Pensive

(adj.) showing pensive sadness; 'the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty' .

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• She was sitting near the window, with her head reclined on her hand, and appeared more than usually pensive. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I say be happy, too,' assented the still pensive Mr Boffin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The door closed, and the carriage rolled softly through the snow; and back returned the Countess, pensive and anxious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• One morning at breakfast, Diana, after looking a little pensive for some minutes, asked him, If his plans were yet unchanged. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And her face, too, is visible--her countenance careless and pensive, and musing and mirthful, and mocking and tender. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her mien was chastened and pensive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The old man had, in the mean time, been pensive; but, on the appearance of his companions, he assumed a more cheerful air, and they sat down to eat. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In time, I doubt not, I shall make her uniformly sedate and decorous, without being unaccountably pensive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He had observed that Miss Keeldar looked pensive and delicate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You look pensive, Lucy: is it on my account? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She sate by the window on the little settle, sadly gazing out upon the gathering shades of night, which harmonised well with her pensive thought. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And all the while the pensive, tortured woman piled up her own defences of aesthetic knowledge, and culture, and world-visions, and disinterestedness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• When he was gone, Amy, who had been pensive all evening, said suddenly, as if busy over some new idea, Is Laurie an accomplished boy? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He felt as if suddenly shaken out of a pensive dream and found it impossible to go to sleep again. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I asked, for Holmes was turning the pipe about in his hand, and staring at it in his peculiar pensive way. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• She was pensive a few minutes, then rousing herself, she said cheerfully-- But you two are my visitors to-night; I must treat you as such. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But she certainly did grow a little pale and pensive that spring, lost much of her relish for society, and went out sketching alone a good deal. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He was a delicate, bilious-looking, interesting child of eleven years of age, with large, pensive black eyes, and thick black fringes to them. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Ned, getting sentimental, warbled a serenade with the pensive refrain. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• What her brown eye and clear forehead showed of her mind was in keeping with her dress and face--modest, gentle, and, though pensive, harmonious. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• All three looked at each other, and all three smiled--a dreary, pensive smile enough. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He glanced from time to time at her sad and pensive face. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I had roused her from the pensive mood in which I had first found her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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