But Love had, like the canker-worm, Consumed her early prime: The rose grew pale, and left her cheek; She died before her time.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue; Unchipp'd all the centuries through It has pass'd, since the chime of it rang, And they fashion'd it, figure and hue, In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
No Englishman or Englishwoman need go through a very long or very laborious apprenticeship in order to become able to read, understand, and enjoy what Chaucer himself wrote. But if this apprenticeship be too hard, then some sort of makeshift must be accepted, or antiquity must remain the "canker-worm" even of a great national poet, as Spenser said it had already in his day proved to be of Chaucer.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
Derville had without knowing it laid his finger on the hidden wound, put his hand on the canker that consumed Madame Ferraud.英文原著 · 《Colonel Chabert》
In America it exercises a peculiarly fatal influence on the sources of national existence. Every government seems to be afflicted by some evil which is inherent in its nature, and the genius of the legislator is shown in eluding its attacks. A State may survive the influence of a host of bad laws, and the mischief they cause is frequently exaggerated; but a law which encourages the growth of the canker within must prove fatal in the end, although its bad consequences may not be immediately perceived.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
Oswald. At last he said: "You have had the canker of disease in you practically from your birth"--the actual word he used was "vermoulu"...英文原著 · 《Ghosts》
Reason I need you to go for me is 'cause I got a bunch of canker sores.美剧 · 《Shameless》
So now Jennica's gonna get her car keyed, because I am fed up with coworkers who always seem to have canker sore outbreaks when it's their turn.美剧 · 《Shameless》
You mean the one with my 118-pound Rock-hard stud of a fiance Who's prone to canker sores and pinkeye?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》