Holiday

(noun.) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; 'no mail is delivered on federal holidays'; 'it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover'.

编辑:朱利叶斯

• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There was a public holiday; the streets were decorated by gay banners and made glad with music. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• She soon resolved, equally as a duty and a pleasure, to employ half an hour of this holiday of spirits in calling on Miss Fairfax. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Ah, that's just the wery thing, Sir,' rejoined Sam, 'they don't mind it; it's a reg'lar holiday to them--all porter and skittles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The next day but one was Saturday, and a holiday. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• These are my holidays. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• When his holidays are expired, I will myself take him back to school. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He had the feeling of unexplained excitement with which, on half-holidays at school, he used to start off into the unknown. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• However, I loved her faithfully; and one time I went home with her for the holidays. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And are human labourers to have no holidays, because of the bees? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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