But that she should stand on a platform in the exact altitude in which he stands; leaning forward a little more than is graceful and holding her mouth open a little longer and wider than is dignified--well, I only write here of the facts of natural history; and the fact is that it is this, and not publicity or importance, that hurts. It is for the modern world to judge whether such instincts are indeed danger signals; and whether the hurting of moral as of material nerves is a tocsin and a warning of nature.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
The altitude of the gallows that would turn to water and quench it, no functionary, by any stretch of mathematics, was able to calculate successfully.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
Yet never had Life had such an altitude for him. A man stood, with crossed arms, right in his path. He was so clothed that his limbs were exposed, while his body was covered. He was young rather than old. Maskull observed that his countenance possessed none of the special organs of Tormance, to which he had not even yet become reconciled. He was smooth - faced. His whole person seemed to radiate an excess of life, like the trembling of air on a hot day. His eyes had such force that Maskull could not meet them.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
"But the fact is that I can't exist in too high altitudes. The rarefaction of the moral atmosphere--"英文原著 · 《Dolly Dialogues》
JACE, Jack o' the clock, automaton figure that strikes the hour; Jack-a-lent, puppet thrown at in Lent JACK, key of a virginal JACOB'S STAFF, an instrument for taking altitudes and distances JADE, befool JEALOUSY, JEALOUS, suspicion, suspicious JERKING, lashing JEW'S TRUMP, Jew's harp JIG, merry ballad or tune; a fanciful dialogue or light comic act introduced at the end or during an interlude of a play JOINED (JOINT)-STOOL, folding stool JOLL, jowl JOLTHEAD, blockhead JUMP, agree, tally JUST YEAR, no one was capable of the consulship until he was forty-three英文原著 · 《Every Man in his Humour》
And that is how the unhappy marriage of jeff and daphne bicks ended-- in a plane losing altitude right above a cul-de-sac...美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
I was at a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet-- actually 10,500-- going top speed.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
I was at a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet-- actually 10,500.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
Charlie team at altitude, waiting for your go-order, boss.美剧 · 《Lie to me》