Meeting

(noun.) the social act of assembling for some common purpose; 'his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day'.

(noun.) a casual or unexpected convergence; 'he still remembers their meeting in Paris'; 'there was a brief encounter in the hallway'.

(noun.) a formally arranged gathering; 'next year the meeting will be in Chicago'; 'the meeting elected a chairperson'.

(noun.) a small informal social gathering; 'there was an informal meeting in my living room'.

尤因整理

• Now, said she, that this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly easy. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I come,' returned the other, meeting his eye, 'from many countries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I had quite depended upon meeting you there. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• She mused upon the meeting a considerable time. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Warren was to move to Parker's store, and Wilson's cavalry--then at Parker's store--to move on to Craig's meeting-house. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If they had only shown signs of meeting my advances halfway how well it might have been done! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It provided by a bill for a meeting of Parliament at least once in three years, whether the King summoned it or no. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It's my opinion, sir,' said Mr. Stiggins, unbuttoning his coat, and speaking very loudly--'it's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I look forward, my dear, to our meeting easily and without constraint on either side. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• So I should have done, had I not unfortunately happened to engage Boultby to sup with me on his way home from the Bible Society meeting at Nunnely. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The Vicar, after a glass of port, was obliged to hurry away to a meeting, and the shy nephew, who appeared to be an invalid, was packed off to bed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• On a certain day, when there was a board meeting of the company, I was to make an exhibition test. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To the theatre he went, and reached it just in time to witness the first meeting of his father and his friend. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• But Mr. Bulstrode was taken so ill at the meeting on Thursday that I have not liked to leave the house. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• As I saw she would go on, I thought it best to try to be serviceable to her by meeting the theme rather than avoiding it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Here is a man who has not forgotten an item in our meetings at Rainbarrow--he is in company with your husband. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Haak from the German Palatinate was one of the earliest Fellows of the Society, and is even credited by Wallis wit h being the first to suggest the meetings of 1645. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• As a speaker at charitable meetings the like of him for drawing your tears and your money was not easy to find. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Of very important, very recordable events, it was not more productive than such meetings usually are. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Their meetings were full of rapturous and romantic delight. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• From this slight occasion sprang two meetings that I have now to tell of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• These meetings were carried on with the greatest secrecy. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But we had repetitions of church and prayer-meetings; and so, of course, we were just as eligibly situated as we could have been any where. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I am the only man who knows of your meetings with him. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• These lectures proved remarkably popular, and for ten years he repeated them at the meetings of the Board of Agriculture. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It is here that directors' meetings are sometimes held, and also where weighty matters are often discussed by Edison at conference with his closer associates. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Sir Pitt that pattern of decorum, Sir Pitt who had led off at missionary meetings--he never for one moment thought of not going too. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Rudolph in some way came to hear of these stolen meetings, and surprised Austin walking with Rose one June evening. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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