And you young people here with lives like June mornings, are not much interested in this lecture. You are polite and attentive because this is a polite and attentive neighborhood. But down in your hearts you are asking, "What is this all about? What is that man talking about? I haven't had these things and I'm not going to have them, either!"
Maybe some of you are naturally bright! You are going to be bumped. You are going to cry yourselves to sleep. You are going to walk the floor when you cannot sleep.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
Such were the thoughts and such the plans of the quiet, attentive man who, with his tray laden with coffee and ices, came and went an unnoticed unit among twenty other units similarly quiet and similarly attentive. He waited on lady after lady, and when, on the reissuing of Mr. Durand from the alcove, he passed in there with his tray and his two cups of coffee, nobody heeded and nobody remembered.英文原著 · 《The Woman in the Alcove》
She had found out already that she was to be held accountable for everything which was objected to. If the children were not attentive, if they talked, if they were restless, it was she who would be reproved.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
"To the confusion of the debtor?" asked Malaga, lending an attentive ear to this discourse.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
"Still the same old gnawing hunger?"
"What is doing these days?" demanded Nightspore disdainfully, without altering his attitude. "Surtur has gone, and we are to follow him."
"How do you two come to know each other, and of whom are you speaking?" asked Maskull, looking from one to the other in perplexity. "Krag has something for us. Let us go outside," replied Nightspore. He got up, and glanced over his shoulder. Maskull, following the direction of his eye, observed that the few remaining men were watching their little group attentively.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
Maskull viewed it attentively, and as he did so an expression of awe and wonder came into his own countenance. In the moment of death Crimtyphon's face had undergone a startling and even shocking alteration. Its personal character had wholly vanished, giving place to a vulgar, grinning mask which expressed nothing. He did not have to search his mind long, to remember where he had seen the brother of that expression. It was identical with that on the face of the apparition at the seance, after Krag had dealt with it.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
Your way of proving that you're flexible and attentive to my needs is to pull me away from work -- with no notice -- make me drive all the way across town, just so you can show me you un-alphabetized your beans?美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
Are more inclined to be very attentive to complex social relations are more inclined to be very attentive to complex social relations演讲 · 《Is anatomy destiny ~ Alice Dreger》