Instead of getting the plate further from the paper on the right he did so on the left. It was further away on the bottom than on the top. He got distortion all right, enough still to satisfy the uninitiated. But it was distortion in the wrong way! The top of the wheel, which goes fastest and ought to be most indistinct, is, in the fake, as sharp as any other part. It is a small mistake, but fatal. That picture is really at high speed - backwards! It is too raw, too raw." "You don't think people are going to swallow all that stuff, do you?" asked Hanford coolly, in spite of the exposures.英文原著 · 《The Poisoned Pen》
Manders. No more distortion of the truth! Your late wife made a full confession to Mrs. Alving, before she left her service...英文原著 · 《Ghosts》
It makes the most crooked, distorted creature an erect, noble, and manly being, provided, of course, this distortion be a result of habit and not a natural deformity, the result of laziness in one's walking, such as hanging the head, dropping the shoulders, not straightening the legs, and crossing them when walking.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
Woden begat Casser, who begat Titinon, who begat Trigil, who begat Rodmunt, who begat Rippa, who begat Guillem Guercha,* who was the first king of the East Angles. Guercha begat Uffa, who begat Tytillus, who begat Eni, who begat Edric, who begat Aldwulf, who begat Elric. * Guercha is a distortion of the name of Uffa, or Wuffa, arising in the first instance from the pronunciation of the British writer; and in the next place from the error of the transcriber--Palgrave.英文原著 · 《History Of The Britons》
There is a wide difference between folk-lore of the so-called Old World and that of America. Transmitted orally through countless genera- tions, the folk-stories of our ancestors show many evidences of distortion and of change in material particulars; but the Indian seems to have been too fond of nature and too proud of tradition to have forgotten or changed the teachings of his forefathers. Childlike in sim- plicity, beginning with creation itself, and reaching to the whys and wherefores of nature's moods and eccentricities, these tales impress me as being well worth saving.英文原著 · 《Indian Why Stories》
"Il faut que votre mere--se reposer," he told her, with the grave caesural pause which he always made in the middle of a French sentence. She understood him. No distortion of her native tongue surprised or perplexed her. She was accustomed to being addressed in all persons, numbers, genders, tenses; by Germans, English, Americans. She only listened to hear whether the voice was kind, and with men in this uniform it usually was kind.英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
Yeah, even setting aside our CEO's sexual distortion, adultery, and lowbrow scatological vandalism,美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
It faces the television at an angle That is neither direct,thus discouraging conversation, Nor so far wide as to create a parallax distortion.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
In order to unify gravity, you must first understand that it is a distortion of space-time.美剧 · 《Young Sheldon》