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Words

  • lanceolate | lanceolate eyes
  • falter | faltering steps

Expressions

  1. There was no sign in her face of the terrible disease that was ________(正在流行中的), or of any other illness, and her body had ________(保持着匀称和苗条) of her better days.

  2. Her short hair was ________(相配的), with a curved wing on each cheek, but it was the color of aluminum, not honey, and behind her grandmother’s ________(眼镜) her beautiful lanceolate eyes had lost half a lifetime of light.

  3. But she replied over her shoulder, as she was fixing the brandies, that if he was bothered by that he could ________(放心), because cats do not remember anyone.

  4. At Dr. Juvenal Urbino’s time of life, that night at the film, ________(男人仿佛焕发了第二次青春), they seemed more dignified with their first gray hairs, they became witty and seductive, above all in the eyes of young women, while their withered wives had to clutch at their arms so as not to trip over their own shadows.