"Princess," I said, "it is impossible for me to answer you; allow me to speak to your daughter, alone" . "Never!" she exclaimed, rising from her chair in violent agitation. "As you wish," I answered, preparing to go away. She fell into thought, made a sign to me with her hand that I should wait a little, and left the room. Five minutes passed. My heart was beating violently, but my thoughts were tranquil, my head cool. However assiduously I sought in my breast for even a spark of love for the charming Mary, my efforts were of no avail! Then the door opened, and she entered.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Coleman spent a long afternoon in the drizzle Enveloped in his macintosh he sat on a boulder in the lee of one of the old walls and moodily smoked cigars and listened to the ceaseless clatter of tongues. A ray of light penetrated the mind of the dragoman and he laboured assiduously with wet fuel until he had accomplished a tin mug of coffee. Bits of cinder floated in it, but Coleman rejoiced and was kind to the dragoman.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Hovstad. And, in the matter before us, it is now an undoubted fact that Dr. Stockmann has public opinion against him. Now, what is an editor's first and most obvious duty, gentlemen? Is it not to work in harmony with his readers? Has he not received a sort of tacit mandate to work persistently and assiduously for the welfare of those whose opinions he represents? Or is it possible I am mistaken in that?英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
Stockmann. I cannot understand how it is that I have only now acquired a clear conception of what these gentry are, when I had almost daily before my eyes in this town such an excellent specimen of them--my brother Peter--slow-witted and hide-bound in prejudice--. (Laughter, uproar and hisses. STOCKMANN Sits coughing assiduously. ASLAKSEN rings his bell violently.)英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
The sun's rays, reflecting quiveringly from the rippling sea upon his face, and the voices of the market-men woke "Beelzebub" Blythe. He sat up, blinking, and leaned his back against the wall of the market. Drawing a blighted silk handkerchief from his pocket, he assiduously rubbed and burnished his glasses. And while doing this he became aware that his bedroom had been invaded, and that polite brown and yellow men were beseeching him to vacate in favor of their market stuff.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Where Charles Darwin's special studies came in contact with the Science of Language was over the problem of the origin and development of language. It is curious to observe that, where so many fields of linguistic research have still to be reclaimed--many as yet can hardly be said to be mapped out,--the least accessible field of all--that of the Origin of Language-- has never wanted assiduous tillers. Unfortunately it is a field beyond most others where it may be said that英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
So tread lightly before you assiduously malign the veracity of my etymological prowess.美剧 · 《Modern Family》