Threap: argue back pertinaciously. Throw: space of time. Tine: lose. Tirled: twirled. To-broke: "to" is intensive. Told: counted. Tone: the tone = that one, as the tother = that other; "that" being the old neuter of "the." Tray: surly, unwillingly. Icelandic - thra, obstinate.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Do you hear, Trent?"
He could no longer ignore the hoarse, plaintive cry. He looked unwillingly up. Monty was standing over him with white, twitching face and bloodshot eyes. "Deal the cards," he muttered simply, and sat down. Trent hesitated. Monty misunderstood him and slowly drew the photograph from his pocket and laid it face downwards upon the table. Trent bit his lip and frowned. "Rather a foolish game this," he said.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
During my first year at the seminary I was appointed teacher of the Preparatory Department,--a separate school of thirty or forty girls,--with the opportunity to go on with my studies at the same time. It was a little hard, but I was very glad to do it, as I was unwilling to receive an education without rendering an equivalent, and I did not wish to incur a debt.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
When they broke out again, it was not in Snowdon or Ceredigion; the old dominions of Llywelyn were almost unwilling to rise. The new revolts were in the march lands, and especially in the towns.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Newspapers never can fully take the place of those gatherings, for they do not bring men together to feel the thrill of the story that is told. It must be remembered that the entire population of England at that time was only about three millions. And that old spirit of independence was strongly at work in the middle-class villages and among the merchants, and they were a ruling and dominant class. That was second, that in those ten years there asserted itself the age-long unwillingness of the English people to be ruled from without.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
I did not answer; there was too much to exasperate in these prodigies of cunning which he could never trouble to tell me at the time. And I knew why he had kept his latest feats to himself: unwilling to trust me outside the house, he had systematically exaggerated the dangers of his own walks abroad; and when to these injuries he added the insult of a patronizing compliment on my late disguise, I again made no reply.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
The Make-A-Wish kids will not soon forget the time the great BoJack Horseman referred to their parents as 'a bunch of used jizz bags.' He filled the air with words, terrified of silence, as one often is who is smart enough to recognize his many personal failings but unwilling or unable to take the s美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
And the way your mother provokes him! I think they get off on it, and they're making us unwilling participants in their kinky foreplay.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
If your theory were true, wouldn't I keep her at arms' length, desperate for her to love me but unwilling to be vulnerable enough to allow her to hurt me?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
However, it will be no surprise to you that Miss O'Brien has been unwilling to let things drop.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》