MYSELF.--M. Cousin having addressed a personal observation to me, I beg to point out to him in turn that his opinion is, in my estimation, merely an opinion and nothing more. I may add that, as I view it, "movement of the language" and decadence have nothing in common. Nothing could be more distinct than these two things. Movement in no way proves decadence. The language has been moving since the first day of its formation; can it be said to be deteriorating? Movement is life; decadence is death.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Victor Hugo》
The nervous expressive fingers, flashing in and out of the light, might well have been mistaken for the fingers of the devotee going swiftly through decade after decade of his rosary.英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》
During the following decade, in Pennsylvania, an association, called the Molly Maguires, terrorized the coal regions until their reign of assas- sination was brought to an end by the detection, conviction, and execution of their ringleaders. These were Green Irish.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
For another, I dread beyond everything your beginning to do hack work for money. It is the beginning of decadence both in work and reputation for you. I know by my own and a thousand other people. Begin to write because it "is a lot of money" and you stop doing your best work. You make your work common and your prices will soon go down. George Lewes managed George Eliot wisely. He stopped her hack work. Kept her at writing novels and soon one each year brought her $40,000.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
"We went over those mountains together, where two decades before he had planted his banner of romance. We visited the mines and the railroads and everywhere found some superintendent or foreman or engineer who remembered Davis. He had guessed at nothing. Everywhere he had overlaid the facts with adventure and with beauty, but he had been on sure footing all the time. His prototype of MacWilliams was dead. Together we visited the wooden cross with which the miners had marked his grave.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
During the last several decades it was chiefly the Anarchists who had organized all the great revolutionary efforts, and aided in every struggle for liberty. But for fear of shocking the respectable mob, who looks upon the Anarchists as the apostles of Satan, and because of their social position in bourgeois society, the would-be radicals ignore the activity of the Anarchists.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
People pay for the privilege of sitting in decades of ass sweat?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I've got decades of napkins over here with all my old ideas on them.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
He could have been nursing that grudge for a decade.美剧 · 《Billions》
I've been drafting blue-chippers, high upsides, and reclamations for three decades.美剧 · 《Billions》
And the paradox is that the decade before the last decade was so promising -- And the paradox is that the decade before the last decade was so promising --演讲 · 《Støre In defense of dialogue ~ Jonas Gahr》