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Words

  • obstinacy | an old man's obstinacy
  • tantamount | be tantamount to sth
  • virulent | virulent opposition
  • antedate

Expressions

  1. Florentino Ariza, whose indifference to politics ________(几乎到了极致), listened to these increasingly frequents and tiresome speeches as one listens to the sound of the sea.

  2. The old man’s obstinacy seemed natural to them, not because, as it was too easy to say, old age had made him less ________(高瞻远瞩/有远见) than he had always been, but because renouncing the monopoly must have seemed to him like throwing away the victories of a historic battle that he and his brothers had ________(赤手空拳发动[战争]), back in heroic times, against powerful adversaries from all over the world.

  3. ________(离开人世唯一的遗憾) is that of singing at so many funerals except my own.

  4. In just the same way that he had done and thought everything he had done and thought in life, he had ________(达到人生巅峰) only because of his fierce determination to be alive and in good health at the moment he would fulfill his destiny in the shadow of Fermina Daza.

  5. Each time, because of a real difficulty at the last minute or because of an ill-timed failure of his own will, his trip was postponed just as they were about to ________(启程): always for a reason that had something to do with Fermina Daza.

  6. ________(绿帽子)

  7. Florentino Ariza trembled at the idea of ________(多年的努力在最后一刻功亏一篑) by this unforeseen circumstance.

  8. His uncle, however, believed that the failure of Elbers was due not to privileges but to ________(对一些不切实际的事情做出的承诺), which had almost been tantamount to his assuming responsibility for the geography of the nation: he had taken charge of maintaining the navigability of the river, the port installations, the access route on land, the means of transportation.

  9. Besides, he would say, the virulent opposition of President Simon Bolivar ________(不是闹着玩的/不是开玩笑的).