Sober

(verb.) cause to become sober; 'A sobering thought'.

(adj.) not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) .

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• I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A forfeit--a forfeit, shouted the robbers; a Saxon hath thirty zecchins, and returns sober from a village! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I had assured myself that the man was sober as well as civil before I let her enter the vehicle. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Tarzan shook his head, and an expression of wistful and pathetic longing sobered his laughing eyes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• We laid him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to relieve his pain. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Suddenly he was sobered: a vacant space appeared near Miss de Bassompierre; the circle surrounding her seemed about to dissolve. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His ducking sobered him a little, and he went to sleep, taking first out of his pocket a book which he desired I would dry for him. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The sobered man was brought up and leaped out briskly on the grass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But Celia was administering what she thought a sobering dose of fact. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Sydney was none the livelier and none the soberer for so much application. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But we have plenty, and live well, nevertheless, though, by being soberer, we might be richer. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It had certainly not been produced by Selden's arguments, or by the action of his own soberer reason. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Plato says in effect: Let us take hold of life and remodel it; this soberer successor: Let us first know more of life and meanwhile serve the king. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He's my husband, and I shouldn't praise him; but I _will_ say there's not a soberer, honester man i' England nor he is. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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