Plague - Mar 12

But he had also ________(影响/打动) a wider, non-specialist public with a series of lectures on present-day individualism.

In these he had shown himself a stalwart ________(拥护者/卫士) of Christian doctrine at its most precise and purest, equally remote from modern laxity and the obscurantism of the past.

Father Paneloux had already ________(取得成功/成名) with frequent contributions to the Oran Geographical Society; these dealt chiefly with ancient inscriptions, ________(他是这方面的权威).

But, for one thing, now that the town was closed and the harbor ________(封闭), there was no question of bathing; moreover, they were ________(思想处于一种极其特殊的状态之下) and, though ________(在内心深处) they were far from recognizing the enormity of what had come on them, they couldn’t help feeling, for obvious reasons, that decidedly something had changed.

On these occasions he had not ________(躲避做某事) trouncing his hearers with some vigorous home-truths. ________(因此，他在当地也是声名远扬)

He merely added that, to ________(要想解决这个问题), we should need first to ascertain if a Genius of Plague actually existed, and our ignorance on this point nullfied any opinions we might form.

Most of those who took part in the Week of Prayer would have ________(附和一句评语) made by one of the churchgoers in Dr. Rieux’s hearing: “Anyhow, it can’t do any harm.”