Delayed

例句/造句/用法:

• By a most fortunate chance his leaving Highbury had been delayed so as to bring him to her assistance at this critical moment. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• Altogether, on the Isthmus and on the Pacific side, we were delayed six weeks. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• She had understood it was to be delayed till Colonel Campbell's return. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• And in the same interests, if the coming of the physician is delayed, I will enter it again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It is a forlorn hope at the best, and not much the forlorner for being delayed till dark. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• I don't know what would have happened, Walter, said my mother, if you had delayed much longer. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Justice, too, might frequently be delayed, in order that this present might be repeated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Why had not George's marriage been delayed? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Either his going had been again delayed, or he had yet procured no opportunity of seeing Miss Crawford alone, or he was too happy for letter-writing! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• An accident, for which he was not responsible, delayed him on his errand. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• What a real pity that she stayed so short a time, and you delayed! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• The moment he appeared she asked anxiously how long the meeting between her sister and herself was to be still delayed. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I must find Mr. Gardiner this moment, on business that cannot be delayed; I have not an instant to lose. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• Her departure, as well as mine, was delayed by a circumstance which I will now relate. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• Dearest Lizzy, I hardly know what I would write, but I have bad news for you, and it cannot be delayed. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• How rejoiced was Elizabeth that their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• Some directions necessary to be given to her foreman, John, delayed her behind her cousins as they neared Fieldhead on their return. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
• But that readjustment cannot be indefinitely delayed; it must come soon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• To be intruded on Robert thus, against her will and his expectation, and when he evidently would rather not be delayed, keenly annoyed her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• I would have delayed; I wished to recommend watchfulness to Perdita, but his presence restrained me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
• Don't doubt my return, Marian, however it may be delayed--and fear nothing. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If any unforeseen accident delayed him, I was to accompany her to the station, and to take special care that she was in time for the train. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But their enterprise was delayed by the absence of more than one main limb of the confederacy. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The crescent moon, set like a silver signet in the western sky, delayed a little the approach of night. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• My medical enterprise (as Betteredge calls it) must now, inevitably, be delayed until Monday next. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• But the pride of this people cannot bear the thought of it, and therefore it will be delayed. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• Certainly it was not worth being delayed by something so sad and ugly and apparently worthless. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.

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