This she did without mercy, and in time cleared herself of hangers- on, so that her banquets and assemblies were the most distinguished of the time, and the men who paid their court to her were of such place and fortune that their worship could but be disinterested.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Bless me!" cried the Count, interrupting his son, "then what my old /emigre/ friends tell me is true, I suppose. The Revolution has left us habits devoid of pleasure, and has infected all the young men with vulgar principles. You, like my Jacobin brother-in-law, will harangue me, I suppose, on the Nation, Public Morals, and Disinterestedness!-- Good Heavens! But for the Emperor's sisters, where should we be?"英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
Much else is there that it were well they should ponder, and I am coming to it presently; but first, one suggestion. Most of us, if we dig back only fifty or sixty or seventy years, can disinter various relatives over whose doings we should prefer to glide lightly and in silence.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
It was an infamous prosecution, grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that account. `You have laid me under an obligation to you for life-in two senses,' said his late client, taking his hand. `I have done my best for you, Mr. Darnay; and my best is as good as another man's, I believe.'
It clearly being incumbent on some one to say, `Much better,' Mr. Lorry said it; perhaps not quite disinterestedly, but with the interested object of squeezing himself back again. `You think so?' said Mr. Stryver. `Well!英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
But, then, how it could be that this so happy man was scarcely a stone-cast past the cross when he had begun again to burden himself with fresh sin, and thus to disinter all his former sin? How a true pilgrim comes to have so many burdens to bear, and that till he ceases to be any longer a pilgrim,--a burden of guilt, a burden of corruption, and a burden of bare creaturehood,--I must leave all that, and all the questions connected with all that, for you all to think out and work out for yourselves; and you will not say any morning on this earth, like Mrs. Timorous, that you have little to do.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
She was exquisitely beautiful. Her slenderness was a charm. I was lost in contemplation. What was passing in my mind I should have some difficulty in explaining. I was full of indulgence for her life, full of admiration for her beauty. The proof of disinterestedness that she gave in not accepting a rich and fashionable young man, ready to waste all his money upon her, excused her in my eyes for all her faults in the past. There was a kind of candour in this woman. You could see she was still in the virginity of vice.英文原著 · 《Camille》
I'm surprised that they're coming, because when I mentioned the wedding to Tony, he seemed completely disinterested -- Oh, the botox.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Oh, yes. According to the Relationship Agreement, On the anniversary of our first date, He must take me to a nice dinner, Ask about my day And engage in casual physical contact That a disinterested onlooker might mistake for intimacy.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Yeah, well, none of us are disinterested parties, given the hospital's reputation is also at stake.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》