Usage

(noun.) the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written; 'English usage'; 'a usage borrowed from French'.

录入:丽莎

• Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The inferior ranks of people must, in that country, suffer patiently the usage which their superiors think proper to give them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Th e usage is so completely established that by the majority it is simply taken for granted. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Gentle usage renders the slave not only more faithful, but more intelligent, and, therefore, upon a double account, more useful. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It is not really long, in weeks or months; but, in my usage and experience, it is a weary, weary while. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She clung to Ursula, who, through long usage was inured to this violation of a dark, uncreated, hostile world. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The assize of bread is, so far as I know, the only remnant of this ancient usage. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In popular usage we apply it only to corrupting businesses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If I once shook the foundations of the sacred confidence and usage, in virtue of which it was given to me, it was lost, and could never be recovered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Harsh feelings produce harsh usage, and this by reaction quenches the sentiments that gave it birth. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Miss Osborne, George's aunt, was a faded old spinster, broken down by more than forty years of dulness and coarse usage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Common affection might have been satisfied with common usages. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She volunteered to copy many of his letters, and adroitly altered the spelling of them so as to suit the usages of the present day. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was Pliny who wrote, at the beginning of the Christian era, that All the usages of civilised life depend in a remarkable degree upon the employment of paper. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It leaveth no profit for the usages of the moneys; and, besides, the good horse may have suffered wrong in this day's encounter. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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