Topic

(noun.) some situation or event that is thought about; 'he kept drifting off the topic'; 'he had been thinking about the subject for several years'; 'it is a matter for the police'.

校对:潘西

• Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This was, when he was asked a Parliamentary question on any one topic, to return an answer on any other. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I am willing to amuse you, if I can, sir--quite willing; but I cannot introduce a topic, because how do I know what will interest you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• You will soon have exhausted each favourite topic. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• If you are an expert, your formed habits take care of the physical movements and leave your thoughts free to consider your topic. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The same considerations apply to the value of a study or a topic of a study with reference to its motivating force. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Personally,' said Mr Rugg, 'I have no opinion on the topic. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In the first place, as long as any topic makes an immediate appeal, it is not necessary to ask what it is good for. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The host replying willingly, Arthur lingered behind a moment, having his own word to add to that topic. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Oh, Freddy---- Rosedale brushed aside the topic with an air of its unimportance which gave a sense of the immense perspective he had acquired. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• This abandonment of the second topic threw him on the third. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• When he had kept it so a little while, he said, drawing it back: Is Lucie the topic? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• For heaven's sake don't touch on that topic, Elinor! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I tried a new topic immediately. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In conversation Edison is direct, courteous, ready to discuss a topic with anybody worth talking to, and, in spite of his sore deafness, an excellent listener. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Not a word had been spoken during the present session on any of these topics. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Mr. Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• My attention was far from him, and from the topics on which he discoursed so fluently. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A few other topics of general interest were introduced by Mr. Brooke and wet-blanketed by Mrs. Brooke, and conversation languished. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The trinity of school topics is subject matter, methods, and administration or government. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The statements may help a teacher to a larger vision of the possible results to be effected by instruction in mathematical topics. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They had a dozen topics in common--interesting to them, unimportant to the rest of the world. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Pupils begin their study of science with texts in which the subject is organized into topics according to the order of the specialist. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Oh,-- the ladies murmured; and Mrs. Archer added, partly to distract her daughter's attention from forbidden topics: Poor Regina! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Idris conversed with animation on a thousand topics. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The like reserve prevailed on other topics. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• They were now approaching the cottage, and all idle topics were superseded. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I think from that day, so long as we continued friends, he never in discourse stood on topics of ceremony with me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They may release the mind for thought upon other topics. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

校对:洛丽