Earnestness
['ə:nistnis]
解释:
(n.) The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.
琼整理
例句:
- Yes, yes, he is,' said Mr. Pickwick and Sam, with great earnestness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- He was very earnest, and earnestness was always rather ridiculous, commonplace, to her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Deep, downright, faithful earnestness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- So far from it, answered the mask, with mysterious earnestness, that, after what has passed, were you to discover me I would blow my brains out. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I felt the earnestness with which he spoke--felt it as a friendly rebuke to me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- His face was incandescent in its abstract earnestness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Earnestness in you, is anything but alarming to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Earnestness is what that Somebody must look for, to sustain him and improve him, Trot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I was simply for Clym, replied Mrs. Yeobright, with too much emphasis in her earnestness. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The timid little beauty promises in all earnestness to be trustworthy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It is invariably the case, said Luttrell with his usual earnestness. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- He denied it, however, with the utmost earnestness, and I am convinced that he was speaking the truth. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
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