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  • Everybody knows that pestilences ________([某事经常会]以某种形式发生) recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that ________(灾难从天而降，大难临头).

  • “It doesn’t matter to me,” Rieux said, “how you phrase it. My point is that we should not act as if ________(绝无可能发生某事) that half the population would be wiped out; for then it would be.”

  • But the thing that had struck him most about the man was his aloofness, ________(虽然说不上) his mistrust of everyone he met.

  • Being able, thanks to his professional status, to ________(拉关系/走后门), he had secured an interview with a high official in the Prefect’s office.

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

  • 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).

  • Patient and watchful, ineluctable as the order of ________(人生的安排), ________(等待时机/耐心等待/等待更进一步的发展). No earthly power, nay, not even—________(记住我的话)—the vaunted might of human science can avail you to avert that hand once it is stretched toward you.

  • Then Paneloux ________(挺直了身子), took a deep breath, and continued his sermon in a voice that gathered strength as it proceeded.

  • ________(据他所说), he had always thought that perseverance would ________(最终成功), inevitably, and, as he pointed out, resourcefulness in emergency was ________(对他的胃口/在他的兴趣范围内), ________(不妨说/也可以说).

  • “The newspapers and the authorities are ________(与...合作) the plague. They fancy they’re ________(打败) it because a hundred and thirty is a smaller figure than nine hundred and ten.”

  • Tarrou pointed out that, ________(这样的话), everyone was “under suspicion.” But the manager had his own ideas and was not to be ________([对某种信念/想法]动摇) them.

  • “In the early days, when they thought this epidemic was much like other epidemics, religion ________(坚持主张/坚持意图/坚持立场/不让步). But once these people realized their instant peril, they gave their thoughts to pleasure.

  • “Anyhow, they’ve no choice. But—” Rieux pondered. “But ________(我可以这么说) you know that work of this kind may prove fatal to the worker. And I feel I should ask you this; have you weighed the dangers?”

  • Thus it was only natural that old Dr. Castel should ________(坚持不懈/持之以恒地做某事) with unshaken confidence, ________(不遗余力), at making anti-plague serum on the spot with the makeshift equipment at his disposal.

  • ________(表示讲话人所说的事情/想要表达的观点和看法已经被对方知道了) how commendable that is, a fine example.

  • Rieux ________(紧盯着) Rambert.

  • “Maybe. But I just can’t ________(承受/容忍) the thought that it may last on and on, and all the time she’ll be growing older.

  • “You’ve no objection to a ________(一点酒) of something strong?”

  • Let us suppose that these formalities were taking place at the auxiliary hospital of which Dr. Rieux was in charge. This converted school had an exit at the back of the main building. A large storeroom ________(朝向/面向) the corridor contained the coffins.

  • Then he seemed to ________(鼓起勇气) again and when Rambert entered was shouting almost aggressively: “What’s more, I’m pretty sure you won’t ________([在鼠疫问题上]取得进展/成果/).”

  • When Rieux ________(告诉/告知/通知他) that he’d like to be ________(让他了解最新消息), Rambert proposed that he and Tarrou should ________(联系/寻找他) one night at the end of the week.

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

  • 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…

  • Tarrou ________([面对攻击/反对等]顶住/坚持住) better, but the entries in his diary show that while his curiosity had kept its depth, it had lost its diversity.

  • ‘In fact, one might go farther; have you ever heard of a man with cancer being killed in an ________(车祸)?’ This theory, ________(无论如何/无论怎么样), keeps Cottard cheerful.

  • “And a moment later he added: ‘Say what you like, Tarrou, but let me tell you this: the one way of making people ________(相互支持/互相帮助/同心协力) is to give ’em ________(一段短暂时间/一阵) plague. You’ve only got to look around you.’

  • Though prices soared inevitably, never had so much money been squandered, and while ________(基本需求/日常必需品) were often lacking, never had so much been spent on superfluties.

  • “Gas is running out,” he said. “We’ll have to ________(在泥泞中费劲地步行) it tomorrow.”

  • “We’ll ________(约定一个时间), you and I. If I don’t turn up, go straight to their place. I’ll give you the address.”

  • Some rather jerky movements he ________(参加/参与[尤指违法行动]) gave our connoisseurs of statecraft an impression of clever, if slightly overdone, effects, intended to ________(使表现出) the emotion of the words he sang.

  • In other manifestations of life God made things easy for us and, ________(到目前为止/迄今为止), our religion had no merit.