The tie that bound them oppressed him as if it had been an ill-omened matrimony, and he sat beside her like an unwilling old husband. All the while, Miss Boke had no appreciation whatever of her companion's real condition, and, when little, spasmodic, sinister changes appeared in his face (as they certainly did from time to time) she attributed them to pains in his ankle. However, William decided to discard his ankle, after they had ``sat out'' two dances on account of it. He decided that he preferred dancing, and said he guessed he must be better.英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
The dame, holding between her thumb and finger a little china cup of tea well laced, she called it, with Cognac, remarked,--"They fairly run the Intendant down, Froumois: there is not a girl in the city but laces her boots to distraction since it came out that the Intendant admires a neat, trim ankle. I had a trim ankle myself when I was the Charming Josephine, M. Froumois!"英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
He turned, startled, and in the doorway stood Mademoiselle Ninon, her short skirt belted with a red silk scarf, -- the token of some trapper, -- her ankles protected with fringed leggins, her head covered with a be- ribboned hat of felt, such as the voyageurs wore.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
" 'And still I cannot persuade myself that young Mme. du Bruel used to display her ankles, and the rest, to all Paris, with the light of a hundred gas-jets pouring upon her,' Mme. Anselme Popinot remarked naively.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
In the Upper Congo, Everett had seen four white women. They were pallid, washed-out, bloodless; even the youngest looked past middle-age. For him women of any other type had ceased to exist. He had come to think of every white woman as past middle-age, with a face wrinkled by the sun, with hair bleached white by the sun, with eyes from which, through gazing at the sun, all light and lustre had departed. He thought of them as always wearing boots to protect their ankles from mosquitoes, and army helmets.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
Gleameil now walked into the sea, followed by Maskull. The water covered first their ankles, then their knees, but when it came as high as their waists, they were close on the raft. Polecrab let himself down into the water, and assisted his wife to climb over the side. When she was up, she bent down and kissed him. No words were exchanged. Maskull scrambled up on to the front part of the raft. The woman sat cross-legged in the stem, and seized the pole. Polecrab shoved them off toward the current, while she worked her pole until they had got within its power.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
- Hold on, what is that on her ankle? - Her ankle is what you're watching?美剧 · 《Friends》
Well, I'm standing on a stranger's cold sesame noodles with egg shells stuck to my ankles.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
So I'm supposed to what, just grab my ankles and take it?美剧 · 《Billions》
A school uniform down to the ankles, because it had to last for six years. A school uniform down to the ankles, because it had to last for six years.演讲 · 《My immigration story ~ Tan Le》