Edit me

Words

  • disarray
  • vice-ridden
  • concubinage

Expressions

  1. Her alarm ________(升级到了严重的程度) during the first week, when she became aware of the familiarity and self-possession with which Florentino Ariza came into the house, and the whispers and fleeting lover’s quarrels that filled their visits until all hours of the night.

  2. Like her she was distinguished, like her she was arrogant, and like her she lived ________(任凭她的偏见).

  3. She lit a cigarette with the end of the one she was smoking, and then she gave vent to ________(所有的怨毒) that was gnawing at her insides.

  4. They did not publish it, but the author sent a copy to the Commercial Daily, the oldest and most serious newspapers along the Caribbean coast, which ________(刊登) the letter on the front page.

  5. Fermina Daza knew who the author was without having to be told, because she recognized some of the ideas and even a sentence taken directly from Florentino Ariza’s ________(道德思考).

  6. One afternoon, while she was drinking her ________(沏成的饮料/泡制的草药) of worldwide leaves, she looked toward the morass of the patio where the tree of her misfortune would never bloom again.

  7. At the last, ________(用她最好岁月的精妙措辞), she allowed her self to confide in her daughter-in-law, with whom she had always maintained a certain plebian camaraderie. “A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.