Disconcert

(v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

(v. t.) To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.

(n.) Want of concert; disagreement.

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• He sat down, a little disconcerted by my presence, I thought, and without looking at me, drew his heavy sunburnt hand across and across his upper lip. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Both rose, red and disconcerted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of the old gentleman, unshorn and perfumed with tobacco, might well do. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When Dora was very childish, and I would have infinitely preferred to humour her, I tried to be grave--and disconcerted her, and myself too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Her stockings always disconcerted him, the pale-yellow stockings and the heavy heavy black shoes. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Monks was plainly disconcerted, and alarmed besides. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I beg your pardon, ma'am,' said Mary Anne, disconcerted now she came to think of it; 'but I don't know that I mean more than her brother himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If that did not happen, and if the belt was made taut suddenly, the armature burned out--which it did with disconcerting frequency. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• At last he said: 'So startling an announcement, so confidently made, and by such lips, is really disconcerting in the last degree. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Riviere took this onslaught with a disconcerting humility. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The inquiry, though a simple one, was plainly disconcerting, and he sat down before replying. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was a disconcerting lift of the curtain, and the mortification of Candaules' wife glowed in her. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But I suppose, my dear,' hinted the cherub, as he folded the letter after a disconcerting silence, 'that we must make the best of it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Perhaps that is the reason why Arnold Bennett's description of the siege of Paris in The Old Wives' Tale is so disconcerting to many people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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