And when the hours on lagging feet have slowly dragged away, And sickly yellow gaslights rise to mock the going day, Then flowing past my window like a tide in its retreat, Again I see the pallid stream of faces in the street -- Ebbing out, ebbing out, To the drag of tired feet, While my heart is aching dumbly for the faces in the street.英文原著 · 《In the Days When the World Was Wide》
My Muse, therefore, for only thou canst tell, Tell me the cause of this my causeless woe? Tell, how ill thought disgraced my doing well? Tell, how my joys and hopes thus foully fell To so low ebb that wonted were to flow?英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
And the launch seemed weary, like a live thing whose strength is ebbing, who strains and pants and struggles gallantly, not losing heart but losing physical force. Surely it was going slower. She laid one hand upon the cabin roof as if in encouragement. Her heart was with the launch, as the seaman's is with his boat when it resists, surely for his sake consciously, the assault of the great sea. "Coraggio!"
She was murmuring the word. Gaspare looked at her. And the word was in his eyes as it should be in all eyes that look at youth. And the launch strove on.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"Impossible!" repeated the other, furiously. "You traitor! you coward! can you look at her sitting there helpless, her very life ebbing away already with every minute that passes, and tell me coolly that escape is impossible?"英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
ALEXAS. And yet she begs not now, you would not leave her; That were a wish too mighty for her hopes, Too presuming For her low fortune, and your ebbing love; That were a wish for her more prosperous days, Her blooming beauty, and your growing kindness.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
Money taketh town and wall, Fort and ramp without a blow; Money moves the merchants all, While the tides shall ebb and flow; Money maketh Evil show Like the Good, and Truth like lies: These alone can ne'er bestow Youth, and health, and Paradise.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Maybe we forgot dance isn't about the fame or -- or glory, but it's about telling a story that takes your audience on a journey that ebbs and flows.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
You're attempting to build on the work of Ebbinghaus By triggering an involuntary memory of me playing that game-- Admittedly the happiest 600 hours of my childhood...美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》