Slight

(verb.) pay no attention to, disrespect; 'She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance'.

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• Then she said, with a slight touch of irritation: I don't care to accept a portrait from Paul Morpeth. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Selden, with a slight laugh, sat down beside her on the little sofa which projected from the hearth. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• A slight snore was the only reply: the honest stockbroker was asleep, and so the rest of Joseph's story was lost for that day. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And I couldn't bear to slight him, because he was a little altered--could I, Jip? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Even the experimental work imposes no slight burden on it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I took off my silk gown to begin with, because the slightest noise from it on that still night might have betrayed me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was amazing through how many hours at a time she would remain beside him, in a crouching attitude, attentive to his slightest moan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am not under the slightest obligation to go to India, especially with strangers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Left the house early this morning, without the slightest previous communication with me,' replied Mr. Pickwick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence, I remarked. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Her father often did the same thing; but his frame was slighter, and when he was weary, Eva would say to him, O, papa, let Tom take me. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Almost certainly that ancestor was a smaller and slighter creature than its human descendants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It would be needless to narrate those disastrous occurrences, for which a parallel might be found in any slighter visitation of our gigantic calamity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yours have been of a much slighter kind, spread over a much shorter time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Shirley can feel when she is slighted and shunned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Sir Percival merely answered by upbraiding his friend with having unjustifiably slighted his wishes and neglected his interests all through the day. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You will always feel that I slighted your mother's memory. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I have been slighted, and taught nothing, and thrown upon myself, and put to work not fit for me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She was slighted like and had no say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Yet I do feel irritated against Lady Berwick I confess it: but it is for her slights, or what I fancy was her neglect of my dear departed mother. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Some complain of the slights which are put upon them by relations, and they will tell you sadly of how many evils their old age is the cause. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Rawdon at first felt very acutely the slights which were passed upon his wife, and was inclined to be gloomy and savage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You would have better reasons than these for slighting so respectable a class of men, said Mrs. Farebrother, majestically. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I make this little preface, because you once mentioned the young lady to me in slighting terms. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And very handsome ones they are, too, cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about her friend. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The defect of the Herbartian theory of formation through presentations consists in slighting this constant interaction and change. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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