野性的呼唤第12节 重点词汇
Kind-hearted citizens caught the dogs and gathered up the scattered belongings.
Also, they gave advice. Half the load and twice the dogs, if they ever expected to
reach Dawson, was what was said. Hal and his sister and brother-in-law listened
unwillingly, pitched tent, and overhauled the out?t. Canned goods were turned
out that made men laugh, for canned goods on the Long Trail is a thing to dream
about. “Blankets for a hotel” quoth one of the men who laughed and helped.
“Half as many is too much; get rid of them. Throw away that tent, and all those
dishes,—who’s going to wash them, anyway? Good Lord, do you think you’re
travelling on a Pullman?”
g404expect v. 等待；期待；盼望 ( 常?于进?时 )??
【搭配】
to expect a visit/call/letter from sb 等待某?的来访╱电话╱来信
?
【联想】
expectation n. 期待，预期；期望，指望
g404can v. 把......装罐
【其他重要事释义】
n. 罐; 罐头,?罐
empty beer cans? ? 空啤酒罐
a can of soda? ? ? ?罐汽?
And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the super?uous. Mercedes cried
when her clothes-bags were dumped on the ground and article after article was
thrown out. She cried in general, and she cried in particular over each discarded
thing. She clasped hands about knees, rocking back and forth broken-heartedly.
She averred she would not go an inch, not for a dozen Charleses. She appealed
to everybody and to everything, ?nally wiping her eyes and proceeding to cast
out even articles of apparel that were imperative necessaries. And in her zeal,
when she had ?nished with her own, she attacked the belongings of her men and
went through them like a tornado.
g404dump v. 丢弃，扔掉（常?被动语态）
【同义】
get rid of?
g404article n.? 物件，物品
【搭配】
articles of clothing ?物
toilet articles such as soap and shampoo 诸如肥皂和洗发剂之类的梳妆?品
g404clasp v. 握紧；攥紧；抓紧
【搭配】
rock from side to side? 来回摇荡
rock backwards and forwards? 前后摇晃
g404appeal? v. 恳求
【搭配】
appeal to sb
appeal for sth
?
【联想】
appealing 吸引?的；恳求似的
g404wipe v. 擦；拭；抹
【搭配】
wipe one’s hands擦?
wiping one’s eyes 拭擦眼泪
wiped his plate clean 把碟?擦?净?
This accomplished, the out?t, though cut in half, was still a formidable bulk.
Charles and Hal went out in the evening and bought six Outside dogs. These,
added to the six of the original team, and Teek and Koona, the huskies obtained
at the Rink Rapids on the record trip, brought the team up to fourteen. But the
Outside dogs, though practically broken in since their landing, did not amount to
much. Three were short-haired pointers, one was a Newfoundland, and the other
two were mongrels of indeterminate breed. They did not seem to know anything,
these newcomers. Buck and his comrades looked upon them with disgust, and
though he speedily taught them their places and what not to do, he could not
teach them what to do. They did not take kindly to trace and trail. With the
exception of the two mongrels, they were bewildered and spirit-broken by the
strange savage environment in which they found themselves and by the ill
treatment they had received. The two mongrels were without spirit at all; bones
were the only things breakable about them.
g404original adj. 原来的；起初的；最早的（只?在名词前）
【搭配】
original features当初的许多特点
original plan? ?原来的计划
g404practically adv. ?乎；差不多
【搭配】
practically empty ?乎空的
practically every day?乎每天
?
【联想】
adj. practical 实际的；实?性的
n. practice 实践；练习；惯例
v. practice 练习；实习；实?
g404disgust n. 厌恶；憎恶；反感
【搭配】
with disgust 令?恶?
in disgust 厌恶
Much to my disgust 令我极其愤慨
?
【联想】
adj. disgusting? 令?厌恶的
With the newcomers hopeless and forlorn, and the old team worn out by twenty-
?ve hundred miles of continuous trail, the outlook was anything but bright. The
two men, however, were quite cheerful. And they were proud, too. They were
doing the thing in style, with fourteen dogs. They had seen other sleds depart
over the Pass for Dawson, or come in from Dawson, but never had they seen a
sled with so many as fourteen dogs. In the nature of Arctic travel there was a
reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one sled, and that was that one sled
could not carry the food for fourteen dogs. But Charles and Hal did not know
this. They had worked the trip out with a pencil, so much to a dog, so many dogs,
so many days, Q.E.D. Mercedes looked over their shoulders and nodded
comprehensively, it was all so very simple.
g404outlook n. 前景；可能性
【搭配】
outlook for sth
the outlook for jobs 就业市场
the country''s economic outlook 国家的经济前景
Buck felt vaguely that there was no depending upon these two men and the
woman. They did not know how to do anything, and as the days went by it
became apparent that they could not learn. They were slack in all things, without
order or discipline. It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half
the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly
that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the
load. Some days they did not make ten miles. On other days they were unable to
get started at all. And on no day did they succeed in making more than half the
distance used by the men as a basis in their dog-food computation.
g404occupied adj. 忙于
【搭配】
occupied doing sth/in doing sth/in sth
occupied with sth/with doing sth
?
【联想】
v. occupy 使忙碌
Then came the underfeeding. Hal awoke one day to the fact that his dog-food
was half gone and the distance only quarter covered; further, that for love or
money no additional dog-food was to be obtained. So he cut down even the
orthodox ration and tried to increase the day’s travel. His sister and brother-in-
law seconded him; but they were frustrated by their heavy out?t and their own
incompetence. It was a simple matter to give the dogs less food; but it was
impossible to make the dogs travel faster, while their own inability to get under
way earlier in the morning prevented them from travelling longer hours. Not only
did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to work
themselves.
g404incompetence n. ?能?；不胜任；不称职
【搭配】
professional incompetence 专业??不称职
police incompetence 警?的?能
?
【联想】
incompetent? adj. ?能?的，不胜任的
The ?rst to go was Dub. Poor blundering thief that he was, always getting caught
and punished, he had none the less been a faithful worker. His wrenched
shoulder-blade, untreated and unrested, went from bad to worse, till ?nally Hal
shot him with the big Colt’s revolver. It is a saying of the country that an Outside
dog starves to death on the ration of the husky, so the six Outside dogs under
Buck could do no less than die on half the ration of the husky. The Newfoundland
went ?rst, followed by the three short-haired pointers, the two mongrels hanging
more grittily on to life, but going in the end.
g404starve v.（使）挨饿，饿死
【搭配】
starve to death
By this time all the amenities and gentlenesses of the Southland had fallen away
from the three people. Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to
them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood. Mercedes ceased
weeping over the dogs, being too occupied with weeping over herself and with
quarrelling with her husband and brother. To quarrel was the one thing they were
never too weary to do. Their irritability arose out of their misery, increased with
it, doubled upon it, outdistanced it. The wonderful patience of the trail which
comes to men who toil hard and su?er sore, and remain sweet of speech and
kindly, did not come to these two men and the woman. They had no inkling of
such a patience. They were sti? and in pain; their muscles ached, their bones
ached, their very hearts ached; and because of this they became sharp of
speech, and hard words were ?rst on their lips in the morning and last at night.
g404arise v.（由......）引起；（因......）产?
【搭配】
arise out of/from sth? （因......）产?
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