Twitter Google Share on Facebook Old`-gen´tle`man`ly a.1.Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitt...
(1)rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “theold-fashionedway to be new.” He employed the plain speech of rural New Englanders and preferred the short, traditional forms of lyric and narrative.拒绝潮流下流行的诗歌改革,坚持自然主义(与大时代不同),坚...
The Old Gentleman was thin and tall and sixty. He was dressed all in black, and wore the old-fashioned kind of glasses that won't stay on your nose. His hair was whiter and thinner than it had been last year, and he seemed to make more use of his big, knobby cane with the croo...
It was inhabited by an old gentleman who wrote voluminous books. "Oh, look! Here is an explorer!" he exclaimed to himself when he saw the little prince coming. The little prince sat down on the table and panted a little. He had already traveled so much and so far! "Where do you ...
old-fashioned old-fashionedly old-fashionedness Oldfield old-field old-field toadflax Old-gentlemanly old-girl network old-growth Oldham old-hat oldie oldish oldline old-line old-line party old-looking old-maidish Old-maidism old-maid's bonnet old-man cactus old-man-of-the-woods old-man...
考查介词。句意:他觉得整洁的书写仍然是一项重要的技能,所以他不仅让学生手写,还让他们用老式的钢笔写字。根据空格后的名词old fashioned fountain pens可知,空格处应填介词,表示“使用”应用介词with。故填with。 【39题详解】 考查动词时态和语态。句意:钢笔很久以前就在学校里使用了,最近又重新流行起来,因为它们可...
Inthe office of the doctor there was a woman, the wife of the man who kept the bookstore in Winesburg. Like ail old-fashioned country practitioners, Doctor Reefy pulled teeth, and the woman who waited held a handkerchief to herteeth and groaned. Her husband was with her and when the ...
Humbert Humbert is a professor with old-fashioned, gentlemanly tastes in literature and other intellectual pursuits. When he meets a new widow, he marries her so he can be close to her daughter, Lolita, who is young, beautiful, and seductive. 3. The Dreamers (2003) Director: Bernardo Bert...
She made him feel, for the first time in his old-maidish life, that he was a strong upstanding man fashioned by God in a nobler mold than other men, fashioned to protect silly helpless women. When, at last, they stood together to be married, her confiding little hand in his and her...
Polly had now quite got over her fright and felt sure that the old gentleman was not mad; and there certainly something strangely attractive about those bright rings. She moved over to the tray. "Why! I declare," she said. "That humming noise gets louder here. It's almost as if the...