He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

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Hardy is full of all those quaint gothic, archaic dictions and fancies.

哈迪满是那样奇特有趣的哥特式想法，古代措辞和想象力。

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Honor to so many of us sounds quaint, like an honor code or the Boy Scouts' code or something like that or something primitive, some kind of primitive ethic which we therefore don't really understand.

荣誉，对我们中大多数而言，听起来都会很奇怪，这就像是在说荣誉代码,童子军守则或一些类似的东西一样，亦或是一些非常原始的理论,以致于我们根本不知道这是在说什么。

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The two best rooms have private balconies overlooking the quaint, pedestrianised tourist strip of Duolun Road.

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It would make the last few months of government intervention in Wall Street look quaint.

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It will make cloning look organic, and the ways we have babies today quaint.

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