You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
It very seldom happens that anybody--of any pretensions--any pretensions--comes here without being presented to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
We must not swing across from the repudiation of the extravagant pretensions of the faithful to an equally extravagant condemnation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
For they certainly do believe it, and generally the more parochial their outlook, the more cosmic their pretensions. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
I am not a moral sort of fellow,' he said, 'and I never make any pretensions to the character of a moral sort of fellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
Everybody went away having any pretensions to politeness, and of course, with them, Doctor von Glauber, the Court Doctor, and his Baroness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
He never dreamed of disputing their pretensions, but did homage to the miserable Mumbo jumbo they paraded. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
What a launch in life I think it now, on looking back, to be so mean and servile to a man of such parts and pretensions! 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
In the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for _use_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Should he oppose any of their pretensions or usurpations, the danger is equally great. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Nobody believed in his pretensions any more. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
What Nietzsche has done here is, in his swashbuckling fashion, to cut under the abstract and final pretensions of creeds. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
She is such a very nice girl--no airs, no pretensions, though on a level with the firSt. I don't mean with the titled aristocracy. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Know then, that I have supported my pretensions to your hand in the way that best suited thy character. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
Celia, whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions much more readily. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
How can people be blamed for laughing at such pretensions, and believing that even if such a thing were true it was more fit for an exposition than for public use? 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Quite early in its career Buddhism came into conflict with the growing pretensions of the Brahmins. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
I took personal charge of running down this man and his pretensions in the section of the city where he lived and among his old neighbors. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Though the older courses resisted, they have had at least in this country to retire their pretensions to a monopoly. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
A prejudice against some mannerism or a dislike of pretensions may merely cloak some other kind of routine. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Taken literally, they are absurd pretensions; they indicate insanity. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
I knew that Floyd was in command, but he was no soldier, and I judged that he would yield to Pillow's pretensions. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
I do not care to dilate upon the exploded pretensions of Mr. and Mrs. Grundy. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
It makes no pretensions, but it is a comfortable little place, I hope, and will be more so with such bright young looks in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Scarce can we believe the first citizens of the ancient republics had such pretensions to consideration, though so highly celebrated in ancient story. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
The man of real high rank and breeding might here have been easily distinguished from the mere man of impudent pretensions. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.