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Words

  • rustic
  • ignominious
  • namesake
  • astuteness
  • internecine
  • falconer
  • impassive

Expressions

  1. At the end of the corridor, like any employee, Uncle Leo XII ________(处理事务) in an office similar to all the others, the once exception being that every morning he found a glass vase filled with sweet-smelling flowers on his desk.

  2. List of all was the confusing General Section, its name alone suggesting the vagueness of its functions, where problems that had not been solved elsewhere in the company went to ________(不体面地消失).

  3. There sat Leona Cassiani, ________(被...淹没) behind a student’s desk surrounded by corn stacked for shipping and resolved papers, on the day that Uncle Leo XII himself went to see what the devil he could think of to ________(让总务部有点用处).

  4. She had remained silent in full awareness of the worth of her position as ________(施舍得来的工作职位), but in the memorandum she noted that she had said nothing not because of negligence but out of respect for the hierarchies in the section.

  5. Leona Cassiani ________(对...具备极高的天分) handling secrets, and she always knew how to be where she had to be at the right time.

  6. But when it was indispensable she would, with sorrow in her heart, ________(放任自己施展铁腕).

  7. However, she never did that for herself. Her only objective was to ________(扫清晋升的障碍) at any cost, ________(必要的时候做好流血的打算), so that Florentino Ariza could move up to the position he had proposed for himself without calculating his own strength very well.

  8. Her determination was so great that Florentino Ariza himself lost his way in her ________(谋划), and on one unfortunate occasion he attempted to block her, thinking that she was trying to do the same to him. Leona Cassiani ________(to show someone that they are not as clever or important as they think they are).

  9. I will ________(退出这一切) whenever you wish, but think it over carefully.

  10. The truth is that in the midst of that sordid internecine battle in a company in perpetual crisis, in the midst of his disasters as a tireless falconer and the more and more uncertain dream of Fermina Daza, the impassive Florentino Ariza had not had a moment of inner peace as he confronted ________(面对这个热烈的黑皮肤女人所做的壮举，和她那在白热化的斗争中惹上的一身污秽又一身情爱).

  11. Many times he regretted in secret that she had not been in fact what he thought she was on the afternoon he met her, so that he could ________(让他的原则去见鬼) and make love to her even if it cost nuggets of shining gold.

  12. The years had changed her appearance very little, and ________(些微的变化反而适当地增添了她的姿色). She ________(正值成熟丰润的年龄).

  13. He had decided to eliminate ________(大笔一挥) the troublesome section and distribute the problems so that they could be solved by the people who had created them, in accordance with Leona Cassiani’s suggestion.