chime:钟声 v. 1. 发出钟声,奏出和谐的音调 2. 符合,协调,一致 || chime in with sth符合某事 语料库共检中 781 条:美剧 18 · 电影 18 · 原著 715 · 演讲 30
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A prince of liars, and no lie spoken by him. Not one that I could yet get sight of. It is like Pococke asking Grotius, Where is your _proof_ of Mahomet's Pigeon? No proof!--Let us leave all these calumnious chimeras, as chimeras ought to be left. They are not portraits of the man; they are distracted phantasms of him, the joint product of hatred and darkness.英文原著 · 《Heroes and Hero Worship》
It is well to hear the finest at once, and so have done with the tedious things. The Belgians are as fond of chimes as the Dutch are of stagnant water. We heard them everywhere in Belgium; and in some towns they are incessant, jangling every seven and a half minutes. The chimes at Bruges ring every quarter hour for a minute, and at the full hour attempt a tune. The revolving machinery grinds英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-2》
He recognized the chime of Daubrecq's clock. And the chime was that of a clock from which one is not separated by the obstacle of a door. Lupin slipped down the stairs and went to the door. It was closed, but there was a space on the left, at the bottom, a space left by the removal of the little panel. He listened. Daubrecq, at that moment, turned in his bed; and his breathing was resumed, evenly and a little stertorously. And Lupin plainly heard the sound of rumpling garments. Beyond a doubt, the thing was there, fumbling and feeling through the clothes which Daubrecq had laid beside his bed.英文原著 · 《The Crystal Stopper》
"'Tis yours this time, Monsieur Chauvelin," said Blakeney, after a rapid glance at the dice. "See how evenly Chance favours us both. Mine, the choice of place ... admirably done you'll confess. Now yours the choice of time. I wait upon your pleasure, sir. The southern ramparts at Boulogne--when?"
"The fourth day from this, sir, at the hour when the Cathedral bell chimes the evening Angelus," came Chauvelin's ready reply. but methought that your demmed government had abolished Cathedrals, and bells and chimes.英文原著 · 《The Elusive Pimpernel》
The idea of /The Human Comedy/ was at first as a dream to me, one of those impossible projects which we caress and then let fly; a chimera that gives us a glimpse of its smiling woman's face, and forthwith spreads its wings and returns to a heavenly realm of phantasy. But this chimera, like many another, has become a reality; has its behests, its tyranny, which must be obeyed.英文原著 · 《The Human Comedy》
In four other villages the chimes rang just as loud and merrily, and the women talked, and blessed her Grace and her young child, and casks of ale were broached, and oxen roasted, and work stopped, and dancers footed it upon the green.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
(i. m. chimes)ed? hey, i'm so sorry, but obviously that was just meant for tom's eyes only. honest mistake. don't even worry about it. okay. thanks. well, i'm gonna go back in my office and continue to feel like a huge pervert. at least you and tom have a love life. well, we do the best we can given the circumstances. better than fran and i. we're dead in that department.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
- There's a wind chime in her room. - Oh, you see that?美剧 · 《Lie to me》