Expostulate

(verb.) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion.

手打:曼弗雷德

• As we left her standing in the road, Mr. Murdstone came up to where she was, and seemed to expostulate with her for being so moved. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛(wèi)·科波菲爾.
• Miss Keeldar, feeling her tremble in every limb, ceased to expostulate with her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Then D'Arnot would expostulate with him, saying: You must not eat like a brute, Tarzan, while I am trying to make a gentleman of you. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Sometimes, when the day was very unfavourable, his sisters would expostulate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• 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.
• Think of the look of the thing,' expostulated Mr. Pickwick; 'have some regard to appearances. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• Don't go and have all the crying to yourself,' expostulated Maggy, 'that an't not being greedy. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• That same night after Adrian's departure, her mother had warmly expostulated with her on the subject of her attachment to me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• Cinderella, dear child,' the old man expostulated, 'will you never rest? 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• I expostulated with him, but in vain; neither would he so much as tell me who their new captain was. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游記.
• Come, come now, uncle, expostulated Shirley, do not begin to fret and fume, or we shall make no sense of the business. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• I received a rather sharp letter from the New York office expostulating for this EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE, and stating that great economy must be observed in future! 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發(fā)明.

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