Courage slayeth also giddiness at abysses: and where doth man not stand at abysses! Is not seeing itself--seeing abysses?英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Waitz quotes Bergmann, that the Kalmucks do not blush, but this may be doubted after what we have seen with respect to the Chinese. He also quotes Roth, who denies that the Abyssinians are capable of blushing. Unfortunately, Capt. Speedy, who lived so long with the Abyssinians, has not answered my inquiry on this head. Lastly, I must add that the Rajah Brooke has never observed the least sign of a blush with the Dyaks of Borneo; on the contrary under circumstances which would excite a blush in us, they assert "that they feel the blood drawn from their faces."英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
We are on the verge of an abyss. Undoubtedly the laws have not the nap which they ought to have--Hein?" he said, looking at Jenny. "All orators put France on the verge of an abyss. They either say that or they talk about the chariot of state, or convulsions, or political horizons. Don't I know their dodges? I'm up to all the tricks of all the trades. Do you know why? Because I was born with a caul; my mother has got it, but I'll give it to you.英文原著 · 《The Illustrious Gaudissart》
Maurice smoked several "Khedives," while Fitzgerald emptied two or three pipe-bowls. "You seem to be in bad odor, Maurice," the latter ventured. "In more ways than one. Where, in heaven's name, did you resurrect that pipe?"
"In the stables. It isn't the pipe, it's the tobacco. I had to break up some cigars."
Then came another period in the conversation. It occurred to both that something yawned between them--a kind of abyss. Out of this abyss one saw his guilt arise.英文原著 · 《The Puppet Crown》
He who seeth the abyss, but with eagle's eyes,--he who with eagle's talons GRASPETH the abyss: he hath courage.--英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Huge things happily hidden from us had climbed out of the abyss, and were striding about taller than the clouds. And when the darkness crept from the sapphires of Mary to the sanguine garments of St. John I fancied that some hideous giant was walking round the church and looking in at each window in turn.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
There was this incredible abyss and I'm falling.美剧 · 《Friends》
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Staring into that terrifying abyss without the warmth of another human being.美剧 · 《Shameless》