Retiring

例句:

• One night, as they were sitting within the cabin before retiring, Tarzan turned to D'Arnot. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• To prevent the possibility of this I proposed retiring into some quiet village in Devonshire. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• In spite of his seemingly retiring manners a very intrusive person, this Secretary and lodger, in Miss Bella's opinion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When the time drew near for retiring, Mr. Bounderby took a glass of water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• That is the best I can do for you, he said, stepping down and retiring to the path, where he resumed the smoking of his pipe as he walked up and down. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Very sorry to hear it, sir, said Pratt, retiring. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• By which means we conceive the future as flowing every moment nearer us, and the past as retiring. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Was not a bowl of prussic acid the cause of Fair Rosamond's retiring from the world? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He has had the reputation of being a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Your grandmamma, if so addressed by one of her daughters, at any age, would have insisted on her retiring to a dark apartment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And as for stewarding, I think it's time my brother gave that up, and took his House in hand on his sister's retiring. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• As it appeared that he wished to depart to-night, I replied that we would see him before retiring. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This made me, I dare say, more timid and retiring than I naturally was and cast me upon Dolly as the only friend with whom I felt at ease. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He kept his eyes upon her, and kept advancing; and she, completely under his influence, kept retiring before him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Excuse me, Countess, if I set you the example of retiring, I said. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Then retiring two steps backward, he permitted the lady to move on. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Lights occasionally appeared in the different windows of the house, or glanced from the staircases, as if the inmates were retiring to rest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• So Mr Dorrit, retiring into the next room, put himself under the hands of his valet, and in five minutes came back glorious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Consequently,' said the other gentleman, retiring on his main position, 'why Row? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Only, shy and retiring as your general manner was, I wondered what personal or facial enormity in me proved so magnetic to your usually averted eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• When he is at last adjusted like a lay-figure, Mr. Chadband, retiring behind the table, holds up his bear's-paw and says, My friends! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He finished by freezing a cup of tea for his own drinking, and retiring at his lowest temperature. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But he had hoped that it might be shyness, her retiring character, her foreknowledge of the state of his heart, anything short of aversion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I wonder whether she ever insisted on people's retiring into the ball of St Paul's; and if she did, how she got them there! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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