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Words

  • fidelity
  • a notions shop
  • parentage

Expressions

  1. Fermina Daza said goodbye to most of them at the altar, but she accompanied the last group of intimate friend to the street door so that she could lock it herself, as she had always done, as she was prepared to ________(这么做直到呼吸的最后一刻), when she saw Florentino Ariza, dressed in mourning and standing in the middle of the deserted drawing room.

  2. And don’t show your face again ________(在你此后余生的日子里).

  3. Until that moment she had never been fully conscious of ________(那场闹剧的影响力) she had provoked when she was not yet eighteen.

  4. Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking of her for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him ________(不假思索地/断然地) after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months, and four days ago.

  5. He did not have to ________(记流水账), drawing a line for each day on the walls of a cell, because not a day had passed that something did not happen to remind him of her.

  6. He was her only child, born of an occasional ________(结合) with the well-known shipowner Don Pius V Loayza, one of the three brothers who had founded the River Company of the Caribbean and thereby ________(注入新的活力) to steam navigation along the Magdalena River.

  7. His ________(正确的决策力) attracted the attention of the telegraph operator.

  8. Don Pius V Loayza died when his son was ten years old. Although he always ________(承担他的开销) in secret, he never recognize him as his son before the law, nor did he ________(在生前安排好他的未来), so that Florentino Ariza used only his mother’s name even though ________(他真正的出身是众人皆知的).