"If you will tell me her name and address?" whispered the banker. He was much given to charity, but it had been perfunctory, it was extended on the advice of his secretary. In helping here, he felt a genial glow of personal pleasure. It was much more satisfactory than giving an Old Master to his private chapel.英文原著 · 《A Wasted Day》
"Of course, Ropes," went on the doctor in a perfunctory way, "I am very sorry for you. I shall miss you, and, if I could afford it, I would tell you to stay without charge. But I am a poor man."英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
Owing to the wasted condition of Yorkshire, the information that we obtain of the T. is meagre and perfunctory. But what seems characteristic of this county is a holding of two or three ploughlands which we might fairly call an embryo manor.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
There was an awkward silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's departure a great loss."英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
It was long the FASHION -- and that fashion has not yet passed away -- with skimming readers and perfunctory critics to charge Mr. Browning with being "wilfully obscure, unconscientiously careless, and perversely harsh."英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
WELL-BELOVED,--Surely those lovely verses went to Prince Charley's heart, if he had one, and certainly they have gone to mine. I shall be glad and proud to come back again after such a moving and beautiful compliment as this from comrades whom I have loved so long. I hope you can poll the necessary vote; I know you will try, at any rate. It will be many months before I can foregather with you, for this black border is not perfunctory, not a convention; it symbolizes the loss of one whose memory is the only thing I worship.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
There'll be a lot of forced smiles and perfunctory love-making, but after a few decades whiz by, I'm sure I'll find a way to forgive him.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Our responsibilities toward each other would only be rent, utilities And a perfunctory chin jut of recognition As we pass in the hall.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》