例文・使い方で印象づける「frivolous」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... Monsieur had received De Wardes with that marked favor light and frivolous minds bestow on every novelty that comes in their way... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
... But that was the frivolous set, to which Lady Blakeney had never belonged...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...At the risk of appearing frivolous to some, I shall continue to descend to mere trifles...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...On attaining years ofdiscretion, they forsook these frivolous sports and resumed the dreamy,philosophical calm which is the real characteristic of cats...
Theophile Gautier F. C. de Sumichrast 「My Private Menagerie」
...She was a frivolous young thing and when tired of feeding, she would start teasing the old cows, pushing them with her horns, then flinging up her hind legs to challenge them to a romp...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...And the stately pines kept whispering andmurmuring; it almost seemed as if they were chiding the quaking aspensfor being frivolous...
Elinore Pruitt Stewart 「Letters on an Elk Hunt」
...Even Bacon held thatobservations of the moon with a view to planting and sowing and thegrafting of trees were “not altogether frivolous...
Jane Ellen Harrison 「Ancient Art and Ritual」
...But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thoughtmasterly inciting them on one hand, but also their natural sloth temptingthem on the other...
Joshua Reynolds 「Seven Discourses on Art」
...The furnishings of the room arebeautiful, delicate, almost frivolous...
Dolores Bacon 「Pictures Every Child Should Know」
...And landscape-paintinghas, therefore, more in consequence of this one error than of anyother, become weak, frivolous, and justly despised...
John Ruskin 「Lectures on Landscape」
...This painting has a room to itself in the Dresden Gallery, where themost frivolous forget to chat and the thoughtful sit for hours inquiet meditation under its magic spell...
Jennie Ellis Keysor 「Great Artists, Vol 1.」
...He seems not so much concerned at expressing hisideal as at pleasing, and pleasing people of too frivolous anappreciation to call forth what is best in him...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
... to a thousand frivolous passions...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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