Levity

(noun.) a manner lacking seriousness.

(noun.) feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness.

伊桑录入

• Such levity is proper enough in the provinces, we make no doubt, but it ill suits the dignity of the metropolis. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• No levity, miss! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A god could not have the cruel vanity of Dr. John, nor his sometime levity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Is any man insane enough to imagine that this picnic of patriarchs sang, made love, danced, laughed, told anecdotes, dealt in ungodly levity? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• No; for such a tone--call it familiarity, levity, equality, or what you will--would imply those social interchanges which do not exist. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I will not suffer this tone of levity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For all his seeming levity and carelessness, he knew whatever he chose to know of the thoughts of her heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The mother, you know, had always that levity about her, which makes me anxious for the children. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was cruel levity in you to do that. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There began a puritan reaction in Mecca and Medina against the levity and luxury of Damascus. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Come, come, Sir,' said the magistrate sternly, 'don't let me see any of this levity here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is usual to see men lose their levity, as they advance in years. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But levity Is causal too, and makes the sum of weight. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And this, Lavinia, is my reason for objecting to a tone of levity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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