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Words

  • palliative | palliative treatment
  • ailment | feel their ailments
  • metaphysical | metaphysical connection to the designs of Divine Providence

Expressions

  1. At the age of forty, ________(半真半假地), he had said in class: “All I need in life is someone who understands me.”

  2. Soon after the first home telephones were installed, several marriages that seemed stable were destroyed by anonymous ________(告密电话), and a number of frightened families either canceled their service or refused to have a telephone for many years.

  3. But because its ________(古老而神秘的起源) permitted one to attribute to it some kind of metaphysical connection to the designs of Divine Providence.

  4. He distracted them with palliatives, giving them enough time to teach them not to feel their ailments, so that they could live with them ________(在一团糟的垂暮之年).