Words
regime
irremediable
penitential
Expressions
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It was supposed that Lorenzo Daza was
________(有钱人)
, because he lived well with no known employment and had paid________(真金白银)
for the Park of the Evanglels house, whose restoration must have cost him at least twice the purchase price of two hundred gold pesos. -
His daughter was studying at the Academy of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, where for two centuries young ladies
________(有社会地位的)
had learned the art and technique of being diligent and submissive wives. -
In any event, it was an expensive school, and the fact that Fermina Daza studied there was sufficient indication of her family’s economic situation,
________(即便社会地位并不一定如此)
. -
But her father’s strict regime soon
________(带来)
an irremediable difficulty. -
At her side, struggling to keep up with her, the aunt with the
________(棕色的袈裟)
and rope of St. Francis did not allow him the slightest opportunity to approach. -
So he decided to send Fermina Daza a simple note written on both sides of the paper
________(用公证员般漂亮的字体)
. -
He
________(将自己的秘密吐露给了他的母亲)
,________(唯一可以交心的人)
. -
It would only frighten the girl of his dreams, who she supposed was as
________(缺乏经验)
as he in matter of the heart. -
So that the appearance of Florentino Ariza was for them another of the
________(众多打发沉闷时光的消遣方式)
. -
For despite her austere conduct and penitential habit, Aunt Escolastica had
________(行为/思想的本能)
and________(使命感/天职)
, which were her greatest virtues, and the mere idea that a man was interested in her niece awakened an irresistible emotion in her.