Adventure

(noun.) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful).

安编辑

• He declared himself entirely at her disposal: the adventure struck him as diverting. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The emperor and his whole court stood on the shore, expecting the issue of this great adventure. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This did not make the night's adventure run any less hotly in Mr Dorrit's mind, either when he sat down by his fire again, or when he went to bed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At last, a carpenter in the city, Peter Van der Mey by name, undertook the adventure. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the Sign of Four. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I wish you were all going, but as you can't, I shall keep my adventures to tell you when I come back. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• No more adventures, I suppose, this evening? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• What were the adventures of Mr. Osborne and Miss Amelia? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• We were all virtuous girls when Amy, one fine afternoon, left her father's house and sallied forth, like Don Quixote, in quest of adventures. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Darwin's account of his adventures and manifold observations is so informal, so rich in detail, as not to admit of summary. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Meantime you can go to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, where you will, and enjoy pictures, music, scenery, and adventures to your heart's content. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Hitherto their overflow of population had gone adventuring southward into the disorders of divided China as water goes into a sponge. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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