会帮助你的伤口很快愈合。
    25 gratitude [ˈgrætɪtju:d] p6wyS   第7级
    adj.感激,感谢
    参考例句:
    • I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him. 我向他表示了深切的谢意。
    • She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face. 她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。
    26 bragging [b'ræɡɪŋ] 4a422247fd139463c12f66057bbcffdf   第8级
    v.自夸,吹嘘( brag的现在分词 );大话
    参考例句:
    • He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer. 他总是吹嘘自己板球水平高超。 来自辞典例句
    • Now you're bragging, darling. You know you don't need to brag. 这就是夸口,亲爱的。你明知道你不必吹。 来自辞典例句
    27 concession [kənˈseʃn] LXryY   第7级
    n.让步,妥协;特许(权)
    参考例句:
    • We can not make heavy concession to the matter. 我们在这个问题上不能过于让步。
    • That is a great concession. 这是很大的让步。
    28 eavesdrop [ˈi:vzdrɒp] lrPxS   第10级
    n. 屋檐上流下来的水 vi. 偷听,窃听
    参考例句:
    • He ensconced himself in the closet in order to eavesdrop. 他藏在壁橱里,以便偷听。
    • It is not polite to eavesdrop on the conversation of other people. 偷听他人说话是很不礼貌的。
    29 homely [ˈhəʊmli] Ecdxo   第9级
    adj.家常的,简朴的;不漂亮的
    参考例句:
    • We had a homely meal of bread and cheese. 我们吃了一顿面包加乳酪的家常便餐。
    • Come and have a homely meal with us, will you? 来和我们一起吃顿家常便饭,好吗?
    30 prospect [ˈprɒspekt] P01zn   第7级
    n.前景,前途;景色,视野
    参考例句:
    • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect. 事态呈现出可喜的前景。
    • The prospect became more evident. 前景变得更加明朗了。
    31 candidly ['kændɪdlɪ] YxwzQ1   第9级
    adv.坦率地,直率而诚恳地
    参考例句:
    • He has stopped taking heroin now,but admits candidly that he will always be a drug addict.他眼下已经不再吸食海洛因了,不过他坦言自己永远都是个瘾君子。
    • Candidly,David,I think you're being unreasonable.大卫,说实话我认为你不讲道理。
    32 warts [wɔ:ts] b5d5eab9e823b8f3769fad05f1f2d423   第11级
    n.疣( wart的名词复数 );肉赘;树瘤;缺点
    参考例句:
    • You agreed to marry me, warts and all! 是你同意和我结婚的,我又没掩饰缺陷。 来自辞典例句
    • Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! 用那样糊涂蛋的方法还谈什么仙水治疣子! 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
    33 shuddered [ˈʃʌdəd] 70137c95ff493fbfede89987ee46ab86   第8级
    v.战栗( shudder的过去式和过去分词 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动
    参考例句:
    • He slammed on the brakes and the car shuddered to a halt. 他猛踩刹车,车颤抖着停住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    • I shuddered at the sight of the dead body. 我一看见那尸体就战栗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    34 sagely [seɪdʒlɪ] sagely   第10级
    adv. 贤能地,贤明地
    参考例句:
    • Even the ones who understand may nod sagely. 即使对方知道这一点,也会一本正经地点头同意。
    • Well, that's about all of the sagely advice this old grey head can come up with. 好了,以上就是我这个满头银发的老头儿给你们的充满睿智的忠告。
    35 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。
    36 goaded [gəʊdid] 57b32819f8f3c0114069ed3397e6596e   第10级
    v.刺激( goad的过去式和过去分词 );激励;(用尖棒)驱赶;驱使(或怂恿、刺激)某人
    参考例句:
    • Goaded beyond endurance, she turned on him and hit out. 她被气得忍无可忍,于是转身向他猛击。
    • The boxers were goaded on by the shrieking crowd. 拳击运动员听见观众的喊叫就来劲儿了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    37 spurt [spɜ:t] 9r9yE   第10级
    vi. 冲刺;喷出;迸发 n. 冲刺;喷射 vt. 喷射;喷出
    参考例句:
    • He put in a spurt at the beginning of the eighth lap. 他进入第八圈时便开始冲刺。
    • After a silence, Molly let her anger spurt out. 沉默了一会儿,莫莉的怒气便迸发了出来。
    38 detested [dɪˈtestid] e34cc9ea05a83243e2c1ed4bd90db391   第9级
    v.憎恶,嫌恶,痛恨( detest的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • They detested each other on sight. 他们互相看着就不顺眼。
    • The freethinker hated the formalist; the lover of liberty detested the disciplinarian. 自由思想者总是不喜欢拘泥形式者,爱好自由者总是憎恶清规戒律者。 来自辞典例句
    39 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。
    40 giggled [ˈɡiɡld] 72ecd6e6dbf913b285d28ec3ba1edb12   第7级
    v.咯咯地笑( giggle的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The girls giggled at the joke. 女孩子们让这笑话逗得咯咯笑。
    • The children giggled hysterically. 孩子们歇斯底里地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    41 lamented [ləˈmentɪd] b6ae63144a98bc66c6a97351aea85970   第7级
    adj.被哀悼的,令人遗憾的v.(为…)哀悼,痛哭,悲伤( lament的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • her late lamented husband 她那令人怀念的已故的丈夫
    • We lamented over our bad luck. 我们为自己的不幸而悲伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    42 melancholy [ˈmelənkəli] t7rz8   第8级
    n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的
    参考例句:
    • All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy. 他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
    • He felt melancholy after he failed the exam. 这次考试没通过,他感到很郁闷。
    43 demure [dɪˈmjʊə(r)] 3mNzb   第12级
    adj.严肃的;端庄的
    参考例句:
    • She's very demure and sweet. 她非常娴静可爱。
    • The luscious Miss Wharton gave me a demure but knowing smile. 性感迷人的沃顿小姐对我羞涩地会心一笑。
    44 sentimental [ˌsentɪˈmentl] dDuzS   第7级
    adj.多愁善感的,感伤的
    参考例句:
    • She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny. 她是多愁善感的人,她相信姻缘命中注定。
    • We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie. 我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。
    45 condemn [kənˈdem] zpxzp   第7级
    vt.谴责,指责;宣判(罪犯),判刑
    参考例句:
    • Some praise him, whereas others condemn him. 有些人赞扬他,而有些人谴责他。
    • We mustn't condemn him on mere suppositions. 我们不可全凭臆测来指责他。
    46 wedded [ˈwedɪd] 2e49e14ebbd413bed0222654f3595c6a   第9级
    adj.正式结婚的;渴望…的,执著于…的v.嫁,娶,(与…)结婚( wed的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • She's wedded to her job. 她专心致志于工作。
    • I was invited over by the newly wedded couple for a meal. 我被那对新婚夫妇请去吃饭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
    47 stout [staʊt] PGuzF   第8级
    adj.强壮的,结实的,勇猛的,矮胖的
    参考例句:
    • He cut a stout stick to help him walk. 他砍了一根结实的枝条用来拄着走路。
    • The stout old man waddled across the road. 那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。
    48 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。
    49 antithesis [ænˈtɪθəsɪs] dw6zT   第10级
    n.对立;相对
    参考例句:
    • The style of his speech was in complete antithesis to mine. 他和我的讲话方式完全相反。
    • His creation was an antithesis to academic dogmatism of the time. 他的创作与当时学院派的教条相对立。
    50 prospered [ˈprɔspəd] ce2c414688e59180b21f9ecc7d882425   第7级
    成功,兴旺( prosper的过去式和过去分词 )
    参考例句:
    • The organization certainly prospered under his stewardship. 不可否认,这个组织在他的管理下兴旺了起来。
    • Mr. Black prospered from his wise investments. 布莱克先生由于巧妙的投资赚了不少钱。
    51 undertakings [ˈʌndəˌteɪkɪŋz] e635513464ec002d92571ebd6bc9f67e   第9级
    企业( undertaking的名词复数 ); 保证; 殡仪业; 任务
    参考例句:
    • The principle of diligence and frugality applies to all undertakings. 勤俭节约的原则适用于一切事业。
    • Such undertakings require the precise planning and foresight of military operations. 此举要求军事上战役中所需要的准确布置和预见。

    文章评论 共有评论 0查看全部

      会员登陆
    我的单词印象
    我的理解: