His later observations of Beta Lyrae and of Delta Cephei were almost as remarkable as those of Algol, but unfortunately a career of such extraordinary promise was cut short by death, only a fortnight after his election to the Royal Society. ("Dict. of National Biography"; article Goodricke (John). The article is by Miss Agnes Clerke. It is strange that she did not then seem to be aware that he was a deaf-mute, but she notes the fact in her "Problems of Astrophysics", page 337, London, 1903.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
There appear to be no further home letters written from Syria--and none from Egypt. Perhaps with the desert and the delta the heat at last became too fearful for anything beyond the actual requirements of the day. When he began his next it was October, and the fiercer travel was behind him.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
So far as flags were concerned, they were beyond all jurisdiction. So far as the law was concerned, they were in No-Man's land. They made their own law, and it was very simple. The Yukon executed their decrees. Some two thousand miles below Red Cow the Yukon flowed into Bering Sea through a delta a hundred miles wide. Every mile of those two thousand miles was savage wilderness. It was true, where the Porcupine flowed into the Yukon inside the Arctic Circle there was a Hudson Bay Company trading post. But that was many hundreds of miles away.英文原著 · 《Lost Face》
One regiment of infantry and at least a section of artillery will also be left at Friar's Point or Delta, to protect the stores of the cavalry post that will be left there. Yours truly,英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
Dispatch, this is off-duty Officer 2244 reporting a stolen vehicle: license 7-2-Delta-Delta-Foxtrot-4, black new Porsche Cayenne heading eastbound on Carmac just past 36th Street.美剧 · 《Shameless》
I didn't know that he was gonna round up half of DeltaDelta Sluta for a dip-the-stick marathon.美剧 · 《Shameless》
A microchip factory in the Pearl River Delta.美剧 · 《Billions》
And if we apply this to the stock, We can predict its delta, Following the path of its abstracted self Because nature follows abstraction.美剧 · 《Billions》