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Words

  • unencumbered | unencumbered
  • chastisement

Expressions

  1. Then, too, ________(那一年见证了...的建立) the founding of Justice, an evening newspaper whose sole purpose was to attack the families with long last names, inherited and unencumbered names, which was the publisher’s revenge because his sons had not been admitted to the Social Club.

  2. But he ignored his duty as guardian: he said nothing to America Vicuna’s parents, restrained by a sense of guilt that he tried to elude, and he did not discuss it with her because of a ________(理由充足的) fear that she would try to ________(将他牵连到她的失败中).

  3. ________(往昔的回忆并对未来于事无补), as he insisted on believing.

  4. He had promised to send her to Alabama for further study, ________(由运河公司出资), in part to ________(让自己的良心得到安宁) and above all in order not to face either the reproaches that she did not know how to make to him or the explanations that he owed to her.

  5. Less than ten years before, he had assaulted one of the maids behind the main staircase in the house, dressed and standing as she was, and in less time than a Filipino rooster he had left her ________(怀孕).

  6. Fermina Daza was the friend who was most tolerant of her confusions of questions and answers, and this was so encouraging to Lucrecia that hardly a day went by that she did not ________(顺便拜访) at any hour.