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Words

  • nocturnal | nocturnal birds
  • morale | weakened morale
  • unperturbed
  • lodestone

Expressions

  1. He was ________(回到了自己的事情上).

  2. His ingenuity was ________(渐渐枯竭).

  3. But when it was over, she ________(打破传统) and did not stay in her seat, according to the custom of the day, to receive the spiritual renewal of condolences, but made her way instead through the crowd to thank each one of the guests: an innovative gesture that was very much in harmony with her style and character.

  4. But she immediately ________(恢复镇定) and put the letter in her apron pocket.

  5. It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often ________(像夜间的鸟儿一样在她的头边扑扇，可每当她想抓住它们时，它们就消散为片片羽毛).

  6. With the first loneliness of her widowhood she had understood that the phrase did not conceal the miserable threat that she had ________(认为...具有...的特性) it at the time, but was the lodestone that had given them both so many happy hours.