Ajar

(adj.) slightly open; 'the door was ajar' .

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• I forced the safe myself over night, and shut it up ajar before I went away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But worst of all, the door leading to the pits where I had hidden my Princess was ajar. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He was in no uneasiness concerning his getting into the house again, for it was full of lodgers, and the door stood ajar all night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I followed him into his room, leaving the hall door ajar behind me, for I feared to be alone with the man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Tired, I suppose, with her importunity, he threw down his spade, approached, and pushed the door ajar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Again a door was ajar, a room was empty. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• When Dorothea was again at Lydgate's door speaking to Martha, he was in the room close by with the door ajar, preparing to go out. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I was in my room; the door was ajar: I could both listen and watch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I saw the door of Miss Verinder's bedroom, standing ajar. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Just before I reached the landing I saw his door opened from the inside--a long, delicate, nervous hand (not my friend's hand certainly) held it ajar. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Something creaked: it was a door ajar; and that door was Mr. Rochester's, and the smoke rushed in a cloud from thence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We lost no time in repairing to this place, which was within a few hundred yards; and as the door stood ajar, I pushed it open. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He recovered, turned round, saw the door ajar, a faint light revealed. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The door, when we got round to it, was ajar, and the school-master's voice reached us plainly, as we both stopped for a minute under the porch. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A gate in the fence standing ajar, I pushed it open, and went in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• She was obliged to leave the door ajar as she found it; but she fully intended that Mr. Elton should close it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• As it was rather warm, some of the tenants of the numerous little rooms which opened into the gallery on either hand, had set their doors ajar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Coming near, I found the door slightly ajar; probably to admit some fresh air into the close abode of sickness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I found Adele peeping through the schoolroom door, which she held ajar. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The door was ajar, and a riband of bright firelight fell over the ground without. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Pulling at the bell again and getting no reply, she pushed the outer door, and found it standing ajar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Then, looking at Tom's safe, he sees the door ajar, and finds the lock forced, and the money gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I soon arrived at the hut: the door was ajar. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I had left the great door ajar; should I find it thus? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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