Phlegm

(noun.) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness.

录入:昆西

• Thanks to the phlegm of my nature, I rarely start. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His phlegm became him wonderfully. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Some bread, Rose, if you please, requested Martin, with intense gravity, serenity, phlegm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He might be a good manbut this duty had become to him a sort of form: he went through it with the phlegm of custom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• His niece viewed his man?uvres and received his innuendoes with phlegm; apparently she did not above half comprehend to what aim they tended. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• These two classes are the plagues of every city in which they are generated, being what phlegm and bile are to the body. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His temperament boasted a certain amount of phlegm, and he preferred an undemonstrative, not ungentle, but serious aspect to any other. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Not yet, returned Moore with phlegm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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