Plague - May 10

To tell the truth, these diary notes take a rather curious turn from the date on which the death ________(报告) began to drop.

Thus, sandwiched between long passages dealing with the case of Cottard, we find a brief account of the old man and the cats.

No doubt these families had hopes, but they hoarded them and forbade themselves to ________(凭借/利用) them before feeling quite sure they were justified.

That night Tarrou, Rieux, Rambert, and their colleagues joined for a while the marching crowds and they, too, felt as if they ________(得意洋洋/飘飘然).

But for the moment the whole town was on the move, quitting the dark, lugubrious confines where it had ________(打下石基/扎下根), and ________(启程) at last, like a shipload of survivors, toward ________(希望之地).

Long after they had ________(离开主道), eve when in empty byways they walked past shuttered houses, the joyful clamor followed them up, and because of their fatigue somehow they could no disassociate the sorrow behind those closed shutters from the joy filling the central streets. Thus the coming liberation had ________(两面性), of happiness and tears.

Tarrou conveys to us that the plague had ________(绝不) lessened his appreciation of the old fellow, who continued equally to interest him after the epidemic had ________(自然而然地发展);

Still, in imagination they could already hear, weeks in advance, trains whistling on their way to an outside world that had no limit, and steamers hooting as they ________(出港) from the harbor across shining seas.