"Who is impious now?" said the book. And the reader put him on the fire. The coward crouches from the rod, And loathes the iron face of God. - THE CITIZEN AND THE TRAVELLER. "LOOK round you," said the citizen. "This is the largest market in the world."
"Oh, surely not," said the traveller. "Well, perhaps not the largest," said the citizen, "but much the best."
"You are certainly wrong there," said the traveller. "I can tell you .英文原著 · 《Fables》
Many had left families in the frontier forts without protection. The time of their enlistment had almost expired. There was a store in the village kept by a great citizen, --not a citizen of Kaskaskia alone, but a citizen of the world. This, I am aware, sounds like fiction, like an attempt to get an effect which was not there. But it is true as gospel. The owner of this store had many others scattered about in this foreign country: at Vincennes, at St. Louis, where he resided, at Cahokia. He knew Michilimackinac and Quebec and New Orleans.英文原著 · 《The Crossing》
In Article 44 of the Constitution it is said "The President of the French Republic must never have lost his status as a French citizen." The first President of the French Republic, L. Bonaparte, had not only lost his status as a French citizen, had not only been an English special constable, but was even a naturalized Swiss citizen.英文原著 · 《The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte》
It was ten o'clock at night when he stood before the prison of La Force, where she had stood hundreds of times. A little wood-sawyer, having closed his shop, was smoking his pipe at his shop-door. `Good night, citizen,' said Sydney Carton, pausing in going by; for, the man eyed him inquisitively. `Good night, citizen.'
`How goes the Republic?'
`You mean the Guillotine. Not ill. Sixty-three to-day. We shall mount to a hundred soon. Samson and his men complain sometimes, of being exhausted.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
An indescribable, unmistakable enthusiasm was manifest in the expectancy of the multitude. France was about to take farewell of Napoleon on the eve of a campaign of which the meanest citizen foresaw the perils. The existence of the French Empire was at stake--to be, or not to be. The whole citizen population seemed to be as much inspired with this thought as that other armed population standing in serried and silent ranks in the enclosed space, with the Eagles and the genius of Napoleon hovering above them.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"Affair of Trudaine. Minutes continued. Citizen Agent Magloire having been appointed to continue the surveillance of Trudaine, reports the discovery of additional facts of importance. (1.) Appearances make it probable that Trudaine meditates a third secret visit to the house in the Rue de Clery. The proper measures are taken for observing him closely, and the result is the implication of another person discovered to be connected with the supposed conspiracy. This person is the sister of Trudaine, and the wife of Citizen Superintendent Danville."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
you keep us apart. try and stop me. Peter does everything I tell him to do. that's the one thing you can depend on with addicts-- they're weak. (laughs) (sighs) excuse me. excuse me. may I ask you something? yes, ma'am? if a citizen, an ordinary citizen like myself, knew of someone holding a significant amount of drugs, what would my responsibilities be, you know, under the law? what's all this?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
So I'm not so easily surrendering to citizen journalists or citizen detectives.美剧 · 《The News Room》
Didn't you give back your good citizen award'because that's what a good citizen does?美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
You're a pastry school graduate, And I'm a real estate agent and a French citizen.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
The right to full citizenship, the right to own property, etc." the right to full citizenship, the right to own property, etc."演讲 · 《Is anatomy destiny ~ Alice Dreger》