Superstition

(noun.) an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear.

校对:拉弗尔斯

• A vague, very simple Christianity pervaded the illiterate peasant life, mixed with much superstition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Whatever women may be, I thought that men, in the nineteenth century, were above superstition. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My dear Jarndyce, returned Mr. Skimpole, I will do anything to give you pleasure, but it seems an idle form--a superstition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A plot organised among the Indians who originally owned the jewel, says Mr. Franklin-- a plot with some old Hindoo superstition at the bottom of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Down superstition! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But do you not by every means encourage the superstition among those of the outside world? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Had I gone to him, he would have shown me all that was tender, and comforting, and gentle, in the honest Popish superstition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He accused the Greeks of superstition: what name did he give to the faith he lent to the predictions of Evadne? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• If you saw a nymph you would go mad, remarked Maurice, alluding to the old Greek superstition. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I then told him that I would cut my right arm off first, and mentioned this superstition. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition, or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It would be mere blind, besotted superstition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They became panicky and reverted to an ancient superstition. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• My old superstition clings to me, even yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But both were, in those ignorant and superstitions times, easily credited as proofs of guilt. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I thought her too intelligent to be the slave of such absurd superstitions. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• This is a kind of superstitious practice in civil laws, and in the laws of nature, resembling the Roman catholic superstitions in religion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• There, I don't believe in old superstitions, but I'll do it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In spite of all experience they cling desperately to these superstitions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Presently the dissensions of the schools let in the superstitions and prejudices of the city mob to scholastic affairs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If you want to impose a taboo upon a whole community, you must do it autocratically, you must make it part of the prevailing superstitions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Every one has his superstitions. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• That is one of the great American superstitions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There was to be no clinging to tawdry superstitions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That is but one of the superstitions which Issus has foisted upon a credulous humanity. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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