The bravest conscript would turn pale if such a ditty were struck up beside him on the morning of battle; and whole regiments would pile their arms to its tune.英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
The sessions are over, and we are clear! The sessions are over, and we sit here, Singing fol de rol, la re da! The very best game I ever did see, Is a buck or a deer, but a deer for me! In Thornehagh-Moor woods this night we'll be! Fol de rol, la re da! Ballad: THE LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER. [THIS very old ditty has been transformed into the dialects of Somersetshire, Northamptonshire, and Leicestershire; but it properly belongs to Lincolnshire. Nor is this the only liberty that his been taken with it.英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
Then he would strike up some ditty which they all knew: a hundred voices joined in the strain, and the hills once more rang with revelry.英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
Next came a pair of post-horses, with the traces looped up to their collars. On one of them a young postillion-his lamb's wool cap cocked to one side-was negligently kicking his booted legs against the flanks of his steed as he sang a melancholy ditty. Yet his face and attitude seemed to me to express such perfect carelessness and indolent ease that I imagined it to be the height of happiness to be a postillion and to sing melancholy songs.英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
All that God has made, or could make with all His counsel and all His power laid out, will not fill your boundless and bottomless heart. He must come down and come into your boundless and bottomless heart Himself. Himself: your Father, your Redeemer, and your Sanctifier and Comforter also. Let the whole universe try to fill your heart, O man of God, and after it all we shall hear you singing in famine and in loneliness the doleful ditty:英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
Those who have never known a lover's sin Let them not read my ditty, it will be To their dull ears so musicless and thin That they will have no joy of it, but ye To whose wan cheeks now creeps the lingering smile, Ye who have learned who Eros is, - O listen yet awhile.英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》