Becoming

(adj.) displaying or setting off to best advantage; 'a becoming new shade of rose'; 'a becoming portrait' .

(adj.) according with custom or propriety; 'her becoming modesty'; 'comely behavior'; 'it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money'; 'a decent burial'; 'seemly behavior' .

录入:洛伦佐

• This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The tension of patriotic and republican France was now becoming intolerable. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This is not becoming in a sensible dog; anybody would think you were a silly young gentleman. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The satellite was gone; and Mr Inspector, becoming once again the quiet Abbot of that Monastery, dipped his pen in his ink and resumed his books. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Laughing and chattering like the idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon his prostrate form my fingers feeling for his dead throat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• I saw then that there was scarcely a chance of this ever becoming a practicable route for moving troops through an enemy's country. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The addition of the salicylic acid delays secondary fermentation in stock and export beers, which may then be kept for any length of time without becoming unsound or of unpleasant flavor. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But Miss Bertram thought it most becoming to reply-- The avenue! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• One of Lydgate's gifts was a voice habitually deep and sonorous, yet capable of becoming very low and gentle at the right moment. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Again her name was syllabled, and she shuddered as she asked herself, am I becoming mad, or am I dying, that I hear the voices of the departed? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Nothing could be more becoming to your complexion than that ruffian's rouge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• You are becoming her advocate, said he. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Three antagonistic growths had to be kept alive: his mother's trust in him, his plan for becoming a teacher, and Eustacia's happiness. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• You will not be the cause of my becoming worse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I thought it my duty to protest against Lady Glyde's unfavourable opinion of his lordship, and I did so, with becoming forbearance and respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A proposal which, as you correctly informed me at the time, he had the becoming taste and perception, observes Sir Leicester, to decline. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This is becoming grim, Mortimer,' said Eugene, in a low voice. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I begged Sergeant's Cuff's pardon, but I am afraid I did it with watery eyes, and not in a very becoming way. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We have seen in an earlier chapter that geometry developed as a sci ence is becoming gradually weaned from the art of surveying. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A new philosophical basis is becoming increasingly necessary to socialism--one that may not be truer than the old materialism but that shall simply be more useful. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He would leave that forever behind him with the great hopes he had nursed there of finding his own race and becoming a man among men. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Mrs. Hale lay back in an easy chair, with a soft white shawl wrapped around her, and a becoming cap put on, in expectation of the doctor's visit. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The Sergeant received the key with a becoming apology. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The ice was receding, vegetation was increasing, big game of all sorts was becoming more abundant. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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