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Words

  • respite
  • seismic | seismic tremor

Expressions

  1. In the three weeks that followed, Fermina Daza did not find the odor in his clothing for a few days, she found it again when she least expected it, and then she found it, stronger than ever, ________(连着几天), although one of those days was a Sunday when there had been a family gathering and the two of them had not been apart for even a moment.

  2. He was immersed in L’Ile des pingouins, the novel that everyone was reading in those days, and he answered without ________(从某件事抽离出来[这里是从阅读中抽离出来]).

  3. She was a tall, elegant, large-boned mulatta, ________(她的肌肤有着蜜糖般的颜色和柔软), and that morning she wore a red dress with white polka dots and a broad-brimmed hat of the same fabric, which shaded her face down to her eyelids.

  4. He was delighted to accept (although it was not his custom to drink coffee) and to listen to her talk about herself, which was the only thing that had interested him since the morning and the only that that was going to interest him, ________(一刻也不停), during the months to follow.

  5. At last she realized that her husband had not taken Communion on the Thursday of Corpus Christ or any Sunday in recent weeks, and he had not found time for that year’s ________([宗教]静修期).

  6. Across the street was a primary school, and the children rushing out obliged the coachman to keep a tight hold on the reins so that the horse would not ________(受惊).

  7. It was the first time she had gone alone into that office, saturated with ________(大量) creosote and crammed with books bound in the hides of unknown animals, blurred school pictures, honorary degrees, astrolabes, and elaborately worked daggers collected over the years.

  8. She ________(下决心) that the only way she could keep from dying was to ________(烧掉/捣毁) the nest of vipers that was ________(毒害着她的心灵).