ANDROMACHE Behold me journeying on the downward path, my hands so tightly bound with cords that they bleed. MOLOSSUS O mother, mother mine! I too share thy downward path, nestling 'neath thy wing. ANDROMACHE A cruel sacrifice! ye rulers of Phthia! MOLOSSUS Come, father! succour those thou lovest. ANDROMACHE Rest there, my babe, my darling!英文原著 · 《Andromache》
A moment more--and the vision of her began to grow dim. By slow degrees, the fi gure, then the face, faded back into the shadowy appearance that I had first seen. The luminous inner light died out in the white mist. The mist itself dropped slowly downward--floated a moment in airy circles on the floor--vanished. Nothing was before me but the familiar wall of the room, and the photograph lying face downward on my desk.英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
But, with that death-shriek ringing in their ears, they wasted no time. Raby waved Amboyne to the left, and himself dashed off to the right, and they scoured the lawn in less than a minute. A cry of horror from Raby! He had found the body of a woman floating in a pool of the river, head downward. He dashed into the water directly and drew it to the bank; Dr. Amboyne helped him, and they got it out on dry land. The face was ghastly, the body still. "Turn her face downward," said Amboyne, "give her every chance.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
But oh, not the hills of Habersham, [41] And oh, not the valleys of Hall Avail: I am fain for to water the plain. Downward the voices of Duty call -- Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main, The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn, And a myriad flowers mortally yearn, And the lordly main from beyond the plain Calls o'er the hills of Habersham, Calls through the valleys of Hall.英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
He stumbled blindly forward, groping for he knew not what till suddenly the floor beneath him tilted and he shot downward into a darkness even more utter than that above. He felt his body strike a smooth surface and he realized that he was hurtling downward as through a polished chute while from above there came the mocking tones of a taunting laugh and the voice of Lu-don screamed after him: "Return to thy father, O Dor-ul-Otho!"英文原著 · 《Tarzan the Terrible》
"Observe, my lads," with a wave of his hand towards those whirling walls, and then making a downward motion. "You see that we are floating in a partial vacuum, yet where there is air sufficient to preserve life under difficulties. And by looking downward--careful that you don't fall overboard through dizziness, though!"英文原著 · 《The Lost City》
Both employing risk for its asymmetrical upside and laying off risk as a hedge against the inevitable downward turns.美剧 · 《Billions》
Pipelines, shipping--all its corollaries--everything tied to it's gonna go along for the downward spiral.美剧 · 《Billions》
Waylon said he was shopping for family. Eye shift downward says otherwise.美剧 · 《Lie to me》