Plague - Mar 11

Thus he was enabled to follow, and ________(在新的层面上), the dreary struggle in progress between each man’s happiness and the abstractions of the plague—which constituted the whole life of our town over a long period of time.

One ________([因自身长大或改变而]改掉[或戒除]习惯/爱好等) pity when it’s useless. And in this feeling that ________(他的内心渐渐地封闭起来), the doctor found a solace, his only solace, for the almost unendurable burden of his days.

He ________(身体很好) and, as yet, wasn’t really tired. Still his visits, for one thing, were beginning to ________(向...施压/给...压力) his endurance.

There followed objurgations, screams, batterings on the door, action by the police, and later armed force; the patient was taken ________(如风暴般的席卷/掠夺/抢夺).

To fight abstraction, you must have something of it in your own ________(构造/性格). But how could Rambert be expected to grasp that? Abstraction for him was all that stood in the way of his happiness.

After these wearing weeks, after all those nightfalls when the townsfolk poured into the streets to roam them aimlessly, Rieux had learned that he need no longer ________(让自己冷酷) against pity.

Standing at the foot of the statue of the Republic that evening, he felt it; all he was conscious of was a bleak indifference steadily ________(在他的身体里形成) as he gazed at the door of the hotel Rambert had just entered.

“Yes,” he said. “But it’s only ________(就是要坚持到底), and ________(我的神经会稳定下来), you’ll see.”