Here Ctesippus, the lover of Cleinias, interposes in great excitement, thinking that he will teach the two Sophists a lesson of good manners. But he is quickly entangled in the meshes of their sophistry; and as a storm seems to be gathering Socrates pacifies him with a joke, and Ctesippus then says that he is not reviling the two Sophists, he is only contradicting them. 'But,' says Dionysodorus, 'there is no such thing as contradiction. When you and I describe the same thing, or you describe one thing and I describe another, how can there be a contradiction?' Ctesippus is unable to reply.英文原著 · 《Euthydemus》
She listened attentively. There were two and they were great apes--Korak and Akut. To her Korak was an ape--a Mangani, for as such the three always described themselves. Man was an enemy, so they did not think of themselves as belonging any longer to the same genus. Tarmangani, or great white ape, which described the white man in their language, did not fit them all. Gomangani--great black ape, or Negro--described none of them so they called themselves plain Mangani. Meriem decided that she would feign slumber and play a joke on Korak. So she lay very still with eyes tightly closed.英文原著 · 《THE SON OF TARZAN》
"This is a new situation," said she, "which I am called to live through and to feel. But a poetess must have experienced all feelings, or she could not describe them. For my part, I do not believe in the revelations of genius--I believe only in experiences. One can describe only what one has felt and experienced. Whoever may attempt to describe the flavor of an orange, must first have tasted it!"英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
The night before Christmas Eve I heard a burst of musical voices so close that they might as well have been inside the house instead of just outside; so I asked them inside, hoping that they might then seem farther away. Then I realised that they were the Christmas Mummers, who come every year in country parts to enact the rather rigid fragments of the old Christmas play of St. George, the Turkish Knight, and the Very Venal Doctor. I will not describe it; it is indescribable; but I will describe my parallel sentiments as it passed.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"When Maskull passes, let people watch. Everyone is thrown out of your road. You go on, looking neither to right nor left."
"Take care that you are not thrown as well," said Corpang gravely. "Maskull shall do with me whatever he pleases, old skull! And for whatever he does, I will thank him... In place of a heart you have a bag of loose dust. Someone has described love to you. You have had it described to you.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
How we looked for "R. S." at the end of an article, and how devout was our belief, how happy our pride, in the young one! About 1878, I think (I was now a slave of the quill myself), I received a brief note from Mr. Stevenson, introducing to me the person whom, in his essay on his old college magazine, he called "Glasgow Brown." What his real name was, whence he came, whence the money came, I never knew. was going to start a weekly Tory paper. Would I contribute? came to see me. Stevenson has described him, NOT as I would have described him: like Mr.英文原著 · 《Adventures among Books》
...which is highly motivated to -- Okay. What you've just described -- and no offense, since I know it's your home -- but what you've just described is a shithole.美剧 · 《Billions》
First of all, I am smelling something that can only be described as anti-antiperspirant.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
He's been described to me as a cool-headed Midwesterner who can smell bullshit in the colon of a bull from across the ranch.美剧 · 《Billions》
From how our daughter described you, I figured you'd blow it off.美剧 · 《Billions》