Plague - Apr 13

No resource was left him but to ________(勒住...的缰绳) his feelings and harden his heart protectively.

And those others, the men and women under sentence to death, shared his ________(意识到令人沮丧的事实).

He was going to ________(让他们恢复健康) with a couple of pills or an injection, and people took him by the arm on his way to the sickroom.

The smile of benevolent irony that always ________(挂在脸上的[笑容]) it had seemed to endow it with perpetual youth; now, abruptly left out of control, with a trickle of saliva between the slightly parted lips, it betrayed its age and ________(岁月的流逝 [显现出了老态]). And, seeing this, Rieux ________(感到哽咽).

________(控制/压制) all the time, it had grown hard and brittle and seemed to snap completely now and then, leaving him the prey of his emotions.

Yet, ________(说了这么多，归根到底), who, in that terror-stricken, decimated populace, had ________([做或实现某事的]机会/能力) any activity worthy of his manhood? Indeed, for Rieux his exhaustion was ________(因祸得福).