"If you can, you are a clever child," answered Miss Minchin, drawing in her mouth sharply. Then, seeing that Sara looked slightly chilled by her asperity, she changed her manner. "But you are clever in everything," she said in her approving way. "I dare say you can manage her. Go in." And she left her.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Had she failed in anything? Certainly she had not been lacking in love. And her knowledge of that seemed simply to exclude any possibility of serious shortcomings. And her mother? Vere remembered how her mother had once longed to have a son, how she had felt certain she was going to have a son. Could it be that? Could her mother be dogged by that disappointment? She felt chilled to the heart at that idea.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"Good-bye, Vere! I am just starting!" she cried out, trying to make her voice sound cheerful and ordinary. Vere looked up for a second. "Good-bye!"
She bent her head and returned to her book. Hermione felt chilled. She went down and met Giulia in the passage. "Giulia, is Gaspare anywhere about? I want to cross to the mainland.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
At present this bed was rolled up, and in consequence towered to a considerable height. The parrot looked at Hermione coldly, with round, observant eyes whose pupils kept contracting and expanding with a monotonous regularity. She felt as if it had a soul that was frigidly ironic. Its pertinacious glance chilled and repelled her, and she fancied it was reflected in the faces of the women round her. "Can I speak to you alone for a few minutes?" she asked Maddalena. Maddalena turned to the two women and spoke to them loudly in dialect. They replied. The old woman spoke at great length.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
But--she did not know. And he, Artois, must tell her. He must make her see the exact truth of the years. He must win her back to reason. Reason! As the word went through his mind it chilled him, like the passing of a thing coated with ice. He had been surely a reasonable man, and his reasonableness had led him to this hour. Suddenly he saw himself, as he had seen that palace door by lightning.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
That is why new mothers always seem so chilled-out and well-rested.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》