Stockmann. Demonstration, did you say? What on earth are you going to make a demonstration about?英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
Sothern (severely)--``I HOPE there will be no levity here, and I wish to say now that demonstrations of any kind are liable to upset me, while demonstrations of a particular kind may upset the audience.''英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
The priest strode out into the moonlight. In the recovery of the child he saw only a demonstration of the efficacy of prayer, and he could not too quickly bring home the lesson to his parishioners. Amid their murmurs of wonder and gratitude Chesterton rode away. To the kindly care of the priest he bequeathed El Capitan. With him, also, he left the gold pieces which were to pay for the fresh pony.英文原著 · 《A Charmed Life》
"He held out his penny as he spoke, with the important air of a man that gives a learned demonstration.英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
Was that the reason of this sudden and charming demonstration in his favor? He looked across at her, longing to know. But she was arguing gayly with the Marchesino, who continued to insist that they must all write their names as a souvenir of the occasion. "We are nobodies," she repeated. "You dare to say that you are a nobody!" exclaimed the young man, looking at her with ardent eyes. "Ah, Signorina, you do wrong to drink no wine. In wine there is truth, they say. But you--you drink water, and then you say these dreadful things that are not--are not true.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
So the Marquise was left to herself. She might live on, perfectly silent, amid the silence which she herself had created; there was nothing to draw her forth from the tapestried chamber where her grandmother died, whither she herself had come that she might die, gently, without witnesses, without importunate solicitude, without suffering from the insincere demonstrations of egoism masquerading as affection, which double the agony of death in great cities.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》