Retirement

(noun.) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; 'the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity'.

(noun.) withdrawal from your position or occupation.

(noun.) the state of being retired from one's business or occupation.

录入:奥维尔

• When he was speaking of it in that way, I honestly said that _the_ _world_ I could give upparties, balls, playsfor I had no fear of retirement. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• About his losses, maybe; or the little retirement in the country that he's just left, eh? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement; he wanted to have the battle out. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Among the chief pleasures of the Catholic monarch between meals during this time of retirement were funeral services. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Exercise your fine natural sense and remain in retirement. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• These two ladies now emerged from their retirement, and proposed to take Dora to live at Putney. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Flora had 'gone to lie down' in the next room, concurrently with which retirement a smell of something to drink had broken out in the house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The quiet, the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happiness! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• You spoke of a retirement, sir; and retirement and solitude are dull: too dull for you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We, in our retirement, remained long in ignorance of her misfortune. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She lives in the strictest retirement at Versailles. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• On everything there was the same air of retirement and cleanliness that marked the house outside. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Early the next morning, I set forth for the little town of Dorking--the place of Sergeant Cuff's retirement, as indicated to me by Betteredge. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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