Abruptness

(noun.) an abrupt discourteous manner.

(noun.) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.

(noun.) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep.

录入:莫拉

• Your sister, said he, with abruptness, a moment afterwardsis out of danger. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Mr. Jarndyce then withdrawing into the temporary growlery, Miss Jellyby opened a conversation with her usual abruptness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The hill, crowned with wood, which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the distance, was a beautiful object. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He almost started at my sudden and strange abruptness: he looked at me astonished. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I--I do a little in that way,' replied Mr. Snodgrass, rather taken aback by the abruptness of the question. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• As the reply passed my lips--a little bitterly, perhaps--she took my arm with the abruptness which characterised all her actions. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mr. Chillip was so alarmed by her abruptness--as he told my mother afterwards--that it was a mercy he didn't lose his presence of mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She did not get up and leave the room, as she had done in former days, when his abruptness or his temper had annoyed her. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I often tell you abruptness is your fault; remember, too, that to you she is a stranger, and does not know your ways. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Selden exclaimed, startled out of his composure by the abruptness of the statement. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Here is my card, sir,' replied Mr. Pickwick, much amused by the abruptness of the question, and the singular manner of the stranger. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Pray, says Sir Leicester to Mercury, what do you mean by announcing with this abruptness a young man of the name of Guppy? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After a long pause, he suddenly, and with abruptness, said, Who makes your shoes? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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