Vacancy

(noun.) being unoccupied.

编辑:迈尔斯

• The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Luttrell now peeped his nose into my box, and said, dragging in his better half, half-brother I mean, fat Nugent, A vacancy for two! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She knew that, in spite of his playfulness, his eyes could not change from their darkened vacancy, they were the eyes of a man who is dead. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The vacancy of such a form was perceived by Aristotle, but not by Plato. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What I insinuated was, that my Georgiana's little heart was growing conscious of a vacancy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Is this a pattern laid up in heaven, or mere vacancy on which he is supposed to gaze with wondering eye? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Getting a vacancy did not seem to be such a very easy matter, after all. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It was looking toward the verge of the landscape, yet looking at nothing--nothing but distance and vacancy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At last I saw a vacancy at Mawson & Williams's, the great stock-broking firm in Lombard Street. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• His presence was so quiet, almost like a vacancy in the corporate air. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• During the advance on Corinth a vacancy occurred in the colonelcy of the 2d Michigan cavalry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She did not know how she should fill up the vacancy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The father knew nothing of this, but sat and looked at the letter in terrified vacancy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But we may observe, that while he is aware of the vacancy of his own ideal, he is full of enthusiasm in the contemplation of it. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then he endeavoured to get employment as a hackney-writer, to copy for the stationers and lawyers about the Temple; but could not find a vacancy. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Generally lieutenants were appointed to captaincies to fill vacancies in the staff corps. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The charm of an object to occupy the many vacancies of Harriet's mind was not to be talked away. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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