Constrained

(adj.) lacking spontaneity; not natural; 'a constrained smile'; 'forced heartiness'; 'a strained smile' .

校对:威尔默

• Suppression of so much to make room for so much, had given him a constrained manner, over and above. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mrs. Rouncewell is constrained to admit that he is in the house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The assemblies for three years held out against this injustice, though constrained to bend at last. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It makes instruction and learning formal, mechanical, constrained. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In the last degree constrained, reserved, diffident, troubled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• You have told me several times that you pity me, and I, in my turn, pity you, who have used the words _I am constrained_. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He wanted to thank her for having been to see his mother, but under the ancestress's malicious eye he felt himself tongue-tied and constrained. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He had been constrained to depute Mr Venus to keep their dusty friend, Boffin, under inspection, while he himself turned lank and lean at the Bower. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And she hurried again into the road, and again constrained herself to walk regularly and composedly forward. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Being no longer sullen or furious, he grew, after his fashion, constrained and embarrassed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If you wish, I'll see Madame Olenska, he said in a constrained voice. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He was not so constrained. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But you do--you do make it harder to me, said Bulstrode constrained into a genuine, pleading cry. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Yet underneath she was constrained, she knew her own insistence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Reflective dealings with the material of instruction is constrained and half-hearted; attention wanders. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Thank you,' said Bradley, seating himself in his constrained manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• His love is constrained, and his hatred artificial; he is less interesting to women than the warrior. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I forced myself to be constrained, lest you might misinterpret my being more natural. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Gradually and insensibly our daily relations towards each other became constrained. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But his words came easily, and his voice was agreeable in tone, albeit constrained. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He seemed to be a shy man, struggling against nervousness, and spoke in a very constrained way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But she kept her back turned to her son much longer than was necessary; and when she spoke, her voice seemed unusual and constrained. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Thou canst not shake me by thy petty malice, answered Front-de-Boeuf, with a ghastly and constrained laugh. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• She listened attentively, with the constrained expression still on her face, and her hands still nervously clasped together in her lap. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They do not fix his attention upon the fact that he has to learn something and so make his attitude self-conscious and constrained. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Sam constrained himself, however, and replied that his master was extremely well. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The How d'ye do's were quiet and constrained on each side. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

整理:莱斯利