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Words

  • militant | a militant unbeliever
  • dejected | introspective and dejected
  • dapple | dappled by the light

Expressions

  1. Florentino Ariza was in no way expert in matters ________(有关于) the Church, and he had not gone to Mass again since he had played the violin in the choir with a German who also taught him the science of the telegraph and about whose fate he had never been able to obtain any definitive news.

  2. The automobile turned around behind the warehouse enclosed by chicken wire, crossed the area of the old market on Las Animas Bay, where near naked adulats were playing ball, and drove out of the river harbor ________(在一团燥热的尘土中).

  3. He was confronted by an uproar of automobiles and hired carriages in the surrounding streets and ________(大量的) curious onlooks outside the house.

  4. The carpenter had just ________(进行测量) for the coffin, and at his side, still wearing the dress of a newly wed grandmother that she had put on for the party, Fermina Daza was introspective and dejected.

  5. It was ________(与其说这是一间正式的卧室，不如说是一间舱室) on dry land, which Florentino Ariza had built behind his office in the R.C.C with no other purpose or pretext than to have a nice little refuge of his old man’s loves.