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sprightliness n.活潑,生氣勃勃,輕松愉快。

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Once in a while he would meet a woman whose youth , sprightliness , and humour would make his wife seem rather deficient by contrast , but the temporary dissatisfaction which such an encounter might arouse would be counterbalanced by his social position and a certain matter of policy 照普通流行的說法,他們同床異夢。有時他會遇到某個年輕活潑風趣的女人,相形之下,他的太太似乎大大不如。但是這種艷遇引起的不滿是短暫的,因為他必須考慮自己的社會地位和利害得失。

But he was very tentative , fastidiously so , letting ruth set the pace of sprightliness and fancy , keeping up with her but never daring to go beyond her 但是他卻很小心,甚至過分小心,只緊跟露絲定下的快活和幻想的尺度,不敢輕易越雷池一步。

It had no sprightliness , no purpose ; only a tendency 她沒有活力,沒有目的只有一種傾向。

She endeavored to conceal a throbbing melancholy heart with the utmost sprightliness in her countenance . 為了掩飾她那顆惆悵郁悶的心,她在神態間故意裝作十分輕松活潑。