Startling

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• They have the strangest knack of startling you with unpleasant surprises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• It was almost startling, heard for the first time. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Again there was a loud laugh, the most startling of which was the Baronet's, which rattled out like a clatter of falling stones. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• And are your revelations startling? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• Not very; it all depends upon what you call startling. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• The words hardly reached him: he was aware only of her voice, and of the startling fact that not an echo of it had remained in his memory. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• He, too, had caught a fleeting backward glimpse of cruel yellow eyes and half open mouth within startling proximity of his person. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The expression was, for the instant, so precisely alike, that the minutest line seemed copied with startling accuracy! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• Being a woman of a high courage, she soon got over the first startling effect of what I had to communicate. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• At last he said: 'So startling an announcement, so confidently made, and by such lips, is really disconcerting in the last degree. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• 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.
• Was there anything in the voice of Mrs. Yeobright's son--for Clym it was--startling as a sound? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• The experience with the little gas-engine was rather startling. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Startling events appeared to be too rare, in my career, to render a diary necessary. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• It was a startling likeness, and necessarily had a startling look. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• I thought only of the words--the startling words--which had just fallen from his lips. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• Many of them are supposed to have been used in the performance of some of the startling religious rites at the altars of the Greek priests. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Ezra Jennings laid aside his hat, and passed his hand wearily over his forehead, wearily through his startling white and black hair. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• Only twenty dollars were left: the discovery was so startling that for a moment she fancied she must have been robbed. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• Somewhere along this route we had a few startling exhibitions of Oriental simplicity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• A most extraordinary and startling change passed over her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A startling Hi-hi! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• Not if she marries again before the end of it, said Mrs. Cadwallader, who had some pleasure in startling her good friend the Dowager. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Surrounded no longer by heath, it was not startling to Mr. Yorke to see a hat rise, and to hear a voice speak behind the wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• Mr. Franklin came back from his walk as the Sergeant said those startling words. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• The change had happened with startling suddenness--in one moment the creature lay lifeless under our hands. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The transition was startling. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• It is what makes gossips turn out in rain and storm to go and be the first to tell a startling bit of news. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.

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