Distrust and a desire to be convinced were expressed in her eyes. What eyes they were! They sparkled just like two glowing coals. "'Listen, my dear, good Bela!' continued Pechorin. 'You see how I love you. I am ready to give up everything to make you cheerful once more. I want you to be happy, and, if you are going to be sad again, I shall die. Tell me, you will be more cheerful?'
"She fell into thought, her black eyes still fixed upon him.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
THE ARCHDEACON. It is very kind of you, but Mrs. Daubeny never touches solids now. Lives entirely on jellies. But she is wonderfully cheerful, wonderfully cheerful. She has nothing to complain of.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
Soon as some of the shine wore off, and you got so you acted like a real person."
"I saw it coming, when it first heaved in sight," chirped Miss Georgie, in a more cheerful tone than she had used that day; in too cheerful a tone to be quite convincing, if any one there had been taking notice of mere tones.英文原著 · 《Good Indian》
The farmer was secretly much pleased at his success. If she would laugh, be cheerful and not brood, he felt sure she would get well and be more contented. The desperate view she had taken of her misfortunes troubled him, and he had thought it possible that she might sink into despondency and something like invalidism; but that involuntary bubble of laughter reassured him. "Quiet, wholesome, cheerful life will restore her to health," he thought, as he put his favorite beverage and the sputtering steak on the table. "Now," he said, placing a chair at the table, "you can pour me a cup of coffee."英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
He came to resent a certain inconsequence in the woman. She might have had those headaches oftener. He had been led to suppose that she would, and now she continued to be weary but entirely well. More waiting and the ten-dollar bill went for a five and some silver. He was illogically not sorry to be rid of Andrew Jackson, who had looked so tragically skeptical. The five-dollar bill was much more cheerful. It bore the portrait of Benjamin Harrison, a smooth, cheerful face adorned with whiskers that radiated success. They were little short of smug with success.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
Oh, sing once more those dear, familiar lays, Whose gliding measure every bosom thrills, And takes my heart back to the happy days When first I sang them on my native hills! With the fresh feelings of the olden times, I hear them now upon a foreign shore-- The simple music and the artless rhymes! Oh, sing those dear, familiar lays once more, Those cheerful lays of other days-- Oh, sing those cheerful lays once more!英文原著 · 《Poems》
I thought you were annoying when you were cheerful, but this smugness is much worse.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》