tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –CALL OF THE WILD JACK LONDON CHAPTER 3 (P1)

CALL OF THE WILD JACK LONDON CHAPTER 3 (P1) Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | CALL OF THE WILD JACK LONDON CHAPTER 3 P1 III. The Dominant Primordial Beast The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His newborn cunning gave him poise and control. He was too busy adjusting himself to the new life to feel at ease and not only did he not pick fights but he avoided them whenever possible. A certain deliberateness characterized his attitude. He was not prone to rashness and precipitate action and in the bitter hatred between him and Spitz he betrayed no impatience shunned all offensive acts. On the other hand possibly because he divined in Buck a dangerous rival Spitz never lost an opportunity of showing his teeth. He even went out of his way to bully Buck striving constantly to start the fight which could end only in the death of one or the other. Early in the trip this might have taken place had it not been for an unwonted accident. At the end of this day they made a bleak and miserable camp on the shore of Lake Le Barge. Driving snow a wind that cut like a white-hot knife and darkness had forced them to grope for a camping place. They could hardly have fared worse. At their backs rose a perpendicular wall of rock and Perrault and Francois were compelled to make their fire and spread their sleeping robes on the ice of the lake itself. The tent they had discarded at Dyea in order to travel light. A few sticks of driftwood furnished them with a fire that thawed down through the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark. Close in under the sheltering rock Buck made his nest. So snug and warm was it that he was loath to leave it when Francois distributed the fish which he had first thawed over the fire. But when Buck finished his ration and returned he found his nest occupied. A warning snarl told him that the trespasser was Spitz. Till now Buck had avoided trouble with his enemy but this was too much. The beast in him roared. He sprang upon Spitz .