Retiring

例句/造句/用法:

• One night, as they were sitting within the cabin before retiring, Tarzan turned to D'Arnot. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• To prevent the possibility of this I proposed retiring into some quiet village in Devonshire. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• In spite of his seemingly retiring manners a very intrusive person, this Secretary and lodger, in Miss Bella's opinion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• When the time drew near for retiring, Mr. Bounderby took a glass of water. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• That is the best I can do for you, he said, stepping down and retiring to the path, where he resumed the smoking of his pipe as he walked up and down. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• Very sorry to hear it, sir, said Pratt, retiring. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• By which means we conceive the future as flowing every moment nearer us, and the past as retiring. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Was not a bowl of prussic acid the cause of Fair Rosamond's retiring from the world? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• He has had the reputation of being a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• Your grandmamma, if so addressed by one of her daughters, at any age, would have insisted on her retiring to a dark apartment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• And as for stewarding, I think it's time my brother gave that up, and took his House in hand on his sister's retiring. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
• As it appeared that he wished to depart to-night, I replied that we would see him before retiring. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• This made me, I dare say, more timid and retiring than I naturally was and cast me upon Dolly as the only friend with whom I felt at ease. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• He kept his eyes upon her, and kept advancing; and she, completely under his influence, kept retiring before him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Excuse me, Countess, if I set you the example of retiring, I said. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Then retiring two steps backward, he permitted the lady to move on. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Lights occasionally appeared in the different windows of the house, or glanced from the staircases, as if the inmates were retiring to rest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• So Mr Dorrit, retiring into the next room, put himself under the hands of his valet, and in five minutes came back glorious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Consequently,' said the other gentleman, retiring on his main position, 'why Row? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Only, shy and retiring as your general manner was, I wondered what personal or facial enormity in me proved so magnetic to your usually averted eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• When he is at last adjusted like a lay-figure, Mr. Chadband, retiring behind the table, holds up his bear's-paw and says, My friends! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• He finished by freezing a cup of tea for his own drinking, and retiring at his lowest temperature. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• But he had hoped that it might be shyness, her retiring character, her foreknowledge of the state of his heart, anything short of aversion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• I wonder whether she ever insisted on people's retiring into the ball of St Paul's; and if she did, how she got them there! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.

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