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Words

  • furtive
  • tarnish
  • pensive

Expressions

  1. In the space where the old tobacco factory had been they ________(放置了一个很大的花园) with all kinds of roses, which Florentino Ariza ________(照料) during his free time at dawn.

  2. The only thing they left intact, as a kind of ________(对过去感恩的见证), was the notions shop.

  3. But that was also the period when Transito Ariza ________(出现了早期症状) of her incurable diseases.

  4. Or she confused the affairs of one with those of another, which was a very grave matter in a business like hers, in which no papers were signed to ________(维护双方的名誉), and ________(口头承诺) was given and accepted as sufficient guarantee.

  5. At first it seemed she was growing deaf, but it soon became evident that ________(她的记忆正在消退).

  6. During this period Florentino Ariza had to attend too many responsibilities at the same time, but his spirits never ________(疲倦/热情消退) as he sought to expand his work as a furtive hunter.

  7. Nevertheless, in three emergency situations he had recourse to the ________(不属于他这个时代更早以前的简单计谋).

  8. Yet on two of these occasions someone realized that he and his presumptive male companion did not go to the bar but to a room, and the already tarnished reputation of Florentino Ariza received ________(致命一击).

  9. But the project met the same fate as the previous one after Ausencia Santander stood him on his head, ________(用她那老狗般的智慧让他摔了跟头), tossed him up and threw him down, made him as good as new, shattered all his virtuous theories, and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

  10. Then in a flash of inspiration that they attributed to ________(彼此星辰的交汇), the two of them undressed in the next room without agreeing to, without even suggesting it or proposing it to each other.

  11. There was no danger of his ________(撞见) them, because he had the good sailor’s habit of advising the port of his arrival by sounding the ship’s horn, even at dawn.