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Words

  • dovecote
  • cutting
  • vigil
  • niggardly

Expressions

  1. A few days later he saw her husband at the port, loading merchandise instead of unloading it, and when the ship ________(起锚/起航) Florentino heard, with great clarity, the voice of the devil in the ear.

  2. He had no idea how to interpret this: either the pigeon had lost the note en route, or the pigeon keeper had decided to ________(扮无辜) so that he could send it back to her again.

  3. Some mayor who was ________(比大众智慧更不现实) cleared out the roses one night and hung a republican sign from the arch of the entrance gate.

  4. The death of his mother left Florentino Ariza ________(再次陷入他那各类疯狂的琐事): the office, his meetings ________(紧密的排程) with his regular mistresses, the domino games at he Commercial Club, the same books of love, the Sunday visits to the cemetery.

  5. It was ________(单调乏味的日常生活), which he had despised and feared so much, but which had protected him from an awareness of his age.

  6. He ________(缓解尴尬) with the ________(俗气的感叹): “I’ll be damned, he’s a man already.”

  7. And he continued in the same way even after his body began sending him the first warning signals, because he had always had ________(体弱多病者铁一般的体质).

  8. But it would not have occurred to him or any man to think of these as diseases; they were only ________(战利品).

  9. For many years he thought with terror about the signed letters, he ________(了解某人的动态) the prison term of the murderer.

  10. It was the only time, since his youngest days, when he felt himself ________(刺穿) by the lance of love.

  11. He was a different person: the lover who never showed his face, the man most ________(渴望) love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who did not allow anyone to ________(在他的心上留下痕迹), the hunter lying in ambush – this man went out on the street in the midst of ecstatic signed letters, gallant gifts, imprudent vigils at the pigeon keeper’s house, even on two occasions when her husband was not on a trip or at the market.