Severne came in, dressed as perfect as though just taken out of a bandbox. He sat down at a little table, and read a little journal unobtrusively. It was his cue to divest his late _te'te-'a-te'te_ of public importance.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
It was getting late. Hector lit a stable lantern and went off to his cart for some arrangements; and my young gentleman proceeded to divest himself of the better part of his raiment, and play gymnastics on his mother's lap, and thence on to the floor, with accompaniment of laughter.英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
Enjoy! The word brought no puritan terror to Soames; but it brought the terror suited to his temperament. He had always been afraid to enjoy to-day for fear he might not enjoy tomorrow so much. And it was terrifying to feel that his daughter was divested of that safeguard. The very way she sat in that chair showed it-- lost in her dream. He had never been lost in a dream himself--there was nothing to be had out of it; and where she got it from he did not know! Certainly not from Annette! And yet Annette, as a young girl, when he was hanging about her, had once had a flowery look.英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
The girl stood before her divested of her wedding dress. What a pretty thing she was
"I suppose you think me a fool," she said, with quivering lips, "when it was to have been Jon. But what does it matter? Michael wants me, and I don't care. It'll get me away from home." Diving her hand into the frills on her breast, she brought out a letter. "Jon wrote me this."
June read: "Lake Okanagen, British Columbia. I'm not coming back to England. Bless you always.英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
The sheriff, in a jolly mood, and happy to have added to the number of his Christmas guests, took each of the two young men by the arm, as if he were going to arrest them, and conducted them through the spacious front hall into a large cosey room, where, having divested themselves of their wraps, they told the story of their adventure.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
Having obtained these facts, Erik took pains to let John Garvestad know that the chain of evidence against him was complete, and if he had had his own way he would not have rested until his enemy had suffered the full penalty of the law. But John Garvestad, suspecting what was in the young man's mind, suddenly divested himself of his pride, and cringing dike a whipped dog, came and asked Erik's pardon, entreating him not to prosecute.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
By analyzing speech patterns, vocal frequencies, tone, sentence structure, it tells us that this man wants to divest his university's billion dollar fund from fossil fuels.美剧 · 《Billions》
But we've analyzed his statements and noticed a change about five years ago-- the first time any major university divested.美剧 · 《Billions》
He knows he should divest his school from fossil fuels.美剧 · 《Billions》
We can take the same position that we are unrolling the endowment from-- get the oil companies to make a deal to stave off the publicity bloodletting that will come from the divestment.美剧 · 《Billions》