Checked

(adj.) patterned with alternating squares of color .

编辑:诺拉

• She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But here also I am checked. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Therefore I checked myself, and made my meaning plainer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It was as if the eager current of her being had been checked by a sudden obstacle which drove it back upon itself. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He had checked off each bridge in its turn, with the handle of his safe-key on the palm of his hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• About the middle of the letter I heard--what checked my pen--a tread in the vestibule. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His lips parted, as if to speak: but he checked the coming sentence, whatever it was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That is,' the consideration checked him, 'till I have said all I mean to say, and then I don't care how soon we stop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• She checked me, however, as I was about to depart from her--so frozen as I was! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I was beginning to remind her that to-day was Wednesday, when she checked me with her former impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I'll see you--' Mr. Weller hastily checked himself, and added in a low tone, 'furder fust. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The presence of the more resolute friend checked it, however; and she was the better of this control and company. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Something thoughtfully apprehensive in the large, soft eyes, had checked Little Dorrit in an instant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• She stretched out hers, as if she would have touched him; then checked herself, and remained still. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But soon she checked herself, dried her eyes, and went out at the glass door into the shrubbery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Yet, even then, I have checked thick-coming fears with one thought; I would not fear death, for the emotions that linked us must be immortal. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• One would be startled to see him with a bright tie, a loud checked suit, or a fancy waistcoat, and yet there is a curious sense of fastidiousness about the plain things he delights in. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Will had gone further than he intended, and checked himself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The pace was suddenly checked, and, with much splashing and floundering, a man's voice called from the mist, Is that the Dover mail? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The trust is not checked, but it is perverted. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Awful crimes, no doubt; but he did not tell me what: there, you knowthe seal of the confessional checked his garrulity, and my curiosity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Earth was past,--and earthly pain; but so solemn, so mysterious, was the triumphant brightness of that face, that it checked even the sobs of sorrow. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Something in that dying scene had checked the natural fierceness of youthful passion. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She tried to disperse them, but they refused to be checked--her utterance was choaked. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• His lips moved; he half checked the impulse to speak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly--as if-- Mary checked herself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Here the little man indulged in a convulsion of mirth, which was only checked by the entrance of a third party. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A bramble caught hold of her skirt, and checked her progress. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She flushed to her temples, but the extremity of her need checked the retort on her lip and she continued to face him composedly. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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