Adjusting

例句:

• While Mary is adjusting her ideas, he continued, let us return to Mr. Bingley. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• She was before the mirror again, adjusting her hair with a light hand, drawing down her veil, and giving a dexterous touch to her furs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He laid his hand upon the coffin, and mechanically adjusting the pall with which it was covered, motioned them onward. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She is too busy to waste time in adjusting an ordinary telephone to her ear, and so wears one of special design all the time. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Oh, said Caleb, leaning forward, adjusting his finger-tips with nicety and looking meditatively on the ground. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This, sir,' replied Silas, adjusting his spectacles, and referring to the title-page, 'is Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mr. Kenge, adjusting his cravat, then looked at us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He comes back pretty steadily, adjusting his fur cap on his head and looking keenly at them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A présent c'est un fait accompli, said he, re-adjusting his palet?tand we had no more words on the subject. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• My amiable child, murmured Mr. Turveydrop, adjusting his cravat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We worked on a self-adjusting telegraph relay, which would have been very valuable if we could have got it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The photographic camera, introduced by Daguerre in 1839, adds to the camera obscura some means for adjusting the distance between the lens and the screen on which the image falls. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He says-- Sir Leicester is so long in taking out his eye-glass and adjusting it that my Lady looks a little irritated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• When he returned, the girl was adjusting her shawl and bonnet, as if preparing to be gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Presently the honoured parent appeared to be adjusting some instrument like a great corkscrew. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Well, I won't, said Mrs. Vincy, roused by this appeal and adjusting herself with a little shake as of a bird which lays down its ruffled plumage. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• These are then removed to the adjusting room, where they are adjusted. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• That was the time, sir, answers Tony, faintly adjusting his whiskers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Old Betty was proof even against this temptation, and fell to adjusting her black bonnet and shawl. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My advice is, said Cassy, steadily, as she began adjusting some things about the room, that you let Tom alone. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• William, says Mr. Weevle, adjusting his whiskers, there's combustion going on there! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is true Lydgate was constantly visiting the homes of the poor and adjusting his prescriptions of diet to their small means; but, dear me! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He made a feint of adjusting the lining, and said, 'Yes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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