时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:马克吐温最佳短篇小说


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   Chapter 1Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects 1 is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside--unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew everybody and his dog, and a sociable 2 friendliness 3 was the prevailing 4 atmosphere. Saladin Foster was book-keeper in the principal store, and the only high-salaried man of his profession in Lakeside. He was thirty-five years old, now; he had served that store for fourteen years; he had begun in his marriage-week at four hundred dollars a year, and had climbed steadily 5 up, a hundred dollars a year, for four years; from that time forth 6 his wage had remained eight hundred--a handsome figure indeed, and everybody conceded that he was worth it.


  His wife, Electra, was a capable help meet, although--like himself-- a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler 7 in romance. The first thing she did, after her marriage--child as she was, aged 8 only nineteen-- was to buy an acre of ground on the edge of the town, and pay down the cash for it--twenty-five dollars, all her fortune. Saladin had less, by fifteen. She instituted a vegetable garden there, got it farmed on shares by the nearest neighbor, and made it pay her a hundred per cent. a year. Out of Saladin's first year's wage she put thirty dollars in the savings-bank, sixty out of his second, a hundred out of his third, a hundred and fifty out of his fourth. His wage went to eight hundred a year, then, and meantime two children had arrived and increased the expenses, but she banked two hundred a year from the salary, nevertheless, thenceforth. When she had been married seven years she built and furnished a pretty and comfortable two-thousand-dollar house in the midst of her garden-acre, paid half of the money down and moved her family in. Seven years later she was out of debt and had several hundred dollars out earning its living.
  Earning it by the rise in landed estate; for she had long ago bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a generalcomradeship for herself and her growing family. She had an independent income from safe investments of about a hundred dollars a year; her children were growing in years and grace; and she was a pleased and happy woman. Happy in her husband, happy in her children, and the husband and thechildren were happy in her. It is at this point that this history begins.

n.宗派,教派( sect的名词复数 )
  • Members of these sects are ruthlessly persecuted and suppressed. 这些教派的成员遭到了残酷的迫害和镇压。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He had subdued the religious sects, cleaned up Saigon. 他压服了宗教派别,刷新了西贡的面貌。 来自辞典例句
adj.好交际的,友好的,合群的
  • Roger is a very sociable person.罗杰是个非常好交际的人。
  • Some children have more sociable personalities than others.有些孩子比其他孩子更善于交际。
n.友谊,亲切,亲密
  • Behind the mask of friendliness,I know he really dislikes me.在友善的面具后面,我知道他其实并不喜欢我。
  • His manner was a blend of friendliness and respect.他的态度友善且毕恭毕敬。
adj.盛行的;占优势的;主要的
  • She wears a fashionable hair style prevailing in the city.她的发型是这个城市流行的款式。
  • This reflects attitudes and values prevailing in society.这反映了社会上盛行的态度和价值观。
adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地
  • The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
  • Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • 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。
n. 戏水者, 业余家, 半玩半认真做的人
  • The dabbler in knowledge chatters away; the wise man stays silent. 一瓶子不响,半瓶子晃荡。
  • He's not a dedicated musician but a dabbler. 他并不是专门的音乐家,只不过是个业余家。
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
学英语单词
ablactating
account of business
accountable additivity
address accept response
adjustment knob
adult-onset
aircraft navigation
akvavit
allocation models
alternating current transducer
Amuse.
antimonial silver
Apolloniu's theorem
arsenic chloride solution
Atlantic ocean region-east
atomize(-se)
atrichornithidaes
automatic retirement
behenic acid
benzene nucleuss
bid rate
bimba
Blatzheim
cam shaft housing
capful of wind
clock valve
cock ... up
cost of market, whichever is lower
cross-fertilizable
d. w. griffiths
drop a deuce
dry filling
effaced
ekbom's disease
elastic layer system theory
erodible channel
factory-mades
field-grade officer
finite memory system
flute width
fuel-rod loading
gestation period
high school graduate
higher polymer
Hilary Rules
human labo(u)r
indigo-dyeds
Inhibere
input voltage range
intrata
isotopic thermometre
IVDP (initial vector display point)
lace-makings
lagenolith
light pulse bonding
machine in normal service
main product order
maximum mode
menconi
microfluidic
Monday morning quarterback
mortgaging
multimoment display
non-degenerate system
nonxylitol
Online Certificate Status Protocol
optic neurasthenia
Phi Bete
Poltsamaa
prehnitite
radiocompass
rayleigh wavelet
realistic fiction
repairing of vacuum leak
root face
rope coupling
screw home
secotyl
selective abstract
selling crisis
shock-wave gas ionization
silv-
sliding plate viscometer
snr bandwidth product
spillway channel
Staril
stationary cone classifier
steel weir
steering band
strike a fish
suborbital crest
tetraotus
thrust augmenting ejector
ultrasonic examination of urogenital system
umbellula
underground folding
upland antshrikes
velvet brocade
water-cooled crucible
wide field eyepiece
workahol
zlenkoes