Detestable

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• I assure you he is very detestable; the Admiral's lessons have quite spoiled him. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• Not at present, he answered, with detestable composure. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• I had much ado to defend myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting when they came on my face. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• I thought it a detestable custom; but it was necessary, he supposed, to drink _strong_ beer, that he might be _strong_ to labour. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• It was peace at laSt. The old, detestable world of tension had passed away at last, his soul was strong and at ease. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• I wish I could say the same of the gentry--detestable word, but I suppose I must use it--of the gentry in the neighbourhood. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Anything to vary this detestable monotony. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• In the detestable slang of the day, we were now both at a deadlock, and nothing was left for it but to refer to our clients on either side. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It would be easy to lie to you; but the truth is I think it detestable. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• Mr Boffin's speeches were detestable to me, shocking to me,' said Bella, startling that gentleman with another stamp of her little foot. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• I come from arriving at this so detestable house with your wife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• And the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and the greater devotion in them will he require? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• But for your detestable yellow hair and your white skin you would be an honour to the First Born of Barsoom. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• What is passable in youth is detestable in later age. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• There is nothing more detestable than that society horror, a beauty man, who resembles a wax figure in his unnatural perfectibility of face and form. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• It sets aside, without discussion, the detestable idea of subject peoples. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• There was a certain priggish Sunday-school stiffness over him, priggish and detestable. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one principal motive of my retirement hither. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
• The funeral was detestable. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• He had a horror of the Magna Mater, she was detestable. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• It was not referred away to some detestable social principle. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Houses and furniture and clothes, they are all terms of an old base world, a detestable society of man. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• And will any one say that he is not a miserable caitiff who remorselessly sells his own divine being to that which is most godless and detestable? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• As it was, he took her words for a covert judgment, and was certain that she thought his sketch detestable. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.

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