Edit me

Words

  • visceral | visceral shudder
  • deluxe | deluxe servant
  • relegate | relagate to a trash heap

Expressions

  1. For his only ________(参照依据) in his own past was the ephemeral love affair with Fermina Daza, and only what concerned her had anything to do with ________(估量) his life.

  2. The days of horror in the Palace of Casalduero were ________(扔到了记忆的垃圾堆).

  3. God must have finally listened to someone’s prayers: after two years in Paris, when Fermina Daza and Juvenal Urbino were just beginning to find what remained of their love in the ruins, a midnight telegram awoke them with the news that Dona Blanca de Urbino was gravely ill, and almost ________(紧随其后) came another with the news of her death.

  4. Fermina Daza walked off the ship wearing a black tunic ________(衣服的宽松无法掩盖她[怀孕的]状况).

  5. The noble palace of the Marquis de Casalduero, whose existence and ________(个人/家族/公司/国家的盾纹) had never been documented, was sold to the municipal treasury for a decent price.

  6. She ________(很有风度地接受了失败), and from that time on, eggplant in all its forms was served at the villa in La Manga with almost as much frequency as at the Palace of Casalduero, and it was enjoyed so much by everyone that Dr. Juvenal Urbino would ________(CHEER休闲时光) of his old age by insisting that he wanted to have another daughter so that he could give her the best-loved word in the house as a name: Eggplant Urbino.

  7. She had barely ________(到达并超越了终点或里程碑，进入了成熟期), free at last of illusions, when she began to detect the disillusionment of never having been what she had dreamed of being when she was young, in the Park of the Envangels.

  8. ________(在那个领域) he would achieve moments of fantastic inspiration.

  9. Despite the vulgarity of the words, for many years afterward Dr. Juvenal Urbino would request it at Social Club dances to prove he was ________(有风度的人/输得起的人).