Discomfiture

例句/造句/用法:

• Sir Leicester is whipped in to the rescue of the Doodle Party and the discomfiture of the Coodle Faction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• There was some discomfiture in his tone as he resumed, though he tried to conceal it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• Under favour, sir, replied the yeoman, I have another reason for refraining to shoot, besides the fearing discomfiture and disgrace. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But, after having let herself be surprised in a falsehood, it was doubly stupid to snub the witness of her discomfiture. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• The other apes derived unlimited amusement from Tublat's discomfiture, for Broken Nose was a disagreeable old fellow, whom no one liked, anyway. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She might tear her long hair and cry her great eyes out, but there was not a person to heed or to deplore the discomfiture. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Whether he was sulky, or whether he was bashful, after his discomfiture in the rose-garden, I can't say. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• And they chuckled inwardly at the idea of the workmen's discomfiture and defeat, in their attempt to alter one iota of what Thornton had decreed. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• This was such a great fall, that I said in discomfiture, O, more than that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• She got a very cool one, and was glad to hide her discomfiture by turning away to take off her bonnet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• Ursula looked at her, and thought how amazingly beautiful she was, flushed with discomfiture. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Though it told against themselves, the joke was too good, and Becky burst out laughing at Rawdon's discomfiture. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• To court their own discomfiture by love is a common instinct with certain perfervid women. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• I could make nothing of this, except that it was meant that I should make nothing of it, and I went home again in complete discomfiture. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.

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