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Words

  • perfunctory
  • prostration
  • dangle
  • deference

Expressions

  1. Fermina answered ________(以同样的方式) that if they did not go straight home she would ________(跳出行动中的马车).

  2. ________(在他手势的指引下), the coachman turned the carriage around and drove into the Park of the Evangels, just as the lamplighter was ________(开始一轮工作的).

  3. When Florentino Ariza learned that Fermina Daza was going to marry a physician with family and fortune, educated in Europe and with an extraordinary reputation ________(以他这个年龄的男人来说), there was no power on earth that could ________(将他从拉出颓废).

  4. Transito Ariza did all she could and more, ________(想尽了一切甜言蜜语来安慰他) when she realized that he had ________(一言不发、不吃不喝) and was spending nights ________(连续地/持续地) in constant weeping, and by the end of the week he was eating again.

  5. But he did find him employment as a telegraph operator in Villa de Leyva, a dreamy city more than twenty days’ journey away and almost three thousand meters above the ________(海拔高度) of the Street for Windows.

  6. The blindfold emphasized the ________(纯美) of his lips surrounded by his round black beard and his mustache with the waxed tips, and she felt herself shaken by a sudden surge of panic.

  7. Like them, the boats of the River Company of the Caribbean had a lower deck almost ________(和水面齐平), with the steam engines and the galleys and the sleeping quarters like henhouses were the crew hung their hammocks ________(横七竖八/交叉的) at different heights.

  8. He gave him a pair of gloves lined with rabbit fur, a hat worthy of the steppes, and an overcoat with a plush collar, ________(经受过巴伐利亚寒冷冬天考验的).