"No," said Ramona, again displeased, she knew not why, nor in fact knew she was displeased; "no, I was not looking for her. What is she doing there?"英文原著 · 《Ramona》
Since the imagination is only the representation of the senses, it can only be pleased or displeased with the images, from the same principle on which the sense is pleased or displeased with the realities; and consequently there must be just as close an agreement in the imaginations as in the senses of men. A little attention will convince us that this must of necessity be the case.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
"Do you want to know why I am displeased with you, Mariana? Then I must tell you that I disapprove of your prolonged interviews with a young man who is very much beneath you in birth, breeding, and social position. I am displeased . this word is far too mild--I am shocked at your late . your night visits to this young man! And where does it happen? Under my own roof! Perhaps you see nothing wrong in it and think that it has nothing to do with me, that I should be silent and thereby screen your disgraceful conduct.英文原著 · 《Virgin Soil》
But who by hearsay speaks, and hath not fully felt What kind of fires they be in which those spirits melt, Shall guess, and fail, what doth displease, Feeling my pulse, miss my disease.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
There was something in Clayton's gaze that displeased her. Her face clouded, and she dropped her eyes.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
and that she grew more cheerful; though I did not feel sure that my singing cheered her so much as some happier thought that had come to her out of her own heart. Nobody but my mother, indeed, would have called my chirping singing. But as she did not seem displeased, I went on, a little more confidently, with some hymns that I loved for their starry suggestions,--英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
You said you were displeased, but that's hardly going medieval.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Excuse me. I said "Very displeased." And I used my cowboy voice, so- What are you doing?美剧 · 《Modern Family》