Cant

(noun.) insincere talk about religion or morals.

(verb.) heel over; 'The tower is tilting'; 'The ceiling is slanting'.

手打:温迪

• Much cant have I heard and read about 'maiden modesty,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Party speeches were delivered, which clothed the question in cant, and veiled its simple meaning in a woven wind of words. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• That cant about cures was never got up by sound practitioners. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• All that cant--excuse me, but I repeat the word--all that _cant_ about soldiers and parsons is most offensive in my ears. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Sheep was a cant word of the time for a spy, under the gaolers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• You could give 'em the whole outfit and win at a canter! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Come, Polly, will you have a canter? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was not a trot, a gallop, or a canter, but a stampede, and made up of all possible or conceivable gaits. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• That was plainly to be seen, for Ma was talking then at her usual canter, with arched head and mane, opened eyes and nostrils. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She would canter up to the door on her pony, followed by a mounted livery servant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• As the latter moves up and down the pins play upon the under side of the lower arm of the rocking-lever, thus canting it and pushing the type-wheels to the right or left, as the case may be. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

手打:索菲