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Words

  • intuit
  • fallacy
  • pallor

Expressions

  1. Until that time he had ________(维持着的一个假象) that it was the world that was changing, and its customs and styles: everything but her.

  2. He objected that he knew Fermina Daza only from a distance, that they had never gone further than formal greetings, that he had no information about her private life, but was certain she was an admirable woman who had come out of nowhere and risen to top ________(凭借着自己的美德).

  3. But Sara Noriega would not allow that to happen until she had ________(宣泄她的情绪).

  4. There was no reason to think so:they did not know each other, they had never met, and Fermina Daza had nothing to do with the decision of the judges even though she was ________(对...知情) their secrets.

  5. She was ________(昨日黄花).

  6. He had endured everything because of that conviction, he had overlooked everything, even the dirtiest dealings in love, so that he would not have to ________(赋予世上任何一个女人做最终决定的机会).

  7. And he arranged matters so that he could ________(分配) his time and strength as far as they would go.

  8. But as they ________(变得顺从现实) of their new condition he had seen them ________(以全新的精神状态死灰复燃).

  9. He saw magazine photographs in color, ________(发黄的) postcards of the sort sold in arcades for souvenirs, and it was a kind of ghostly review of the fallacy of his own life.

  10. They alone knew how tiresome was the man they loved ________(极度地), who perhaps loved them but whom they had to continue nurturing until his last breath as if he were a child.

  11. This was not the first time they had amused themselves with Byzantine competitions, but he took advantage of the opportunity to speak through his own newly opened wound, and they became ________(卷入斤斤计较的争吵之中) that stirred up in both of them the rancor of almost five years of ________(貌合神离的爱情).