But, my brethren, lay this well, and as never before, to heart-- this, namely, that when you thus begin to keep any gate for Christ, your King and Captain and Better-self,--Ear-gate, or Eye-gate, or Mouth-gate, or any other gate--you will have taken up a task that shall have no end with you in this life. Till you begin in dead earnest to watch your heart, and all the doors of your heart, as if you were watching Christ's heart for Him and all the doors of His heart, you will have no idea of the arduousness and the endurance, the sleeplessness and the self-denial, of the undertaking.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
Now they had made four gates to their garth according to their custom, and at each gate within was there a company of their mightiest men, and each was beset by the best of the Markmen. Thiodolf and his men beset the western gate where they had made that fierce onset. And the northern gate was beset by the Elkings and some of the kindreds of the Nether-mark; and the eastern gate by the rest of the men of Nether-mark; and the southern gate by the kindreds of Up-mark.英文原著 · 《The House of the Wolfings》
The names of the gates were these: Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate; in short, 'the five senses,' as we say.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-3》
On the North gate Hiarandi of the Elkings was the point of the Markmen's wedge, and first clave the Roman press. In the Eastern gate it was Valtyr, Otter's brother's son, a young man and most mighty. In the South gate it was Geirbald of the Shieldings, the Messenger.英文原著 · 《The House of the Wolfings》
`Where's his bike?'
`'E always leaves it outside the gate, so's we can't see it,' replied Crass. `Tell you what,' whispered Philpot, after a pause. `Give the boy a hempty bottle and let 'im go to the gate and look to the bikes there. If Misery sees him 'e can pretend to be goin' to the shop for some hoil.'
This was done. Bert went to the gate and returned almost immediately: the bike was gone. As the good news spread through the house a chorus of thanksgiving burst forth. `Thank Gord!' said one. `Hope the b--r falls orf and breaks 'is bloody neck,' said another.英文原著 · 《The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists》
"The left gate! The left gate!" he shouted through his cupped hands, and as the fugitive rushed through the upper gate he turned to face the posse which was already pulling up at the fence and drawing their wirecutters.英文原著 · 《The Seventh Man》
Let's take this crazy bicycle, we throw it over the gate, Then we take Phil and we take Claire, and then we throw them over the gate, too.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
CA: I mean a lot of cynics say about someone like yourself, or Bill Gates, CA: I mean a lot of cynics say about someone like yourself, or Bill Gates,演讲 · 《Life at 30,000 feet ~ Richard Branson》