Plague - Apr 10

Naturally enough, since ________(爱要求的一些东西源自于未来), and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

To assume this would ________(恐怕与事实不符).

It would be more correct to say that they were ________(变消瘦/变衰弱) emotionally as well as physically.

Our fellow citizens had ________(遵循/顺从), adapted themselves, as people say, to the situation, because there was no way of doing otherwise.

Without memories, without hope, they ________(活在当下) only.

That, it may be said ________(顺带/顺便 [这里是顺带一提的意思]), is why, so as not to ________(欺瞒真相), and, still more, so as not to play false to himself, the narrator has aimed at objectivity.

And ________(处于尊重/考虑到) this scruple he is constrained to admit that, though the chief source of distress, the deepest as well as the most widespread, was separation.

But though they could clearly recall the face, the smile and voice of the beloved, and this or that occasion when (as they now ________(回忆起)) they had been supremely happy…

And by the end of their long sundering they had also lost the power of imagining the intimacy that once was theirs or understanding what it can be to live with someone whose life is wrapped up in yours.

Those who had jobs went about them ________(以...一致的步调/拍子) of the plague, with dreary perseverance. Everyone was modest.

Hitherto those who were parted had not been utterly unhappy; there was always a gleam of hope in the night of their distress; but that gleam had now ________(灭绝/消失).

Thus, while during the first weeks they were apt to complain that only shadows remained to them of what their love had been and meant, they now came to learn that even shadows can ________(衰弱/消瘦/消退), losing the faint hues of life that memory may give.