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2020/10/13

Words

• commiseration
• impassive
• lugubrious
• tenacious
• capitulation
• irredeemable
• militant | a militant unbeliever
• unperturbed
• chimerical
• revelry
• calvary
• puerile
• innocuous
• intransigence
• mutilate
• scourge
• fortitude
• protagonist
• parsimonious
• pallor
• ailment
• presentiment
• rowdy
• inexorable |
• chimerical
• chastisement
• calvary
• dejected | introspective and dejected
• astuteness
• stigma

Expressions

10

• Although it was not customary for invitations to request special attire, ________(最不...的/更不用说...) for a luncheon in the country, the women wore evening gowns and precious jewels and most of the men were dressed in dinner jackets with black ties, and some even wore frock coats.

11

• He was surprised to see him there, ________(在满是精英的圈子), but Dr. Olivella reminded him that he was the son of the Minister of Health and was preparing a thesis in forensic medicine.

12

• When he became aware of his first bouts of forgetfulness, he ________(依靠/求助于一种方式) he had heard about from one of his teachers at the Medical School.

13

• It was the culmination of a spectacular civic campaign that involved every sector of the city in a ________(全民总动员) that many thought ________(堪称伟业).

16

• 注意介词 So he decided to send Fermina Daza a simple note written on both sides of the paper ________(用公证员般漂亮的字体).

• For despite her austere conduct and penitential habit, Aunt Escolastica had ________(行为/思想的本能) and ________(使命感/天职), which were her greatest virtues, and the mere idea that a man was interested in her niece awakened an irresistible emotion in her. [vocation - \ vō-ˈkā-shən \ a summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action complicity - \ kəm-ˈpli-s(ə-)tē \ association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act]

20

In reality they were ________(用来消遣的信件), intended to ________(让爱情之火不灭，同时也不会烧到自己的手), while Florentina Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

23

• Lorenzo Daza received an urgent summons to the rectory where he discovered ________(他的家规有了疏漏).

24

• He dipped he end of his cigar in the anisette, ________(猛吸) it and drew no smoke, then concluded in a sorrowful voice: “Get out of our way!”

27

• But she was so accustomed to his ________(诗意的夸张) that she celebrated the adventures of the galleon as one of ________(他最大的成就).

• Then what had to happen sooner or later happened: Florentino Ariza asked his mother for help in ________(为他的冒险画上一个成功的句号).

30

• His mother moved him most of all. She was still young, a woman who had ________(投身生活) with her elegance and ________(社交活力), but who was now slowly withering in the aroma of camphor that rose from her widow’s crepe.

31

• The epidemic of cholera morbus, whose first victims were ________(丧命) in the ________(积水/死水) of the market, had, in eleven weeks, been responsible for the greatest death toll in our history.

• But Dr. Juvenal Urbino was not ________(上当) by these appearances of purity, for he knew that despite all precautions, the bottom of each earthen jar was a sanctuary for water-worms.

32

• But after the death of his father he learned ________(所有有关...的知识) the different forms of cholera.

34

• Dr. Juvenal Urbino listened to his mother without hearing her as he clutched the doorframe, and then he ________(转过半个身子), trying to reach his bedroom, but he ________(脸朝下摔倒) ________(喷吐出来，溅得到处都是茴香酒).

• The truth was that Dr. Juvenal Urbino did not drink coffee, ________(除非是早起第一杯咖啡).

35

• Both of them said ________(基本上/大体上) what had been said in the first, and were ________(怀着同样的谦卑), but underneath their ________(得体) one could begin to detect an impatience that was never evident in the parsimonious letters of Florentino Ariza.

36

• At first glance it seemed impossible that her cousin could have been on the verge of madness because of that almost invisible clerk ________(神态活像一条挨了打的狗), whose clothing, ________(像落难的犹太教士), and whose solemn manner could not perturb anyone’s heart.

38

• The previous month, Fermina Daza had spoken about him, ________(以随意的方式) and with no sign of interest.

39

• Fermina answered ________(以同样的方式) that if they did not go straight home she would ________(跳出行动中的马车).

40

• Florentino Ariza was awake most of the night, thinking that he heard the voice of Fermina Daza in the fresh river breeze, ________(用关于她的回忆来慰藉自己的寂寥), hearing her sing in the respiration of the boat as it moved like a great animal through the darkness, until ________(第一缕玫瑰色的晨光在地平线出现) and the new day suddenly broke over deserted pastureland and ________(雾气弥漫的沼泽).

43

• On only one occasion did she ________(濒临...的边缘) of public scandal, when the rumor circulated that Archbishop Dante de Luna had not died by accident after eating a plate of poisonous mushrooms but had eaten them intentionally because she threatened to expose him if he persisted in his sacrilegious solicitations.

44

• She had ________(完美担任了上流夫人的角色) that Florentino Ariza needed a moment of reflection to recognize her.

• But what impressed him most was that she and her husband made an admirable couple, and both of them ________(自如地周旋于他们的世界) that seemed to ________(飞越了现实中的种种陷阱).

46

• Laferrière seemed less pretentious and voracious to her, but her wise decision was to buy her ________(她最喜欢的东西) in the secondhand shops, although her husband swore in dismay that it was corpses’s clothing.

47

• When he was not occupied with the administration of his decrepit vessels, still afloat ________(由于...完全的疏忽) ________(由命运之神[主导的]]), or with the problems of river navigation, which grew more and more critical every day, he devoted his free time to the enrichment of his lyric repertoire.

49

• During this period Florentino Ariza had to attend too many responsibilities at the same time, but his spirits never ________(疲倦/热情消退) as he sought to expand his work as a furtive hunter.

52

• Her determination was so great that Florentino Ariza himself lost his way in her ________(谋划), and on one unfortunate occasion he attempted to block her, thinking that she was trying to do the same to him. Leona Cassiani ________(to show someone that they are not as clever or important as they think they are).

56

• Nor did she cherish that dream again after her first formal fiance, whom she loved with the almost demented passion of which one is capable at the age of eighteen, ________(撕毁婚约) before the date they had set for wedding, and ________(使她成了被抛弃的新娘，无归无宿).

58

• In the restorative idleness of solitude, on the other hand, the widows discovered that the honorable way to live was ________(按身体的要求/意愿).

• The truth is that Juvenal Urbino’s suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, ________(至少可以说), that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love.

59

• For although she did not admit it in her innermost thoughts, or in the silent arguments she had with her husband during the hours they had once devoted to love, She had ________(陷入了混乱之中，这比她想象的更快) of conventions and prejudices of her new world.

62

• The death of his mother left Florentino Ariza ________(再次陷入他那各类疯狂的琐事): the office, his meetings ________(紧密的排程) with his regular mistresses, the domino games at he Commercial Club, the same books of love, the Sunday visits to the cemetery.

64

• Without realizing it, she was menaced by the same trap of pity that had been the ________(失败) of so many of Florentino Ariza’s defenseless victims.

65

• The officials were there with no more protection against the sun than ordinary umbrellas, the elementary schools were there waving little flags ________(和着音乐的节拍), and the beauty queens with scorched flowers and crowns made of gold cardboard, and the ________(铜管乐队) of the prosperous town of Gayra, which in those days was the best along the Caribbean coast.

• All at once, in the large mirror on the back wall, he caught a glimpse of Fermina Daza sitting at a table with her husband and two other couples, at an angle that allowed him to see her reflected ________(展现迷人的风姿).

66

• She, on the other hand, ________(待他以礼节) and never made the slightest gestures that might allow him to suspect that she remembered him from her unmarried years.

• From that night on, and for almost a year afterward, he ________(一直缠着某人) to the owner of the inn, offering him whatever he wanted, money or favors or whatever he desired most in life, if he would sell him the mirror.

68

• He also knew that she locked herself in the bathroom at least three times a day to smoke, but this did not attract his attention because the women of his class were in the habit of locking themselves away in groups to talk about men and smoke, and even to drink as much as two liters of aguardiente until they had passed out on the floor ________(像泥瓦匠那样喝醉了般不省人事).

• She said nothing, and she did not notice the odor every day, but she now sniffed at her husband’s clothing not to decide if it was ready to launder but with an unbearable anxiety that ________(侵蚀着她的五脏六腑).

• Yet she had ________(穿过利刃般的珊瑚礁/WOW！披荆斩棘的姐姐), not colliding with anyone, with a power over the world that could only be a supernatural instinct.

70

• Dr. Urbino, ________(以一种激烈的反应) that was not typical of him, cut him off.

• But the address made her think that she must come from Jamaica, a black woman, of course, and she ________(不假思索地排除了她) ________(认为不是她丈夫喜欢的类型).

71

• Soon after the first home telephones were installed, several marriages that seemed stable were destroyed by anonymous ________(告密电话), and a number of frightened families either canceled their service or refused to have a telephone for many years.

• But because its ________(古老而神秘的起源) permitted one to attribute to it some kind of metaphysical connection to the designs of Divine Providence.

73

• But she dried her hands the best she could on her apron, ________(整理仪容) the best she could, ________(带着所有的高傲) she had been born with to calm her maddened heart.

75

• In the year 1890, while the Civil War of a Thousand Days ________(让...浴血) the country, an Italian who made ________(定制) wigs of human hair came to the city.

• He thought that all the moments in the day, which had once been his allies and ________(歃血盟友), were beginning to ________(密谋与他敌对).

76

• One night when the moon was full, at the entrance to the port of Gamarra, he ________(打赌) with a German surveyor that he could awaken the creatures of the jungle by singing a Neapolitan romanza from the Captain’s balustrade.

77

• Florentino Ariza, whose indifference to politics ________(几乎到了极致), listened to these increasingly frequents and tiresome speeches as one listens to the sound of the sea.

• ________(绿帽子)

• ________(离开人世唯一的遗憾) is that of singing at so many funerals except my own.

79

• 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.

80

• It was the final act in a bitter exorcism through which she was attempting to ________(向她所处的新环境妥协).

81

• Her house, sold many years before, had ________(破旧不堪) at the hands of the Provincial Government.

82

• She said: “You do that only when you are looking for someone to cry with.” Florentino Ariza ________(缴械投降).

83

• It did not have the tone, or the style, or ________(修辞烘托) of his early years of love, and his argument was so rational and ________(恰如其分) that the scent of a gardenia would have been ________(不合时宜).

84

• It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but ________(有始有终，在自身中构成闭环).

• He was happy about the progress made in the mail service since his days as ________(初创者), for he would not have risked being seen every day in the post office mailing a letter to the same person, or sending it with someone who might ________(吐出内情).

• She had ________(加强她的嗅觉、提高她的手腕) so that she could ________(找出) the miserable whore who had ruined her life.

85

• He was ________(回到了自己的事情上).

• His ingenuity was ________(渐渐枯竭).

86

• It was the same ornate handwriting as in his earlier letters, ________(同样的抒情), but applied to a simple paragraph of gratitude for the courtesy of her greeting in the Cathedral.

• One of the most faithful was Lucrecia del Real del Obispo, an aristocrat of the old school who had always been a good friend and who ________(变得更密切) after the death of Juvenal Urbino.

• She repeated the common gossip that he had never had a woman although he was ________(理想的配偶), and that he had a secret office where he took the boys he pursued at night along the docks.

87

• 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.

• 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.

89

• Uncle Leo XII had experienced great annoyance in this regard, and Florentino Ariza himself had suffered the humiliation of being asked to leave when he was already sitting at the table as the guest of one of the founding members, for whom Florentino Ariza had ________(帮了他很大的忙) in the area of river commerce, and who had no other choice but take him elsewhere to eat.

90

• 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).

99

• She ________(突然大笑起来) until she cried, which alarmed everyone.

100

• The Captain ________(痛快地说出某事), and with a wave of his hand he ordered the pilot to turn around and go back to the marshes.

• They had not exchanged a word during his conversation with the health patrol, nor did they have the slightest idea of what would ________(他们的生活将会怎么样), but they both knew that the Captain was thinking for them:they could see it in the throbbing of his temples.