For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; but - I know not how or why it was - its evidentfondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed. By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred. I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it. I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwiseviolently ill use it; but gradually - very gradually - I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing, and to flee silently from its odious presence, as from the breath of a pestilence.

What added, no doubt, to my hatred of the beast, was the discovery, on the morning after I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes. This circumstance, however, only endeared it to my wife, who, as I have already said, possessed, in a high degree, that humanity of feeling which had once been my distinguishing trait, and the source of many of my simplest and purest pleasures.

dislike [dis´laik]   vt.&n.不喜爱，厌恶   (初中英语单词)

reverse [ri´və:s]   v.颠倒；(使)反向   (初中英语单词)

evident [´evidənt]   a.明显的，明白的   (初中英语单词)

disgust [dis´gʌst]   n.厌恶 vt.令(人)作呕   (初中英语单词)

hatred [´heitrid]   n.憎恨，敌意   (初中英语单词)

otherwise [´ʌðəwaiz]   ad.另外 conj.否则   (初中英语单词)

silently [´sailəntli]   ad.寂静地；沉默地   (初中英语单词)

breath [breθ]   n.呼吸；气息   (初中英语单词)

humanity [hju:´mæniti]   n.人类；人性；仁慈   (初中英语单词)

bitterness [´bitənis]   n.苦味；辛酸；苦难   (高中英语单词)

remembrance [ri´membrəns]   n.记忆(力)；回忆   (高中英语单词)

cruelty [´kru:əlti]   n.残忍；残酷行为   (高中英语单词)

violently [´vaiələntli]   ad.强暴地；猛烈地   (高中英语单词)

annoyance [ə´nɔiəns]   n.烦恼事(人)   (英语四级单词)

physically [´fizikəli]   ad.按照自然规律   (英语四级单词)

odious [´əudiəs]   a.可憎的；丑恶的   (英语四级单词)

fondness [´fɔndnis]   n.蠢事；溺爱；嗜好   (英语六级单词)