Columbus Blackie, The General, and Dirty Eddie were formally presented. As Dirty Eddie was, physi- cally, the cleanest member of the band the youth won- dered how he had come by his sobriquet--that is, he wondered until he heard Dirty Eddie speak, after which he was no longer in doubt. The Oskaloosa Kid, self-con- fessed 'tramp' and burglar, flushed at the lurid obscenity of Dirty Eddie's remarks.英文原著 · 《The Oakdale Affair》
"When he came up he was dead, but clinched in his tiny hand OLD-man found some dirt-- not much, but a little. A second time OLD-man gave the Muskrat his breath, and told him that he must go once more, and bring dirt. He said there was not quite enough in the first lot, so after resting a while the Muskrat tried a third time and a third time he died, but brought up a little more dirt.英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
"Merton's in a runaway," they joyously chanted. Suddenly they ceased, frozen with a new and splendid wonder, for their descriptive phrase was now inexact. Merton was no longer in a runaway. But only for a moment did they hesitate before taking up the new chant. "Looky, looky. He's throwed Merton right off into the dirt. He's throwed Merton right off into the dirt. Oh, looky Merton Gill right down there in the dirt!"
Again they had become exact.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
SHARP. Pshaw, you can't want a hundred pound. Your word is sufficient anywhere. 'Tis but borrowing so much dirt. You have large acres, and can soon repay it. Money is but dirt, Sir Joseph- -mere dirt.英文原著 · 《The Old Bachelor》
"But, sir, if grave men and women will sit calmly down and fling dirt upon every woman who shall aspire to medicine in an island, though she can do so on a neighboring continent with honor, and choose their time when the dirt can only fall on seven known women-- since the female students in that island are only seven--the pretended generality becomes a cowardly personality, and wounds as such, and excites less cold-hearted, and more hot-headed blackguards to outrage. It was so at Philadelphia, and it was so at Edinburgh.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
DIRTY LINEN (Potsdam, 24th July, 1752, To Niece Denis).-- ... "Maupertuis has discreetly set the rumor going, that I found the King's Works very bad; that I said to some one, on Verses from the King coming in, 'Will he never tire, then, of sending me his dirty linen to wash?' You obliging Maupertuis!"英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》