Then one day, when the weather was fine and I knew the old man would be out in his buggy driving round--I dressed myself up to beat the band. I took hours to it--scrubbing, powdering, sacheting, perfuming, fixing the hair, fixing my finger-nails, fixing up my feet, polishing every nail and making them look better than most hands.''英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》
Don't you, Mr Fix?'
`I? I don't believe a word of it.'
`You're a sly dog!' said Passepartout, winking at him. This expression rather disturbed Fix, without his knowing why. Had the Frenchman guessed his real purpose? He knew not what to think. But how could Passepartout have discovered that he was a detective? Yet, in speaking as he did, the man evidently meant more than he expressed. Passepartout went still further the next day; he could not hold his tongue.英文原著 · 《AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS》
As he grew to old age he looked at things always from a fixed point of view, and cultivated fixed rules--but only so long as that point or those rules coincided with expediency, The mode of life which offered some passing degree of interest--that, in his opinion, was the right one and the only one that men ought to affect. He had great fluency of argument; and this, I think, increased the adaptability of his morals and enabled him to speak of one and the same act, now as good, and now, with abuse, as abominable.英文原著 · 《Childhood》
She fixed her eyes on him, with a mingled expression of mistrust, of kindness, and of fixed resolution, which the far-gone inamorato found irresistible.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
The character in religious language which I have for short called mechanical was not absent in the argument from design as stated before Darwin. It seemed to have reference to a world conceived as fixed. It pointed, not to the plastic capacity and energy of living matter, but to the fixed adaptation of this and that organ to an unchanging place or function.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"He is a cousin to Carl's mother."
Mrs. Crawford made no response, but kept her eyes fixed upon the carpet. She could not have shown more plainly that the invitation was not approved by her. "Madam does not want me here," thought Ashcroft, as he fixed his gaze once more upon his friend's wife. Again the face looked familiar, but he could not place it. "Have I not seen you before, Mrs. Crawford?" he asked, abruptly. "I don't remember you," she answered, slowly.英文原著 · 《Driven From Home》
The way I see it, we need a quick fix in a non-quick-fix market.美剧 · 《Billions》
Fix meaning repair, but also fix meaning rig the system.美剧 · 《Billions》