Sooth
[suːθ]
解釋/意思:
(superl.) True; faithful; trustworthy.
(superl.) Pleasing; delightful; sweet.
(a.) Truth; reality.
(a.) Augury; prognostication.
(a.) Blandishment; cajolery.
艾丽萨校對
解釋/意思:
n. truth reality.—adj. true: pleasing.—adv. indeed.—adj. Sooth′fast truthful honest faithful.—adv. Sooth′fastly.—n. Sooth′fastness.—advs. Sooth′ly Sooth′lich (Spens.) truly indeed.—v.i. Sooth′say to foretell to divine.—ns. Sooth′sayer one who divines esp. a pretender to the power; Sooth′saying divination prediction.
手打:玛莎
例句/造句/用法:
- Sooth to say, they cannot go away too fast, for even here my Lady Dedlock has been bored to death. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Ay sooth, we feel too strong in weal, to need Thee on that road; But woe being come, the soul is dumb, that crieth not on God. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I endeavoured therefore to sooth and soften her mind; and it was not until after many endeavours that I gave up the task as impracticable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- In the best French which he could muster, and which was in sooth of a very ungrammatical sort, Jos besought the hussar to tell his tale. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But these jests did not tell materially on the afternoon, or his suspense; and, sooth to say, they both lagged fearfully. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Sooth to say, Mr Rokesmith not only passed the window, but came into the counting-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Nay, thou hast hit me there, said the Knight; and, sooth to say, I have little time to jangle with thee. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But in sooth, Fate hath ruth, And this dream of youth May change from a dream to immutable truth. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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