The little boy hid his tears against the friendly window-pane. On the floor lay the motionless, crumpled bit of paper on the end of its stick. But far away across the square was the windmill vendor, with his big wheel of whirring splendour. It spun round in a blaze like a whirling rainbow, and the sun gleamed upon it, and the wind whipped it, until it seemed a maze of spattering diamonds. "Cocorico!" crowed the golden cock on the top of the `Stadhuis'. "That is something worth crowing for." But the little boy did not hear him, he was sobbing over the crumpled bit of paper on the floor.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
"Thus die the blasphemers of God!" he screamed, and at the same instant a sharp staccato note rang out above the silent, spell-bound multitude. There was a screaming whistle in the air and Jad-ben-Otho crumpled forward across the body of his intended victim. Again the same alarming noise and Lu-don fell, a third and Mo-sar crumpled to the ground. And now the warriors and the people, locating the direction of this new and unknown sound turned toward the western end of the court.英文原著 · 《Tarzan the Terrible》
But if some cows thought it wicked to eat long grass and persecuted all who did so; if the cow with the crumpled horn were worshipped by some cows and gored to death by others; if cows began to have obvious moral preferences over and above a desire for grass, then cows would begin to have a history. They would also begin to have a highly unpleasant time, which is perhaps the same thing.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"'Cause this 'ere's for you," he rejoined to my affirmative, and with that I felt a crumpled note in my palm.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"The two poor people whom it was your own idea to despoil," quoth Raffles, "prematurely gloating over these two pretty things? He withdrew a hand from either pocket of his crumpled dinner-jacket, and opened the pair under my nose. In one was a diamond tiara, and in the other a necklace of fine emeralds set in clusters of brilliants.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
It was only the postman with a letter in his hand, and the post-bag crumpled up under his arm.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Yeah, that drive in your pocket's gonna give you a lot more motivation than the crumpled twenties and the methadone tabs you used to give them.美剧 · 《Billions》
You took a letter out of my waste paper basket when I had clearly crumpled it and thrown it away?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
How could I not, when you give me this bouquet of crumpled flowers?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Yikes. Her skin looks like crumpled tinfoil you try to smooth out and use again.美剧 · 《Modern Family》