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Words

  • part
  • commend
  • festive
  • consign

Expressions

  1. In Paris, strolling ________(手挽手) with a ________(临时的/不定期的) sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness than those golden afternoons, with the woody odor of chestnuts on the braziers, the languid accordions, the insatiable lovers kissing on the open terraces, and still he had told himself with his hand on his heart that he was not prepared to exchange all that for a single instant of his Caribbean in April.

  2. He tried to impose the latest ideas at Misericordia Hospital, but ________(这并不如他年轻的热情[想象]下那么简单), for the antiquated house of health was stubborn in its ________(信奉) to atavistic superstitions.

  3. When the curlew sang five o’clock along with the local roosters, Dr. Juvenal Urbino commended himself ________(肉身和灵魂) to Divine Providence because he did not have the heart to live another day in his rubble-strewn homeland.

  4. But when he stood at the railing of the ship and saw the white promontory of the colonial district again, the motionless buzzards on the roofs, the ________(刚洗过的衣物) of the poor hung out to dry on the balconies, only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia.

  5. His mother moved him most of all. She was still young, a woman who had ________(投身生活) with her elegance and ________(社交活力), but who was now slowly withering in the aroma of camphor that rose from her widow’s crepe.

  6. It’s life over there, Mother. You ________(变得苍白) in Paris.

  7. The old palaces of the marquises were about to ________(抵挡不住激增的乞丐).

  8. But he ________(将专著弃置在阁楼) on viceregal science and romantic medicine and filled the bookshelves behind their glass doors with the writings of the new French school.