Raffles, however, had seen the place by daylight, and had come prepared for the special obstacles; already he was reaching up and putting champagne corks on the spikes, and in another moment he had his folded covert-coat across the corks. I stepped back as he raised himself, and saw a little pyramid of slates snip the sky above the gate; as he squirmed over I ran forward, and had my own weight on the spikes and corks and covert-coat when he gave the latter a tug.英文原著 · 《The Amateur Cracksman》
"Gee, he's a corker, all right!" came from the boy at one point, and then, from the President: "That's right, he is a corker. Now you see his head here"--and then both were off again.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
The long Scotchman paused awhile before this mystery, but at last he fancied he had got the solution. "Got a cork leg, have you?" said he -- "Well, let's see if your ribs are cork too," and he struck the canvasser an awful blow on the fifth button of the waistcoat.英文原著 · 《Three Elephant Power》
O laith, laith, were our gude Scots lords To wet their cork-heeled shoon! But lang or a' the play was played They wat their hats aboon.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"I need the brandy too. I cannot sleep without it! Trent!"
Trent made no answer. He did not wish to hear. Already he had repented. He was not a man of keen susceptibility, but he was a trifle ashamed of himself. At that moment he was tempted to draw the cork, and empty the brandy out upon the ground. "Trent!英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Trent stepped out as Monty's nervous fingers were fumbling with the cork. He made a grab at the boy who glided off like an eel. Instantly he whipped out a revolver and covered him. "Come here," he cried. The boy shook his head. "No understand."
"Who sent you here with that filthy stuff?" he asked sternly. "You'd best answer me."
The Kru boy, shrinking away from the dark muzzle of that motionless revolver, was spellbound with fear. He shook his head.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Imagine you're sitting on a boat on the ocean watching a cork bob up and down in the water. Imagine you're sitting on a boat on the ocean watching a cork bob up and down in the water.演讲 · 《What is color ~ Colm Kelleher》
To use the physics jargon, you've measured the period of the waves that cork is bobbing on. To use the physics jargon, you've measured the period of the waves that cork is bobbing on.演讲 · 《What is color ~ Colm Kelleher》