Plague - Feb 24

Thus it had ________(落到了他的肩膀上) to add up the number of deaths during the last few days, and, ________(生性乐于助人), he had volunteered to bring a copy of the latest figures to the doctor.

Rieux had already noticed Grand’s ________(有...的特别的/特有的习惯) ________(乐于做某事) to quote some ________(这里是措辞的意思) of speech from “his part of the world” (he hailed from Montélimar), and following up with some such hackneyed expression as “lost in dreams,” or “pretty as a picture.”

Grand put a hand up to his hat and ________(将它拉下来) upon his big, protruding ears, then murmured some half-inaudible remark from which Rieux seemed to gather that Grand’s work was connected with “the growth of a personality.”

Though he still had most of the teeth in his lower jaw, all the upper ones were gone, with the result that when he smiled, raising his upper lip—the lower scarcely moved—his mouth looked like ________(一个通向他的脸部的小黑洞).

They started off toward the Place d’Armes. Cottard still kept silent. ________(街上人开始多起来了).

“Well,” he said, “perhaps we’d better make up our minds to ________(弄清除这种病的名字). So far we’ve been only ________(犹豫不决/优柔寡断). Look here, I’m off to the laboratory; like to come with me?”