Unbend

(verb.) release from mental strain, tension, or formality; 'unbend the mind from absorbing too much information'.

(verb.) free from flexure; 'unbend a bow'.

(verb.) unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay.

珍妮特编辑

• The duke seeing that mine was real agitation and not affectation, condescended to unbend a little. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• You unbend your forehead at last, said Mr. Rivers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But you must unbend, you know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I never saw my aunt unbend more systematically to anyone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It seemed a strangely inopportune moment for a proud member of a proud race to unbend in casual conversation with a captor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• From the haughty and unbending nature of the Countess of Windsor, Idris had few tender filial associations with her. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Moore glanced from one to the other without unbending his aspect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Straight, unbending, phlegmatic as usual, she came on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Indeed there may be generally observed in him an unbending, unyielding, brass-bound air, as if he were himself the bassoon of the human orchestra. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Her frost fell away, her rigidity unbent; she grew smiling and pliant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The arm Louisa had begun to twine around her neck, unbent itself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The shaggy eyebrows unbent a little as he rolled the steps toward the shelf where the Johnsonian literature was placed. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The tempest troubled and shook her while it lasted, but it left her elasticity unbent, and her freshness quite unblighted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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