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Words

  • slingshot
  • broach
  • redolent | redolent of flowers
  • hound

Expressions

  1. But the decisiveness of her message ________(让他非常震惊), and when he walked into the cool shadows of the drawing room he did not have time to think about the miracle he was experiencing because ________(他的肠子被痛苦的泡沫充斥).

  2. He knew he could not ________(抵抗/抵御) another moment, and then Fermina Daza came in, almost invisible in the darkness, dismayed at seeing him in such a state.

  3. They were both intimidated, they could not understand what they were doing so far from their youth on a terrace with checkerboard tiles in a house that belong to no one and that was still ________(有着...的气味) cemetery flowers.

  4. It was the first time in half a century that they had been so close and had enough time to look at each other with some serenity, and they had seen each other for what they were: two old people, ________(被死神窥视着), who had nothing in common except the memory of an ephemeral past that was no longer theirs but belonged to two young people who had vanished and who could have been their grandchildren.

  5. In order to avoid uncomfortable silences or undesirable subjects, she asked ________(粗浅的问题) about riverboats.

  6. But she recovered instantly and told her to ________(把他带到客厅) and ________(上咖啡), while she tidied herself before seeing him.

  7. She thought no, he should come back another day at a more appropriate hour, she was ________([健康、身体状况]不适宜做某事) to receive visitors, there was nothing to talk about.