For Artois the romance of the night in which he had been revelling was now thoroughly disturbed. He looked again towards the two sailors, suspecting their sleep. Then he got up quietly, and stepped out of the boat onto the shore. His doing so gave a slight impetus to the boat, which floated out a little way into the Pool. But the men in it seemed to sleep on. Artois stood still for a moment at the edge of the sea. His great limbs were cramped, and he stretched them. Then he went slowly towards the steps.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
And he sat down, and he worked with the vehement energy, with the pulsating eagerness of one of "les jeunes." Hour after hour he worked. He took coffee, and wrote through the night. He slept when the dawn came, got up, and toiled again. He shut out the real world and he forgot it--until the fit was past. And then he pushed away his paper, he laid down his pen, he stretched himself, and he knew that his great effort had tired him tremendously --tremendously. He looked at his right hand. It was cramped. As he held it up he saw that it was shaking.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
I had a Sullivan for him, too; and in another minute he was spread out on my sofa, stretching his cramped limbs with infinite gusto, a cigarette between his fingers, a yellow bumper at hand on the chest of his triumph and my tribulation.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
To waste a little more time, she entered to say a prayer under the old cramped porch, worn away and daubed over with whitewash. But she stopped again with a sharp pain at her heart. "Gaos"--again that name, engraved upon one of the slabs erected in memory of those who die at sea.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
The same road led to his home. Had she walked on much farther, towards a well-known rocky windswept nook, she would come to that hamlet of Pors-Even, where the trees, covered with gray moss, grew crampedly between the stones, and are slanted over lowly by the western gales. Perhaps she might never more return there, although it was only a league away; but once in her lifetime she had been there, and that was enough to cast a charm over the whole road; and, besides, Yann would certainly often pass that way, and she could fancy seeing him upon the bare moor, stepping between the stumpy reeds.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Stockmann. I know, I know; it is all cramped enough here, compared with many other places. But there is life here--there is promise-- there are innumerable things to work for and fight for; and that is the main thing. (Calls.) Katherine, hasn't the postman been here?英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
Ta-da! Okay, now I know it's a little more cramped than we're used to, but we can't stay at Bree's forever.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
The only thing missing in that cramped little office was a hamster wheel and wood chips.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
I should far prefer to be a maid in a large and pleasant house than work from dawn till dusk in a cramped and gloomy office.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》