Chosen

(noun.) an exclusive group of people; 'one of the elect who have power inside the government'.

(noun.) the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945).

(noun.) one who is the object of choice; who is given preference; 'she was Mama's chosen'.

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• That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In the mean time Ryland had been chosen Protector. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Carriages and horses were provided for all; captains and under officers chosen, and the whole assemblage wisely organized. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Whether truth--be it religious or moral truth--speak eloquently and in well-chosen language or not, its voice should be heard with reverence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But the law insists on your smoking your cigar, sir, when you have once chosen it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Whoever Colonel Campbell might employ, said Frank Churchill, with a smile at Emma, the person has not chosen ill. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Already the knowledge that Dorothea had chosen Mr. Casaubon had bruised his attachment and relaxed its hold. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I had chosen night time for our journey to London, that the change and desolation of the country might be the less observable. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Even what she read and said seemed to us to be ill-chosen for such auditors, if it had been imparted ever so modestly and with ever so much tact. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. Pickwick, with his usual foresight and sagacity, had chosen a peculiarly desirable moment for his visit to the borough. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A new Lord Protector of England was to be chosen; and, at Raymond's request, we removed to London, to witness, and even take a part in the election. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I show him, in the way you have seen, to a chosen few. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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