Discourse

(noun.) extended verbal expression in speech or writing.

(verb.) to consider or examine in speech or writing; 'The author talks about the different aspects of this question'; 'The class discussed Dante's `Inferno''.

校对:桑福德

• You gave me leave, at any time within a year, to renew the subject of our last discourse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The reader is privileged to remain, and try what he can make of the discourse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The demonstrations of the enemy's immediate approach cut off all farther discourse. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The young swarm of Hypanians, who may be advanced one hour in life, approach his person with respect, and listen to his improving discourse. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• She did not tell me what you suspect--she is not the person to proclaim such things; but yet I inferred something from parts of her discourse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each, and on which there could be no difference of sentiment. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The Disinherited Knight then addressed his discourse to Baldwin, the squire of Brian de Bois-Guilbert. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Revived by soup, Twemlow discourses mildly of the Court Circular with Boots and Brewer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He added, that he had heard too much upon the subject of war, both in this and some former discourses. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Then he took a skull and held it in his hand, and looked reflectively upon it, after the manner of the grave-digger when he discourses of Yorick. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We gather up the fragments of His discourses, but neither do they represent Him as He truly was. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This was my sincere endeavour in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Signs of intelligence seemed to pass between them, and Pitt spoke with her on subjects on which he never thought of discoursing with Lady Jane. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loomed down upon the street, like an Archbishop discoursing on Vanity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Here were she, Mrs Lammle, and her husband discoursing at once affectingly and effectively, but discoursing alone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Among these, accordingly, much discoursing with spirits went on--and it did a world of good which never became manifest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I mean rather that unhappy people are often preoccupied, and not in the mood for discoursing with companions of my nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Lady Crackenbury read the paragraph in bitterness of spirit and discoursed to her followers about the airs which that woman was giving herself. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• My attention was far from him, and from the topics on which he discoursed so fluently. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They seemed glad to meet and rest awhile in the meadow; here they discoursed with one another of what they had seen in the other world. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• To me he discoursed ceaselessly of his beloved Ionian. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• His friend responded as Eugene would have had him respond, and they discoursed of the future until Lizzie came back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

编辑:沃伦