Miss

[m?s] 美式發音

(noun.) a form of address for an unmarried woman.

(noun.) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc).

(verb.) fail to experience; 'Fortunately, I missed the hurricane'.

(verb.) fail to reach; 'The arrow missed the target'.

(verb.) feel or suffer from the lack of; 'He misses his mother'.

(verb.) fail to reach or get to; 'She missed her train'.

(verb.) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; 'I missed that remark'; 'She missed his point'; 'We lost part of what he said'.

(verb.) fail to attend an event or activity; 'I missed the concert'; 'He missed school for a week'.

(verb.) be without; 'This soup lacks salt'; 'There is something missing in my jewelry box!'.

(verb.) be absent; 'The child had been missing for a week'.

艾倫整理

• Miss Vye's family is a good one on her mother's side; and her father was a romantic wanderer--a sort of Greek Ulysses. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• I wish to express my gratitude also to Miss Florence Bonnet for aid in the correction of the manuscript. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
• Don't take on, Miss. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Miss Havisham sat listening (or it seemed so, for I could not see her face), but still made no answer. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• Well, you're not geese, you're swans--anything you like, only do, do leave Miss Sedley alone. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Speak to her, Miss Fanny! 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• Miss Mills had a wonderful flow of words, and liked to pour them out. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• If I _am_ missed, it will appear. 簡·奧斯汀. 曼斯菲爾德莊園.
• I would not have missed it for worlds. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• When I missed understanding a word, there was no time to think what it was, so I made an illegible one to fill in, trusting to the printers to sense it. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• They were more mobile than his troops, but they missed their quarry in the darkness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Mrs. van der Luyden has driven over to see her old aunts at Rhinebeck and we shan't be missed at the house for another hour. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• He missed him sadly of mornings and tried in vain to walk in the park without him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• Schofield's loss, as officially reported, was 189 killed, 1,033 wounded, and 1,104 captured and missing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Our total loss (not including Burnside's) in all these engagements amounted to 757 killed, 4,529 wounded and 330 missing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Our casualties during these operations amounted to 394 killed, I,554 wounded and 324 missing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• The Diamond is missing out of the drawer in the cabinet. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• I was instantly aroused, and, with the two footmen, started off at once in search of the missing girl. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• Our loss was 410 killed, 1,844 wounded and 187 missing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• What, said Mr. Cruncher, varying his apostrophe after missing his mark--what are you up to, Aggerawayter? 查爾斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• But you must step out foot, my dear, as I may get home before mistress misses me, you see. 哈里特·威爾遜. 哈里特·威爾遜回憶錄.
• He was fond of all the Misses Sykes; they were all fond of him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I'll slip off and take a journey somewhere, and when Grandpa misses me he'll come round fast enough. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
• Miss Ingram is mine, of course, said he: afterwards he named the two Misses Eshton, and Mrs. Dent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• She misses you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Miss Helstone was the choice of her affection and intellect; the Misses Pearson, Sykes, Wynne, etc. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And old Madam Reed, or the Misses, her daughters, will be solicited by you to seek a place, I suppose? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.

整理:勞埃德