Now that I strive to repel this habit of thought, I find myself asking: To what end, then, do I read and remember? Surely as foolish a question as ever man put to himself. You read for your own pleasure, for your solace and strengthening. Pleasure, then, purely selfish? Solace which endures for an hour, and strengthening for no combat? Ay, but I know, I know. With what heart should I live here in my cottage, waiting for life's end, were it not for those hours of seeming idle reading?英文原著 · 《The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft》
In imagination she was still with her incomparable hero, and it was her solace, after fifteen years, to sing the praise and echo the perfections of Sixteen-String Jack.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Truly, the throng of thoughtless spectators hindered the proper solace of the Ordinary's ministrations, and many a respectable murderer complained of the intruding mob. But the Ordinary, otherwise minded, loved nothing so well as a packed house, and though he would invite the criminal to his private closet, and comfort his solitude with pious ejaculations, he would neither shield him from curiosity, nor tranquillise his path to the unquenchable fire.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
It would have been no solace to Coke to pour out his tale even if it had been a story that he could have told Nora. He was not stopped by the fact that he had gotten himself in the quarrel because he had insulted the name of the girt at his side. He did not think of it at that time. The whole thing was now extremely vague in outline to him and he only had a dull feeling of misery and loneliness. He wanted her to cheer him.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
Friend, when you bear a care-dulled eye, And brow perplexed with things of weight, And fain would bid some charm untie The bonds that hold you all too strait, Behold a solace to your fate, Wrapped in this cover's china blue; These ballades fresh and delicate, This dainty troop of Thirty-two!英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
The hairy woodpeckers love the deep woods. They are drummers, not singers; but when walking in the desolate winter woods even the drumming and tapping of the busy feathered workmen on a resonant limb is a solace, giving a sense of life and cheerful activity which is invigorating.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
He will find solace in his beloved Pennsylvania, though Peter Russo will find solace nowhere.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
But I take solace in this: Frank Underwood will bring virtue, experience, and courage to the Oval Office.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Her request denied, Juana found solace in her grandfather’s private library. Her request denied, Juana found solace in her grandfather’s private library.演讲 · 《Yugar Historys worst nun ~ Theresa A.》