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Words

  • denature
  • adversity
  • Florida Water
  • promiscuity

Expressions

  1. The eleven ________(敲钟) of the pendulum clock sounded ________(整座房子里).

  2. The family home, in the very center of the historic district, was the ________(之前是铸币厂), denatured by a Florentine architect who came through here like ________(一股邪风) blowing renovation and converted many seventeenth-century relics into Venetian basilicas.

  3. With the help of her daughters, who were ________(一样的/同类的/这里：一个模子里刻出来的), she did everything possible to keep the places at the ________(主宾席) in order, with Dr. Juvenal Urbino in the center and Archbishop Obdulioy Ray on his right.

  4. And the guests ________(丝毫不) disguise their surly, shipwrecked mood.

  5. But inside the house the name card were in confusion and people sat where they could ________(不得不混乱地) that defied our social superstitions on at least this one occasion.

  6. In the midst of the cataclysm Aminta de Olivella seemed to be everywhere at once, her hair soaking wet and her splendid dress spattered with mud, but ________(勇敢地支撑下去) under the misfortune with the invincible smile, learned from her husband, that would ________(不让厄运有片刻得意的机会|这里quarter和前文一样是不仁慈的意思).

  7. But he did not want to contradict the Archbishop, although he would have liked to point out to him that guests were at that luncheon not because of what they thought but because of the ________(优点/价值) of their lineage.

  8. She realized the danger that very morning when she went to High Mass and was horrified by the humidity and saw that the sky was ________(阴沉) and that one could not see to the ocean’s horizon.

  9. Although it was not customary for invitations to request special attire, ________(最不...的/更不用说...) for a luncheon in the country, the women wore evening gowns and precious jewels and most of the men were dressed in dinner jackets with black ties, and some even wore frock coats.