Ninety is she, poor old soul? what a bonny face to catch under a mistletoe! "Yes, ninety, sir," she says, "and my mother was a hundred, and my grandmother was a hundred and two." Herself ninety, her mother a hundred, her grandmother a hundred and two? What a queer calculation! Ninety! Very good, granny: you were born, then, in 1772. Your mother, we will say, was twenty-seven when you were born, and was born therefore in 1745. Your grandmother was thirty when her daughter was born, and was born therefore in 17l5.英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
If you were, you would know and love me. Brothers born and living together in the same house recognize each other. You do not recognize me. You are of your father, the devil."
We are not like these Jews, the children of the bondwoman, the Law, who were cast out of the house by Jesus. We are children of the promise like Isaac, born of grace and faith unto an everlasting inheritance. VERSE 29. But as that he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. This is a cheering thought.英文原著 · 《Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians》
William Roderick Dalziel, who was born on the 2nd of September, 1864. He is Captain in the 2nd Battalion (Inverness Militia) Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and on the 21st of November, 1888, married Maud Evelyn, eldest daughter of General Sir George Wentworth Higginson, K.C.B., by Florence Virginia Fox, daughter of the first Baron Castletown, with issue--Douglas William Alexander Dalzell, born on the 2nd of October, 1889; Kenneth Fitzpatrick, born on the 13th of June, 1891; and Archibald Edward, who was born in July 1892 and died in March, 1893.英文原著 · 《History Of The Mackenzies》
Annabella, who married George Mackenzie, draper, Ipswich, afterwards at Nairn and Inverness with issue--William Hector, born on the 9th of January, 1877 Alastair, born on the 5th of March, 1878; George John, born on the 14th of April, 1884; Marion; and Catherine Campbell, who died in infancy. Annabella died at Edinburgh on the 9th of May, 1888, and is buried there.英文原著 · 《History Of The Mackenzies》
"Bread!!!" said his Mammy. "O Epaminondas, Epaminondas, you ain't got the sense you was born with; you never did have the sense you was born with; you never will have the sense you was born with! Now I ain't gwine tell you any more ways to bring truck home. And don't you go see your Auntie, neither. I'll go see her my own self. But I'll just tell you one thing, Epaminondas! You see these here six mince pies I done make? You see how I done set 'em on the doorstep to cool?英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
Pessimists are born not made; optimists are born not made; but no man is born either pessimist wholly or optimist wholly, perhaps; he is pessimistic along certain lines and optimistic along certain others. That is my case. Sincerely yours, S. CLEMENS.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
I'd call you "Sir Ken" out of respect for your advanced age and your accomplishments, but, as much as you'd like it, you were born in Chicago, and no one born there was ever knighted.美剧 · 《Billions》
I know -- you're upset because I said that you were a born -- There's no such thing as a born cheerleader.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
It starts long before I did what I did, because I wasn't born a poor black child, but I was born poor, which made me susceptible to wanting to be rich.美剧 · 《Suits》
Really? Your deeply religious born-again Christian mother Wants a test-tube grandbaby born out of wedlock?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》