The seeds which the eagle had in [its] stomach for eighteen hours looked so fresh that I would have bet five to one that they would all have grown; but some kinds were ALL killed, and two oats, one canary-seed, one clover, and one beet alone came up! Now I should have not cared swearing that the beet would not have been killed, and I should have fully expected that the clover would have been. These seeds, however, were kept for three days in moist pellets, damp with gastric juice, after being ejected, which would have helped to have injured them.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
"Won't it hurt them?" Take asked. "Not a bit; we'll be so careful," Taro answered. So Take ran for thread, and Taro got Grannie to help him. Grannie would do almost anything in the world for the Twins. And pretty soon there were two cunning little paper wagons with round paper wheels! Taro tied some thread to the front of each little wagon. Then he opened the cage to take out the beetles. One of the beetles didn't wait to be taken out.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
Taro caught him. "He isn't hurt a bit," he said. "But I am," wailed Take. Mother and Grannie bathed Take's neck, and comforted her; and soon she was happy again and ready to go on with the play. She and Taro harnessed the beetles with threads to the little wagons. But Take let Taro do the harnessing. "You can have that one, and I'll have this," Taro said; "and we'll have a race." He set the beetles on the floor. They began to crawl along, pulling the little carriages after them.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
"How brave that was! I don't like mosquito- bites a bit!" "You don't like beetle-bites any better, do you?" Taro said. "Well," said Take, "I'd rather the beetle should bite me than Mother." "Well, now, maybe you'll be a Paragon yourself sometime," the Mother said. "There weren't any women paragons, were there? " asked Taro. "Oh, yes," said the Mother. "Once there was a young girl who loved her father dearly, and honored him above everything in the world, as a child should. Once she and her father were in a jungle, and a tiger attacked them.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
And now I want to know something about your plans; of course you intend coming up here: what fun we will have together; what beetles we will catch; it will do my heart good to go once more together to some of our old haunts. I have two very promising pupils in Entomology, and we will make regular campaigns into the Fens. Heaven protect the beetles and Mr. Jenyns, for we won't leave him a pair in the whole country. My new Cabinet is come down, and a gay little affair it is.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
"When one sees nipple on man's breast, one does not say some use, but sex not having been determined--so with useless wings under elytra of beetles-- born from beetles with wings, and modified--if simple creation merely, would have been born without them."英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
When your mother's not looking, you eat a beet, I eat a beet.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
-What? -Completely ruining her vintage goose feather dress she just bought, and disrupting the big finale where her wooden puppet plays Beethoven's fifth on the bongos!美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Yeah. Listen, by the way, good luck in your next life as a dung beetle.美剧 · 《Friends》
Seriously, does anyone buy this? I smell like beets.美剧 · 《Friends》
With a potato root system growing in them, and beetroots out the top, with a potato root system growing in them, and beetroots out the top,演讲 · 《My 12 pairs of legs ~ Aimee Mullins》