But I and my chimney must explain; and as we are both rather obese, we may have to expatiate.英文原著 · 《I and My Chimney》
There is a remarkable passage to the same effect in `Paracelsus', in which Paracelsus expatiates on the "just so much of doubt as bade him plant a surer foot upon the sun-road."英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Here the narrator interrupted his story again to expatiate on the development of Mademoiselle de Mauprat's character.英文原著 · 《Mauprat》
to the scaffold are presenting flowers to the Emperor of Russia, the restorer of their legitimate king! What a stupendous field for philosophy to expatiate in! What an endless material for thought! What humiliation to the pride of mere human greatness! How are the mighty fallen! Of all that was great in Napoleon, what remains? Despoiled of his usurped power, he sinks to insignificance. There was no moral greatness in the man.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush》
Milvain began to expatiate on that well-worn topic, the evils of the three-volume system.英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
Like as a lark that in the air expatiates,
First singing and then silent with content
Of the last sweetness that doth satisfy her,英文原著 · 《Paradiso》