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But who gave a thought to these lonely mourners? Routing the cold
________(一阵强风)
that had beenthreshing
the air since early morning, the sun was pouring on the town a steady flood of tranquil light. -
Indeed, in all the churches thanksgiving
________(宗教仪式/礼拜仪式)
were being held. -
All around him happy faces were turned toward the shining sky, men and women with
________(火红火红的脸)
embraced one another with low, tense cries of desire. -
In different degrees, in every part of the town, men and women had been yearning for a reunion, not of the same kind for all, but for all alike
________(排除/不予考虑)
. -
The
________(储备量/储藏量)
of emotion________(感情压抑/积压)
during those many months when for everybody the flame of life burned________(暗淡的/微弱的)
were being recklessly squandered to celebrate this, the________(喜庆日/重要纪念日)
of their survival. -
These passionate pilgrims could readily be distinguished; they formed
________([困苦中]令人快慰的地方/时刻;乐土、乐事)
of whispers, aloop, self-centered, in the turbulence of the crowd. Far more effectively than the bands playing in the squares they vounched for the vast joy of liberation. -
Calmly they denied,
________(不顾)
the evidence, that we had ever known a crazy world in which men were killed off like flies. -
Every church bell was
________(铃声大作)
throughout the afternoon, and the bells filled the blue and gold sky with their reverberations.
Plague - May 18
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