you make love like a schoolboy. If you can make me like you, I'll kiss you as often as you will. If you can't, keep your distance, please."
Blunt did not know whether to laugh or be angry at this rebuff. He was conscious that he was in rather a ridiculous position, and so decided to laugh. "You're a spitfire, too. What must I do to make you like me?"
She made him a curtsy. "That is your affair," she said; and as the head of Mr. Frere appeared above the companion, Blunt walked aft, feeling considerably bewildered, and yet not displeased.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Sometimes a black figure would pass across this gigantic furnace-mouth, stooping and rising, as though feeding the fire. One might have imagined that a door in Vulcan's Smithy had been left inadvertently open, and that the old hero was forging arms for a demigod. Blunt turned pale. "It's no mortal," he whispered. "Let's go back."
"And what will Madam say?" returned dare-devil Will Staples who would have plunged into Mount Erebus had he been paid for it. Thus appealed to in the name of his ruling passion, Blunt turned his head, and the boat sped onward.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Hitherto he had fought in silence, now he gave a harsh cry. "Holy Saints!" cried Edmund Wilkes. "They will kill him."
Blunt struck two more blows, both of them upon the body, and then at last they had the poor boy down, with his face upon the ground and his arms pinned to his sides, and Blunt, bracing himself for the stroke, with a grin of rage raised a heavy clog for one terrible blow that should finish the fight.英文原著 · 《Men of Iron》
"That's not quite correct. If it is wit, then it can't be blunt. If blunt, then it can't be wit."英文原著 · 《Virgin Soil》
Tyrants both, they exercised their sovereignty in accordance with their varying temperament. Hers was a fine, fat, Falstaffian humour, which, while it inspired Middleton, might have suggested to Shakespeare an equal companion of the drunken knight. His was but a narrow, cynic wit, not edged like the knife, which wellnigh cut his throat, but blunt and scratching like a worn-toothed saw.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Remember, it's a whole day since I tasted a drop! Now I'll make it a hundred. What do you say to that? One hundred!"
Trent paused in his game, and looked steadfastly into the eager face thrust close to his. Then he shrugged his shoulders and gathered up the cards. "You're the silliest fool I ever knew," he said bluntly, "but I suppose you'll worry me into a fever if you don't have your own way."
"You agree?" Monty shrieked. Trent nodded and dealt the cards. "It must be a show after the draw," he said.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Carpet blunts the noise and contains the mess.美剧 · 《Billions》
That you try to rig it to blunt them and try to float it past me without telling me?美剧 · 《Billions》
We will stay in lockstep and our focus will remain where it should-- on blunting Chuck Rhoades and knocking him out of office.美剧 · 《Billions》
I'm gonna to put this bluntly, and I'm not gonna bother negotiating.美剧 · 《Billions》