"Three days, as I said, was the trip to New Orleans. The general man and me got to be cronies of the deepest dye. Bananas we ate until they were distasteful to the sight and an eyesore to the palate, but to bananas alone was the bill of fare reduced. At night I crawls out, careful, on the lower deck, and gets a bucketful of fresh water.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
--How do you know anything about all that? "WHAT SWEET, SMOOTH VOICES THE NEGROES HAVE! A HUNDRED GENERATIONS FED ON BANANAS.--COMPARE THEM WITH OUR APPLE-EATING WHITE FOLKS! --It won't do. Bananas came from the West Indies. "TO TELL A MAN'S TEMPERAMENT BY HIS HANDWRITING. SEE IF THE DOTS OF HIS I'S RUN AHEAD OR NOT, AND IF THEY DO, HOW FAR. --I have tried that--on myself.英文原著 · 《The Guardian Angel》
Said he would come if girls came too--all put in brake. Barrie said the Llewellen Davis' were the originals for the Darlings and their children in Peter Pan. They played a strange game of billiards suggested by Barrie who won as no one else knew the rules and they claimed he invented them to suit his case. Sat up until three writing and packing. The dinner was best have had this trip in London. Compagnie Belge Maritime Du Congo. February 11th, 1907. To-morrow, we will be in Banana, which is the first port in the Congo.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
Every day I take them down and change them. Those your dear mother put in glass frames I do not change. Also, I have all the sweet fruits and chocolates and red bananas. How good of you to think of just the things your father likes. Some of them I gave to a little boy and girl. I play with them because soon my daughter will be as big. They have no mother like you, OF COURSE; they have no mother like YOURS--for except my mother there never was a mother like yours; so loving, so tender, so unselfish and thoughtful. If she is reading this, kiss her for me.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
They say, in Coralio, that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of Frank Goodwin, an American resident of the town, an investor who had grown wealthy by dealing in the products of the country--a banana king, a rubber prince, a sarsaparilla, indigo and mahogany baron. The Senorita Guilbert, you will be told, married Senor Goodwin one month after the president's death, thus, in the very moment when Fortune had ceased to smile, wresting from her a gift greater than the prize withdrawn.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Spaces here and there had been wrested from the jungle and planted with bananas and cane and orange groves. The rest was a riot of wild vegetation, the home of monkeys, tapirs, jaguars, alligators, and prodigious reptiles and insects. Where no road was cut a serpent could scarcely make its way through the tangle of vines and creepers. Across the treacherous mangrove swamps few things without wings could safely pass. Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the routes named.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Got it, kind of like hiding the Banana republic, and wearing the Gap.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Yeah. I don't know what's worse: Being locked up or looking like you work at Banana Republic.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
And I know that because we don't sell Norah Jones cds or bananas.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I was not meant to die as the second banana in a cross-country booty call.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》