Dint

(noun.) interchangeable with `means' in the expression `by means of'.

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• By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• And I should never succeed in anything by dint of drudgery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Had I been a gentleman, I believe I should have helped him off the premises by dint of physical force. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• At length, by mere dint of rowing, we reached the French coast. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The very resolution to which he had wrought himself by dint of logic and honorable pride was beginning to relax under her torpedo contact. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But is it not possible, I urged, by dint of patience and exertion, to discover additional evidence? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The brooding Lammle, with certain white dints coming and going in his palpitating nose, looked as if some tormenting imp were pinching it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In those two compressions, or dints, the only little change that the face ever showed, resided. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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