Divorce

(noun.) the legal dissolution of a marriage.

(verb.) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; 'The couple divorced after only 6 months'.

整理:莱克格斯

• He told me he had promised the Bishop to sign some kind of a petition against divorce. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Divorce was made as easy as marriage; the distinction of legitimate and illegitimate children was abolished. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A strict divorce law might be like New York's: it would recognize few grounds for a decree. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Her grand-daughter the Countess Olenska wishes to sue her husband for divorce. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• H'm--have you considered the consequences if she decides for divorce? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But European society is not given to divorce: Countess Olenska thought she would be conforming to American ideas in asking for her freedom. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• For example: You brought a divorce case, or a restitution case, into the Consistory. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• One way presumably is that divorced women often become prostitutes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Instead of connecting directly with present activities, it is remote, divorced from the means by which it is to be reached. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A strict divorce law would, of course, diminish the number of divorced women, and perhaps keep them out of prostitution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We in America have divorced them completely: both art and politics exist in a condition of unnatural celibacy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The unquestioned need for experts in politics is full of the very real danger that detailed preparation may give us a bureaucracy--a government by men divorced from human tradition. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• She was divorced, debarred, a soul shut out. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Better marriages would among other blessings require fewer divorces. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For he was now divorcing his old helper Josephine, because she was childless, in order to secure the continuity of his dynasty. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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