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Words

  • disconsolate
  • clairvoyance
  • categorical
  • capitulation

Expressions

  1. In the restorative idleness of solitude, on the other hand, the widows discovered that the honorable way to live was ________(按身体的要求/意愿).

  2. In any case, the principal factor ________(与...相违背) Dr. Juvenal Urbino was his ________(比想象的更相似) to the ideal man that Lorenzo Daza had so wanted for his daughter.

  3. She would have liked to see him again to present him with her doubts, to speak with him alone, to learn to know him well, so that she could be certain that her impulsive decision would not ________(使她陷入另一种状态), more capitulation in her personal war against her father.

  4. The truth is that Juvenal Urbino’s suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, ________(至少可以说), that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love.