Dismissal

(noun.) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart).

(noun.) permission to go; the sending away of someone.

(noun.) official notice that you have been fired from your job.

校對(duì):羅杰

• She spoke amiably, yet with the least hint of dismissal in her voice. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• These ornaments are of value, yet are they trifling to what he would bestow to obtain our dismissal from this castle, free and uninjured. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• His dismissal of himself from his description, was hardly less remarkable. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Sir Pitt went and expostulated with his sister-in-law upon the subject of the dismissal of Briggs and other matters of delicate family interest. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場(chǎng).
• At last Loerke turned to Gudrun, raising his hands in helpless irony, a shrug of ironical dismissal, something appealing and child-like. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Fifine recovered rapidly under his care, yet even her convalescence did not hasten his dismissal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Whatever the words might be, the tone seemed like a dismissal; and quitting his leaning posture, he walked a little way towards her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Reading his dismissal in her eyes, he held out his hand with a gesture which conveyed something of this inarticulate conflict. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• She could give me no explanation whatever of her sudden dismissal. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Five o'clock struck, the loud dismissal-bell rang, the school separated, the room emptied. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• If, in half an hour from this, you still insist on my leaving the house, I will accept your ladyship's dismissal, but not your ladyship's money. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• He also received his dismissal, his half-sovereign, and the order to wait. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• Their horses stood at the gate; they mounted, and rode off, Moore laughing at their abrupt dismissal, Helstone deeply indignant thereat. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Then he made a little gesture of dismissal, with his eyebrows. 戴維·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• Beaufort evidently felt it, and being unused to dismissals, stood staring at her with an obstinate line between his eyes. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• Bowls and Firkin likewise received their legacies and their dismissals, and married and set up a lodging-house, according to the custom of their kind. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場(chǎng).

手打:洛雷塔