Decaying

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decay

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• Nature grows old, and shakes in her decaying limbs,--creation has become bankrupt! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Ages ago trees and bushes grew thick and fast, and the ground was always covered with a deep layer of decaying vegetable matter. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Was that my child--that moveless decaying inanimation? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I venture to suggest that much of what is called corruption is the odor of a decaying political system done to death by an economic growth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• At last she gave up her spying attitude, closed the telescope, and turned to the decaying embers. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The decaying of wood and the rusting of metal are due to the action of air and moisture. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I do not yet know which is the best method of preserving the silo from decaying. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The decaying vegetable matter which covers the forest floor acts more or less as a sponge, and quickly absorbs falling rain and melting snow. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Good housekeepers drop small bits of charcoal into vases of flowers to prevent discoloration of the water and the odor of decaying stems. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• One evening, he was sitting, in utter dejection and prostration, by a few decaying brands, where his coarse supper was baking. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Bones all twisted out of shape, great knots protruding from face and body, joints decaying and dropping away--horrible! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A great mass of energy seemed decaying up in that silent, hulking form. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Not until the late daylight made the window transparent, did this decaying statue move. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Decaying animal matter was often mixed with the vegetable mass. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Here and there old trees had been felled the autumn before; or a squatter's roughly-built and decaying cottage had disappeared. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It is due also to the presence on the ground of decaying leaves and twigs, or humus. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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