Subduing

例句/造句/用法:

• The Queen, his wife, knew this: it seemed to me, the reflection of her husband's grief lay, a subduing shadow, on her own benignant face. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Men pass through such superhuman loves and outlive them: they are the probation subduing the heart to human joys. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• I looked in the glass, settled my headdress as becomingly as possible, and trusted to my charms and soft speeches for subduing his anger as usual. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• Five harpoons and one hundred and fifty-one bullets were used in subduing the monster, and it took five days to finally kill it. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• The wind, prince of air, raged through his kingdom, lashing the sea into fury, and subduing the rebel earth into some sort of obedience. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.

整理:玛丽