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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter02-08)
本帖最后由 learnEnglish 于 2009-10-30 03:19 编辑 5 J% c. s. d) O. E t2 `8 F
6 s* X6 N, M0 ^% ~5 C2 NHe had had a nice, good, idle time all the while -- plenty of company -- and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village.
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. S, ?: ^1 ?: `9 H) Y: l6 S7 \" p. PTom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.
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The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report. * Y& B) G6 [; d# O, K7 r( ^, f
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all the while = 一直, 始终4 S8 r, q3 M4 w" w3 l
after all = 毕竟, 到底, 究竟
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" y/ F+ Y& y& u X7 _run out of = 用完, 从...跑出+ j l+ f& e% C( C) G
consist of = 由...组成
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1 f& z3 H2 P9 y6 q1 }& zwithout knowing it => 不知不觉- s: p4 p; W5 ?# k- y: {
wend => (old use or literary) to move or travel slowly somewhere* { P2 x- G1 p+ |% e. A* u
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tread-mill = 踏车, 单调乏味的工作, 跑步机
2 C4 X. X$ b, _0 h) K( L0 L1 X7 nten-pins = 十柱保龄球游戏
" x. C5 m/ i. O0 {; C8 s6 a' X% tpassenger-coaches = 客车
# d' F& @7 j* Y H7 xMont Blanc = 勃朗峰, 阿尔卑斯山脉最高峰
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philosopher
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wage
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headquarters
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attain
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muse
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considerable
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