Words
rap
sumptuous
limbo
Expressions
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The fake gypsies who offered to
________(通过人的掌纹来算命)
. -
One night, however, Fermina heard him come in. She heard his cossack’s step on the stair, his heavy breathing in the second-floor hallway, his pounding with
________(手掌)
on her bedroom door. -
Her former schoolmates were
________(在将她拒之门外的天堂)
,________(最重要的是/首先)
after the dishonor of her expulsion. -
But she soon realized that her proposals were
________(没结果/没效果)
, and for a very simple reason: there was no one to invite. -
She had replaced Aunt Escolastica with so much fervor and so much grace that Fermina confused them
________(达到了爱上她的程度)
. -
Hildebranda wanted to open the house,
________(通风)
, bring in her father’s musicians and fireworks and castles of gunpowder, and have a Carnival dance whose gale winds would________(把表妹的沉闷一扫而光)
. -
And from there they viewed the entire historic city, the broken roofs and the decaying walls, the rubble of fortresses among the brambles,
________(岛屿的踪迹)
in the bay, the hovels of the poor around the swamps, the immense Caribbean.