I hope you assiduously frequent Marcell --[At that time the most celebrated dancing-master at Paris.]-- and carry graces from him; nobody had more to spare than he had formerly. Have you learned to carve? for it is ridiculous not to carve well. A man who tells you gravely that he cannot carve, may as well tell you that he cannot blow his nose: it is both as necessary, and as easy.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1751》
Carver's fertile imagination, stimulated by what he knew of the remote Northwest, pictured that wild region where, according to a modern poet, "rolls the Oregon and hears no sound save his own dashing." But Carver died without the sight; in his later years, he said of those who should follow his lead: "While their spirits are elated by their success, perhaps they may bestow some commendations and blessings on the person who first pointed out to them the way."英文原著 · 《First Across the Continent》
King Olaf steered his fleet out from Viken, until the two fleets were not far from each other, and they got news of each other the Saturday before Palm Sunday. King Olaf himself had a ship called the Carl's Head, on the bow of which a king's head was carved out, and he himself had carved it. This head was used long after in Norway on ships which kings steered themselves.英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
And thus they came down out of the hills from which A-lur is carved, to the meadows that skirt the lower end of Jad-ben-lul, with Jane Clayton carried between two of Mo-sar's men. At the edge of the lake lay a fleet of strong canoes, hollowed from the trunks of trees, their bows and sterns carved in the semblance of grotesque beasts or birds and vividly colored by some master in that primitive school of art, which fortunately is not without its devotees today.英文原著 · 《Tarzan the Terrible》
There was one man in particular--a fine, pompous citizen who came down the street swinging his cane and looking as though the universe was a sort of Christmas turkey, lying all brown and sizzling before him ready to be carved--a fine pompous citizen who never realized how nearly Fate with a battered volume of Montaigne in one hand and a tin whistle in the other--came to pouncing upon him that evening! And I am firmly convinced that if I had attacked him with the Great Particular Word he would have carved me off a juicy slice of the white breast meat.英文原著 · 《The Friendly Road》
"Why, how now, Reynold Greenleaf?" said the Cook, "thou art no better
than a thief, I wot. Come thou straight forth, man, or I will carve
thee as I would carve a sucking pig."英文原著 · 《The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood》
thumbed it out to Carvel, and bought myself a Fudgie the Whale cake.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But if she makes another comment about my intricate, hand-carved marionettes being dolls…美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Oh, I love the sound it makes when they carve it.美剧 · 《Billions》
"Strip or Retire." That's the motto that was carved above the palestra in ancient Athens.美剧 · 《Billions》
I'm going to start and end this talk with a couple things that are carved in stone. I'm going to start and end this talk with a couple things that are carved in stone.演讲 · 《A free digital library ~ Brewster Kahle》