The can shakes. The little bean again shakes back to the bottom. He is too small to stay up. He cannot stand prosperity. Then I hear Little Bean say, "Well, if I cannot get to the top, you make them big ones come down. Give every one an equal chance."
So I say, "Yes, sir, Little Bean. Here, you big ones on top, get down. You Big Nuts get right down there on a level with Little Bean!" And you see I put them down.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
"Then he goes out and heads toward the river, following his nose. In a little side street, where there was no street and no sidewalks and no houses, he finds what he is looking for. We go into a shanty and sit on high stools among stevedores and boatmen, and eat beans with tin spoons. Yes, sir, beans--beans boiled with salt pork.英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
"It's a load off my mind," said Josiah Bean, with a sigh. "Ye see, the money is comin' to my wife. She writ to 'em that I was comin' to collect an' they writ back it would be all right, only I would have to be identified. Jest as if everybody in Haydown Center don't know I'm Josiah Bean an' a piller in the Union Church down there, an' a cousin to Jedge Bean o' Lassindale."英文原著 · 《Joe The Hotel Boy》
This matter of vegetable rank has not been at all studied as it should be. Why do we respect some vegetables and despise others, when all of them come to an equal honor or ignominy on the table? The bean is a graceful, confiding, engaging vine; but you never can put beans into poetry, nor into the highest sort of prose. There is no dignity in the bean. Corn, which, in my garden, grows alongside the bean, and, so far as I can see, with no affectation of superiority, is, however, the child of song. It waves in all literature. But mix it with beans, and its high tone is gone. Succotash is vulgar.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
The primitive housekeeper exerted herself much to secure a variety of appetizing dishes; she even robbed the field mouse and the muskrat to accom- plish her end. The tiny mouse gathers for her winter use several excellent kinds of food. Among these is a wild bean which equals in flavor any do- mestic bean that I have ever tasted. Her storehouse is usually under a peculiar mound, which the un- trained eye would be unable to distinguish from an ant-hill. There are many pockets underneath, into which she industriously gathers the harvest of the summer.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
"Bean is my name--Josiah Bean. I'm from Haydown Center, I am. Got a farm there o' a hundred acres."英文原著 · 《Joe The Hotel Boy》
Not bad on the beans, but more like beans on crisp.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
When I was eight, I won a ribbon at the science fair For my project, "Do Lima Beans Grow Better to Classical Music." But my mother pointed out That it was just a rehash of my brother's earlier "Do Lima Beans Grow Worse to Rock 'n' Roll." I felt so guilty, I gave the ribbon back.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
And beans and ginger in between, to reduce the competition for the trees, and beans and ginger in between, to reduce the competition for the trees,演讲 · 《How to restore a rainforest ~ Willie Smits》