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Words

  • clan
  • satiate
  • stoicism

Expressions

  1. It was not difficult to persuade them to give him ________(返航船票) in exchange for the cabin he had ________(放弃或移交) to the representative of Queen Victoria.

  2. Florentino Ariza, ________(被痛苦和折磨压垮了), had gone to the farthest corner of the deck where the noise of the revelry could not reach him, and he put on Lotario Thugut’s overcoat in an effort to overcome the ________(来自骨髓的寒意).

  3. Later, when he returned home, he realized that he had made a mistake in the time and that everything had been difficult from what he had imagined, and he even ________(清醒地做某事) to laugh at his fantasy.

  4. Someone saw him shivering with fever and informed the Captain, who, fearing a case of cholera, left the party with the ship’s doctor, and the doctor ________(出于谨慎做某事) sending Florentino to the quarantine cabin with a dose of bromides.

  5. He prayed to God that the lighting of divine justice would strike Fermina Daza as she was about to give her vow of love and obedience to a man who wanted her for his wife only as a social adornment, and he went into rapture ________(想到...) of the bride, his bride or no one’s, lying face up on the flagstones of the Cathedral, her orange blossoms laden with the dew of death, and ________(如泡沫般倾泻而下的头纱) covering the funerary marbles of the fourteen bishops who were buried in front of the main altar.

  6. He did not sleep again, and if at times he sat down to ________(挑食), it was in the hope that Fermina Daza would be at the table or, conversely, to ________(不想给她殊荣，让她觉得自己是因为她而绝食).

  7. The minister from Great Britain had survived the ________(长途冒险旅行) ________(以榜样般的克制力), shooting with his camera the animals they would not allow him to kill with his rifles, and not a night went by that he was not seen in evening dress in the dining room.

  8. He had resolved ________(一劳永逸/彻底地) that he did not give a damn about the brilliant future of the telegraph and that he would take this very same boat back to his old Street of Windows.

  9. Before he left the boat he ________(抑制不住想要完成一个标志性动作的诱惑): he threw his petate into the water.