Severer

• Hitherto I have known few pleasures save of the severer kind: my satisfactions have been those of the solitary student. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• One morning, after a severer strain than usual, he awoke with a strange sensation in his eyes. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It is true, that such slight compositions might not suit the severer genius of our friend Mr Oldbuck. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But we can also imagine the existence of an age in which a severer conception of truth has either banished or transformed them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• To stare Becky out of countenance required a severer glance than even the frigid old Bareacres could shoot out of her dismal eyes. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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