He picked up a 10-off or so, and couldn't recover. I beat him. The next game would end tournament No. Thomas and I were the contestants. He won the lead and went to the bat--so to speak. And there he stood, with the crotch of his cue resting against his disk while the ship rose slowly up, sank slowly down, rose again, sank again. She never seemed to rise to suit him exactly. She started up once more; and when she was nearly ready for the turn, he let drive and landed his disk just within the left-hand end of the 10.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
By a careful manipulation of the dropper, the disk may be filled with water which, notwithstanding the intense heat, never reaches the boiling point. On the other hand, if boiling water be dropped on the superheated disk its temperature will immediately be REDUCED to six degrees below the boiling point; thus the hot metal really cools the water.英文原著 · 《The Miracle Mongers》
They both rose. At the same moment the gathering mist began to obscure Alppain's disk, changing it from blue to a vivid jale. "What do you want with us, Krag?" asked Maskull with simple composure. Krag looked at him strangely for a few seconds. The water lapped around them. "Don't you comprehend, Maskull, that your death has arrived?"
Maskull made no response. Krag rested an arm lightly on his shoulder, and suddenly he felt sick and faint. He sank to the ground, near the edge of the island raft.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
To please him they opened a port at last, although it was dangerous, the sea being very rough. It was going on for six in the evening. When the disk was swung back, a red light entered, glorious and radiant. The dying sun appeared upon the horizon in dazzling splendour, through a torn rift in a gloomy sky; its blinding light glanced over the waves, and lit up the floating hospital, like a waving torch.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
But often from the thorny labyrinth And tangled branches of the circling wood The stealthy hunter sees young Hyacinth Hurling the polished disk, and draws his hood Over his guilty gaze, and creeps away, Nor dares to wind his horn, or - else at the first break of day英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
Dance through the hedges till the early rose, (That sweet repentance of the thorny briar!) Burst from its sheathed emerald and disclose The little quivering disk of golden fire Which the bees know so well, for with it come Pale boy's-love, sops-in-wine, and daffadillies all in bloom.英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
Per the instructions of his last will and testament, I am to give you this disk.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
But how many fluxons, how many magnetic strands are there in a single disk like this? But how many fluxons, how many magnetic strands are there in a single disk like this?演讲 · 《The levitating superconductor ~ Boaz Almog》