By this time the Count and the doctor had reached the corner of the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin. One of those night-birds who wonder round with a basket on their back and crook in hand, and were, during the Revolution, facetiously called the Committee of Research, was standing by the curbstone where the two men now stopped. This scavenger had a shriveled face worthy of those immortalized by Charlet in his caricatures of the sweepers of Paris.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
I tried at first to take the measure of him i n a wheedling, confidential way; but it was no good. I asked him, in a facetious, smiling manner, how he had got hold of the letter. He only told me in answer that he had been in the confidential employment of the writer of it, and that he had always been famous since infancy for a sharp eye to his own interests. I paid him some compliments; but he was not to be flattered. I tried to make him lose his temper; but he kept it in spite of me. It ended in his driving me to my last resource--I made an attempt to frighten him.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"Now then, Apollo!" cried the head jailer, addressing his subordinate by a facetious prison nickname, "don't be all day starting that trumpery batch of yours. And harkye, friend, I have leave of absence, on business, at my Section this afternoon. So it will be your duty to read the list for the guillotine, and chalk the prisoners' doors before the cart comes to-morrow morning. 'Ware the bottle, Apollo, to-day; 'ware the bottle, for fear of accidents with the death-list tomorrow."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
The hours passed monotonously, while in the immeasurably empty regions beyond the light slowly changed till it grew less unreal. What at first had appeared a livid gloaming, like a northern summer's eve, became now, without any intervening "dark hour before dawn," something like a smiling morn, reflected by all the facets of the oceans in fading, roseate-edged streaks.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Bud grinned. "I saw one in a store window once as I was going by," he parried facetiously. "That was quite a while back."英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
FOLLIOTT. Sir, you have published a character of your facetious friend, the Reverend Doctor F., wherein you have sketched off me; me, sir, even to my nose and wig. What business have the public with my nose and wig?英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
No.It's just one facet of the company that I think could be promising to look into.美剧 · 《Billions》
Why don't we combine those facets and start our own friendship?美剧 · 《Billions》
You ever try talking to a 14-year-old girl on FaceTime?美剧 · 《Billions》
Do you mean, in the sense that we all wear costumes everyday, such as we reveal facets of ourselves to those closest to us, but our truest selves remain hidden?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》