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
actophilus
adsorptionally
agnotological
andrien
Archaeoglobaceae
argology
array attribute
arteriae angularis
bioerodible
biological barrier
Bruckner cycle
Burgh le Marsh
Calibra
capital machine
cell solar photovoltaic
consolidating station
contingency plans and emergency procedures manual
covering tape
curvilinear generatrix
d'auria
de-acidify
deutschendorf
Dmytryk, Edward
dual switch board
effective dispersion parameter
effluent characteristics
electro-static unit
esuprone
facial three equal division ratio
fathe
fluorescence histochemical method
foreign-related cases
gangtoks
gear tooth caliper
going concern concept
gunner's sling
hagen-poiseville law
hall of fame
hemp cut plaster finishing coat
high accuracy gravimeter
hoplologists
horizontal-vertical illusion
hybrid meson
indicating system
inuktitut
ionic beam
kupfer (copper)
Lake of the Woods
lay siege
leaders in their chosen field of learning
left heart bypass system
Ligusticum capillaceum
located
lugovoi
make a production out of
mariners needle
micro-enterprise
miharamycin
mouth-breathing-related gingivitis
naturl death
noninvaded
number of cash-sweep chances
oscillator priming
page display
particulate trap system
perished metal
polonecks
poststructural
pre-tax rate of return
private dicks
rate accuracy
rated boost
requirement vector
respirated
reticular cells
ribothymidines
right bracket
ring-fenced
rolling-disk planimeter
seepage reflux
Seibabo
short polynomial product algrorithm
surface chemical reaction
talk sb. into sth.
the Big Bang
thermal expansion analysis
throughseek
to put it simply
Tocantins, Estado de
turn toaccount good account
underground warehouse
unozonized
visual deprivation
Vitpex
vultaggio
water jet descaling
work metal
work norm
written judgement service
xanthopterin
you'll
zinc couple