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Words

  • repudiate
  • irredeemable
  • complaisant
  • gratuitous

Expressions

The words ________(萦绕在...脑海里) Dr. Juvenal Urbino on the drive home: “this death trap of the poor.”

One-story, spacious and cool, it had a portico with Doric columns on the outside terrace, which ________(把...的景象尽收眼底) of the still, miasmic water and the debris from sunken ships in the bay.

During the weekend they ________(纵情跳舞), ________(喝得烂醉如泥) on home-brewed alcohol, made wild love among the icaco plants, and on Sunday at midnight they broke up their own party with bloody ________(群体斗争).

In summer an invisible dust as harsh as red-hot chalk was blown into even the best-protected corners ________(想象中) by mad winds that took the roofs off the house and carried away children through the air.

During the rest of the week the same impetuous mob swarmed into the plazas and alleys of the old neighborhoods with their stores of everything that could be bought and sold, and they infused the dead city with the frenzy of a human fair ________(散发着[臭味]) fried fish: a new life.

In the eighteenth century, the commerce of the city had been the most prosperous in the Caribbean, owing ________(主要) to the thankless privilege of its being the largest African’s slave market in the Americas.

Throughout the house one could detect the good sense and care of a woman ________(她的双脚牢牢地踩在地上).