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Words

  • refuse

Expressions

  1. He appealed to the highest authorities to ________(填平) the Spanish sewers that were ________(巨大的老鼠繁殖地), and to build ________(取而代之) a closed sewage system whose contents would not empty into the cove at the market, as had always been the case, but into some distant drainage area instead.

  2. Among the most valued ________(家居用品) were carved water collectors whose stone filters dripped day and night into the large earthen water jars.

  3. The epidemic of cholera morbus, whose first victims were ________(丧命) in the ________(积水/死水) of the market, had, in eleven weeks, been responsible for the greatest death toll in our history.

  4. But Dr. Juvenal Urbino was not ________(上当) by these appearances of purity, for he knew that despite all precautions, the bottom of each earthen jar was a sanctuary for water-worms.

  5. The air in the Cathedral grew thin with the vapors from badly sealed crypts, and its doors did not open again until three years later, at the time that Fermina Daza saw Florentino Ariza ________(近在咫尺) as she left Midnight Mass.