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Words

  • lucidity
  • peremptory
  • hermeticism

Expressions

  1. But she would return it to him in her next letter so that he would have no doubt that she ________(愿意做某事) continue writing to him, but without the seriousness of an engagement.

  2. The truth is that she had always taken the ________(往来) of the camellia as a lover’s game, and it had never occurred to her to consider it as a ________(面对重大抉择的关头) in her destiny.

  3. It was a good space for the two of them, but too small for a third person, least of all a young lady from the Academy of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin whose father had restored a house in ruins until it was like new, while ________(头顶7个姓氏的家族) went to bed with the fear that the roofs of their mansions would ________(塌陷/凹陷) on them while they slept.

  4. In addition to the cash income from the notions store and the hemostatic rags, which ________(足够她维持节俭的生活), she had multiplied her savings by lending them to a clientele made up of the embarrassed new poor, who accepted her excessive interest rates for the sake of ________(她口风很紧).

  5. Still, Transito Ariza thought that ________(再加上最后两个条件比较谨慎).

  6. Fermina Daza suggested that Florentino Ariza ________(向她求婚) when she finished secondary school, during the Christmas vacation.

  7. Their letters ________(倾向过日子的腔调) that seemed appropriate to husband and wife.

  8. At least it seemed the way to Florentino Ariza when the manager told him, without his requesting it, that he had the permanent use of the room if the hotel, not only to resolve problems of the ________(下半身) whenever he decided to do so, but so that he could have at his disposal a quiet place for his reading and his love letters.

  9. A two-story structure dating from the seventeenth century, it was the building where the tobacco monopoly had been located ________(在西班牙统治时期), and its ruined owners had been obliged to ________(分成几部分租出去) because they did not have the money to maintain it.