Some other place? How easy to find it on land! How apparently impossible at sea! There was the forecastle (full of men) at one end of the vessel. There was the sail room (full of sails) at the other. There was the ladies' cabin (used as the ladies' dressing-room; inaccessible, in that capacity, to every male human being on board). Was there any disposable inclosed space to be found amidships? On one side there were the sleeping berths of the sailing-master and his mate (impossible to borrow _them_).英文原著 · 《Miss or Mrs》
By this new arrangement, the produce of the land divides into two parts. The one comprehends the subsistence and the profits of the husbandman, which are the rewards for his labour, and the conditions on which he agrees to cultivate the field of the proprietor; the other which remains, is that independent and disposable part, which the earth produces as a free gift to the proprietor over and above what he has disbursed; and it is out of this share of the proprietor's, or what is called the revenue, that he is enabled to live without labour, and which he can carry wherever he will.英文原著 · 《Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of wealth》
We may then distinguish the two classes not disposable into the productive class, which is that of the cultivators, or the barren class, which comprehends all the other stipendiary members of society.英文原著 · 《Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of wealth》
Madame de la Motte, who had been at Chaillot, preferred the old Marquis de Richelieu to the King. She declared to His Majesty that her heart was no longer disposable, but that it was at length fixed.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of the Louis XIV. and the Regency》
- Where are the disposable cameras? - What disposable cameras?美剧 · 《Friends》
[Chuckles] Yeah, like having to learn that when you get nervous, I'm disposable.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
It's a disposable funnel for upwardly mobile, elegant, young ladies who want to stand美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
- Not the disposable cameras from the tables. - That's true! I knew I married you for a reason!美剧 · 《Friends》