"Now Pigling Bland, son Pigling Bland, you must go to market. Take your brother Alexander by the hand. Mind your Sunday clothes, and remember to blow your nose" --(Aunt Pettitoes passed round the handkerchief again)--"beware of traps, hen roosts, bacon and eggs; always walk upon your hind legs." Pigling Bland who was a sedate little pig, looked solemnly at his英文原著 · 《The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter》
Pigling Bland and Alexander sat down and untied their bundles. Alexander gobbled up his dinner in no time; he had already eaten all his own peppermints--"Give me one of yours, please, Pigling?" "But I wish to preserve them for emergencies," said Pigling Bland doubtfully. Alexander went into squeals of laughter. Then he pricked Pigling with the pin that had fastened his pig paper; and when Pigling slapped him he dropped the pin, and tried to take Pigling's pin, and the papers got mixed up. Pigling Bland reproved Alexander.英文原著 · 《The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter》
"Only be careful," he went on, "in studying both arts, never to forget the great truth that dinner precedes blandishments and not blandishments dinner. A man must be made comfortable before he will make love to you; and though it is true that if you offered him a choice between Spickgans and kisses, he would say he would take both, yet he would invariably begin with the Spickgans, and allow the kisses to wait."英文原著 · 《Elizabeth and her German Garden》
Pigling Bland and Alexander trotted along steadily for a mile; at least Pigling Bland did. Alexander made the road half as long again by skipping from side to side. He danced about and pinched his brother, singing--英文原著 · 《The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter》
"It's not likely they let you start without. I am passing the farm. You may walk with me." "Can I come back too?" inquired Pigling Bland. "I see no reason, young Sir; your paper is all right." Pigling Bland did not like going on alone, and it was beginning to rain. But it is unwise to argue with the police; he gave his brother a peppermint, and watched him out of sight.英文原著 · 《The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter》
He grabbed the white hen roosting next to the cock; then his eye fell upon Pigling Bland, squeezed up in a corner. He made a singular remark--"Hallo, here's another!" --seized Pigling by the scruff of the neck, and dropped him into the hamper. Then he dropped in five more dirty, kicking, cackling hens upon the top of Pigling Bland.英文原著 · 《The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter》
What, am I paying you all to sit around and make like George Blanda with your fingers all day?美剧 · 《Billions》
Bet they're gonna want to bland it up, make it appeal to middle America.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Dear Lord, I thank you for this bland, indifferently prepared meal, and beseech you to ignite some spark of compassion in my cold-hearted daughter-in-law, that she might show some shred of mercy to me, her wretched captive.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Well, they overshot and wound up in "bland," Right on the border of "sucky." You need to grab your audience, just grab 'em.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》