Words
militia
pretension
contrariety
Expressions
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She put down the letter,
________(权衡每一个情节)
with what she meant to be impartiality –________(仔细斟酌)
the________(真实性)
of each statement – but with little success. -
She remembered that he had boasted of having no fear of seeing Mr. Darcy – that Mr. Darcy might leave the country, but that he should
________(坚持立场)
, yet he had avoided the Netherfield ball the very next week. -
Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined. With amazement did she first understand that he believed
________(能为自己辩白)
, and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal. -
But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham, when she read, with somewhat clearer attention, a relation of events which, if true, must
________(对他的好感一笔勾销)
, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself, her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult to definition. -
What Wickham had said of the living was
________(记得很清楚)
, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was________([罪行]严重的)
duplicity on one side or the other, and, for a few moments, she flattered herself that her wishes did not err. -
As to his real character,
________(她能够获得信息)
, she had never felt a wish of enquiring. -
His countenance, voice, and manner, had
________(让人马上觉得他具备一切美德)
. -
She tried to recollect some instance of goodness, some distinguished trait of integrity or benevolence, that might rescue him from the attacks of Mr. Darcy, or, at least, by the predominance of virtue,
________(赎罪/弥补)
those casual errors, under which she would endeavor to class what Mr. Darcy had described as the idleness and vice of many years’ continuance. -
Mr. Darcy would never have
________(冒昧提出这样一个建议)
, if he had not been well assured of his cousin’s corroboration.