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Words

  • shoddy | shoddy work
  • calamity | natural calamity
  • itinerant | itinerant dentist

Expressions

  1. Unlike baldness, it did not seem to him an ________(卑鄙的) attack by old age, because he was convinced that despite the ________(呼吸起来有股苦味) of vulcanized rubber, his appearance would be cleaner with an orthopedic smile.

  2. So he ________(屈服) without resistance to the red-hot forceps of Dr. Adonay, and he endured his convalescence with the stoicism of ________(驮负重物的驴子).

  3. One night when the moon was full, at the entrance to the port of Gamarra, he ________(打赌) with a German surveyor that he could awaken the creatures of the jungle by singing a Neapolitan romanza from the Captain’s balustrade.

  4. But on the voyage home, trying to explain to the Captain how he had lost the first pair, Uncle Leo XII filled his lungs with the burning air of the jungle, sang the highest note he could, ________(尽力把声音拉长) as he tried to frighten the alligators that were sunning themselves and watching the passage of the boat with unblinking eyes, and the new set of false teeth sank into the current as well.

  5. On Monday the electricians ________(冲进来) to install a rotating fan on the ceiling.

  6. When she made him open his mouth to see where love was hurting him, she discovered that he had ________(被...所伤/成为...的受害者) abscesses.

  7. The loss of his teeth, on the other hand, did not result from a natural calamity but from the shoddy work of an itinerant dentist who decided to ________(使用了粗鲁的方法和治疗简单的感染).