Pride And Prejudice· Chapter 10
odious: extremely unpleasant and causing or deserving hate
eg. Letters of business, too! How odious I should think them!
"Your humility, Mr. Bingley," said Elizabeth, "must disarm reproof."
disarm: to take weapons away from someone, or to give up weapons or armies.
reproof: something that you say or do to show that you disapprove of someone's bad or silly behaviour?
deceitful: dishonest or hiding the truth
eg. Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
estimable: of a person or their behaviour, considered to be very good or deserving praise.
eg. If it is not estimable, you think at least it's highly interesting.
panegyric: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something very much and does not mention anything bad about them.
eg. You meant it to be a sort of panegyric, of compliment to yourself.
And yet what is there so very laudable in a precipitance which must leave necessary business undone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or any one else?
laudable: (of actions and behaviour) deserving praise, even if there is little or no success
precipitance (also precipitancy): the quality or action of doing something sooner or faster than expected, and without enough thought or preparation
celerity: speed
eg. But I am by no means convinced that you would be gone with such celerity
obstinacy: the quality of being unreasonably determined, especially to act in a particular way and not to change at all
eg. Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?
Will it not be advisable, before we proceed on this subject, to arrange with rather more precision the degree of importance which is to appertain to the request, as well as the degree of intimacy subsisting between the parties?
advisable: if something is advisable, it will avoid problems if you do it
appertain to 關(guān)于
deference: respect and politeness
eg. For that will have more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of. I assure you that if Darcy were not such a great tall fellow, in comparison with myself, I should not pay him half so much deference.
expostulation: the act of expressing disagreement or complaint
eg. Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
alacrity: speed and eagerness
eg. Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the piano-forte.
reprehensible: if someone's behaviour is reprehensible, it is extremely bad or unacceptable
eg. She should only imagine, however, at last, that she drew his notice because there was a something about her more wrong and reprehensible, according to his ideas of right, than in any other person present.
approbation: approval or agreement, often given by an offical group
eg. She liked him too little to care for his approbation.
premeditated: (especially of a crime or something unpleasant) done after being thought about or carefully planned
eg. But I always delight in overthrowing those kinds of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.
affront: to remark or action intended to insult or offend someone
eg. Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry.
gaily (also gayly): happily
eg. She then ran gaily off, rejoicing as she rambled about,in the hope of being at home again in a day or two.