At the Dock-碼頭邊

The stony shores ran away right and left in straight lines, enclosing a somber and rectangular pool. Brick walls rose high above the water – soulless walls, staring through hundreds of windows as troubled and dull as the eyes of over-fed brutes. At their base monstrous iron cranes crouched, with chains hanging from their long necks, balancing cruel-looking hooks over the decks of lifeless ships. A noise of wheels rolling over stones, the thump of heavy things falling, the racket of feverish winches, the grinding of strained chains, floated on the air. Between high building the dust of all the continents soared in short flights; and a penetrating smell of perfumes and dirt, of spices and hides, of things costly and of many things filthy, pervaded the space, make for it an atmosphere precious and disgusting. The Narcissus came gently into her berth; the shadows of soulless walls fell upon her, the dust of all the continents leaped upon her sides, took possession of her in the name of the sordid earth. She had ceased to live.
(from The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad)
somber  昏暗的，陰沉的'
rectangular  矩形的，長(zhǎng)方形的
soulless  沒(méi)有靈魂的，死氣沉沉的
crane  起重機(jī)
crouch  蹲伏
thump  重?fù)�，砰然作�?
racket  喧嚷，吵鬧
winch  絞車，起貨機(jī)
grinding  磨擦
soar  高飛，飄揚(yáng)
penetrating  有穿透力的
spice  香料
hide  獸皮，皮革
filthy  污穢的，不潔的
pervade  充斥，彌漫
berth  泊位
clamber  攀爬
sordid  骯臟的，惡劣的

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