I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. Q.Where are you drifting? This dialogue merged grotesquely into his mind's most familiar statea grotesque blending of desires, worries, exterior impressions and physical reactions. One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Streetor One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Street.... Two and three look alikeno, not much. Seat damp ... are clothes absorbing wetness from seat, or seat absorbing dryness from clothes?...英文原著 · 《This Side of Paradise》
I wonder what Cathcart will say when he knows that the road is as good as done, and that I've got his job! "Chap called for mail. Goodbye. "Ever your affectionate "FRED. "Trent is a brick."
Ernestine read the letter slowly, line by line, word by word. To tell the truth it was absorbingly interesting to her. Already there had come rumours of the daring and blunt, resistless force with which this new-made millionaire had confronted a gigantic task. His terse communications had found their way into the Press, and in them and in the boy's letter she seemed to discover something Caesaric.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
I liked the thought of self-support, but I would have chosen some artistic or beautiful work if I could. I had no especial aptitude for teaching, and no absorbing wish to be a teacher, but it seemed to me that I might succeed if I tried. What I did like about it was that one must know something first. I must acquire knowledge before I could impart it, and that was just what I wanted. I could be a student, wherever I was and whatever else I had to be or do, and I would!英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
This was the course of young Granville's feelings during that fortnight, devoured by him like a book of which the end is absorbing. Angelique, carefully watched by him, seemed the gentlest of creatures, and he even caught himself feeling grateful to Madame Bontems, who, by implanting so deeply the principles of religion, had in some degree inured her to meet the troubles of life.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
Then for the first time he comprehended the triumphant joys of "absorbing." It satisfied the hunger of the will, exactly as food satisfies the hunger of the body. Digrung proved feeble - he made little opposition. His personality passed slowly and evenly into Maskull's. The latter became strong and gorged. The victim gradually became paler and limper, until Maskull held a corpse in his arms. He dropped the body, and stood trembling. He had committed his second crime. He felt no immediate difference in his soul, but ...英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
In 1817, however, an event took place which did much to alleviate Julie's hitherto deplorable existence. A daughter was born to her, and she determined to nurse her child herself. For two years motherhood, its all-absorbing multiplicity of cares and anxious joys, made life less hard for her. She and her husband lived necessarily apart. Her physicians predicted improved health, but the Marquise herself put no faith in these auguries based on theory. Perhaps, like many a one for whom life has lost its sweetness, she looked forward to death as a happy termination of the drama.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》