Ease

(noun.) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; 'he rose through the ranks with apparent ease'; 'they put it into containers for ease of transportation'; 'the very easiness of the deed held her back'.

(noun.) freedom from constraint or embarrassment; 'I am never at ease with strangers'.

(noun.) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state; 'a life of luxury and ease'; 'he had all the material comforts of this world'.

(verb.) move gently or carefully; 'He eased himself into the chair'.

整理:希欧多尔

• Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She supposed she had a right to alter at her ease. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Pride, old fellow, pride,' replied Jingle, quite at his ease. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It is as well I should ease my mind before I die: what we think little of in health, burdens us at such an hour as the present is to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• When I could cry no more, I began to think; and then the oppression on my breast was heaviest, and my grief a dull pain that there was no ease for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The clatter was bad, but I could read it with fair ease. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I should soon be eased of it, if I did. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On the 2d of March, however, I learned of Sherman's success, which eased my mind very much. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I eased up rowing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• He knew the wall just below that was too steep for any one to climb but below it eased and some one might have circled up above. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But having eased her conscience by saying these words, she was not sorry that they were not heard. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Coming into Canterbury, I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that calmed my spirits, and eased my heart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But the old moralist eased him by saying serenely: Well, well, young men will be young men. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Listen, said Tarzan, easing up a trifle, but not releasing his hold. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• But Mr. Gladstone was no patient mechanic set upon easing and righting the clumsy injuries of those stupid adjustments. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• While doing it, too, with the purpose of easing and serving her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This eases the afflicted heart, he said. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That eases the strain. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Well, I'm wery glad I've seen the 'rig'nal, 'cos it's a gratifyin' sort o' thing, and eases vun's mind so much. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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