We stood to the northward till seven in the evening, then saw a rippling; and, the water being discoloured, we sounded, and had but twenty-two fathom. I went about and stood to the westward till two next morning then tacked again, and had these several soundings: at eight in the evening, twenty-two; at ten, twenty-five; at eleven, twenty-seven; at twelve, twenty-eight fathom; at two in the morning, twenty-six; at four, twenty-four; at six, twenty-three; at eight, twenty-eight; at twelve, twenty-two.英文原著 · 《Early Australian Voyages》
When Ramona spoke thus of Alessandro, Felipe marvelled in silence. He himself had been afraid to mention Alessandro's name; but Ramona spoke it as if he were yet by her side. Felipe could not fathom this. There were to be many things yet which Felipe could not fathom in this lovely, sorrowing, sunny sister of his.英文原著 · 《Ramona》
Phatik began to cry out; "By the mark! --three fathoms. By the mark-- four fathoms. By the mark-." He had heard the sailor on the river- steamer calling out the mark on the plumb-line. Now he was himself plumbing an unfathomable sea.英文原著 · 《The Hungry Stones And Other Stories》
As we thus lay off and on, we came by a marvellous huge mountain of ice, which surpassed all the rest that ever we saw, for we judged it to be near four score fathoms above water, and we thought it to be aground for anything that we could perceive, being there nine score fathoms deep, and of compass about half a mile.英文原著 · 《Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage》
Fifthly, in sailing 20 leagues within the mouth of this entrance we had sounding in 90 fathoms, fair, grey, oozy sand, and the farther we run into the westwards the deeper was the water, so that hard aboard the shore among these isles we could not have ground in 330 fathoms.英文原著 · 《Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage》
O forty miles off Aberdeen 'Tis fifty fathoms deep, And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens, Wi' the Scots lords at his feet.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
You are making enemies you cannot fathom by deputizing KBP in your little True Grit revenge fantasy.美剧 · 《Billions》
So, when Jerry Lewis mistook me for the valet, he was carrying so much pain I could never fathom.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I do believe one "A" of the two stands for "anonymous." The other "A", I could not possibly fathom.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
- I'm ordering you to abort. - But you said-- Don't make me say it a third time, and don't threaten to resign, because I know you won't, because you can't even fathom what it means to be a civilian.美剧 · 《House of Cards》