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Words

  • vertigo
  • weakling
  • puerile
  • etiquette

Expressions

  1. She detested the rosary at dusk, the ________(矫揉造作的) table etiquette, the constant criticism of the way she held her silverware, the way she walked in mystical strikes like a woman of the streets, the way she dressed as if she were in the circus, and even the rustic way she treated her husband and nursed her child without covering her breast with her mantilla.

  2. Only now she had to admit that in this case something had changed ________(有所好转) in her life, because at the age of five she had said the same thing at the table, and her father had forced her to eat the entire casserole intended for sic people.

  3. She suspected too late that behind his professional authority and worldly charm, the man she had married was ________(一个靠姓氏带来社会地位而高调的可怜虫).

  4. But ________(他能到他母亲那争取到的唯一让步), with the puerile argument that it was the instrument of the angels, was to substitute the harp for the piano.

  5. For although she did not admit it in her innermost thoughts, or in the silent arguments she had with her husband during the hours they had once devoted to love, She had ________(陷入了混乱之中，这比她想象的更快) of conventions and prejudices of her new world.