The Call of the Wild

Jack London《野性的呼唤》摘抄

1. Or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of...

2. After the fashion of：像…一样；obscurely：默默无闻地，不重要地

3. He had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command.

4. Intimate：表明

5. He accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever fell foul of him.

6. Bode ill for：是…的凶兆

7. Always, they broke camp in the dark, and the first gray of dawn found them hitting the trail with fresh miles reeled off behind them.

8. And unconsciously he accommodated himself to the new mode of life.

9. Accommodated himself to：使自己适应

10. In the bitter hatred between him and Spitz he betrayed no impatience.

11. He wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been gripped tight by that nameless, incomprehensible pride of the trail and trace—that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if they are cut out of the harness.

12. Harness：挽具、马具、日常工作

13. but it was of small avail.

14. Avail：效用

15. only it was infinitely more intimate. 无限的 / 亲密的、个人的、隐私的

16. the wonted way of things. 惯常的

17. disburdened herself of copious opinions upon that topic. 喋喋不休

18. He had lessoned from Spitz.

19. To Buck it was boundless delight, this hunting, fishing, and indefinite wandering through strange places. 不明确的，不定的

20. save that it was larger than the muzzle of any wolf. 除了

21. he responded with lightning-like rapidity.