Nearness

(noun.) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; 'the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action'.

塞西尔编辑

• There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But tonight every fibre in her body shrank from Lily's nearness: it was torture to listen to her breathing, and feel the sheet stir with it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The nearness of this place to London was such, as to take away the idea of painful separation, when we quitted Raymond and Perdita. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Its nearness was such that, notwithstanding its actual smallness, its glow infinitely transcended theirs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• For such summer dreams it was too late; but surely not for a quiet harvest of friendship, of comradeship, in the blessed hush of her nearness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• They looked at each other and laughed, frightened by this naked nearness of isolation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The stir of the pulses which his nearness always caused was increased by a slight sense of constraint. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Even the civil war that had begun in the British colonies in America did not rouse him to the nearness of what we now call Democracy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She stayed on partly for the comfort of Gerty Farish's nearness, and partly for lack of knowing where to go. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Their eyes met, and for a second she trembled again with the nearness of the temptation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

校对:鲁本