Why not? the President desired to know. Because he had voluntarily relinquished a title that was distasteful to him, and a station that was distasteful to him, and had left his country--he submitted before the word emigrant in the present acceptation by the Tribunal was in use--to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France. What proof had he of this? He handed in the names of two witnesses: Th��ophile Gabelle, and Alexandre Manette. But he had married in England? the President reminded him. True, but not an English woman.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
At the Hulks he recovered something of his dignity, and discretion rendered his first visit brief enough. Even when he was committed on a second offence, and had attempted suicide, he was still irresistible, and he was discharged with several years of imprisonment to run. But, in truth, he was born for honour and distinction, and common actions, common criminals, were in the end distasteful to him. In his heyday he stooped no further than to employ such fences as might profitably dispose of his booty, and the two partners of his misdeeds were both remarkable.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
In the early spring Annie's baby was born, -- a little girl with a nervous cry, who never slept long at a time, and who seemed to wail merely from distaste at living. It was Mrs. Dundy who came over to look after the house till Annie got able to do so. Her eyes had that fever in them, as ever. She talked but little, but her touch on Annie's head was more eloquent than words. One day Annie asked for the glass, and Mrs. Dundy gave it to her. She looked in it a long time.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
The course was somewhat elective, but her advice to me was, not to omit anything because I did not like it. I had a natural distaste for mathematics, and my recollections of my struggles with trigonometry and conic sections are not altogether those of a conquering heroine. But my teacher told me that my mind had need of just that exact sort of discipline, and I think she was right.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
ah, what consideration had I to give? I turned from them with distaste. "My cousin Evelyn gave me no help. She was a proud woman and loved my money and my expectations as much as she did me. "'If you must marry another woman to retain your wealth, marry, said she, 'but do not marry one of my associates. I will have no rival in my own empire; your wife must be a plainer and a less aspiring woman than Evelyn Blake. Yet do not discredit your name, --which is mine,' she would always add. "Meanwhile the days flew by.英文原著 · 《A Strange Disappearance》
"Well, madam, nothing is _infra dig,_ if done for you; nothing is distasteful if done for you."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
I have a distaste for hypotheticals just the same as you have a distaste for speculation.美剧 · 《House of Cards》