Gratify
['grætɪfaɪ] or ['grætə'fai]
解释:
(v. t.) To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
(v. t.) To requite; to recompense.
珍妮特编辑
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Please, indulge, satisfy, humor, delight, give pleasure to, make glad.
整理:理查德
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Please, satisfy, indulge, humor
ANT:Displease, dissatisfy, disappoint, stint, discipline, inure, harden, deprive,deny
校对:沃尔多
例句:
- Take me with you, I said, just to gratify my curiosity. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- People will pay as freely to gratify one passion as another, their resentment as their pride. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- In fact it seemed to be pleasanter to him to disappoint than to gratify. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Caliphronas, as I have told you, is a scamp, and will pause at nothing to gratify his own desire. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Lily was quite ready to gratify this curiosity, but it happened that she was dining out. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Frame a wish and gratify it, my daughter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Why did she leave him standing there, with the ice-wind blowing through his heart, like death, to gratify herself among the rosy snow-tips? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He now smiled: and not a bitter or a sad smile, but one well pleased and deeply gratified. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- If you will put it in the fire with your own hand, just as it is, my fancy will be gratified. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The inclination I had felt for the sea was by this time done away, or I might now have gratified it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I am happy--I am gratified--I am delighted--I am bored. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Blowed if the gen'lm'n worn't a-gettin' up on the wrong side,' whispered a grinning post-boy to the inexpressibly gratified waiter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I was born with the tastes of a lady, and he gratified them--in other words, he admired me, and he made me presents. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Sir James interpreted the heightened color in the way most gratifying to himself, and thought he never saw Miss Brooke looking so handsome. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- To a man of my sentiments it is unspeakably gratifying to be able to say this. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is a significant and gratifying fact that Confederates should have joined heartily in this spontaneous move. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- She then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each, and on which there could be no difference of sentiment. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I say I did not resent it, nor did I; but I showed her, by not gratifying her, that I understood her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Their behaviour gratifies me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Caliphronas, he said at length slowly, is a man who is a slave to his own vices, and gratifies himself at all costs. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Eager to further enjoy this new delicacy, Char-Lee proceeded to feast himself, and it was then he found that pork not only pleases and gratifies--but satisfies. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
录入:斯威尼