You are not to let him know I told you." A real terror shone in her eyes. "Do you hear me?" she cried. "He would beat me with his whip. He would, he would."
"Beat you, beat you?" Larry pulled up his horse short. "Beat you in this country--oh, Dorothea!"
"They do. Our men do beat their women, and Ernest would too. The women do not think the same way about it as your women. You will not tell?" she urged.英文原著 · 《The Major》
"Poor Beatrice poor Beatrice."
"Tell me about you, Amory. Did you have two horrible years?" Amory considered lying, and then decided against it. "No, Beatrice. I enjoyed them. I adapted myself to the bourgeoisie. I became conventional." He surprised himself by saying that, and he pictured how Froggy would have gaped. "Beatrice," he said suddenly, "I want to go away to school. Everybody in Minneapolis is going to go away to school." Beatrice showed some alarm.英文原著 · 《This Side of Paradise》
Sitting on wet substance gave appendicitis, so Froggy Parker's mother said. Well, he'd had itI'll sue the steamboat company, Beatrice said, and my uncle has a quarter interestdid Beatrice go to heaven?... probably not He represented Beatrice's immortality, also love-affairs of numerous dead men who surely had never thought of him ... if it wasn't appendicitis, influenza maybe. One Hundred and Twentieth Street? That must have been One Hundred and Twelfth back there. One O Two instead of One Two Seven. Rosalind not like Beatrice, Eleanor like Beatrice, only wilder and brainier.英文原著 · 《This Side of Paradise》
The Killer's beat!" roared a strident voice. "M'Adam wins! Five to four M'Adam! I lay agin Owd Bob!" rang out the clear reply. Red Wull was now racing parallel to the fugitives and above them. All four were travelling at a terrific rate; while the two flags were barely twenty yards in front, below the line of flight and almost parallel to it. To effect the turn a change of direction must be macic almost through a right angle,
"He's beat! he's beat!英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
"But I want you, dear," said Beatrice. "Oh, Lily, I am in bitter trouble! No one can help me but you."
They went together into the little boudoir Beatrice called her own. She placed her sister in the easy lounging chair drawn near the window, and then half knelt, half sat at her feet. "I am in such trouble, Lily!" she cried. "Think how great it is when I know not how to tell you."
The sweet, gentle eyes looked wonderingly into her own. Beatrice clasped her sister's hands. "You must not judge me harshly," she said, "I am not good like you, Lily; I never could be patient and gentle like you.英文原著 · 《Dora Thorne》
"Beatrice," she said, slowly, "you must let me tell him. He cares for me. He loves me; I promised to be his wife, and I love him--just as you do Lord Airlie."
Under the shock of those words Beatrice Earle sat silent and motionless. "I love him," continued Lillian. "I did not tell you. He said it was not to be mentioned until you were married. I love him so dearly, Beatrice--and when he asked me who it was I had been to meet, I could not answer him. He was very angry; he said sharp, cruel words to me, and I could not tell him how false they were.英文原著 · 《Dora Thorne》
Man who beat his wife at home will beat her right out on the street.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
If it's means beating Conway or beating you, that's not a hard choice.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Beato Michaeli archangelo, beato Ioanni baptistae,美剧 · 《Lie to me》