I'll be an exile in the city of my birth. But what's the use of complaining? If it's go, it's go. But it'll be funny," said he. "My body will be there, but my heart and mind will be in China. There'll be a gray eye always turning to China, and it will never see China. .Queer!. .All the voices and all the instruments in Saint Mark's, and in my ears the little drums of China.英文原著 · 《Messer Marco Polo》
Again, in 1909, it was not any European nation that returned to China their share of the indemnity exacted in consequence of the Boxer troubles; we alone returned our share to China--sixteen millions. It was we who prevented levying a punitive indemnity on China. Read the whole story; there is much more. We played the gentleman, Europe played the bully. But Europe calls us "dollar chasers." That dear old Europe! Again, if any conquering General on the continent of Europe ever behaved as Grant did to Lee at Appomattox, his name has escaped me.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
"The China of our own making," the Prince declared, a note of tense enthusiasm creeping into his tone,--"China recreated after its great lapse of a thousand years. You and I in our lifetime shall not see it, but there will come a day when the ancient conquests of Persia and Greece and Rome will seem as nothing before the all-conquering armies of China and Japan. Until those days we need no allies. We will have none. We must accept the insults of America and the rough hand of Germany. We must be strong enough to wait!"英文原著 · 《The Illustrious Prince》
Sam Halliday she liked at once. He was a clean-shaven, square- jawed young man, with quiet eyes and a pleasant voice. "Try and find me brainy," he whispered to her, as soon as Flossie was out of earshot. "Talk to me about China. I'm quite intelligent on China."
They both laughed, and then shot a guilty glance in Flossie's direction. "Do the women really crush their feet?" asked Joan. "Yes," he answered. "All those who have no use for them.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Marriage with a deceased wife's sister is, in China, not only lawful, but quite common, while to marry a dead brother's betrothed is strictly prohibited. Doubtless in the United States both are recognized as legal. I was not, however, prepared to hear, and when I did hear it, I could not at first believe that a man is permitted to marry his deceased son's wife. Let me quote from the "China Press" which has special facilities for obtaining news from America. "Boston, March 24. The engagement of Mrs. Katherine M. B., widow of Charles A.英文原著 · 《America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat》
To be mistaken for a coward--to be played for a Modoc: these two ex- pressions are one. Sometimes it is a Chinaman. Do you play me for a Chinaman? is a question frequently addressed to the ear of the suddenly dead. Beeson's buffet produced no effect, and after a moment's pause, during which the wind thundered in the chimney like the sound of clods upon a coffin, he resumed: 'But, as you say, it is wearing me out. I feel that the life of the last two years has been a mis- take--a mistake that corrects itself; you see how. The grave! No; there is no one to dig it.英文原著 · 《Can Such Things Be》
You connected the White House to China, the casino -- Raymond Tusk entangled us with China and the casino.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Have you been to China or been around anyone who's been to China recently?美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
- The One China rule. - The U.S. Government extends diplomatic relations to China but not Taiwan.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》