Plague - Feb 08

From basements, cellars, and sewers they ________(列成长队，摇摇摆摆地出现在白天), swayed helplessly, then did a sort of pirouette and fell dead at the feet of the horrified onlookers.

Even ________(在小镇的闹市中心) you found them piled in little heaps on landings and in backyards. Some ________(偷偷跑去了某个地方) to die singly in the halls of public offices, in school playgrounds, and even on café terraces.

M. Michel’s eyes were fever-bright and he was breathing wheezily. The old man explained that, feeling “a bit off-color,” he had gone out to take the air.

The evening papers that day ________(开始处理/讨论如何处理；这里意译为报导了) the matter and inquired whether or not the ________(市领导们) were going to take steps, and ________(准备采取什么紧急措施), to abate this particularly disgusting nuisance.

Rieux waited for the two men to ________(向他走上前来).

It was as if the earth on which our houses stood were ________(清洗它的分泌物); thrusting up to the surface the abscesses and puts-clots that had been forming in its entrails.

You must picture the consternation of our little town, hitherto so tranquil, and now, out of the blue, shaken ________(十分地/彻底地), like a quite healthy man who all of a sudden feels his temperature shoot up and the blood seething like wildfire in his veins.

Giving ________(插入语，分隔开了动宾结构的短语，用来表示强调) an ampler and more precise view of the scene daily enacted before our eyes, this amazing figure administered a jolt to the public nerves.

Hitherto people had merely ________(complained about) a stupid, rather obnoxious visitation; they now realized that this strange phenomenon, whose scope could not be measured and whose origins escaped detection, had something vaguely menacing about it.