First, that excellent speech, even speech _really_ excellent, is not, and never was, the chief test of human faculty, or the measure of a man's ability, for any true function whatsoever; on the contrary, that excellent _silence_ needed always to accompany excellent speech, and was and is a much rarer and more difficult gift.英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest that the poet, with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth. And so a conclusion not unfitly ensues; that as virtue is the most excellent resting-place for all worldly learning to make his end of, so poetry, being the most familiar to teach it, and most princely to move towards it, in the most excellent work is the most excellent workman.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
are you going? certainly the news is excellent, as well as unexpected; but you are giving yourself unnecessary trouble, there was no need to forewarn me. Your departure! Great God! I should have been notified of it in advance by the clearness of the air, by the more vivid brightness of the sun, by some strange joy diffused through all my being. I understand, you are not able to digest the outrage done to you by the excellent Fritz at my order. You consider the reparation insufficient. You are right, I swear it by St.英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
We got a drink of milk from a country wife but new come to the town, and in a baker's, a piece of excellent, hot, sweet-smelling bread, which we ate upon the road as we went on. That road from Delft to the Hague is just five miles of a fine avenue shaded with trees, a canal on the one hand, on the other excellent pastures of cattle. It was pleasant here indeed.英文原著 · 《Catriona》
I said, No, not so; for men might have many elegant, or excellent words, and yet not pray at all; but when a man prayeth, he doth, through a sense of those things which he wants (which sense is begotten by the Spirit), pour out his heart before God through Christ; though his words be not so many and so excellent as others are.英文原著 · 《Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners》
Huh. That is an excellent, excellent question.美剧 · 《Friends》
All right. That's excellent. That's excellent, all right?美剧 · 《Shameless》
If he proves anything less than excellent -- Someone "less than excellent" means someone else dies.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
And they're all ready to serve you at an hour's notice with an excellent meal and they're all ready to serve you at an hour's notice with an excellent meal演讲 · 《When ideas have sex ~ Matt Ridley》