For example, in observing the star RR Centauri five stars were in general used for comparison by Dr Roberts, and in course of three months he secured thereby 300 complete observations. When the period of the cycle had been ascertained exactly, these 300 values were reduced to mean values which appertained to certain mean places in the cycle, and a mean light-curve was obtained in this way. Figures titled "Light curve of RR Centauri" (Fig. 5) and "The light-curve and system of Beta Lyrae" (Fig. 7) show examples of light curves.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
He had been foiled in his attempt to escape. He had played the game and lost. And what greater joke could there be than that the bushmen should have eaten him? It was the funniest incident that had come under their notice in many a day. And to them there was certainly nothing unusual nor bizarre in the event. Gogoomy had completed the life-cycle of the bushman. He had taken heads, and now his own head had been taken. He had eaten men, and now he had been eaten by men.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
Had Fleur cooked her own goose by trying to make too sure? He reached home at half-past nine. While the car was passing in at one drive gate he heard the grinding sputter of a motor-cycle passing out by the other. Young Mont, no doubt, so Fleur had not been lonely. But he went in with a sinking heart. In the cream-panelled drawing-room she was sitting with her elbows on her knees, and her chin on her clasped hands, in front of a white camellia plant which filled the fireplace. That glance at her before she saw him renewed his dread. What was she seeing among those white camellias?英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
"The same Manilius states also, that the revolution of the great year is completed with the life of this bird, and that then a new cycle comes round again with the same characteristics as the former one, in the seasons and the appearance of the stars. This bird was brought to Rome in the censorship of the Emperor Claudius . and was exposed to public view.... This fact is attested by the public Annals, but there is no one that doubts that it was a fictitious phoenix only."[1]英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
For lo, what changes time can bring! The cycles of revolving years May free my heart from all its fears, And teach my lips a song to sing.英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
Some mighty orb whose cycled wanderings, Being tempest-driven to the farthest rim Where Chaos meets Creation and the wings Of the eternal chanting Cherubim Are pavilioned on Nothing, passed away Into a moonless void, - and yet, though he is dust and clay,英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
The first rule of dealing with the cycle-- You never mention the cycle.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I know so much about her cycle, I'm feeling pressure to impregnate her.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Nah, that's just gonna lead to makeup text, and then we're back in a vicious cycle.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
People turn on each other every election cycle.美剧 · 《Billions》
The artist Matthew Barney, in his film opus called the "The Cremaster Cycle." The artist Matthew Barney, in his film opus called the "The Cremaster Cycle."演讲 · 《My 12 pairs of legs ~ Aimee Mullins》