It was funny to see Aunt Myra's face as Rose stood before her talking rapidly with one hand laid in the friendliest manner on the skeleton's shoulder. Every word both the Doctor and Rose uttered hit the good lady in her weakest spot, and as she looked and listened a long array of bottles and pill-boxes rose up before her, reproaching her with the "ignorance and want of thought" that made her what she was, a nervous, dyspeptic, unhappy old woman.英文原著 · 《Eight Cousins》
"'I'll be as candid as you,' admits Collier, 'and if the drug stores don't run out of pepsin I'll give you a run for your money that'll leave you a dyspeptic at the wind-up.'英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
One day a dyspeptic man, wearing double-magnifying glasses, inserted an official-looking card between the bars of the cashier's window of the First National Bank. Five minutes later the bank force was dancing at the beck and call of a national bank examiner.英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
Did you ever hear of "Condy's Ozonised Water"? I have been trying it with, I think, extraordinary advantage--to comfort, at least. A teaspoon, in water, three or four times a day. If you meet any poor dyspeptic devil like me, suggest it.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
I was quite taken by the remark of a thin, dyspeptic man who summed up the matter by growling out in a harsh, deep bass voice, "Punish 'em in love!" It sounded as if he had said, "Shoot 'em on the spot!"英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
OUR NEXT DOOR. Dress reform! As if people couldn't change their clothes without concert of action. Resolved, that nobody should put on a clean collar oftener than his neighbor does. I'm sick of every sort of reform. I should like to retrograde awhile. Let a dyspeptic ascertain that he can eat porridge three times a day and live, and straightway he insists that everybody ought to eat porridge and nothing else. I mean to get up a society every member of which shall be pledged to do just as he pleases.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
AI 补充例句(附中文翻译)
The dyspeptic old man complained loudly about the quality of his dinner.那位消化不良的老人对晚餐的质量大声抱怨。
She gave me a dyspeptic look when I asked for a second favor.
His dyspeptic mood made him difficult to work with during the long meeting.