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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 0 M; j6 r( o. ]' s, z2 A0 Z
, S# F v. K7 y6 n, b+ F# _He 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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Tom 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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5 c/ F1 ?* T! @$ y, A( P) BThe boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report.
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r1 T/ r5 A8 Z6 eall the while = 一直, 始终+ a6 ]4 x) f% q/ c# U4 V
after all = 毕竟, 到底, 究竟8 I2 D9 G* O6 z( [/ h
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0 I# r+ G" H1 u$ R, Krun out of = 用完, 从...跑出0 ` [! V8 c, @9 Q
consist of = 由...组成
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) H i+ B$ Q& P! K1 i, ~8 cwithout knowing it => 不知不觉
( l& g4 p2 \0 dwend => (old use or literary) to move or travel slowly somewhere
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tread-mill = 踏车, 单调乏味的工作, 跑步机
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passenger-coaches = 客车% Q2 H( J; d d5 X& {
Mont Blanc = 勃朗峰, 阿尔卑斯山脉最高峰( `- a1 A( I0 L3 n
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wage
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covet
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comprehend
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construct
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considerable
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