Drowning

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

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• In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All this was seen in a moment, as the vision of a drowning man, or of any human creature at any very great pass, could see a world if it were there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I've been brought out o' drowning, and I can't be drowned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The drowning man catches at the straw. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• For many weeks I thought of poison, and then of drowning, and then of fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I take a last drowning look at the page as I give it into her hand, and start off aloud at a racing pace while I have got it fresh. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This frequent rising of a drowning man from the deep, to sink again, was dreadful to the beholders. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A terrible storm came over her, as if she were drowning. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I was then drowning, and rather wished the operation over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Carbon dioxide is not poisonous, but it cuts off the supply of oxygen, just as water cuts it off from a drowning man. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Ain't I told you that the man as has come through drowning can never be drowned? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You can't be too careful, especially toward spring, he said, heaping his plate with straw-coloured griddle-cakes and drowning them in golden syrup. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Death by disease, death by the Indians, death by drowning--all three had approached me; all three had passed me by. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He paused for an instant, and then said abruptly-- 'Did it ever strike you, on such a morning as this, that drowning would be happiness and peace? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She saw the drowning figure rise to the surface, slightly struggle, and as if by instinct turn over on its back to float. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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