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eschalot n.=shallot.

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Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic , tomatoes , and eschalots ; while , lone and solitary , like a forgotten sentinel , a tall pine raised its melancholy head in one of the corners of this unattractive spot , and displayed its flexible stem and fan - shaped summit dried and cracked by the fierce heat of the sub - tropical sun 在這些病態的矮樹之間,還長著一些大蒜,蕃茄和大蔥,另外還有一棵高大的松樹,孤零零地,象一個被遺忘了的哨兵,伸著它那憂郁的頭,盤曲的丫枝和枝頭扇形的簇葉,周身被催人衰老的西北風這是天罰吹得枯干裂。