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》
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》
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》
After all the railway did cross the farm, and Uncle Cyrus was paid two thousand dollars for the right of way, much to the disappointment of his disinterested friend Lemuel Sheldon, who felt that this sum ought to have gone into his own pocket.英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
Young's picture of Ireland, in his tour through that country, was the first faithful portrait of its inhabitants. All the features in the foregoing sketch were taken from the life, and they are characteristic of that mixture of quickness, simplicity, cunning, carelessness, dissipation, disinterestedness, shrewdness, and blunder, which, in different forms and with various success, has been brought upon the stage or delineated in novels.英文原著 · 《Castle Rackrent》
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》