Words
asperity
allude
precipitate
Expressions
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I’m very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins, and could say much on the subject, but that I am cautious of appearing
________(鲁莽轻率)
. -
But when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to
________(表现突出)
, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness. -
You perhaps
________(暗指/映射)
the entail of this estate. -
Not that I mean to find fault with you, for such things I know are
________(全凭运气)
in this world. -
They chiefly
________(由……引起/产生)
what is passing at the time. -
Has she been
________(引见[给地位极高者]/受到觐见)
? -
I have more than once observed to Lady Catherine, that her charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess, and that
________(最高贵的品阶)
, instead of________(提升她的显赫)
, would________(借重她为自己增光添彩)
. -
Mr. Collins readily assented, and a book was
________(拿出/出示)
, but on beholding it, (for everything announced it to be from________(流通图书馆)
,) he________(惊跳)
back, and begging pardon, protested that he never read novels. -
But here he was
________(矫正/纠正)
by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.