Disposition

(noun.) your usual mood; 'he has a happy disposition'.

(noun.) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; 'a swelling with a disposition to rupture'.

手打:梅尔瓦

• And you're naturally of a polite disposition, you are. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mrs. Weston was very ready to say how attentive and pleasant a companion he made himselfhow much she saw to like in his disposition altogether. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• My disposition is, if I may say so, eminently practical. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Neither Laura nor I were in any favorable disposition to be amused. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I never met with a disposition more truly amiable. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• He saw Heloise, and was captivated by her blooming youth, her beauty, and her charming disposition. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Upon her disposition he believed kindness might be the best way of working. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Yet, all things considered, she was not of an evil mind or an unkindly disposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Before my eyes, too, his disposition seemed to unfold another phase; to pass to a fresh day: to rise in new and nobler dawn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She never interferes, is all for peace, and her disposition easy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. Whiffers then added that he feared a portion of this outrage might be traced to his own forbearing and accommodating disposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The king, who was a man of excellent dispositions, but easily led, had now become a willing disciple of his imperious consort. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The other point is persons modify one another's dispositions only through the special use they make of physical conditions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• At eight o'clock Warren was ordered up again, but was so slow in making his dispositions that his orders were frequently repeated, and with emphasis. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We discussed his chances, the merits of the other candidates, and the dispositions of the voters. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Then if the constitutions of States are five, the dispositions of individual minds will also be five? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Our dispositions are not compatible. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• They hung about on the flanks of the herd, and became very wise about its habits and dispositions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They developed mental dispositions and traditions and attitudes of thought one to another. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Edmund, I consider, from his dispositions and habits, as much more likely to marry early than his brother. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The very difference of our dispositions gave zest to these conversations. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Golz had been up to inspect the dispositions for the attack and was on his way to an observation post. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

校对:威拉德