When a hive was full of honey we'd turn the box upside down,
turn the empty box mouth down on top of it, and drum and hammer
on the lower box with a stick till all the bees went up into the top box. I suppose it made their heads ache, and they went up on that account.英文原著 · 《On the Track》
4 in.; thigh, 2 ft. 7 in.; calf, 1 ft. 8 in.; height, 5 ft. [FN#15] I.e. Dead Locust Lake,--Luta, dead--Nzige, locust. [FN#16] In 'Blackwood's Magazine' for August 1859. [FN#17] See p. [FN#18] 1 block-tin box, 4 rich silk cloths, 1 rifle (Whitworth's), 1 gold chronometer, 1 revolver pistol, 3 rifled carbines, 3 sword-bayonets, 1 box ammunition, 1 box bullets, 1 box gun-caps, 1 telescope, 1 iron chair, 10 bundles best beads, 1 set of table-knives, spoons, and forks.英文原著 · 《The Discovery of The Source of the Nile》
There were other flowers in the box once; a bunch of white acacia flowers, gathered by the strong hand of a man, as we passed down a village street on a sultry afternoon, when it had rained, and the drops fell on us from the leaves of the acacia trees. The flowers were damp; they made mildew marks on the paper I folded them in. After many years I threw them away. There is nothing of them left in the box now, but a faint, strong smell of dried acacia, that recalls that sultry summer afternoon; but the rose is in the box still.英文原著 · 《Dream Life and Real Life》
But the problem was, how to see him. He felt that it would be venturesome to go round to the factory, as by this time the loss might have been discovered. If only the box had been left, the discovery might be deferred. Then a bright idea occurred to him. He must get the box out of his own possession, as its discovery would compromise him. Why could he not arrange to leave it somewhere on the premises of his confederate? He resolved upon the instant to carry out the idea. He went up to his room, wrapped the tin box in a paper, and walked round to the house of the bookkeeper.英文原著 · 《Driven From Home》
So Sebastian altered his question and asked which was the best way to avoid falling over the precipice, and also how a box could be conveyed to Dorfli. The man looked at the box, weighing it with his eye, and then volunteered if it was not too heavy to take it on his own cart, as he was driving to Dorfli. After some little interchange of words it was finally agreed that the man should take both the child and the box to Dorfli, and there find some one who could be sent on with Heidi up the mountain.英文原著 · 《Heidi》
Mortimer stood gazing in stupefaction at the gaudy green and gold lettering of the box. Then, running his thumb-nail swiftly along the edge of the box, he broke the paper wrapping, the box burst open and a shower of cigarettes fell to the ground.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
But for people who are paid to think outside the box, you people are pretty inside the box when it comes to the box we call the mighty closet.美剧 · 《Modern Family》