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Words

  • nagging
  • ephemeral
  • frivolous

Expressions

  1. She took off her glasses without surprise, with absolute self-control, and ________(使..感到晕眩) him with her ________(太阳般灿烂的笑颜).

  2. She had moved on in life and was ________([生命历程]已经走到了他的前面，尽管他原来比她年长了20岁): she had grown too old for him.

  3. But she did so in such a casual way and at such an inopportune moment that it did not ________(Urbino医生一只耳朵进，一直耳朵出), as she thought; it did not go in at all.

  4. He ________(偏爱) for popular music, above all sentimental waltzes whose similarity to the ones he had composed as an adolescent, or to his secret verses, could not be denied.

  5. And he ________(开始做某事) a recounting of his many new projects which, as always, had to be realized without official backing.

  6. He had to ________(一言不发) to keep from telling him that he had been an assiduous participant in the annual competition that had eventually interested famous poets, not only in the rest of the country but in other nations of the Caribbean as well.

  7. ________(眨眼的功夫)