Gift

(noun.) something acquired without compensation.

校对:米里亚姆

• But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Nor has he--except for their one great gift to him. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Gramercy for the gift, bold yeoman, said the Knight; and better help than thine and thy rangers would I never seek, were it at my utmost need. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• To you, therefore, the gift is of little value,--and to me, what I part with is of much less. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And without doubt the lady so crushed with gifts would find them irresistible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Neither must we sing to them of 'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And it was from the gifts bestowed upon him towards the execution of this benevolent purpose, that he recruited his finances, as just now observed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• They also bear abundant evidence of the compatibility of these two widely divergent gifts existing, even to a high degree, in the same person. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• One of Lydgate's gifts was a voice habitually deep and sonorous, yet capable of becoming very low and gentle at the right moment. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• These brooches and these rings, of a beauty so gracious and celestial, were what one called, with the permission of Monsieur, nuptial gifts. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The contest,' said Pott, 'shall be prolonged so long as I have health and strength, and that portion of talent with which I am gifted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The directness and endurance of the influence of this trained veteran on his gifted son a hundred fine incidents attest. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But observation shows that children are gifted with an equipment of the first order for social intercourse. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• America had also received the taint; and, were it yellow fever or plague, the epidemic was gifted with a virulence before unfelt. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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