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After the Second World War, a small group of veterans (老兵) returned to their village in France. Most of them managed to 1 fairly well, but oneFrancois Lebeau, who had been wounded and never recovered his 2 was unable to work regularly. 3 he became very poor. Yet he was too 4 to accept anything from the people in the village.
Once each year the veterans held a reunion (团聚) dinner. On one of these occasions they met in the home of Jules Grandin, who had made 5 money. Grandin produced a 6 a large old gold coin. Each man 7 it with interest as it passed around the long table. All, 8 , had drunk wine freely and the room was full of noisy talk, 9 the gold piece was soon forgotten. Later, when Grandin 10 it and asked for it, the coin was missing.
One of them suggested everyone be searched, 11 all agreed, except Lebeau. “You 12 , then?” asked Grandin. Lebeau flushed. “Yes,” he said, “I can not allow it.”
One by one, the others turned out their pocket. When the coin 13 to appear, attention was focused on poor Lebeau. Amid (在……之中) the 14 stares of his friends, he walked out with the hangdog air of a prisoner and returned to his home.
A few years later, Grandin made some changes in his house. A workman found the gold coin, 15 in dirt between planks (板) of the floor.
“Why did you not allow yourself to be 16 ?”
“Because I was a 17 ,” Lebeau said brokenly. “For weeks we had not had enough to eat and my pockets were full of 18 that I had taken from the table to 19 home to my wife and 20 children.”
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解析:
1.get along本意是“进展”,在此表示生活. 2.没有力气strength来干活. 3.in time“最后:终于”. 4.太骄傲,不愿接受帮助. 5.money不可数名词,用a great deal of来修饰. 6、7.从下文可知大家在“打量”一块大大的金币,所以这是一种“好奇”. 8.上下文内容有转折. 9.结果状语从句,大家都喝醉了,以至于忘了那金币. 10.remember“记起来”. 11.agree to “同意”,介词前置的定语从句. 12.这里指refuse to be searched. 13.failed to appear“没有出现”. 14.表示“同情的”. 15.过去分词buried作宾补,“被掩埋在”. 16.既然没有拿,为什么不让搜身呢? 17.从下文可知他称自己是小偷. 18.带回家给家人吃的应该是食物. 19.canty没有方向性,符合场景. 20.饥饿的孩子. |
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