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Words

  • whorish
  • yoke
  • lugubrious

Expressions

  1. The public scandal provoked by that unheard-of decision ________(使人们对某事产生怀疑) the seriousness of the competition.

  2. No sooner had the conversation begun than the hot, steamy air suddenly cooled and a storm of crosswinds shook doors and windows ________(伴随着横风而来的气流), while the office ________(从上到下、一直到楼的地基也嘎吱作响) like a sailing ship set adrift.

  3. He was still troubled by the unsettling interview when Leona Cassiani came into his office, and this seemed to him a unique opportunity to stop beating about the bush and to reveal his secret, as if he were ________(挑破疖子) that would not leave him in peace: ________(要么马上做，要么永远别做了).

  4. The bad ones were those in the lugubrious restaurants along the waterfront, where one was as likely to eat like a king as to die a sudden death at the table, sitting before a plate of rat meat with sunflowers, and which were thought to be nothing more than ________(掩盖白人奴隶交易的人) and many other kinds of ________(非法买卖).