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Words

  • unruly | unruly children
  • pliant | pliant = obedient
  • spite | out of spite

Expressions

  1. She was fat and old, burdened with unruly children whose father was not the man she still loved without hope but a soldier living on his pension whom she had married ________(怀着怨念 ) and who loved her to distraction.

  2. Dr. Juvenal Urbino made the decision to ________(来接她) after receiving a report from the Bishop of Riohacha, who had concluded that his wife’s long stay was caused not by her unwillingness to return but by her inability to ________(为她的骄傲找到台阶下).

  3. Thinking that she looked so old and ugly and that her face was so ________(又红又痛) from the sun that he would regret having come when he saw her like this, damn it.

  4. But she dried her hands the best she could on her apron, ________(整理仪容) the best she could, ________(带着所有的高傲) she had been born with to calm her maddened heart.

  5. ________(完全脱离) the historical disasters that were crowding the screen, he did not need to turn around to see her in his imagination.