Unit Five

Family betrayer

　　Maria was a damsel in a noble family that had passed its culmination and fallen into decadence. She was little defective, for he knew decorum well and was deft at cuisine of desserts. She followed her father’s decree and deferred marriage year after year, her best ages detained. 来源：考试大
　　One day, Maria’s father designated her as a deputy to dispatch a deleterious man who denounced her family and depicted its defect to others. After she saw the man, he declaimed: “You’re deluded by your culpable father’s deceit. He’s a despicable person who despoiled our property. He derided us and denoted that we should work for him. I am the delegate of all deceived people. We detest your father in cynical manners and demur to him before the deities. We live in dank cells and feel dazed frequently, but we’re dauntless. We’ll keep deprecating him until he deplore.” 来源：考试大
　　What the man delineated struck Maria greatly. Her deference to father detracted, she said in a dejected mood: “I have despised you poor people but now I’m deferential. You’re right in decrying my father’s detriment to you all. He deformed the truth and defrauded me. I’ll curb my cursory task to put you into demise with this deterrent. Also, I’ll detach myself from my family.” 来源：考试大
　　After some curt compliments, the man said: “Thanks, I’ll go around that declivity and dab the bell dangling on the ceiling as a signal for us to escape.”