I want to pray for fireworks, auntie. Can I?"
"Do sit down, Dorman. You'll fall under the wheel, and then auntie would not have any dear little boy. Dorman, do you hear me? Redmond, do take that child down! How I wish Parks were here. I shall have nervous prostration within a fortnight."
Sir Redmond Hayes plucked at the white collar, and the small boy retired between two masculine forms of no mean proportions. His voice, however, rose higher.英文原著 · 《Her Prairie Knight》
Dey are too hungry, Be'trice! Looey Sam is goin' to fry my fishes for dinner, to s'prise auntie. Come, Be'trice!"
"Why don't you go with the child, Beatrice? You grow more selfish every day." Mrs. Lansell could not endure selfishness--in others. "You know he will not give us any peace until you do."
Dorman instantly proceeded to make good his grandmother's prophecy, and wept so that one could hear him a mile. "Oh, dear me! Be still, Dorman--your auntie has a headache.英文原著 · 《Her Prairie Knight》
The dormice laid the poor sufferer on a soft bed and put the broken leg up carefully in plaster of Paris; and they nursed the green bird with the greatest attention so that it was soon well enough to hop about on crutches; and it sang so beautifully that all the inhabitants round gave it money, and its fame spread abroad; but it was so tenderly attached to the Tinkle-Tinkle and the dormice that it would not leave them.英文原著 · 《The Grey Brethren》
After bearing this once or twice, the willful negative was continually upon my lips; doubtless a symptom of what was dormant within--a will perhaps not quite so aggressive as it was obstinate. But she meant only to praise me and please me; and dearly I loved to stay with her in her cozy up-stairs room across the lane, that the sun looked into nearly all day.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"No, Bunny, I regret to say I came in through the dormer window. They were painting next door but one. I never did like ladder work, but it takes less time than in picking a lock in the broad light of a street lamp."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"And over the gates at the end. No talking, Bunny; there's a dormitory just overhead; but ours was in front, you remember, and if they had ever seen me I should have nipped back this way while they were watching the other."英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
He would come to my dorm room and ask me to do his homework,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
The Chinese factory went from totally dormant to bustling with trucking activity.美剧 · 《Billions》