Stroking
[strok]
解释:
(n.) The act of rubbing gently with the hand, or of smoothing; a stroke.
(n.) The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.
(n.) See Stripping, 2.
编辑:塞格雷
例句:
- My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But, on stroking her cheek in a caressing way soon after, he was almost shocked to find her face wet with tears. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- It will be an immense care for Jo, said Meg, stroking the head of her one all-absorbing son. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Yes: lively reading that was, said Mr. Ned Van Alstyne, stroking his moustache to hide the smile behind it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- You know what you forbade me at the Maypoling, miss, murmured the lad, without looking at her, and still stroking the firedog's head. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Rouncewell's is so great apparently, mutters the trooper, stroking his chin, that I have as good as half a mind to go back again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Well, well, by-and-by he'll go to his Latin and things, said Mrs. Vincy, soothingly, stroking her son's head. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I have good reason to believe, that he took me for a young one of his own species, by his often stroking my face very gently with his other paw. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Her nerves extended into those tresses, and her temper could always be softened by stroking them down. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- There, there, Alice, he said, stroking her forehead, try to sleep again, and do not worry your head about bad dreams. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- No, dear, no, said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It's your little mind, Demi, replied the sage, stroking the yellow head respectfully. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
整理:利亚