Humming

例句/造句/用法:

• He walked to the fireplace and warmed himself, humming the fag end of a tune in a rich convivial bass voice. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Wildeve began humming as the reddleman had done. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• This she did upon her knees, humming a lively little tune the while. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• It was also named the _throstle_, from the fact that it gave a humming or singing sound while at work; but it is commonly known as the _drawing_ frame. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• She had been fashioned to adorn and delight; to what other end does nature round the rose-leaf and paint the humming-bird's breast? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• She dropped a brisk curtsey, and walked back along the gallery, humming a little tune, and keeping time to it cheerfully with the nosegay in her hand. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• Drowsily they whirred all through this sunny day, making the passenger more sleepy and more hot as he passed the humming walls of the mills. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
• I paced up and down the room, humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• She comes in laughing, humming, and frisks about the stage with all the innocence of theatrical youth--she makes a curtsey. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• A great moth goes humming by me; it alights on a plant at Mr. Rochester's foot: he sees it, and bends to examine it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• He got up instantly, went quite to the other end of the walk, and when he came back he was humming a tune. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• The little dressmaker stood up at the foot of the bed, humming her song, and nodded to him brightly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.

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