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Words

  • imposing
  • illicit
  • clandestine

Expressions

He held out his hand and she took it between hers, ________________(与其说是打招呼,毋宁说是...) to help him into the house.

She interpreted this as a heroic determination to struggle without ____(慈悲/同情) against the ravages of time, but he was more specific: he had made the irrevocable decision to take his own life when he was sixty years old.

The parlor had the climate and invisible murmur of a forest glade and was crammed with furniture and exquisite objects, each ________________(在其应在的位置).

And they spoke of it often, suffering together ________________(不可挽回的匆匆岁月) that neither of them could stop now.

She cleaned and ____(整理) the laboratory once a week, but not even the most evil-minded neighbors confused appearance with reality because they, like everyone else, supposed that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour’s disability affected more than his capacity to walk.