She rose, took her stockings over to the stove, and hung them on the damper. It was a queer damper, and she turned it about, and then, stepping lightly on her bare feet, returned to the bench and sat down there again with her feet up.英文原著 · 《Father Sergius》
the streets of the city rose nd fell with the undulating motion of a swelling sea. Blacker and blacker grew the sky; closer and closer the atmosphere; damper and damper became the fog; thicker and thicker fell the wet sand and ashes.英文原著 · 《The Land of the Changing Sun》
She shivered upon that fine, grand bed, for, like all things in the cottage, it seemed also to be getting colder and damper. But as she was very young, although she still continued weeping, it ended by her growing warm and falling asleep.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Passing by the grave, on his return, he noticed that Mrs. Vickers had placed at the head of it a rude cross, formed by tying two pieces of stick together. After supper--the usual salt meat and damper--he lit an economical pipe, and tried to talk to Sylvia. "Why won't you be friends with me, missy?" he asked. "I don't like you," said Sylvia. "You frighten me."
"Why?"
"You are not kind. I don't mean that you do cruel things; but you are--oh, I wish papa was here!" "Wishing won't bring him!" says Frere, pressing his hoarded tobacco together with prudent forefinger. "There!英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
His momentary emotion passed away, the pangs of hunger returned, and greedily seizing upon the piece of damper, he began to eat in silence. "Do you hear, man?" repeated Frere, at length. "What are you?"
"An escaped prisoner. You can give me up in the morning. I've done my best, and I'm beat."
The sentence struck Frere with dismay. The man did not know that the settlement had been abandoned! "I cannot give you up. There is no one but myself and a woman and child on the settlement." Rufus Dawes, pausing in his eating, stared at him in amazement.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become in his presence depressed and nervous.英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
Do you have to put a damper on every restaurant in the capital?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
The first question to ask yourself... "Is the damper open?" Never allow yourself to be overcome with smoke.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Really putting a damper on your drink, puke, sleep schedule, huh?美剧 · 《Shameless》