I do not mean by this the adventure of involuntary poverty, for I maintain that involuntary poverty, like involuntary riches, is a credit to no man. It is only as we dominate life that we really live. What I mean here, if I may so express it, is an adventure in achieved poverty. In the lives of such true men as Francis of Assisi and Tolstoi, that which draws the world to them in secret sympathy is not that they lived lives of poverty, but rather, having riches at their hands, or for the very asking, that they chose poverty as the better way of life.英文原著 · 《The Friendly Road》
Yet in her tone and involuntary shudder there was such virtue, such certainty of herself, won in many a hard-fought battle with a love that spoke in Julie's tones and involuntary gestures, that Lord Grenville stood thrilled with admiration of her. The mere shadow of a crime had been dispelled from that clear conscience. The religious sentiment enthroned on the fair forehead could not but drive away the evil thoughts that arise unbidden, engendered by our imperfect nature, thoughts which make us aware of the grandeur and the perils of human destiny.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
It is generally believed that the peristaltic movements of the intestines are influenced by attention being paid to them at fixed recurrent periods; and these movements depend on the contraction of unstriped and involuntary muscles. The abnormal action of the voluntary muscles in epilepsy, chorea, and hysteria is known to be influenced by the expectation of an attack, and by the sight of other patients similarly affected.[37] So it is with the involuntary acts of yawning and laughing.英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
"Your sister, madam?" he said, as if the questioning echo were almost involuntary, and he bowed again in some apology.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"He's drunk, sergeant," said one of the men in blue, and the axe-man was led into the basement. He was conscious of an involuntary resistance, a short struggle, and a final shock of pain, -- then oblivion.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"Good heavens!" I cried out, with involuntary indignation, and his fell scheme broke upon me in a clap.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Involuntary laughter, tickling laughter, being different from social laughter. involuntary laughter, tickling laughter, being different from social laughter.演讲 · 《Why we laugh ~ Sophie Scott》