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Words

  • lethargy
  • pedagogy
  • demented

Expressions

Unlike the other rooms, which were ________(任凭...的摆布) noise and foul winds from the port, the library always enjoyed the tranquility and fragrance of an abbey.

Every afternoon after his siesta, Dr. Urbino sat with him on the terrace in the patio, the coolest spot in the house, and he had summoned ________(他最孜孜不倦的热情储备) for pedagogy until the parrot learned to speak French like an academician.

Then, just for love of the labor, he taught him the Latin ________(作为...的伴奏) the Mass and selected passages from the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and he tried without success to ________(灌输他[某种知识/技能]) a working notion of the ________(四则运算).

Dr. Urbino weas reluctant to confess his hatred of animals, which he disguised with all kinds of ________________(杜撰的科学故事或哲学说辞) that convinced many, but not his wife.

He said that people who loved them ________(过量[做某事]) were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings.

And early in her marriage she had taken advantage of the novelty of love to keep many more of them in the house than ________(理智允许的范围).

But one rainy afternoon, at the end of an exhausting day, he encountered a disaster in the house that ________(使他恢复理智).